Good, this means she's having more space, a real part of the team. That's good, I love her.
ep 1 - The Fisher king, part 2 - Hotch and Gideon are at the hospital for Elle. Reid's on the phone, with Garcia listening, when he asks to go get his mum, 'she's at the Bennington Sanitarium': Diana Reid. Reid admits to Garcia that he writes to his mother every day so he won't feel so guilty about not visiting her. "Do you know that schizophrenia is genetically passed?"
Elle's in surgery. Gideon is troubled and feels guilty. "the press conference was the right thing to do, right? I did my job, Elle will understand that", trying to convince Hotch and probably himself.
Reid's mother is brought to the BAU. This Unsub, the abducted girl's real father, spent time at the same sanitarium as Diana. She told him about them all, about what was written in those letters, and Reid always told her everything.
They find him and Reid talks to him, telling him his daughter Rebecca's alive: he thinks she's not real: "your mother, she explained it all to me" - "My mother's a paranoid schizophrenic who'd forget to eat if she wasn't properly medicated and supervised", and Morgan and Hotch are there and listen. The Unsub doesn't: "she made me realise none of it was real. I didn't lose Rebecca. She never existed in the first place", then he blows himself up. Reid makes it in time and saves Rebecca too.
At the end of the episode, we see Gideon never leaves the hospital, he's at Elle's bedside all the time, and this is why I like Gideon. Morgan is helping Garcia repairing her computers, and this is why I like Morgan, and I love their friendship. Reid flies her mother back to Las Vegas, and Hotchner goes to Elle's house to clean all the blood, and this is why I like Hotchner.
- The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal tehm upm, still there will be a scar left behind. French writer Francois de la Rochefocauld.
- It has been said: time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time the mind, protecting its sanity, covers then with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. Rose Kennedy
ep 2 - P911 - In Maryland, the Crimes against children Unit is working on the case of a six-year-old boy about to get sold to perverts. Their leader Katie Cole calls Hotch for help. She was one of the first profilers, brilliant. The guy that runs that chatroom is... I don't have a right word, but Gideon is just too diplomatic when he says " 'what can I do?' just isn't good enough". This kid is about to get sold for 8000 dollars "Is that what the like of a kid is worth?" The poor little thing was abducted when he was one.
"Sometimes it seems there's no punishment enough" : Gideon.
Elle is back at work, she has been out four months. Garcia has four brothers!?! Elle is from Brooklyn.
- Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said: The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children;
ep 3 - The perfect storm - Girls are raped and videotaped. Now those videos are being sent to the families. All these girls are killed by two people, and they think they're two men, but realises the man they have in custody is killing them with his wife, that he's not beating her, she's actually the evil dominant one. They are able to save Tiffany, the last girl.
Gideon says to Garcia: You do great work, keep it up. She was still freaked out around him.
- Mark Twain wrote: of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it;
- Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote: out of suffering, have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.
ep 4 - Psychodrama - A bank robber makes people strip of their clothes and enact his sex fantasies. The guy forces people to act his drama: a psychodrama: a form of psychotherapy whereby actors serve as surrogates for actual people in the patient's life. He's making children punish their mothers and this hurts Hotch a lot.
Hotch forgets his son had to go to the hospital, and Haley comes to BAU to tell him the results. He offers to stay but she tells him to go with the team. That's because this is what he really wants to do. Sometimes he should stay with her, without asking her. When he asks her is clearly because he wants her to say he can go, so he doesn't feel so guilty about going. His son has made his first steps five months ago, and Haley gave him the file to look at because he missed it.
When Hotch says to Garcia: Don't call me honey... :lol:
Save one life, we save the world: Gideon :-) Yeah, I've seen The Schindler's List too....
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde;
- The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone: Milan Kundera.
ep 5 - The aftermath - Women are raped in their homes, and the bastard leaves messages on their answering machines for them. They figure out his next victim's name but they're late, so Elle poses as another possible victim. They don't see how distressed she is, because she too was assaulted at home. So much distressed she doesn't follow the instructions and goes to confront him, thus ruining the case. She says to Hotch: I'm supposed to believe that you've got my back? The last time you sent me home, Hotch, you got me shot". That same night she goes to meet this guy, and at first she just tells him that sooner or later she'll stop him, but the shit tells her "without you, I would still be locked up. Thank you. You've made a lot of women very happy" I mean, come on, if you want to die just say so! When he walks away she calls him to make him turn around than she shoots him three times, then stages it as self defence. Police believe her story, but her team doesn't. Personally, I think that police girl who took her testimony was simply a good cop who probably didn't care to look too much into it.
