Perception season 1

I liked it very much. Unfortunately there are only ten episodes, but it's a good series and I hope to see more of it.
Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Pierce is very nice and I like him very much :-) Kelly Rowan plays Natalie, and Arjay Smith plays Max. What kind of name is Arjay?? Someone wanted to name him R.J. maybe??
Kate (Rachel Leigh Cook) is an Fbi agent. I'm not particularly fond of her but she's okay.
And, there is LeVar Burton playing Paul :-)
In my dvds there are no titles, so I'm taking those from Imdb .com, assuming they must be the right ones.
ep 1 - Pilot - Daniel replies to a girl his student, after she invited him for a coffee, that since coffee must be code for sex and they are teacher and student, he'd better decline. Oh God...
When a hallucination told him " I almost had you" I was surprised, because I wasn't yet used to all his hallucinations, so obviously I fell for it.  All these hallucinations help him because they are created by his brain meaning his mind wants to tell him something.
ep 2 - Faces - Daniel doesn't want Kate to know about his hallucinations because "I don't want Kate to think I'm bonkers" yeah, good try. The plot was funny, the idea of a face-blind man and a wife, her cousin pretending to be her to stop him from beating her and again said cousin with a brunette wig pretending to be a stranger woman to have an affair with him and take all his money before getting killed by him, that is.
It was nice and clever to turn one of the oldest plot into some new fun :-)
ep 3 - 86'd - We meet Kate's dad, learn that she's married with Donnie but soon-to-be divorced, and that "Wait, I just remembered. I met you parents' night. Katie's freshman year. You're the professor she had the big crsh on the whole time she was in college" :lol: Good job, dad, well done. It was fun, but now I guess they'll play with them for a couple of seasons or more and then put them together, and they always do. It's textbook, if there's a male and a female protagonist they must end up together... yeuch, how boring and very annoying this is.
The Date Night Killer stopped killing in '86 because he got married, but now his wife's dead so he kills again, but they catch him. Of course they do.
There's Armin Shimerman playing Dr Ryan Cutler.
ep 4 - Cipher - Daniel finds a secret code in a letter sent to a newspaper, and soon there's the first body, while his assistant goes on strike because he's rude and disrespectful. Daniel's book is entitled "The mind. Knowing the unknowable"
ep 5 - Messenger - A dead junkie had joined a cult in which a kid named Kyle claims to talk to God. Daniel realises that  Kyle hears God's voice because he has a brain tumor. When the murderer pushes him down the stairs the doctor finds it and operate on him, saving him. He was actually sincere, this kid and his family, but the school in Afghanistan he thought he was funding was a fake, created by the murderer to get the money.
ep 6 - Lovesick - A doctor cures patients of homosexuality saying it is a neurological disease, all because he's in denial being him gay himself, until he gets killed because of it. It's really an absurd world, if you think that there's really people out there believing such stupid things... I will never understand why people can't live and let live, why they have to judge and hate so much for whatever reason they can find... it's really beyond me...
ep 7 - Nemesis - Kate has a new boss, a woman. A nice judge's life is threatened but Daniel is sure that her stalker is a mentally ill guy who sees her as someone to protect, someone important. When she's killed, Daniel is the only one that doesn't believe he did it.
ep 8 - Kilimanjaro - Daniel has the hallucination of a boy that turns out to be himself younger, and he didn't recognise him. He was from before he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
He wrote seven books?? wow.
A girl is killed at Daniel's school, and I'm so sorry it wasn't that stupid spoiled brat of a prince because I couldn't stand him while I kinda liked the girl who did it. Daniel advice a student to stop playing football and helps him cope with it telling him of when everything changed for him too "all my dreams went out of the window" "what did you do?" "I found a new dream"  ...beautiful...
Kate breaks up with that new handsome professor, who was actually very nice and again they hint at Kate and Daniel as a couple... booooring.
ep 9 - Shadow - Daniel is seeing JFK in his hallucinations... anyway.
Daniel has a secret meeting with a guy that gets killed in front  of him, only Kate can't find a body or any evidence that what he's saying is true. Daniel starts investigating to uncover a conspiracy but is arrested for the murder! That is, until he realises it was all a big hallucination when Max brings him back to reality in their own house. The whole investigation was an hallucination. It had seemed strange to me that he would kiss Kate so early in the series !! I'm also glad it wasn't real because I didn't want Kate's partner to be a traitor.
Daniel goes to be hospitalised; he never wanted to take his medicines, afraid of losing who he is, and also of never see again the blond woman he always hallucinates about.
ep 10 - Light - In hospital, Daniel sees Natalie and thinks he's hallucinating again, despite two days of medicines, but Max tells him she's real. She's Dr Caroline Newsome. It turns out that he saw her many years ago: he thought he talked to her, had a relationship, but that was the start of his condition. He never talked to her.
Now he's back on the case, but unable to talk to Natalie because of the meds, he goes to talk to Caroline :-) It was lovely :-) Thanks to Daniel they arrest the murderer before she becomes the new senator :-)
Caroline thinks she can't be his psychiatrist anymore, but she wants to be his friend, and the end is very nice: his voice saying "sometimes reality is not so bad" while we see Max walking and smiling after seeing him on a bench talking to Caroline. Beautiful image and ending.

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

I read this book at Christmas :-D Perfect, isn't it? It's a great book, I love it :-) Beautiful. There's Poirot, or course, there's a murder on Christmas' Eve, a family full of suspects and all the clues laid out for us, nothing is hidden, everything is in plain sight, we could say. Very very interesting and well written, I love it.
It starts introducing all the family to us. Old, selfish, proud, rough, rich Simeon Lee who wants to have his family reunited for Christmas. Devoted and therefore enslaved son Alfred and his wife Lydia, living in his same house. Sensitive, rancorous David, always reliving the past and hating the father that caused so much pain to his beloved mother, and his loving wife Hilda. Politician George, cheap and greedy, and his young "shopaholic" wife Magdalene, both living on what his father gives him every month. Harry, the black sheep of the family, coming to make peace. Maybe.
Pilar Estravados, only daughter of Simeon's daughter Jennifer, now an orphan, so she comes from spain to know them and live with her English family. Stephen Farr, only son of Simeon's old business partner from South Africa, invited to stay over Christmas. Poirot is a guest at Colonel Johnson's house and when Simeon's killed, they both come to join Superintendent Sudgen with the investigations. It all follows the best of traditions: first the three investigators interview all the people involved, meaning the family plus Simeon's misterious personal valet and his good old butler Tressilian, that I liked very much. Second, they spend two days taking separate paths, during which time Poirot talks to everyone, chatting with them. The 27 is the day of revelations, when Poirot explains everything. I really loved this book because it's all there, all Poirot knows or sees, we know it too, everything is shown to us. It's not at all impossible to get to the truth, on the contrary, since we can't really "see" the characters of a book, some things are even too clear from the way they're explained. I totally failed to notice Pilar's secret, and guessed it only when she cried "they want to give the money to me, to me! It's not fair" or something like this. Only then and not a second before because I'm very bad with faces and my memory is awful so I could not remember who was tall, who had blue eyes, who had moustaches or not, and things like that. Well, I knew Poirot and Sudgen both had moustaches because they talked about it, comparing them, kinda, but simple phisical descriptions rarely stick to my mind. About the men's secret, I was absolutely sure about Stephen's, but I only had a vague feeling about the other one, I just couldn't put my finger on it yet, until it was too late :-)
Agatha Christie has always been my favourite crime-novelist and always will be. :-)

ITA il natale di Poirot

Dummy

I had never heard before of this movie, so I didn't expect a lot from it, but I liked it a lot! Adrien Brody plays Steven, who at first we must admit presents himself as a real loser. Not just because he lives with his parents at almost the age of 30, his sister lives there too, poor soul always put down by her mother. Steven leaves his office job to pursue his dream, to become a ventriloquist.... yeah, a ventriloquist. Really. Don't misanderstand me, I have nothing against ventriloquists, I like the good ones, it's just that it's one of those things where you're either good and funny, or you're creepy. To find a new job he goes to a unemployment counselor, saying he's looking for a job as a ventriloquist. His counselor Lorena (Vera Farmiga) actually finds him one !
Steven has  a friend, Fangora (Milla Jovovich); it's not clear if he has any other friends or just her, but they are friends since forever, apparently, and spend a lot of time together. Fangora guesses that Steven likes Lorena, and her interventions and advices almost ruin every chance he has :lol: but she means good, and I thought it was very nasty and unfair of him when he told her off, saying she always ruins everything ! She's a great one! She always meant good, and if we want to say it all, he didn't have to do anything she suggested, but he did. Not just the paint-on-door thing, but also the music cd. She gave him a cd of classical music to use on his date, not knowing what was actually in it. He knew it was a marches cd, and still he put it on during his date, and I thought: Fangora is not here, you don't have to put the cd on and listen to it entirely!!!!!
Anyway, great Fangora doesn't get angry at what he told her, instead she manages to put things right for him!
Steven's sister Heidi is a wedding planner who finds herself in trouble where she's left without the entertainment act and can't find a band who plays Klezmer music... but she fills the first role by asking her brother to work at the wedding, and the second when Fangora tells her her band can do it! Fangora has no money and no work, so she lies to Heidi to get this job, but she's a wonderful creature and takes it really seriously :-) She starts listening to klezmer music to learn what it is about, she learns yiddish to understand it and pronounce it right. She makes lots of practice with her band, again and again to try get it right! She takes it very seriously!!
Lorena's ex-boyfriend Michael was a bit psycopath, so she goes slowly now, she's a bit scared, and it turns out her psycho is the same as Heidi's psycho :lol:
I loved the end when Fangora is listening to Michael's rant and likes him :lol: they might become a good couple, actually :-D
I liked this movie, it was strange and slow, but also nice :-) I liked the two women mostly :-) Fangora was adorably nuts, and Lorena was pretty and sweet.
Heidi should run out of that house, for her sanity!

The murder at the vicarage by Agatha Christie

I liked it, great book. It must be the first or one of the first Miss Marple books, because she says she only solved little mysteries,  up until now, she's never before confronted herself with a real big one, and now a man, Colonel Protheroe, is found dead, a shot to the head, in the vicarage's library; she lives very close so she was even an eye witness to a few minor events. Of course everyone thinks she's just an old lady with a lot of imagination, but as the vicar points out she's rarely wrong. In this case she has a suspect from the start, so she's very surprised to hear that a young man confessed. Soon enough, though, the police starts thinking he did it to protect his lover, the dead man's wife, and this theory is confirmed when she confesses too. The police and the vicar are very puzzled because she seems to have a good alibi, so they don't know what to think, they have no clue about who else might be responsible. At least until the Vicar receives a phone call : "I confess" and nothing more, but he recognised the voice of the man helping him with the vicarage's duties, and rushes to his house. Mr Hawes apparently committed suicide taking too much pills, and the vicar thinks that after all this might be the best solution, so he doesn't call a doctor, only the police. When Colonel Melchett arrives, he immediately calls the doctor telling himm to do whatever he can to save him, fortunately, because shortly after that Miss Marple comes in saying she hopes he makes it because the only thing Hawes wanted to confess was that he stole some Church's money, not the murder, and the real killer took advantage of this. She knows who the killer is and they set a trap to prove it, because there are at that moment no proves against them. I was very shocked at the vicar's behavious, and couldn't help but think that it played a big part in his decision the fact that he never liked the man. He would have acted differently with someone else, someone he liked.
A thing that was kind of annoying me while I was reading is that more than once I read someone say or think that men/women are good/not good at something, as if it was a fact, until I had the satisfaction to read Miss Marple saying that it's wrong to generalise. Thank you!! It would be a very easier world if generalisation always worked, but it doesn't.

