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

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

:-) I liked it, of course I did. Its bizarre story and its bizarre characters got to me. I like how it's written, because I sort of feel like it wasn't as easy as one might think. What I mean is, this story of a bizarre London Below, so different from the London Above, is full of strange things, like there's actually an Earl with his court inside a train's carriage in Earl's Court Station, and Knightsbridge is called Night's Bridge, where its complete darkness is terrifying and the Night can take anyone as tribute, and the main characters are called Door because she can open any door, and the marquis de Carabas... and I feel like maybe it's not so easy to write all this stuff and not make a joke of it, the mockery of a story. I read this fantasy novel as seriously as I would have read any other 'serious literature' story, and I liked Door, and Anaesthesia, and the rats, and even Hunter and the Angel, but most of all I deeply felt for the marquis, poor thing who got tortured and killed for nothing and I don't think he got the appreciation he deserved for what he suffered, but I appreciated that the very last image of the book is with him :-) Made me feel like I wasn't the only one who liked him, like I was meant to, you know.

Another thing I really, really appreciated was the absence of love stories in London Below, because not many writers would have abstained from making Door and Richard fall in love. 

The story: Richard Mayhew moved to London (from Scotland I think) and after three years he had a job, friends at the work place and a beautiful girlfriend, until one day he met a girl on the street: Door. She was hurt, bleeding, pleading for help but refusing to go to a hospital, so Richard left Jessica where she was (making her so angry she broke the engagement) and took Door to his apartment to help her. This act of kindness changed his life.
She was in trouble, two cutthroats were after her: Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar, who reminded me so much of Mr Pin and Mr Tulip from Terry Pratchett's The Truth :-p
She asked a pigeon to bring a message from her to the marquis de Carabas, and he sent a rat with a reply, and Richard went to meet him: "he wore a huge dandyish black coat that was not quite a frock coat nor exactly a trench coat, and high black boots, and beneath his coat, raggedy clothes. His eyes burned white in an extremely dark face. And he grinned white teeth, momentarily, as if at a private joke of his own, and bowed to Richard and said 'De Carabas, at your service' ".
The marquis then went up a roof to Old Bailey, to give him a silver box to keep safe, and only later on, step by step, we learn what was in it. Old Bailey used it to bring him back, and further on the marquis asked Hunter: "do you keep your life hidden anywhere, Hunter?", so there you have it, why he did indeed die and yet he came back and is now very much alive :-)
Door and the marquis go away, but now Richard doesn't belong to his own world anymore, it's like he doesn't exist, people don't see him or remember him, and machines don't accept his pin number, so he was forced to look for Door for an explanation and possibly some help. A beggar, one of the very few people that live in both worlds, helped him enter London Below. The first people he met there were not friendly, but luckily Master Longtail recognized him from having met him in his apartment when "I threw the remote control at it" and ordered the Rat-speakers to get him safe to the Floating Market and Anaesthesia is to get him there, by crossing Night's Bridge where she bravely defended him against Varney (soon to be late-Varney) "the best bravo and guard in the underside" and "the best since Hunter's day" : in his own words. The Night takes her, so that's the last we see of her, poor girl, she was so nice. At the market Richard swaps his handkerchief for informations and finds Door and the marquis auditioning for a bodyguard. Varney would have been hired but Hunter's back, so she gets the job, and every fool reader is relieved, believing it to be a good thing, and it was, up to a point. Door had found her father's diary hidden in his study, telling her to go to the angel Islington (there's an Angel Station in Islington, of course) and to trust him, and anyone who thought: 'how could he hide it? He had no time to do it before he was killed!' will find a suitable answer.
They have to separate for a while. Door and Richard go to Islington and drink his Atlantis wine, then go on another little adventure to procure the key Islington asked them for, then go to the next market to get what they need, sure of meeting the marquis there.
Meanwhile, the marquis went to meet Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar, and I wonder if Gaiman tried to make us suspect that he was a traitor, there. I never did, I just waited to see what would happen.
They exchanged a few words then he tried to escape but was caught and tortured and finally killed. He did it on purpose, to discover who was behind all this, because people are not careful with their words when they are about to kill you or after they have killed you.
