Criminal minds season 7

I had to look again for the episode titles because my dvds didn't show them. I was glad to see that Paget Brewster was again in the opening titles, and AJ Cook too, but a bit sorry to say goodbye to Seaver already. The character had potential, I thought.
JJ comes back a full profiler now, no more liaison officer, apparently then don't need one anymore :-/
Garcia keeps doing the explaining that was once JJ's job.

ep 1 - It takes a village
Apparently Seaver was transferred to another unit. Garcia wears such high heels, it's no wonder she walks funny! Garcia has been taking care of Sergio this whole time and Emily goes: "oh I knew you would" :-) yeah. As I expected the most troubled/shocked/angry at Emily's reappearance are Reid and Morgan.
This episode moves back and forth from the present and the beginning of the case. At the present they are on trial, the team altogether, and we hear that JJ came back 14 weeks ago and in that time they have solved 17 cases, and also that JJ has quite a record "reinstated, promoted and suspended in such short time" . After they all explain how things went, they are all dismissed but Prentiss. Eventually she comes back: suspension has been lifted for everyone, and Emily is back with the team.
Did anyone like how it ended? They seemed so angry to put them on trial, saying things like they can't put rules aside and make their own, and other things, and then all of a sudden all was forgotten because Emily told them that her team 'work with integrity and honor their oath' and in case they don't remember it she quotes the whole thing, sort of swearing it again, I guess. It was too easy, so much so as to be silly.
For seven months Morgan and Garcia have been working on the Doyle case without telling the others. They find Doyle's son, Declan, and soon after that the father shows up in Garcia's monitors. Now that they have found him, they call Hotch (he was in Pakistan leading an investigating task force - with a beard :-)) ) and then they tell everything to the rest of the team.
Someone takes the child, killing a woman and two agents. Because of this, Emily is flying back.
Hotch : "seven months ago I made a decision that affected this team" and he goes on telling them the truth. Emily is alive and is coming back.
They take Doyle in , and he didn't know his son had been taken. Emily can help them with her knowledge of Doyle's people. Declan has been taken by her mum, to get back at Doyle who chained her for seven months to be sure she'd have the child. Reid suggests to give her Doyle to save Declan. They try that, but there's a shooting, and Doyle and the woman and the man who was working with her, they all die, but the kid is safe.
 - Queen Elizabeth the first said: The past cannot be cured.
ep 2 - Proof
Garcia will be having a Fellini Festival at her house and wants Rossi to teach her an Italian dish.
JJ is upset because Reid is avoiding her, she thinks he's angry at her and he is: "Jennifer listen, (..) I trusted you, I came to your house for ten weeks in a row crying over losing a friend and not once did you have the decency to tell me the truth" and even adds that he had thought about using drugs again, then he starts to leave and she calls him back saying she's sorry but he says "it's too late alright?".
Seeing this, Hotch tells him "if you want to be mad at someone be mad at me" and Reid replies "I can't. I didn't come to your house crying for ten weeks" :-(
Emily asks Morgan "what do I do about Reid?" - Morgan:"Emily there's a lot about you being back that it's unresolved" - E:"are you pissed at me too?" - M:"come on now, how could I be? You're here (..) " which was very sweet of him, although I imagine he must be a bit angry at Hotch..
Hotch suggests they all get together at Rossi's house for his cooking lesson to Garcia to sort things out :lol: Rossi is not so upset as the others at Emily's fake-death and comeback, because he says he had suspicions about it, that that's because he's good at what he does :-p
Aww I liked their reunion at Rossi's house, he's funny and they all smile and Reid comes too :-)
Durant, Okhlahoma.
A mentally retarded man abducts and tortures and kills girls that remind him of a girl that rejected him in high-school: his now sister-in-law, but he was always a bad one, enjoying killing animals. They catch him, he's evil; they save the girl (his brother's daughter) but he had burned her hands with acid.
 - If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary. Mark Twain
 - Scott Adams wrote: Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
ep 3 - Dorado falls
It seems Garcia must have made some kind of quote with her 'you know how to whistle' joke but I didn't get it. What I do get are the Dr Who references :-D it seems a man wasn't at work that day because he was "at a Doctor Who convention" :-) Yeeah, indeed, the Doctor has saved another one :-p and Reid calls it an awesome convention :-))
Emily has been believed dead for "seven months of hell", Morgan's words, so now he wants to see Emily in training, as a sort of reassurance that he doesn't have to worry about losing her again on the field. :-)
Charlottesville, VA
A man walks into an office and kills everyone (8 dead) with a gun and a knife. This Luke then kills his own parents, then he goes looking for his 'real parents', because he killed 'the replacements'. He has a condition and he's now delusional, and is now in Quantico after his wife and daughter, there in protected custody. His eyes play tricks on him, so they talk to him and it's all going rather well, it seems, he's going to surrender, and they order him to close his eyes, but at the last moment he opens them, not resisting the temptation I guess, and it all goes bad, and they have to drag him away from his family.
 - Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt
 - We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles
ep 4 - Painless
It starts with Hotch talking to Jack's teacher in school, and it ends with him saying this to Emily: "there's a kid that's being mean to him at school and Jack's solution is to invite him over and make friends with him" - Emily:"that is the sweetest and saddest thing I've heard".
Reid 'coached' basketball at school. Morgan, talking to journalists, at one points says "feel free to call me" then his name "it's Dr Spencer Reid" and Reid's phone number :-p jerk :-p Because of this Reid keeps receiving calls until he loses his patience, and from the look on Morgan's face he finally understands the truth and mumbles "I'll crush you" before leaving the room. It was a nice moment, made you wonder what he would do next, but it was a huge disappointment; it would appear that all Reid does is screaming into his radio or cell phone - well, I've no idea how he managed to pull that one, still I expected something more.
Case: some years ago a kid, Randy, came into school with a gun and a bomb. He shot some students then he blew himself up. Now there's gonna be a commemoration at the school, but the things starts again. A bomb kills the principal, and some ex students are killed also. The guy responsible is the only one who that day years ago had raised his eyes to face Randy and his gun, but nobody even knows his name because someone else stole his story to appear on tv. He won't stop, so Hotch has to shoot him dead.
 - You may leave school, but it never leaves you. Andy Partridge
 - Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Khalil Gibran
ep 5 - From childhood's hour
When Morgan calls Garcia he, for once, didn't tell her right away that she was on speaker :lol: luckily no stranger heard her, only the team :-p
Rossi had breakfast with Carolyn: Emily"is that wife number 4 or 5?" and he says "look let's get our facts straight, I only had three wives. I mean, that's within the realm of reasonable" :-p lovely that he then talks about it to Emily :-) sure she asked, but still he could have kept by himself, instead he shared :)
It ends with Rossi having dinner with Carolyn, and it turns out she's ill, she doesn't have long to live, and she asks him "when it's time will you help me end my life?" oh my...
Case: St. Louis. A mother with problems of depression leaves her son at the grandparents house, in the garden, where he is abducted. A guy abducts children whose mothers have problems, then he keeps them in their 'new home'. This guy had pushed his own suicidal mother off a bridge, and now wanted the kids' consent to kill their mothers too (we see him killing just one mother, but the child thought he would help her, not kill her, I think, surely?). They stop him and save the children. The last one to be abducted was a teenage girl with her mother. She had called 911 saying her mom's boyfriend was either abusive or violent or maybe both, not sure, but her mother said she didn't believe it, and this guy learned about their situation because he answered the 911 call. Once at his home, the first child told the mother that the unsub would try and get her daughter's consent to kill her, but the woman says she will never accept that, because her daughter loves her, that they fight a lot but still they love each other, and the child now says that if her daughter won't consent, the unsub will probably get angry and violent at her, so the mother gets scared for her daughter's life and when they are all in the same room she starts saying horrible things to her daughter to make her kill her.. it was a hard scene. The team saves everyone, though. Good.
 - From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw. Edgar Allan Poe
 - All things truly wicked start from an innocence. Ernest Hemingway
ep 6 - Epilogue
Reid times how long does it take for them to turn their page over when they read :p
Garcia says "faster than a hotch, rocket!" which is not funny, unless hotch is also a word meaning something real, that I don't know.
Hotch wears a blue shirt with a t-shirt underneath, and no jacket. Looks good, but he's so so thin..
Rossi has been thinking of his ex-wife's request, and when they get back he tells her that he can't, he just can't, of course, but she knew that already, she tells him she knows him and that he's "the best man I've ever known, that's why I wanted you to be with me tonight". Of course he understands, want to call for an ambulance but she stops him, and he cries hugging her. We see him at the end sitting near these graves: "Carolyn Baker Rossi born 8 June 1955 died 26 October 2011" and "James David Rossi beloved son, born 26 April 1979 died 26 April 1979" I didn't know about that!
Ridge Canyon Lake, California.
A teenager is believed dead by his bad father who had thrown him in the lake, and is buried. He comes out of there, and kills his father. He also has, now, a bad illness, and wants to know what's coming to him when he dies, so he abducts people, drowns them then revives them to ask what they saw.
Morgan: "no one actually sees the afterlife"
Reid "I did. Before Tobias resuscitated me I had that exact experience (..) I am a man of science, I didn't know how to deal with it"
Emily "when I coded in the ambulance, all I felt was cold and darkness, and I would like to think that there's a different future waiting for me"
 - To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm
 - The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeded it. Mary Catherine Bateson
ep 7 - There's no place like home
There's a new case and JJ has to go back to work even if she had two days off. Will is not happy about this, it was better when she was at the Pentagon, but she says she wasn't helping anyone there, and in the end he tells her to go. This is more or less how it was between Hotch and Haley, although not entirely because Will is a cop so it's different.  - Such a funny thing, it seems I can't bring myself to call Hotch by his first name, which is absurd because I like the name more than the surname, it just doesn't feel...like I should, you know -
A guy lost his beloved big brother on a storm, than another storm destroyed his grave, and now he's killing teenagers and taking body parts from them to build his own Frankenstein Monster, believing he'll bring back his brother. They find him in time to save the last guy (good, I liked him a lot) but the unsub walks towards the tornado and is taken away.
It ends with JJ calling home and telling a bedtime story to her child on the phone, 'the baby star story' and it's a nice image that she didn't have the book but knew it perfectly word for word, makes you think of how many times she's read it to him :-) I love this nice touch :-)
 - For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood, do but make it pulse more vigorously. George Gissing
 - Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Arthur Golden
ep 8 - Hope
At a meeting Garcia speaks of when she was a teenager and had again come home crazy late and her parents had gone out looking for her, and they were killed by a drunk driver.
It's Garcia's victims support group.
Eight-year-old Hope disappeared seven years ago, and her mom Monica disappears now. The same man, Bill (isn't he the cheerleader's father from Heroes?) is desperate because Hope committed suicide when she became pregnant, and takes Monica to make a baby together and recreate Hope.
Penelope and the team arrive to free her, but of course what she saw and heard was too much for everyone. It's absurd that none of them thought of this: as soon as she was free Monica grabbed Bill's gun next to her and shot him. Of course, who wouldn't have want to kill him in the same situation...
 - Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. George Iles
 - We are each on our own journey, each of us on our very own adventure, encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go. Those choices will stretch us and test us and push us to our limit, and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever knew we could be.
I searched the Internet about this quote, because it sounded like a quote but no name was given at the end, so I'm not sure. On the internet I found many sites with this quote from this show, all of them coming from the same source whatever that might be since they all show the same details and the same errors, and anyway they all produce "Aamnah Akram" at the end of it, for whatever reason; I don't know. 
At the end we hear Garcia's voice: "There's a quote by my favourite author Joseph Campbell and it goes like this:
 - Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
The ep ends with Garcia keeping on with the group, and at a ceremony just for them for Monica to say goodbye to Hope: the group close to her, she releases butterflies from a jar and cries, and Garcia is with her (with a lovely haircut, short blonde hair - well, she's been blonde since the second half of season 6)
ep 9 - Self fulfilling prophecy
At a military academy, some kids were camping by themselves, in the woods, for six days. Five out of six are found dead, hanged. The team + Garcia + Strauss go to investigate.
Rossi and Emily go into the woods and when they come back she's itching all over and says to Rossi "if I've got it, so do you" and he says "I'm Italian, it knows better" :-p
A boy too much bullied had killed himself. His father is the one who killed those five boys, the worst bullies of the academy, then he fell to his death into a trap.
This colonel Massey (Rene Auberjonois) seems a jerk to me. Josh was defending the poor boys that were bullied, but Massey didn't let him. He wanted Josh dead because he couldn't control him/break him, but the team saves Josh and arrest the colonel.
Strauss lost her patience with Massey and Morgan questioned her: "have you been drinking?" because he could smell alcohol :-/
Morgan confronts Hotch who says "she was getting help" and Morgan "you keep telling me that I have problems trusting people but from where I'm standing you're the one who can't trust anyone with anything".
At the end Hotch and Morgan confront Strauss, telling her she needs help and sort of has to step down, and they'll have her checked-in privately. "you have no idea what this is going to do to me" she says.
 - Things do not change. We change. Henry David Thoreau
 - Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de la Fontaine.
ep 10 - The bittersweet science
Hotch is running :-) training for the FBI triathlon in February, apparently :-) and a woman stops to talk to him and he smiles :-) but then she asks to bike together and he says he'll call her and she gives him her card: Beth :-). Rossi is all "you're going, right?" and "is she cute?"- "yes, she is, but I need to focus on my training, I don't need to be distracted" - "yes, you should be distracted, distracted is good" :lol: so nice :-D
Garcia to Rossi: "out with it. Is Hotch dating?" :-p
Hotch did go biking with Beth :-) I hope she's a good one and won't turn out to have a hidden agenda. I want him to be happy :-D
Philadelphia, PA. The unsub is a boxer with a lust for blood. His little son is in a hospital dying of leukemia, and he can't accept it. He killed some men with his bare hands, but when they catch him, Hotch goes to tell him that his son is dying and he needs to be a father for him, not a fighter or a trainer, and help his son, and he takes him into the son's room. Hotch is amazing *tears*
 - Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no-one wants to die. Joe Louis
 - Herman Hesse wrote: some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
ep 11 - True genius
Violent Crimes Seminar, Chicago, Illinois. Patricia Cornwell is there!! "in the end I just write about violent crimes, the real heroes are the people here beside me, now give a warm welcome to our next speaker Dr Spencer Reid of the BAU" !! She's also signing books for her last one "Red Mist".
Reid is lost for a moment, like he's not doing enough with his life and should be doing more and he talks to Emily (he's 30 now, and Emily says that they missed his birthday).