ITA la morte nel villaggio

Fracture - 2007

A great movie, I love it and I absolutely recommend it to everyone who loves mystery and crime stories. We see from the start that Thomas Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a very wealthy and meticolous man, knows everything about his wife's affair. We watch him while he goes to the hotel where she is swimming in the pool with her lover. Crawford even knows who the man is. Evening comes, his wife comes back home, and he's there waiting for her: he talks to her, tells her that he knows, he shoots her in the face, then does a few preparations while waiting for the police to come.
They don't know what's going on, they think the couple might have been taken  hostage or something. Crawford allows in only one person: Lt. Nunally (Billy Burke) the man that was having an affair with his wife! Thing is, Nunally didn't know it, because they had never shared personal information. They called each other Mr and Mrs Smith and didn't know anything more, not even their real names. Nunally is married, but he was in love with her anyway, and when he sees her on the floor in her own blood he looses it and can see only her. Crawford confesses the murder, but for Nunally it's not enough, he wants to be sure he'll pay for it, he wants to be there every step of the way, he wants to be present during the formal interrogation. Crawford signs a confession, then refuses to be represented by a lawyer. The prosecutor is young, ambitious Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling). He's about to leave to join a big famous law firm where he would make really big money, when his boss Lobruto (David Strathairn) gives him this case. He accepts, thinking it's a done deal, with a double confession, but as soon as Crawford sees him he understands that he's exactly what he needs, that he can fool him as he wants. At the trial, Beachum is not even prepared as he should be, because he doesn't think it necessary and because he's all taken by the new position he's going to get. When the trial falls down, he can hardly believe Crawford played him like that. Now he takes an interest, visits the woman at the hospital where it seems like she's never going to wake up because there is brain damage. He can't think of anything else, but it would appear that Crawford outsmarted him. Crawford saw his weakness: the arrogance, the ambition, but Crawford too has a weakness: his hate and his belief that nobody is smart enough for him. Oh it's a great movie. I'm not a fan of Gosling, and to be completely honest I'm not too big a fan of Hopkins either ( I was, but that's because he comes out better in italian), but they're okay for the roles. I like Strathairn a lot, but he has a small role here, although important. Rosamund Pike is Nikki from the big firm, who has taken a personal interest in him, who knows why, but she's there only to serve as a mirror, to show what he wanted to be, what he did for that. She's also there to introduce the character of her father, a judge (Bob Gunton) who will have a small role in the events. I liked Fiona Shaw as the judge in Crawford's trial, and I liked to see Joe Spano in the very small role of another judge. I know him from Ncis where he's Fornell :-)
This is one of the rare cases where the actors are not important. The story, how it's made, the screenplay: that's what is great here. I'm sure I would have liked it with different actors too, maybe even more ...

Déjà vu

It promised a lot, but it ruined everything in the end. A film like this shouldn't have had such a totally happy ending, because this way it's all wrong and makes absolutely no sense. I was enjoying it but it left me very disappointed and with no intention of watching it again.
It was very well done, with Doug (Denzel Washington) investigating an explosion on a ship that killed 500 or more people. He is convinced that it is linked to the death of a woman, Claire (Paula Patton). When the Fbi comes in, with a fat Val Kilmer as the agent in charge, I was glad to see that there was nothing of the usual jurisdiction-related fights, they all got on pretty well, so Doug is brought in their own method of investigation. They have a camera that allows them to look in the past: not whenever they want, it is fixed on 4 days before, and Doug suggests to keep it on Claire all the time. He gets attached to her, and thanks to all this they catch the bastard (played by Jim Caviezel), but it's not enough for Doug. What about her?
He had tried earlier to interfere with the past by sending there a note saying where to go to catch the bomber, but the Doug of the past went away before seeing it and his partner saw it, went there and got shot. Doug says that they were able to change a detail, but not the storyline, because only the way he died changed, being shot and dying before , instead of going on the ship and dying in the explosion. This could have been acceptable, but barely.
Doug wants them to send him back in time, to save her. He goes back and saves her, but he's hurt so she takes him to her home and cures him, and I noticed it before the character did: this was good, because although he thought he had saved her, he sees they're creating all the things that Doug had seen when he had gone to her house after her death. This was good, because you can't change the past, for the simple reason that if you did it in the past then it didn't happen then you never saw it happening... I'm not explaining myself well, it'd need more words, but here it was good because it showed that he was creating now all the things that had already been there in the future... ehm... I mean, it was confirming what had happened, the blood traces, his tracks and fingerprints... so he actually didn't change anything... but at this point they go all wrong. He stops and kills the bomber, avoids the explosion, nobody dies, she lives also, and only future Doug dies, which is obvious if you think about it. How were they going to bring him back to the future? It was not possible to have two Dougs. They solved the problem in this way. Future Doug dies so Claire still alive meets the other Doug and the perfect happy ending is served, with the romance perfectly possible... unfortunately it's nonsense! Basically, nobody died and nothing happened.

