Derek Morgan

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Derek Morgan Quotes

	Season 5 / Episode 4: - Hopeless Derek Morgan: [voiceover] Kingman Brewster Jr said: 'There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.'
	Season 5 / Episode 4: - Hopeless Derek Morgan: [voiceover] William Shakespeare wrote 'These violent delights have violent ends.'
	Season 4 / Episode 24: - Amplification Dr. Spencer Reid: [wakes up in hospital] Are you eating jello? Derek Morgan: Hey kid. [to the hallway] Hey, Doc. He's awake. Dr. Spencer Reid: [to Morgan] Is there any more jello?
	Season 4 / Episode 17: - Demonology Derek Morgan: Rossi, don't tell me you believe in evil. David Rossi: Don't tell me you do this job and you don't. Derek Morgan: I believe there are evil acts, but those are choices - brain chemistry. What do you think, Hotch? Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner: I think, deep down, we're all capable of unspeakable things. Where it starts or what you call it, I don't know.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Bloodline Penelope Garcia: Hiya, baby. Derek Morgan: Hey baby girl. We need to talk. Penelope Garcia: PG or NC17? Derek Morgan: You're on speaker phone. Penelope Garcia: I charge extra for groups.
	Season 4 / Episode 11: - Normal Derek Morgan: [while holding JJ's baby] What's he doing? He's smiling at Derek Morgan. Emily Prentiss, Penelope Garcia: [Together] Gas!
	Season 4 / Episode 7: - Memoriam Dr. Spencer Reid: [walks into his hotel room with a box, surprised to see Rossi and Morgan there] What are you guys doing here? Derek Morgan: Hey. What's it look like we're doing? Dr. Spencer Reid: Uh, breaking into my room and watching Days of Our Lives. David Rossi: The Young and the Restless.
	Season 4 / Episode 7: - Memoriam Derek Morgan: [to Reid and Rossi] It's Garcia. [answers phone] Yeah, talk to me baby girl. Penelope Garcia: I'm not interrupting boy time a Crazy Horse 2 am I? Derek Morgan: You know that's not my thing. I'm more for in room entertainment. Penelope Garcia: Well, I can't help you there. But I do give good phone.
	Season 3 / Episode 17: - In Heat Derek Morgan: [looking at J.J. and Will kissing in the hallway with Prentiss and Reid] Well, finally. Emily Prentiss: Mm. I thought she was never going to admit it. [walks away] Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, what's it been like, a year? [follows Prentiss] Derek Morgan: Yeah, something like that. [walks away, opposite of Reid and Prentiss]
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Elephant's Memory Derek Morgan: So Owen identifies with being a misunderstood loner. You know, I wish all of our unsubs would just tack their profiles on their walls like this for us. Dr. Spencer Reid: [looks at him] That doesn't mean anything. What, you grew up in Chicago, a high school jock, and you have pictures of Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan on your walls and trophies everywhere? Derek Morgan: Yeah. But you forgot Walter Payton. Not to mention the sexy ladies of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
	Season 3 / Episode 16: - Elephant's Memory Dr. Spencer Reid: [rushing into the briefing room] Sorry I'm late. Dr. Spencer Reid: . David Rossi: I hope she was worth it. Derek Morgan: [turning to look at Reid from behind] I hope it was a she. Dr. Spencer Reid: Sorry, I was at the movies. David Rossi: Oh, really, why don't you tell us what it was about. Dr. Spencer Reid: Uh, I had to leave early, so I can't really -...
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - Penelope Derek Morgan: Hey silly girl. I love you, you know that, right? Penelope Garcia: I love you too.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - Penelope Derek Morgan: Take this gun. Penelope Garcia: I don't believe in guns. Derek Morgan: Ok, trust me they are very real take it.
	Season 3 / Episode 8: - Lucky Derek Morgan: You don't like junkies? Floyd Feylinn Ferell: They taste funny.
	Season 3 / Episode 7: - Identity Dr. Spencer Reid: A popular theory among leading astrophysicists estimates that the hyper-matter reactor would need about 10³² Joules of energy to destroy a planet the size of Earth. Now, Lucas said it took 19 years to build the first Death Star, right? If you look at the universal chronology, there's a tested prototype for Superlaser - where're you going? Derek Morgan: Take back the last five minutes of my life.
	Season 3 / Episode 2: - In Birth and Death Derek Morgan: Garcia, baby girl, please tell me something I want to hear. Garcia: You are a statuesque god of sculpted chocolate thunder. Derek Morgan: How about something I don't already know? Garcia: ...I have a sweet tooth.
	Season 3 / Episode 2: - In Birth and Death Derek Morgan: Garcia, baby girl, please tell me something I wanna hear. Penelope Garcia: You're a statuesque god of sculpted chocolate thunder. Derek Morgan: How about something I don't already know. Penelope Garcia: I have a sweet tooth?
	Season 2 / Episode 17: - Distress Penelope Garcia: Are you lonely in the Lone Star State? And are you wearing chaps? Derek Morgan: [laughing] Only in your dreams, Garcia. Penelope Garcia: [laughing] Oh, not necessarily. I have Photoshop.
