Criminal Minds (TV Series)

No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank (2007)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

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• Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : My team? Let me tell you about my team. Agent Morgan fought to protect his identity from the very people who could save him. Why? Because trust has to be earned, and there are very few people he truly trusts. Reid's intellect is a shield which protects him from his emotions, and at the moment his shield is under repair. Prentiss overcompensates because she doesn't yet feel she is part of the team. She needn't worry. Everyday, Agent Jareau fields dozens of requests for our team, and every night she goes home hoping she's made the right choices. Garcia fills her office with figurines and color to remind herself to smile as the horror fills her screens. And Agent Gideon in many ways is damned by his profound knowledge of others which is why he shares so little of himself, yet he pours his heart into every case we handle.

• Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Modern furniture, strategically placed magazines, the framed diplomas, the art on the wall, are all in conflict with your family photos. You have three children but you favor the middle one, your son.

  Erin Strauss : What do you think you're doing?

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Of course you love all your children, but not like your son.

  Erin Strauss : That's enough.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : The bonsai you obsessively nurture is to compensate for feelings of failure.

• Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : How do I know you favor your son? I'm good at my job.

• Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : You've not seen what I've seen.

  Erin Strauss : You chose the BAU.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : True. I enjoy my work, even when in the pursuit to understand why a person feels the compelling need to brutally torture, murder, and dismember a child. Mother, father, entire family. The unsubs devoid of any morality, humanity, remorse, when caught often come to believe we're the only ones who understand them. And they're right, we do. Otherwise, how could we catch them?

• Jason Gideon : Hey Hotch, you're the best unit chief I know!

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Jason, I am the only unit chief you know!

• Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : [sort of closing quote]  "Once again the team had battled a monster and won"

• Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Frank?

  Frank Breitkopf : Agent Hotchner, we haven't had the pleasure of a formal meeting!

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Where is Tracy Bell?

  Frank Breitkopf : Do you have something for me?

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : No, I don't

  Frank Breitkopf : Then you'll never see her again!

• Leopold : Agent Morgan?

  Emily Prentiss : What the hell?

  Leopold : "They say beauty can cover a multitude of sins"

  Derek Morgan : What?

  Leopold : "But underneath it all..."

  Leopold , Frank Breitkopf : "we all look exactly the same!"

  Derek Morgan : That's Frank! He said that to me in the diner!

  Leopold : "Give me Jane or I'll kill them all"

  Derek Morgan : Frank thinks we have Jane?

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : We need to find him, fast!

  Leopold : Can I have my ten bucks now?

• Derek Morgan : Is that wise?

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : No, but it is an order!