Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Plain Sight (2005)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

Quotes 

• Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Isn't it amazing he knows what he knows and he's only 24?

  Jason Gideon : Imagine what he'll know by fifty.

• Derek Morgan : Why the Tommy Killer?

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : You know the rock opera? Well, this unsub glues his victim's eyes wide open.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He wants them to see him.

  Jason Gideon : And feel him.

• Jason Gideon : The unsub brought his weapons with him. Tape, glue, wire. He did not leave them at the scene. Took them when he left. He has a kind of killing kit that he carries.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Organized killers usually have a skilled job, likely technology related, which may involve the use of the hands. The crime scenes are far enough apart that he needs a vehicle. This will be well-kept, obsessively clean, as will be his home. He's diurnal, the attacks occurred during the day, so the vehicle may be related to his work, possibly a company car or truck.

  Derek Morgan : We believe he watches the victims for a time, learns the rhythms of the home, knows his time frame.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : You're not gonna catch him accidentally.

  Jason Gideon : He destroys symbols of wealth in the victims' homes. He harbors envy of and hatred toward people of a higher social class. He feels invisible around them.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Uh, class is the theme of the poem which he left at the various crime scenes. At one point in the poem, the woman attempts to bribe Death, but he doesn't accept it. He says this is the one moment when riches mean nothing. When Death comes, poor and the rich are exactly alike.

  Captain Griffith : So, he's poor.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Probably middle-class. A decidedly lower-class person would stick out in a highly patrolled neighborhood. This guy appears to, uh, belong there. He blends in.

  Detective Cornelius Martin : Why does he glue the eyes open?

  Elle Greenaway : The unsub is an exploitative rapist. Most rape victims close their eyes during the attack, turn their heads. For some rapists, this ruins the fantasy. For this type of rapist, the goal is more related to the victim watching him than the act itself.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : The verses, the staging, the aggressive language, "I am death", this is a guy who, while being in control of the crime scene, almost certainly feels inadequate in the rest of his life.

  Jason Gideon : That's why he couldn't wait for you to figure out what he'd done. Why he needed to make sure all his crimes were counted. His victims, they represent whatever it is that's controlling him, and he wants that control back. He is under the thumb of a powerful woman who frightens him. And a final point: He is white.

  Captain Griffith : We have witnesses that identify him as a black male.

  Jason Gideon : The attacker was black. He is not the Tommy Killer.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Mrs. Gordon's husband came home at the same time that he always does. The Tommy Killer would've known that.

  Elle Greenaway : And Mrs. Gordon's attacker wore a ski mask. The unsub knows when he walks into a house, he's going to kill the woman who lives there. If you're not leaving any witnesses, why wear a ski mask?

  Derek Morgan : And he wants the victims to see him anyway.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Your attempted rapist is a garden-variety, disorganized young man.

  Elle Greenaway : As the victim's age goes up, generally the attacker's age goes down. Mrs. Gordon is about 60, which puts her rapist at about 20.

• Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : We're going to San Diego.

  Derek Morgan : Not for the surfing, huh?

  Jennifer "JJ" Jareau : They're calling him the Tommy Killer.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Six women raped and murdered in their homes in the last three weeks.

  Elle Greenaway : Six in three weeks?

  Jason Gideon : That's a short fuse.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : And getting shorter. First two were eight days apart, then the next four in two weeks.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Rapid escalation. You think he's regressing to a psychopathic frenzy?

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : No, he's too controlled for that. See you on the plane.