- Emily Prentiss: So Hotch is even more intense now that Gideon's gone.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, I've noticed.
- Emily Prentiss: Do you think that's gonna change?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I certainly think we'll find out.
- Emily Prentiss: What about you? You okay?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Oh, I'm- I'm great.
- Emily Prentiss: Do you want to talk about it?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: What's there to talk about, really?
- Emily Prentiss: Gideon.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Oh, no. He, uh- he left a letter explaining everything. Just like my dad did when he abandoned me and my mom.
- Emily Prentiss: He addressed it to you.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, yeah. You know, Gideon stood toe to toe with some of the... the sickest people on this planet. I think that took a lot of courage, right?
- Emily Prentiss: Yeah.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: So, why'd he do this? It's addressed to me, but I'm- I'm not- I'm not the only one that he abandoned.
- Emily Prentiss: But why is it addressed to you? I think you need to read that letter again.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I have an eidetic memory, Emily.
- Emily Prentiss: Ah, yeah, I know, and an IQ of 187, but what do you remember about your father?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: What do you mean?
- Emily Prentiss: Well, he gave you ten years before he left, and yet you've erased all those memories. And it's too painful, I get it. But then Gideon leaves. I think you need to read that letter again, and ask yourself why, of all the people he walked away from, did he only explain himself to one person: you.
- Aaron Hotchner: [closing quote, voiceover] Eleanor Roosevelt once said "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
- [last lines]
- Derek Morgan: I, um... can't sleep.
- Aaron Hotchner: Want me to turn off the light?
- Derek Morgan: No. I wouldn't be able to sleep.
- Aaron Hotchner: What's the matter?
- Derek Morgan: What's the matter with you, Hotch? You're sitting here doing work when you'd normally take a break. Please don't tell me it's about Gideon leaving.
- Aaron Hotchner: You know, we made a deal a long time ago not to profile each other.
- Derek Morgan: Am I wrong? You know, Hotch, today was a huge, huge victory for all of us. I mean, I never thought I'd say this, but... we're doing just fine without Gideon. Hotch. What's keeping you up tonight?
- [pause]
- Aaron Hotchner: Haley's left. And I don't know if she's coming back.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [Morgan pushes several buttons in stuck elevator] Don't! Stop it! Don't!
- Derek Morgan: Why? What's problem?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Don't do that.
- Derek Morgan: Why not?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: 'Cause, there are six elevator related death per year with making ten thousands injuries required hospitalization. Chill out.
- Aaron Hotchner: [opening quote, voiceover] The Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu once wrote "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
- Derek Morgan: Baby girl, there's nothing to know. I hit a couple of buttons when I got stuck. That's it. What do you want?
- Penelope Garcia: And?
- Derek Morgan: Okay, I freaked out, a little bit.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: It hit me Morgan freaked out when he got stuck in the elevator.
- Emily Prentiss: Got stuck in elevator?
- Derek Morgan: I freaked?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: That's not important. Here's what it is.
- Derek Morgan: What the hell is that?
- Penelope Garcia: I've beyond googled this! To the untrained eye it looks totally legit, 'cause someone went to a great length to make the website decent, the articles are well written. But, as my brilliant and bespectacled eyes can see, they all lead to dead ends!
- Penelope Garcia: [calls in on a laptop] Hey, you!
- [Reid looks around in confusion]
- Penelope Garcia: Uh, down here?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I knew that.
- Penelope Garcia: [laughs] Good thing you're handsome, Doctor.
- [Reid, Morgan, and Hotchner arrive at a victim's apartment building]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Wittman's place is on the 4th floor.
- [the elevator opens, then Morgan and Reid get into the relatively small car]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Can you get in there?
- Aaron Hotchner: [Looks into the small elevator car] I'll... meet you guys up there.
- [He walks to the right and starts climbing upstairs]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [the elevator climbs slowly, then suddenly stops. Morgan jumps up a little to try and get it to move again] . Don't do that.
- Derek Morgan: [continuing to jump] Why isn't it moving?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I don't know.
- [Morgan starts pressing control buttons randomly]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: . Don't... stop it... don't...
- Derek Morgan: What? What's the problem?
- [presses buttons more]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Don't do that!
- Derek Morgan: Why not?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Because there are 6 elevator-related deaths per year, not to mention 10,000 injuries that require hospitalization. Chill out.
- Derek Morgan: That sounds like pretty good odds to me. Are you scared, Reid?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I'm not scared. I don't want to be in an elevator with you, to be honest.
- Derek Morgan: [teasing Reid by pushing buttons again] How about I push that? What if I push... .
- [elevator lurches and falls a bit]
- Derek Morgan: Whoa. Whoa. OK.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Um.. hit the... hit the... yeah.
- [Morgan hits the red alarm button, sounding a bell]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [Hotch arrives on 4th floor, casually looks in the direction of the elevator, then walks away]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Push it! It might've...
- Derek Morgan: Push, pull, push, pull, I'm doing it! Nothing's happening!
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [panicked] Pry... pry... pry the door open! Just...
- Derek Morgan: [Morgan tries to open the door by hand] It's stuck, man.
- [elevator creaks, and falls a little more]
- Derek Morgan: No, no, no, no. Not today. No, not today.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [high pitched] . Hotch?
- Derek Morgan: [yelling] Hotch!
- Derek Morgan: [Hotch walks casually back to the elevator, just as Morgan manages to open the door and falls out] . Hallelujah.
- Aaron Hotchner: Was that the alarm? You guys OK?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [slowly emerging from the elevator] . I'll get back to you on that.
- Bill Calvert: So this guy, he burns them, hangs them and smothers them. Why does he kill so many different ways?
- Emily Prentiss: That's exactly what we're trying to find out!