- Sarah Hillridge: How long have you been doing this, Dr. Reid?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: 5 years, 7 months, and 19 days.
- Sarah Hillridge: In your experience, what normally happens?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Charlie was 8 when he was taken, which means developmentally, he was in middle childhood. He had a stronger sense of right and wrong and a growing understanding of his place in the world. Mentally, he had the ability to talk about his thoughts and feelings, while having less focus on himself and more concern for others.
- Sarah Hillridge: [nodding blankly] So you think he's gonna be OK?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: With a mother like you who-who did all this, I-I do. I'm a doctor. I put my faith in facts and statistical probabilities, but today, 8 parents are gonna have closure. 3 children are going home with their families, all because you believed your son was alive. That's as close to a miracle as I've ever seen.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [voiceover] Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all."
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [voiceover] Nietzsche wrote, "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of men."
- Penelope Garcia: [Typing on her computer] I don't think I'm gonna find anything and I am rarely wrong, so...
- [a result pops up]
- Penelope Garcia: I'm wrong!
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Mr Lynch, I think you should know that nothing could have stopped these people from taking your daughter.
- Frank Lynch: Yeah. Well, I would have never let go of her hand.
- Barbara Lynch: Frank, please. Frank.
- Derek Morgan: We've done all we can.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: It doesn't make walking away any easier.
- Derek Morgan: No, it doesn't.
- Sarah Hillridge: I have been trying to think of something to say, and thank you just doesn't even come close.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: You don't have to thank us.
- Sarah Hillridge: Yes, I do. Do you know how long it's been since someone believed in me? You are just surrounded by darkness. Why do you do it?
- Emily Prentiss: [looks over and sees the families happily reunited] Because of days like this.
- Mr. Shepherd: How old was Stephen when... when he died?
- Charlie Hillridge: He died protecting that little girl.
- [points to the girl most recently abducted]
- Mr. Shepherd: ...He was alive yesterday?
- [breaks down]
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: If you're gonna help us, I need you to do something for me.
- Sarah Hillridge: Anything.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Stop drinking.
- Sarah Hillridge: I can do that. I can do that.
- Charlie Hillridge: I knew Stephen. He was like a brother to me.
- Mrs. Shepherd: Did he remember us?
- Charlie Hillridge: You didn't doubt that, did you? Remembering you was the only way we survived.