- Jennifer Jareau: Hey. That's a lot of reading, even for you, Spence.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Class starts at the beginning of next week, and Prentiss is making it so I can take a sabbatical.
- Jennifer Jareau: Nice. What are you teaching?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: A symposium on medieval violence and criminology. So one might say that I am... stoked.
- Matt Simmons: [approaching] So, how much overlap is there between, uh...
- Jennifer Jareau: Mm. Mm-mm. No, you... you don't wanna...
- Dr. Spencer Reid: For starters, the spectacle element in medieval violence can help us decode the motivelessness in today's crimes. Can I ask you guys a serious question? Do you guys think maybe I should be providing more visual aids in terms of weapons? Like a katana, plumbata, the war cart of Conrad Keyser.
- Jennifer Jareau: Mmm, you know, I need to get some coffee.
- [to Matt]
- Jennifer Jareau: Uh, you rookie? Get comfy.
- Penelope Garcia: You got a ring? You bought a ring, and I had to hear it from Portia and not you?
- David Rossi: Penelope...
- Penelope Garcia: Look, I know I'm not your daughter, and Portia's gonna be your daughter thanks to your pending nuptials. But I'm kind of like your daughter, so...
- David Rossi: Penelope, uh...
- Penelope Garcia: [mortified] K-Krystall's behind that door right now, which means that she knows that you got her...
- [Rossi opens the door]
- Penelope Garcia: ...an engagement ring.
- Krystall Richards: Hi, Penelope. It's good to see you.
- Penelope Garcia: Oh... there's no way I can un-ruin this?
- David Rossi: Oh, that cat is so far out of the bag.
- Penelope Garcia: Uh... I don't like cats being in bags usually, but right now, I'm very sorry, sir.
- David Rossi: [opening quotation] "When you have a child, the world has a hostage." - Ernest Hemingway.
- David Rossi: Go ahead. I know you want to say it
- Emily Prentiss: Oh. So if you marry your third wife for the second time, what color is the dress for that?
- David Rossi: [laughing] I admit, I have been wondering that myself
- David Rossi: It can never be perfect, can it?
- Emily Prentiss: No. That's why good enough is good enough
- Emily Prentiss: Even though you have been on supervisory probation for the past month, I wrote in my report on our last case that you performed well in the field. You followed orders and you played an integral role in closing that case.
- Luke Alvez: So I'm out of the doghouse?
- Emily Prentiss: I've put in the formal request to have you reinstated to full SSA status, but the process takes time. So you're gonna work our next case with Garcia.
- Luke Alvez: I understand. Do we have our next case?
- Emily Prentiss: I'm waiting for details now.
- Penelope Garcia: [entering] Oh, my god. Where is he?
- Luke Alvez: Speak of the devil. So, I hear you and I are gonna be lab partners.
- Penelope Garcia: Ugh! Blerg! Ugh. Whatever. If I must.
- David Rossi: Do you remember what Elvis said when he married us? He said, um...
- [in an Elvis impression]
- David Rossi: "Do you take this woman in sickness and health, for richer, for poorer, as long as you both shall live?"
- [Krystall laughs]
- David Rossi: [normally] And then, for some reason, you started giggling.
- Krystall Richards: Yeah, because after you said "I do", he said
- [doing her own Elvis impression]
- Krystall Richards: "Thank you. Thank you very much."
- David Rossi: I love that it was funny for us then. It's funny for me now. But I want to have a second chance; this time, no blackjack, no booze, no Elvis. I want to say those vows and mean them. It doesn't matter where or how, as long as I can spend the rest of my life living them with you. Will you give me that chance, Krystall?
- [getting down on one knee and presenting an engagement ring]
- David Rossi: Will you marry me?
- Krystall Richards: [taking the ring] Yes. Yes, I'll marry you.
- [they kiss; cut to the elevator arriving on their floor, where the team is waiting]
- David Rossi: She said yes!
- David Rossi: [closing quotation] "The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place we can go as we are and not be questioned." - Dr. Maya Angelou.
- David Rossi: Where are we on friends-and-family interviews?
- Emily Prentiss: Butlers had no family in the area, and everyone who knew them volunteered to come in. We've asked the local police to administer a polygraph to all interviewees.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Standard operating procedure in all child abduction cases. Anyone who says "no" stands out. Who said no?
- Emily Prentiss: Nobody. We'll vet the interviewees when we land, but for now, let's consider other theories.
- Luke Alvez: Okay guys, so it looks like...
- Penelope Garcia: [coughing] Ahum-ahum
- Luke Alvez: Garcia has some things she wants to... tell you
- Penelope Garcia: Hmm, hmm, I'm about to say the same as Luke was going to, but far more chutzpah, wit and eloquence
- Penelope Garcia: You think of all the things, Emily Prentiss! This is why you are a boss lady. I will hit you right back.
- Luke Alvez: Do you want to know what I think?
- Penelope Garcia: Nope!
- Luke Alvez: I think we wrecked house on this case together. I mean, I think we're a dynamic duo! Come on, hit me
- Penelope Garcia: Oh! Please! We will never be a duo
- Luke Alvez: Oh, well, come, admit it, I helped
- Penelope Garcia: Oh, you'd have to torture me. You'd have to force me wear beige, deny me of all things unicorn for me to ever admit that you helped!
- [phone rings]
- Penelope Garcia: Excuse me
- [reads text from the phone]
- Penelope Garcia: I hate hubris. I need your help
- David Rossi: This guy is even colder than we thought
- Dr. Jennifer Brentwood: Colder? This isn't cold?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: We've been looking so hard at the families, that we missed the most obvious connection: genetics
- David Rossi: But the families aren't related
- Dr. Spencer Reid: You've no idea how right you are. Take Kellen and Grace Butler, both of these parents have green eyes. Ruby also has green eyes, but one of her eyes has some shadings to it. It's the result of a condition called heterochromia. It's genetic and neither parent shares it
- Emily Prentiss: What other leads do we have inside the adoption system?
- Penelope Garcia: It's kind of a slog. There is a lot of stuff to consider, like, for instance did you know that there is a home decorator for potential parents? That is a thing. It's not a thing we need to look in to right now, I don't think, but it's a thing
- David Rossi: I know you have a full plate, but there's one more search we need
- Penelope Garcia: Oh? No problem, put all the things on the plate. I do way better when I'm overwhelmed. Hit me