Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Limelight (2008)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

Quotes 

• Aaron Hotchner : Nobody remembers the victims, everybody remembers the killer. And that's exactly what happens when an agent puts the story ahead of the case.

• David Rossi : When I interviewed Bundy, he had a theory about pornography. He said "If you wanna stop people from becoming like me, don't burn 'Catcher in the Rye'."

  Aaron Hotchner : "Burn 'Hustler'." I read your books, too, Dave.

• Aaron Hotchner : [to Rossi]  Take Reid with you.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Road trip, nice! I've got books on tape with Peter Coyote reading the entire Foundation Trilogy.

• Aaron Hotchner : It's unacceptable behavior. Why do you keep defending her?

  David Rossi : Because I know what she is. She is me, twenty years ago.

  Aaron Hotchner : She is nothing like you, Dave.

  David Rossi : Come on Hotch, I know what people think. I took serial killer's mass market. Now everyone knows their names, but not the victims, right? Somewhere along the line, I put myself first. I admit it. I can't go back and change it. But it's not too late for her.

• Aaron Hotchner : Agent, I don't know how you usually do things, but you need to let my team know if you're planning on holding a press conference.

  Jill Morris : No, I... it wasn't a conference. It was just an announcement.

  Aaron Hotchner : I think you know what I mean.

  Jill Morris : We're sending half the cops in the city out to canvass. The story would have leaked. I was just putting a reassuring face on the situation.

  Aaron Hotchner : Your face.

  Jill Morris : I'm the case agent.

  Aaron Hotchner : And you're also outranked by every member of my team.

  Jill Morris : Meaning what, you vote me off the island?

  Aaron Hotchner : Nothing tears a case apart faster than an agent trying to make his or her name on it.

• Aaron Hotchner : With four known victims, we should start by re-interviewing friends and family. We're looking for a white male in his thirties to forties. And with his knowledge of circuitry and wiring, we think that he's either an electrician or an electrical engineer.

  David Rossi : It's a job that may give him access to a victim's home or workplace, the opportunity to observe his targets.

  Emily Prentiss : They're attractive, professional women. He sees them as strong, righteous, unobtainable. So he seeks to tear them down, to reduce them to base sexual creatures and punish them.

  Aaron Hotchner : He's a true sexual sadist. A typology we refer to as anger-excitation, meaning he becomes sexually aroused by the suffering of his victims.

  David Rossi : Killing these women is an afterthought. Their pain is what he's after. And he takes his time, to exact maximum stimulation.

  Philly Agent : What about his trophies? He keeps their clothes, right?

  Emily Prentiss : Yes. We believe he's using them for rehearsal fantasies. By dressing as his victims, he can relive the torture. It's during this time that he most likely pleasures himself in order to reinforce his association between suffering and gratification.

  Aaron Hotchner : And when he becomes dissatisfied with this, he seeks out a new victim.

  David Rossi : Keep in mind he's been this for a long time, and he's been thinking about doing it most of his life. He'll continue to evolve, finding new ways of challenging himself, increasing his stimulation threshold. There are no boundaries for this man.

• Aaron Hotchner : You got something?

  David Rossi : Not sure. An old storage unit; case agent from the Philly field office sent it to me.

  Aaron Hotchner : Somebody you know?

  David Rossi : She knows me. You know.

  Aaron Hotchner : Ah, a fan. Your world is a very crowded place, isn't it?

  David Rossi : You'd be surprised.

  Aaron Hotchner : This is detailed.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Future tense. They're fantasies.

  David Rossi : That agent thinks it could more than that.

  Aaron Hotchner : There's more of this?

  David Rossi : A few boxes in the field office. I'd like to drive up there, look at the rest of the material. Make a judgment from that.

• Aaron Hotchner : Broken home, poverty, trade school, petty crime, lewd behavior. The whole profile is here black and white.

  Emily Prentiss : That's a small consolation.

  Aaron Hotchner : How many is he up to?

  Jennifer Jareau : Seventeen.

  Emily Prentiss : They haven't even gotten through to the 2006 pile.

  Aaron Hotchner : Has he told us where to find the remains?

  Jennifer Jareau : No, he doesn't speak, he just points.