JJ comes back a full profiler now, no more liaison officer, apparently then don't need one anymore :-/
Garcia keeps doing the explaining that was once JJ's job.
ep 1 - It takes a village
Apparently Seaver was transferred to another unit. Garcia wears such high heels, it's no wonder she walks funny! Garcia has been taking care of Sergio this whole time and Emily goes: "oh I knew you would" :-) yeah. As I expected the most troubled/shocked/angry at Emily's reappearance are Reid and Morgan.
This episode moves back and forth from the present and the beginning of the case. At the present they are on trial, the team altogether, and we hear that JJ came back 14 weeks ago and in that time they have solved 17 cases, and also that JJ has quite a record "reinstated, promoted and suspended in such short time" . After they all explain how things went, they are all dismissed but Prentiss. Eventually she comes back: suspension has been lifted for everyone, and Emily is back with the team.
Did anyone like how it ended? They seemed so angry to put them on trial, saying things like they can't put rules aside and make their own, and other things, and then all of a sudden all was forgotten because Emily told them that her team 'work with integrity and honor their oath' and in case they don't remember it she quotes the whole thing, sort of swearing it again, I guess. It was too easy, so much so as to be silly.
For seven months Morgan and Garcia have been working on the Doyle case without telling the others. They find Doyle's son, Declan, and soon after that the father shows up in Garcia's monitors. Now that they have found him, they call Hotch (he was in Pakistan leading an investigating task force - with a beard :-)) ) and then they tell everything to the rest of the team.
Someone takes the child, killing a woman and two agents. Because of this, Emily is flying back.
Hotch : "seven months ago I made a decision that affected this team" and he goes on telling them the truth. Emily is alive and is coming back.
They take Doyle in , and he didn't know his son had been taken. Emily can help them with her knowledge of Doyle's people. Declan has been taken by her mum, to get back at Doyle who chained her for seven months to be sure she'd have the child. Reid suggests to give her Doyle to save Declan. They try that, but there's a shooting, and Doyle and the woman and the man who was working with her, they all die, but the kid is safe.
- Queen Elizabeth the first said: The past cannot be cured.
ep 2 - Proof
Garcia will be having a Fellini Festival at her house and wants Rossi to teach her an Italian dish.
JJ is upset because Reid is avoiding her, she thinks he's angry at her and he is: "Jennifer listen, (..) I trusted you, I came to your house for ten weeks in a row crying over losing a friend and not once did you have the decency to tell me the truth" and even adds that he had thought about using drugs again, then he starts to leave and she calls him back saying she's sorry but he says "it's too late alright?".
Seeing this, Hotch tells him "if you want to be mad at someone be mad at me" and Reid replies "I can't. I didn't come to your house crying for ten weeks" :-(
Emily asks Morgan "what do I do about Reid?" - Morgan:"Emily there's a lot about you being back that it's unresolved" - E:"are you pissed at me too?" - M:"come on now, how could I be? You're here (..) " which was very sweet of him, although I imagine he must be a bit angry at Hotch..
Hotch suggests they all get together at Rossi's house for his cooking lesson to Garcia to sort things out :lol: Rossi is not so upset as the others at Emily's fake-death and comeback, because he says he had suspicions about it, that that's because he's good at what he does :-p
Aww I liked their reunion at Rossi's house, he's funny and they all smile and Reid comes too :-)
Durant, Okhlahoma.
A mentally retarded man abducts and tortures and kills girls that remind him of a girl that rejected him in high-school: his now sister-in-law, but he was always a bad one, enjoying killing animals. They catch him, he's evil; they save the girl (his brother's daughter) but he had burned her hands with acid.
- If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary. Mark Twain
- Scott Adams wrote: Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
ep 3 - Dorado falls
It seems Garcia must have made some kind of quote with her 'you know how to whistle' joke but I didn't get it. What I do get are the Dr Who references :-D it seems a man wasn't at work that day because he was "at a Doctor Who convention" :-) Yeeah, indeed, the Doctor has saved another one :-p and Reid calls it an awesome convention :-))
Emily has been believed dead for "seven months of hell", Morgan's words, so now he wants to see Emily in training, as a sort of reassurance that he doesn't have to worry about losing her again on the field. :-)
Charlottesville, VA
A man walks into an office and kills everyone (8 dead) with a gun and a knife. This Luke then kills his own parents, then he goes looking for his 'real parents', because he killed 'the replacements'. He has a condition and he's now delusional, and is now in Quantico after his wife and daughter, there in protected custody. His eyes play tricks on him, so they talk to him and it's all going rather well, it seems, he's going to surrender, and they order him to close his eyes, but at the last moment he opens them, not resisting the temptation I guess, and it all goes bad, and they have to drag him away from his family.
- Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt
- We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles
ep 4 - Painless
It starts with Hotch talking to Jack's teacher in school, and it ends with him saying this to Emily: "there's a kid that's being mean to him at school and Jack's solution is to invite him over and make friends with him" - Emily:"that is the sweetest and saddest thing I've heard".
Reid 'coached' basketball at school. Morgan, talking to journalists, at one points says "feel free to call me" then his name "it's Dr Spencer Reid" and Reid's phone number :-p jerk :-p Because of this Reid keeps receiving calls until he loses his patience, and from the look on Morgan's face he finally understands the truth and mumbles "I'll crush you" before leaving the room. It was a nice moment, made you wonder what he would do next, but it was a huge disappointment; it would appear that all Reid does is screaming into his radio or cell phone - well, I've no idea how he managed to pull that one, still I expected something more.
Case: some years ago a kid, Randy, came into school with a gun and a bomb. He shot some students then he blew himself up. Now there's gonna be a commemoration at the school, but the things starts again. A bomb kills the principal, and some ex students are killed also. The guy responsible is the only one who that day years ago had raised his eyes to face Randy and his gun, but nobody even knows his name because someone else stole his story to appear on tv. He won't stop, so Hotch has to shoot him dead.
- You may leave school, but it never leaves you. Andy Partridge
- Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Khalil Gibran
ep 5 - From childhood's hour
When Morgan calls Garcia he, for once, didn't tell her right away that she was on speaker :lol: luckily no stranger heard her, only the team :-p
Rossi had breakfast with Carolyn: Emily"is that wife number 4 or 5?" and he says "look let's get our facts straight, I only had three wives. I mean, that's within the realm of reasonable" :-p lovely that he then talks about it to Emily :-) sure she asked, but still he could have kept by himself, instead he shared :)
It ends with Rossi having dinner with Carolyn, and it turns out she's ill, she doesn't have long to live, and she asks him "when it's time will you help me end my life?" oh my...
Case: St. Louis. A mother with problems of depression leaves her son at the grandparents house, in the garden, where he is abducted. A guy abducts children whose mothers have problems, then he keeps them in their 'new home'. This guy had pushed his own suicidal mother off a bridge, and now wanted the kids' consent to kill their mothers too (we see him killing just one mother, but the child thought he would help her, not kill her, I think, surely?). They stop him and save the children. The last one to be abducted was a teenage girl with her mother. She had called 911 saying her mom's boyfriend was either abusive or violent or maybe both, not sure, but her mother said she didn't believe it, and this guy learned about their situation because he answered the 911 call. Once at his home, the first child told the mother that the unsub would try and get her daughter's consent to kill her, but the woman says she will never accept that, because her daughter loves her, that they fight a lot but still they love each other, and the child now says that if her daughter won't consent, the unsub will probably get angry and violent at her, so the mother gets scared for her daughter's life and when they are all in the same room she starts saying horrible things to her daughter to make her kill her.. it was a hard scene. The team saves everyone, though. Good.
- From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw. Edgar Allan Poe
- All things truly wicked start from an innocence. Ernest Hemingway
ep 6 - Epilogue
Reid times how long does it take for them to turn their page over when they read :p
Garcia says "faster than a hotch, rocket!" which is not funny, unless hotch is also a word meaning something real, that I don't know.
Hotch wears a blue shirt with a t-shirt underneath, and no jacket. Looks good, but he's so so thin..
Rossi has been thinking of his ex-wife's request, and when they get back he tells her that he can't, he just can't, of course, but she knew that already, she tells him she knows him and that he's "the best man I've ever known, that's why I wanted you to be with me tonight". Of course he understands, want to call for an ambulance but she stops him, and he cries hugging her. We see him at the end sitting near these graves: "Carolyn Baker Rossi born 8 June 1955 died 26 October 2011" and "James David Rossi beloved son, born 26 April 1979 died 26 April 1979" I didn't know about that!