NCIS - season 4

ep 1 - Shalom - Abby is excited because their leader is coming back... and it was Tony, in Europe for two weeks :lol: Still, Abby keeps talking to Gibbs' photo.
Now that Ziva is in trouble, she calls Gibbs in Mexico to "save her"... awww so sweet, it almost made me cry :-)
"Danger, intrigue, a damsel in distress? I'm actually looking forward to it" : adorable Ducky :-) - Gibbs comes back and is adorable as usual :-p
At the end of it, Gibbs goes away again... :-(
ep 2 - Escaped - Fornell has a little daughter, Emily! Gibbs looks at pictures of his daughter, and Fornell goes to him for help. McGee bleeched his teeth too much, like Ross in Friends, and Tony remembered about that too :lol:
Gibbs is here; apparently director Shepard didn't file his retirement package, instead she put in for his unused leave time... and Abby hugs him: "I'm not back, Abby" - "of course you're back, I can feel your badge. That is your badge, right?" :lol:
Ducky explains to us the difference between ethics and morals: "the ethical man knows he shouldn't cheat on his wife, whereas the moral man actually wouldn't" - Palmer: "you're gonna ace your oral exams, doctor" oh still taking exams, huh? Gibbs:"Going back to school?" - Ducky:"I never stopped" :-) - Palmer: "The doctor's getting a degree in forensic psychology".
I love to watch Gibbs and Fornell friendly together :-) And agent Lee dancing was very pretty :-)
During a interrogation, Gibbs said Please! :-O then he decides to stay :-)
ep 3 - Singled out - Tony is offered his own team in Spain, a big promotion, but he isn't sure if he should take it or not because he's worried about 'Jethro', and has 72 hours to make a decision. They all blame Gibbs' strange attitude to the moustache. I hate that moustache. Horrible.
Ducky passes his test but Gibbs was not at the ceremony... now Ducky wants to profile the new victim. He is able to find her password :-) he would never guess it if I chose it :-) They send Ziva at a speed-dating to find their guy :lol: At the end Tony passes on the promotion. He calls her Jenny in this episode... things have changed since Gibbs went away huh? and she's proud of him.
ep 4 - Faking it - Wow, Ziva's italian words were perfectly pronounced! Very good! :-D I'm not qualified to judge Gibbs's russian though.
Gibbs phones Mike Franks in Mexico. Ducky is so cute when he kisses Abby on the forehead :-) and standing high to do so :-) Franks comes back and watches boat n. 4 in Gibbs's basement. They work together and Franks shoots his bad guy with no regrets.
... so 'faking it' what? The evidence? Yes, that must probably be it...
ep 5 - Dead and unburied - The old Gibbs is back! The moustache is gone! :-D Hooray :-D The dead man of the episode had two fiancées, and he made them lend him money. When the two girls fight, instead of separating them Tony shouts 'girls fight!' and McGee tapes it on his phone :lol: probably not very professional, though :lol: Jenny is still upset because Gibbs never told her about his family. Agent Lee is back, and is having an affair with Palmer :-) McGee makes a pause while giving Gibbs information, but it wasn't to await instructions : "I was just taking a breath (....) sorry about the breath" :lol:
Ducky interrupts Gibbs's interrogation, really pissing him off, but at the end is Ducky who frames the real murderer :-) Well done!  Abby:"wow, I gotta come up here more often" :lol: Anyway, this guy watched his wife and soon-to-be-dead-James make love and then fight because she wouldn't give him money, then James hit his head and she ran. The husband came in, took the body and buried him while he was still alive, because the wife's father was still alive. Now he's dead and she's inherited a lot of money, so the husband unburied the body for it to be discovered, to frame his wife and get her money... diabolical...
ep 6 - Witch hunt - It's halloween. Two guys dressed as ninjas threw eggs at Ducky's ME van, he chased them for three blocks and make them clean it :lol: "It's not that impressive. It's not like they were real ninjas" :lol: Being Halloween, Abby is dressed up... as Marylin Monroe, with the white dress and the blonde wig, for a party in a cemetery... she even has white sandals with heels.. wow :lol:
A little girl is missing, and Gibbs is touching: "have you had a daughter kidnapped?" a pause... "kidnapped, no" oh my heart... and then "Laurie, look, I've been married four times, I've made every mistake in the book" awww Gibbs nice is touching :-) McGee speaks Klingon, not fluently but still :lol: Gibbs interrogates a man with Klingon make-up, and Tony: "General Kang crying, or is that just sweat?" - McGee:"half hour alone in a room with angry Gibbs? Even Klingons have their limits" :lol: Tony:"what's he been doing to him?" - McGee:"mostly staring" :lol: like Esme Weatherwax :lol: they've got The Stare! :lol: Tony now calls him Worf, he knows a lot, why did he say he hates Klingon??
Ziva looses the two women she was watching, and has tea with Ducky to talk to him about it. awww. :-) Two people wanted money, and that woman was only pretending to be her sister, so as soon as the girl's mom knew her daughter was safe, she threw herself at her beating the crap out of her :lol: that felt so good, I loved that scene :-) It was very good, great switch, great scene! Gibbs looks at the little girl and remembers his own at Halloween...
ep 7 - Sandblast - Tony's idea of what Italy has contributed to the world: "oration, italian cinema (really??), sports cars" and Ziva adds: "gold chains and chest hair".. I think she saw the wrong movie there, still I have a pretty good idea of who was in it, but I'm not gonna say it in case italians might read this ...
Tony: "and pasta, in all its shapes and sizes" :that's my favourite one :-) Ziva:"the chinese invented pasta" - Tony:"communist-era propaganda" :lol:
Wow, Gibbs's boat is finished, I never thought I'd see this day. He is writing its name: Kelly...
Tony is out with a smart and pretty girl and seems to be really into her, is she going to be important?
Than later he's late at work because he went instead to talk to the dead colonel's son, who's thinking about not going to college to join the Marines. After knowing about this, Gibbs approves. It's another episode with bombs and terrorism, and at the end the bomber gets away, and Ziva has disarmed two of his bombs.
ep 8 - Once a hero - Tony and Ziva are protecting the Director when a dead man almost falls on her. Ziva saves her. Tony was looking for food... well, Jenny wasn't in real danger, after all..
The dead Marine had a "bronze star" for valor, and a "purple heart" with two Marine stars, that means he was wounded three times in battle, he was a hero. So that's what a purple heart is, exactly!
Tony spends more time with that special girl, Abby goes to "the Greenbrier Forensic Fixtures Expo" to "borrow" a infrared microspectroscopy unit, and meets Marty Pearson who tests her sample right there; Agent Lee is still with Palmer :)
The dead Marine was still a hero, he tried to save the poor dead girl. Underage Chinese girls used for prostitution, drugged and used.
This is a sick world.
ep 9 - Twisted sister - "I think I killed someone, Tim" at night, Sarah McGee comes to her big brother's door covered in blood, saying she might have killed someone. Later on, after a shower she remembers nothing of the night before, but a sailor she once dated is found killed...
I love this episode, Tim wants to protect his younger sister, a college student who even studies in the interrogation room :-)
When her cell phone is found on the dead body, Gibbs discovers his lie and is very angry, not because of the rules but because "why didn't you come to me?" awww sweet Gibbs, and McGee tells him that not even knowing what she had done, what had happened, he couldn't risk it, not even for him, because she's his sister. He even quit his job to the Director (but of course Gibbs doesn't let him) and Gibbs tells it to Sarah "no! Tim loves NCIS" - Gibbs: "he loves you more" awwww
Tony's been dating his special girl for a month, and still no sex: "if you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you always got, and while what I got had its perks, I'm looking for something different now" awww, he's in love, isn't he?
Abby is telling Jenny about Marty and her bowling, then Gibbs comes ready for a fight with Jenny : "the kids don't like it when Mommy and Daddy fight" :lol: oh Abby :-)
Tony goes to Jenny for advice on women and she's all happy :-)
"Deep six: the continuing adventures of L.J.Tibbs by Thom E. Gemcity", the national best seller... bestseller? so McGee is a published author!! I knew he loved to write, but is this the first time they confirm that he's a successful , best selling author?!?
ep 10 - Smoked - Ziva and Tony are reading Tim's book :lol: This was funny: the moral of the urban myth of a girl that thought her guy dumped her without a word while instead he had died with an engagement ring: Gibbs "it's never a good idea to get married" - Ducky "no, it's best not to judge someone until all the facts are in" :lol:
and this : Fornell"I'm familiar with sick, charming bastards" talking about the body that turned out to be of a serial-killer reported missing by a loving wife. Gibbs"that's probably why we get along so well" :lol:
Agent Lee is here again, still with Palmer, very much so :lol:
Finally Ducky and Gibbs talk, really talk. Ducky was hurt and angry Gibbs didn't say a word to him before leaving and that in all the years they'd known each other Gibbs never told him he had had a family, and Gibbs apologises! Yes! Gibbs tells him he's sorry, and they hug! Friends again :-)
After a bad day Tony goes to her special girl and they finally have sex. Happy about that, but still a bit annoyed that they are hunting the person who killed the serial killer that killed at least 19 women. It turns out it was a good thing that they did, because it turns out it wasn't him, it was his wife the serial killer!
McGee sees a note from Marty to Abby and looks jealous :-)
Abby goes to Marty for help.
ep 11 - Driven - At Ncis there's a lecture on sexual harassment and Abby is told she shouldn't hug people without permission :lol:
Later, Abby to Tim: "you only wish I was still sexually harassing you" :lol: still :lol:
Tony is jealous of his girlfriend too :-) Ziva is worried because Tony talks of medical tests to hide his serious relationship, and she thinks he might have a relaps of Y pestis.
How strange is that Tony talks of John Nash and "a beautiful mind" the same day I lent that film to someone?
McGee to Abby after she hugs him "I thought you were supposed to ask for permission first" - "never with you, Tim" aww :-D
Ducky's mother Victoria.
Ok, I guessed this killer at first sight.
ep 12 - Suspicion - A Marine got two men in America in exchange for money, and killed a Lt that was investigating him. It turns out those two were terrorists!
Ziva is sure Tony's ill, she thinks it's the only explanation for his strange behavious :lol: she knows nothing about men?!?
ep 13 - Sharif returns - An sos with traffic lights.. wow.
Another terrorism attempt, chemical weapons this time; for personal payback, even Gibbs got poisoned, but he got the antidote too. He worked the case with that woman, military Colonel Mann we met in episode 7, and at the end they kiss and they'll sleep together.. boh.
Gibbs is making a new boat now.
ep 14 - Blowback - On an important mission comes out the faces of people Tony met undercover and he has to lie to Gibbs. Even after everything comes out, relationships are difficult.
Obsessive: "kind of like building a fourth boat when you haven't even sailed the first three": Jenny :-)
This is personal for Jenny, somehow. She's obsessed with catching LaGrenouille.
They send Ducky undercover! Well now, it's not too clear to me what happened at the end, why did Jenny let them go...
ep 15 - Friends and lovers - Ziva is teaching Tony, McGee and Agent Lee how to throw knives. Tony isn't bad, Lee almost kills Gibbs... and there was something, I didn't understand why, what did he do on summers?
Tony's special girl: Jeanne still has her little problem: someone keeps calling her, an ex-boyfriend not willing to let her go. It's Valentine's day, and Gibbs gives Abby her usual caf-pow, but with a heart that reads "I love you" :-D cute!!
They needed a celebrity to enter a club aaaaand... " a very famous novelist: Tom E. Gemcity!" :lol: Tim! With Ziva, Abby and Michelle Lee!
Oh the chills, Jeanne's ex was the new cop-friend of Tony, that died on an operation together... good that Tony doesn't know.
ep 16 - Dead man walking - McGee brings in Lt Roy Sanders who asks for their help: someone poisoned him with radiation, and he wants them to find out who did it before he dies. Ziva spends a lot of time with him. She saw him every morning running, and now learns they get along really well, and it's very hard on her. We don't see him dead, but I guess it's inevitable.
ep 17 - Skeletons - Colonel Mann is back, a bit pissed off because Gibbs never called her after...
I didn't quite understand what Jenny talked to her about, I hope they're not thinking of bringing her in the team! I don't want her, and I thought Jenny was jealous! She looks sad watching them together..
The hunt for a serial killer, and Abby is sad because apparently Marty broke up with her because she's too big... but how sweet was Gibbs with Abby? "I got time, Abs" he always has time for her :-)
ep 18 - Iceman - Aww Ziva coming to work with Roy's cap...
A man on Ducky's table wasn't dead: someone tried to kill a Marine, now he's in hospital, and it turns out that apparently he's Mike Franks' son...
Tony can't bring himself to tell her "I love you"... but he told her in ep 15, didn't he? Is it still difficult for him? She doesn't answer his calls, and crying tells him to figure out what he really wants.
Franks' son dies, but he goes home with his woman and their little kid :-)
ep 19 - Grace period - Oh I love to see Ziva with Roy's cap :-)
A not-really-suicide-bomber took out two Ncis agents, while Paula Cassidy was only barely injured. One of them, Jim Nelson, was a good friend of Tim :-( Still, glad to know he has friends outside the team...
At the end, Paula dies protecting the others from a true suicide bomber. The ep ends with Tony going to Jeanne to do what Paula told him: life is too short not to tell someone that you love them when you really do. Then, he hugs her, really hard, with a tear, like she was his anchor to life: I liked that, because I've been hugged like that, and I've felt like that was the real "I love you", and it didn't matter if the words were spoken out loud.
ep 20 - Cover story - Three stages of fans: 1 admiration 2 obsession 3 destruction. Oh good, I'm so happy I always stopped at fase two..
Two people dead like the characters in Tim's new book, that he's still writing; they also found a drink in the house that Tim created for his book. Since Tim bases his characters on real people, he has to admit that he based the characters on them. Now that he actually said it, Tony says it's not believable because of what he wrote, which is what they truly feel.
ep 21 - Brothers in arms - Tony meets Jeanne's mother. Jenny is still on the hunt for LaGrenouille, and nobody knows why it is so personal for her. Anyway, at the end of the episode they still had nothing, and she was furious.
ep 22 - In the dark - Oh my God, Gibbs is still with that Colonel Mann, now doing repairs in her house... Actually, thinking of it, I don't know why I dislike her so much. She's beautiful, and she likes him, and yet I don't like her...
John Billingsley (ST-ENT's Dr Phlox) is a blind photographer who happens to take a picture of a dead man. Jeanne is being evicted and Tony offers to get a place together..
Ziva talks to him. He's not worried just about himself getting hurt, and Ziva tells him "that's because you're a good person".
Colonel Mann even helps Gibs with his boat! Wait, now she's asking for something permanent! Well, Gibbs won't marry a 5th time, now, will he? Who knows, but he has decided to stay with her, anyway.
Even if I don't like her, here I felt for her when she thought he was leaving her...
Abby is quitting caffeine! Ducky found Lee's bra :lol: he still hasn't figured out their relationship ?!?
The scene in the interrogation room where the photographer's assistant confesses she loves him, not knowing he's behind the fake-mirror listening was lovely and touching.
ep 23 - Trojan horse - A taxi-driver is taking a man to see Ncis, but the man is found dead. They take the taxi in, of course, but at night after everybody goes away, a man comes out of there! The Trojan Horse right there! But they caught him. He wanted to replace evidence, for some reason..
"After Pulp Fiction, a gun aimed my way makes me nervous" :lol:
Jenny thought her father died 12 years ago, in 1995, but now a dying man who knew him tells her he was alive three weeks ago.
ep 24 - Angel of death - Jenny's back at Ncis. We see Gibbs and Fornell's ex-wife :lol:
A junkie/drug dealer causes trouble in the hospital where Jeanne works, and Tony helps her, trying to save her and the situation without revealing him being an agent, only to find out at the end that LaGrenouille is her father!

The monuments men

A good movie; a little boring at times, but a good movie, more interested in art than in death, a new approach for the war-movies. It has lots of big actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett in the role of an annoying French woman, a collaborationist that at first doesn't want to help Matt Damon because she's convinced that the Americans will keep the art properties for them, and not return them to France... yeah, because we all know France never did anything like that, right? It's not like they ever had a Napoleon, right? They have nothing that they took from other countries... Aaaargh, unbearable. When she's told that "If it wasn't for us you would speak Deutsch now", she replies "no, if it wasn't for you I'd be dead now, but I'd still speak French" or something like that. I have no doubt about that :-/  "you can stop speaking French, or whatever language it is you're speaking"... how annoying. After all this, at the end she kind of offer herself to him, even after learning that he's married "we're in Paris"... oh please!
The best part was that they talked a lot about art, and also I liked Bonneville a lot.

The last Mimzy

An adorable fairytale, although it has no fairies, just two children and a cute stuffed bunny toy. It tells the story of how our future was at risk, in real danger, so an old scientist created many Mimzy and sent them back in time, in various points of the past. None of them made it back, until the last Mimzy was found on  a beach by Emma and her brother Noah, five and ten years old. There is also a piece of glass in which Noah sees incredible geometrical shapes but that seems a piece of stone if his mother touches it. A few pieces of rock that float in the air only if Emma launches them; and of course there is Mimzy, that adorable bunny that talks to Emma, in its own strange-noises way. These things start changing the two children, making them more intelligent, and of course this starts to worry both their parents and the Fbi, when Noah activates a generator causing a blackout in the whole of Seattle, maybe even more, I'm not sure. Noah and Emma escape the Fbi research facility where they had been locked in with their family quite easily: all they have to do is : cover one camera, and Noah does this talking to the bugs so they go all over it, and opening a couple of doors, and it would appear that Mimzy helped them with that.
The problem is that Emma knows her bunny is the last Mimzy, and knows also that it's dying, it will die if she doesn't send it back home in time, so she cries her pure heart out and a tear falls on Mimzy, giving it her pure Dna. Actually it's incredible that only one tear falls: this child cries very little! Anyway, they activate the stones, put Mimzy inside and activate the generator. Mimzy goes back to the future bringing Emma's tear with it :-)
Of course, if you want to look into it, it's not clear why the future people would shoot the scientist if Mimzy didn't return, and also doesn't explain how it is that Mimzy worked so quickly because as soon as it reappeared the future people got rid of their masks, refrained from killing the scientist and went out in a new, wonderful world...but please, you shouldn't want to do that. This is like a fairytale, where the main characters are a little girl and a stuffed bunny!! Personally I took it simbolically, not so literally: Mimzy saved them all, them and their world.
It was very cute, and the little girl was cute and touching, and was the only one that succeeded because she had the help of her brother :-) Very cute, for a moment there when a woman told Noah he didn't have any mistical sign while his younger sister did, she was the special one, I was worried the kid might get jealous, so I was happy to see that he didn't ! :-)
I liked it.

