ep 1 - Extreme aggressor - We meet Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin) giving a lecture on the Footpath killer, and his stutter, right before he's called back to BAU to help with a new case, the Boston strangler. The guy lures girls to kill them, offering a test drive to those women who wants to buy a new car. We'll see the stutter again at the end of the episode, with a guy pointing a rifle at Gideon...
Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) is the team leader. His wife Haley is expecting, and they are choosing names :-)
-Special agent Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) is the expert on obsessional crimes, (although I don't like his method of recreating what the Unsub thought) and special agent Doctor Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) is their expert on "well... everything". He has an IQ of 187 and an eidetic memory; he can read 20.000 words per minute.
"Do you know why he always introduces me as Dr Reid?" - Hotchner"because he knows that people see you as a kid, and he wants to make sure that they respect you" :-) There is also Elle Greenaway.
They are worried for Gideon because when he caught serial killer Adrian Bale, it cost him the lives of six agents. It was very cool when they zoomed in the photograph and the next moment they were in that place, like entering the picture :-) I like it very much; it's not a new revolutionary effect, but it's still a really good one, and I like it. I also liked it when they found the board game "in China is called Wei-chi, here we call it Go" the most difficult board game; I know it as Go too, I have it at home, but of course I don't play. Who would I play with?
Gideon:"try again, fail again, fail better"
Reid "Samuel Beckett"
Morgan "try not. do or do not"
Reid "Yoda" :lol:
We also meet Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) and her funny attitude and friendship with Morgan :-)
M"I thought I was calling the Office of Supreme Genius" G"Well gorgeous, you've been rerouted to the Office of too frigging bad" :lol:
Since it's the first ep the opening credits are just a list of names under the film going on.
- The belief in a supernatural suorce of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness - Joseph Conrad
-Emerson said : All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle
-Winston Churchill said: the farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see
-Nietzsche once said: When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you
ep 2 - Compulsion - Elle (Lola Glaudini) is curious, but Gideon challenges her to find out by herself why did the guy stutter. She'll get it at the end: he didn't know, he was just buying time, stalling. "I'll tell you what I know about stutter: I know how to provoke one" and we see how it went: Gideon provoked him, despite the rifle pointed at him. He provoked him a lot, until he could take his weapon.
We meet Jennifer Jareau, "JJ if you like" (A.J.Cook) and this episode starts with serious opening credits :-) with names to faces: Gideon,Hotch,Elle,Morgan,Reid, and JJ, and the picture with the six of them :-)
They go to Arizona, to a college where fires have been set up. It was a girl obsessed by extreme OCD who survived a fire, and her mother told her she had been tested by God with fire, and now when three threes on someone else, she thinks God wants to test them too; it an obsessive commpulsion, she has to do it, even if she doesn't want to.
Elle's tactful speech "Arsonists are socially incompetent. This guy, he doesn't go on dates, he doesn't go to parties, he doesn't feel comfortable in front of groups" then Reid looks at her "And of course he's a total psycopath" she adds. At the end, Reid almost beats Gideon at chess... but not yet :-)
Why in America the week starts on Sunday and not on Monday? It should start on Monday. Sunday is the seventh day, when God rested after six days of work... you know, that kind of stuff.
-Einstein once said: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world.
-Faulkner once said: Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors, try to be better than yourself
ep 3 - Won't get fooled again - Florida. Three bombs go off. Same design used by Adrian Bale, but he's in prison. Gideon go visit him in Atlanta. When a guy walks into the police station with a bomb on him, saying the bomber put it, they need Bale's help.
Morgan still has doubts about Gideon. Hotch collected coins as a kid :-) It was a good scene when Gideon called to them to get out after figuring out the unsub will blow himself up to kill them too, and also when Bale made Gideon apologies: good, intense scene.
-Samuel Johnson wrote: almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we can not resemble
ep 4 - Plain sight - It's Reid's birthday! He's 24 now :-) JJ is the only person in the world to call him Spence :-) She's warming to him, as if he was her little brother :-p I also liked a lot when Reid said "yeah.creepy" as if trying to be normal :lol: and also:
Reid"do you think it's weird that I knew that ballad?"
Elle"I don't know how it is that you know half the things you know, but I'm glad you do"
Reid"You think that's why I can't get a date?"
Elle"Do you ever ask anyone out?"