It ends with them throwing a surprise party for Reid's birthday, when they get back :-)

Marin County, California.
Apparently "the Zodiac" is back. He killed 40 years ago so should be at least in his 60s now.
Reid is the only one sure that this is not the real Zodiac, and he's right.
Birmingham, Alabama, called the magic city. Reid thinks he'll strike there and they wait for him, instead a letter arrives, to Reid: "you're not as smart as you think you are" and two people are killed in Albany Park.
In America do they really have the IQ of everyone? Do they have to take IQ tests in schools??
Caleb and Harvey were friends since they were kids, inseparable geniuses, and once they killed a boy and were never found out. As they grew older, Harvey kept his distance, and is now engaged to be married and planning on moving to Shanghai. Caleb has been "bringing back" the Zodiac to 'communicate' with him, trying to win him back since they used to play investigators.
At last he abducts his fiancee and tells her what they did to that kid and asks him to kill her and run away with him. Reid comes, talking to them, and is successful in getting through to Caleb, so they arrest him, and Harvey too I should think.
 - Three can keep a secret if two are dead. Benjamin Franklin.
 - There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. Dante
ep 12 - Unknown subject
Emily's therapy sessions are over, but Hotch can't be fooled so easily, because he does read the reports, and this one says: "she has started a romantic relationship with a man named Sergio", and Hotch knows that's her cat :-p he tells her "you've been overcompensating. You rushed to repair your relationship with Morgan, you've become an emotional sounding board for Reid and Rossi, you offered me parenting advice. (..) it only is (such a bad thing) if you use it to avoid dealing with what you went through" and then he says "I want you to make a deal with me. You're gonna go weeks, months even feeling fine, and then you're gonna have a bad day. Just let me know when you do", that's it, he's such a sweetie :-)
Houston, Texas. Women that were once victims of a serial rapist are now raped again, even worse.
One of the women is killed. It turns out the first and second assault were done by a different person. A victim, Regina, holds a man hostage, sure that it was him, "the piano man", and he was! They told her he wasn't so that she wouldn't kill him and become a murderer.
It ends with Emily affected by Regina's story of having her monster still alive to deal with, and she tells Hotch "I'm having a bad day" The end.
The actress playing Regina was good, and also a beautiful woman.
 - We do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler
 - All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis
ep 13 - Snake eyes
Garcia and Kevin had a fight last night, so we hear, and this morning she has a terrible headache and Morgan comes out of the shower and she had no idea he was in, and now she can't even look him in the eyes :-p which I think was very silly of her.
It ends with Morgan going to Garcia to clear things up. She's been avoiding him, barely speaking to him. She's very relieved when he tells her he came to keep her company, they had popcorn and watched a movie, she fell asleep and he slept on the couch.
Garcia has decided to have 'an extended date every Tuesday night' after the fight. Kevin comes in when she still has her hand on Morgan's neck but he's used by now to their friendship and simply says "hey Derek". Morgan tells her "you got a great guy out there, you know that right?" :-))
Atlantic city, NJ A man thinks he has found a gambling system that works: he kills someone he knows and he'll get lucky. He shoots his friend then enters a poker tournament. To catch him, our team uses Rossi's money :-p to put Reid inside, but honestly there was no need to, since Garcia finds him too. Whey they corner him and he has no way out, he kills himself.
 - A Chinese proverb says: at the gambling table there are no fathers and sons.
 - George Augustus Sala said: a gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.
ep 14 - Closing time
Hotch still trains with Beth :-) they laugh together :-D but now training's over. Beth:"what are we going to do about that?" Hotch:"I think we should do something" (...)  "Aaron Hotchner, are you asking me out on a date?" - "I'm trying, it's not going very well" - "accepted, eagerly anticipated. When shall I expect my chariot?":-D "Friday"
When he tells Rossi, he goes "come hell or high water Aaron, I will get us back by Friday" :-D love this :D
After the case. It appears it's now Valentine's day. After hearing this, Hotch puts aside his paperwork to go out with Beth. He shows up at her door: she said "flowers? wow, thank you, it's not even Friday" which doesn't make much sense in my opinion. He says that he knows but since he had time he thought they might go out, or something. She seemed surprise but she was ready to go out, so I definitely think he called her to anticipate their date since it's S.Valentine's day. It was a bit strange though because they greeted each other as though it was a surprise, and yet she was all dressed up and ready to go.
Anyway, she kisses him right away, a sweet little kiss, then they go holding hands, and they talk, he says "It's not often that I'm speechless but I am now" and then he laughs... aww I wish she's for real and they'll be happy :-)
Playa del Rey, California
After a divorce, and after finding out that his son is actually his friend's son, a man has a breakdown and starts killing people who had a broken heart or who cheated on their partner. When they find him, JJ talks to him and lowers her gun to calm him down then she attacks him bare-handed :-p tough girl, her character sure developed lately :-p
Morgan : "all I'm saying is that I'm never making you angry again :-p
 - For trust not him that hath once broken faith. William Shakespeare
 - You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. Frank Crane
ep 15 - A thin line
Emily got injured during an action, and Morgan feels responsible for sending her in. "you're a team leader, you made a tactical decision" - "and you got hurt, again" - "you did what you thought was right, that's all you can do. The rest of it, that's not up to us, that's the job" then she jokes a little, messing with him, and they laugh together :-)
San Bernardino, California. Two home invasions, two whole families killed, and each time one of the attackers was killed too, but they were actually victims too. There's a politician, Clark Preston, who is basing his campaign on racism and fight against immigrants (...mind you, this was shot years ago, so any possible reference to events or people of today are totally casual, of course..). He also manipulated a young man into killing for him. This guy lost his father and sister in a home invasion, and his mother is still in near-vegetative state after brain-damage, and Preston took advantage of that, and brainwashed him , turning him into a fanatic killer. Preston also bought all the property that lost value after the killings. Of course they arrest Preston, but the young man Mills got himself killed.
This boy had drugged some men with the excuse of giving them some work to do, and then he killed them to make it look like they had done the invasions and killings. He drugged two black man and a Mexican immigrant, I think, because he wanted to start a racial war, or something like that. He was a real fanatic.
 - Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honoré de Balzac
 - I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or against. Malcolm X
ep 16 - A family affair
Come on, there's a scene where JJ says "it's a loading zone parking only" so that means the man must have a permit because he got no ticket... we live in different worlds, I guess, truly!
Reid volunteers to babysit JJ's son while she's on a lady's night with Garcia and Prentiss. The girls got so drunk that the next day they were feeling terrible. Why is it always like that, can't people go out without getting drunk? Friends can't have fun without drinking themselves to oblivion? That seems so sad and kind of pathetic. I mean, if it happens once ok, but every single time, like there cannot be any fun without alcohol, that seems rather sad to me. I'm not saying they shouldn't drink but there's a difference between having a drink together and getting totally wasted :-/
Finally we see the triathlon, and we see Hotch finish it (he's number 62, not that it matters anyway), and Rossi took Jack there (Jack calls him 'uncle Dave' aww) and the team's all there, and Hotch introduces Beth and Jack, and they look so nice and he's happy :-)
A guy on a wheelchair is impotent and likes stabbing girls violently and many times, and his parents are not only covering for him, but also finding new girls for him, cleaning the blood mess and disposing of the bodies. This is one of those cases when the first profile is wrong, believing there's a sort of same-age-duo, they couldn't imagine a family right away, of course. The father then commits suicide with a note confessing the murders, in a last attempt to protect his family. The mother is about to shoot a girl when the team arrives, they kill her and arrest Jeffrey.
 - Eckhart Tolle said: where there's anger, there is always pain underneath.
 - Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr
ep 17 - Foundation
A kid, Angel, has been held prisoner for years by some man. Somehow he escaped, so the man took another child. Angel was in such a state, he didn't speak, didn't allow anyone near, he even cut his wrists. Slowly Morgan got through to him. They found his mother and she comes for him.
A woman remembers something from her childhood, and Emily talks to her, gets her to help them, and Emily is convinced that this woman's father did it. True, and they catch him and save the last child.
 - Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver
 - Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne
ep 18 -  I love you, Tommy Brown
Seattle, Washington. A woman breaks into people's homes and kills the couples in, because she says 'she loves Tommy Brown'. She's targeting couples offering foster care for little babies, and she keeps killing until she finds the baby she's looking for, then she goes straight to the guy she loves. Tommy is 16, and his mom sent her to jail for it. Now this woman wants to run away with him and the baby.
She's not about to surrender, so they shoot her.
Kevin wants to propose to Garcia, but she freaks out, she doesn't think it a good thing, and he asks "are you against marriage or are you against marrying me?"- "I'm just not ready yet"- "Well I am" and he walks away... what? Did he leave her or did she leave him? They love each other but since she isn't ready to marry him they have to break up?? Just like that? Maybe their story was not all that important to them after all, I suppose, to give it up just like that, almost for nothing. I mean she 's afraid that marriage ruins relationships so she'd rather break up instead???