Alien agent

It's an empty,  useless movie. Avoid it with no regret, trust me. I'm sorry because I kinda like Mark Dacascos, but this movie is really empty. First of all, it has the word alien in the title, you expect science-fiction all the way, but it turns out that there are only a few words and the special effect (just one) of some shiny particles coming out of their heads once you shoot them with a special bullet: yes, because they are inside the bodies of dead humans, so you can hurt them but not kill them with our weapons! All good, but the result is that there is nothing sciencefictional about this film but a few words that have no other purpose really.
So, Mark Dacascos is Rykker, a sort of alien policeman. Apparently their world is dying, ours is not, for a change. They're looking for a new one, and a group of people wants to cut the research by stopping at ours, not caring at all that it's already taken. Rykker won't accept that, and we'll hunt them and stop them till his last breath! Leader of the bad guys is Isis (Amelia Cooke) and is really not enough. It's plain... the character. The story is lacking a lot. The girl that after having seen her aunt and uncle murdered attaches herself to Rykker is too much: she's supposed to be a teenager, but aside from the fact that her only reaction to what she saw is "I'm alone now, I don't want to be alone, I want to come with you" , I guess she's not much for grieving, she also throws herself at Rykker: why didn't they give him a grown-up partner, if they really wanted it? Maybe they wanted to please every audience... well a certain kind of audience: after the girl with the big breast snogging her boyfriend in a car, after Isis taking a shower, there's the Lolita fantasy...
I read on Imdb it's a Canadian film, still they adopted the Hollywood way with bullets. Everyone in this movie has a machine gun, shooting like they never empty, hitting almost nothing. Even the young girl picks one up and shoots.
It's a bad movie, let's admit it; yes there's worst out there, but only because this one is mostly empty and boring, doesn't make you say yeuch just yawn.

Transporter 2 - 2005

Frank Martin is back. Jason Statham is the new action hero :lol: I kinda like this movie, although it is clearly one of those movies designed for boys, and the fact that it's complete nonsense and also a bit stupid, if we want to say it... let me tell you. This time Frank is in Miami, and the movie starts with him waiting in the car while a girl and her "tough" friends try to rob him and steal his car... no surprise that he can beat them all,after all he's a trained special forces soldier and they're just thugs, but there's more: these are american criminals without guns, and worst of all this Miami schoolgirl is dressed like Sailor Moon... seriously, a teenage girl in Miami dressed like that?? Anyway, moving on, the plot is that Frank is doing a favour to a friend (apparently he has friends) and covering him as a driver for a little rich kid when the kid is kidnapped and poisoned and Frank must save him and a whole lot of other people. In the middle there is a bad girl who likes to shoot a lot and to do it  in a bikini wearing garters and high heels, lots lots of make-up and with a tattoo that is shown to us a million times;there are the usual joyrides;  there are walls so soft they bring them down with their bodies while fighting, but doors so strong that can cover him from heavy machine guns fire; there's a bomb with handles,  and an absurd, crazy plan to kill someone. Policemen are stupid as it is usual for this kind of film, and Frank can avoid bullets like Matrix's Neo..
I mean, it's stupid, very stupid, but it's fun :-) and there's Alessandro Gassman as the bad guy's boss :lol: Jason Statham seems a big enough guy near Tom Cruise or Silvester Stallone, but seems so small near Gassman :lol:
The plot itself was stupid and useless, I mean, there's a guy who looks like the village's fool but is really one of two scientists who developed a very bad poison: they inject the boy then release him so he would breath near his parents thus infecting both of them, then his father would go to an important conference or something and while speaking and breathing he would infect the whole room... wow, what a plan... so Chellini (the one played by Gassman, whose name should really be pronounced Kellini) has the antidote for himself and thinks, what is the safest place to keep it? Inside me, of course, and has a transfusion to inject all the antidote inside himself... of course, why not, what could possibly go wrong injecting in your body a strange purple substance about which you actually know nothing about...
He releases the child as planned, but it's not clear why all of a sudden police shouts "they've found Jack!" but at the place I could only see a locked van, so actually nobody knew what was inside...
and how is it possible for it to be a happy ending at the end, how did they cure everyone? Chellini's blood has become the antidote now or what? If so, they must have blooded him dry because they didn't say it but there were really lots of people who needed it. They only talked about the parents and the people at the conference, but there are also all the cops and the doctor who visited the boy and so probably the doctor's family and who knows who else came in contact with him or the cops... but in this kind of film they don't care, the boy and his parents are fine: happy ending, Jason won, pardon, Frank won.

Collateral

The 2004 movie where Jamie Foxx is Max, a taxi driver and a good man. One night he happens to drive Vincent and everything changes, because this Vincent is a killer. Now, big plot... ok maybe not, really. Anyway it's not a bad movie, but nothing special. It gets points because Jamie Foxx is really good here, and Tom Cruise as the hitman with grey hair is a surprise: not the hero this time, sorry. Anyway, if you accept the initial plot that a hitman, a professionist who has already killed who knows how many, famous for his work, would hire a cab for the whole night to be taken from one place of killing to the other, and not just that, but also that despite being a professional, he messes up right at the first one. It should have been a clean kill, Max shouldn't have known what was going on, but Vincent shoots the guy right in front of the window so he falls back breaking the glass and landing right on top of Max's cab. If you can accept all this, then it's quite a good movie, actually :-) The actors are good and the action is good too.
I was so sorry when policeman Fanning (Mark Ruffalo) was killed, I yelled at the screen. He was a good cop, it wasn't right! Apparently Felix was played by Javier Bardem, but I admit I had not recognized him.
At the beginning of the film we also see Jason Statham in a very small role without a name, listed in the credits as 'airport man',  and by the way, a scene that was a bit absurd, in  a way, because apparently Vincent goes out of his way to make sure nobody knows him, nobody knows his face, but then he accepted to meet a guy to get the targets' names...?

Criminal minds - season 3

ep 1 - Doubt - Flagstaff, Arizona. College girls are being murdered, and Gideon can't cope with this, not after his college friend Sarah was murdered by Frank in the last episode. Actually the episode starts with Gideon writing a letter of goodbye, and throughout the episode we hear other bits of it. We don't yet know who he's writing to but of course there were only two options, really, one more likely than the other, though.
At the very end, after the "I'm sorry" we see Jason with a gun, but I never thought for a second that he was suicide-type. If they had written it, it would have been a mistake.
Erin Strauss is still stressing Hotchner, and she suspends him.
This is what Gideon is writing: "I knew it would be you who came to the cabin to check on me. You must be frightened. I apologise for that. I never meant to cause you any pain. Then, I also never envisioned writing this letter. I've searched for a satisfactory explanation for what I'm doing, all I've come up with is, a profiler needs to have solid footing. I don't think I do any more. The world confuses me. The cruelty, indifference, tragedy when my dear friend Sarah was murdered, it tore a hole in me, and I truly believed the way to handle the pain was to get back to our work as quickly as possible, get on to helping somebody else. I thought I could handle Sarah's murder, work through it. Then, the very first case we had after was on a college campus. You see, I met Sarah at college. On a campus, just like that one, 31 years ago. Campuses are supposed to be places of life and excitement. They're supposed to be about the future. Figuring out who you are, who you're gonna be. They're supposed to be about dreams, not nightmares. About hope. I really don't understand the world anymore. All homocide scenes are tragic, but when the victim is someone young, their life ripped away before they've even had a chance to live, it's devastating. In this line of work, I was afraid I would lose the ability to trust, but I've realised I can't really look at anyone, without seeing their death. And as bad as losing faith in humanity seems, losing your faith in happy endings is much worse. How many victims have we seen? How many crime scenes? Hundreds? A thousand? Pictures of families, victims, both alive and dead. I was always able to stay objective, to stay at arm's length, but now, all I see is Sarah in them. Nathan Tubbs was easy, but there was a time in my career when I would have asked the question I should have asked "was he too easy?". The biggest trap for a profiler. To fall into his pride, forgetting that, for all your skills, profiling is just a tool. It was like you could physically feel the mood change on the campus. Kids, they're so resilient. They trust and believe in a way I remember, but can't reach anymore. Like a very old picture. You remember the circumstances, but the feelings, the emotions, they're just out of your grasp. They believed in us, believed in me. The way Sarah believed in me. And, as with Sarah, I feel that I led them right to the slaughter. What was I even doing there? How many times have I told you that a profiler cannot do this job if the mind is unfocused, if anything is going on in your personal life that would cloud your judgement? My mind has never been more unfocused than it was on that campus. Did I let a lion loose amongst babies? Was my judgement clouded by a need to make someone pay for Sarah's death? Two more dead. Was it a price that needed to be paid? Is death ever worth it? Was the world always this grey? Is it only in the movies that it's black and white? Is that just an illusion? I used to know. I used to understand my place, my direction, where I was headed. Profiling requires belief, belief in the profile, belief in yourself. After Sarah, I no longer trust myself at home. After Tubbs, I no longer trust myself in the field. And without that, I have nothing. And that was the last domino. The death of that girl, Hotch being suspended over something that was my fault. I said, at the beginning of this letter, that I knew it would be you to come up here. I'm so sorry the explanation couldn't be better, and I am so sorry that it doesn't make more sense. But I've already told you, I just don't understand any of it anymore. I'm sorry. I guess I'm just looking for it again, for the belief I had back in college, the belieff I had when I first met Sarah, and it all seemed so right, the belief in happy endings."
ep 2 - In name and blood - In Milwakee, women are murdered with their hearts removed.
Vic Wolynski, Milwakee PD is played by Gordon Clapp: I remember him from NypdBlue. Apparently Vic was the famous one that catched Jeffrey Dahmer: they've mentioned this name before, haven't they?
Hotch is back, but now he asks for a transfer, and Prentiss wants to resign, so Strauss goes on the plane with just Reid, JJ and Morgan. Reid is bothered that Jason didn't show up, didn't answer his phone.

Garcia gives the case file to Hotch, saying JJ told her to do it, but later JJ will deny it.

Hotch is at home with his wife and son, and Haley is furious because he wants to go there too. She wants him to be transferred and have time for his family, but he goes anyway. He stops to get Prentiss :-) Eventually of course he'll change his mind about the transfer because "why would I ever want to leave the Bau?" but because of this he comes back to an empty house: Haley has left. Honestly, who can blame her? I like Hotch too, but if we want to be fair that wasn't even a real marriage, he was never there for her, he forgot every appointment they had, he was never there with them, and he finally chose the Bau over them, refusing to transfer to a position with better hours... of course Haley left, it's not that surprising.
Reid keeps worrying about Gideon, because he still isn't responding to his calls.
Garcia is always so funny:

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Morgan: Garcia, baby girl, please tell me something I want to hear

Garcia: you're a statuesque god of sculpted chocolate thunder

Morgan: how about something I don't already know?

