Lessons Learned

Season 2, Episode 10, Aired

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    • Jind Allah: Is it your intention, Mr. Gideon, to become a man of faith and revert to Islam?
      Gideon: I am a man of faith. I have repented, I pray regularly, and I practice charity. I have never committed violence against you, so how is it that my faith would allow you to live and worship as you please, and yours would take my life and snuff it out?

    • Gideon: Those people tonight... they were innocent. They never hurt you.
      Jind Allah: They hurt me by existing.

    • Gideon: How can you ignore the fact that Mohammed preached passivity while he was at Mecca. "Do no violence."
      Jind Allah: His later message from Medina was perfectly clear. "When violence come upon you, you must fight back with violence."

    • Gideon: (about the dead SWAT agent) What do you say to his family?
      Jind Allah: I say, "Where were you to mourn when my son was murdered?"

    • Morgan: We lost a SWAT agent.
      Garcia: Oh, God.
      Morgan: Don't worry, I don't think you're gonna get rid of me that easy.

    • Jind Allah: What kind of name is Gideon?
      Gideon
      : American.
      Jind Allah: I forgot. In your culture, you put your country first. And your god last.

    • Morgan: We've got 48 hours to do what the CIA couldn't do in two months.
    • Reid: (to Prentiss about the chess game he was playing with Gideon) I was winning.
      Prentiss: Actually, he would have had you in three.

    • Haley: (discussing the terror alert) It's bad, isn't it?
      Hotchner: No, I'm sure it'll be okay.
      Haley: Don't lie to me.
      Hotchner: Yeah, it's bad.

    • Gideon: We receive comfort from our prayers.
      Jind Allah: We?
      Gideon: Human beings (pauses)... I say something wrong?
      Jind Allah: You placed us on the same level.
      Gideon: Aren't we?
      Jind Allah: Well, here, I am thought of as less than human.
      Gideon: And in your jihad, I am.

    • Jind Allah: Who is your worst enemy, Agent Gideon?
      Gideon: It's not a who, it's a what. Ignorance.

    • Agent Bingaman: Two weeks ago, word got out that one of the other detainees was spilling secrets. Jind Allah managed to have a three-minute conversation with him in the shower line. That night, the other detainee committed suicide.
    • Reid: Yet the words 'holy' and 'war' never appear together in the Qur'an.
    • Gideon: Dale Turner mused, "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."
    • Gideon: Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount a fear."
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    • "Lessons Learned" won the 2007 Human Rights First Award for Excellence in Television for its humane portrayal of detainee interrogation. The Awards Dinner, a $10,000-a-plate affair at the Chelsea Piers with Sigourney Weaver in attendance, was held on October 15, 2007.
    • This episode was written by Jim Clemente, a real-life FBI profiler. Clemente used the episode to honor a BAU friend and colleague, Andrew Bingaman, by naming a character after his friend, who died of lymphoma the day the episode outline was turned in.
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    • Reid: The letter sent to Tom Daschle's office contained two grams of anthrax, enough to kill 25 million people if distributed effectively. Reid is referring to the anthrax attacks that took place in September 2001 shortly after 9/11. Besides Senator Tom Daschle, letters containing anthrax were sent to Senator Patrick Leahy and several media outlets. Five people died and seventeen others became ill. The crime remains unsolved.
    • The announcement of the death of DEA SWAT team member Ken Norwood was a transparent reference to the running gag on the Comedy Central series, South Park: "They killed Kenny."
    • Garcia answers the phone by saying, "Speak," in the same manner as the outgoing message on Mark and Roger's answering machine in the musical Rent.
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