Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Profiling 101 (2012)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Aaron Hotchner : Morning.

  David Rossi : Oh, hey. Morning.

  Aaron Hotchner : Everyone's gathered. We're all ready if you are.

  David Rossi : Yeah, let's do it.

  Aaron Hotchner : You need that?

  David Rossi : Listen, Aaron. Thanks for letting me set this up, but the whole team really didn't need to be here. I'm the one that owed the favor.

  Aaron Hotchner : Everyone insisted. How you doing?

  David Rossi : Sorry, what?

  Aaron Hotchner : You okay?

  David Rossi : Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I'm great. I'm good. I'll meet you over there in a minute, okay?

• David Rossi : [San Francisco, 1997]  Excuse me, I'm looking for the case agent.

  Aaron Hotchner : That would be me. Agent Rossi, I'm Agent Hotchner, Seattle division. We spoke on the phone. I inherited the case from Agent Bidwell. Thanks for coming so quickly.

  David Rossi : Yeah, I hopped the first flight from Dulles. Came straight from the airport.

  Aaron Hotchner : That's a long trip.

  David Rossi : With bad food.

  Aaron Hotchner : Let me show you what we found. A jogger discovered the first body dumped in the bushes about thirty yards over the road here. The M. E. said that she'd been there almost a month.

• Jennifer Jareau : Okay, this is Rachel Moore, a 17-year-old runaway from Spokane, Washington.

  David Rossi : Now, she grew up poor and in a broken home. Her mom left her dad because he liked to drink and beat on her.

  Jennifer Jareau : And this is Tina Dyson, a 19-year-old college student from Seattle.

  David Rossi : Now, she was a trust fund kid, and she got straight As and came from a loving family. Now, these two girls couldn't be more different, but the one thing that they had in common is they both crossed paths with the most prolific serial killer the BAU has ever seen.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : One thing you should understand is that no two killers are the same. They each occupy their own point on the behavioral spectrum. Uh, genetics, brain chemistry, psychology, and environment are all factors.

  Aaron Hotchner : But we believe that this particular killer grew up in an environment so adverse that he never had a chance.

  Emily Prentiss : He endured years of cruel and abject physical abuse.

  Aaron Hotchner : As well as horribly profound psychological abuse.

  Derek Morgan : And when he wasn't being ignored, he was being humiliated.

  David Rossi : Now, let me be clear. Most abused kids do not turn into killers. Not even all psychopaths become killers, but this particular unknown subject, or unsub, suffered extreme abuse, and it has everything to do with why he does what he does.

  Derek Morgan : Now, these are some of his victims. He kidnapped them, he restrained them, and he starved them for days.

  Emily Prentiss : Then he killed them by mutilating their reproductive organs. Right now, we know there are at least forty of them.

  Aaron Hotchner : But we believe that he may eventually claim over a hundred victims.

  David Rossi : Now, we chose this case for today because we've been discovering bodies up and down the West Coast since 1992. For lack of a better word, it's a classic. This unsub's entire childhood was a crucible, and in it, a psychotic killer was forged.

• Emily Prentiss : Fifty-three stab wounds. That's a lot of work. Does anyone want to tell me what they think that means?

  Lance : Hatred?

  Sloan : Frustration.

  Bianca : He's angry.

  Emily Prentiss : You're all correct. It's called overkill. Typically, it means the murder was personal somehow.

  Aaron Hotchner : That or the unsub is psychotic and/or prone to violent outbursts.

  Derek Morgan : The overkill may also show his inexperience. This was probably his first kill, and he was feeling his way through it, working out his M.O.

  Emily Prentiss : But there's a lot about Rachel that tells us about the unsub. She was young, so most likely he was, too.

  Lance : What makes you think that?

  Jennifer Jareau : She lived in a shelter, and had a part-time job, so she was a street kid, but not necessarily the reckless type. She wouldn't just go off with anyone.

• Aaron Hotchner : It's a federal prison, Dave. We can't just call them up and tell them what to do.

  David Rossi : You have to know someone in Justice who can pull some strings. I've got to see him today, Aaron. You know that.