Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Devil's Backbone (2016)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

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• Aaron Hotchner : [opening quote]  "Don't you know, there comes a midnight hour, when everyone has to take off his mask?" - Søren Kierkegaard

• Aaron Hotchner : Claude may have kidnapped those boys on his own, but you put the events of the last few days in motion for a reason.

  Antonia Slade : And you want me to tell you what it is. Well, you're going to have to prove you got a little bit more going on than a fancy title and nice suits to deserve an answer.

  Aaron Hotchner : When you were fourteen, you missed almost a year of school due to an unspecified illness. During the same year, a 15-year-old boy on a neighboring farm was killed in a hunting accident. I think these two events were related. You weren't ill. You were pregnant, and the neighbor boy was the father of your child. Your father, the German minister, the authoritarian, punished you for breaking the rules. He made you have the baby at home, and he murdered your boyfriend.

  Antonia Slade : Go on.

  Aaron Hotchner : At first, we profiled you as an extreme narcissist, but that's just a cover. You're actually full of self-loathing. And every time you killed a runaway teen, you were killing yourself or your boyfriend for lacking discipline. What happened to your baby, Antonia?

  Antonia Slade : I can't tell you that. But as a reward for being so clever, I will tell you this. There's a storm coming, Agent Hotchner, and you're about to be swept away.