- Dr. Tara Lewis: [closing quote] "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus. That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing" - Charles Bukowski
- Jennifer Jareau: [opening quote] "Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth, cooked in hell" - Sir Walter Scott
- Dr. Spencer Reid: In 1947 the FBI issued a statement, discrediting It's a Wonderful Life, because they said it promoted communism
- Luke Alvez: So good to have you back, doc
- David Rossi: Israel Keyes evaded capture for decades, because he cracked the code
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Right: "don't kill anybody connected to you and don't kill in a space that can be connected to you"
- Jennifer Jareau: [looking at a huge pile of files] Ugh, talk about a needle in a haystack
- Dr. Spencer Reid: And they're anonymized, no names
- Jennifer Jareau: Huh, ok, well, a needle in the ocean
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Garcia, can you show us the video from last night?
- Penelope Garcia: Unfortunately, I can
- Emily Prentiss: [picks up her phone] Garcia, you're on speaker
- Penelope Garcia: Ooh, I live for speaker!
- Emily Prentiss: Garcia, I want you to run the entrants' names
- David Rossi: Cross-reference them with their bib photos and the video stills of our missing man. Look for romantic couples running together, married or domestic, spanning sexual preference lines
- Penelope Garcia: All over it, boss, like beanies on man buns on hipsters