Ridge Canyon Lake, California.
A teenager is believed dead by his bad father who had thrown him in the lake, and is buried. He comes out of there, and kills his father. He also has, now, a bad illness, and wants to know what's coming to him when he dies, so he abducts people, drowns them then revives them to ask what they saw.
Morgan: "no one actually sees the afterlife"
Reid "I did. Before Tobias resuscitated me I had that exact experience (..) I am a man of science, I didn't know how to deal with it"
Emily "when I coded in the ambulance, all I felt was cold and darkness, and I would like to think that there's a different future waiting for me"
- To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm
- The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeded it. Mary Catherine Bateson
ep 7 - There's no place like home
There's a new case and JJ has to go back to work even if she had two days off. Will is not happy about this, it was better when she was at the Pentagon, but she says she wasn't helping anyone there, and in the end he tells her to go. This is more or less how it was between Hotch and Haley, although not entirely because Will is a cop so it's different. - Such a funny thing, it seems I can't bring myself to call Hotch by his first name, which is absurd because I like the name more than the surname, it just doesn't feel...like I should, you know -
A guy lost his beloved big brother on a storm, than another storm destroyed his grave, and now he's killing teenagers and taking body parts from them to build his own Frankenstein Monster, believing he'll bring back his brother. They find him in time to save the last guy (good, I liked him a lot) but the unsub walks towards the tornado and is taken away.
It ends with JJ calling home and telling a bedtime story to her child on the phone, 'the baby star story' and it's a nice image that she didn't have the book but knew it perfectly word for word, makes you think of how many times she's read it to him :-) I love this nice touch :-)
- For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood, do but make it pulse more vigorously. George Gissing
- Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Arthur Golden
ep 8 - Hope
At a meeting Garcia speaks of when she was a teenager and had again come home crazy late and her parents had gone out looking for her, and they were killed by a drunk driver.
It's Garcia's victims support group.
Eight-year-old Hope disappeared seven years ago, and her mom Monica disappears now. The same man, Bill (isn't he the cheerleader's father from Heroes?) is desperate because Hope committed suicide when she became pregnant, and takes Monica to make a baby together and recreate Hope.
Penelope and the team arrive to free her, but of course what she saw and heard was too much for everyone. It's absurd that none of them thought of this: as soon as she was free Monica grabbed Bill's gun next to her and shot him. Of course, who wouldn't have want to kill him in the same situation...
- Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. George Iles
- We are each on our own journey, each of us on our very own adventure, encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go. Those choices will stretch us and test us and push us to our limit, and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever knew we could be.
I searched the Internet about this quote, because it sounded like a quote but no name was given at the end, so I'm not sure. On the internet I found many sites with this quote from this show, all of them coming from the same source whatever that might be since they all show the same details and the same errors, and anyway they all produce "Aamnah Akram" at the end of it, for whatever reason; I don't know.
At the end we hear Garcia's voice: "There's a quote by my favourite author Joseph Campbell and it goes like this:
- Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
The ep ends with Garcia keeping on with the group, and at a ceremony just for them for Monica to say goodbye to Hope: the group close to her, she releases butterflies from a jar and cries, and Garcia is with her (with a lovely haircut, short blonde hair - well, she's been blonde since the second half of season 6)
ep 9 - Self fulfilling prophecy
At a military academy, some kids were camping by themselves, in the woods, for six days. Five out of six are found dead, hanged. The team + Garcia + Strauss go to investigate.
Rossi and Emily go into the woods and when they come back she's itching all over and says to Rossi "if I've got it, so do you" and he says "I'm Italian, it knows better" :-p
A boy too much bullied had killed himself. His father is the one who killed those five boys, the worst bullies of the academy, then he fell to his death into a trap.
This colonel Massey (Rene Auberjonois) seems a jerk to me. Josh was defending the poor boys that were bullied, but Massey didn't let him. He wanted Josh dead because he couldn't control him/break him, but the team saves Josh and arrest the colonel.
Strauss lost her patience with Massey and Morgan questioned her: "have you been drinking?" because he could smell alcohol :-/
Morgan confronts Hotch who says "she was getting help" and Morgan "you keep telling me that I have problems trusting people but from where I'm standing you're the one who can't trust anyone with anything".
