Aaron Abrams credited as playing...
Brian Zeller
- Beverly Katz: I found antler velvet in two of the wounds, like she was gored. I was looking for velvet in the other wounds, but I was interrupted.
- Brian Zeller: Hold on, excuse me. Look, deer and elk pin their prey, okay? They put all their weight into their antlers, try and suffocate a victim. That's how they would kill, like a fox or a coyote.
- Jack Crawford: All right, Elise Nichols was strangled, suffocated, her ribs are broken.
- Special Agent Will Graham: Antler velvet is rich in nutrients. It actually promotes healing. He may have put it there on purpose.
- Jack Crawford: You think he was trying to heal her?
- Special Agent Will Graham: He wanted to undo as much as he could, given that he'd already killed her.
- Jack Crawford: He put her back where he found her.
- Special Agent Will Graham: Whatever he did to the others, he couldn't do it to her.
- Jack Crawford: Is this is golden ticket?
- Special Agent Will Graham: No. This is an apology.
- Jack Crawford: Stag head was reported stolen last night, about a mile from here.
- Special Agent Will Graham: Just the head?
- Jack Crawford: Minneapolis Homicide's already made a statement. They're calling him the Minnesota Shrike.
- Special Agent Will Graham: Like the bird?
- Jimmy Price: Shrike's a perching bird. Impales mice and lizards on thorny branches and barbed wire. Rips their organs right out of their bodies, puts them in a little birdy pantry, and eats them later.
- Jack Crawford: Can't tell whether it's sloppy or shrewd.
- Special Agent Will Graham: He wanted her found this way. It's... it's petulant. I almost feel like he's mocking her. Or... he's mocking us.
- Jack Crawford: Where did all his love go?
- Special Agent Will Graham: Whoever tucked Elise Nichols into bed didn't paint this picture.
- Brian Zeller: He took her lungs. I'm pretty sure she was alive when he cut 'em out.