There's a piece about him that reads "the marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place that wished to be deceived, and to this end, he had named himself from a lie in a fairytale, and created himself - his clothes, his manner, his carriage - as a grand joke", and also Lord Portico's words to his daughter: "he's a fraud and a cheat and possibly even something of a monster. If you're ever in trouble, go to him. He will protect you, girl. He has to"
So, his throat ultimately cut, he was thrown in the sewer. He was found, brought to the market, bought by Old Bailey and brought on a roof, than revived using the silver box (and the egg inside). He tried to go back to the market to meet them, but they were gone already. They should have waited for him, they didn't even worry. Anyway, he followed them. He was in time to save Richard from Lamia, the velvet Richard himself had hired as a guide and that now was sucking his warmth and his life out of him. The marquis forced her to give it back, then warned her: "go near him again and I'll come by day to your cavern while you sleep and I'll burn it to the ground" which he didn't have to do. His debt to Lord Portico who once saved his life binds him to take care and protect her , not him, and certainly not in the future. Okay he may not be a good man, but he's not a bad man either, and I didn't like that a few minutes later Richard thought of him as a mad bastard.
Hunter betrays Door handing her to Croup and Vandemar, then she dies trying to kill the Beast of London, which Richard manages to finish off under her instructions. They reach Door and all three are chained. Islington wants her to release him from his prison, opening the door to Heaven where he wants to become the only master, but instead Door opens a door to "as far away as I could send him. Halfway across space and time" where Croup and Vandemar go also. Now Door is safe and her family's death has been avenged, the marquis has repaid his debt and Richard manages to go back to his old life thanks to the key. Once there he happily finds his old life: his job with a big promotion, a better apartment and his friend Gary. He meets Jessica but realizes it is definitely over. She asks: "did you meet someone?" and "he hesitated. He thought of Lamia and Hunter and Anaesthesia and even Door but none of them were someones in the way that she meant. 'No, no one else' he said. And then, realizing it was true as he said it 'I've just changed, that's all'"
I loved this bit. And I love that till the end Richard remembered Anaesthesia.
After all he went through, this life is now plain and boring, so he uses the knife Hunter gave him to draw a door on a wall and call out for someone and then he waits. After a little while:
"there was a man standing in the doorway, with his arms folded theatrically. He stood there until he was certain that Richard had seen him, and then he yawned hugely, covering his mouth with a dark hand. The marquis de Carabas raised an eyebrow. 'Well?' he said irritably. 'Are you coming?'. Richard stared at him for a heartbeat. Then Richard nodded, without trusting himself to speak, and stood up. And they walked away together through the hole in the wall, back into the darkness, leaving nothing behind them, not even the doorway"
It was lovely to have the last image with the marquis :-)

One of the things I love about how it's written, is that there aren't too many descriptions. London Below gets more or less the same amount as London Above; it would have easily fallen into a mockery had he lost too many words in describing every little thing. The 'silver-box-insurance' for example: we learn as we go on as much as we need to know, and there's no need for more. Why doesn't everyone do that, can everyone do it, how did he put his life away inside an egg... these things aren't important, not really. We get as many descriptions and explanations as we need to picture the scene and understand it, but not too much as to become boring or ridiculous. I really enjoyed it and I'd like very much to read its sequel (I think Door has a sister still alive somewhere..) if ever he should fancy the idea of writing it :-)

Harvey - 1950

I love it, love it, love it :-)
It starts with Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart, love him) walking out of his house and stopping to let someone invisible pass. After he goes out, his sister and her daughter prepare themselves for a party they're having in the house. Miss Johnson had been hired to serve at the party, but she leaves in a hurry because "a man introduced me to somebody (invisible Harvey;-p) Do you think I'd stay in this house after that?"   .... come on, it's not like he went after her with a knife!
Myrtle Mae says "oh mother, people get run over by trucks every day. Why can't something like that happen to uncle Elwood?" .... :-/ what a girl, huh?
Myrtle Mae (Victoria Horne) is all against him and wouldn't want him around, but her mother Veta (Josephine Hull) reminds her "your uncle Elwood is not living with us, we're living with him" because "why did grandmother leave all of her property to uncle Elwood?"
She's angry because no man will ever want her because her uncle's crazy. That's why they're having this party at all, to have her "started socially".