At the end Hotch and Morgan confront Strauss, telling her she needs help and sort of has to step down, and they'll have her checked-in privately. "you have no idea what this is going to do to me" she says.
- Things do not change. We change. Henry David Thoreau
- Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de la Fontaine.
ep 10 - The bittersweet science
Hotch is running :-) training for the FBI triathlon in February, apparently :-) and a woman stops to talk to him and he smiles :-) but then she asks to bike together and he says he'll call her and she gives him her card: Beth :-). Rossi is all "you're going, right?" and "is she cute?"- "yes, she is, but I need to focus on my training, I don't need to be distracted" - "yes, you should be distracted, distracted is good" :lol: so nice :-D
Garcia to Rossi: "out with it. Is Hotch dating?" :-p
Hotch did go biking with Beth :-) I hope she's a good one and won't turn out to have a hidden agenda. I want him to be happy :-D
Philadelphia, PA. The unsub is a boxer with a lust for blood. His little son is in a hospital dying of leukemia, and he can't accept it. He killed some men with his bare hands, but when they catch him, Hotch goes to tell him that his son is dying and he needs to be a father for him, not a fighter or a trainer, and help his son, and he takes him into the son's room. Hotch is amazing *tears*
- Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no-one wants to die. Joe Louis
- Herman Hesse wrote: some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
ep 11 - True genius
Violent Crimes Seminar, Chicago, Illinois. Patricia Cornwell is there!! "in the end I just write about violent crimes, the real heroes are the people here beside me, now give a warm welcome to our next speaker Dr Spencer Reid of the BAU" !! She's also signing books for her last one "Red Mist".
Reid is lost for a moment, like he's not doing enough with his life and should be doing more and he talks to Emily (he's 30 now, and Emily says that they missed his birthday).
It ends with them throwing a surprise party for Reid's birthday, when they get back :-)
Marin County, California.Apparently "the Zodiac" is back. He killed 40 years ago so should be at least in his 60s now.
Reid is the only one sure that this is not the real Zodiac, and he's right.
Birmingham, Alabama, called the magic city. Reid thinks he'll strike there and they wait for him, instead a letter arrives, to Reid: "you're not as smart as you think you are" and two people are killed in Albany Park.
In America do they really have the IQ of everyone? Do they have to take IQ tests in schools??
Caleb and Harvey were friends since they were kids, inseparable geniuses, and once they killed a boy and were never found out. As they grew older, Harvey kept his distance, and is now engaged to be married and planning on moving to Shanghai. Caleb has been "bringing back" the Zodiac to 'communicate' with him, trying to win him back since they used to play investigators.
At last he abducts his fiancee and tells her what they did to that kid and asks him to kill her and run away with him. Reid comes, talking to them, and is successful in getting through to Caleb, so they arrest him, and Harvey too I should think.
- Three can keep a secret if two are dead. Benjamin Franklin.
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. Dante
ep 12 - Unknown subject
Emily's therapy sessions are over, but Hotch can't be fooled so easily, because he does read the reports, and this one says: "she has started a romantic relationship with a man named Sergio", and Hotch knows that's her cat :-p he tells her "you've been overcompensating. You rushed to repair your relationship with Morgan, you've become an emotional sounding board for Reid and Rossi, you offered me parenting advice. (..) it only is (such a bad thing) if you use it to avoid dealing with what you went through" and then he says "I want you to make a deal with me. You're gonna go weeks, months even feeling fine, and then you're gonna have a bad day. Just let me know when you do", that's it, he's such a sweetie :-)
Houston, Texas. Women that were once victims of a serial rapist are now raped again, even worse.
One of the women is killed. It turns out the first and second assault were done by a different person. A victim, Regina, holds a man hostage, sure that it was him, "the piano man", and he was! They told her he wasn't so that she wouldn't kill him and become a murderer.
It ends with Emily affected by Regina's story of having her monster still alive to deal with, and she tells Hotch "I'm having a bad day" The end.
The actress playing Regina was good, and also a beautiful woman.
- We do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler
- All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis
ep 13 - Snake eyes
Garcia and Kevin had a fight last night, so we hear, and this morning she has a terrible headache and Morgan comes out of the shower and she had no idea he was in, and now she can't even look him in the eyes :-p which I think was very silly of her.
