08x20 - Alchemy Season 8 / Episode 20: - Alchemy

David Rossi: How many small-town newspapers do you subscribe to?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Thirty-eight. It used to be more, but a lot of them disappeared.
David Rossi: You mean went digital.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Same thing.
08x20 - Alchemy Season 8 / Episode 20: - Alchemy

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [a bar patron hits on Rossi] Who was that?
David Rossi: The fourth Mrs. Rossi, if I'm not careful.
08x18 - Restoration Season 8 / Episode 18: - Restoration

David Rossi: [opening quotation, voiceover] "I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me." - Terry Goodkind.
08x18 - Restoration Season 8 / Episode 18: - Restoration

Carl Buford: [Morgan visits Buford in prison] Derek Morgan. Of all my boys, you're the last one I ever thought would come back to me.
08x17 - The Gathering Season 8 / Episode 17: - The Gathering

Dr. Spencer Reid: [closing quotation, voiceover] Oscar Wilde said "I can resist anything, except temptation."
08x12 - Zugzwang Season 8 / Episode 12: - Zugzwang

Bobby Putnam: Where did you get Maeve's clothes?
Diane Turner: From her closet. Right after I bashed her head in.
08x06 - The Apprenticeship Season 8 / Episode 6: - The Apprenticeship

Aaron Hotchner: This unsub just graduated from animals to humans. We need to stop him before he goes serial.
08x06 - The Apprenticeship Season 8 / Episode 6: - The Apprenticeship

Detective Sam Ogilvie: What's with the bag?
Aaron Hotchner: Suffocating is a form of torture. And they enjoyed watching her suffer.
08x02 - The Pact Season 8 / Episode 2: - The Pact

Penelope Garcia: [badgering Rossi about his unused vacation days] Everyone likes vacation.
David Rossi: Vacations are overrated.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Didn't you take a vacation two years ago?
David Rossi: Luckily, two days in I was called back.
Penelope Garcia: Yeah, and now he's got thirty-one days.
Alex Blake: A month?
Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, sunshine is an essential source of Vitamin D. You should go to Florida and get some sunshine.
David Rossi: That's for old guys.
Derek Morgan: What about a safari in Africa?
David Rossi: Too hot.
Dr. Spencer Reid: How about Italy?
David Rossi: Too many relatives.
08x02 - The Pact Season 8 / Episode 2: - The Pact

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Two victims in three hours? That's a spree.
08x02 - The Pact Season 8 / Episode 2: - The Pact

David Rossi: [voiceover] Paul Brown once said "If you win, say nothing. If you lose, say less."
07x24 - Run Season 7 / Episode 24: - Run

Izzy Rogers: [Holds Will at gunpoint] Come on, officer.
Matthew Downs: He's a detective.
Izzy Rogers: [In-your-face mock apology to Will] Sorry, Dick.
07x23 - Hit Season 7 / Episode 23: - Hit

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [voiceover] "Fear is met and destroyed with courage." - James F. Bell.
07x23 - Hit Season 7 / Episode 23: - Hit

Emily Prentiss: [voiceover] I've always heard every ending is also a beginning and we just don't know it at the time. I'd like to believe that's true.
07x23 - Hit Season 7 / Episode 23: - Hit

Erin Strauss: What is going on here? You didn't profile this as a suicide mission.
David Rossi: 'Cause it wasn't. They'd never kill themselves.
Erin Strauss: What the hell do you call that, then?
David Rossi: They didn't improvise a way out. They've had an exit strategy in place. You don't learn explosives overnight.
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Aaron Hotchner: [voiceover] Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. -William Blake
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Emily Prentiss: [voiceover] It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere. -Friedrich Durrenmatt
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Derek Morgan: What do we got, baby girl?
Penelope Garcia: Thank you, sir. We have a killing in Enid, Oklahoma. And not... the capital punishment one you are thinking of right now. I'm talking about a woman named Cara Smith, who was murdered in her apartment minutes after the execution of Rodney Garrett.
Aaron Hotchner: A neighbor saw her front door open and discovered the body.
David Rossi: Look familiar?
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Young, pretty, short blonde hair.
David Rossi: And stabbed directly through the heart.
Dr. Spencer Reid: That's exactly the way Garrett killed his victims.
Derek Morgan: So are we looking at a copycat?
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Or someone creating doubt the right person was executed.
David Rossi: In Garrett's case, there was no doubt. His guilt was the slam dunk of all slam dunks. Prints, DNA, a confession.
Dr. Spencer Reid: He even led police to where he buried two of his victims.
Emily Prentiss: Garrett killed twenty-five women before he was caught. If this new unsub is a copycat, body count's just started.
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Warden Tom Hansen: There was something... unkillable about Garrett. Had my doubts that damn firing squad was gonna get the job done.
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Emily Prentiss: Hotch, I think I found her.
Aaron Hotchner: You're on speaker, Prentiss.
Emily Prentiss: The unsub must have circled back. He dumped her just outside the perimeter of the abduction site.
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Same M.O.?
Emily Prentiss: No, she's got stab wounds all over her torso. It's bad. And Hotch, this time he removed her scalp.
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Overkill. He must be enraged he wasn't able to carry the murder out as planned.
David Rossi: So now we might have another problem. If our unsub's blueprint is out the window, this may transition him into a spree killer.
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Emily Prentiss: [browsing through mail Garrett received in prison] Get a load of this one. "Dear Mr. Garrett, it took a lot of courage to do what you did. Most people are cowards and don't do what they feel inside them. You are an inspiration, and I applaud you."


