Criminal Minds Quotes
Reid: Mildred Lisette Norman wrote, "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
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[Reid reads a series of books outdoors while next to Eric, who is playing chess against himself]
Eric: We missed you out here.
Reid: Oh thank you. Thanks, I uh, I had to take a little break.
Eric: How come?
Reid: Used to play with a co-worker friend of mine, he's probably the best mind I ever went up against. One day he just, decided that he didn't want to play anymore.
Eric: So you gave up too?
Reid: Just the opposite. I attempted to play through every permutation of moves on a chess board.
Eric: That's an infinite number of games.
Reid: It's not infinite. It's just, it's exponentially large.
Eric: You couldn't have played through them all.
Reid: There's an average of forty moves per chess game and I'll tell you something. The more I play, the more I realize that every single match, every single chess game is really just a simple variation on the exact same theme, you know? Aggressive openings, patient mid-game, inevitable checkmate, and I realized when my friend quit he was tired of repeating the exact same patterns and expecting a different outcome.
Eric: So you have a life time of chess strategy in your head and you're just sitting on it?
[Reid's phone rings]
Reid: I still use it, I just uh, I apply it differently. I have to go, it's good seeing you.
Eric: We missed you out here.
Reid: Oh thank you. Thanks, I uh, I had to take a little break.
Eric: How come?
Reid: Used to play with a co-worker friend of mine, he's probably the best mind I ever went up against. One day he just, decided that he didn't want to play anymore.
Eric: So you gave up too?
Reid: Just the opposite. I attempted to play through every permutation of moves on a chess board.
Eric: That's an infinite number of games.
Reid: It's not infinite. It's just, it's exponentially large.
Eric: You couldn't have played through them all.
Reid: There's an average of forty moves per chess game and I'll tell you something. The more I play, the more I realize that every single match, every single chess game is really just a simple variation on the exact same theme, you know? Aggressive openings, patient mid-game, inevitable checkmate, and I realized when my friend quit he was tired of repeating the exact same patterns and expecting a different outcome.
Eric: So you have a life time of chess strategy in your head and you're just sitting on it?
[Reid's phone rings]
Reid: I still use it, I just uh, I apply it differently. I have to go, it's good seeing you.
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[Reid refers to two female serial killers]
Reid: They didn't care about race or hair color, it's men that do.
Garcia: [on webcam] Damn straight, men do.
Morgan: Well hello Red. Look at you. Guys. [moves laptop for better view of Garcia's new red hair]
Prentiss: Wow.
JJ: Wow.
Reid: They didn't care about race or hair color, it's men that do.
Garcia: [on webcam] Damn straight, men do.
Morgan: Well hello Red. Look at you. Guys. [moves laptop for better view of Garcia's new red hair]
Prentiss: Wow.
JJ: Wow.
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Garcia: Okay, guys, I just got Samantha Malcolm's medical records and, oh my God, she was doomed. Like Emily Brontë doomed, like Shakespeare doomed, like red-shirted ensign in Star Trek doomed...
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Reid: This, this is why I love my job, Doctor, uh, because my lab - it's a jury of your peers, my tests will be Jenny Larson, Abigail Moore and Lynda Kraus. The DA will put them on the stand and I'm gonna personally bring these dolls in and we're gonna watch how they react.
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Reid: Isaac Asimov wrote, "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
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JJ: "Life is a game; play it. Life is too precious; do not destroy it." Mother Teresa
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[on the jet]
Garcia: So I'm gonna snoop through dead kid's computers?
Rossi: This plane seldom makes pleasure trips.
Garcia: So I'm gonna snoop through dead kid's computers?
Rossi: This plane seldom makes pleasure trips.
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[Morgan sees a kid texting, which interrupts Reid's lecturing]
Morgan: Hey kid, not a good idea. Let me see it. [reads the phone's text] 'What planet is this dude from?'
Morgan: Hey kid, not a good idea. Let me see it. [reads the phone's text] 'What planet is this dude from?'
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[watching Garcia talk to a suspect]
Rossi: She's good, established rapport when Morgan and Reid couldn't.
Hotchner: Should bring her out all the time.
