Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Rite of Passage (2010)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

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• Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : You alright?

  Derek Morgan : Yeah.

  Emily Prentiss : [shouts]  No! Are you out of your mind? You blew out my eardrum!

  Derek Morgan : What did you want me to do? He was coming right at us.

  Emily Prentiss : I told you I had him!

  Derek Morgan : He was shooting at us, Emily.

  Emily Prentiss : Well, you could've given me a heads up!

  Derek Morgan : What, a loaded MP5 and a shooting lunatic wasn't enough? Come on.

• Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Be careful with those. I don't need broken MP-5s on our budget.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Hey, guys, here's the thing. I don't think I technically have authorization to carry a weapon like that.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner , Derek Morgan : You don't.

• Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : [voiceover]  Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not obtained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -Helen Keller.

• Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Try not to shoot that inside the car

  David Rossi : You mean: try not to deafen you?

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Exactly

• Sheriff Ruiz : Every job has a patron saint. Cops have Saint Jude, doctors have Raphael the Archangel. But if you're a drug dealer or a killer, who do you pray to?

  Jennifer Jareau : The saint of death.

  Sheriff Ruiz : I've learned that crossing the desert to get here, you lose track of the ways you can die. So if someone close doesn't make it, sometimes it's easier to blame a superstitious figure.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Well, Omar doesn't seem like he believes what he's saying.

  Sheriff Ruiz : I didn't say he believes it. I said it's who people are blaming.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : What people?

  Sheriff Ruiz : Look, Santa Muerte has been coming up more and more. The illegals I send back, the coyotes I arrest. Some of the drug traffickers, they're afraid.

  Jennifer Jareau : Afraid of a saint?

  Sheriff Ruiz : I handled a homicide once where my only witness was this four year old girl. And she told me her mom and dad got killed by a dragon. Turns out the bad guy wore a green rain suit with a pointy hood. To the kid, it looked like a dragon. So when hundreds of people are talking about the same monster, it's a sure bet something's going on. They just don't know what to call it.