S1E11 man-eating demon
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Mary the Mays: Excuse Me?
Hotchner: Mary, the I do not that you were of Think I think you were protecting yourself. From the shame, the humiliation of people finding out that he was mentally ill. You didn't visit him in the hospital in six months. Not once.
Mary mays: Mr. Hotchner. (He looks at her.) Do you have children?
Hotchner: Yes, I do.
Mary mays: Is there anything you wouldn't do for them?
Hotchner: I wouldn't clean the blood of their victims off the floor.
Mary mays: I didn't know my son was killing anyone until he brought home that boy.
Hotchner: You know, Mary, sometimes what we don't do ... is every bit as powerful as what we do.
Mary mays: You don't understand.
Hotchner: I understand that your son was drowning and you made no effort to save him.
Mary mays: You don't know what I did.
Hotchner: I know what you didn't do. You didn't call the police. And every day of your life you're gonna have to ask yourself what would have happened if you'd gone to Boston to help him.
Mary mays: Eddy told me he was bringing me an angel. I -- I wanted to protect my son. What else was I supposed to do?
Hotchner: Almost anything would have been better.
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