- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Billy? Billy Flynn? Mr. Flynn, I don't know for sure if you can hear me. My name is Jennifer Jareau. I... I work for the FBI as a Communications Liaison for the... the Behavioral... uh... okay Mr. Flynn, I... I want to talk you about letting Ellie Spicer go. I mean, I want to ask you to. See uh, I'm not a hostage negotiator. I've never done anything like this at all ever... but um... sometimes circumstances its... Look. You can tell, I'm not a hostage negotiator, but I am a mother. I know what your mother did to you when you were little, what she was, what she made you watch, what she let men do to you and it makes me so... it's just not fair. And no one can make that better, I wish I could, I do, but if I could somehow go back there, you know, and make what was happening to you stop, I could just pick you up and just tell you it'll all be okay. That's what moms are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be the cause of your pain, they're supposed to make it go away. They're supposed to hold you and tell you everything is going to be alright. They're supposed to tell you that thunder is angels bowling. And that it's okay to be afraid of the dark, and it isn't silly to think there might be monsters in your closet. And that it's okay if you want to climb into bed with them just this once because it's scary in the room all alone... They're supposed to say it's okay to be afraid, and not be the thing you're afraid of. But most importantly, they're supposed to love you no matter what. What happened to you it isn't fair, it isn't right. I'm supposed to empathize with you... sympathize... understand... but I can't. That... that would be a lie. The truth is I don't understand what you've done, I don't sympathize with you killing people all these years, and I especially don't understand you taking Ellie. What I can do is tell you what a mother should tell you, that you can't take away your pain by hurting someone else, that it doesn't make all the nights you had to hide scared and alone any better if you scare someone the way you're scaring Ellie. What happened to you... it isn't fair, but what you're doing to her isn't fair either. And if anyone should understand what that feels like it's you. You have the power, you can do what you want to do, but for once you can chose to use that power to do for Ellie what should have been done for you. You can chose letting her go. You can chose teaching her that, yes, there are monsters, and it's okay to be afraid of them. But it's not okay to let them win, and it's not okay to be one.
- Penelope Garcia: [on the phone with Reid] How's my main man doing?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Uh, on the completely safe assumption that you're not talking about me, let's just say I wouldn't wanna be this unsub when Morgan finally gets his hands on him.
- Penelope Garcia: That bad, huh?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Has he ever yelled at you *before*?
- Penelope Garcia: [chuckles] Touche.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [voiceover] A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But, if these minds get out of harmony with one another, it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. -The Buddha
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: I'm not a hostage negotiator.
- Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner: I'm sorry. You are today.
- Penelope Garcia: This murder was quite the scandal...
- Detective Adam Kurzbard: For Southern California in the sixties, that's saying something.
- Penelope Garcia: Okay... I don't know who was talking right then... But, Word.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: How many cops are there in L.A.?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: City or County?
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: You actually know the answer?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I know both answers.
- Derek Morgan: [about Detective Spicer getting killed] I told him that we should wait for backup, but he wouldn't listen to me. We split up, and he headed around back before I could stop him.
- Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner: Morgan, sometimes when it comes to family, common sense and procedure go out the window.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Yes. Yes, I'm still here. Yep, I'm always gonna be here. Okay. My name is Jennifer... No. You know what? I'm not going to explain this entire thing again to another mid-level bureaucrat who can't give me a sufficient answer. Put someone on the phone who can authorize what I need.
- Billy Flynn: Do you believe in heaven?
- Derek Morgan: This is your last chance.
- Billy Flynn: You think I might see her there? Maybe get a second chance?
- [stands up]
- Billy Flynn: I'd really like that.
- [moves his right hand]
- Billy Flynn: The question isn't why do I kill people, the question is... why I don't kill everybody. I decide who dies... but mostly I decide who lives. I'm like... God.
- Ellie Spicer: We're not a team.
- Billy Flynn: You got us in. We did it together.
- Ellie Spicer: But... I didn't know. And if I didn't know, we aren't a team.
- Billy Flynn: Yet.
- Ellie Spicer: Why do you have to kill people? My dad says people who hurt other people are cowards, that they never hurt someone who can protect themselves.
- Billy Flynn: So how would he explain what happened to him tonight?
- Ellie Spicer: He let you go so that you wouldn't hurt me. That doesn't make you brave.
- Billy Flynn: [Incredulously] He let me go?
- Ellie Spicer: To save me.
- Billy Flynn: [laughs] You're really not like him at all.
- Billy Flynn: [Car pulls up near R.V] Get back!... Come here. Come HERE! Should we kill him?
- Ellie Spicer: What? No!
- Billy Flynn: See, Ellie? We *are* a team. You just decided to let that man *live*! The question isn't why do I kill people, the question is... why I don't kill everybody. I decide who dies... but mostly I decide who lives. I'm like... *God*. And now you are, too.
- [Radio announcer describes R.V., motorist looks suspiciously at R.V]
- Billy Flynn: Uh oh.
- Ellie Spicer: What are you doing?
- Billy Flynn: Even a god finds that sometimes, people just have bad luck.
- Ellie Spicer: [having sent the whole neighborhood after Billy] Can't kill them all, can you?
- Billy Flynn: I can try...
- Billy Flynn: [looks family photo and finds two boys] Damn it!
- Ellie Spicer: [smiles] He has a brother. I told him to tell the neighbors to call the police, and then tell the next house, and the next house, and the next house. You know, he's probably told the whole block by now. Can't kill them all, can you?
- [Billy knocks on the Farradays' door, holding their son's trashed bicycle]
- Billy Flynn: Is this your son's bicycle?
- Paul Farraday: What the hell...
- Paul Farraday: [opens the door]
- Billy Flynn: I may have run it over.
- Paul Farraday: What'd you do, back over it again?
- Billy Flynn: Actually... twice.
- Billy Flynn: [pulls out a gun and shoots Paul dead]
- Billy Flynn: [Ellie in short hair comes] You see, Ellie? Bicycles means kids, and kids mean parents who are easy to control. So, go get the boy. Bring him to the parents' room.
- Ellie Spicer: What are you gonna do?
- Billy Flynn: I have a widow to comfort. Go.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Already?
- Penelope Garcia: You doubted?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: No, I'll put you on speaker.
- Penelope Garcia: Okay, let me preface this by saying that a 40-year-old murder in a suburb of Los Angeles is an absurdly impossible request. Having said that, yours truly happens to know that the Pollak Library at Cal State...
- Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner: Garcia.