- Derek Morgan: He was in his pajamas. Ronnie Brewer. Out there by Sideler Road, he was still in his pajamas. I'm sorry, kid, I... I don't know. Six months on the sidelines, I guess I still have a few blisters where I used to have calluses.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I don't think that's what this is.
- Derek Morgan: Oh, no? Then what is it?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: You're about to be a dad. You know? You have to expect the world to start to feel different.
- Derek Morgan: It just feels so hard. Not as in difficult. Literally hard, like asphalt. It's hard, like... like pavement.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Children are soft.
- Derek Morgan: Yeah. Defenseless.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: That's why every day, we try to make this world a little safer. If there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that you and Savannah are going to be great parents.
- Derek Morgan: [opening quotation] "Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth." - Peter Ustinov.
- Derek Morgan: [On the phone] What you got, baby girl?
- Penelope Garcia: What I've got is fail, fail, and more fail
- David Rossi: Remember Thomas Alva Edison, Penelope: "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"
- Penelope Garcia: Okay, let me rephrase what I just said: I currently waist-deep in what's not working
- Aaron Hotchner: Ronnie Brewer is still missing. Both parents' eyes were filled with sand and glued shut.
- David Rossi: Mr. Sandman, bring me a nightmare.
- Derek Morgan: [Rushing out of his office] Hey, hey, hey, there you are! How you're settling in?
- Derek Morgan: Well, you know, it's like riding a bike
- David Rossi: Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask, uh, I've got an opening in my poker group next week. Why don't you join us?
- Derek Morgan: Oh, my dance card's kind of full these days, Rossi, you know, getting ready for a baby
- David Rossi: Well, that's all the more reason to play, you know, jump start the kid's college fund a little money
- Derek Morgan: Okay. Okay, I will see what I can do. I left a file in the conference room
- David Rossi: I... I was just in there. I didn't see any files
- Derek Morgan: You're sure about that?
- David Rossi: Positive! No files! I... I would have noticed
- Derek Morgan: All right, your eyes start to do that little thing they do. Let's have it
- David Rossi: Have what?
- Derek Morgan: It's not my birthday and I said to you: please no welcome back party
- David Rossi: All right, look, I'm not saying, but, ehm, I was supposed to distract you, so do me a favor and act surprised when you go in there, all right?
- Derek Morgan: All right, I got you covered
- [starts walking in, Rossi blocks him]
- David Rossi: And let's just keep it an extra 30 seconds, just to be sure
- Derek Morgan: [laughs] No problem
- David Rossi: So, my eyes do this thing, huh?
- Derek Morgan: Little bit
- David Rossi: I better work on that before poker night
- David Rossi: No tread marks anywhere. The unsub probably parked his car along the main road and walked in.
- Jennifer Jareau: Family have dogs?
- David Rossi: No. No security system, either.
- Jennifer Jareau: Well, there's nothing around back. The garage and the storage were unlocked.
- David Rossi: And I bet the Brewers probably never locked their front door.
- Jennifer Jareau: You know, it's not so unusual. I grew up in a place like this and that's just how it was. People trusted one another.
- David Rossi: Trust is a good thing. So are deadbolts and a rottweiler.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, send me all the police, hospital, and child services transcripts associated with the cases
- Penelope Garcia: Everything on all of them?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, I'll print out hard copies here
- Penelope Garcia: Okay, you're gonna need a forklift and I hope you're using recyclable paper, but... on its way
- Dr. Spencer Reid: All right, thank you so much, Garcia
- Derek Morgan: [closing quote] "Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through. Life's been good to me so far" - Joe Walsh
- Aaron Hotchner: We're looking for a family annihilator. We believe he's a white male in his early to mid thirties. He is intelligent, well-organized, and meticulous.
- David Rossi: Family annihilators are often quick and ruthless, but this unsub prolongs the suffering of his victims.
- Dr. Tara Lewis: He appears to kill in stages. First the father, then the mother, and finally the child.
- Derek Morgan: The mother seems to be the primary target of the unsub's rage. She is forced to endure a sense of helplessness for up to an hour while her child is in danger.
- Sgt. Natalie Whitfield: So we're dealing with a sadist?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yes, but not sadism as we typically think of it. Despite the savagery of the attacks, the killer does not derive gratification from inflicting pain; it's from observing the panic in his victims. The sadism is psychological.
- Derek Morgan: Something may have happened in the unsub's childhood where he felt unprotected. Perhaps his own mother turned a blind eye to a real or perceived danger.
- Aaron Hotchner: And this could explain the ritual of placing sand and glue in the parents' eyes, symbolically blinding them as punishment.
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Ellie Zumwalt survived her injuries, and this may discourage this unsub and make him more cautious.
- David Rossi: Or have the opposite effect. It could infuriate him and spur him to attack again soon with increased violence.
- M.E. Cranston: Good to see you again, Dr. Reid.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Nice to see you.
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Again?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, we did a case here four years ago.
- M.E. Cranston: Right, the tornado guy. That was one for the books.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, the sand in the eyes could be a purely symbolic gesture. Uh, the Sandman was a mythical character who would sprinkle magic dust in the eyes of children while they slept
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Yeah, but I thought he was benevolent figure, a bringer of good dreams
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Not always. In one version of the myth, he would actually pop the eyeballs out of kids, used it for food for his own offspring
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Geez, I stand corrected!