Reid"No"
Elle"That's why you can't get a date!" :-p
At the end Gideon, who usually doesn't give birthday presents, gives Reid two tickets for a Vip box for the Redskins match, and tells him that JJ is a huge fan, so he goes to invite her :-) But before going, Reid beats him at chess, and Gideon smiles :-)
San Diego, California, six women killed in three weeks.
Elle"you think they'll ever run out of new things to do to their victims?"
Gideon" Well, finding new ways to hurt each other is what we're good at"
The woman that was attacked by another man, not the unsub, was great, I liked her a lot. Sorry I don't know her name..
-French poet Jacques Ripaut said: Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror
-Orson Welles said: All the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers because males have got to try to justify their existence
-Rose Kennedy once said: birds sing after a storm, why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
ep 5 - Broken mirror - A girl's boyfriend is killed and she's kidnapped. (Patricia's sister Cheryl drives a yellow bug :)
- De Clerambault's syndrome, known as erotomania: the belief that someone, usually of a higher social status, but not necessarily a celebrity, is in love with you. Erotomanics believe that the objects of their affection are subtly professing their love for them through looks, gestures, glances.
The unsub talks about them: Authoritative Gideon, with the same arrogant quality in his voice too. "you are a bit of a pedant Jason. A bit didactic? I know all about you. The ambitious agent Hotchner. Do you want to be director of the Fbi someday, agent Hotchner? Would you step on Jason Gideon to get there? I think you would. Post-traumatic stress is a very good excuse. Even your sick, pregnant wife can't get you to leave your post. Jason Gideon, an expert in the criminal psyche, yet unable to diagnose the autistic leanings of the very insecure doctor Reid. Well, maybe he can make money counting cards in Las Vegas. The lovely Elle was promoted too soon. She doesn't have what it takes to make it in the Bau boy's club. You're no threat to me, you're no threat to anyone. And token Derek Morgan wants to be taken seriously but he is just a pumped-up side of beef. I know who you are. I know how you think" That agent/unsub made me laugh here, it was a good speech! Lots of fun :-) After this, it was obviously Elle who got to him at the end :-)
I don't know, I don't care how many good things Elle does. I don't like her. Maybe it's simply because I just don't like the actress. I tried, I can't help it. She's always posing, her eyes with so much make-up, it's artificial, when she speaks too. She also keeps her eyes always half-open-half-closed, as if trying to make a seductive look... yeuch. (yeuch for the fact, not for the eyes. She is pretty, sure, but so what?)
I look at her and I don't feel the character, just an actress showing that she's pretty, as if this was unheard of in actresses.
- Euripides said: when a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him
-Euripides said : when love is in excess, it brings a man no honour, nor worthiness
ep 6 - L.D.S.K. - Des Plains, Illinois. It means Long Distance Serial Killers. Three shootings in two weeks, a man shoots at random people in order to save them afterwards, and feel like a God. Hero-homocide.
Reid failed his qualifications, for now he can't carry guns. "Look at me, without a gun on my belt I look like a teacher's assistant" ... yes, actually he does :lol:
He knows they're onto him, so takes hostages in the ER room, and Reid and Hotchner are in there too. Hotchner talks to him, insults Reid and asks the chance to beat him. He kicks Reid to give him a chance to get the gun on his ankle. Reid takes it and shoots him. Then Hotchner tells him he hopes he didn't hurt him too badly. "Hotch, I was a twelve year old child prodigy in a Las Vegas public high school. You kick like a nine-year-old girl"
-Nietzsche wrote: the irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
-Shakespeare wrote : nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkableNot knowing what you feel is not the same as not feeling anything - this was said by Gideon, but is a beautiful sentence! Reid just told him he doesn't feel bad about killing a man. Gideon also tells him he's proud of him :)
ep 7 - The fox - Hotch and his wife with the new-born baby awww cute little thing :-)
Families are murdered at their homes. Reid interviews a man alone, doing good :) It was a therapist who lost his family (because they went away) and now stays for a few days with a new one before killing them all. They catch him, and he had eight wedding rings, eight trophies, meaning he had killed not two families but eight ... :-(
ep 8 - Natural born killer - Baltimore, Maryland. A hit-man took so much pleasure in his tortures, he's killed circa a hundred people so far. He almost killed Hotch but they caught him, and Hotch talked to him and they found the place where he kept the undercover agent Jimmy Baker and save him.
Hotchner " you were just responding to what you learned, Vincent. When you grow up in an environment like that, an extremely abusive, violent household, it's not surprising that some people grow up to become killers"
Vincent " some people? you said some people grow up to become killers"
Hotch "and some people grow up to catch them" awww so Hotch had a bad childhood... :-( that might explain a few things... not necessarily, but it could...
