- Dr. Spencer Reid: [the music on Morgan's iPod suddenly stops, and is replaced by Reid's voice] We interrupt your regularly scheduled musical selection with an important announcement: never wage a practical joke war against an MIT graduate, because we have a history of going nuclear. Now sit back, relax, and enjoy the dulcet sounds of me screaming in your ear. AAAAAAAAHHHHH!
- Derek Morgan: [Morgan takes off his headphones] Okay, kid, that was cute. But that's all you got?
- [Reid snores, feigning sleep]
- Derek Morgan: [his phone rings] Hey, baby gi...
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [Reid's recording cuts in] AHHHHHHH!
- [still feigning sleep, Reid smirks; to diffuse the situation, Rossi waves a white flag of surrender]
- Derek Morgan: Uh-uh. All right, Reid, it's on. Just know that paybacks are a bitch.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Boiling rage- SON OF A BITCH! Hi, this is Dr. Spencer Reid, I actually can come to the phone right now with a very special message that your mother is a to...
- Aaron Hotchner: Reid.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [muttering] I will crush you.
- Derek Morgan: What?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [innocently] What?
- Aaron Hotchner: How did you get by in Paris?
- Emily Prentiss: I... I played a lot of online Scrabble. With some girl named Cheeto Breath.
- [Hotch looks back at JJ who is eating from a small bag of Cheetos]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [When JJ claims she can't remember ever being bullied in high school] Were you one of the mean girls?
- Jennifer Jareau: Wh - ? No!
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Valedictorian, soccer scholarship, corn fed but still a size zero - I think that you might've been a mean girl!
- Jennifer Jareau: *I* was actually one of the *nice* girls. Even to guys like *you*!
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Guys like me? I'll have you know that my social standing increased once I started winning at basketball.
- Jennifer Jareau: [Disbelievingly] Oh yeah, you played basketball?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: No, I didn't play. I *coached* basketball. I broke down the opposing team's shooting strategy.
- Jennifer Jareau: Is that why Morgan kicked you out of the pool last week?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah. Took him three rounds to realize I was hustling him.
- [last lines]
- Jack Hotchner: Why are we doing this?
- Aaron Hotchner: We haven't talked to Mom in a while, so I thought it would be a good idea if we did it again.
- Jack Hotchner: But I don't want to make you sad.
- Aaron Hotchner: Buddy, you're not making me sad. It makes me happy, because it reminds me what a great job Mom did with you. So maybe if we got in the habit of doing this again, you know, Mom could help us.
- Jack Hotchner: Like with what?
- Aaron Hotchner: You know, if you have a bad day. Ms. McKee said Paul's been mean to you.
- Jack Hotchner: He hasn't been mean to me.
- Aaron Hotchner: No? Okay. Mom, look out for Jack anyway.
- Jack Hotchner: Dad, too.
- Aaron Hotchner: Dad, too. Of course.
- [Jack puffs out a candle]
- Aaron Hotchner: Good Job. Okay. Time to settle down. Good night, buddy.
- Jack Hotchner: Love you, Dad.
- Aaron Hotchner: I love you, too.
- Emily Prentiss: What else do we have to go on?
- Jennifer Jareau: Spence said the UnSub would have broken his hand beating Chelsea to death. Did you notice anyone with a cast on their hand, someone who seemed hurt?
- Emily Prentiss: No.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I might know why. This UnSub doesn't feel pain. There's a medical condition called pain asymbolia, where patients register harmful stimuli without being bothered by it. They've been documented holding their hand over an open flame because their brain doesn't send pain signals to the central nervous system.
- David Rossi: Sounds pretty rare. You sure the UnSub has it?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: The crime scenes prove it. This UnSub displayed an unusual level of savagery towards his victims. And consider this, he smashed through a glass display case, but there were not cuts on Jerry. That means he most likely punched through it as a show of force. Now, the only way the human body could withstand that level of pain is if he couldn't feel it at all.
- David Rossi: It must take a major toll on someone's emotional development.
- Derek Morgan: A significant contributor to our sense of empathy is the way we personally experience pain.
- Aaron Hotchner: And the UnSub didn't develop his sense of empathy because it was cut off. Does every person with asymbolia have this?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Actually, most feel empathy just fine, which makes me think the rest of our profile is still accurate. Loner, invisible, outcast, boiling rage...
- Aaron Hotchner: [voiceover] "... pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." ~~ Kahlil Gibran
- Derek Morgan: Then why come back? What does a loser like you have to gain by seeing all the kids by seeing all the kids that he hated so much ?
- Lewis Ramsey: [showing a medal] I came this close to flushing two years of sobriety down the toilet tonight. Not just because Chelsea died, but because I knew that they were gonna cancel that ceremony. See, tomorrow night I was gonna tell people what I did. And I knew that I would be arrested as an accomplice. I knew it, but I had to. This is my final amends.
- Penelope Garcia: Does anyone remember this picture?
- David Rossi: Hotch and I were there. That's Principal Doug Givens. We had to drag him to safety.
- Emily Prentiss: High school bombing in Boise, right?
- Jennifer Jareau: School shooter *and* school bomber. A kid named Randy Slade shot three students, and then set off an IED in the cafeteria via cell phone, killing himself and thirteen kids total, but not before posting all of his plans online. It was one of those "where were you?" events. My whole campus was glued to the TV.
- Bob Adams: Is it that hard for you people to tell the truth about me?
- [shouts]
- Bob Adams: To notice me? Like you. Do you even know my name?
- Tiffany Gleason: Ralph?
- Bob Adams: [shots a gun] Guess again.
- Ms. McKee: As you can see, his scores are high across the board. But he seems to be holding back in the classroom.
- Aaron Hotchner: Why do you think that is?
- Ms. McKee: Has he ever mentioned a classmate named Paul?
- Aaron Hotchner: Paul Cain? Yes, he's been over. He's a friend of Jack's.
- Ms. McKee: Paul is being mean to Jack for some reason.
- Aaron Hotchner: How long has that been going on?
- Ms. McKee: A few weeks. Jack's just his latest target. We've moved Jack away from Paul, and we're documenting everything, of course.
- Aaron Hotchner: Jack says that things are going very well at school, so the steps you're taking must be working.
- Ms. McKee: Thank you.
- Aaron Hotchner: Let me know if anything changes.
- Ms. McKee: Absolutely.
- Aaron Hotchner: Can I keep this?
- Ms. McKee: Sure.
- Aaron Hotchner: Thank you so much.
- Emily Prentiss: And nobody got to find out that Bob Adams was a good kid, a brave kid. The kind of kid you'd want to hang out with.
- Aaron Hotchner: We can give you back your story, Bob, but you have to drop the gun.
- Bob Adams: Isn't it funny when your dream comes true, it's never the way you want.
- Aaron Hotchner: What causes asymbolia?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Severe trauma produces lesions in the insular cortex, usually after a stroke, but this UNSUB is so young it's most likely caused by an external factor.
- David Rossi: Like a bomb going off next to him?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [Looking toward Derek Morgan] Yeah, like a bomb going off next to him.