- [Dr Reid has managed to decode steganographic messages hidden in letters written by a convict in prison]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Normally, you'd use a computer to examine all the combinations, but in this case it was faster just to write it all out longhand until I found the right code.
- Emily Prentiss: [Poking Reid's cheek] He's so lifelike!
- [Dr Reid has found steganographic messages hidden in letters written by a convict in prison but can't read the messages without the key]
- David Rossi: What do you need to crack it?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: The ability to clone myself and a year's supply of Adderall.
- David Rossi: I'll put on the coffee.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Think about who shares the exact DNA makeup of another person.
- Derek Morgan: Read, you're not seriously floating around the idea of an evil twin, are you?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: No, I'm not. I'm floating the idea of an *eviler* twin.
- Aaron Hotchner: [opening quote, voiceover] "We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." - Chuck Palahniuk.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: There's an entire cottage industry based on serial killer effects and memorabilia. You can find absolutely anything if you know the right people.
- [searching through birth records to find a woman who had a serial killer's child]
- Penelope Garcia: We'll do single mothers only, in case she wanted to keep the father a secret. You know, didn't want to brag. "Oh, your baby daddy's a third grade teacher, well, mine likes to poke people in the stomach with tools, so there."
- Aaron Hotchner: [closing quote, voiceover] Wendell Berry said "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
- Emily Prentiss: Hey, you ever get groupies at your book signing?
- David Rossi: Sometimes, if Barry Manilow isn't in town
- Penelope Garcia: Did you know that John Wayne Gacy painted clowns? A murdering pedophile paints clowns and people hang them on their walls. It's creepy on so many levels. I mean, clowns...
- Derek Morgan: Garcia? I didn't know you had that hang up
- Emily Prentiss: Coulrophobia, abnormal fear of clowns
- Penelope Garcia: Oh, no, there's nothing abnormal about it. When I was 12, a hobo clown groped my breasts at a birthday party and made this old timey honking noise when he did it! Apparently making it funny, makes it okay
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: This is Delilah Grennan. She was bludgeoned and raped during the night at her home in Lower Canaan, Ohio.
- Emily Prentiss: Lower where?
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Small town forty miles outside of Cincinnati.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Staging the body face up with the arms across the chest like that.
- Derek Morgan: Ritual. Nice hair, by the way.
- [Morgan flips a lock of Reid's hair into his face]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [brushing his hair back] Thanks.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Uh, there's more. Small puncture wounds on her stomach. Note the lack of blood.
- Emily Prentiss: They were inflicted postmortem. Were there any other victims?
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Kind of. Victimology and signature match a serial killer from the same town ten years ago. Six victims spanning over ten months. He called himself...
- Aaron Hotchner: The Angel Maker. I remember the case.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: They caught that guy.
- David Rossi: And executed him.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: That's right. He was put to death by lethal injection a year ago yesterday.
- Emily Prentiss: Yesterday.
- Derek Morgan: So we're looking for a copycat.
- David Rossi: Honoring the anniversary of his hero's death.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: It says here they found semen at the crime scene. Perhaps locals will get a DNA match when they run it through VICAP?
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Well, that's where it gets weird. They ran it already and they got a match, too.
- Emily Prentiss: Well, if they already have a name, why'd they call us?
- David Rossi: [reading the report] They've got to be kidding. The match they got back on the DNA is to a Cortland Bryce Ryan. Otherwise known as... the Angel Maker.