Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Cradle to Grave (2009)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

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• Derek Morgan : What is this?

  Aaron Hotchner : It's a tactical arrest plan. I'd like you to write it up for this case.

  Derek Morgan : You want me to write up how we apprehend these unsubs without risking the lives of the children.

  Aaron Hotchner : Yes.

  Derek Morgan : [scoffs]  Hotch, I've led dozens of tactical assaults. You've never made me write up one of these before.

  Aaron Hotchner : That's because I always do it for you after each case.

  Derek Morgan : [scoffs again]  You know what? I'm sorry Strauss is coming down on you.

  Aaron Hotchner : This is not about Strauss.

  Derek Morgan : Really? I disagree. Look, I understand that you're under the gun. But I gotta say it. I'm really not all that surprised. I've watched you walk away from a bunch of cops gunning down unsubs in D.C., you walked in unprotected to a hostage situation in Louisville. Of course the Bureau's worried about you. Man, *I'm* worried about you. But just because you're the one who's under the magnifying glass, that doesn't mean I can't do my job.

  Aaron Hotchner : Morgan, there's a big part of your job that I do for you, because I don't need you worried about paperwork and politics. I need you in the field and focused in catching the next unsub. But I can't do that anymore. I don't have to justify my orders to you, and you do have to follow them.

  Derek Morgan : I've always followed your orders, when they made sense.

• David Rossi : What's this?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It's the pattern I've been looking for. The unsubs hid their tracks with the mothers, but they weren't so careful with the abandoned babies.

  David Rossi : Did you find more children?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : DNA-wise, no, but deductively, yes. I gathered all the records for all infants who entered into foster care in a two week window following each mother's death. Then I narrowed it down to babies that were abandoned at churches. This is where the guesswork begins. Monica Winmar's daughter was abandoned at a Presbyterian church. Let's assume the unsub, or the wife at least, is Presbyterian. That means all other unwanted children are gonna be left at the same denomination, right? That narrows it down to three babies left at three different Presbyterian churches all within this twenty-mile radius. This is where they live.

  David Rossi : These kids you deduced to... have you looked at their files?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No. Right now I've only been tracking churches. Why?

  David Rossi : Because you just uncovered another pattern.

  [cut to Hotch in New Mexico] 

  Aaron Hotchner : Yeah, we're packing up now. We can be in Phoenix in about two hours. Are you sure about this?

  David Rossi : The names of the babies Reid found tells us everything. Lisa, Elizabeth, Amanda.

  Aaron Hotchner : We profiled there'd be a type they'd keep and a type they'd put into foster care.

  David Rossi : They're keeping the boys.

• Aaron Hotchner : [Considering possible new cases]  What's next?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Baton Rouge thinks have a white supremacist problem

  Aaron Hotchner : What's you take?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : [Surprised]  Really?

  Aaron Hotchner : Yeah, I'd like to hear it

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : We're dealing with an individual, not a group

  Aaron Hotchner : Why?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : The angry letters. The writer switches pronouns from plural to singular: "We are a heavily armed militia", followed by "I will be forced to take action"

  Aaron Hotchner : Good. Send it back to the police with our analysis