Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Angel Maker (2008)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

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Quotes 

• Aaron Hotchner : [opening quote, voiceover]  "We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." - Chuck Palahniuk.

• Aaron Hotchner : [closing quote, voiceover]  Wendell Berry said "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."

• Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : This is Delilah Grennan. She was bludgeoned and raped during the night at her home in Lower Canaan, Ohio.

  Emily Prentiss : Lower where?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Small town forty miles outside of Cincinnati.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Staging the body face up with the arms across the chest like that.

  Derek Morgan : Ritual. Nice hair, by the way.

  [Morgan flips a lock of Reid's hair into his face] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [brushing his hair back]  Thanks.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Uh, there's more. Small puncture wounds on her stomach. Note the lack of blood.

  Emily Prentiss : They were inflicted postmortem. Were there any other victims?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Kind of. Victimology and signature match a serial killer from the same town ten years ago. Six victims spanning over ten months. He called himself...

  Aaron Hotchner : The Angel Maker. I remember the case.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : They caught that guy.

  David Rossi : And executed him.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : That's right. He was put to death by lethal injection a year ago yesterday.

  Emily Prentiss : Yesterday.

  Derek Morgan : So we're looking for a copycat.

  David Rossi : Honoring the anniversary of his hero's death.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It says here they found semen at the crime scene. Perhaps locals will get a DNA match when they run it through VICAP?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Well, that's where it gets weird. They ran it already and they got a match, too.

  Emily Prentiss : Well, if they already have a name, why'd they call us?

  David Rossi : [reading the report]  They've got to be kidding. The match they got back on the DNA is to a Cortland Bryce Ryan. Otherwise known as... the Angel Maker.