- Dr. Spencer Reid: [closing quote] "We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us" - Joseph Campbell
- [Blake's last scene]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: You're all right?
- Alex Blake: Yesterday touched a nerve when I saw you like that
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Who's Ethan?
- Alex Blake: My son. He was nine when he died. Doctors said it was neurological, but they didn't have a name for it, still don't. That drove me crazy, no word to put to this thing that took away my greatest love
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I'm sorry
- Alex Blake: He... he kept growing despite his disease. The last time I laid beside him he was almost as long as me. He was ready to go, but I was unready to say goodbye. Begged him to open his eyes. Well, the cruelest part was that I could see who he would be at twenty, but I knew he would never get there
- [sighs]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Ethan is a great name
- Alex Blake: Yeah. It means enduring
- Dr. Spencer Reid: It's fitting. You and James never let go one another
- [Blakes shakes no and starts leaving the room]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Have you ever had that feeling that your future is somehow behind you?
- Alex Blake: All the time
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I do too, but it isn't
- Alex Blake: Ethan would have been a lot like you
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Thank you for being there when I woke up. It meant a lot
- Alex Blake: Of course
- [and walks away, down the stairs]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Bye, Alex
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [opening quote] "When truth is buried, it grows, it chokes ,it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it" - Émile Zola
- Jennifer Jareau: You know he wants kids. Can you image Spence as a dad?
- Alex Blake: That would be the luckiest kid in the world.
- Jennifer Jareau: No doubt.
- Penelope Garcia: I didn't... he's moving, okay. I didn't know how loud. I can't hear except for my heart, cause it feels it gonna come out Can that happen? Physically? Can your heart burst out of your chest? And what is this running? My ears don't pop for like a week after I fly and this is like that. That's gonna drive me bonkers. Am I yelling? Because it feels like I might be yelling.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: You saved my life. Can you hear me?
- Penelope Garcia: Yeah, I heard that! That makes it better. Thank you for saying that!
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Thank you for doing it!
- Jennifer Jareau: [on mobile] How is he? Great... Okay, thanks Alex, bye.
- [hangs up]
- Jennifer Jareau: Spence is in recovery.
- David Rossi: Good. The kid is too smart to die. Probably rerouted the bullets by power of suggestion.
- Jennifer Jareau: Hm... I was scared
- David Rossi: Yeah, I was too.
- Alex Blake: [has no signal on her phone] Ah, thought you said it doesn't get any worse?
- David Rossi: Until it does.
- Alex Blake: It's funny about this job, it's it? The extremes.
- David Rossi: Yeah, well, it's always been that way. One of the best days in my career turned out to be one of the worst. July 16th 1983, child abduction turned murder. The guy we napped killed five boys and there were cases we already tracked. It was such a victory in knowing that we'd stopped him hurting anyone else. When I got home my bags were packed. Caroline had had enough, I'd forgotten our anniversary again. As well as all the other little things that didn't seem important, because saving lives trumped everything, so I let ours die. Ah, well, it's the great balance of life. It finds its way to knock your legs away
