- Jennifer Jareau: Who else uses a .308 rifle?
- David Rossi: In Texas? Hunters... the Minutemen... housewives... which, unfortunately, doesn't narrow down the field.
- David Rossi: [closing quote] "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's future, and we are all mortal." - John F. Kenedy
- Dr. Spencer Reid: It's too bad all those e-mails and texts are gone forever.
- Jennifer Jareau: Uhm... I'm sorry, have you ever met Penelope Garcia?
- David Rossi: What about the increase in calls and letters to the Dallas office?
- Penelope Garcia: I have checked all the assassination buffs and conspiracy theorists, including myself, and I am sort of sad to say we're all in the clear.
- Penelope Garcia: The company that runs Chat Alert is damn good at scrambling their data! Although I am fast as hot lightning, eh, my server is not because it needs updating, so if someone with great hair and a tie could approve the funding to update that server, we could get a shot at the road, and I...
- Aaron Hotchner: Put in a requisition, Garcia.
- Penelope Garcia: Thank you sir! Filing form 9093B now... I'm familiar with it and the void it disappears into. Okay, I did manage to piece together Alica's last text.
- Penelope Garcia: You know, I love a juicy conspiracy because it makes everything seem like an Agatha Christie novel, and I am still convinced that there was a second shooter on that grassy knoll.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: We have to hope Maya follows the rules. The shelter says the women are supposed to remain in hiding for at least two months. They're supposed to stay behind closed windows, closed doors. Volunteers bring supplies and food to them.
- Agent Tanya Mays: Maya left her husband six weeks ago, so the killer's gotta wait another two weeks for her to come out. There's a good chance he'll give up. He can't wait forever.
- Aaron Hotchner: Well, a sniper can wait up to seventy-two hours without sleeping.
- Agent Tanya Mays: Seriously?
- David Rossi: That's part of their training. They can stay awake for seventy-two hours and reamin completely focused on their target.
- Agent Tanya Mays: How?
- Aaron Hotchner: By using a mental exercise called fantasy integration. The sniper creates a scenario involving the target that keeps that person at the forefront of their mind.
- Derek Morgan: Often, they'll imagine a place where they're with the target doing something together that takes time; for example, building a car.
- Jennifer Jareau: For some, the fantasy begins the minute they're assigned a target, and nothing will distract them.
- Agent Tanya Mays: So as long as she stays inside, she should be safe, right?
- Alex Blake: The problem is staying cooped up for a couple months without a breath of fresh air is hard to do.
- David Rossi: It's what the sniper's counting on, and she has no idea he's waiting for her.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, the fact is, this is an experienced sniper who can account for timing. After the first shot, no one moves. People are puzzled. Everyone's reaction is to look for a source of the sound. After the second shot, it takes the average person one and a half seconds to cognitively process that they're in a potentially life-threatening situation. It takes another .7 seconds for a physical response to kick in, by which time the third shot has already been fired.
- Jennifer Jareau: So the unsub wanted victim number three.
- Alex Blake: Well, anyone after number three had a chance of getting away, and the unsub wouldn't have taken that risk.
- Jennifer Jareau: A guy who works for a paramilitary company probably thinks he's invincible.
- Derek Morgan: I don't know. He knew something about his wife. The way he smiled at me before he died, he was smug. It's like he was trying to say "You're not gonna find her in time."
- Agent Tanya Mays: He'd rather die than let her live.
- Derek Morgan: It's the classic psychology of the narcissistic abuser. You know, we may be looking at two unsubs.
- Jennifer Jareau: He hired someone to kill her.
- Derek Morgan: 12 shots were fired?
- Agent Tanya Mays: That's right.
- Jennifer Jareau: It sounds like an amateur.
- Agent Tanya Mays: You think?
- Derek Morgan: Well, 6 people were hit. That's a 50% success rate during a crowded lunch hour with a high-powered rifle at a range of 200 yard. An average Joe can hit that many people.
- Jennifer Jareau: Trained snipers hit 98% of their targets.
- Derek Morgan: Hey, talk to me, baby girl.
- Penelope Garcia: I've been reading these heinous things that have happened to these women at the hands of their abusers, and can I just say thank God for men like you who are strong, yet gentle at the same time...
- Derek Morgan: Okay, guess what? I'm about to put you on speaker. Maybe you want to stick to the facts.
- Penelope Garcia: Right. The facts, okay.
- voice during news conference: The *real* problem is that nobody really cares! This is going to be on the news until the next reality star has a baby!
- Aaron Hotchner: How much variation is there in the traffic pattern here?
- Agent Tanya Mays: This is it. It's pretty much the same all the time, except in the middle of the night, maybe.
- Aaron Hotchner: So the unsub had to time his shot to the quarter second to shoot between traffic and the gas pumps and hit all three victims.
- David Rossi: And he did it from a concealed position.
- Aaron Hotchner: He's better than good. He's a sharpshooter.
- Colin Bramwell: Mr. Doe is here. Go out front. He'll meet you in a blue sedan.
- Maya Carcani: What about you?
- Colin Bramwell: Someone has to distract the sniper. It's the only way.
- Maya Carcani: But we could...
- Colin Bramwell: I'm a pragmatist, remember? Living on borrowed time... Now, go.
- Aaron Hotchner: We're looking for an LDSK, or a long-distance serial killer. He's a very skilled marksman with a god complex.
- Derek Morgan: He derives pleasure out of remaining unseen and determining the fates of people from afar.
- Jennifer Jareau: He's criminally sophisticated and methodical, concealing his method of ingress and egress, leaving little evidence behind in the sniper perches.
- Alex Blake: This suggests a great deal of experience, so this unsub has a military or a law enforcement background, possibly even Special Forces.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: His victims at first to be targets of opportunity, but it now appears that one or more of them are targets of choice. The remaining victims were collateral damage to be used as a forensic countermeasure; similar to what John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo did with the D.C. sniper case in 2002.
- Derek Morgan: This means there's some unknown connection between one or more victims at the first and second crime scenes.
- Agent Tanya Mays: What about the Caucasian male that an eyewitness saw at the plaza?
- Derek Morgan: It's something to consider, but we can't rule out others. We know that the unsub is likely in his late thirties to forties, in order to have the means and patience to plan and execute these attacks.
- Aaron Hotchner: If he still has specific targets, it's likely he won't wait long to attack, so the public needs to remain vigilant.