Journey through the closing quotes of Criminal Minds Season 9, where each episode ends with a line that reflects the season’s intense psychological themes and character struggles. These quotes blend classic wisdom with original reflections, deepening the connection to the show’s gripping stories.
Season 9, Episode 1 – “The Inspiration”
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)
Season 9, Episode 2 – “The Inspired”
Opening Quote:
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
— Joseph Conrad (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 9, Episode 3 – “Final Shot”
Opening Quote:
“When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”
— Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
— Isaac Asimov (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 9, Episode 4 – “To Bear Witness”
Opening Quote:
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
— Gloria Steinem (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 9, Episode 5 – “Route 66”
Opening Quote:
“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”
— William Least Heat-Moon (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 9, Episode 6 – “In the Blood”
Opening Quote:
“Blood is thicker than water, but sometimes, it’s just as toxic.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Alex Blake)
Closing Quote:
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”
— William Shakespeare (quoted by Alex Blake)
Season 9, Episode 7 – “Gatekeeper”
Opening Quote:
“Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow.”
— T.S. Eliot (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing 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)
Season 9, Episode 8 – “The Return”
Opening Quote:
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
— William Faulkner (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
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 Aaron Hotchner)
Season 9, Episode 9 – “Strange Fruit”
Opening Quote:
“Southern trees bear strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root.”
— Abel Meeropol (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 9, Episode 10 – “The Caller”
Opening Quote:
“The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.”
— Fran Lebowitz (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
— Rudyard Kipling (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 9, Episode 11 – “Bully”
Opening Quote:
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
— Seneca (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“The bullied become the bullies, and the victims become the victimizers.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 9, Episode 12 – “The Black Queen”
Opening Quote:
“The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe.”
— Thomas Huxley (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing Quote:
“Life is a game of chess. Changing with each move.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Season 9, Episode 13 – “The Road Home”
Opening Quote:
“Home is where one starts from.”
— T.S. Eliot (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing Quote:
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
— Maya Angelou (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Season 9, Episode 14 – “200”
Opening Quote:
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
— William Faulkner (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
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 Aaron Hotchner)
Season 9, Episode 15 – “Mr. Scratch”
Opening Quote:
“The devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
— Charles Baudelaire (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing 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 Spencer Reid)
Season 9, Episode 16 – “Gabby”
Opening Quote:
“A child’s hand in yours—what tenderness it arouses, what patience it calls forth.”
— Anonymous (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
— John W. Whitehead (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 9, Episode 17 – “Persuasion”
Opening Quote:
“The art of persuasion is the art of leadership.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Alex Blake)
Closing Quote:
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
— Zig Ziglar (quoted by Alex Blake)
Season 9, Episode 18 – “Rabid”
Opening Quote:
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.”
— Bertrand Russell (quoted by Aaron Hotchner)
Closing 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 Aaron Hotchner)
Season 9, Episode 19 – “The Edge of Winter”
Opening Quote:
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus (quoted by David Rossi)
Closing Quote:
“The darkest hour is just before the dawn.”
— Thomas Fuller (quoted by David Rossi)
Season 9, Episode 20 – “Blood Relations”
Opening Quote:
“Blood is thicker than water, but sometimes, it’s just as toxic.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Closing Quote:
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”
— William Shakespeare (quoted by Derek Morgan)
Season 9, Episode 21 – “What Happens in Mecklinburg…”
Opening Quote:
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Closing Quote:
“Secrets, like birds, have a way of escaping their cages.”
— Traditional Proverb (quoted by Penelope Garcia)
Season 9, Episode 22 – “Fatal”
Opening Quote:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil 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)
Season 9, Episode 23 – “Angels”
Opening Quote:
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
— Luciano De Crescenzo (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Closing Quote:
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
— G.K. Chesterton (quoted by Jennifer Jareau)
Season 9, Episode 24 – “Demons”
Opening Quote:
“The devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
— Charles Baudelaire (quoted by Spencer Reid)
Closing 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 Spencer Reid)
