Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Zugzwang (2013)

Beth Riesgraf: Dr. Maeve Donovan

Quotes 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [to team]  Stay back! Stay back! Stay back! Sta... stay back, stay back! Diane, Diane, there's still a way out of this.

  Diane Turner : You never wanted me. Never! You lied!

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I didn't. Diane, I offered you a deal, and you can still take it. Me for her. Let me take her place.

  Diane Turner : You would do that?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Yes.

  Diane Turner : You would kill yourself for her?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Yes.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : Thomas Merton.

  Diane Turner : Who's Thomas Merton?

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : He knows. He knows.

  Diane Turner : Who's Thomas Merton? Who is he?

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : He's the one thing you can never take from us.

  Diane Turner : No.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Wait!

• Diane Turner : I was hoping you'd figure out my riddle. I-I mean, I knew you would. The fun was just how fast you'd do it. All this and brains, too.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It took me a long time. To be honest, I was distracted by your thesis.

  Diane Turner : You read my thesis?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I did. You know, I think your writing could put you on the same plane as Jonas Salk. I've already sent it to the NIH.

  Diane Turner : Flattery is not gonna get you out of this. I know what's waiting for me outsides.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I've arranged for your freedom.

  Diane Turner : The federal government doesn't make deals with people like me.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Not true. Nazi scientists were recruited for the Manhattan Project. Mafia bosses are regularly put into witness protection. If what you have is valuable enough, the federal government will work with you. And what you have is very valuable.

  Diane Turner : And what do I have, Doctor?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You have a brain that doesn't play by normal societal rules. And I know that all your life the people you care about the most keep leaving. There's a part of you that thinks it's because of that brain. Well, I'm here because I'm not going to leave you. I'm here because... I just hope that I get the chance.

  Diane Turner : Chance at what?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : To be with you. Me for her. That was the deal, right?

  Diane Turner : You're choosing me over her?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Diane, how could it be anyone else?

  Diane Turner : Prove it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : All right. How?

  Diane Turner : Say it again. This time say it to her face.

  [takes blindfold off] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I don't love you. Sorry.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : I understand.

• Dr. Maeve Donovan : Why don't you just kill me?

  Diane Turner : I want to see if you'll jump. It's my theory that when you make a decision to give up that the cells in your body start to die. Can you feel it? Your whole body beginning to decay. It makes it easier to want to kill yourself. Go. Go ahead, prove my theory.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : I remember you.

• Alex Blake : Did you guys ever compare lists, the different people you dated?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : November 4th, 3:46 p.m. I asked her if she dated a lot growing up.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : [in Reid's recollection]  No way. Do you know how many Friday nights I had where it was just me and a microscope?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I thought that was just me.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : [laughs]  Oh, come on. Girls must have adored you in high school.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I was twelve. It was kind of... confusing. Once I got a note from this girl I had crush on. She thought I was cute but would only meet me if I wore a blindfold. I did, and she took my shirt off. That's when I heard the laughter. Most of the senior class was in there.

  Alex Blake : Oh, sounds awful.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Maeve thought so, too.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : When we finally meet, I'm going to make blindfolds fun again.

• Dr. Maeve Donovan : I read your thesis, didn't I?

  Diane Turner : You turned me down because you couldn't handle the competition.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : No, I turned you down because your testing was flawed.

  Diane Turner : It was not flawed!

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : Your sample was biased. You included your parents.

  Diane Turner : The science was sound. You didn't even read the whole thing, did you?

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : No, I did. I did. I did read it. And do you know what I thought after I was finished? I thought, whoever wrote this had suffered a tragedy, and I felt sorry for your loss, but you don't get a PhD just because something bad happened to you.

  Diane Turner : No. You just couldn't see. You can't see that I'm a genius!

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : Genius? Do you know what genius is?

  Diane Turner : I know that I am one.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : Maybe. Maybe you do have that gift. Maybe your theory could have had merit, but we don't know, because genius isn't just one good idea or one successful experiment, Diane. Genius is work, thousands of hours of work.

• Diane Turner : Get on the ledge.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : No.

  Diane Turner : Now!

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : No. If you're gonna kill me, you kill me, but I am not jumping, because I want to live long enough to see Spencer arrest you.

• Bobby Putnam : Why are you doing this?

  Diane Turner : Why? Let's just say she took something from me that I can't get back, so I decided if I can't have my life, I'm gonna take hers.

  Bobby Putnam : What is she talking about?

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : I don't know. I don't... I... I don't know who she is.

  Diane Turner : After hunting her for ten months, after stealing her man, I had to stop and say, what is so freakin' special about her? I couldn't see it. Until I saw... him.

  Bobby Putnam : Him who?

  Diane Turner : The night you followed her, I followed you, and I saw him. I want what they have. I want him.

  Bobby Putnam : That's why you're doing this? Because of that stupid FBI agent?

  Diane Turner : That stupid FBI agent is the reason why you're still alive. You're gonna get her to tell me about him.

  Bobby Putnam : I don't want to hear what she has to say.

  Diane Turner : I know, but that wasn't a request.

• Diane Turner : There was a moment when you had him, and you knew you had him. What was it?

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : Euclidean geometry. There's this thing called the Penrose triangle. He told me a story about how he tried to build one when he was eight.

  Diane Turner : This better get sexy quick. I'm getting bored.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : You can't build it. It's an impossible physical structure. It only exists in conceptual geometry, but... I said, every Penrose triangle has its thorns. He laughed. It was a stupid pun, but he laughed.

  Diane Turner : That's it.

• Diane Turner : You see, when men cheat, it's below the belt, but when women cheat, it's above the neck.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : No. We were broken up. I never cheated on you.

  Bobby Putnam : But you didn't love me. Not like that.

  Diane Turner : Now you know how I felt, to be ignored, cast aside. It's not fun, is it?

  Bobby Putnam : Just let us go, damn it! What else do you want?

• Diane Turner : I finally see what he sees. He sees you as his equal. That's it, isn't it? I-I just... I have to... let him see that I'm on your level.

  Bobby Putnam : Great. You figured it out. Now, please, will you let us go?

  Diane Turner : No. No. I have to show her that I can take everything that she has. Then she's going to remember me. You, however, are superfluous. I'm sorry, Bobby. You've always been the runner-up in this pageant.

  Bobby Putnam : Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Please.

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : Don't hurt him.

  Bobby Putnam : Maeve!

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : Don't hurt him.

  Bobby Putnam : Please!

  Dr. Maeve Donovan : Please don't hurt him. Don't hurt him.

  [gunshot]