I don't like Elle, but honestly she was right, you know. What they wrote was a good story. I don't like the actress, okay, but as characters go she was right.
It was cool the scene where the camera kept going right and we saw Hotch in his hotel room, then Morgan and Gideon in theirs :-) Gideon tool the hotel's bathrobe "complimentary" :lol:
Reid goes to Elle asking if she wanted to talk, even said please, and she told him of how, when the fisher king attacked her, she could feel his hand in her wound, when he took her blood to write on the wall, after he shot her. I don't think Reid is a great help, he didn't seem to understand at all. He only told her that he is dead, and so she won. Not that good, is it? He was not very helpful, I'm afraid, but I know these shows are all about being strong enough to make it on your own, things like that: maybe being just human is in conflict with it? I don't like the idea that to be strong and tough you must never need anything for anyone, that's absurd.
Morgan and Garcia talking on the phone were funny as usual:
M: one last favour: look up the words sexy and brilliant in that computer of yours and tell me what you come up with
G: look at that. It's me
M: you're a Goddess, woman. Good job.
:-)
- Helen Keller once said : Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it;
ep 6 - The boogeyman - Hotch orders a psychological evaluation for Elle, but she doesn't show up. When two boys and a little girl die in Texas, Gideon goes without Hotchner because he wants to stay behind to find her. So the team can work without him!! He just doesn't take days off for his family, but when he thinks it's important he can do it!! He follows her around, so now the team has two members missing...
It turns out the murderer was another boy with a baseball bat. At the end, Elle leaves the Bau.
Little JJ was afraid of the woods, little Morgan was afraid of the dark: Reid still is :-p Reid also hate spinach :-) JJ tells a creepy story to Reid and Morgan as the explanation for why she hated the woods, and then "you serious?" "No! You fell for that?" :lol:
Reid: if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound if there's nobody there to hear it?- just thinking. Okay, this is the usual, old philosophical dilemma, everyone has their own answer, and I have mine. Wanna know what it is? Yes, of course it does, because not everything spins around humans, although they keep thinking that it does. People are so arrogant, thinking they're so important that everything revolves around them... tsk.
- Plato wrote: we can easily forgive a child who's afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light;
ep 7 - North Mammon - North Mammon is in Pennsylvania. A guy abducts three girl friends, and tells them only two of them will leave alive, and they have to choose the one that will die. Not only that, but they'll have to kill her themselves. At school JJ played soccer like them, so she kinda identifies with them. She's the one bringing the case to the team, after a mother goes to her asking for help, because they're already missing for five days. The people in town turn against each other, as so often people do, that's why the world is so shitty. The two surviving girls are let go as promised, and Polly can ID the man that did this to them: the guy that played soccer with their parents, the star of the team, that got hurt and says they all turned on him. Easy to believe actually, but as all losers, pathetic losers, he took it out on someone else.
Elle is no more in the opening credits, she's gone for good. Hotch says to JJ "Ever thought of taking the classes, becoming a profiler?"
"No, no. I admire what you guys do, but I like my role. I like being the person the family can turn to. Being the voice the poor, overworked homocide detective can call when he runs out of leads"
"Really?"
"Yeah"
"I thought everyone wanted to be a profiler"
"Sorry" ... :lol: Good girl, I like her in this role too, it's just as important.
Garcia is always funny: He who seeks the Queen of All Knowledge, speak and be recognised :lol:
- Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: it's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it;
- The ultimate choice for a man inasmuch as he is given to transcend himself is to create or destroy, to love or to hate: Erich Fromm;
ep 8 - Empty planet - Seattle. A guy announces there'll be a bomb on a bus, and he puts it there.
Hotchner: "you got a news organization to agree to a trap and trace?"
Garcia: "who could say no to me?" :lol: this is worth Hotch's little smile :-)
I liked Dr Cooke a lot when he said "no scientific knowledge precludes the existence of God" finally, well said, I'm tired of these fanatic non-believers saying science says God doesn't exist. Not true at all, because science only says what it can prove!! The true, really true scientific response to God should be a maybe: I don't know for sure because I can't prove he exists, but I can't deny because I can't prove he doesn't!
The doctor was in danger but he refused protection, then he blew up in his car. Dr Brazier is in danger too, she gets into the car before they can warn her, so they stop her and Morgan sees a bomb under her seat; Hotch orders Morgan to get away but he won't "Hotch you know I respect you. I'm not leaving her" and he never takes his eyes off her. That's what I love of this scene. Dr Brazier tells him "you should listen to your friends" because she understands his dangerous position, then "thank you", still looking at each other!