I liked the scenes in the bar, where the barman knows Elwood and talks to him about Harvey like a normal thing :-) Nice Mr Cracker :-)
When Elwood meets a man in the bar who tells him about the "reception" at his home he says "Veta didn't tell me anything about this; must have slipped her mind" and then he goes home because he worries she might be offended if he's not there :-p
Elwood does everything with Harvey, and he buys tickets for two, and he introduces everybody to Harvey, he hears him and talks to him, and people they all run away, so Veta wants to have him hospitalized, because she's ashamed of him.
Mr Sanderson (Charles Drake) is the young doctor so full oh himself, so sure he's such a great psychiatrist, and he thinks Veta crazy and has her locked up. Probably because she confesses that sometimes she can see Harvey too: "a big white rabbit, six feet high, or is it six feet three and a half?".
Miss Kelly (Peggy Dow) is in love with the doctor, who knows why since he treats her with such contempt.
Wilson (Jesse White) carries poor Veta over his shoulders and puts her in a cell. They try to explain the situation to Elwood who is so very nice and kind, and says of Miss kelly "isn't she lovely? Isn't she... (turning to her) you're very lovely my dear" - "why thank you Mr Dowd, some people don't seem to think so" - "well some people are blind. That's very often brought to my attention" :lol:
Elwood tries many times to introduce them to Harvey, but they keep talking and not notice and don't let him. :-p The doctor explains that Veta came insisting that Elwood needed treatment but it's her that's not well and must stay there.
The wife of Dr Chumley meets Elwood outside and he tells her about Harvey: he's a Pooka! and his best friend too! The dictionary says : "Pooka=from old Celtic mythology. A fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The Pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature, very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you Mr Wilson?"
When she tells her husband, he's furious, saying Dr Sanderson "let a psychopathic case walk out" (very wrongly I think though, because seeing imaginary rabbits doesn't mean someone is a psychopath at all!)
Dr Chumley (Cecil Kellaway) and everybody else go after Elwood to bring him back in. Veta is left free and she's very shocked and angry that "they put me in and let Elwood out". When Wilson comes to her home to look for Elwood, Myrtle Mae fixes him something to eat *rolling eyes*. Elwood come home bringing a painting of him and Harvey (although it's not clear who made it if nobody else can see him, or maybe this painter could..) but they don't notice.
Dr Chumley goes to Charlie's to find Elwood but after four hours he hasn't come back yet, so Wilson, Sanderson and Kelly go there too. There's only Elwood present. Wilson asks Mr Cracker "Is he alone?" and the reply: "well, there's two schools of thought sir" :-p
Elwood has Dr Sanderson dance with Kelly :-p
I like everything about Elwood, and everything he says :-p "I've wrestled with reality for 35 years and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it" ; "I have so many things to do. Harvey and I sit in the bars, have a drink or two, play the jukebox, and soon the faces of all the people, they turn toward mine and they smile, and they're saying 'we don't know your name mister but you're a very nice fella' Harvey and I warm ourselves on all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers and soon we have friends" and they talk and people tell him their stories and their hopes "their loves and their hates, all very large because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar" ; "one night several years ago I was walking early in the evening down Fairfax Street (..) and I heard this voice saying 'good evening Mr Dowd', well I turned around and there was this big six-foot rabbit leaning against a lamp-post. Now, I thought nothing of that because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name, and naturally I went over to chat with him, and (..) we talked for a while (..) then Harvey said 'what name do you like?', 'Harvey's always been my favourite name', 'what a coincidence, my name happens to be Harvey'"  :lol: adorable.
Back to the sanatorium, we understand that Dr Chumley saw Harvey too. Elwood talks with him about Harvey: "Harvey can look at your clock and stop it, and you can go anywhere you like, with anyone you like and stay as long as you like and when you get back, not one minute will have ticked by" and "Harvey has overcome not only time and space but any objections" :lol:
Harvey always said he'll do anything for Elwood but he never asked him anything because "so far I haven't been able to think of any place I'd rather be, I always have a wonderful time wherever I am, whoever I'm with". He's always so nice, he's not angry even when he understands that Veta wants to lock him up in there - "years ago my mother used to say to me 'in this world Elwood you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me" :lol: There's such a peaceful look in his face, he's so charming and adorable :-)
They all want Elwood to take a serum that will bring him back to reality, and he won't see the rabbit but only his duties. Of course Elwood doesn't want it, he doesn't think he needs it, but then Veta starts crying, saying that they have no life at all, that they're miserable, so sweet Elwood accepts to take it, and the look on his face, oh it breaks my heart.