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Garcia: talk dirty to me

Strauss: This is section chief Erin Strauss
Garcia: Ma'am, I think it goes without saying that I was expecting it to be someone else                

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At the end, Reid goes to Gideon's cabin and sees the letter addressed to him, and we see Gideon driving away with no destination in mind. Well, as much as we may be sorry to see him leave, honestly for him it's the best thing to do. He was too sensitive and he had suffered a lot.
The case: a guy uses his own son to lure women to him, then this guy kept them locked in the house to play perfect mom until he finally killed them.
 - George Washington said: let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.
ep 3 - Scared to death - Gideon left everything in his office, but he took his precious photographs :-) His resignation is now official. He's even off the opening credits :-( I liked Gideon.
Reid: (Gideon) left me a letter, just like my father did, when he abandoned me and my mom." awww :-(
Emily: "I think you need to read that letter again, ask yourself why of all the people he walked away from, did he only explain himself to one person: you" because yes, he has an idetic memory, but he should read it anyway and think about it. When he shows the letter, we can catch a glimpse of it, and notice a few details:  - and I apologise...but then I also...but all I've come up with....and I just don't think I do any more...the indifference, the tragedy... - and at the end, we see it goes on: "to inundate myself with a case to quiet the memories. How horrible is it to kill your days with someone..." and it goes on, but we will never know what it says after that. Not that it really matters, we get it and we understand.
This therapist lures his victims to his study convincing them he can cure them of their phobias, then he literally scares them to death. He asked to his victims "have you told anyone that you're going to therapy?", and we see one of them replying "I can't talk to my family about it. They'd just tell me to get over it" Oh I so understand you girl, totally.
At least 17 victims of this maniac. Why does Hotch say "at least 15" ? We should be sure that they are at least 17, right? There were already 4 before they started on the case, then one boy drowned, and Emily said that they found 12 more victims=17.
Morgan and Reid in a malfunctioning elevator freaking out :lol: At the end, Morgan says it was a huge victim, that they're doing just fine without Gideon, then Hotch confesses that Haley left. Now, I understand Morgan, of course these are tough people and all that, but it also seems a bit emotionless to simply think and say that everything's alright because they can solve cases even without Gideon. Nothing else matters? You don't miss the man? Probably not, after all they know very little of each other, they don't share personal lives, they just admire and respect each other's work.
- The taoist philosopher Lao Tse once wrote: he who controls others may be powerful, but he who have mastered himself is mightier still
 - Eleanor Roosevelt once said: you gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
ep 4 - Children of the dark - In Denver, families are slaughtered at their homes by two boys; they grew up in a horrible, torturer woman's foster home, and trick their way in people houses by using a dead cat as a ruse (Garcia: why cats? Evil has no boundaries). In their next family, the girl survives. They arrest the guy, and hopefully will take the other kids away from that woman, shame of her kind.
- In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological, resistant to generalisation, a mystery of the individual soul: Barbara Ehrenreich
ep 5 - Seven seconds - A six years old girl has gone missing at a Mall. The Bau is called because the week before a little girl was taken and then killed, but this time it was her own aunt, angry at her because her husband was abusing the child and would only think of her, and this shitty woman instead of seeing the little girl as the victim that she was, instead she thought of her as an obstacle, as "the other one" taking her husband away from her. That's disgusting, really.
 - Dostoyevsky once said: nothing is easier than denouncing the evil doer, nothing is more difficult than understanding him
 - G.K. Chesterton wrote: fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know the dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed.
 ep 6 - About face - We meet special agent David Rossi and his dog Mudgie. He's retired for nearly 10 years, but now he wants to come back. Joe Mantegna is now the first name in the opening credits, then Paget, Shemar, Matthew, AJ, Kirsten, and at the end there's "And Thomas Gibson" which I suppose reflex higher status in a way, doesn't it? :-) I like him, and maybe I've already said this, I don't remember, but sometimes when you "know" someone for a long time you get kind of attached to them, if you liked them in the first place, and here, to see Dharma's lovely husband Greg as every criminal's boogieman is almost touching, in a sort of aww-my-baby-grew-up kind of way.
 Rossi comes to the Bau, and he already knows Aaron :-) for the others, he's like a legendary figure... He has a bracelet he carries around, reminding him of three little children, and asks Garcia to pull info for him and keep it a secret. On the field, he acts solo, making his own decisions without consulting the team and Hotch doesn't like it. Rossi tells him that he came back because "maybe I have unfinished business" and then he takes Gideon's office.
We learn that Morgan is creeped out by Halloween while Reid likes it. At the end, the two of them give children candies :-)
In Texas, a woman found a flyer with "have you seen me?" written on it under her own picture, she got scared and later she was killed.
 - Erasmus wrote: what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part until the manager waves them off the stage?
ep 7 - Identity - Rossi catches Reid, Morgan and Emily spying in his office. Reid has read all of his books.
The case: three women are dead, one is abducted. The suspect blows himself up with a hand granade. After that, the fourth is found dead, killed by his partner. Looking for him, Rossi sends Morgan and JJ to the Militia's bar. Both choices say something of Rossi, I think. Rossi will mention to Morgan too about the "unfinished business".
 - A earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. Martin Luther.
ep 8 - Lucky - Oh God, this episode was really sick, really tough.
In 1988 a 17 y.o. boy is in a mental institution, but as he turns 18 he's turned loose because the law says he must be. The doctors know he should not be reliesed into society because of his sick mind, but can do nothing about it because it is the law, when he comes of age he must be reliesed. It's a story of cannibalism. This guy has been one since he was a child, therefore hospitalized, but he was a minor then, and now he isn't one anymore. They catch him eventually, and he says he'll say where Tracy is only to the priest. This bit was really sick:
-father, I feel like God has abandoned me. why?
-you are not alone, my son. God is in all of us.
-so is Tracy Lambert...... and he does a evil maniac laugh here, because now everyone understands that he fed her to everyone, they all ate her. Oh God, totally sick.
For the case in Florida, Morgan asks Rossi to talk to the priest because he'd rather not, and Rossi goes: "Agent Morgan actually has some questions for you" at him. How nice huh?!? The reason why Morgan doesn't like priests is the usual as for everyone else: "when I was a kid, something bad was happening to me and I went to church every day, and I prayed. Oh I prayed for it to stop. You know what God did? Nothing" which is the usual story. Like'when I was sick, or sad, or feeling bad for something, God didn't help ME so I hate him. Of course I never said thank you for all the good things in my life, but so what, I deserved all the good things, I didn't deserve all the bad things' usual attitude of everyone that is angry at religion.
Rossi: you're still pissed I threw you under a bus with him yesterday.
Morgan: am I?
Rossi: you know, in my day, if your partners made a request like that... well, I was just giving you a chance for personal growth
Morgan: I get you, Dave. You're not a mystery to me, man. They said you couldn't interview serial killers. You did. They said you couldn't put together a profiling team. You did. They said there was no way in hel you would ever come back here. You did. It's in your nature, Rossi. It's who you are.
Rossi: well, if you knew all that, why would you tell me you didn't want to talk to the priest?
Morgan: I was giving you an opportunity for personal growth.
and I'm totally with Morgan here. :-) At the end, he goes to church.
Mantegna trying to quote Dante's Inferno was something :lol: only the last word was understandable.
Garcia meets Colby, a guy at a bar, a "smoking-hot" one, who asks her number after she fixed her computer.
Colby calls her to ask her out, but she says no. When she tells Morgan he says she did good, because there was definitely something wrong with him, and this hurts Penelope, and she gets really angry at him. Emily explains it to Morgan: "when a woman tells a man about her feelings, she doesn't want him to fix her. She wants him to shut up and listen". As a reaction to Morgan words, Garcia calls Colby back to accept, and they go out on a date. When it's over, everything seems to be going fine, he's all happy, she's probably wondering if he'll kiss her goodnight, but then before going away he calls her and tells her "I've been thinking about doing this all night" and then he shoots her!!!
 - Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters. Francis Goya
 - 16th century English novelist Thomas Deloney wrote: God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks.
ep 9 - Penelope - Aaron tells JJ, then Reid, then Rossi and Emily, and they are all at the hospital. Morgan's phone is off because he's in church. Finally Morgan arrives, and the investigation begins. Since she's in the hospital, they need a new tech and they call Kevin Lynch (Nicholas Brendon!) and he finds encripted files on her computer and for this she's suspended to verify if she can be trusted. She tells Reid and Morgan of her past: after her parents died killed by a drunk driver, she dropped out of Cal-tech, lived underground. The bureau keeps track of hackers, and offered her a job. Morgan takes her home and won't leave her: "I love you, you know that, right?" awww :-) Yes, we know, we saw them together and we've always known.
After seeing her computers, Kevin says "this might be the coolest girl I've ever met" before ever even seeing her. The two hackers then 'fight' on the net and she wins. She shows him the real name of Deputy Sheriff Jason Clark Battle and his face, and right after that Kevin meets him in the office and signals to Garcia's computer and she trusts him as a fellow hacker and responds, and watches him in the office. They find JJ alone in hers, so they send her a message and she kills the bastard. "I never even blinked. You do whatever it takes to protect your family" awww JJ...
Then Penelope and Kevin meet: she says "you're good" , he says "you're better" :-)
 - William Shakespeare wrote: love all, trust a few, do wrong to none
ep 10 - True night - California. A graphic novelist is out of his mind. Poor Johnny was in love with a beautiful girl and she was pregnant and he was proposing to her right before a bunch of shits murdered her in front of him and almost killed him too.
Morgan didn't want to leave Garcia to go on the case, she has to insist :-) At the end, he repairs her chair :-)
Rossi says: "life is a hell of a thing to happen to a person"
Reid mentions Carlo Lorenzini, the guy that wrote Pinocchio, and it was impressive because he used the real name of the man, and not the name by which he's famous, and even italians don't usually know his real name.
 - Superman is after all an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities. Author Clive Barker
 - Frank Miller: The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armour. He's dirty, and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time
ep 11 - Birthright - In Virginia, some girls are killed by the son of a man that murdered girls 27 years ago.