Emily Prentiss: "I applaud you."
David Rossi: These are supposed to be the non-wacko letters.
Penelope Garcia: Hey, guess what? JJ's genius has struck again. That hunch about the hair was right. I'm sending you an ATM image of Cara Smith. She's the first victim. This was taken ten hours before her murder. Check it.
Detective Childers: The unsub cut her hair, too.
Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, there could be a sexual element involved. Trichophilia is a fetish where one becomes aroused by the removal of hair.
Derek Morgan: Well either way, it's starting to look less like a copycat. The unsub's deviating too much from Garrett's M.O. Garrett never took trophies.
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Emily Prentiss: [Prentiss has bid on a house for sale] I can't believe I'm doing it. I mean, it's probably not gonna work out anyway, right? There are five other sealed bids, and I offered way below what the owners are asking.
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Uh huh. Sounds to me like someone's hoping they don't get it.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Orthophobia: fear of owning personal property.
Emily Prentiss: No, I don't have a fear of owning stuff. Turn me loose in a shoe store, I'll prove that. My fear is personal property that weighs three hundred tons.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Actually, depending on materials used, square footage, and horizontal versus vertical construction, the average house only weighs about sixty tons.
Emily Prentiss: [sarcastically] Well, thanks for that, Reid. I feel light as a bird already.
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Warden Tom Hansen: Last thing this town needs is a Rod Garrett wannabe on the loose.
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Emily Prentiss: He started killing shortly after you were married?
Helen Garrett: Yeah.
David Rossi: And you never suspected this other life he was leading?
Helen Garrett: No. People only see what they want to see, I guess.
Emily Prentiss: Where will you go now, Helen?
Helen Garrett: Put in for a transfer for a job in Missouri. Don't know anybody there; people don't know me. It's a fresh start.
David Rossi: What about family?
Helen Garrett: My family don't want to know me. They couldn't understand why I'd stand by Rod after everything that he done. As far as they're concerned, I'm just as bad as him.
07x21 - Divining Rod Season 7 / Episode 21: - Divining Rod

Emily Prentiss: You remember when people used to write letters by hand?
David Rossi: That's how I wrote my first book. Give me a keyboard any day.
Emily Prentiss: Oh, come on, Rossi. The excitement of seeing an envelope from a friend in your mailbox? Now it's just an electronic ding on your computer.
David Rossi: One of my various brothers-in-law was a mailman. He said the expression "going postal" made perfect sense to him. You spend all day delivering a mountain of letters one at a time. Then you go to work the next morning, and there's a whole new mountain to deal with. And it's forever.
Emily Prentiss: That sounds like our job. It took seven years for the world to get rid of Rod Garrett and fifteen minutes after, a new one pops up to take his place.
07x20 - The Company Season 7 / Episode 20: - The Company

Derek Morgan: [voiceover] Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie. -Robert Brault
07x19 - Heathridge Manor Season 7 / Episode 19: - Heathridge Manor

Emily Prentiss: [soundover] "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our own hell." Oscar Wilde
07x19 - Heathridge Manor Season 7 / Episode 19: - Heathridge Manor

Aaron Hotchner: [voiceover] "All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." Edgar Allen Poe
07x18 - Foundation Season 7 / Episode 18: - Foundation

Emily Prentiss: [voiceover] Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin -Barbara Kingsolver
07x18 - Foundation Season 7 / Episode 18: - Foundation

Derek Morgan: [voiceover] Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. -Michel de Montaigne