 - It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.
 - For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett
ep 19 - Heathridge manor
A woman (Juliet Landau) was put in a mental hospital and died two years later in a fire that she herself probably set, leaving a son and a daughter. Now the son puts some women to a sort of witch trial: drowning them, and if they survive he kills them and puts on them an elaborate dress like his mother wore in a Shakespeare play, believing they are the Devil's wives. His mother tried to do the same thing, that's why they locked her up. His sister isn't allowed out of the house, kept reclusive in the house without visits or computer. He has to kill three women, but the third actually drowns, so 'she was innocent'. Then he does it to his sister but the team saves her. James attacks Hotch and they fight, and James is killed.
The ending seems like the girl's a bit crazy too, though. The last scene is : the devil comes to her door to get her, and she takes his hands. She sees him but nobody else does. In a deleted scene her mother said that 'the devil will come soon to collect his new bride', which I think is the reason why the poor girl was without an arm, like her mother did that to her to make her less appealing to the devil ... :-/
The detective was played by Robert Englund
 - We are each our own devil, and we make this world our own hell. Oscar Wilde
 - All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
ep 20 - The company
Chicago, Illinois. One of Derek's sister has a bad car accident because she thought she had seen Cindy (the missing cousin) and wasn't paying attention to the road. Derek doesn't believe her at first, but she insists. Derek calls Hotch and asks for their help. He told his aunt that that man had killed Cindy (I remember, yes) because she had been missing for eight years and he believed his family needed closure.
When Garcia calls Derek and he asks her to talk to him, no matter what about just talk, it was gold. Made me think of that old episode when he came out alive from a bad bomb-situation, and he told her to never stop talking to him...
Cindy has been a prisoner all this time, held by her real stalker (the one that died was set up and killed). Now this Malcolm has her completely subdued and treats her like a slave, even got her to sign a slave-contract. He's not the only one, there's a network of men whose women are completely under their orders, and he punishes her if she doesn't comply instantly. Yet, when they arrest this Malcolm, Cindy comes with a lawyer saying she loves him and they have to let him go. The reason for this is: Cindy had a child. All these captive women had their children kept away from them, and they obeyed blindly to protect them. They save the children and arrest Malcolm and Cindy comes back home with her son Anthony :-)
 - Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie. Robert Brault
ep 21 - Divining rod
A serial killer is executed. He had the choice and he chose the firing squad.. I didn't know that was possible.  Minutes after that someone starts killing in the same way, stab through the heart and also cut their hair. Of course it's not his ghost, it's the prison shuttle driver, in love with murderer Garrett's widow. He made her a wig with real hair. She's shocked, but they stop him and save her.
Reid doesn't shake hands? Really?? Has he never done that?
 - Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. William Blake
 -It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
ep 22 - Profiling 101
At a school, the whole team talks about what their job actually is, and they do it by presenting and detailing a specific case: Rossi worked at it, and that's when he first met "Agent Hotchner, Seattle division" already FBI.
They caught this Thomas Yates but there was no death penalty because they made a deal. Yates gave him a list of victims yet not found and agreed to give him another name every year. Today is that day, and it's Rossi's birthday.
 - The philosopher Voltaire wrote: to the living we owe respect but to the dead we owe only the truth.
(this one was actually spoken by Rossi)
 - Irish statesman and author Edmund Burke once wrote: the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
ep 23 - Hit
There were a few nice home scenes of our team: JJ playing soccer with her son while Will goes to work; Hotch and Beth with Jack; Garcia at a sci-fi con, with Reid dressed as the Fourth Doctor with his famous scarf :-D that he knitted himself :-D and Kevin is there with another girl... and Kevin is dressed up as Doctor 11, with the fez !! :-D and Garcia is too :-p Reid calls the convention "the greatest party ever" :-)
Kevin's girl is dressed as Amy in the police costume :-p (Garcia looks really good with this hairstyle).
Derek is with Emily, looking up apartments.
There's a bank robbery, and Will is one of the agents to respond. Clyde from Interpol calls Emily to help her with information and he says that he's been promoted so "the team's yours whenever you want it" offering her to run Interpol!!
There are two brothers and a woman in the bank, with lots of hostages. One of the men dies, so his brother wants Will because he shot him. The woman is completely off, sadist and vain, rather crazy. They want Will but they refuse to let him go in saying it's too dangerous, but they shoot people so Will goes in and JJ goes crazy, and Morgan struggles to hold her there, great scene, and they shot Will and I got really worried but no, he's still alive. He manages to distract the man and give the hostages the chance to escape :-) Then the bank explodes, and who knows who died there, agents had gone in .. :-( I don't know if they told us about that..
 - Fear is met and destroyed with courage. James F. Bell
ep 24 - Run
Now everyone's on site, but the two criminals escape, taking Will with them. After he questioned her, she shot her partner, but then she had another one, who posed as a hostage inside. She goes to Will's house and stays with the child, so Will will have to do whatever the man says. He needs Will to have access to some areas of a train station that he wants to blow up.
JJ goes home to kick her ass, then Emily finds Will attached to some bombs and stays there to try save him. Morgan chases her partner and Hotch shoots him dead.
Kevin and Penelope worked side by side here. Finally JJ agrees to marry Will :-)
Strauss thanks Morgan for confronting her about her drinking problem forcing her to change.
Next day there is JJ's wedding: Derek talks to Emily about her plans: she's seriously thinking of running the Interpol London's Office, and right she is in doing so, that's quite an offer!! ; Hotch comes with Beth and Jack, Kevin with that other girl. Rossi's the one who threw the party :-) a surprise-wedding party :-p JJ's mom brings her a dress :-) Reid shows magic tricks to JJ's son, and she's beautiful in that dress, and they get married :-) Emily looks at them dancing, probably thinking she'll miss them if she accepts that other job. They all dance, even Reid with Emily. She also dances with Rossi and Hotch (!) and Morgan, and it feels already a goodbye-party. More or less everyone dances with everyone :-D
 - I've always heard every ending is also a beginning, we just don't know it at the time. I'd like to believe that's true.
These are Emily's last words.
End of season 7

Marple - They do it with mirrors - 2009

Not my favourite, but it had some good points, like Penelope Wilton and Joan Collins as the sisters Carrie Louise and Ruth :-p and some other bits of good acting here and there. It starts with Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie) talking to her old friend Ruth who tells her of a fire at her sister's house, and says "someone in that house wishes my sister harm" - "You believe me? Nothing's ever surprised you, has it Jane? Because you always think the worst" and Marple "The worst is so often true".
Marple accepts her friend request and pays Carrie Louise a visit. She lives with her husband (the third one I think) Lewis Serrocold, her adopted child Gina and her real daughter Mildred who never stood a chance, because CL was always overindulgent with Gina and neglecting toward her, all because the wanted to 'make no difference' between the two daughters. :-/  There is also Steven, her stepson by her second husband, and Wally: Gina's American husband, who always looks away as if indifferent, but quite handsome, specially when he smiles. He's homesick and Marple says "there's only one known cure for that" and he says "try telling that to Princess. What have I got to give her? Two clammy rooms in a gas station" .
There's also a strange guy called Edgar Lawson who seems to be crazy, one of the guys the Serrocolds want to help, and then Christian came in, asking Marple "Is her heart strong?". Christian is supposed to be CL's stepson from her first husband, but he looked more like he could have been her father, not her son, or even stepson.
While the family is rehearsing a play, Edgar comes in with a gun and there's a bit of commotion, some people are scared except CL who says that Edgar "is harmless". Later Christian if found dead, killed with Wally's knife, so the silly man tries to run away in a bicycle.. When the police arrests him, Gina goes crazy, then she shows them a secret passage to prove that anyone could have done it. When  interrogated, she asks "you're not really going to arrest my Wally are you?". Then she asks him: "where were you going, what about me?" but he says nothing so she goes away. She cries, and Steve tries to make her laugh, and he kisses her, and she thinks that Wally doesn't care so plans to go with him. It turns out that Louis was involved in a financial fraud, because he had put all his money into the facility (the place where they try to give a better chance to young men who have been in prison). He killed Christian while Edgar was helping him with the big scene, and Edgar was his real son, and when he ran away Louis followed him, and they both drowned in the lake, somehow.
At the end they are all ready to go away and leave the house empty. Gina is going with Steven when she sees Wally alone and goes to him, they talk and he tells her to stay and she says "it's all settled" meaning she has to go with Steven, and Wally says "then unsettle it", and she says "I can't believe you still want me" and he says something like there never was a moment when he didn't want her, and she goes to America with him to live on a farm, Wyoming I think, and they are happy.
It would have been a lovely romance if he had put a bit of passion into it. Most of the time he really seemed indifferent.
I liked when Gina went crazy over Wally's arrest, though. That was a nice moment.
Generally, it was a little mess.


