Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Popular Kids (2005)

Mandy Patinkin: Jason Gideon

Quotes 

• Jason Gideon : Sir Peter Ustinov said, "Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Melted wax?

  Jennifer "JJ" Jareau : Candle wax?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Candles are used in rituals.

  Jason Gideon : They're also used on birthday cakes.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Actually, they were originally used to protect the birthday celebrant from demons for the coming year. As a matter of fact, down to the fourth century, Christianity rejected the birthday celebration as a Pagan ritual.

  Sheriff Bridges : What kind of a doctor are you?

• Jason Gideon : Playwright Eugene Ionescu said, "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

• Brandi Dreifort : You're one of the FBI agents, aren't you?

  Jason Gideon : Is there something you want to tell me?

  Brandi Dreifort : Do you think God is vengeful?

  Jason Gideon : I don't know.

  Brandi Dreifort : You don't think He punishes us?

  Jason Gideon : After Hurricane Katrina, I read some essays by religious scholars. One writer said God was punishing America for its immorality; New Orleans was a wicked city, like Sodom and Gomorrah. Another one, a priest from New Orleans, he thought the hurricane was proof of God's love, 'cause the levees didn't break until after the storm was over. If they'd broken sooner, thousands would've died. So... I guess the answer to your question depends on whether or not you think you have something to be punished for.

• [after finding out the local kids found a dead body in the woods and watched it decompose over a long period of time without reporting anything] 

  Jason Gideon : This was a human being!

• Jason Gideon : Most of the satanism we've seen is juveniles damaging property, desecrating churches, cemeteries. To my knowledge, there's never been a proven case of a satanic ritual killing in the United States.

• [last lines] 

  Jason Gideon : Reid. Deborah Louise Addison. Her husband Tim. Kids are Amber and Keith. Eight and six. 1985, Deborah Louise was walking home from school. She was abducted. She was 13. We profiled the unsub, and we were able to locate her before he harmed her. She writes a letter to the BAU every year. She updates us on her life.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It's nice, but...

  Jason Gideon : We all have bad dreams. Everyone on the plane. Who wouldn't? We hunt the worst of humanity, we see the depths of depravity, we dream of monsters.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : In my dream, there's a baby in the middle of a circle, and there's, uh, someone on the other side. And I can't get to her before...

  Jason Gideon : Every night, I look at Deborah. Helps me... helps me go to sleep thinking of the victims we've saved. We don't always beat the monsters to the babies, but we do enough to make the job worth it, keep the nightmares bearable.

• Jason Gideon : Are there any cults in the area that you know about? Secret groups, people you see you don't know much about, people who stay to themselves mostly.

  Sheriff Bridges : This is a very religious area, church on Sundays, fellowship on Wednesday, bible classes. If there was a secret group I'd probably know about it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : That's an inherent contradiction.

  Sheriff Bridges : Excuse me?

  Jason Gideon : He means if there was a group being secretive you probably wouldn't know.

• Jason Gideon : You have the sign-in sheets?

  Jennifer "JJ" Jareau : Yeah.

  Jason Gideon : Garcia standing by to do background checks on 'em all?

  Jennifer "JJ" Jareau : Yeah. I've got a deputy waiting to take me back to the station. I'm gonna fax her as soon as I get there.

  Jason Gideon : Good. This type of unsub can't resist injecting himself into a show like this. He's here with us.