Rossi: She's good, established rapport when Morgan and Reid couldn't.
Hotchner: Should bring her out all the time.
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Reid: What is that?
Prentiss: It's called a star puzzle. It's basically impossible to figure out. You have put all of the pieces back together to form a perfect star. But the origin of it, is um, kind of a romantic tale. There, was this young prince who wanted to win the heart of the fairest maiden in the land, so he climbed to the top of the tallest tower in the kingdom and he caught a falling star for her. Unfortunately, he was so excited that he dropped it and it smashed into all of these pieces, so he frantically put it back together again to prove his undying love to her and he succeeded. And they lived happily ever after.
Reid: That doesn't make any sense.
Prentiss: [pauses and gives Reid a glare] What do you mean?
Reid: You can't catch a falling star. It would burn up in the atmosphere.
Prentiss: Yeah, but it's not literal Reid. It's a fable.
Reid: But there's no moral uh, fables have morals.
Prentiss: Ok, so it's just a romantic little story. The point is, [Reid picks up the unsolved puzzle] it's basically impossible to do because you have to take all of those pieces and fit them together exactly... [Reid puts the solved puzzle on the table] There's a lot to hate about you Dr. Reid. [Morgan laughs]
Rossi: Play poker with him sometime.
Morgan: Try playing chess with him.
Garcia: Or Go.
Prentiss: It's called a star puzzle. It's basically impossible to figure out. You have put all of the pieces back together to form a perfect star. But the origin of it, is um, kind of a romantic tale. There, was this young prince who wanted to win the heart of the fairest maiden in the land, so he climbed to the top of the tallest tower in the kingdom and he caught a falling star for her. Unfortunately, he was so excited that he dropped it and it smashed into all of these pieces, so he frantically put it back together again to prove his undying love to her and he succeeded. And they lived happily ever after.
Reid: That doesn't make any sense.
Prentiss: [pauses and gives Reid a glare] What do you mean?
Reid: You can't catch a falling star. It would burn up in the atmosphere.
Prentiss: Yeah, but it's not literal Reid. It's a fable.
Reid: But there's no moral uh, fables have morals.
Prentiss: Ok, so it's just a romantic little story. The point is, [Reid picks up the unsolved puzzle] it's basically impossible to do because you have to take all of those pieces and fit them together exactly... [Reid puts the solved puzzle on the table] There's a lot to hate about you Dr. Reid. [Morgan laughs]
Rossi: Play poker with him sometime.
Morgan: Try playing chess with him.
Garcia: Or Go.
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JJ: Hotch.
Hotchner: JJ, you don't have to.
JJ: [plays with her necklace] My sister, gave this to me when I was eleven. She just came into my bedroom one afternoon and told me that no matter what happened, she loved me. This was her favorite necklace, so I told her I couldn't take it but she insisted. I, of course was secretly very happy because I always wanted one just like hers. That's the last time I, ever...
Hotchner: I'm sorry.
JJ: I think about her everyday. It does get better Hotch. Losing someone is never easy, but one day you'll remember her and you won't hurt. You'll be happy.
Hotchner: Thank you. Thank you for everything.
Hotchner: JJ, you don't have to.
JJ: [plays with her necklace] My sister, gave this to me when I was eleven. She just came into my bedroom one afternoon and told me that no matter what happened, she loved me. This was her favorite necklace, so I told her I couldn't take it but she insisted. I, of course was secretly very happy because I always wanted one just like hers. That's the last time I, ever...
Hotchner: I'm sorry.
JJ: I think about her everyday. It does get better Hotch. Losing someone is never easy, but one day you'll remember her and you won't hurt. You'll be happy.
Hotchner: Thank you. Thank you for everything.
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JJ: "Experience is a brutal teacher. But you learn -- my God, do you learn." C.S. Lewis
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Rossi: "If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I?" German psychologist Erich Fromm
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Morgan: Hey baby girl, it's me. You're on speaker.
Garcia: Oh sugar I don't care who hears it. It's always been you.
Garcia: Oh sugar I don't care who hears it. It's always been you.