ITA giochi di prestigio

Marple - By the pricking of my thumbs -

I didn't like it. It features Tommy (Anthony Andrews) and Tuppence (Greta Scacchi) Beresford now all grown up, with their three children away, and living alone with Tuppence at home like a bored housewife while Tommy works for secret service or something like that.
I didn't like the changes, I hated Tommy's patronizing attitude towards his wife. His "daaarling" was infuriating, he sounded so much like 'poor ignorant woman, mind your place', and at the end when they make peace, both saying 'I thought I'd lost you' it was annoying at best, giving their (his) previous attitude.
It starts with them going to visit Tommy's aunt in a nursing home. Miss Marple (Geraldine McEwan) is also there visiting a friend. Soon Ada dies and Mrs Lancaster (June Whitfield) disappears. Marple is very intrigued, because her friend says she saw two people take her away sort of against her will. Ada's things are sent to Tuppence, and among everything there's a painting that Mrs Lancaster gave her, and Ada in a letter had mentioned that Mrs Lancaster was in danger and that the painting was a clue. Marple and Tuppence start investigating by themselves, since Tommy is away somewhere, and they try to find the place. I don't remember just how they managed to find out the right town right away, still they go there but apparently nobody seems to know the house in the painting.
Good things: Hannah Beresford was played by Josie Lawrence, and I like her :) Reverend Septimus Bligh was played by Charles Dance, which would have been an even better thing with a better part. His revelation at the end was very, sort of too much theatrical.
Sir Philip (Leslie Phillips)'s wife years ago had taken a child and later killed the poor thing. Absolutely crazy, the woman. I don't know if she killed any other child, what is clear is that everyone who got close to the truth was killed. She was believed to be dead too, but instead she was simply kept hidden in that isolated house portrayed in the painting, and sometimes away in a nursing home under the name of Mrs Lancaster. A man was accused of the crime, but he died innocent. Septimus knew all about it, but his wife Nellie Bligh (Lia Williams) convinced him to keep quiet because Sir Philip was important, or something like that. They arrive at the house while Mrs Lancaster is trying to kill Tuppence, and they stop her.
I'm not bothered by the fact that they put Marple in a Tommy&Tuppence novel, honestly. They could put Marple in all of Agatha's books, I wouldn't mind if they did a good job! But please, come on, this movie was a bit of a mess, wasn't it? Leave out something if you don't have time for everything, and concentrate on the characters that matter, give them life! There's space for everything in a book, plus if the reader forgets something he can always go back and check before going on with the story, while a movie is a different thing!


ITA Sento i pollici che prudono

Marple - The Sittaford mystery -

I didn't like it. It's the story of Clive Trevelyan (Timothy Dalton) who started his fortune discovering a lost tomb in 1927 and is now talked of as the possible new prime minister. During a seance session he's told he will die and indeed he is killed that same night. Straight to the final explanation now, or it'll take forever.
So, in 1927, in Egypt, Trevelyan had killed his partner, to keep the entire treasure. He also left his girlfriend Violet while she was pregnant with his son, because she was his partner's sister. He now had the money he needed to build his political career.
Miss Marple (Geraldine McEwan) found herself staying at his house by chance. Raymond was supposed to be with her but he couldn't make it, so she found herself alone on the train (well, she talked to Trevelyan the whole time) then alone in a cold empty house, so Raymond asked (either Trevelyan or his agent/friend/whatever) to take her in. There's a big storm outside, it's a terrible night, still Trevelyan goes to the local Inn (there's only one). Many other people gather there that night: all connected, more or less. Young Violet (Carey Mulligan) has been seeing him for a while and is now his wife (although widow before their first wedding night). Her mother runs away with the cook of the Inn, who was really the escaped convict from the Dartmoor prison. There's one of Trevelyan's ex business partners, left in financial trouble while he saved himself some time before, or something like that. A man who saw the murderer and tried blackmail, always the safe thing to do with a murderer *rollingeyes*. A woman who recently found out what happened to her husband (the partner Trevelyan killed in Egypt) and tried to kill him with the help of Trevelyan's servant, with poisoned chocolates, failing because he left without eating them and that almost killed Marple, if the bird (an hawk, I think) hadn't eaten one before and died right then when she had one in her hand. James 'Jim' Pearson (Laurence Fox), a good-for-nothing young man angry at Clive because he thinks he wants to disinherit him. He was almost framed for two murders and still drinks, the stupid idiot learned nothing). Emily (Zoe Telford), Jim's fiancée. Charles (James Murray), who was posing as a journalist, but really he is old Violet's son. Once abandoned by Clive, the poor girl was repudiated by her family and died alone. He was seeking revenge. At the end Marple explains the truth at home, and Charles admits to everything. Emily takes out her gun and he goes near her. She hesitates because she has taken to like him, and when he dies, shot, it's not too clear to me if she shot herself or if he shot the gun. Anyway, he dies.
Emily goes away with Violet, but I think they said that Violet will come live in Trevelyan's house.

ITA : un messaggio dagli spiriti

To each his star by Bryce Walton

A short story (10 pages circa) taken from a collection of sci-fi stories. It's nice enough, but of course very predictable too, now. It takes two pages to know everything. After escaping from a prison somewhere in space, four men fly a ship towards a place that only old Dunbar knows, a beautiful place nobody's ever heard of. Their ship has been hit and destroyed (meteorite or something) and now they are drifting in space; their special spacesuit can keep them alive for months, even years. Dunbar is still optimistic, he's sure they'll reach a paradise that will repay them of everything. They are heading for the sun "with the red rim around it" but our narrator, Russell, is sure that Dunbar's no more than a crazy fool, because all the other suns show the same red rims. Now, at this point, having read the title, having read that there are four men and four suns around them, it was pretty obvious that they would separate. What wasn't obvious of course was how; this is what I hoped: they quarrel and they split, but no no no, because Russell actually did NOT want to separate from the others. He feared the terrible loneliness, out there in the darkness, but he had 'a hunch' that Dunbar was wrong, and that the right sun was at their left, so Russell shot the old man he hated so much.
The other two men are not happy about it, neither are they convinced by his hunch. One likes the son on the right, the other the sun behind them, so to Russell's horror they decide to split up. That's not what he wanted at all, and now he regrets having shot Dunbar, now he's sure that he'll never make it alone.
We leave them there, and the last bit is exactly what I imagined. A beautiful, inhabited place: Dunbar's body is found and buried, for the marvel of the people there, wondering how he managed to head in the only right direction there was.

Once upon a time series 3 - sort of

I haven't watched all of it, because I became tired of how they changed the series and based everything on few characters, and stopped watching it. I followed a bit of what happened next on the internet, but nothing made me want to watch it again. There are some nice Snowing scenes, yes, and also some Emma-Regina scenes that are good, but there's too much Hook. I understand Colin's fans because I like him too, a lot, it's the character I don't like. Maybe it's because of how he was introducing: not just because he went away with Rumple's wife, no, it's because when he first met the Dark One he humiliated him and kicked him down because he thought him to be a harmless old man.
No dark magic involved to make him act like he did. Anyway, this series is now moving on like that:
forgetting the evil done by those they want to make heroes, just like that.

I will put here all the things that I wrote about series 3 back then:

14 April 2014
OUAT 3x17 - no Rumple..
I knew this episode was Hook-centric, it was obvious by the title 'the Jolly Roger', still there was not even a little shot of Rumple. Nothing. I mean, Robert Carlyle was the main reason I liked this show, and now we never see him... I did like the rest as well, but just Hook is not enough, it's boring. I have nothing against the actor, mind you, I like Colin, it's Hook I'm not very fond of. I admit he's trying to redeem himself, but the fact is that when he was first introduced I disliked him so much that now it's hard to like him. I disliked him because he called himself a man of honor and yet he challenged at a duel a man who couldn't even stand on his own feet (human Rumple, remember?) and later on he kicked on the floor what he thought was just a poor old beggar. Okay, it turned out it wasn't, it turned out it was The Dark One ready to go all dark on him, but still, he didn't know, he really thought it was just a poor old beggar. And he mocked him and kicked him to the floor. Anyway.
I want Mr Gold back. I loved Mr Gold. Now the choice is between not seeing even a single shot of him, or seeing just a scene in which he goes all bad because forced by the wicked witch. I'm tired of this. I don't think I'll be buying the DVDs when they'll be out. I bought season 1 and season 2, but I'll probably stop there. I'm not liking this season.
Of course there's always the chance they'll make it right at the end. There should be 22 episodes, so there still is time, and there was talk about a wedding at the end of the season, so there still is a chance that things may turn right again and it could be Mr Gold marrying his Belle, but I've stopped being so optimistic.
I was optimistic when they said 'in the second half of the season Belle and Rumple will be in the same world, in whatever state their relationship is'. I thought, it's not necessarily a bad thing, it might mean it'll be in a good state, you never know... now I know, it didn't mean that.
Now it's all boring. Up to now, the only good scenes (other then a very few nice moments with Rumple-so few you can count them on the fingers of one hand)  were the ones with Regina, because Regina is always great. In this episode I was glad to see Ariel back, that was nice, but then the same old trick of the evil one, disguising herself as Ariel to get at Hook. Cora did that already. Same old trick.
I'm bored.

21 April 2014
OUAT 3X18 - Rumple still not free!! but liked Regina & OutlawQueen & SnowQueen moments
I saw it. It was a good episode all in all, but it kills me that Rumple is still prisoner, that he doesn't have free-will. That he's forced to do things against his will. I can't wait for him to be free to do what he wants !!! Still Robert Carlyle is magic, his face when he didn't want to hurt Roland, the emotions on his face... love him!!! He can wear so well his emotions on his face! I mean, he's an actor and this should be obvious, but seeing all the so-called actors out there I know it's not. (not talking about ouat actors). And he planted Ronald like he did Belle, it's like 'I want you to stay still but don't want to hurt you' I found this sweet, he was so sorry to threaten that little child. Him, who did everything for his son..

