Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Final Shot (2013)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.