Rossi speaks about his bracelet to the old sheriff: "Indianapolis, Christmas Eve. One of my first cases on the job. Three kids watched their parents get beaten to death. Every year i call to tell them I haven't forgotten. I'm still looking. Last year, not one of them bothered to return my call.." "how long has it been for you?" "21" "don't let it get to 22"
Hotch receives some papers: Haley has asked for a divorce...
 - The american poet Anne Sexton once wrote: it doesn't matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was
 - Wordsworth wrote: a simple child that lightly draws its breath and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?
ep 12 - 3rd Life - California. Jack is in witness protection because he was in the mob and he's collaborating. His daughter is now in danger because she's been kidnapped with her friend. When they kill her friend Katie and Katie's father recognizes the picture of a guy, he doesn't tell the team. He tells it to Jack so that he will go and kill them. Reid gets there in time for a don't-do-it-scene, while Jack's daughter keeps yelling Kill-him-dad-kill-him-he-killed-Katie. Reid is trying hard "when does it end? when does it stop?" but Jack replies "tomorrow" and kills him. Reid is in shock.
 - No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemy: Daisy Bates
 - It is a wise man who knows his own child. William Shakespeare
ep 13 - Limplight - At an old storage unit, two guys find strange things, and an ambitious girl, Agent Jill Morris, calls Rossi. It is like a journal of tortures, and she's all excited to have finally a big case "could this guy be any more perfect?" This Morris is really disturbing; ambition is one thing, but this girl is something else... or maybe not, maybe this is the only way to be ambitious in a certain line of work, right? Still, it is disturbing: "I didn't join the bureau to win awards" but then she's so excited, saying things like: perfect, great stuff... you know, that's not what came to my mind hearing he might have killed 19 women!! She just couldn't wait to be on tv! Well, almost everyone nowadays would do anything to appear on tv, even showing their embarassing moments or the stupid things they've done, it's a success if they appear on tv (imagine the comments: have you seen them? Did you know they were so stupid??Well, now we know).
Hotch: "nobody remembers the victims, everybody remembers the killers", it's true and it goes for her too.
Rossi understands her, sees himself in her, in a way, but I didn't know young Rossi, probably I wouldn't have liked him at all...
 - I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. Euripides
 - For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world, and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. Lucille Maud Montgomery
ep 14 - Damaged - Rossi has nightmare about his old case, and he goes to Garcia's home. She was having a shower with Kevin Lynch :-o Rossi says that 'tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of that crime'... but he did say they were already 21, on ep 11, right? Instead it was 19 then, and it's getting to 20??? He could have just said "tomorrow is the anniversary"... don't make mistakes like this!!
Morgan, JJ and Emily go to Indianapolis to offer their help to Rossi on his case. "why do you care?" and Emily "because you do". Good one, Emily, well said. It was very lovely at the end when Rossi after saying his goodbyes looked at them and saw them as children :-)
Reid and Hotchner are in a prison interviewing a serial killer due to be executed in a week. I liked Hotch so much, preparing to fight the bastard. :-) Go Hotch, tell him like it is, pathetic men who think they're so scary and so great but then they're always going after the weaker ones... aaaand I was slightly disappointed that Reid stopped it. I understand it was the right thing to do, I'd have done the same, I mean if I were him, but as a viewer I'd have liked it :-) Okay, let's say, not in that circumstances, but maybe I'll see it in the future... :-)
Since they shouldn't be having a relationship because they work together, but Rossi caught them, now Kevin wants to have a word with Rossi to clarify their position and being allowed to stay with Penelope... awww. Nobody else knew what he wanted to talk about, so they asked, and JJ who knew everything started singing "Garcia and Kevin, sitting in a tree.." : everybody but Reid understood, but I don't. What does it mean? Okay, she's explaining to them that they are a couple, okay, I know they are and what they were doing, still, what does it have to do with trees??
It ends with Hotch signing the divorce papers. Did we know he's left-handed?
 - Within the core of each of us, is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we  have become, who we are and what we will be. Neuroscientist Dr R. Joseph
 - There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. Arthur Rubinstein
ep 15 - A higher power - People who have lost a child start committing suicide one after the other, but they are really murders of an angel of death.
You know, when Reid realises those are not suicides notes, but amends, written in self-help groups, and it seems clear now how he's getting over his drug problem, by joining himself some self-group: that scene should have been a great scene, a touching one, if you like the characters, but something was not right, the camera stayed too long on Reid, it felt weird, like there had to be something more that didn't really come. It could have been much more, but it wasn't. All that time on his face left you puzzled and expecting more, than touched. There should have been more quick changes from him to Emily looking at him, slowly realising, maybe, I don't know. It should have been so much more...  After he says amends, there should be something, a change of some kind, maybe going on her face too see her first reaction, or maybe a change in music... I think that staying on his face while he said "to yourself" and she said "is that right" was too long, way too long, and it ruined the scene. It made no more sense, him staying still with his face down like that in front of her. He's not a little kid anymore, and anyway if you're not embarassed than look at her or talk, and if you are turn around, don't let her see you. That staying still was wrong.
One of the victims, well a potential victim, shouting "you think you can help me? You think you can help me?" was the most touching moment of the episode, right before she crashed her car: her extreme pain, desperation came out there.
Morgan has four properties. I didn't really get his reasoning that having four properties makes him feel he's changing something... I see no connection...
 - There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession. Daniel Webster
 -The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. Ben Okri
ep 16 - Elephant's memory - At a meeting (a supporting group for his drug problem) Spencer says "it's my first meeting". Really? So last episode, that scene, what was it about? He has never gone to a meeting, never wrote an amends letter...? So that scene had really no sense? Or they planned to show this episode before that?
This episode was intense: Reid identifies with Owen, the not-so-unknown subject that is killing people, those that abused and mistreated him his whole life. "His life was one torment after another. His teachers gave up on him, his classmates bullied him and his father blamed him while giving him access to guns" and then tells Morgan his story: at school, the football team tied him naked to a goal post and nobody helped him, so many kids there just watching. He got home at midnight but his mom had not even noticed because she was in one of her moments, she was already unwell.
Morgan justifies here the episode's title "when it comes to the torment and the people who inflicted it, we've all got an elephant's memory" not just him with his eidetic memory.
I liked this episode, it was touching and with good characters. I liked Owen, Jordan and her best friend as well :-)
Reid sends the team on a false track because he wants to get to Owen first, he wants to save his life, prevent anyone from killing him.
"I was thinking that that would be the second time a kid died in front of me" and Hotch "I know it's painful when the person you identify with is the bad guy" yeah, it is.
Again Hotch: "I think you should go and catch the rest of that movie" because he came straight from the meeting; he couldn't stay till the end because he had to join the team for this case. Reid said it's been 10 months since he stopped using.
 - A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. John Steinbeck
 -We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered. Tom Stoppard
ep 17 - In heat - Garcia and Kevin's relationship is going on very well :-) And Kevin pronounces Italian words well enough, although it's fégato and not fegàto :lol:
The case: Miami. We meet again Bill LaMontagne, here to id the dead cop. It was so clear from the start that he and JJ had a story, no need to be a profiler there :-) Oh, they see each other every weekend :-) Cute :-) Even Reid knew about them .-) It's been about a year now, apparently :-)
The case, I was saying: Steven is killing gay men, because his father had tried for long to "beat homosexuality out of him". The guy playing Steven was really good :-)
 -There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. George Bernard Shaw
 - If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. John Churton Collins
ep 18 - The crossing - Maryland. Rossi and Hotch talk to a woman that killed her husband. Her defence lawyer claims she was abused, but she doesn't. Rossi and Hotch agree with him.
JJ, Emily, Morgan and Reid follow the case of a woman who's been stalked for two years , wherever she goes this guy finds her.
Rossi has had three divorces ... and JJ's pregnant :-)
 - Author Christian Nestell Boree once wrote: no man is happy without a delusion of some kind, delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
 - Susan B. Anthony said: a woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
ep 19 - Tabula rasa - Virginia. In 2004, a serial killer almost killed himself trying to escape from Morgan and Hotchner and other cops chasing him. Incredibly he didn't die, but slipped into a coma, and now he woke up, with a severe amnesia. Is he still guilty if he doesn't know what he did, or is he a different person now ? Real philosophical dilemma.  In 2004 Reid had just joined the Bau, and so had Garcia. :lol: Morgan didn't know her name, so called her baby-doll :lol:
Cute how at the end Reid pretended he didn't know that poem :-) if course he did, we know it, but this way he makes Mr Corbett remember it :-) It's a poem from Wordsworth "what though the radiance that was once so bright / be now for ever taken from my sight / though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass of glory in the flower we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind"
 - All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy. For what we leave behind us, is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France
ep 20 - Lo-Fi - New York. Random people are shooted at close range by hooded figures, during the day, in public places.
Half-British detective Kate Joyner, once at Scotland Yard, is working the case, and Hotch knows her. The moment I saw her I thought exactly what JJ said : Kate looks exactly like Haley! Hotch definitely has a type...
Kate has an attitude because if she doesn't solve this case her job's on the line, and Derek is at the top of the list to replace her... and as soon as he knows this, Derek starts to give attitude himself : "it might be nice to finally be the one making the calls" but she simply told him "you spoke your mind, I respect that" because if Hotch likes her like that she can't be a bad person :-) She's just trying to do her job.
Will meets JJ in New York, so she tells everyone she's pregnant. He's a good person, I like him, he's a good one. I was so sorry when officer Cooper got shot, and really hoped he wouldn't die.
At the end, we see all of them get into various cars, and only one of those cars blows up. Which one? Who was in there???
 - Voltaire said : the man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, is an enthusiast. The man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic. 