It ends with Morgan going to Garcia to clear things up. She's been avoiding him, barely speaking to him. She's very relieved when he tells her he came to keep her company, they had popcorn and watched a movie, she fell asleep and he slept on the couch.
Garcia has decided to have 'an extended date every Tuesday night' after the fight. Kevin comes in when she still has her hand on Morgan's neck but he's used by now to their friendship and simply says "hey Derek". Morgan tells her "you got a great guy out there, you know that right?" :-))
Atlantic city, NJ A man thinks he has found a gambling system that works: he kills someone he knows and he'll get lucky. He shoots his friend then enters a poker tournament. To catch him, our team uses Rossi's money :-p to put Reid inside, but honestly there was no need to, since Garcia finds him too. Whey they corner him and he has no way out, he kills himself.
- A Chinese proverb says: at the gambling table there are no fathers and sons.
- George Augustus Sala said: a gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.
ep 14 - Closing time
Hotch still trains with Beth :-) they laugh together :-D but now training's over. Beth:"what are we going to do about that?" Hotch:"I think we should do something" (...) "Aaron Hotchner, are you asking me out on a date?" - "I'm trying, it's not going very well" - "accepted, eagerly anticipated. When shall I expect my chariot?":-D "Friday"
When he tells Rossi, he goes "come hell or high water Aaron, I will get us back by Friday" :-D love this :D
After the case. It appears it's now Valentine's day. After hearing this, Hotch puts aside his paperwork to go out with Beth. He shows up at her door: she said "flowers? wow, thank you, it's not even Friday" which doesn't make much sense in my opinion. He says that he knows but since he had time he thought they might go out, or something. She seemed surprise but she was ready to go out, so I definitely think he called her to anticipate their date since it's S.Valentine's day. It was a bit strange though because they greeted each other as though it was a surprise, and yet she was all dressed up and ready to go.
Anyway, she kisses him right away, a sweet little kiss, then they go holding hands, and they talk, he says "It's not often that I'm speechless but I am now" and then he laughs... aww I wish she's for real and they'll be happy :-)
Playa del Rey, California
After a divorce, and after finding out that his son is actually his friend's son, a man has a breakdown and starts killing people who had a broken heart or who cheated on their partner. When they find him, JJ talks to him and lowers her gun to calm him down then she attacks him bare-handed :-p tough girl, her character sure developed lately :-p
Morgan : "all I'm saying is that I'm never making you angry again :-p
- For trust not him that hath once broken faith. William Shakespeare
- You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. Frank Crane
ep 15 - A thin line
Emily got injured during an action, and Morgan feels responsible for sending her in. "you're a team leader, you made a tactical decision" - "and you got hurt, again" - "you did what you thought was right, that's all you can do. The rest of it, that's not up to us, that's the job" then she jokes a little, messing with him, and they laugh together :-)
San Bernardino, California. Two home invasions, two whole families killed, and each time one of the attackers was killed too, but they were actually victims too. There's a politician, Clark Preston, who is basing his campaign on racism and fight against immigrants (...mind you, this was shot years ago, so any possible reference to events or people of today are totally casual, of course..). He also manipulated a young man into killing for him. This guy lost his father and sister in a home invasion, and his mother is still in near-vegetative state after brain-damage, and Preston took advantage of that, and brainwashed him , turning him into a fanatic killer. Preston also bought all the property that lost value after the killings. Of course they arrest Preston, but the young man Mills got himself killed.
This boy had drugged some men with the excuse of giving them some work to do, and then he killed them to make it look like they had done the invasions and killings. He drugged two black man and a Mexican immigrant, I think, because he wanted to start a racial war, or something like that. He was a real fanatic.
- Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honoré de Balzac
- I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or against. Malcolm X
ep 16 - A family affair
Come on, there's a scene where JJ says "it's a loading zone parking only" so that means the man must have a permit because he got no ticket... we live in different worlds, I guess, truly!