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Rossi: CIA assigns an agent two or three aliases at most. Any more than that, it's difficult to get the names straight.
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Morgan: You're not enjoying this, are you?
Reid: I like a good paper trail. I find it meditative.
Morgan: Is it really that hard for you to be normal just one time?
Reid: I like a good paper trail. I find it meditative.
Morgan: Is it really that hard for you to be normal just one time?
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Prentiss: "Oh! what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" Sir Walter Scott
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Hotch: There are lots of ways sons defeat their fathers.
Reid: I just keep getting PhD's.
Reid: I just keep getting PhD's.
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Rossi: William Shakespeare wrote, "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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JJ: Nietzsche wrote, "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man."
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Sarah Hillridge: There is a moment in the morning when I just wake up and there is a split second of peace. And then it all comes back. All of it.
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Sarah Hillridge: How long have you been doing this, Dr. Reid?
Reid: Five years, seven months, and nineteen days.
Sarah Hillridge: In your experience what normally happens?
Reid: Charlie was eight when he was taken, which means developmentally he was in middle childhood. He had a stronger sense of right and wrong and a growing understanding of his place in the world. Mentally, he had the ability to talk about his thoughts and feelings, while having less focus on himself and more concern for others.
Sarah Hillridge: So, you think he's gonna be okay?
Reid: With a mother like you, who did all this, I do. I'm a doctor. I put my faith in facts and statistical probabilities, but today eight parents are gonna have closure. Three children are going home with their families - all, because you believed your son was alive. This is as close to a miracle as I've ever seen.
Reid: Five years, seven months, and nineteen days.
Sarah Hillridge: In your experience what normally happens?
Reid: Charlie was eight when he was taken, which means developmentally he was in middle childhood. He had a stronger sense of right and wrong and a growing understanding of his place in the world. Mentally, he had the ability to talk about his thoughts and feelings, while having less focus on himself and more concern for others.
Sarah Hillridge: So, you think he's gonna be okay?
Reid: With a mother like you, who did all this, I do. I'm a doctor. I put my faith in facts and statistical probabilities, but today eight parents are gonna have closure. Three children are going home with their families - all, because you believed your son was alive. This is as close to a miracle as I've ever seen.
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Sarah Hillridge: [walks into the briefing room where JJ, Prentiss, and Garcia are] I have been trying to think of something to say, and thank you doesn't even come close.
JJ: You don't have to thank us.
Sarah Hillridge: Yes I do. Do you know how long it's been since someone believed in me? [pause] You are just surrounded by darkness. Why do you do it?
[They look out at the families]
Prentiss: Cause of days like this.
JJ: You don't have to thank us.
Sarah Hillridge: Yes I do. Do you know how long it's been since someone believed in me? [pause] You are just surrounded by darkness. Why do you do it?
[They look out at the families]
Prentiss: Cause of days like this.
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JJ: Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all."
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Prentiss: Tennessee Williams said, "We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
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Rossi: So, how long is it gonna take you to get in that ditch?
Reid: Get in that ditch? I got shot in the knee, remember? My doctor said I'm not allowed to do any climbing.
Rossi: It's a ditch.
[both pause, Reid takes a good look at Rossi's shoes before going into the ditch]
Reid: New boots huh? Italian leather?
Rossi: Yeah, what could I tell ya?
Reid: Get in that ditch? I got shot in the knee, remember? My doctor said I'm not allowed to do any climbing.
Rossi: It's a ditch.
[both pause, Reid takes a good look at Rossi's shoes before going into the ditch]
Reid: New boots huh? Italian leather?
Rossi: Yeah, what could I tell ya?
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Rossi: Do you have any ideas why?
Reid: [long pause as Reid thinks] No.
Rossi: Well, I guess there is a first time for everything. [walks off]
Reid: Hey Rossi, I'm gonna need a little help getting out of this ditch. Rossi? Rossi? Hey... I got it.
Reid: [long pause as Reid thinks] No.
Rossi: Well, I guess there is a first time for everything. [walks off]
Reid: Hey Rossi, I'm gonna need a little help getting out of this ditch. Rossi? Rossi? Hey... I got it.
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