Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Compulsion (2005)

Mandy Patinkin: Jason Gideon

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• Jason Gideon : Faulkner once said: "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors, try to be better than yourself"

• [the team arrives at the college] 

  Jason Gideon : No badges. I don't want to satisfy the unsub's need for attention by letting him know we got the FBI here. Try not to look official.

  Jason Gideon : [looks at the team's clothing] 

  Jason Gideon : Try to look *less* official.

• Jason Gideon : [opening quote]  Einstein once said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge: knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world"

• Agent Trainee : Weren't you a little bit worried he might just shoot you?

  Jason Gideon : I was a lot worried.

  2nd Agent Trainee : But how did you find him?

  Jason Gideon : I was just stopping for gas. I walked into that store and I saw pieces of a profile that I'd given the Virginia PD almost a year ago. Truck in disrepair, a disheveled young man, severe stutter. James Reese once said "There are certain clues at a crime scene which, by their very nature, do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How does one collect love, rage, hatred, fear?" These are things we're trained to look for.

  2nd Agent Trainee : So anyone else would have just seen a guy who stutters, but you saw the Footpath Killer.

  Jason Gideon : Right. But sometimes these guys still found by just dumb luck. Berkowitz was caught because of a parking ticket.

  Elle Greenaway : [entering]  Except the cop who caught him wasn't staring down a shotgun like you were.

  Jason Gideon : This is true.

• Derek Morgan : Hey, Reid, you got a statistic on arsonists?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : 82% are white males between 17 and 27. Female arsonists are far less likely, their motive typically being revenge.

  Derek Morgan : Sounds like our boy's a student.

  Jason Gideon : Oh, don't be so sure. You rely too much on precedent, you never allow for the unexpected.

• Jason Gideon : [about the campus security guard's girlfriend]  You broke up with her? No more necklace.

  Campus Security Guard : Yeah! I kinda want to date someone else.

  Jason Gideon : What's her name?

  Campus Security Guard : Brian!

  Jason Gideon : Oh! That's a very good reason.

• Campus Security Guard : You're one of those FBI guys. A profiler, right? Like, one look at the crime scene you can tell what kind of shampoo a killer uses.

  Jason Gideon : You're a bit skeptical.

  Campus Security Guard : Maybe a little.

  Jason Gideon : Your girlfriend thinks you're going to break up with her.

  Campus Security Guard : You're kidding, right?

• Elle Greenaway : Okay, I'm curious. Why'd he stutter?

  Jason Gideon : You're on your way to becoming a part of the behavior analysis team now, Elle. You tell me!