	Season 2 / Episode 6: - The Boogeyman Derek Morgan: So, why the woods, JJ? Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Hmmm? Derek Morgan: Your fear, you said it was of the woods. Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Err, I used to be a camp counselor when I was a teenager, in the woods up around Vermont. I had the night shift, you know, tuck the girls in, turn off the lights, you know, the typical drill. Everything seemed fine. The kids were asleep, you know, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Until... I noticed that there was some blood, on the hallway floor. So I followed the blood trail down the hall to the camp director's cabin, walked up to his bed, and... he was just lying there, under his covers, dead. Someone stabbed him. I ran out of there so fast, out the door, down the hall. I can just remember it being really dark. Once I got to the door, there was another counselor; I guess she heard me scream. They caught the caretaker on his way in to town. I guess he still had the knife on him. Anyway, I guess that's probably when I decided I didn't like the woods. Derek Morgan: You're serious? Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: [sips coffee looking serious and pauses] No! Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: I mean you fell for that? Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Come on! I don't know why I'm afraid of the woods! I am. Why is he still afraid of the dark? Derek Morgan: Yeah, Reid why are you still afraid of the dark? Dr. Spencer Reid: Because of the inherent absence of light!
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - Aftermath Derek Morgan: Tell me something I want to hear. Penelope Garcia: You're a sculptious god of chocolate thunder Derek Morgan: OK, tell me something I don't already know. Penelope Garcia: I have a sweet tooth?
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Psychodrama Derek Morgan: [answering phone] Yeah Penelope Garcia: Um pals, don't be ticked, but I think I may have missed the sort of glaringly obvious here. How would you make yourself taller, without being a different person entirely or having some weird sort of chinese surgery? Elle Greenaway: Heels Penelope Garcia: Right sunshine, but we'd have seen heels. Unless the UnSub had them hidden inside his shoe, the point is lifts. Derek Morgan: Lifts? Penelope Garcia: Lifts. All hidden up inside his boot, with a little fancy footwork, pun emphatically intended, Garcia here managed to dig 'em out. Derek Morgan: Thanks girl.
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Psychodrama Elle Greenaway: Key? Derek Morgan: No, I got one. [He kicks open the door]
	Season 1 / Episode 18: - Somebody's Watching Lila Archer: [Lila takes a sip of Reid's soda] You don't mind sharing with me, do you? Dr. Spencer Reid: No. [Lila takes off her robe. She is wearing a bikini underneath. Reid stares at her as she walks away] Derek Morgan: You don't mind sharing with me, do you? Dr. Spencer Reid: Shut up!
	Season 1 / Episode 18: - Somebody's Watching Dr. Spencer Reid: Hey, Morgan? Has there ever been a girl that you wanted to be with for, you know, more than just one night? Derek Morgan: Excuse me? Dr. Spencer Reid: I've never seen you with the same girl twice. Derek Morgan: What, are you calling me a dog? Dr. Spencer Reid: No, no, not at all. I'm just trying to figure out if this feeling I have is ever gonna go away.
	Season 1 / Episode 17: - A Real Rain Derek Morgan: You've never been to New York? Dr. Spencer Reid: We've never had an UNSUB there. Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: [to Gideon] I thought you were going to talk to Reid about taking some vacation time. Jason Gideon: What vacation time?
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Popular Kids Derek Morgan: Easy there tough guy. Have some coffee with your sugar. Dr. Spencer Reid: I need something to wake me up. Derek Morgan: Ooh, late night? Dr. Spencer Reid: Very. Derek Morgan: My man! Dr. Spencer Reid: Not that kind of late night!
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Popular Kids Derek Morgan: So tell me, what does keep young Dr. Reid awake at night? Wait, let me guess. Memorizing some obscure textbook? No, no, no. Working on cold fusion? No, I got it, I got it, I got it. Watching Star Trek and laughing at the physics mistakes. Dr. Spencer Reid: Actually, there aren't that many scientific errors in Star Trek. Especially considering how long ago it was made. There are certain improbabilities, but not that many outright errors. Derek Morgan: Right.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Popular Kids Dr. Spencer Reid: What happened? Derek Morgan: Him bringing us down here was way too much of a coincidence. Dr. Spencer Reid: No, I got that. Did you have to tackle us both? Derek Morgan: You're welcome Reid.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - Derailed Derek Morgan: Dammit, Reid, I said don't take the vest off.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - Derailed Dr. Spencer Reid: Tardive dyskinesia. Derek Morgan: Once more for those of us who don't have an encyclopedic memory?

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