Reid volunteers to babysit JJ's son while she's on a lady's night with Garcia and Prentiss. The girls got so drunk that the next day they were feeling terrible. Why is it always like that, can't people go out without getting drunk? Friends can't have fun without drinking themselves to oblivion? That seems so sad and kind of pathetic. I mean, if it happens once ok, but every single time, like there cannot be any fun without alcohol, that seems rather sad to me. I'm not saying they shouldn't drink but there's a difference between having a drink together and getting totally wasted :-/
Finally we see the triathlon, and we see Hotch finish it (he's number 62, not that it matters anyway), and Rossi took Jack there (Jack calls him 'uncle Dave' aww) and the team's all there, and Hotch introduces Beth and Jack, and they look so nice and he's happy :-)
A guy on a wheelchair is impotent and likes stabbing girls violently and many times, and his parents are not only covering for him, but also finding new girls for him, cleaning the blood mess and disposing of the bodies. This is one of those cases when the first profile is wrong, believing there's a sort of same-age-duo, they couldn't imagine a family right away, of course. The father then commits suicide with a note confessing the murders, in a last attempt to protect his family. The mother is about to shoot a girl when the team arrives, they kill her and arrest Jeffrey.
- Eckhart Tolle said: where there's anger, there is always pain underneath.
- Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr
ep 17 - Foundation
A kid, Angel, has been held prisoner for years by some man. Somehow he escaped, so the man took another child. Angel was in such a state, he didn't speak, didn't allow anyone near, he even cut his wrists. Slowly Morgan got through to him. They found his mother and she comes for him.
A woman remembers something from her childhood, and Emily talks to her, gets her to help them, and Emily is convinced that this woman's father did it. True, and they catch him and save the last child.
- Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver
- Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne
ep 18 - I love you, Tommy Brown
Seattle, Washington. A woman breaks into people's homes and kills the couples in, because she says 'she loves Tommy Brown'. She's targeting couples offering foster care for little babies, and she keeps killing until she finds the baby she's looking for, then she goes straight to the guy she loves. Tommy is 16, and his mom sent her to jail for it. Now this woman wants to run away with him and the baby.
She's not about to surrender, so they shoot her.
Kevin wants to propose to Garcia, but she freaks out, she doesn't think it a good thing, and he asks "are you against marriage or are you against marrying me?"- "I'm just not ready yet"- "Well I am" and he walks away... what? Did he leave her or did she leave him? They love each other but since she isn't ready to marry him they have to break up?? Just like that? Maybe their story was not all that important to them after all, I suppose, to give it up just like that, almost for nothing. I mean she 's afraid that marriage ruins relationships so she'd rather break up instead???
- It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.
- For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett
ep 19 - Heathridge manor
A woman (Juliet Landau) was put in a mental hospital and died two years later in a fire that she herself probably set, leaving a son and a daughter. Now the son puts some women to a sort of witch trial: drowning them, and if they survive he kills them and puts on them an elaborate dress like his mother wore in a Shakespeare play, believing they are the Devil's wives. His mother tried to do the same thing, that's why they locked her up. His sister isn't allowed out of the house, kept reclusive in the house without visits or computer. He has to kill three women, but the third actually drowns, so 'she was innocent'. Then he does it to his sister but the team saves her. James attacks Hotch and they fight, and James is killed.
The ending seems like the girl's a bit crazy too, though. The last scene is : the devil comes to her door to get her, and she takes his hands. She sees him but nobody else does. In a deleted scene her mother said that 'the devil will come soon to collect his new bride', which I think is the reason why the poor girl was without an arm, like her mother did that to her to make her less appealing to the devil ... :-/
The detective was played by Robert Englund
- We are each our own devil, and we make this world our own hell. Oscar Wilde
- All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
ep 20 - The company
Chicago, Illinois. One of Derek's sister has a bad car accident because she thought she had seen Cindy (the missing cousin) and wasn't paying attention to the road. Derek doesn't believe her at first, but she insists. Derek calls Hotch and asks for their help. He told his aunt that that man had killed Cindy (I remember, yes) because she had been missing for eight years and he believed his family needed closure.
When Garcia calls Derek and he asks her to talk to him, no matter what about just talk, it was gold. Made me think of that old episode when he came out alive from a bad bomb-situation, and he told her to never stop talking to him...