Morgan has done eighteen months undercover, as a cop.
- Hemingway wrote: There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted men long enough and liked it never really care for anything else
-Carl Jung said: the healthy man does not torture others. Generally it's the tortured who turn into torturers
ep 9 - Derailed - Elle is travelling by train when a madman takes everyone hostage. Among them there was this Josh kid that was so stupid, unbelievable. Okay he's young, but he's twenty not ten, and he's always drunk, which makes him even more stupid.
Ted is delusional, thinks everyone is a government agent, thinks they put a microchip in his arm and wants it out. Reid does a magic trick to convince him that he did it. They were all worried about letting him go alone, and Gideon was worried sick. Reid:"could at least one of you look like you're going to see me again?".
Then Reid talks to him: "the voices, they helped you, right? It's where you get your ideas from. While the other kids were outside in the playground, you were inside reading, studying, learning. The voices wouldn't stop. They helped you understand things that other people could never realise. And... then as you grew older, it became almost a responsibility. Right? A responsibility to use that ability, to use your knowledge. " Aww Reid.
- Roger Oxton Bolt wrote: a belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses, it is an idea that possesses the mind
-Albert Einstein ask the question that sometimes drives me crazy: Am I or the others crasy? (Reid)
ep 10 - The popular kids - Reid gained a few more points when he said "Actually there aren't that many scientific errors in Star Trek. Especially considering how long ago it was made" :lol: the poor kid is having nightmares lately that keep him awake at nights. He talks about it to Morgan, who have had his share of nightmares, and Morgan tells Gideon. Gideon shows him a picture he carries around with him: a girl he saved years ago, that every year writes to the BAU updating them on her life. Everyone of them has nightmares, but thinking of the people they saved makes them bearable, for Gideon :-)
- Sir Peter Ustinov said "unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares
- "For the evil is man's best force. Man must become better and eviler" Zarathustra, the super-man, apparently means that there's no moral obbligation for killing someone if you're superior to them... or at least this is what Reid says.He was speaking metaphorically about evolving as a species...
- Playwright Eugène Ionesco said "Ideologies separate us, dreams and anguish bring us together"
ep 11 - Blood hungry - In Tennessee, a crazy young man kills people and eats them, and his mother didn't say a word, even about the seven y.o. boy he had brought her. :-/
Gideon can't go with the team because he's on crutches, after hurting himself skidiving, and now he works from Garcia's office, driving her crazy :lol: He's at n.24 in his 25 points list of things to do before he dies. N.25 is to give his son Stephen a call. "he doesn't wanna hear from me" and Hotch"you don't know until you try" so Gideon calls him. The episode ends without letting us know what they say to each other, but we see Gideon laughing, so it's probably not going to be a disaster after all. :-)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe once said "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone"
ep 12 - What fresh hell? - In Delaware, an eleven y.o. girl is kidnapped. The father is dying of cancer. A stupid neighbour woman starts talking about sex offenders living in the neighbourhood, bringing him a flyer. He runs to the man, and Hotch and Morgan come in time to stop him. At the end, they find the right house, and Gideon runs and breaks in without a warrant and searches till he finds her, then he puts her picture in his office :-)
Garcia is convinced Gideon sent her flowers, but it was Hotchner. Gideon sent her an Mp3 player.
- The poet WH Auden wrote "Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed, and eats at our table"
- "Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ep 13 - Poison - In New Jersey, some people are poisoned with Lsd: an old woman dies, a man beats his little son almost to death because he was seeing monsters. The man responsible misleaded them more than once; he wanted to kill all the bosses of a firm that fired him. It's good that at least he had the decency to kill himself. Hotch was a lawyer... I should have probably known that by now.. but I don't remember, it just came to me like 'oh really??'
- Roman philosopher Lucretius wrote: "What is food to me, is to other bitter poison"
- Confucio warned us "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves"
ep 14 - Riding the lightning - They are in central Florida to visit a couple of murderers in death row, only it turns out she isn't one. He's the scum bastard, she never killed anyone. Jacob (Michael Massee) has murdered at least thirteen girls and ordered his wife to kill their son Riley: she admitted that she did, but she didn't. This was her most precious secret. He was adopted, never knowing she was her mother, because she wants him to be totally free of Jacob, she wants him to grow up without ever knowing he had Jacob as a father. Gideon is very touched by her, and wants to save her. His team finds the kid, he's a cello prodigy, but she doesn't want it to be revealed, she prefers to die. It's too late now, so he tells nothing to the kid, letting her die happy. Still, Hotch runs to Jacob a moment before he's killed, showing him the kid's picture, telling him "Riley. You lose". He's now seventeen, and he has good normal parents.
