Criminal Minds (season 12)


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Criminal Minds (2005–2020) is an American television show, airing on CBS, about an elite squad of FBI profilers that analyzes the country's most twisted criminal minds and anticipates their next move before they strike again.

The Crimson King [12.01]

 * David Rossi: "Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself and so shall starve with feeding." William Shakespeare


 * Aaron Hotchner: "The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones." William Shakespeare

Sick Day [12.02]

 * Jennifer Jareau: "Loss and possession, death and life are one. There falls no shadow where there shines no sun." Hilaire Belloc


 * Jennifer Jareau: Mother Teresa said, "Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

Taboo [12.03]

 * Emily Prentiss: Tyron Edwards wrote, "Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."


 * Luke Alvez: "Three things cannot long stay hidden. The sun, the moon, and the truth." Buddha

Keeper [12.04]

 * Luke Alvez: A Cheyenne proverb says, "Beware the man who does not talk and the dog that does not bark."


 * Spencer Reid: "What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories?" George Eliot

The Anti-Terrorism Squad [12.05]

 * Spencer Reid: "The malicious have a dark happiness." Victor Hugo


 * Spencer Reid: "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." Jean-Paul Sartre

Elliot's Pond [12.06]

 * David Rossi: "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other." Mario Puzo


 * Penelope Garcia: "So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good." Helen Keller

Mirror Image [12.07]

 * Tara Lewis: "A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self." Marian Sandmaier


 * Tara Lewis: "The father said, 'You are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.'" The Gospel of Luke

Scarecrow [12.08]

 * Spencer Reid: "God sometimes takes us into troubled waters, not to drown us, but to cleanse us." Unknown


 * David Rossi: "Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." Marilyn Monroe

Profiling 202 [12.09]

 * David Rossi: "What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes?" Lucius Annaeus Seneca


 * Stephen Walker and David Rossi: "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." Marcus Tullius Cicero

Seek and Destroy [12.10]

 * Stephen Walker: "Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's gang. Everybody that wants to join has to take an oath and write his name in blood." Mark Twain


 * Emily Prentiss: "A gang is where a coward goes to hide." Mickey Mantle

Surface Tension [12.11]

 * Spencer Reid: "We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too." John Calvin


 * Spencer Reid: "Time moves in one direction, memory in another." William Gibson

A Good Husband [12.12]

 * David Rossi: "A good husband makes a good wife." John Florio


 * Emily Prentiss: "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion." Arthur Koestler

Spencer [12.13]

 * Spencer Reid: "There is not a righteous man on Earth who does what is right and never sins." Ecclesiastes 7:20


 * Jennifer Jareau: "There are so many fragile things after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts." Neil Gaiman

Collision Course [12.14]

 * Emily Prentiss: "The illusion of control makes the helplessness seem more palatable." Allie Brosh


 * Spencer Reid: "Loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change." James Frey

Alpha Male [12.15]

 * Penelope Garcia: "Strong men, men who are truly role models, don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful." Michelle Obama


 * Spencer Reid: "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be." Oscar Wilde

Assistance Is Futile [12.16]

 * Spencer Reid: "To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand. I can do no other." Martin Luther


 * Spencer Reid: "Hope is being able to see that there is light, despite all of the darkness." Desmond Tutu

In the Dark [12.17]

 * Jennifer Jareau: "Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, holds us, draws us." Janet Malcolm

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 * Tara Lewis: "How blessed are some people whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly and brings nothing but sweet dreams." Bram Stoker

Hell's Kitchen [12.18]

 * Spencer Reid: "How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also if I'm to be whole." Carl Jung

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 * Spencer Reid: "Cannot be seen, cannot be felt. Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter." J. R. R. Tolkien

True North [12.19]

 * Stephen Walker: "Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?" Stanislaw Lec

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 * Emily Prentiss: "The future is inevitable and precise, but may not occur. God lurks in the gaps." Jorge Luis Borges

Unforgettable [12.20]

 * Stephen Walker: "The past is never where you think you left it." Katherine Anne Porter

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 * Spencer Reid: "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard

Green Light [12.21]

 * Spencer Reid: "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." Ernest Hemingway

Red Light [12.22]

 * Emily Prentiss: "The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction." William Shakespeare