Caged~ Criminal Minds

The Slave Of Duty

Hotch: "W.S. Gilbert wrote, "It's love that makes the world go 'round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it" he says outloud to the group gathered around Haley's casket "Haley was my best friend since we were in high school. We certainly had our struggles, but if there's one thing we agreed on unconditionally, it was our love and commitment to our son jack. Haley's love for Jack was joyous and fierce. That fierceness is why she isn't here today. A mother's love is an unrivaled force of nature. And we can all learn much from the way Haley lived her life. Haley's death causes each of us to stop and take stock of our lives. To measure who we are and what we've become. I don't have all those answers for myself, but I know who Haley was. She was the woman who died protecting the child we brought into this world together. And I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing who his mother was and how she loved and protected him and how much I loved her. If Haley were with us today, she would ask us not to mourn her death but to celebrate her life. She would tell us...she would tell us to love our families unconditionally...and to hold them close, because in the end, they are all that matter. I met Haley at the tryouts of our high school's production of "The Pirates of Penzance." I found our copy of the play and was looking through it the other night, and I came upon a passage that seemed...appropriate for this moment" as he reads from the passage everybody walks over to the casket and softly lays a white flower on top of it "Oh, dry the glistening tear that dews that martial cheek. Thy loving children hear, in them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care their arms around thee creep, for, oh, they cannot bear to see their father weep." when he finishes everyone goes to walk away and as they're leaving and give Hotch a comforting hug

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Emily: "What do we do?" she asks when they watch Hotch and Rossi walk past their table to head outside

Morgan: "There's nothing we can do. We just gotta wait him out."

Reid: "You think he'll ever come back?"

JJ: "Would you?"

Morgan: "He'll come back. I just don't know what he's gonna look like when he does."

Watson: "We just need to be there for him when he's ready."
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Morgan: "They can't be calling us in, not tonight." he sighs when his phone rings 

JJ: "I'm on it."

Emily: "We can't go."

Morgan: "We have to. I'll get Rossi." 

Reid: "Talk to Strauss, tell her to send another team."

JJ: "There's no other team available. Nashville's calling us in. Second body in 2 weeks, both killed on consecutive Friday nights. They realize they're up against the clock and they're hoping we might find something they didn't." they all slowly start to get up and they look over at where Hotch is standing before walking out the house

Hotch: "Where we love is home-home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes."

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JJ: "Two women dead in two weeks, both killed in their own homes, and no sign of forced entry. Floors were covered in rose petals."

Rossi: "Quite the romantic. Evidence of sexual assault?"

JJ: "None. Both women were last seen leaving their offices on a friday and never showed up to work on a monday."

Morgan: "It's Thursday. Why are we only being called in now?"

JJ: "The second body was only found yesterday."

Reid: "There may be a socio-economic pattern emerging. The first victim, Bethany Heminger, lived in Belle Meade, Melissa Johnson in Brentwood. Both are affluent neighborhoods."