The Rumple-Zelena thing was so short... :p I mean, I know Gold is Belle's, and Rumbelle power, and all that, it's not like I wanted this, personally I wanted this with Gold&Belle, but still, it's Robert Carlyle we're talking about, so... it was so short... but moving on... Regina was really at the heart of the episode. It's all going round Regina now. I'm not complaining, at least Regina is always good and interesting. She saved Snow, and the look on Snow's face was priceless = Regina: if you want to kill her you'll have to go through me; Snow thinking: wow that's a nice change...

Regina and Belle give us the only Rumbelle moment in a way. She's the only one saying to Belle "your Rumple" and "your boyfriend" and I'm like "yes yes everyone don't forget that!!!". Also Belle truly keeps the story together not forgetting the past. Now that both Hook and Regina apologized to her she can be one of the group and actually do stuff to get her boyfriend back! Finally! She was left alone, no wonder she knows so well the shop to know where everything is, she was practically alone with nothing to do, not a soul caring how she feels, or including her in the fight. Like she's not even involved in what's happening. She's more involved in this than most of the others, it's her boyfriend Zelena is using as a doll !!! Good things lately they remembered it. They would be clueless without her. Well, almost clueless, still she helped a lot, good to see that a bookworm can solve the riddle when all the powerful ones couldn't ! Like my Doctor said, when you're in a library you have all the weapon you need !
 Hopefully they can stop the curse this time, last time they didn't. I wonder, if Zelena succeeds in casting her curse, Rumple will be without brain? Because it would change the future of all the others, but when Zelena was a baby Rumple was already this age but without his wit he wouldn't be able to do anything... Oh well, I just hope she doesn't succeed, otherwise no happy ending in this series, just more waiting... but how does the good witch Glinda fit? Are they going to Oz? How? I know that at the start there was no magic on Earth and that's why Rumple needed the dark curse to get here, now there is magic so it's easier, but what now, they keep going back and forth like it's the easiest thing? Or it'll just be another curse? And what about this curse, that took away all their memories, will this curse get broken before the end? Okay, wait and see, I know...

Then there's Regina and Robin. She's so controlled now, so much a mother, so much thinking with her heart (even if she doesn't have it) instead of letting anger have the best of her. I liked Snow's words about her feeling things with all her soul, I mean she doesn't have her heart, but she's acting exactly as if she had it, she still feels and cares for Henry, for Snow's baby, for Robin and for Roland. When Cora had no heart, she only followed her ambitions, she didn't really love, and Graham without his heart couldn't feel anything, not really as much as he tried, but Regina can, and Robin is certainly helping her now in this.. 

I so wish Rumple will tell her something nice, like how he would have always chosen her. He said it to Zelena, but Regina doesn't know that. I wish he'd tell her. I always loved any Gold-Regina moment, and Rumple has always been important to her, he's her mentor, I wish for more nice scenes between them.

It's really hard to wait for the other episodes. I want Rumple free. I want Regina with her heart. I want Rumple and Belle together. Now.
I'm not even going into the whole Cora-Eva stuff, I don't like it much, these flashbacks don't interest me that much you know, I'm just glad they cleared for everyone that Rumple is not her father. Cora's story is twisted enough, almost wicked I'd say.
Up to now they always ended with a cliffhanger. Season 1 ended with magic retorning to Storybrooke and still some business unfinished, because Gold still had to find his son. Season 2 finished with Henry kidnapped, and them sailing to Neverland. I wonder what will be this time. Rumple's ordeal must be sorted, they can't let us with him still treated as a doll !!! We couldn't stand that. I couldn't stand that. It would be the time Rumbelle fans would really reunite and go find them !!

I hope it won't be about Snow's baby being kidnapped or in danger, because we've already been there, already know the drill. 

No need to say that this time I hope Gold will be okay in every way, meaning free and with Belle and without people hating him, because everyone surely understands he didn't want to do what he's doing . He's been suffering enough. I spent first half of this series saying "stop crying" , I think it's time to have our Mr.Gold back.

22 April 2014

ouat 3x19 press release

So they went to Oz in  the flashback, from FairyTale Land, not from here.. okay that's much better. I see there'll be focus on Hook and the fact that he must take away Emma's powers to save Henry.. well they can't let Henry die, can they? So they'll think of something. I wonder, Zelena cursed his lips, but if Emma actually loves him, if she feels true-love for him, and kisses him, will the curse work (stealing her powers) or will it be broken because of true-love-kiss?
Reading on, 'things will heat up between Regina and Robin' which is ok, I like Robin Hood and we know he's her true love, so maybe they're planning a future for them. At least I think so, I hope they won't do anything bad to either of them, because Regina is too important to get rid of her, and Robin... they can't kill her love again !
An unlikely source, so it wasn't Zelena that did cast the curse bringing them all to StoryBrooke? And yet, Zelena is the only one that remembers what's happened in the past year. Rumple was trapped in Neal's body, so who did it? And why Zelena is the only one with her memories intact if she didn't cast the curse??
No mention of Rumple, there is nothing more on the press release... I'll just have to wait another week... I hate the waiting...

28 April 2014
OUAT 3x19 - no Rumbelle reunion but a good episode
Well, there was a Rumbelle scene, but it was in FTL therefore in the past, so of course it wasn't a happy occasion. It was a good scene, though, because it showed how Belle can always reach to Rumple, and he was able to help her even if his mind was all messed up, what with having Neal inside him, and therefore two brains as he said.
Finally this week I liked Snow as I did in the earlier episodes. I liked how she smiled when she saw the door, and remembering Rumple's words she just walked in, not doubting him because he sounded mad, but believing, like she always used to. And the curse, oh Snow begging Regina to take her heart and break it into two, it was so great and emotional. Remembering their past, how all Regina wanted was to see her suffering, how she wanted to separate them, and now she looked so sad watching Snow crying over David's dead body!!! Regina was even so concerned about the fact that Snow might die, if the heart-split-in-two plan had not worked... but again the real Snow was back, the one I liked, full of faith and trust, begging Regina to take her heart, not doubting for a second that Regina will really help them. No more "how can we trust you?" stuff. Now Regina is one of them, and Snow proved how much she trusted her. On another situation I might have thought, maybe she's not sure but she doesn't care because she'd rather die than live without David, but this was so not the case. She was pregnant and she needed to get back to Emma, so it was just trust and faith!
I also loved Robin Hood and Regina.. when she entered the room after leaving him, it was funny that they all seemed as shocked as I was to see Regina's adorable happy smile. To be honest I don't remember ever seeing her happy before; satisfied yes, if one of her plans was going the right was, but happy? No, and in this episode we saw that not once but twice, the second time being when Henry remembers her, of course, and they talk and then Robin comes and the three of them go out together like a family... can't wait to see that scene with the addition of little Roland, in a way Henry will have a little brother!! Cute.
Emma saving Henry from Zelena using her magic without anyone's help! I loved it, and most of all I loved that it was Regina breaking the curse, because she finally FINALLY kissed Henry. I don't remember her ever kissing him, do you? If you do, please tell me when it was, because I only remember her holding him by the shoulders, maybe hugging him for a second after every time he got her worried, but no kisses. A mother should kiss her child. And she finally did, and it was true love, so Henry will never again doubt that!
Fortunately this time the episode wasn't all about Zelena, I was so tired of them being like 60% Zelena 30% Hook and 10% to share among all the others... I like Zelena, but there should be equal doses of everyone, that's what I think! This time we do, and that's another reason why I liked this episode, while so many before were so boring to me. Seriously, this season has been a bit boring for me, with just a few good moments here and there, no real excitement, so I'm really really hoping that the next three episodes will bring something so magnificent to make up for all the other episodes.
I'm sort of worried it might be just Abigail's wedding, what else would should she come back for? She's not part of the Zelena story, and yet they said she's coming back.
Like many others I had hoped for a Rumbelle wedding, but I know it's not going to happen this season, and in a way it would be a bit rushed, wouldn't it? Maybe they'll do it next season, with all the proper time dedicated to them. *dreaming*

3 May 2014

OUAT 3x20 sneak peek spoilers!!! yeah!!!

The witch is defeated at last!! Finally, I say. Not by Emma, but by Regina, with white magic! So she was not condemed to black magic, it all depends what you want to achieve with it, and how you use it, then. I wonder if one day Rumple's magic can become white too. I know people might object to the fact that Regina stopped Rumple from killing Zelena, but that's the right thing to do, she's right, the two of them have killed too in the past, and even more people than Zelena has, in fact.

And to be considered changed, to aspire to their happy ending, they must stop doing it. You can't give in to revenge and also pretend your happy ending. She's about to have hers, and I want Rumple to have it too, so he must stop too. I hope he'll understand that, because this time he was forced to stop and not kill, but he must choose that path himself, not just by force!

I really really do hope that Regina will give the dagger back, though. She has to, right? She could give it to Belle, so Belle would finally be sure that Rumple would never kill or be evil again  :lol:
sneak peek of once upon a time season 3 episode 20 "kansas"

5 May 2014
OUAT 3x20 – enough is enough. I’m so pissed off right now

First of all Rumbelle: they were cute, he was worried for her, she was ready to fight for him, then Belle gave him the dagger because she trusts him… that was very nice, and I thought ‘it’s been a boring season,but then they put here and there moments like this and you forget everything else: I thought just that when he told her to keep the dagger, it seemed an act of faith, of love, so big and strong, I was in tears. So beautiful, like a dream…

And then I was woken up to see that Rumple didn’t mean what he said, that in fact he tricked Belle giving her a fake dagger, making her believe that he really put himself in her hands when he didn’t. He went to kill Zelena after Belle had said “promise me you won’t go after Zelena. You’re better than that”. Of course he didn’t promise, and she was so happy to have him back she didn’t notice, so he didn’t actually ‘break a promise to her’ but that means nothing. The whole killing-Zelena scene was disgusting to me and ruined everything, because he can’t just keep doing the wrong thing again and again and then just say to her ‘I’m sorry’ and everything will be alright. No, it doesn’t, it shouldn’t be like that.

I wanted to overcome all the plotholes, and there were many, but not anymore. I mean, in the first season we saw Graham without his heart and he couldn’t feel anything , now in S3 we have Regina without her heart, but she can love Robin, she can love Henry so much to break a curse, she feels so much like nothing's changed. But I said, it's okay because the scene "you feel with all your soul", and the OutlawQueen romance, and the breaking of the curse were cute. Wrong but cute.

And the Dark Curse, how come this time they thought they would remember everything, and even more, why did they come back to Storybrooke? Did Rumple write a specific address? First time it was to find a land without magic, but now there is magic in Storybrooke, so why did they get here again?

