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
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