- David Rossi: [opening quote] "The universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it" - Lisa Unger
- Penelope Garcia: [Rossi walks into the office] Where are you going?
- David Rossi: I got your text!
- Penelope Garcia: I love you very much, but you need to read more than just the first sentence! The case is like 5 miles away
- Jennifer Jareau: Ah come on, there's got to be something! A guy capable of this kind of brutalities has got to have a pretty sketchy record
- Penelope Garcia: [typing and searching] Hmm...
- [results pop up]
- Penelope Garcia: Huh, creepy bingo!
- Charles Johnson: Where you from, Dave?
- David Rossi: Long Island.
- Charles Johnson: You know, an I-talian from Long Island can be as cold-blooded as a... a Klansman... from Virginia... You ever used the n-word, Dave?
- David Rossi: I'm sure I did. The same guys who called me wop and dago. Everyone I knew back then used that language. So what?
- Charles Johnson: Maybe one day some black people sit in the front of the bus in Floral Park and you start throwing some punches.
- David Rossi: We've already found three bodies, Charles.
- Charles Johnson: Maybe some colored folks sit next to you at Stango's back in the day, and, you know, you get pissed off, you start throwing punches at 'em.
- David Rossi: You're evading, Charles, and that suggests guilt.
- Charles Johnson: You go by that logic, you ain't too innocent your damn self.
- David Rossi: [pause] There was this one time.
- Charles Johnson: Here we go.
- David Rossi: I was in the ninth grade, and there was this black kid on the baseball team with me.
- Charles Johnson: I knew it. Break out the peanuts.
- David Rossi: He was the runt and I was the second-smallest. You get the picture?
- Charles Johnson: I got it. Come on.
- David Rossi: One day the other guys get mad because he's playing with us...
- Charles Johnson: Nm.
- David Rossi: And they force me to shove him into a locker and keep him there overnight.
- Charles Johnson: Did you do it?
- David Rossi: Sure I did. If not, they would have done it to me.
- Charles Johnson: Call him names?
- David Rossi: We called him every name in the book... And then they made me pee on him in the locker.
- Charles Johnson: You peed on him?
- David Rossi: They made me.
- David Rossi: Look...
- Derek Morgan: You don't have to explain, man.
- David Rossi: No, you don't understand.
- Derek Morgan: A locker? Really? You took a leak on the guy?
- David Rossi: I was working him, Derek... But I'd like you to do something for me.
- Jennifer Jareau: [Hotch is watching Rossi's interrogation] How's he doing?
- Aaron Hotchner: I think he's making progress.
- Jennifer Jareau: I'm surprised none of them have lawyered up yet.
- Aaron Hotchner: Tina and Lyle haven't because they know that they're innocent. Charles is a sociopath. He thinks he can talk his way out of it.
- Jennifer Jareau: Are you sure you shouldn't say anything?
- Section Chief Mateo Cruz: Positive.
- Jennifer Jareau: People think we're having an affair. Can't we just say we're on assignment?
- Section Chief Mateo Cruz: No one can know. What are you afraid of?
- Jennifer Jareau: The stares, the whispers. Spence has been asking me questions. Rossi's been onto us from day one.
- Section Chief Mateo Cruz: [to Garcia coming to them] Hello.
- [to JJ]
- Section Chief Mateo Cruz: Good luck out there.
- Jennifer Jareau: Thank you.
- David Rossi: So, why did you mutilate Mary Ann's genitalia?
- Charles Johnson: I didn't mutilate anything.
- David Rossi: And you cut the other girl, too. And the guy. Sexual punishment across gender lines is... pretty different. I think that somewhere down the line, a man and a woman each made you question your sexuality. You despise both sexes.
- David Rossi: The guy who saved my life in Vietnam was black, as was my second wife.
- Charles Johnson: Brown sugar... I'll be damned... I bet you phone-banked for Obama.
- David Rossi: No, I was too busy putting guys like you away.
- Charles Johnson: Ooh... okay. Send the black guy in. I was wondering when they were gonna play that card. Attention all FBI employees, will the one negro in the building, please, get to the sixth floor.
- Derek Morgan: You finished?
- Charles Johnson: But then again... You're not fully black... are you? Well, that's okay. They say even one drop counts.
- Charles Johnson: Hung me from a tree... Cut me.
- David Rossi: ...Where did they cut you?
- Charles Johnson: ...Where do you think?