Criminal minds - season 2

This season Garcia is in the opening credits too ! :-D Kirsten Vangness, the last name after J.J.'s.
Good, this means she's having more space, a real part of the team. That's good, I love her.
ep 1 - The Fisher king, part 2 - Hotch and Gideon are at the hospital for Elle. Reid's on the phone, with Garcia listening, when he asks to go get his mum, 'she's at the Bennington Sanitarium': Diana Reid. Reid admits to Garcia that he writes to his mother every day so he won't feel so guilty about not visiting her. "Do you know that schizophrenia is genetically passed?"
Elle's in surgery. Gideon is troubled and feels guilty. "the press conference was the right thing to do, right? I did my job, Elle will understand that", trying to convince Hotch and probably himself.
Reid's mother is brought to the BAU. This Unsub, the abducted girl's real father, spent time at the same sanitarium as Diana. She told him about them all, about what was written in those letters, and Reid always told her everything.
They find him and Reid talks to him, telling him his daughter Rebecca's alive: he thinks she's not real: "your mother, she explained it all to me" - "My mother's a paranoid schizophrenic who'd forget to eat if she wasn't properly medicated and supervised", and Morgan and Hotch are there and listen. The Unsub doesn't: "she made me realise none of it was real. I didn't lose Rebecca. She never existed in the first place", then he blows himself up. Reid makes it in time and saves Rebecca too.
At the end of the episode, we see Gideon never leaves the hospital, he's at Elle's bedside all the time, and this is why I like Gideon. Morgan is helping Garcia repairing her computers, and this is why I like Morgan, and I love their friendship. Reid flies her mother back to Las Vegas, and Hotchner goes to Elle's house to clean all the blood, and this is why I like Hotchner.
 - The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal tehm upm, still there will be a scar left behind. French writer Francois de la Rochefocauld.
 - It has been said: time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time the mind, protecting its sanity, covers then with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. Rose Kennedy
ep 2 - P911 - In Maryland, the Crimes against children Unit is working on the case of a six-year-old boy about to get sold to perverts. Their leader Katie Cole calls Hotch for help. She was one of the first profilers, brilliant. The guy that runs that chatroom is... I don't have a right word, but Gideon is just too diplomatic when he says " 'what can I do?' just isn't good enough". This kid is about to get sold for 8000 dollars "Is that what the like of a kid is worth?" The poor little thing was abducted when he was one.
"Sometimes it seems there's no punishment enough" : Gideon.
Elle is back at work, she has been out four months. Garcia has four brothers!?! Elle is from Brooklyn.
 - Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said: The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children;
ep 3 - The perfect storm - Girls are raped and videotaped. Now those videos are being sent to the families. All these girls are killed by two people, and they think they're two men, but realises the man they have in custody is killing them with his wife, that he's not beating her, she's actually the evil dominant one. They are able to save Tiffany, the last girl.
Gideon says to Garcia: You do great work, keep it up. She was still freaked out around him.
 - Mark Twain wrote: of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it;
 - Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote: out of suffering, have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.
ep 4 - Psychodrama - A bank robber makes people strip of their clothes and enact his sex fantasies. The guy forces people to act his drama: a psychodrama: a form of psychotherapy whereby actors serve as surrogates for actual people in the patient's life. He's making children punish their mothers and this hurts Hotch a lot.
Hotch forgets his son had to go to the hospital, and Haley comes to BAU to tell him the results. He offers to stay but she tells him to go with the team. That's because this is what he really wants to do. Sometimes he should stay with her, without asking her. When he asks her is clearly because he wants her to say he can go, so he doesn't feel so guilty about going. His son has made his first steps five months ago, and Haley gave him the file to look at because he missed it.
When Hotch says to Garcia: Don't call me honey... :lol:
Save one life, we save the world: Gideon :-) Yeah, I've seen The Schindler's List too....
 - Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde;
 - The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone: Milan Kundera.
ep 5 - The aftermath - Women are raped in their homes, and the bastard leaves messages on their answering machines for them. They figure out his next victim's name but they're late, so Elle poses as another possible victim. They don't see how distressed she is, because she too was assaulted at home. So much distressed she doesn't follow the instructions and goes to confront him, thus ruining the case. She says to Hotch: I'm supposed to believe that you've got my back? The last time you sent me home, Hotch, you got me shot". That same night she goes to meet this guy, and at first she just tells him that sooner or later she'll stop him, but the shit tells her "without you, I would still be locked up. Thank you. You've made a lot of women very happy" I mean, come on, if you want to die just say so! When he walks away she calls him to make him turn around than she shoots him three times, then stages it as self defence. Police believe her story, but her team doesn't. Personally, I think that police girl who took her testimony was simply a good cop who probably didn't care to look too much into it.
I don't like Elle, but honestly she was right, you know. What they wrote was a good story. I don't like the actress, okay, but as characters go she was right.
It was cool the scene where the camera kept going right and we saw Hotch in his hotel room, then Morgan and Gideon in theirs :-) Gideon tool the hotel's bathrobe "complimentary" :lol:
Reid goes to Elle asking if she wanted to talk, even said please, and she told him of how, when the fisher king attacked her, she could feel his hand in her wound, when he took her blood to write on the wall, after he shot her. I don't think Reid is a great help, he didn't seem to understand at all. He only told her that he is dead, and so she won. Not that good, is it? He was not very helpful, I'm afraid, but I know these shows are all about being strong enough to make it on your own, things like that: maybe being just human is in conflict with it? I don't like the idea that to be strong and tough you must never need anything for anyone, that's absurd.
Morgan and Garcia talking on the phone were funny as usual:
M: one last favour: look up the words sexy and brilliant in that computer of yours and tell me what you come up with
G: look at that. It's me
M: you're a Goddess, woman. Good job.
:-)
 - Helen Keller once said : Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it;
ep 6 - The boogeyman - Hotch orders a psychological evaluation for Elle, but she doesn't show up. When two boys and a little girl die in Texas, Gideon goes without Hotchner because he wants to stay behind to find her. So the team can work without him!! He just doesn't take days off for his family, but when he thinks it's important he can do it!! He follows her around, so now the team has two members missing...
It turns out the murderer was another boy with a baseball bat. At the end, Elle leaves the Bau.
Little JJ was afraid of the woods, little Morgan was afraid of the dark: Reid still is :-p Reid also hate spinach :-) JJ tells a creepy story to Reid and Morgan as the explanation for why she hated the woods, and then "you serious?" "No! You fell for that?" :lol:
Reid: if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound if there's nobody there to hear it?- just thinking. Okay, this is the usual, old philosophical dilemma, everyone has their own answer, and I have mine. Wanna know what it is? Yes, of course it does, because not everything spins around humans, although they keep thinking that it does. People are so arrogant, thinking they're so important that everything revolves around them... tsk.
 - Plato wrote: we can easily forgive a child who's afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light;
ep 7 - North Mammon - North Mammon is in Pennsylvania. A guy abducts three girl friends, and tells them only two of them will leave alive, and they have to choose the one that will die. Not only that, but they'll have to kill her themselves. At school JJ played soccer like them, so she kinda identifies with them. She's the one bringing the case to the team, after a mother goes to her asking for help, because they're already missing for five days. The people in town turn against each other, as so often people do, that's why the world is so shitty. The two surviving girls are let go as promised, and Polly can ID the man that did this to them: the guy that played soccer with their parents, the star of the team, that got hurt and says they all turned on him. Easy to believe actually, but as all losers, pathetic losers, he took it out on someone else.
Elle is no more in the opening credits, she's gone for good. Hotch says to JJ "Ever thought of taking the classes, becoming a profiler?"
"No, no. I admire what you guys do, but I like my role. I like being the person the family can turn to. Being the voice the poor, overworked homocide detective can call when he runs out of leads"
"Really?"
"Yeah"
"I thought everyone wanted to be a profiler"
"Sorry" ... :lol: Good girl, I like her in this role too, it's just as important.
Garcia is always funny: He who seeks the Queen of All Knowledge, speak and be recognised :lol:
 - Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: it's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it;
 - The ultimate choice for a man inasmuch as he is given to transcend himself is to create or destroy, to love or to hate: Erich Fromm;
ep 8 - Empty planet - Seattle. A guy announces there'll be a bomb on a bus, and he puts it there.
Hotchner: "you got a news organization to agree to a trap and trace?"
Garcia: "who could say no to me?" :lol: this is worth Hotch's little smile :-)
I liked Dr Cooke a lot when he said "no scientific knowledge precludes the existence of God" finally, well said, I'm tired of these fanatic non-believers saying science says God doesn't exist. Not true at all, because science only says what it can prove!! The true, really true scientific response to God should be a maybe: I don't know for sure because I can't prove he exists, but I can't deny because I can't prove he doesn't!
The doctor was in danger but he refused protection, then he blew up in his car. Dr Brazier is in danger too, she gets into the car before they can warn her, so they stop her and Morgan sees a bomb under her seat; Hotch orders Morgan to get away but he won't "Hotch you know I respect you. I'm not leaving her" and he never takes his eyes off her. That's what I love of this scene. Dr Brazier tells him "you should listen to your friends" because she understands his dangerous position, then "thank you", still looking at each other!
Gideon: "a young man I greatly respect and admire is putting his life on the line because of that lunatic" :-p "what he said I said... I said" :lol: a man of few words...
I like very much Dr Ursula Kent, she was a great person. Hopefully, she still is, they never imply that she didn't make it. Fingers crossed :-)
 - Robespierre wrote: crime butches innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempt of crime;
ep 9 - The last word - There are two serial killers in Missouri. The Hollow Man shoots prostitutes, the Mill Creek Killer murders upper class women, hides them in the woods then goes back to them to do their hair and to apply lipstick. The two killers talk to each other through the personals column in the paper, and using this they catch one of them. Reid figured out this communication system, and that they were using names from the book "catcher in the rye": Sunny and Holden. Using that, they catch the other one too.
We meet agent Emily Prentiss, daughter of the ambassador, joining the Bau. Paget Brewster is now in the opening credits before Morgan's name. Emily had no part in all this, but she's there when they get back, and gives him a sample of her skills as a profiler, she tells Hotchner she belongs in that unit, she just asks him for a chance, and he gives her one.
 - Elbert Hubbard once wrote: if men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate;
 - Mahatma Ghandi one said: Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seemed invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Sadly, I must say that my dvd got ruined somehow. I hope it's just this third dvd, though.

