Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Risky Business (2010)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

Quotes 

• Aaron Hotchner : I just wanted to say thank you. If you hadn't have pushed it, we would never have gone.

  Jennifer Jareau : [fingers her necklace]  My sister gave this to me when I was... 11? She just came into my bedroom and told me that no matter what happened, she loved me.

  [pauses] 

  Jennifer Jareau : This was her favorite necklace, so I told her I couldn't have it, but she insisted. I, of course, was secretly very happy, because I always wanted one just like hers.

  [pauses and fingers with necklace] 

  Jennifer Jareau : That's the last time I... ever...

  Aaron Hotchner : I'm sorry.

  Jennifer Jareau : I think about her everyday. It does get better, Hotch. Losing someone is never easy... but one day, you'll remember her and you won't hurt.

  [pauses] 

  Jennifer Jareau : You'll be happy.

  Aaron Hotchner : Thank you. Thank you for everything.

• Penelope Garcia : Sir, it's not that I'm not glad to be coming with you, because I am. I just don't understand the why.

  Aaron Hotchner : One of the aspects of an equivocal death investigation when suicide is a probability is an indirect personality assessment. Our victims are all Internet generation kids. There should be invaluable personal data on their computers to mine for the evaluation.

  Derek Morgan : If they committed suicide, evidence of it will probably be in their cyber world.

  Penelope Garcia : So I'm gonna snoop through dead kids' computers?

  David Rossi : This plane seldom makes pleasure trips.

• Jennifer Jareau : I'm not sure what we have here, but I just got a call and some case files from a Sheriff Samuels in Uinta County, Wyoming. Six nights ago, two different teens were found hanging in their bedrooms.

  Aaron Hotchner : Hanging?

  Jennifer Jareau : Trish Leake was dead when she was found. Ryan Krouse was revived on scene, but then died a few days later in the hospital.

  [Hotch glances at the files and looks at JJ skeptically] 

  Jennifer Jareau : I know we don't handle suicides. But the previous Friday, two more boys a few towns over were found hanging on the backs of their doors.

  Aaron Hotchner : Four successful suicides in the same rural county in a week? That's, uh, way above the national average.

  Jennifer Jareau : I know. These kids don't fit the pattern. No drug or alcohol abuse, no antidepressants, no prior arrests. These are just plain good kids who decided to hang themselves at approximately the same time on a Friday night. When someone feels trapped in what feels like a hopeless situation, pulling the trigger or swallowing pills or hanging yourself seems like the only way out. None of that seems to exist here. Something's really wrong. Hotch, I can feel it.

• Aaron Hotchner : We believe the unsub responsible for these deaths may be a teenager.

  Emily Prentiss : He's a loner. He doesn't participate in team sports or group activities. He's withdrawn, very low self-esteem.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : His only form of pure interaction is online. He engages in activity that draws attention to himself yet isolates himself from his peers.

  Jennifer Jareau : [presenting the profile to a group of adults]  Parents and teachers should watch out for the warning signs: kids with bloodshot eyes, marks on their necks, severe headaches, disorientation.

  David Rossi : In real life, he considers himself a loser. In cyberspace, he can pull strings. Makes him feel powerful.

  Deputy #1 : Does this kid know that other kids are dying because of him?

  Derek Morgan : He's choking himself and daring others to do it, so we're most likely looking at reckless homicides here.

  Jennifer Jareau : If you see anything that's unusual or suspicious, just call the sheriff's department and we will try to direct you as best we can. All right, thank you.

  [the crowd breaks up] 

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, we told as many parents as we could.

  Sheriff Samuels : Do you think it helped?

  Jennifer Jareau : Not as much as getting through to the kids will.

• Emily Prentiss : [Parents of the deceased girl just left]  Those poor people

  Aaron Hotchner : I just hope we haven't made it worse for them

  Emily Prentiss : Could we?

• Penelope Garcia : Well, that's weird!

  Aaron Hotchner : What?

  Penelope Garcia : There's nothing here

  David Rossi : Nothing useful?

  Penelope Garcia : Nothing at all. Look, there's no root directory, there's no operating system, the registry appears to be blank

  Emily Prentiss : But why would she have an empty computer set up?

  Penelope Garcia : I did not say empty, I said appears to be blank

  Aaron Hotchner : Meaning?

  Penelope Garcia : That I'm gonna need a little while