Reflect on the closing quotes from Criminal Minds Season 15, where each episode wraps up with meaningful insights and timeless wisdom. These quotes resonate with themes of resilience, love, and the human spirit, capturing the essence of the final season.
Season 15, Episode 1 – “Under the Skin”
Opening Quote:
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
— William Faulkner (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“We are all haunted by something, by the things we’ve done or the things we’ve left undone.”
— David Rossi (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 15, Episode 2 – “Awakenings”
Opening Quote:
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Sanity is madness put to good uses.”
— George Santayana (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 15, Episode 3 – “Spectator Slowing”
Opening Quote:
“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it.”
— Philip Zimbardo (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Closing Quote:
“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
— Carl Jung (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Season 15, Episode 4 – “Saturday”
Opening Quote:
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
— John W. Whitehead (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“A child’s hand in yours—what tenderness it arouses, what patience it calls forth.”
— Anonymous (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 15, Episode 5 – “Ghost”
Opening Quote:
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Closing Quote:
“The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.”
— Sophocles (quoted by Tara Lewis)
Season 15, Episode 6 – “Date Night”
Opening Quote:
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Robert Frost (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 15, Episode 7 – “Rusty”
Opening Quote:
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
— H.P. Lovecraft (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Closing Quote:
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
— Alfred Hitchcock (quoted by Luke Alvez)
Season 15, Episode 8 – “Family Tree”
Opening Quote:
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
— Richard Bach (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 15, Episode 9 – “Face Off”
Opening Quote:
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
— Oscar Wilde (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
— André Berthiaume (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 15, Episode 10 – “And in the End…”
Opening Quote:
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
— Albert Einstein (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Final Episode Notes:
This concluding season features several callbacks to earlier seasons’ themes, particularly:
- The nature of evil (Episodes 1, 3, 5, 7)
- Found family (Episodes 4, 8)
- Psychological profiling fundamentals (Episodes 2, 9)
- The team’s legacy (Episode 10)
The final episode’s closing quote mirrors the show’s most frequently used thematic statement, bringing the series full circle.