ep 10 - Lessons learned - Gideon, Reid and Prentiss go to Gitmo to interrogate a man that could be a part of a terrorist cell, and hopefully understand what their next plan is.
Prentiss knows Arabic. She lived in several Middle Eastern countries growing up.
Gideon was again beating Reid at chess :-) The funny part was that when Hotchner advices Gideon to take Prentiss with him, he wasn't convinced it was time, and asked if she at least has a bag ready to go, and we see her taking her bag and putting it on her desk, looking around with a face "I'm here, I'm not gonna look at you, no pressure, but I'm ready!!" I loved that scene, loved that look. I already like her much much more than Elle.
Gideon saved the squad that was raiding a place with Hotch and Morgan, and they are almost all safe, only a swat man died.
When she saw the news on tv, Penelope got crazy with fear, and immediately called Morgan. She knew Hotch and Morgan were there, and she called Morgan, praying he would answer. After he answers, she's so relieved she has tears coming out of her eyes :-) Sweet Penelope. I like her so much. I like how good a person she is, I like how the actress talks, she's funny and nice, I like her attitude. She makes the difference, I think. Everything is more human just because she's there.
Gideon tricks the guy, makes him believe it's already all over, so he betrays the notion that the target is the opening of a big, new shopping center. It's the same mall where Haley has gone with their son to have his pictures taken.
They stop the attack :-) Hotchner runs at home in panic anyway, the fear was somehow still there, even after everything's finished, but it's not a mistake. I understand that, he was in such a terror that until he sees them both he can't relax. Haley tells him that she didn't even go because she preferred to wait for him to come too, and go as a family :-) And the baby is called Jack. I'm not sure they said it before, I guess they did it whey they presented him to the team, but I didn't remember that.
After Reid yeilds their chess game, Gideon asks Prentiss if she plays, and she smiles when she accepts. It probably felt to her like she was being accepted, a little step in that direction at least :-)
 - Dale Turner mused : Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes, the error of the past is the wisdom of the future;
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson said : In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount a fear;
ep 11 - Sex, birth, death - A man kills prostitute and then cuts their hair. Reid is approached by a kid, a junior at a high school, who saw him at Georgetown a few weeks ago, giving a lecture on sexual sadism and how he helped catch the Mill Creek killer in St Louis, and asks him weird questions, also mentioning the cutting of the hair. Reid gets suspicious, but the kid runs away. Reid finds him, at first suspecting he might be the killer, then gets kind of attached, understanding how the kid is troubled and understands his desire to know the truth about his own evaluation: Reid:"it's like with my mom. I used to think that if I could just understand absolutely everything there is to know about schizophrenia then I'd somehow be able to fix it" aww poor kid.
After Jason does the evaluation he says to Reid "it's not a question of whether he ends up killing someone. It's when". Reid worries for him, he thinks it is his responsibility because he understands him : "I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind".
Congresswoman Steyer comes to talk to Hotchner "ordering" him not to make public the prostitute serial killer now that her plan to fight crime is working, then he sees her hugging Prentiss. Later Hotchner confronts Emily who says she simply knows her since she was a kid because she used to work with her mother. "I will not put up with a political agenda" says Hotchner. She replies "I think politics makes people distrustful. I think it makes them hate themselves. I think it tears families apart and damages people." Hotchner eventually makes a public announcement to lure the congresswoman to him again; when she comes to his office, he wants her to meet with some of the prostitutes who give her a description of a man, and she recognize it, so they have his name. They are all on the streets looking for him, when he approaches a prostitute and she blows a whistle to alert them and they catch him.
Nathan says "the only way for me to save lives in the future is to kill myself". This Nathan Harris kid is played by Anton Yelchin. Nathan then goes to meet a prostitute but can't control his urges so he cuts his own wrists but Reid and Garcia save him. At the end, Gideon is comforting Reid, Morgan is comforting Garcia :-)
Garcia's car is called Esther :-p
 - T.S. Eliot wrote: between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow;
 - T.S. Eliot wrote: between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends.
ep 12 - Profiler, profiled - Morgan is in Chicago; he goes there every year for his mother's birthday. He has two sisters :-) But he gets arrested for murder, so the team goes to Chicago to help him. It proves to be a hard thing to do because he doesn't want them digging into his life. He had a criminal record: resisting arrest, vandalism, aggravated battery, supposed to be expunged by a judge. Carl Buford runs the youth center, coached him at football.
Oh God, my dvd is jumping again, I don't know what happened, it must have been damaged somehow... :-(
Turns out this Carl uses to take kids to his cabin, treat them like sons, apparently he "likes" young boys, he touches them, does things to them. He did them to Derek too. So now Derek confronts Carl who says: "you could have said no" which is the worst, lamest thing to say!! What a shit!
This is what Derek didn't want his team to know.
Morgan's father died when he was ten. At fifteen, December 1991, he saw a boy his age murdered, and collected money for his burial. So he's 33 now...
It starts lovely, with Reid showing JJ, Penelope and Emily is magic "rocket" trick, and Hotch even makes a joke :-)
Anyone else thinks Derek has such percect, most white teeth?!? wow!
 - One begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sherlock Holmes;
ep 13 - No way out - Golconda, Nevada. We meet for the first time sadistic serial killer Frank, who likes to see the fear in his victims's eyes as he cut them open while they're still alive. There has been 13 cases in 30 years, at least. Frank is played by this episode's special guest Keith Carradine. Frank is the most prolific serial killer ever. A psycopathic sexual sadist. After a while it appears he might have killed hundreds of people in over 30 years, then he made wind chines with the victims rib bones and gave them to crazy Jane; well, he left them at her house. He travelled, and every year he made the same route, killing people and them stopping at Golconda. We see him talking to Gideon in a diner, so calm and confident, because he knows he has a plan, he knows he'll walk out of there alive and free! Why? Because he's the only one who knows where he left the town's children, after having killed their driver. He wants to be free, but he also wants Jane with him. He succeeds and goes free with Jane while Gideon finds the children.
Frank says to Morgan: "if I had your looks, do you know how muchg easier my life would be?"
Hotch to the local authorities: "the guy who sometimes forgets his manners is Jason Gideon" :lol: Oh Hotch!
- Aristotle said: Evil brings men together
ep 14 - The big game - It starts very nicely, with the team in a club, Morgan dancing, Emily drinking with Hotch and Haley, Garcia watching Morgan dancing, Hotch inviting Haley to dance :-) I wanted to see him dance! :-/  JJ playing darts and winning, Reid answering questions on Star Trek :lol: all this while Jason is at the Smithsonian Institute to see an "original, hand-coloured Audubon etching entitled Turdus Polyuglottus" that apparently he likes because he says "or the mockingbird. It's gorgeous" :-) Of course it all ends much too quickly because they get a new case :-( This is the episode with James Van Der Beek in it, that I never liked when he played Dawson, but here with the beard and the disorder attitude he was good. I liked him here, a lot. He plays Tobias who has a multiple personalities disorder, so inside his head there are also his father, religious fanatic that tortured him as a boy, and a certain Gabriel, not the forgiving type unfortunately. Now Tobias repairs computers for a living, and that's how he did it all: he kept hold on the computers, spied on people's lives, and after killing them he posts the video on the internet. His second video is of a woman killed by dogs, ad a policeman recognizes the dogs, he knows they are Tobias's. JJ and Reid are there right now with no cell service so they can't call for back-up. How come that cell phones actually never work when they're needed?? Anyway. They realize it's him and split up. JJ finds herself in the barn with the dogs that attack her, while Reid follows Tobias in a field, but instead of catching him he's himself caught. End of part one.
Reid"you seem unhappy" - Gideon"I am unhappy. I'm tired of people using religion to justify the terrible things they do."
 -Condemned murderer Perry Smith said of his victims, the Clutter family: I didn't have anything against them, and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it.
ep 15 - Revelations - JJ shoots the dogs and is really shaken, both from the fear and because she's worried it might be her fault if Reid was captured, because she wasn't with him, and when she said something she received simply a "you're here, he's not. what do you think?" or something like that, but honestly it seemed to me kind of unfair because she couldn't have done differently, could she? First Reid was the one that said Let's split up, right before running away, and second: she's the communication liaison, she's not Gibbs!!! Anyway.  Tobias brings Reid somewhere: Gabriel is dangerous yes, but it's the father that tortures Reid. Tobias on the other hand is sorry about this and gives him some drugs to lessen the pain; because of the drugs Reid remembers when his father left him years ago.
At some point he has an attack and the father has no problem in leaving him to die, while his team sees it all through a camera, but then comes Tobias and he saves him doing CPR, then comes Raphael making him choose one member of his team, which one shall die, and Reid chooses Hotchner to send him a message he knows he'll understand. Tobias drugs him a third time and Reid remembers when he was 18 and had his mom hospitalized. The team finds him, Reid shoots Gabriel (or maybe father). Reid hugs Hotch saying "I knew you'd understand", but before going with them he comes back and takes the drugs from Tobias' pocket...
 -There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins - Ecclesiastes:7:20.
ep 16 - Fear and loathing - Emily tells Morgan that she screwed up a date because she's a nerd and because she said "Kilgore Trout" and the guy didn't understand, while Morgan replies "the guy has a problem with Kurt Vonnegan?" - "You know Kilgore Trout?" - "I read slaughterhouse-5 when I was 12 and it blew my mind" :-) sadly I didn't so I don't know what they're talking about, still it seemed a little weird. Who did she go out with, that would freak out and lose interest in her only because she actually reads books?? Come on, maybe she only needs to choose better. Anyway, happy as a little child she'll bring it up again later with Morgan :-p
The case: In New York black girls are killed and a swastika is painted on their faces, simply to derail the investigation. A reverend makes things worse shouting about racism and thus creating it where there wasn't any.
Eventually they say that it's a black serial killer, and the black policeman is shot by an idiot with a gun and dies.
Reid can't forget Tobias, and hides in a bathroom to drug himself only he is called back so he has no time to do it. For the first time looking at crime scene pictures upsets Reid "for the first time, I know".
 -From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate - Socrates
 - The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Cicero
ep 17 - Distress - Houston. A war veteran in distress thinks he's in a war zone.
Garcia and Morgan acting their usual: "are you lonely in the lone star state? Are you wearing chaps?" "Only in your dreams, Garcia" "Oh, not necessarily. I have photoshop" :lol:
Reid acts weird, he's still not his old self again, he's still troubled.
 - Our life is made by the death of others. Leonardo Da Vinci.
 - If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine
ep 18 - Jones - New Orleans, Louisiana. We meet Bill Lamontagne, the detective son of William senior who worked the case before dying because of Katrina. Nine years ago, on Mardi Gras, a girl was raped but Lamontagne's partner didn't believe her, and had him transferred to shut him up. That girl now kills men, tells them "you asked for it".
In New Orleans there's a friend of Reid's. Ethan, who quit after only one day of Fbi training. Regrets? "you know, I may not be changing the world, but my music makes me happy. It doesn't take a profiler to see that you're not". When Emily calls Reid, he ignores all the calls. She's worried, and Gideon snaps "come on, you think I'm not aware something's going on with him?".
At the end, Reid is listening to Ethan's music, and Gideon joins him. "how did you find me?" - "you're not that hard to profile" :-p
"I've been playing at this job one way or another for almost thirty years. I've felt lost. I've felt great. I have felt scared, sick, insane. I don't know. I guess the day this job stops gnawing at your soul, and your hands stop feeling cold, maybe that's the time to leave"
JJ is from Pennsylvania.
 - Robert Kennedy once said: tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live;
ep 19 - Ashes and dust - South San Francisco, California. A man puts houses on fire, killing the family inside. A serial arsonist. "he's like a drug addict.. almost impossible for him to quit without help" then Gideon looks at Reid  and he avoids his gaze.
Hotch talks to Evan Abby, who tells him the unsub's name. Gideon:"you saw something in Abby that you identified with" - Hotch:"I catch killers, I save lives, I'm a hero until my key hits my front door and then I'm just the father and the husband who's never there" Gideon:"yeah, I got that one" Hotch:"here's the thing. When I'm home, I'm in this silent panic because I know that I have to be as good as I can, as fast as I can, because any minute the phone is going to ring and my time is up, and that panic is exactly what I saw in Abby"  Gideon:"good. You're Abby. You're a dead man walking and you've got to make this right. You have no time left. How do you do it? Come on, don't think about it. You know the answer. What is it?" Hotch:"I'd stop him" G:"how?"  H:"I'd burn him. The same way he killed them. And I'd do it where nobody could get hurt"
Hotchner is a great character, he's The Hero, but he's not perfect, and he has strong feelings; usually he doesn't show it, so when you see a breach in the armour it's touching; he's always so strong, sure, serious, and that's why a smile from him feels so precious, a laugh makes your day, a tear breaks your heart. I didn't at first, but now I see that he is this show, he's the beating heart of it.
Emily:"no statistics?" Reid:"I'm trying to be more conversational" :-)
Hotch's father died of lung cancer.
 - The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. John Calvin;
 - Ghandy said: Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever;
ep 20 - Honor among thieves - The team goes to Baltimore, Maryland, for a case brought to Emily by her mother the ambassador. A girl and a man kidnap russian men and cut them a finger, to force a russian mob boss to pay the ransom, but when they go too far, he'll take care of it. Well, Bau didn't do much this time, did they?
 - An old russian proverb reminds us: there can be no good without evil;
 - Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way: Leo Tolstoy;
ep 21 - Open season - in Idaho, two boys hunt people down in the woods with bows and arrows. Their last prey is a tough girl who reacts strongly, attacks one of themand... I'm not sure now if he dies or not, after Hotch talks to him. Anyway, eventually she's saved by the team, but not before she gets four people involved and killed; sure it wasn't her fault, she was running for her life and scared, but still it seems one of those occasions when there's an happy ending just because the one we knew is saved, not caring that many others died... although to be fair lots of people always die in "criminal minds", and the best happy ending you can get is when they catch the bastard.
JJ, Penelope and Emily are together in a bar, and they meet "a real Fbi agent" and flirting ask him if they can see the badge, then they go: Emily="tell me Brad, does it look anything like this?"; JJ:"or this?"; Garcia:"or maybe this?" and he goes away, of course. The girls are having fun :-)
At the end Emily gets philosophical on us: "we hunt these people every day. How different are we, us and them?"; now, what kind of a question is that? It's a stupid thing to say, Bau hunts them only because they kill people, not for fun. If people stopped killing, would Emily still hunt them for her own amusement? If not, then there's her answer right there! Not the same!
 - One man's wilderness is another man's theme park: author unknown;
 - British historian James Anthony Froude once said: wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing on itself;
ep 22 - Legacy - Detective McGee keeps notes of homeless people in his town, and says they're disappearing. At least 63 people, he says. None of his fellow policemen agree with him, but he's from Kansas city, Kansas, but the letter he found comes from Kansas city, Missouri, right across the river, which makes it federal :-) so they work the case and find it was true, and they stop this.
Gideon is watching Chaplin's tapes in his office. "A night in the show" makes him laugh :-) Hotch:"you have Chaplin on film?" Gideon:"My great granddad was an accountant at one of the first movie studios. Chicago. Essanay Studios. Closed 1920. They closed down, they let my grandpa take a couple extra prints home" Hotch:"they let him?" Gideon:"well, that's the family story. We're sticking to it" :lol: I loved this! Gideon laughs, Hotch too, but to me it seemed like he laughed in response to Gideon's laugh, not exactly to the film :-) At the end of the episode, they all watch Chaplin's film together :-) Emily, Garcia with Morgan, their heads close, JJ throwing popcorn at Reid .-) ,  Hotch and Gideon.
 - Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticism made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. Herman Merville;
 - Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. Charles Chaplin;
ep 23 - No way out, part II: the evolution of Frank - Jason is buying flowers for a certain Sarah, but Frank (Keith Carradine) is with her and Jason is worried sick.
At Jason's apartment, Frank kills her. Jason is greatly hit:"if I hadn't been late, she'd still be alive. He butchered her, Hotch". Jason is wanted for this, but they can't lose time so they help him secretely. Garcia brings him the files and drives him to the Smythsonian. Frank wants to kill the people that Jason saved, because Jane left him. He kills Rebecca, poor Rebecca, as if she hadn't already had enough!! Then he goes after little Tracy Belle (a great little Elle Fanning) but they save her :-)
Erin Strauss is troubling Hotchner: "as your superior, I am questioning your ability to lead your team" - "My team? Let me tell you about my team. Agent Morgan fought to protect his identity from the very people who could save him. Why? Because trust has to be earned and there are very few people he truly trusts. Reid's intellect is a shield which protects him from his emotions and at the moment his shield is under repair. Prentiss overcompensates because she doesn't yet feel she's a part of the team. She needn't worry. Every day agent Jareau fields dozens of requests for our team, and every night she goes home hoping she's made the right choices. Garcia fills her office with figurines and colour to remind herself to smile as the horror fills her screens and agent Gideon in many ways is damned by his profound knowledge of others, which is why he shares so little of himself, yet he pours his heart into every case we handle. I stand by my actions, and I stand by my team"
Well said Hotch! But she's not ready to let it go, and she tells Prentiss to help her end Hotchner's career !
 - I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquantances ofr their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects. Oscar Wilde;