Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Profiling 101 (2012)

Shemar Moore: Derek Morgan

Quotes 

• Derek Morgan : In the meantime, Agent Rossi retired, but the BAU grew. We trained more profilers, hired tech analysts, press liaisons, and we even got our own resident genius.

  Penelope Garcia , Dr. Spencer Reid : Thank you.

• David Rossi : Irish statesman and author Edmund Burke once wrote:"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." This job isn't just what I do, it's who I am.

  Devin : Is it worth it?

  David Rossi : For every life we save? Damn right it is.

  Derek Morgan : Absolutely it's worth it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I can't imagine doing anything else.

• Derek Morgan : Does anybody here know exactly what a serial killer is?

  David Zimmerman : Someone who's committed more than one murder.

  Derek Morgan : That's very good. By statute, three is the magic number. And it's actually more qualitative than quantitative for us.

  David Rossi : Today we're going to talk about how some serial killers get made. Because if you can understand that, then you can figure out a way to catch them.

• David Zimmerman : How come I've never heard of this guy?

  Derek Morgan : Have you ever heard of Efren Saldivar?

  David Zimmerman : No.

  Derek Morgan : David Parker Ray? How about John Edward Robinson? See, at any given time, we have at least twenty-five open cases. Every year we're able to close around fifteen, yet new ones still seem to pop up. There are more serial killers out there than you may think.

• Emily Prentiss : This focus on reproductive organs could also indicate a deep-seated sense of self-loathing. He might have hated the fact that he was born.

  Jennifer Jareau : Or he had some sort of traumatic life-changing event associated with birth.

  Derek Morgan : And he could have hated his own mother. The strained mother/child relationship is a hallmark for many killers.

  Diane : That doesn't make any sense. "I hate myself or I hate my mother, so I kill women by ripping out their wombs"?

  David Rossi : It only needs to make sense to him. One man's logic is another man's crazy.

• 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.