Criminal Minds (season 5)
Criminal Minds (2005–2020) is an American television show, airing on CBS, about an elite squad of FBI profilers that analyzes the country's most twisted criminal minds and anticipates their next move before they strike again.
Nameless, Faceless [5.01]
[edit]- David Rossi: Karl Kraus said, "A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards."
Haunted [5.02]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: Emily Dickinson wrote, "One need not be a chamber to be haunted; one need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place."
- Aaron Hotchner: "There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius
Reckoner [5.03]
[edit]- David Rossi: "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal
- David Rossi: "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln
Hopeless [5.04]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: Kingman Brewster Jr. said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."
- Derek Morgan: William Shakespeare wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends."
Cradle to Grave [5.05]
[edit]- Jennifer Jareau: Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back."
The Eyes Have It [5.06]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee." Matthew 5:29
- Derek Morgan: "Dwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you." Guru Nanak
The Performer [5.07]
[edit]- Spencer Reid: "In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons." Writer Montague Summers
- Emily Prentiss: Writer Cyril Connolly said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."
Outfoxed [5.08]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: "Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." Albert Einstein
100 [5.09]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
- Aaron Hotchner: Poet Haniel Long said, "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."
The Slave of Duty [5.10]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: W. S. Gilbert wrote, "It's love that makes the world go round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it. Haley was my best friend since we were in high school. We certainly had our struggles, but if there's one thing we agreed on unconditionally, it was our love and commitment to our son Jack. Haley's love for Jack was joyous and fierce. That fierceness is why she isn't here today. A mother's love is an unrivaled force of nature. And we can all learn much from the way Haley lived her life. Haley's death causes each of us to stop and take stock of our lives; to measure who we are and what we've become. I don't have all those answers for myself, but I know who Haley was. She was the woman who died protecting the child we brought into this world together. And I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing who his mother was and how she loved and protected him and how much I loved her. If Haley were with us today, she would ask us not to mourn her death but to celebrate her life. She would tell us... She would tell us to love our families unconditionally and to hold them close, because in the end, they are all that matter. I met Haley at the tryouts of our high school's production of The Pirates of Penzance. I found our copy of the play and I was looking through it the other night, and I came upon a passage that seemed appropriate for this moment: "Oh, dry the glistening tear that dews that martial cheek. Thy loving children hear, in them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care their arms around thee creep, for, oh, they cannot bear to see their father weep."
- Aaron Hotchner: "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Aaron Hotchner: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson [NOTE: This quote is falsely attributed to Emerson and was first published in a 1940 book by William Morrow and Company titled Meditations in Wall Street. At the time the book was published, the author of the quote was unknown, but in 1947, The New York Times identified the author as Henry Stanley Haskins, a Wall Street trader with a checkered background.]
Retaliation [5.11]
[edit]- Emily Prentiss: "Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." Tacitus
- Emily Prentiss: Washington Irving said, "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Irving. The earliest instance it could be located was in an article that was published by The American Masonic Register on February 6, 1841. Here, the quote was not attributed to anyone. In 1845, the quote was printed in The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend, published by William C. Brown, who attributed the quote to an author named Dr. Johnson, whose first name was never disclosed.]
The Uncanny Valley [5.12]
[edit]- Spencer Reid: Mildred Lisette Norman wrote, "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
- Spencer Reid: Isaac Asimov wrote, "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
Risky Business [5.13]
[edit]- Jennifer Jareau: "Life is a game; play it. Life is too precious; do not destroy it." Mother Teresa [NOTE: This quote is often misattributed to Mother Teresa and is actually a variant of Kent M. Keith's 1968 book The Paradoxical Commandments.]
- Jennifer Jareau: "Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." C. S. Lewis [NOTE: Lewis never actually said this quote; it was written for the 1993 film Shadowlands and was spoken by Anthony Hopkins, who played Lewis.]
Parasite [5.14]
[edit]- David Rossi: "If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I?" German psychologist Erich Fromm
- Emily Prentiss: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott
Public Enemy [5.15]
[edit]- David Rossi: "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald
- David Rossi: William Shakespeare wrote, "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Shakespeare and is actually an old Yiddish proverb.]
Mosley Lane [5.16]
[edit]- Jennifer Jareau: Nietzsche wrote, "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man."
- Jennifer Jareau: Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all."
Solitary Man [5.17]
[edit]- Emily Prentiss: Tennessee Williams said, "We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
- Derek Morgan: Christopher Lasch said, "Family is a haven in a heartless world."
The Fight [5.18]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: Mother Teresa said, "I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
A Rite of Passage [5.19]
[edit]- Emily Prentiss: "A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together." Chuck Jones
- Aaron Hotchner: "Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller
...A Thousand Words [5.20]
[edit]- David Rossi: "A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing." Painter William Dobell
- Aaron Hotchner: Gandhi said, "I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
Exit Wounds [5.21]
[edit]- Penelope Garcia: "Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." John Morley
- Penelope Garcia: Ralph W. Sockman said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
The Internet Is Forever [5.22]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: "The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it's taken place." George Bernard Shaw [NOTE: This quote is falsely attributed to Shaw and was actually first published in a Fortune Magazine article by William H. Whyte in September 1950, approximately two months before Shaw died.]
- David Rossi: "The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." Eric Schmidt
Our Darkest Hour [5.23]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, "And out of the darkness came the hands that reached thro' nature, moulding men."