Criminal Minds (TV Series)

52 Pickup (2008)

Paget Brewster: Emily Prentiss

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Quotes 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : I think I might just... stay home and, uh, man the tipline tonight. Clubs aren't really my thing.

  Derek Morgan : Not a chance, kid; I need a wingman. Come on.

  David Rossi : Actually, there is another angle we need to pursue.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : We still don't know what made the unsub change his victimology. What made him stop killing prostitutes and move into the clubs.

  David Rossi : The answer might be something in Viper's class. But to figure that out we need to profile the teacher.

  Derek Morgan : You need to bait him, then, with somebody he sees as a challenge.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : We need to study his style up close and personal. It's gonna take someone he's already attracted to.

  Emily Prentiss : Ugh. Ugh, this is really gonna suck.

• Emily Prentiss : [opening quote, voiceover]  Author Harlan Ellison wrote, "The minute people fall in love, they become liars."

• Viper : Your turn.

  Emily Prentiss : No.

  Viper : You scared I might be right?

  Emily Prentiss : No, Paul. I'm baffled. I cannot figure out what the unsub could have learned from you.

  Viper : What do you mean? He took my look, my words, everything that makes me successful with the opposite sex.

  Jordan Todd : Really? Because that guy could get beautiful women into his apartment. I wouldn't let you on my Facebook page.

  Emily Prentiss : Oh, you're on Facebook?

  Jordan Todd : Yeah, you should friend me.

  Emily Prentiss : I will.

  Viper : Hey, hey, hey! I gave him the routines that made him what he is.

  Emily Prentiss : It must all be in the salesmanship then.

  Jordan Todd : Because we've been watching all the women in the club...

  Emily Prentiss : ...and not one of them has looked at you. So who do you really go home with, Paul? Or... or do you go home alone?

• Emily Prentiss : Jordan, this is Viper, God's gift to women.

  Jordan Todd : Wow, God sure has a sense of humor.

• Viper : You see, eye contact is a very powerful gauge. That's why you tend to look away from someone you're attracted to because you know, instinctively, what a dead giveaway it is. But your brain goes there anyway: images, fantasies.

  Jordan Todd : Don't flatter yourself.

  Viper : The eyes don't lie. They dilate. It's a chemical response we can't control.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, 15 seconds.

  Jordan Todd : What do you see?

  Emily Prentiss : No, no change. No dilation.

  Jordan Todd : I guess chemically we're not a match.

  Viper : Only because you have someone else on the mind. Once that happens, the attraction center in the brain shuts down.

• Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : You're okay with this, right?

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, I'll be fine. Sadly, I've actually dated people worse than Viper.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : [seems unsure what to say]  Wow.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : What is a pickup? It's basically just a profile.

  Derek Morgan : Decoding cues of interest and recoding similar ones.

  Emily Prentiss : If you're too obvious you turn off your target. If you're oblivious, your target moves on to a better profiler.

• Emily Prentiss : Of the twenty self-described pickup artists in the area, there's only one guy who encourages his students to dress like, uh, space cowboys.

• Derek Morgan : [speaking of Viper]  Will you listen to that language? He's training serial killers.

  Emily Prentiss : Great. We're dealing with a rampant narcissist and misogynist who's turned himself into a snake oil salesman.