The lock of hair from those with the darkest souls in not needed anynore because it'd boring, I guess.

Many more plotholes, I know, do remind me of them, if you please.

This is the first show where the bad guy is never stopped on time. 

And the Dorothy story, used up all as a useless filler in an episode that would have otherwise been too short.

The little chat between Regina and Zelena was just incredible: Regina giving her a 'second chance'; maybe she's forgetting that when Snow did the same to her, she blew it and then cast the curse: she didn't take it.

She's not living her second chance, she's living her third, maybe fourth one. Or more. 

There are a lot of plotholes and silly things but I put up with them because there were nice moments too, as Charming said in one. First things that come to mind are the unicorn stickers, Rumple with "I will see her again", Emma finding Neal again, when Emma said "with you Regina I always know when you're lying" it was the nicest scene of another otherwise boring episode.

The first series was really beautiful, and the second was too, mostly at least. Maybe not 100%, but it had many beautiful episodes and moments.

I bought both S1 and S2, but it ends there. I will not buy S3. They overdid it this time..This is too much, is worse than Rumbelle being separated, this is as if Rumple didn't care for Belle, as if his want for revenge is stronger than his love, like when he tried to kill Regina an the start of S2. It was understandable than, it isn't anymore.

It's been ruined for me. I know I'm talking on the heat of the moment, and at three o'clock in the morning at that, but I don't think that I will change my mind.

Once upon a time season 3 episode 20

5 May 2014
ouat 3x20 considerations on Rumple
Come to think of it, it's quite true that in Neverland he says he doesn't believe their love to be forever because sooner or later she'll understand what a monster he is and will leave him. Maybe a part of him wants it, because he's lost so much and done so many things, he doesn't believe he deserves her, and doesn't believe he's capable of it. He's pushing it to the point when she'll have to leave him. And then what? What are they planning for them? I don't know, all of this could make sense in a way, but I'm not sure I really care. I'm still really pissed off at what happened, the proposal, as beautiful as it was, is ruined for me now because I know he proposed with a fake dagger, I know he tricked her, he lied to her, he let her down. She doesn't deserve that. Seriously, what has he really ever done for her? Protect her with magic is not that big a deal for someone so powerful, while she stood by him always, she was imprisoned because of her love, twice, was almost killed because she wouldn't betray him. Twice, again. She was always the one to go back to him.
This is not right. They must put it right, and stop screwing things over and over for them.
In the promo for the season finale they don't appear to be important, too.
Btw Rumple assured Neal that he would never be evil again, remember when they came back from Neverland? So not only he tricked and let Belle down, he also broke his word to Neal.
Once upon a time season 3 after episode 20.

13 May 2014
OUAT season finale 3x21 + 3x22 - I don't know, up and downs
I still can't believe there really was a Rumbelle wedding! But on the other hand it seemed like a scene added at the last moment to calm down rumbelle fans. I didn't like it, I must admit. They got married at night, with Belle's father present and just Archie to marry them. No one else was there. All the people were about their business somewhere, a lot of them in the diner, and they were alone. I can understand Rumple doesn't care for people, but what about Belle? Hasn't she made any friends? What about Robin? She saved him. And what about Red? I thought they were good friends. Even Leroy should have been there. In this season she's always been alone. I don't like that. It's not right. Did they even know about the wedding??
I wanted them to have people around at their wedding, to have a normal one. Ok, I'm also mad because of the dagger business. It was evident again that Rumple has safe in his shop the real dagger, and again he tricked Belle when she wanted to give it back to him, thinking she had the real one. Rumple was again talking about how much he trusts her, and wants her to keep it. That makes me so angry. It wasn't the happy ending I was hoping for. He even used her as his alibi, about the Zelena disappearance's business. I don't care if it's "The Dark One", everybody changed in these three years, why do they keep him so dark!!!
They made Regina a hero with white magic, after everything she did as the evil queen. Hunting Snow and the curse were nothing. She slaughtered a lot of innocent people who noone remembers anomore, just like nobody cared to find out who was that Cora killed instead of Archie in season 2. It annoys me when characters die but nobody cares because they're not important. By the way, this finale also means that it was Regina that killed Marien, Robin's wife. How could he not know? She didn't, okay, but he should have known! Otherwise why did he think she was dead?
Plus I don't think it's in Rumple's character to accept like that that his son will die. After all he's doing to find him, it's sufficient that Emma says "he loved you and he died a hero" for him to accept it? Not the old Rumple, I don't believe that. The old Rumple would not have accepted that. I don't understand why they put that scene in.
The whole "back to the future" stuff was nice, but as always all the good stuff and all the true happy endings are all for Snowing.
Once upon a time season 3 finale "snow drifts" and "there's no place like home".

Criminal minds season 6

As always, I write all the episodes quotes exactly as they are said, that's way sometimes I write the author's name at the end and sometimes at the beginning.
Again my dvds don't show the titles of the episodes, so I took it from the internet. Somehow during that, I also ran across the news that Thomas Gibson has been fired.. well, I don't know anything about the actor's manners, nor I know anything at all about the producer in question, whoever he was, I don't remember, so I can't really take sides, because sure one should not accept violent behaviour from anyone, famous or not, if violent behaviour really occurred. I only know that, as characters go, Hotchner was important here. He was at its very core. I can't imagine the show without Hotch, because what made it special was 'the family feeling', the friendship between the characters. Since Shemar Moore will also be missing (not fired, though, he left willingly) that precious friendship will already be missing.  I have already bought and watched up to season 8 (I'll copy all that whenever I can), but I somehow feel I'm no more sure I want to see more of this show.

ep 1 - The longest night 
Matt's daughter tries to escape and knocks on someone's door, but the Unsub comes to shoot the man before he can call the police, and his wife too. When the cops arrive, this couple is dead, Spicer is dead, his sister is in a very bad shape after being raped and beaten, and his eight-year-old daughter has been taken away. The unsub keeps killing, and he sort of wants to teach her to be like him, but she wants to stop him. Since he always listens to the radio, JJ manages to obtain access to The emergency channel, to talk to him. Hotch can't get there so JJ has to talk to him herself, alone. She's worried; they give her all the files and help possible in so little time, then she starts talking. She's on all channels so everybody in LA with a radio on is listening to her; they told her to empathize with him, but she can't and the only way she can relate to him is by being a mother. She tells him how a mother should help and protect his child, and it's not fair what his mother did to him, and goes on pleading with him to let Ellie go. She gets through him somehow, for this Billy Flynn lets her go and then he has the last showdown with Morgan in Callahan-version. Flynn keeps thinking and talking about his mother that he killed many years ago and has Morgan shoot him.
Spicer's sister dies at the hospital, so Ellie will be placed in foster care.
 - A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden; but if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. The Buddha.
ep 2 - JJ
JJ and Strauss are in Hotchner's office, and the door and blinds are closed, and everybody's wondering why. Apparently JJ has turned down a good offer twice already with no word to Hotch. A job at the Pentagon, liaison for the Department of Defence, a major promotion, but she doesn't want to leave the team. On the jet they are all looking at her, so she explains it. Unfortunately this time the Pentagon is not asking. They want her in DC. JJ has to leave at the end of the week, and she says goodbye to everyone and Reid is touching in his own way, saying twice that they can't just take her away - aww Garcia is upset too because she thinks of them as a family.
The last scene if full of flashbacks, kind of too much maybe. JJ's not dead, we'll see her again I'm sure.
Atlantic Beach. There's a girl missing, and the police already has two guys in custody. They are arrogant and confident, stating repeatedly that they had fun together then left her at her place and went away. The team though finds out that one of them came back to her, and took her away. It's all thanks to JJ that they understand what happened. She has been left alone in the ocean and it's now three days, but she found a buoy and hopped onto it and waited. They find her alive and rescue her.
Her father was played by Gil Bellows. I'm not a fan, just saying he's a face I know.
 - Jean Racine said: a tragedy need not have blood or death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
ep 3 - Remembrance of things past
Ellie keeps texting Morgan every day :-) and she's adjusting to school. Good.
Bristol, Virginia. Young women are murdered in the particular way of a murderer of thirty years ago; Rossi profiled him then, but now he should be an old man. the Butcher is now old, but there's a slow, young man helping him: his son. Rossi strongly believes that it's the same Unsub, that it's the Butcher and not a copycat, but for a while the others are not at all sure. The Butcher is losing his memory and because of this he's even worse than he ever was because he keeps repeating his last murder and forgetting about it and therefore wanting to do it again.
When he was a child, his son once helped him capture a woman that was trying to escape, only she turned out to be his mother, and he removed the fact from his mind, until the moment the team reminds him of it.
When they arrest him, the butcher tries to kill himself cutting his wrists, but he's saved and is now in a wheelchair in a hospital, the shadow of a man.
 - Marcel Proust wrote: remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
 - Mark Twain wrote: when I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
ep 4 - Compromising positions
Garcia insists on going with them, to help them by doing what JJ did. For a while she adopts a 'serious' wardrobe choice, and she sent pictures of them with their names to the agents in Ohio: "Doctor Reid right? It's Doctor, not agent, she was specific about that" :-p love Garcia. She was very efficient :-)  Unfortunately she has too much to do now, so she brings Kevin in to help her. At some point she shouts 'I can't do two jobs at once!' so Morgan helps her with a good speech :-) it's so sweet when he puts her glasses on her nose :-)
Garcia: "how often do I tell you I love you?"
Morgan: "every day, it's implied"  aww nice answer :-)
After this Garcia goes back to full Garcia-style :lol: I only hope she doesn't talk to the victims families dressed like that. I love her but that wouldn't do.
Akron, Ohio. This unsub forces couples to have sex then he shoots them both. It made scream the scene where that was that 'victim' that despite being handcuffed was fighting bravely and well, and instead of helping him his wife was crying hugging a chair, until the unsub got hold of his gun and shot the man. Unbelievable. She should have taken that gun while her husband was kicking him! I understand the fear, but she could have saved her husband and herself.

