Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Gatekeeper (2013)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

Quotes 

• Aaron Hotchner : And to Dr. Spencer Reid who may be adding MD to an already impressive list of credentials

  Derek Morgan : And to Spencer Johnson, that he prove to be the child prodigy like his name says

  Alex Blake : How on earth did you know what to do?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : When JJ was pregnant with Henry I memorized the delivery manuals, just in case she went into labor in the field. I have to admit the practical application did not quite live up to the theory.

• Penelope Garcia : You know what? Send me that broken cell phone. I may be able to pull data from the device itself.

  Aaron Hotchner : And in the meantime, forward Delfino's calls to us. If she tries him, we'll be able to talk to her.

  Penelope Garcia : Smart thinking, *sensei*. Routing it now.

• Penelope Garcia : His name is Tanner Johnson, and life has not been kind.

  Jennifer Jareau : He lost a child, didn't he?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, last year. Ten year old son Jeremy. According to reports, Jeremy was playing with a friend, they were, like, fake 'wrestling', when Tanner, a freelance photographer/night time doorman, got a call, left the room to take it; when he returned, his son was unconscious, the friend was trying to revive him from a chokehold gone horribly wrong.

  Aaron Hotchner : The son was strangled; that's why he uses a garrote.

  Penelope Garcia : Jeremy was on life support for a few days, but he died.

  Alex Blake : And Tanner blames himself. He stopped watching for a minute and he lost his son.

  David Rossi : He hasn't stopped watching since. The grief must have consumed him.

  Jennifer Jareau : That's a hell of a stressor, but what triggered the murders?

  Aaron Hotchner : Garcia, what happened to Tanner's wife? Did the marriage survive?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh... nope. She kicked him out two months ago. Right before the killings started.

  Jennifer Jareau : So he loses his child, then his wife and home. It's enough to make anyone unstable.

  Alex Blake : Add guilt to that, and it's all too much. He dissociated.

  David Rossi : Paternal transference. Claimed the residents of the apartment building as his family.

• Aaron Hotchner : The unsub we're looking for is a dangerous voyeur, who feeds off the thrill of knowing his victims can't see him.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Typically, voyeurs are non-violent and content to remain bystanders. This one is different; he's on a mission that includes taking action.

  Aaron Hotchner : And in that mission, he didn't hesitate to kill a teenage boy. Anyone who stands between him and his goal is at risk.

  Alex Blake : We believe he's documenting his work. He's taking pictures and collects personal connections to his victims; their wallets and their hair.

  David Rossi : It's important to him to have proof of what he's doing.

  Derek Morgan : Voyeurs like to create fantasies in their heads of what the objects of their obsession should be like.

  David Rossi : He creates a character identity instead of a reality, and when a person steps outside of the parameters that the unsub has set for them, he strikes.

  Jennifer Jareau : This unsub appears to be triggered by males acting on what he perceives to be character flaws. Seemingly innocuous infractions to us are magnified in the unsub's psychosis.

  Aaron Hotchner : Based on the planning and sophistication of the kills, we believe that he's in his late thirties or forties.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The geographic profile tells us this unsub is not only dumping his victims downtown, he's hunting there, too.

  Derek Morgan : So this is where we need to redouble our efforts. Go building to building, door to door. This guy's a fly on the wall; he's able to leanr secrets without anyone realizing he's there.

  Alex Blake : He'll have a job that involves very little social interaction, but that puts him in a position where he can observe others unnoticed.

  Jennifer Jareau : So we should look at service workers, groundskeepers, anyone paid to be invisible.

  Aaron Hotchner : And we need to move quickly. This unsub is approaching some sort of perceived deadline. The closer it gets, the more erratic and dangerous he'll become.

• Penelope Garcia : Beantown has turned into Chokeville. Three victims, all male, wallets stolen.

  Aaron Hotchner : The unsub uses a garrote to strangle his victims. He strikes at night, and there have been no witnesses.

  David Rossi : How much did he get?

  Aaron Hotchner : What's odd. Each of the victims' socio-economically is lower to middle class. It's doubtful there would have been much cash, and there have been no charge attempts on any of the credit cards.

  Alex Blake : So the murders might not be about money at all. Taking the wallets could be a forensic countermeasure to delay victim identification.

  Penelope Garcia : That could be the sitch with the first two victims, but the latest one, Scott Delfino, he was on the phone with his roommate when he was attacked; call cut out unexpectedly, repeated callbacks went straight to voicemail.

  Aaron Hotchner : And Delfino's body was found an hour later, indications were that he'd been blitzed.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Which speaks to the killer's prep work, but also his desperation. He chose a location to lay in wait, but wasn't capable of adapting to a target on the phone.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, that could be arrogance getting in the way, making his organization appear mixed. To me, that screams false confidence.

  Derek Morgan : Which means the desperation is what's driving him. It's not about the kills, it's about what the murders represent.

  Jennifer Jareau : He's mission oriented. He doesn't want to kill them, he has to.

  David Rossi : Which suggests the unsub has no personal connection to his victims.

  Alex Blake : Except choking as a kill method is extremely personal. He feels each victim take their last breath.

  Derek Morgan : What if the wallets are a form of depersonalization? He's stripping his victims of their identities.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Which means he may feel stripped of his own. If the wallets are trophies, he could be seeking recognition for his work.

  Aaron Hotchner : And he may not stop killing until he gets that recognition. Let's go.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Thanks. This night is not about me, though.

  [raises his glass] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : To David Rossi.

  David Rossi : I still can't believe you guys did this.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : We wanted to make sure you had one last proper goodbye.

  Penelope Garcia : Mm. And I may or may not have posted on the Quantico message boards that all the drinks are on you tonight.

  David Rossi : And they are indeed, thank you very much.

  Aaron Hotchner : But that's not all. I don't believe that any of the members of this team have heard you sing.

  Helen : Next up is David Rossi.

  David Rossi : That was intentional.

  Aaron Hotchner : Next up is David Rossi.

  Helen : Dave, get your ass up here and sing us out already.

  Aaron Hotchner : And, look, it's your key.

  David Rossi : Yeah, Q squared.

  [Karaoke "piano man" starts] 

  David Rossi : All righty. To all the great memories that have happened within these walls, if you think I'm doing this without backup, you're nuts. Come on, JJ, Reid, let's go. Derek! Come on!

• David Rossi : He killed a woman this time.

  Aaron Hotchner : Yeah. She's also the first one he covered up. This is remorse. She wasn't part of the plan.

  David Rossi : Which explains why he moved the body. She wasn't killed here.

  Alex Blake : The garrote was used postmortem. C.O.D. appears to be blunt-force trauma to the back of the head.

  David Rossi : He didn't do a good job of covering this up.

  Aaron Hotchner : He's panicking. We find where she was killed, we find him.

  Alex Blake : Except no one even knows what her name is.

  David Rossi : No ID, just a phone.

  [Rossi plays the phone's voicemail] 

  Derek Morgan : Hi, my name is Derek Morgan with the FBI. I'm trying to locate a woman, first name Ashley. It's extremely important.

  David Rossi : This is Ashley.