- Derek Morgan: [the team has two days to break a detained terrorist] We have two days to do what the CIA hasn't managed in two months?
- Jason Gideon: We could be looking at the first attack on our soil since 9/11.
- Jennifer Jareau: That's not the transcript, it's...
- Emily Prentiss: It's in Arabic. "Our friends surprised us and eloped. We can no longer wait for the wedding as planned. We can deliver our gift at the next crescent"
- [Others all looked very surprised]
- Emily Prentiss: I lived in several Middle Eastern countries growing up
- Jason Gideon: [voiceover] Ralph Waldo Emerson said "In order to learn the import lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear."
- Emily Prentiss: Excuse me sir, I just want to let you know how much I appreciate...
- Jason Gideon: You don't thank me
- Emily Prentiss: Sir?
- Jason Gideon: Not a favor
- Emily Prentiss: Of course. I know that
- Jason Gideon: You're coming to do a job
- Derek Morgan: What's going with you? You look like you've seen a ghost back there
- Aaron Hotchner: Haley is supposed to take Jack to the new mall to have his portrait taken
- Derek Morgan: Go ahead and call her!
- Aaron Hotchner: It's a breach of security!
- Derek Morgan: You lose Haley and Jack, screw this job! You won't have a life!
- Aaron Hotchner: [dials...] I can't reach her!
- Jason Gideon: Why? Why is it always those who profess to be the most fervent believers in this war, they always manipulate other people to die for them?
- Jind Allah: Does your president go into battle? Or does he send your children?
- Jason Gideon: Tonight, all those innocent people...
- Jind Allah: There is no such thing Gideon. They were infidels. And they were engaged in activities that spread American policies over the entire world. Your incessant need to own things, material things. Your capitalism rests on the back of third world countries. No one's hands are clean, no one is innocent.
- Jason Gideon: [voiceover] Dale Turner mused some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
- Penelope Garcia: Please pick up, please pick up, please pick up!
- Derek Morgan: Yeah, it's Morgan. Hello...? Garcia, can you hear me?
- Penelope Garcia: We saw the explosion on TV!
- Derek Morgan: Yeah, I know. We lost a SWAT agent
- Penelope Garcia: Oh God!
- Derek Morgan: Don't worry; don't think you're gonna get rid of me that easy
- Penelope Garcia: Do you need anything?
- Derek Morgan: I'd know who to call, thanks Baby Girl!
- Jason Gideon: GitMo's runway's perpendicular to Cuban airspace, so approaching aircraft have to negotiate a last-minute, ninety degree right turn in order to land. They call it the GitMo twist.
- Jennifer Jareau: What the hack is going on here?
- Penelope Garcia: The NSA is routing all messages to us for language analysis. You know, rumor has it, much to my chagrin that during national security emergencies our fair country turns all of its satellites homeward and record all electronic traffic in the whole of US of A
- Jennifer Jareau: Is this even legal?
- Penelope Garcia: Yeah, I don't really want to think about that right now
- Jennifer Jareau: You know, it should be a lot easier if there is a centralization of all this information
- Penelope Garcia: Dream on, JJ! No one wants the other kids peeing in their sandbox!