While they wait outside, the taxi driver (Wallace Ford) comes for his money but Veta can't find any in her bag, so he should wait for Elwood to come out, but the man's not happy about it, so they have Elwood come out at once and they talk, very friendly. "A sweet guy" says the man later, and he tells her of the other people that have taken that serum. "I brought them out here to get that stuff and frove them home afterwards. It changes them. On the way out here they sit back and enjoy the ride. They talk to me. Sometimes we stop and watch the sunsets and look at the birds flying. Sometimes we stop and watch the birds when there ain't no birds, and look at the sunsets when it's raining. We have a swell time. And I always get a big tip. But afterwards, they crab and crab. They yell at me, 'watch the lights! watch the brakes! watch the intersection!', they scream at me to hurry (..) it's no fun. And no tips (..) after this he'll be a perfectly normal human being, and you know what stinkers they are" :-D
Veta screams now to stop it, she doesn't want her brother to be like that, and even says "and what's wrong with Harvey? If Elwood and Myrtle Mae and I want to live with Harvey, what is it to you?" :-) Elwood is all happy and smiling :-) and now Veta finds her money in her bag and understands that Harvey hid it to stop this nonsense :-)
Veta dislikes Wilson after what he did to her and so she wants him away from Myrtle Mae, but Elwood is so nice he says "very nice couple" and invites Wilson home for dinner :-) so now Myrtle Mae is no more against him.
Harvey thinks of staying with Dr Chumley for a while because he asked, and Elwood doesn't mind, but is sad about it, but he's just walking out the sanatorium's gate when he comes back, and they talk and we see Elwood smile : "oh thank you Harvey, I prefer you too " :-)
How lovely, isn't it? So so lovely :-)

Little notes:
Elwood is 42. He reads 'sense and sensibility' aloud to Harvey while waiting :-p
It's not clear to me why Elwood's father is called John Stiverson, I mean, shouldn't he be called Dowd??

From the pulitzer prize play by Mary Chase who also wrote the screenplay (! I didn't know this, that's why I'm writing it down here :-p)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Finished! Finally! My gosh, I didn't like it at all, so full of vicious characters and deeds. Everyone but the narrator is either very bad or very stupid, and children came out of nowhere all of a sudden.
I admit it is indeed well written and sort of captivating, because of that, but I didn't like the story of cruelty, vengeance, hate and depravation, or the idiocy of some characters like Isabella: how could I pity her? He was cruel, yes, but she had been an idiot. No comparison with those women who think they've married a good man who turns out a monster: this is different, he showed her the monster that he was, everybody told her the fiend that he was, but she was all 'if I want him I can have him'.
The only decent character is Ellen Dean, also called Nelly, the narrator of the story. I felt for poor Hareton, the only one who encountered my sympathy: he was vulgar and rough only because ignorance had been forced on him and he knew no different, poor lad.
Heathcliff started out as a victim, but was so cruel afterwards that I have no pity for him. Edgar Linton embraced his fate willingly, he should have known better. Catherine Earnshaw only thought of herself. Hindley Earnshaw was cruel and stupid altogether. Catherine Linton was a spoiled brat and Linton Heathcliff a pathetic, self-absorbed peevish thing of a boy. Isabella was the stupidest of all, listening to nobody and regretting her actions/marriage the very next day.
There's plenty of love-stories, and yet not one that grips my heart, because when you think about it, they had no social life at all, so nobody really fell in love, nobody chose, nobody was picked among the many; Catherine knew two boys and loved them both; little Cathy knew two also, and loved the educated one, and when he was no more decided to educate the other to love him; Isabella knew but one and got him. I mean, it's not like in other stories when people meet other people in "society".
Surely, there's a lot that we don't see, because this is Nelly's tale, and she tells it her way, so there may be many things she doesn't say, but I'm sure there weren't all that many other boys and girls available, considering that a gentleman's daughter/son would not even look at someone who was not their equal.
There's one nice image, at the end of the book, but just one is not enough to save the book.
The story:
There's a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, and after meeting unpleasant Heathcliff he's really curious to learn about him so he asks housekeeper Ellen to tell him the whole story.
At first, at Wuthering Heights the Earnshaw family lived alone: father, mother and children fourteen-year-old Hindley and six-year-old Catherine, plus our Ellen and her mother, and Ellen was always very close to the family and as children they played together.