Sarah-Jean told Gideon "you have a lovely smile, but you don't smile much" :-) Her character was the centre of the episode, but I'm sorry I didn't like the way she spoke, I really didn't, it put me off, I find it annoying. I liked Gideon very much, he seemed so touched, so in pain for her, he was heartbreaking: when he was making up his mind about her son, when he hugged her, when he watched her die, when he went to see Riley's concert, and he smiled and he cried.. I was crying too, just because he was.
Gideon's son is 25 apparently.
- "Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed" Genesis 9:6
- Albert Pine said "What we do for ourselves dies with us, what we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."
ep 15 - Unfinished business - Washington; Max Ryan is presenting his book on the Keystone killer. He retired and wrote it on the one murderer he never caught, maybe hoping to lure him out, and now he's back, killing and playing with him, to the point of leading them to stop another killer, just for the game's sake. The Keystone killer had killed 7 women in the 80s, and now kills another woman, but no more because they get him in time to save the last one.
Ryan is used to being a loner and hasn't seen his family in years, but Gideon convinces him to use the help of the team. When they catch him, Gideon lets Ryan cuff him, while he takes care of the woman. That's why I love Gideon .-)
Reid read Ryan's book on the plane, and already remembers the quote and the page number.
- Norman Maclean wrote : It is those we live with and love and should know, who elude us
- Abraham Lincoln once said : in the end, it's not the years in your life that counts, it's the life in your years.
ep 16 - The tribe - Terra Mesa, New Mexico. We meet Sean Hotchner, Aaron's brother: so handsome, Garcia is speechless. :-)
case: Five kids are brutally murdered, trying to blame it on the indians, and the team uses the help of John Blackwolf. One girl is kidnapped by two men payed by her father who wanted to protect her, because Ingrid had joined a dangerous cult. A family of five people is also murdered. The guy leader of the cult is trying to provoke a war between white people and indians. Hotch and Blackwolf fight some of his guys at the indian school, and stop their massacre, this time. Blackwolf calls Hotch Captain America :lol:
-You can take many paths to get to the same place= Apache saying. I like it.
At the end Hotch goes to meet his brother Sean to make peace, and gives him the name of a person he can call if he needs help. Sean:"this your way of saying I can't take care of myself?" - Aaron:"No, it's my way of saying I'm a jackass" - Sean:"you know it must be hereditary, and Aaron laughs and smiles!! I think this might just be the first smile in 16 episodes! Right at the end!!
- Nietzsche wrote : the individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
ep 17 - A real rain - In New York. Only 13 minutes into the episode and we already get a smile from Hotch, thanks to Garcia. :-) I could get used to it .-) I liked to see the team eating together at the chinese place :-) with Reid that can't use chopsticks :-) They were all talking and laughing, even Hotch, when it ends because of a new murder.
case: A man kills people who were acquitted for murder, but not convicted. They catch him and save his last victim, who actually appears to be innocent for real. People thought of this killer as a punisher for criminal, as if working for a higher justice, but it was only a killer. How could he know that they were not innocent? He didn't! People are always so eager to judge and condemn!
- WH Auden said: murder is unique in that is abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
- Gandhi said : better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence
- Gandhi also said : I object to violence, because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent.
ep 18 - Somebody's watching - Los Angeles. Reid and Gideon are at Parker Dunley's art gallery, where Reid meets him again: they were at high school together, and also meets Lila, an actress, whose artist friend is quite aggressively charmed by Gideon : "if I weren't a lesbian, I'd jump your bones. You have these piercing, discerning eyes which remind me of my father who was a shrink, and I'm like God, I'm so hot" which I admit is more than awkward, it's more crazy-weird-sick! Gideon leaves in a hurry!!! :lol: They were in Los Angeles to lecture the police department; when they find out someone is killing people connected to actress Lila Archer, and they think she's in danger too, because the killer has an obsession with her, Reid is assigned to protect her, and here we go again: "I won't stop living my life!!". Of course not, why should you? There's only someone out there to get you! It's not like the guy's dangerous or anything, right? There are only four or five people already killed, after all! God, how I hate this stupidity every time!
