- 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"
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Long-term stranger abductions of children Billie's age are rare. They represent only half of one percent of all missing cases per year. But they are usually more likely to be fatal. Of the children that are abducted and murdered, 44% die within the first hour. From that point forth, their odds of survival greatly decrease. 75% are gone after three hours. Virtually all of them are dead after twenty-four.
- Aaron Hotchner: Which means we have just under four hours to find her.
- 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
- Penelope Garcia: Penelope Gracia's house of "How May I Save Your Ass Today?"
- Derek Morgan: You can give me sex offenders registry for Wilmington, Delaware
- Penelope Garcia: Ah, that's always a fun group!
- Jason Gideon: [closing quote] "Measure not the work until the day is out and the labor done" - Elizabeth Barret Browning
- Kirk Lomax: I figured, like they said on the television: "maybe he knows something, but he doesn't know that he knows her", you know what I mean?