One day the father came home with a child, found alone in the streets, belonging to nobody (apparently) and he just took him home, like a pet. Because of him the man broke or lost the gifts he had brought for his children, so they hated Heathcliff right away...
Hindley was always jealous of him; Catherine only at first, then the two became very close. The mother didn't want the "gipsy brat" in the house and wanted to "fling it out of doors" :-/ After two years she died, though. Hindley was sent away to school, and Catherine was always so wayward that her dad said to her face "I cannot love thee, thou 'rt worse than thy brother" who mistreated Heathcliff. When the man died, after three years, Hindley came back for the funeral with his wife Frances, and became the tyrant of the family. Heathcliff's education stopped, he was to work out of doors instead, like a servant.  One night Heathcliff and Catherine (when she was 12) were out, looking at the Linton children: Isabella was 11 and screaming, and her older brother Edgar was weeping. They laughed at them and tried to run away when heard, but a dog got her ankle. He was sent away as a little vagabond, while she was recognized and cared for, and stayed there for five weeks, and came home almost like a Lady, "her manners much improved".
Heathcliff was dirty and wild, and felt bad.   -Next summer was 1778, nearly 23 years ago -
Hindley's wife died after giving birth to little Hareton, the true heir of Wuthering Heights. Hindley was so desperate he became more tyrannical than ever, sent all servants away but Nelly and hideous Joseph, and between his bad ways and his bad companions he started his new life of "degrading himself past redemption". At 15 Catherine was used to acting one way with Heathcliff and one way with the Lintons. When Heathcliff told her to send away Edgar and stay with him she said "what do you talk about? It's no company at all when people know nothing and say nothing".
Catherine wanted to stay alone with Edgar so she became angry at Nelly and hurt her and made a big scene, she did even strike him, and he was shocked and almost left but instead came back and proposed, the silly man.
When Hindley came home drunk and was violent with Nelly and little Hareton, and he caused the child to fall but Heathcliff happened to be there and save him : "his countenance (..) expressed the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge".
When Cathy confessed to Nelly that she accepted Edgar's proposal she added: "in my soul and in my heart I'm convinced I'm wrong. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in Heaven, and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him: and that not because he's handsome but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same". She thought that marrying Edgar she could also help Heathcliff, but without her knowing he had heard her words and went away. Cathy got ill calling him all night under the rain. Mrs Linton took her to Thrushcross Grange and soon both her and Mr Linton took the fever and died (no good deed goes unpunished..). After three years Cathy married Edgar and Nelly was forced to leave nearly-five-year-old Hareton and go live with her at Thrushcross grange. In only ten months the child changed greatly: he forgot Nelly and became wild and cursing.
 Cathy lived happily for six months ( +o-) with Edgar and Isabella indulging and spoiling her; then Heathcliff came back, a wealthy man. After he was "absent and silent for three years", Catherine now was all "I'm afraid the joy is too great to be real". He went to stay at Wuthering Heights with Hindley! A mystery for everybody. He wanted to live near Cathy, and his frequent visits caused eighteen-year-old Isabella to lose her head: "I love him more than ever you loved Edgar and he might love me if you would let him". Cathy tried to warn her: "he's not a rough diamond, he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man".
When Cathy said everything to Heathcliff, he looked at Isabelle with aversion, but she still didn't get it. When Nelly told Cathy, she had a big fight with Heathcliff, and when Nelly told Edgar, there was an even bigger fight. Cathy cared about Isabelle and therefore was angry at Heathcliff, but even angrier at Edgar who wanted to throw him out: "after constant indulgence of one's weak nature and the other's bad one, I earn for thanks two samples of blind ingratitude, stupid to absurdity. Edgar, I was defending you and yours, and I wish Heathcliff may flog you sick for daring to think an evil thought of me".
After that she locked herself in her room, fasted for three days, and came out not at all well, kind of delusional.
