Criminal Minds (TV Series)

What Fresh Hell? (2006)

Mandy Patinkin: Jason Gideon

Quotes 

• Jason Gideon : You know what program did the most harm to this country, in terms of crimes like this? Child abduction?

  Det. Charlotte Russet : No.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Stranger danger.

  Jason Gideon : Flooded the schools with it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I remember them coming to my classroom. It was Officer Friendly with stranger danger coloring books.

  Jason Gideon : Taught a whole generation about a scary man in a trench coat, hiding behind a tree. Then we learned that strangers are only a... fraction of the offenders out there. Most are people you see every day - your family, your neighbors, schoolteachers. You know the rest. Prepared our children for 1% of the danger, made them more vulnerable to 99%. So we've been wrong before. All we can do is learn from it, and hopefully be better next time.

• Jason Gideon : Hey, Hotch.

  Aaron Hotchner : Yeah?

  Jason Gideon : Did you send flowers to that tech room girl, Garcia, and say they were from me?

  Aaron Hotchner : Yeah.

  Jason Gideon : Why?

  Aaron Hotchner : Jason, people need to know that they're important, and sometimes you forget that.

  Jason Gideon : Well, I already sent her a gift. An mp3 player. They last longer. Unless you drop it or the battery dies, whichever comes first.

• Jason Gideon : [opening quote]  The poet W.H. Auden wrote: "Evil is always unspectacular and always human and shares our bed and eats at our table"

• William Copeland : I just... I can't just sit around here helpless.

  Jason Gideon : When you were first diagnosed with cancer, you could have given up. You didn't.

  William Copeland : But there was an enemy... Something to fight.

  Jason Gideon : Yeah, but... There's a ghost enemy. Sneaks in, ravages you before you even know it's there, and by the time you do know, you're already losing.

• Jason Gideon : [Garcia knocks on his door]  Yeah?

  Penelope Garcia : Thank you for the flowers.

  [Reads from the card] 

  Penelope Garcia : '"I know I can be challenging, but your work is appreciated", J. Gideon'. I appreciate your appreciation. And btw you're not challenging. Oh, no, you're totally challenging, but you're not challenging at all in a bad way, sir.

  [Looks at some picture] 

  Penelope Garcia : Hey, is this your family?

  Jason Gideon : Yeah, sort of

  Penelope Garcia : Nice. Thanks again for the flowers

  [turns around around to leave, passes JJ who just entered] 

  Penelope Garcia : Hey

  Jennifer Jareau : Hey

  Jason Gideon : What the hell does btw mean?

  Jennifer Jareau : Internet shorthand for: by the way. You sent Garcia flowers?

  Jason Gideon : No

• Jason Gideon : [closing quote]  "Measure not the work until the day is out and the labor done" - Elizabeth Barret Browning