They get to him, of course, and Emily goes to talk to him because it's a place full of people, and he knows she's lying and it's a bad moment, but she has a gun in her bag and she shoots him herself, no need for all the others to fret :-) but being a girl, can I ask where did she find a bag? :-p 

The episode ends with Hotch complimenting and being very nice with Garcia (remembering when Gideon left and he had too many responsibilities upon himself) and it's oh so special :-) I'd do anything for a compliment from Hotch :-) (which is just a feeling, not a wish, since I'm speaking of the character not the actor and therefore it's even more impossible :-p  )
 - Abraham Lincoln said: whatever you are, be a good one.
 - We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin. André Berthiaume.
ep 5 - Safe haven
Ellie runs away and comes looking for Morgan, saying they put her in a horrible place and she can't go back. She came on a plane from LA and she's nine! And her foster family had not even noticed she was missing...  Garcia finds Ellie's mother, so she can live with her now.
Omaha, Nebraska. The unsub is a minor, a thirteen-year-old kid. He ties up the children, so to control the parents, then he kills them horribly. His mother had recently abandoned him because she was afraid of him, because he had hurt animals and even his little sister.
 - All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. Mahatma Ghandi
 - But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost
ep 6 - Devil's night
We see Jack Hotchner :-) so sweet, with his dad.
It's Halloween and Reid is babbling all he knows about it, and Emily : "all I asked was what he was doing this weekend!" :-p
The episode ends like it started, with Hotch at home with his son, preparing for Halloween, dressing up with a tie, instead as spiderman, because spiderman's not a real superhero. Jack says: "I'm you daddy" :-)) how sweet :-)
Detroit, Michigan. This unsub burns people alive, only these three days of the year. This Kaman is severely burned and kills all those he blames for his condition. Hotch saves a man by entering a place on fire, then saves the last bunch of people (Kamal's ex girlfriend and her family and her son) by talking to Kaman. I was sure he'd do that when I saw there was a child :-)
 - Niccolò Machiavelli wrote: if an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
 - Thomas Kempis wrote: love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.
ep 7 - Middle man
Garcia said 'molto bene' :-)
Girls are found dead on corn fields. Three guys abducts girls, play with them, rape them, and then the older one kills them. The younger guys didn't know about the killings, but that doesn't make them good at all, since the scumbags thought there was nothing bad in abducting, drugging and raping: "we only had sex with them", they said: makes me sick, honestly, that anyone could think of that as 'having sex', because it's not, that's torturing. The older guy and the middle man kill the third guy who wanted out, scared now that the FBI was involved. It turns out the middle man is the sheriff's son, so at the end the sheriff shoots the older one but saves his own son, the only member of the pack to get out alive.
It ends with Hotch giving the Sheriff advice on how to stay close to his son, how not to lose him.. ok he's the father I get it, but personally I don't much like this talk of 'he was lost", or how he was charmed by the charismatic figure of the older guy.. I don't like these excuses at all: there's no excuse for what they did: those girls were abducted, handcuffed (or chained, not sure), forced to dance without rest, sometimes beaten by the look of it, held prisoners, and the response to their cries was drug and rape. The hell with lost, these guys (all three) were pathetic scum.
 - The herds seek out the great, not for their sake, but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. Napoleone Bonaparte
 - Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. Bernard Malamud
ep 8 - Reflection of desire
We see Garcia acting on stage, in a play :-)) For the play she had a black wig, a sort of bob hairstyle I guess, but I didn't like her with that look. During the episode, though, she had to held a press conference to try and communicate with the unsub, so she wore a blonde wig and lost the glasses, and she looked beautiful.
At the end, the team goes to see her perform on stage :-)
The unstable son of a movie star who ended her career when she had him, is now obsessed with fame and with his mother's last movie: he abducts young women and tries to transform them into her, basically, and the third day he kills them and removes their lips.
 - Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you Fame. If it goes by, I've always know it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. Marilyn Monroe
ep 9 - Into the woods
Harwood State Park, Pennsylvania.
A man has been abducting children for years, in the woods. A pedophile, who kept them for months before killing them. Now he takes a boy and his little sister, because they were together. The boy was very brave, managed to let his sister escape, and fought back any time he had a chance. They were both saved, but the man was not caught and went back to his woods.
The father of a child, one of the children killed by this unsub, was very touching: "I was his hero" but he failed to protect him and can't have peace, poor man.
 - Ralph Ellison said : I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
 - Elise Cabot said: evil endures a moment's flush, and then leaves but a burned-out shell. 
ep 10 - What happens at home...
Hotch explains the case instead of Garcia, don't know why.
Case: women are killed in a locked community, so things are different and they enlist the help of cadet Ashley Seaver, whose father was serial killer Charles Beauchamp, the Redmond Ripper who killed many women when she was a child. It's really hard on her, she still feels the embarrassment and shame and sorrow for the pain that her father caused.
The unsub turns out to be the husband of one of the victims. The local police didn't suspect him anymore because of it. He has a daughter, and Ashley feels very much close to the situation. He threatens to kill her, but she talks until Hotch arrives and shoots him.
 - When we were children we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability, to be alive is to be vulnerable. Writer Madeleine L'Engle
 - Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them. Writer Oscar Wilde
ep 11 - 25 to life
Ashley is here on training, under Emily's wing. (When I saw her for an instant I thought JJ was back, they look like sisters :p)
Morgan is to evaluate if a man has reformed and can be freed on parole. This man has spent 25 years in prison for killing his wife and daughter, but has always claimed his innocence. Morgar says that the man is no threat to society so they let him go, and soon after that this Don Sanderson is accused of having murdered a man. At first Morgan is angry that the man was able to fool him, but investigating both him and his team believe Don's story to be true. Someone else kills his family and the major suspect now seems to be a rich man now running for Congress. Of course Strauss is not keen on arresting him. She tells Rossi "you don't understand what the politics are, do you Dave? You never have" - "No, I do. I just don't care".
They confront the rich man anyway, at his own party. Luckily they are right and they arrest him, and Don is free and they arrange him a meeting with his son.
 - There is no such thing as part freedom. Nelson Mandela
 - All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is to discover them. Galileo
ep 12 - Corazon
Garcia is back to illustrating the case to the team.
Reid has very bad headaches but he hides the fact from everyone, and is quite upset when a doctor tells him there's nothing physically wrong with him.
Miami. People are killed and left with shells on their eyes. They find out it was a professor about to publish a study on these kind of religions, who also had a bad relationship with his abusive father.
 - No man chooses evil because it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
 - The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
ep 13 - The thirteenth step
Emily receives a call from Sean McCallis, a Scottish friend calling from Paris, which seems so cool to Garcia. Seaver is not with the team because she had to take a test at the Academy.
At the end of the episode, Emily meets her friend Sean, who tells her that a dangerous man escaped from his Russian prison and might now be headed here. "Am I in danger?" she asks. "We all are" is the answer.
Miles City, Montana. A boy and a girl just married go around shooting and killing and blowing up places just for fun. They drive to Spokane, Washington to kill her dad who abused her, after having killed his abusive father. The team tracks them down, and Sid gets shot. Ray (Jonathan Tucker) doesn't stop and doesn't take her to a hospital. When they tell Ray that Sid killed his ex-girlfriend Amy and he understands it's true, he kills her before crying for her to wake up. Then he drives out letting the team shoot him dead (explain this to me: where did he find a car? Where was it? It's a shop, not a garage, plus he asked them for a car, so..?
 - Frederich Nietzsche wrote: what really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
 - William Glasser wrote: What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.
ep 14 - Sense memory
We see Emily's apartment and also that she has a black cat.
She was a secret agent, and Sean too. The escaped man is Ian Doyle, Irish.
The episode ends with Emily receiving a flower at her home from Ian, and we see it was of the same flowers she cared for when she lived with him before he was arrested. Reid calls her asking her to go see something in Russian with him, I didn't get what it was, something five hours long, but she declined the offer. She took her cat Sergio :-p and went out of the apartment.
In Los Angeles a cab driver abducts women whose smell he likes, then he kills them, immersing them in methanol. He's experimenting with them, and after they're dead he takes a sample of their skin from the bottom of their right foot. He's trying to preserve their smell, or something. When they find him, he escapes in his cab. The chase ends with him crashing to his death.
 - Hunting is not a sport; in a sport both sides should know they are in the game. Comedian Paul Rodriguez.
 - Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov
ep 15 - Today I do
Seaver is back with the team.
When she was a secret agent, Emily used the name Lauren Reynolds, and they faked her death in a car accident, but I say that that flower at her house proves that everything is not alright and they're not safe as her friend/collegue Tsia believes.  Soon Tsia's fiancée Jeremy dies. The episode ends with Emily receiving an anonymous text saying "see you soon" and we see that Doyle has just arrived in America.
Case: Jane befriends girls with problems, girls she can control, until the day comes when they don't need her help anymore so she abducts them and goes all "Misery" on them.
This actress playing Jane was pretty good!
Jane at first helps them like a therapist, a motivational help, but when they got better and she wasn't really needed anymore, she started her Misery-syndrome.
 - It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. Sally Kempton
 - There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can hinder the firm resolve of a determined soul. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
ep 16 - Coda
Reid talks to Seaver about Doctor Who! :-D Love him for it, and I'm annoyed that she stopped him :-/
Emily worked for Interpol, and now both Tsia and Clyde who worked with her are here next to her.
They tell her not to tell anyone because the team doesn't have clearance.
The episode ends with bits of normal life, like it started: Garcia going with popcorn and a tape in Morgan's office to watch it together, Hotch giving Jack a goodnight kiss, Seaver playing a car-videogame with Rossi :-))
Then Emily meets Doyle, who tells her he wants her, not today but soon. Doyle knows each and every one of the team, and what they are doing.  Doyle says to Emily: "you took the only thing thing that mattered to me, so I'll take the only thing that matters to you. Your life"
Case: Ten-year-old Sammy is autistic, and can't properly help the police when his parents are abducted. The team is called in to talk to him. Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. Reid talks to him while Morgan and Hotch look at the house and his drawings: Morgan says "the kid definitely likes to draw but I can't quite figure out what it is he's drawing" and Hotch says "that's a dog" and when Morgan can't understand how he can see a dog in that drawing, Hotch says "maybe a dad knows" :-p
It turns out little Sammy had been trying to tell them all along, but in symbols and music. The L he kept drawing was not an L at all, but 3 o'clock, and the music the song played in his parents store while he's there. The unsub was the man that came in the store at 3 o'clock.
His father dies, but the mother is saved. The scene when the kid patted her mother trying to show comfort was something!
 - Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. James T. McKay
 - Honoré de Balzac once said: Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.  [said by Doyle]
ep 17 - Valhalla
Finally Reid talks to someone, he says to Emily "I've been having these really intense headaches lately" knowing she won't tell the others who would worry in a way to make him feel like a baby :p
Now Tsia is telling Emily that "maybe you should tell your team", but Emily says "No way. This isn't their fight and I won't take that risk".
Case: People are killed in their homes. (Ron Cosenza, one of the victims, said a sentence in Italian, but couldn't sound less Italian :-p ). The third time Morgan and Prentiss arrive there: "Is it her?" a masked man asks, so it's no surprise a few minutes later to see that the leader is Doyle.
Later the team learns his name too but still Emily won't tell them and Morgan: "you know Emily, you really need to trust people" which is pretty rich coming from him..
Emily is afraid they might learn about her by themselves, by searching old files. She's also pretty shaken up when Tsia is found murdered.
It ends with Emily leaving the room and the BAU.
 - Lao Tsu said: When I let go of what I am I become what I might be.
 - Journalist Dorothea Dix wrote: confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets and takes its own punishment in silence.
ep 18 - Lauren
Boston, Massachusetts 8 years ago. Lauren met Doyle, of IRA.
Wow, I like this Doyle. Well, the actor - Timothy V. Murphy.  He has beautiful eyes and I like the voice too :-) Sorry he plays the bad guy.
17 days have passed since Reid heard Emily talk on the phone with Tsia, saying that Lauren Reynolds is dead. The team finds out about Emily being Lauren and her disappearance from the Bau. Reid is so cute sometimes: "it doesn't make sense, why run? We're her family, we can help" but Rossi understands: "Doyle's killing families. She's not married, not close to relatives, he was ready to wipe us out. She ran to protect us".
Now they want to find her, only "she's a trained spy, she doesn't want to be found" says Rossi.
Since this is a serious case, Hotch asked and got the help he wanted: JJ (here as special guest star)
The team now treats Emily as one of the victims, studying her life, her apartment.
Morgan is annoyingly upset: "all we know is that she slept with a terrorist for a profile and instead of coming clean with us about her dirty laundry she just ran with it": now he's being a real jerk here.
Rossi understands that she didn't run away, she went to hunt him down.
Morgan is also upset by her conduct, because she sort of put people's lives at risk in her hunt for Doyle, only it's other bad guys, and she's trying to do what she has to do dealing with terrorists, plus she hurt nobody!! Still acting like a jerk, Morgan, here.
Hotch speaks to Clyde: "if anything happens to her I will destroy you , you can count on that", because Clyde wasn't being helpful.
Clyde replies: "she said you were the best" :-)) then he accepts to help them save her.
Back then Emily was posing as another weapons dealer, and she sort of got engaged to Doyle. I liked him very much when he said: "Look at me. I am Valhala. I've no idea what kind of life I'm gonna have but I just want you in mine." Doyle had a child, but in the North Korean prison where he was really held, they used this fact against him, and made him believe that the boy died. That's why he's so mad now. Emily actually took those pictures, she had the gun but didn't kill the child. She 'saved him' from his father's life. When the team arrives, she's been badly hurt and Doyle is gone. He heard them and he escaped, so he's still a threat, a danger to all of them.
They're all waiting at the hospital when JJ comes saying that "she never made it off the table". Reid cries in JJ's arms, then they all go to her funeral and we see her tombstone 'oct 12 1970 march 7 2011- fidelity bravery integrity'.