Nelly found Isabella's springer almost choked, hanged, poor thing, but she saved it. In the morning they discovered that Isabella had eloped with Heathcliff. Edgar was grieved, and considered her no more his sister. Six weeks later he received a letter, to inform him that they were married. A fortnight later Nelly received one too, where she learned her situation. Isabella was now living at Wuthering Heights, living with wild Hareton, fanatic Joseph, mad Hindley and cruel Heathcliff: she had learned to fear him and hate him. When Nelly went to see her, Heathcliff said: "the very morrow of our wedding she was weeping to go home" (no other comments, but I wonder about their wedding night: in the afternoon she loved him, in the morning she feared him and hated him..), and "she abandoned (her house) under a delusion, picturing in me a hero of romance (..) so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character (..) the passion was wholly on one side and I never told her a lie about it. She cannot accuse me of showing one bit of deceitful softness. The first thing she saw me do, on coming out of the Grange, was to hang up her little dog (..) no brutality disgusted her (..) if only her precious person was secure from injury". He never loved her and had no problem in saying so. He only loved Cathy, who never recovered. Catherine Earnshow died giving birth to her daughter Catherine Linton. The night after her funeral, Isabelle escaped and went near London, and after a few months (maybe six) she gave birth to Linton. After a few months since Cathy's death, Hindley died, drunk. Hindley had mortgaged everything he had for cash, all gone in drinking and gambling. Heathcliff supplied the cash, so now he was the owner of Wuthering Heights and everything. He kept Hareton as a servant. Little Cathy grew up a recluse, but happily indulged. Edgar didn't want to risk an encounter with Heathcliff. After 13 years, when Isabelle was dying she called her brother to take her son and take care of him, but Heathcliff wanted him so Linton had to go living at Wuthering Heights. Disobedient Miss Cathy wandered to the Heights and was shocked and offended when a servant told her that vulgar Hareton was her cousin. Three years after she first saw Linton at her house for like a couple of hours, she wandered again to the Heights, and found Heathcliff quite cordial because he wanted the two to fall in love. Edgar tried explaining to her what Heathcliff really was, but the miss kept writing to Linton anyway, and soon those letters became love-letters. When she found out, Ellen tried to put a stop to it, but the little miss was quite stupid. Linton was unbearable, spoiled, annoying, false, but she called him "my sweet darling cousin" and "pretty Linton" :-/ idiot. She said "I've learned to endure his selfishness and spite with nearly as little resentment as his sufferings" :-/
When Ellen told Edgar, he stopped her from going there again, if he wanted Linton could come to her, but Heathcliff didn't agree, so they agreed to meet in the open. Linton was weak and sick but his father didn't care at all, he only wanted him to marry Cathy, so forced him to meet her outside. Cathy was rather disappointed to see him so silent, sometimes sleepy, but he was terrified of her leaving too soon, afraid that his father might see, and he succeeded in luring her in the house, afraid for himself but not thinking about her at all. Heathcliff locked Cathy and Ellen in the house, and forced Cathy to marry Linton while Nelly was locked up for four days and five nights. Right after the marriage, Linton started acting in a despicable way, not caring for her at all, saying things like a wife should obey and she has nothing because now it all belongs to him. Cathy managed to escape just in time to see her father alive, so she was able to say goodbye before he died. Heathcliff came to take her back, though, leaving Ellen at TG. Nobody at WH cared about Linton's health, only Cathy, so no doctor was ever called. After he died, she was left by herself and treated with contempt. Hareton liked her, clearly always had, but she kept treating him badly, with disgust, the double idiot.
Mr Lockwood knew everything there was to know now; having decided to go away he went to WH to say goodbye, although TG was still his for several months to come because Heathcliff was not willing to change the agreement. Cathy was very haughty, scorning poor Hareton for his ignorance, the little brat, she should have helped him instead!
They shared a cheerless dinner then parted. 1802 Mr Lockwood came back after a few months, and found things to be quite different. Nelly was now living at Wuthering Heights again, and Hareton and Cathy appeared to be in love, playing and kissing while she was teaching him to read properly. Nelly told him the rest of the story, what happened in those months of his absence: Cathy became sorry of how she had treated Hareton, probably because she had nobody else there and he might have proved a good ally, so she made peace with him and they became friends, and she started teaching him. Heathcliff strangely was not particularly angry, he acted very strangely. In those days he was not feeling like himself, he felt like he had no reason to go on, no Catherine to love and no enemy to defeat. He stopped eating and sleeping for four days, always smiling (!!) and absorbed in his own thoughts. One morning they found him outside, on the ground, dead with his eyes opened and a smile on his face.
Finally. With him gone everything changed, of course. Cathy was to marry Hareton and go back to Thrushcross Grange with Nelly.
There was a rumour that Heathcliff and Catherine's ghosts were sometimes seen about the moor, and that's it. The end.