- Dr. Spencer Reid: [arriving at the crime scene] Should have listened to me.
- Derek Morgan: It wouldn't have saved that much time, Reid. Let it go.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: The interchange between the 405 and the 101 freeways is consistently rated the worst interchange in the entire world.
- Derek Morgan: Why do you know that?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: It's a government report.
- Derek Morgan: So what?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: So, you work for the government. What, you don't read the reports?
- Derek Morgan: On traffic patterns in a city twenty-five hundred miles from where I live?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Twenty-two hundred and ninety-five miles.
- Derek Morgan: Don't make me smack you in front of all these people.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Sometimes for an artist, the only difference between insanity and genius is success.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [opening quote, voiceover] "Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities." - Author Clive Barker.
- Penelope Garcia: Hey, do you know who Frank Miller is?
- Derek Morgan: Frank Miller. Um... it sounds familiar. Unsub?
- Penelope Garcia: [laughing] No. Graphic novelist. 300? Sin City?
- Derek Morgan: Oh. Right, right, right. Cool movies.
- Penelope Garcia: Anyway... he said something once and it makes me think of you. "The noir hero is a knight in blood-caked armor. He's dirty, and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time."
- David Rossi: Something wrong?
- Emily Prentiss: He's the first unsub I've worked who wasn't a bad guy. You know? Six months ago, Jonny McHale was just a regular person.
- David Rossi: Every unsub is ill on some level. Most can't help what they do any more than Jonny could.
- Emily Prentiss: But he went from successful writer and artist to brutal killer in six months.
- David Rossi: He suffered an unbelievable tragedy.
- Emily Prentiss: I know. I get it.
- David Rossi: So what's bugging you?
- Emily Prentiss: It just makes me wonder... are we all capable of becoming something like that?
- Penelope Garcia: [to Derek] Honey, I know you love me, but the prospect of you whirling around here trying to fix this, is actually more frightening than getting shot!
- Derek Morgan: [On the phone] Just leave it alone until I get there! Hey, hey, hardhead! Don't make me spank you when I get back
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Don't listen to him, Garcia, he's all talk...
- [Derek hits him on the head]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Aah! JJ! He just hit me!
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: You boys behave or I will ground you both
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Same victimology?
- Detective Brady: We don't have a positive id on either one of them yet, but the clothing fits. You really think this is only one guy, huh?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: The level of overkill suggests an unsub in a psychotic break. Multiple unsubs in violent psychotic breaks operating in the exact same location is exceedingly unlikely
- Derek Morgan: Yeah, it's probably one guy
- Dr. Spencer Reid: All these calls were made within the last two days
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Sometimes what an unsub does actually make sense
- Bobby Kim: This character, what's his name? Night? That's the whole name? Just Night? Not very catchy. What about Night Man? Or... I know: True Knight with a "K"
- Jonny McHale: No "K"
- Bobby Kim: I'm just saying...
- Jonny McHale: NO "K"!
- Bobby Kim: Message received
- [first lines]
- Jonny McHale: No one sees *True Night*, what's really there in the dark. It's not that they can't see, they simply don't. They feel an elemental force that scares them into deepest reaches of their minds. But they refuse to see the actual source. Something watching them just out of their reach. Something cold and frightening. Something inhuman.
- Vickie Wright: [recording her voice mail welcome message] Hey this is Vickie. I can't come to the phone right now, 'cause I am out living my life. Leave it at the beep