Lila kisses Reid in the pool .-) so he has to change : I like him in normal, informal clothes :-) The stalker was her old friend Maggie, and she comes to the house, but Reid saves Lila :-) then they say goodbye. It was cute when he stalled Maggie saying "she loves me, now" :-) Reid's face is now on magazines covers. :-) Morgan: "You were her hero!" Yep!!
- Diane Arbus once said : A photograph is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you, the less you know.
- Bernard Shaw once said : An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
ep 19 - Machismo - In Mexico, old women are murdered. A man who used to rape women now kills their mothers; the team rushes to save the last woman, but the women together had already took care of him! Good ! Protect your homes and your families! The end was the best part of the whole episode. I mean, not because of him, but because of the whole thing: all the women together, the mexican proverb, the fact that they're not charged with anything because they were protecting their homes...
Hotch was at home for the weekend: it was his birthday, he was trying to stop his baby from crying, unsuccessfully, then Haley's sister held him and he stopped immediately :-) When Gideon calls him, Haley guesses right away what it is and tells him to go. Her sister looks at him and he says "You heard her. She said it was all right" - "You're one hell of a profiler" yeah, I got that too, no need to be a profiler to see what she's feeling, but he feels he has to go... but at times like this I too think they might spare him for one day!! I know what he does is great and important, but seriously, one man absent for one day would really damage their work so much?? Come on!
- Gideon: In my experience evil is not a cultural phenomenon, it's a human one.
- Mexican proverb : The house does not rest upon the ground but upon a woman.
- Anthony Brandt wrote: other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
ep 20 - Charm and harm - Four women were killed and the police knows who it was, but they can't find him, so they call the BAU. Mark Gregory escapes through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina... finally a witness "saves" one girl, and the last victim fights back until they get there and kill him. He first killed his mother when he was 10 because she cheated on his father.
- The French philosopher Voltaire wrote : there are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts
- The author Francois de la Rochefocauld wrote : we are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.
ep 21 - Secrets and lies - There is a mole at Langley. Gideon has worked unofficially for the Cia :-) That Cia boss Bruno Hawks, Deputy Director of Operations, did his military service with Jason Gideon. Now they must find the mole in time to save a woman and her two children. The mole was his friend Bruno, and Gideon proved it with the help of the other of his agents. Bruno was right, they would never put him in prison with all he knows : he dies in a 'car accident' , according to the papers....
Morgan has a dog called Clooney :-) and Garcia tries to find Prince William's phone number in the Cia computers, and J.J. is amused and calls her "you crazy person" which was sweet. :-)
- Albert Einstein said : whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
- George Orwell said : in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
ep 22 - The Fisher King , part 1 - It's vacation time for all the team, two weeks away and none of them can wait. Elle and Morgan are at a resort in Jamaica; Hotch is finally at home, happy with his family :-) ; Gideon is alone at a cabin in the woods, cooking and waiting for a person :-) a woman :-) ; Penelope is role-playing online at Camelot, Reid is in Nevada: his mother suffers from schizofrenia.
Hotch receives a strange phone call at home; Garcia's system is hacked via that game; Gideon is sent a human head in the mail, from Jamaica, and in Jamaica Elle is arrested for the murder of a man found headless, and Hotch flies there to set her free. Even J.J. gets a message, and so does Reid, at the place where her mother is. They all get back to put together all the pieces each of them has. Another clue is also delivered at Haley's door. They were given explicit order to keep it among themselves, do not involve anyone else. Gideon orders a press conference breaking up the only rule the Unsub had given them, and as Elle gets home, he's there and she gets shot!
This Unsub had all their locations, personal datas. He got things from the Beaureau computers, and Garcia has to confess he could hack her because she played that game. Gideon is furious "How could you be that stupid?"
Poor Gideon is destroyed: "I got nothing left. I needed a place where I didn't have to know what was out there. Where I could just close my eyes and not see bodies torn to pieces or hear children calling out for help. That cabin was the only thing I had left and this guy took it away from me. I'd like to be alone. Please."
Medieval time: prime is 6am, terce is 9 am, sext is 12-noon, none is 3 pm, vespers is 6 pm.
- Writer Elbert Hubbard said : No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one
End of season one. Big finale, no doubt, although I'm glad I'm watching this on dvd, so I don't have to wait months to know how it ends. I'll put on a new dvd right away :-D
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