Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Unfinished Business (2006)

Geoff Pierson: Max Ryan

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• Max Ryan : [reading a letter from the Keystone Killer]  "Isn't Scott Harbin an inelegant creature? A monster. There is no light with him. No balance. He is pure evil. Balance is what gives one mercy. You'll be reminded of my brand of mercy tomorrow, Max."

  Derek Morgan : What does that mean?

  Jason Gideon : Scott Harbin's a predator, just not the one we're looking for.

• Max Ryan : Is there anything worse than cop shop coffee?

  Jason Gideon : Day-old cop shop donuts.

  Max Ryan : You know, at home I actually have to make the coffee bad now to enjoy it.

  Jason Gideon : Yeah, I've had what you make. Are you saying you did that to me on purpose?

• Max Ryan : Did Jason ever tell you about the time that he found the Director's itinerary in a bomber's car?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What? What?

  Jason Gideon : Max, come on.

  Derek Morgan : No, no, he never said anything.

  Max Ryan : Well, let me fill you in, then. We had this bomber case; it was one of Jason's first. So we had him go over and search the bomber's car, which was in the Quantico garage. Except for me and the guys had planted this piece of paper that had all these times and locations of where the FBI Director was gonna be over the next forty-eight hours. Anyway, Jason takes one look at this piece of paper, and before we could stop him, he takes off, runs up twenty-five flights of stairs to the Director's office, barges in.

  Derek Morgan : [laughing]  Get out of here!

  Max Ryan : Interrupting a meeting with the Attorney General himself.

  Derek Morgan : [slapping Gideon's knee]  Yeah!

  Jason Gideon : The Director didn't find it very funny.

  Max Ryan : He was the only one who didn't.

• Jason Gideon : You look comfortable up there. Why don't you come back to the BAU for a guest lecture?

  Jason Gideon : I am retired, remember?

  Max Ryan : Hell of way to relax: 323 pages on the one that got away

  Max Ryan : He hasn't gotten away and you didn't count that 8 page prologue

• Max Ryan : [reading a note]  "In order for the light to shine so brightly, darkness must be present"

  Jason Gideon : It's quoting Sir Francis Bacon now

  Max Ryan : I used this specific quote...

  Dr. Spencer Reid : In your book on page 184. I, eh, read it on the plane

  Max Ryan : And you remembered the page number on that quote?

  Derek Morgan : Don't ask!