Cindy has been a prisoner all this time, held by her real stalker (the one that died was set up and killed). Now this Malcolm has her completely subdued and treats her like a slave, even got her to sign a slave-contract. He's not the only one, there's a network of men whose women are completely under their orders, and he punishes her if she doesn't comply instantly. Yet, when they arrest this Malcolm, Cindy comes with a lawyer saying she loves him and they have to let him go. The reason for this is: Cindy had a child. All these captive women had their children kept away from them, and they obeyed blindly to protect them. They save the children and arrest Malcolm and Cindy comes back home with her son Anthony :-)
- Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie. Robert Brault
ep 21 - Divining rod
A serial killer is executed. He had the choice and he chose the firing squad.. I didn't know that was possible. Minutes after that someone starts killing in the same way, stab through the heart and also cut their hair. Of course it's not his ghost, it's the prison shuttle driver, in love with murderer Garrett's widow. He made her a wig with real hair. She's shocked, but they stop him and save her.
Reid doesn't shake hands? Really?? Has he never done that?
- Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. William Blake
-It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
ep 22 - Profiling 101
At a school, the whole team talks about what their job actually is, and they do it by presenting and detailing a specific case: Rossi worked at it, and that's when he first met "Agent Hotchner, Seattle division" already FBI.
They caught this Thomas Yates but there was no death penalty because they made a deal. Yates gave him a list of victims yet not found and agreed to give him another name every year. Today is that day, and it's Rossi's birthday.
- The philosopher Voltaire wrote: to the living we owe respect but to the dead we owe only the truth.
(this one was actually spoken by Rossi)
- Irish statesman and author Edmund Burke once wrote: the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
ep 23 - Hit
There were a few nice home scenes of our team: JJ playing soccer with her son while Will goes to work; Hotch and Beth with Jack; Garcia at a sci-fi con, with Reid dressed as the Fourth Doctor with his famous scarf :-D that he knitted himself :-D and Kevin is there with another girl... and Kevin is dressed up as Doctor 11, with the fez !! :-D and Garcia is too :-p Reid calls the convention "the greatest party ever" :-)
Kevin's girl is dressed as Amy in the police costume :-p (Garcia looks really good with this hairstyle).
Derek is with Emily, looking up apartments.
There's a bank robbery, and Will is one of the agents to respond. Clyde from Interpol calls Emily to help her with information and he says that he's been promoted so "the team's yours whenever you want it" offering her to run Interpol!!
There are two brothers and a woman in the bank, with lots of hostages. One of the men dies, so his brother wants Will because he shot him. The woman is completely off, sadist and vain, rather crazy. They want Will but they refuse to let him go in saying it's too dangerous, but they shoot people so Will goes in and JJ goes crazy, and Morgan struggles to hold her there, great scene, and they shot Will and I got really worried but no, he's still alive. He manages to distract the man and give the hostages the chance to escape :-) Then the bank explodes, and who knows who died there, agents had gone in .. :-( I don't know if they told us about that..
- Fear is met and destroyed with courage. James F. Bell
ep 24 - Run
Now everyone's on site, but the two criminals escape, taking Will with them. After he questioned her, she shot her partner, but then she had another one, who posed as a hostage inside. She goes to Will's house and stays with the child, so Will will have to do whatever the man says. He needs Will to have access to some areas of a train station that he wants to blow up.
JJ goes home to kick her ass, then Emily finds Will attached to some bombs and stays there to try save him. Morgan chases her partner and Hotch shoots him dead.
Kevin and Penelope worked side by side here. Finally JJ agrees to marry Will :-)
Strauss thanks Morgan for confronting her about her drinking problem forcing her to change.
Next day there is JJ's wedding: Derek talks to Emily about her plans: she's seriously thinking of running the Interpol London's Office, and right she is in doing so, that's quite an offer!! ; Hotch comes with Beth and Jack, Kevin with that other girl. Rossi's the one who threw the party :-) a surprise-wedding party :-p JJ's mom brings her a dress :-) Reid shows magic tricks to JJ's son, and she's beautiful in that dress, and they get married :-) Emily looks at them dancing, probably thinking she'll miss them if she accepts that other job. They all dance, even Reid with Emily. She also dances with Rossi and Hotch (!) and Morgan, and it feels already a goodbye-party. More or less everyone dances with everyone :-D
- I've always heard every ending is also a beginning, we just don't know it at the time. I'd like to believe that's true.
These are Emily's last words.
End of season 7