We saw JJ and Hotch talk in private, away from the others, planning something. At the end of the episode, we see JJ giving an envelop with three passports and more to a woman, telling her good luck. We didn't see her face but it was pretty clear it was Emily, safe and sound. 

I hope she'll be back, I like the character, I like the actress, and I want her back.

 - The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart; that goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another. Author Elizabeth Bear.
 - Psycho-analist Walter Langer wrote: people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.
ep 19 - With friends like these
Paget Brewster is no more in the opening credits.
Garcia is still sad for Emily, but has made a graduation-present for Ashley: cupcakes that spell Congratulations Gradua because "Kevin ate the T and the E".
Case: Portland. The unsub is a paranoid schizophrenic with bad allucinations: he sees two guys and a girl who forces him to kill, and her mother only tells him "I'm sick of these calls, go to church like I told you" ...
Reid is upset because his mother is a schizophrenic too but not a killer, and also because he's in that age when "schizophrenic breaks happen". Morgan tells him "have you talked to anybody about this?" and Reid "Emily" and "I've terrible headaches, I can't sleep at night, I can't focus on our cases, I only read 5 books last week" and here it seemed to me like he was forcing himself not to laugh.
The team catches him of course, they try to stop him, to talk to him, but when Reid says "put that knife down" what Ben actually hears is "take that knife and jam me in the neck with it and all your problems will go away ok?", so he tries it and they have to shoot him. Ben is not dead though, and for a brief moment he feels better, when after the electroshock the hallucinations go away, but then they come back. It seems like he had those his whole life.
On the flight back, Hotch Rossi and Reid sleep :-)
 - Lizette Reese wrote: the old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and puts them out
 - Siddharta Buddha said: it is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways
ep 20 - Hanley Waters
After the loss of Emily there should be an assessment of the team done by Erin, but Hotch wouldn't let that happen and did it himself. He talked to them all: Garcia, not able to talk about her death, only of her alive; Reid who still can't cope and wonders "maybe Gideon was right, maybe it's just not worth it"; Morgan, who is angry, and feels guilty because 60 seconds earlier and he could have saved her but blames Doyle for her death and asks "Hotch what am I supposed to do?" because she was his friend and he can't let her go (quite natural, with it being so soon); Rossi who speaks to him on a more even level, and it's hard to say who's assessing who, and then drinks to Emily and Haley. They all think of her and wish she was here. Me too.
This must have been really difficult for Hotch, since all the others were suffering and he was the only one knowing that she was still alive. They talked to him, they trust him, they believed they were all feeling the same pain, and all the time Hotch was keeping this secret from them. He could have made the pain go away, but he didn't, he couldn't, and at the end he said that he too wishes she was here. See that? Not that she was alive, but that she was here. A way of avoiding a big lie with a kind of truth.
A woman is having a breakdown, and quietly shoots everyone who gets in the way. Only a year before she had a husband and a six-year-old son, Damian. After a car accident, she was saved but the son died. The accident happened because of a speed car chase between the cops and a criminal: the latter hit her, and he's now in prison. She could never let go, and her husband, the hero firefighter, wasn't there to help him, and since they grieve in different ways she believes he's not suffering as she is. At the end, Hotch goes to talk to her, and scenes like this are really good. He's great, and the woman is really good too, and it is a great heart-breaking scene, and he succeeds and she surrenders the gun.
I think the poet's name below should be pronounced por-kia, not por-sha, like Morgan says, since l885 who mostly lived in Argentina. Just for the record, in case I ever wonder.
 - Poet Antonio Porchia wrote: man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
ep 21 - The stranger
It starts with Garcia, Morgan, Reid and Seaver coming out of a cinema :-) and then Reid talks about it to Rossi.
Strauss wanted to talk to Hotch: she says she agrees with his assessments of the team, that she may have to leave for some time and he should have to supervise some departments. Hotch says "would you.. do you want to talk about it?" and Strauss: "so you can assess me?" and adds while leaving "I don't do that either" because he had given her the assessments of all the others but not his own.
San Diego. Young women killed in their homes. A young man who had lost his mother had fallen for his babysitter who later married his father instead; he was institutionalized for being cruel towards animals and now he kills women that look like her and then goes after her. Hotch and Seaver talk to him, stalling him, giving Rossi time to enter and shoot him.
 - Stephen King wrote: sometimes human places create inhuman monsters.
 - Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events. Adrienne Rich
ep 22 - Out of the light
Wee see Hotch at Jack's soccer game, and then he tells Rossi that they asked him to be the coach, and the episode ends with Hotch doing it and I'm-Italian-Rossi helping him and being his assistant :lol: it was lovely :-)) but one could really wonder how is it that he couldn't manage a normal life with Haley and now has time for everything.
Case: North Carolina. A girl escapes her capturer long enough to raise alarm, then she dies, poor thing. She tried to talk to them but could only say one word, and they understood 'mercy', until they find out that she has a friend whose name is Marcy. Her friend is still with him; he has killed a lot in the last ten years, now he has found a perfect lookalike to Rose, the little girl that was his stepdaughter until her unstable mom committed suicide taking her along (while running away from him). At first the team suspects an art teacher with a past, then discover the real unsub. When they find him, he's heading to the lake to die with Marcy, and drives his car into it. Morgan goes in to save the girl, and Hotch shoots the unsub under water when he tries to stop them.
The girl is saved, but then we see that that teacher was not innocent after all, since he has pictures of Marcy in chains.
 - Agathon said: of this alone, even God is deprived: the power of making things that are past never to have been.
 - Domenico Estrada wrote: bring the past only if you're going to build from it.
ep 23 - Big sea
Jacksonville, Florida  Lots of bodies are found buried deep at the bottom of the ocean, or something like that. Reid tries to catalog and date each piece of bone.
Reid-I can attempt to reconstruct..
Hotch-Reid! 3 hours.
R - I can do in 2
H - make it one
sigh. made me think of Scotty..
Morgan receives a call from his aunt Yvonne, asking if her Cindy is among the victims. She went missing 7 years ago, and this place is east coast 'just like your boss said'. Rossi explains to Seaver: "some years back Morgan's cousin fled a stalker. She made it to South Carolina. She was never seen or heard from again." The stalker killed himself two weeks later, so they don't know what happened to her. "so whenever unidentified female remains turn up he gets that call".
The unsub keeps his victims on his boat and he drugs them to make them do what he wants, such as writing home or hurting themselves. He hurts people he believes are running away from their responsibilities. Now he has taken a father and a son, but when the father dies (in a desperate attempt, fighting him, but he was hurt and he lost), he's left with the kid. They rescue the kid, but even though he did not kill Cindy, Morgan tells his aunt that he did, so she may have peace and stop looking.
 - The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Joseph Conrad
 - We are tied to the ocean, and when we go back to the sea, whether it's to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came. John F. Kennedy
ep 24 - Supply and demand
Kevin and Penelope are still together, and sweeter than ever :-)) He says "all I need is you".
It ends with Hotch going home before them, which worries Garcia, always so sensitive, and also because he told them earlier "over the next few weeks each of you is going to be asked if you'd like to stay with the unit", and with Rossi finding JJ in his office waiting for him. She says "I'm coming back".
A man dies in a car accident, and two dead bodies are found in his car. A group abducts young people and sell them to be tortured, or stuff like that. An undercover agent was taken with her friend, only halfway through we see that the friend is not a victim but one of the criminals, she seems to be the leader actually. When they get there, Renée is badly hurt but alive. The others are all captured or killed. The girl leader tries to pass on as a victim, but is found out. Rossi had helped Morgan beforfe with a man that was beating him, and now Morgan repays the favour by shooting her to save him.
 - Thomas Hardy wrote: and yet to every bad there's a worse.
 - What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do. Aristotle