- Aaron Hotchner: [opening quote] "Don't you know, there comes a midnight hour, when everyone has to take off his mask?" - Søren Kierkegaard
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [Standing in front of a screen which displays the letter] I thought that Antiona had written the initials CH in my hand. What she actually wrote was C++, which is a programming language that uses hexadecimals codes, or base-16. Now, that means that the unsub is most likely a programmer or at least someone who works with computers. Anyway, using an ASCII chart, you can translate between hexadecimal code and characters equivalents, but the interesting thing is the entire letter isn't the message. The actual message is hidden in a single sentence that is indicated by the number underlined in the date Reid: Rossi: Reid:
- Jennifer Jareau: So, the forth sentence
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Exactly. "When I think that proof alone will never beat faulty logic, I bleed twice". Now if you count the letters in each word, you get hexadecimal code
- [hex characters on screen are: 41 54 4F 4E 45 46 4C 4D 4E]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: which can be translated into characters
- David Rossi: Kid, just tell us what it says
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [Letters read: ATONE FL MN] Atone full moon
- Aaron Hotchner: Claude may have kidnapped those boys on his own, but you put the events of the last few days in motion for a reason.
- Antonia Slade: And you want me to tell you what it is. Well, you're going to have to prove you got a little bit more going on than a fancy title and nice suits to deserve an answer.
- Aaron Hotchner: When you were fourteen, you missed almost a year of school due to an unspecified illness. During the same year, a 15-year-old boy on a neighboring farm was killed in a hunting accident. I think these two events were related. You weren't ill. You were pregnant, and the neighbor boy was the father of your child. Your father, the German minister, the authoritarian, punished you for breaking the rules. He made you have the baby at home, and he murdered your boyfriend.
- Antonia Slade: Go on.
- Aaron Hotchner: At first, we profiled you as an extreme narcissist, but that's just a cover. You're actually full of self-loathing. And every time you killed a runaway teen, you were killing yourself or your boyfriend for lacking discipline. What happened to your baby, Antonia?
- Antonia Slade: I can't tell you that. But as a reward for being so clever, I will tell you this. There's a storm coming, Agent Hotchner, and you're about to be swept away.
- Jennifer Jareau: [Presses the intercom] Penelope?
- Penelope Garcia: [Comes walking it] At your service
- Jennifer Jareau: Oh? Hey!
- Antonia Slade: You got everyone fooled, don't you? Calling yourself doctor...
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Who is this for and who helped you send it?
- Antonia Slade: You're really a phony, a puffed up little fraud. Is that why you're sad?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I know what you're doing and it won't work. You're treating us all in the opposite way that we are used to being treated 'cause you want to throw my team off balance
- Antonia Slade: You're not a complete idiot
- Antonia Slade: I think, you're like me. Nobody really knows us.
- [switches to German: "I'll help you, when]
- Antonia Slade: [you] tell the truth", the word "du" is missing in her German] Ich helfe dir wenn die Wahrheit sagst
- Dr. Tara Lewis: [English: "Sure, when everything is over"] Sicher, wenn das alles vorbei ist
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Don't forget boredom. I mean, she had a really exciting couple of days there. Not to brag, but we are a more scintillating company than most inmates and guards
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I overheard the arrangement you made with Antonia in German. You promised to tell her truth after the case was over if she helped us out. You gonna follow through?
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Hell no. Look, of all the serial killer types, the ones I find most dangerous are the hyper-intelligent ones that get off more on the mind games than the killing. They're like vampires, ready to suck your soul dry and file your information away for a rainy day
- Jennifer Jareau: Yeah, that's Antonia
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Well, we got what we from her. I say we move on
- Dr. Tara Lewis: [closing quote] "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself" - John Steinbeck