Gideon: "a young man I greatly respect and admire is putting his life on the line because of that lunatic" :-p "what he said I said... I said" :lol: a man of few words...
I like very much Dr Ursula Kent, she was a great person. Hopefully, she still is, they never imply that she didn't make it. Fingers crossed :-)
- Robespierre wrote: crime butches innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempt of crime;
ep 9 - The last word - There are two serial killers in Missouri. The Hollow Man shoots prostitutes, the Mill Creek Killer murders upper class women, hides them in the woods then goes back to them to do their hair and to apply lipstick. The two killers talk to each other through the personals column in the paper, and using this they catch one of them. Reid figured out this communication system, and that they were using names from the book "catcher in the rye": Sunny and Holden. Using that, they catch the other one too.
We meet agent Emily Prentiss, daughter of the ambassador, joining the Bau. Paget Brewster is now in the opening credits before Morgan's name. Emily had no part in all this, but she's there when they get back, and gives him a sample of her skills as a profiler, she tells Hotchner she belongs in that unit, she just asks him for a chance, and he gives her one.
- Elbert Hubbard once wrote: if men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate;
- Mahatma Ghandi one said: Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seemed invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
Sadly, I must say that my dvd got ruined somehow. I hope it's just this third dvd, though.
ep 10 - Lessons learned - Gideon, Reid and Prentiss go to Gitmo to interrogate a man that could be a part of a terrorist cell, and hopefully understand what their next plan is.
Prentiss knows Arabic. She lived in several Middle Eastern countries growing up.
Gideon was again beating Reid at chess :-) The funny part was that when Hotchner advices Gideon to take Prentiss with him, he wasn't convinced it was time, and asked if she at least has a bag ready to go, and we see her taking her bag and putting it on her desk, looking around with a face "I'm here, I'm not gonna look at you, no pressure, but I'm ready!!" I loved that scene, loved that look. I already like her much much more than Elle.
Gideon saved the squad that was raiding a place with Hotch and Morgan, and they are almost all safe, only a swat man died.
When she saw the news on tv, Penelope got crazy with fear, and immediately called Morgan. She knew Hotch and Morgan were there, and she called Morgan, praying he would answer. After he answers, she's so relieved she has tears coming out of her eyes :-) Sweet Penelope. I like her so much. I like how good a person she is, I like how the actress talks, she's funny and nice, I like her attitude. She makes the difference, I think. Everything is more human just because she's there.
Gideon tricks the guy, makes him believe it's already all over, so he betrays the notion that the target is the opening of a big, new shopping center. It's the same mall where Haley has gone with their son to have his pictures taken.
They stop the attack :-) Hotchner runs at home in panic anyway, the fear was somehow still there, even after everything's finished, but it's not a mistake. I understand that, he was in such a terror that until he sees them both he can't relax. Haley tells him that she didn't even go because she preferred to wait for him to come too, and go as a family :-) And the baby is called Jack. I'm not sure they said it before, I guess they did it whey they presented him to the team, but I didn't remember that.
After Reid yeilds their chess game, Gideon asks Prentiss if she plays, and she smiles when she accepts. It probably felt to her like she was being accepted, a little step in that direction at least :-)
- Dale Turner mused : Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes, the error of the past is the wisdom of the future;
- Ralph Waldo Emerson said : In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount a fear;
ep 11 - Sex, birth, death - A man kills prostitute and then cuts their hair. Reid is approached by a kid, a junior at a high school, who saw him at Georgetown a few weeks ago, giving a lecture on sexual sadism and how he helped catch the Mill Creek killer in St Louis, and asks him weird questions, also mentioning the cutting of the hair. Reid gets suspicious, but the kid runs away. Reid finds him, at first suspecting he might be the killer, then gets kind of attached, understanding how the kid is troubled and understands his desire to know the truth about his own evaluation: Reid:"it's like with my mom. I used to think that if I could just understand absolutely everything there is to know about schizophrenia then I'd somehow be able to fix it" aww poor kid.
After Jason does the evaluation he says to Reid "it's not a question of whether he ends up killing someone. It's when". Reid worries for him, he thinks it is his responsibility because he understands him : "I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind".
Congresswoman Steyer comes to talk to Hotchner "ordering" him not to make public the prostitute serial killer now that her plan to fight crime is working, then he sees her hugging Prentiss. Later Hotchner confronts Emily who says she simply knows her since she was a kid because she used to work with her mother. "I will not put up with a political agenda" says Hotchner. She replies "I think politics makes people distrustful. I think it makes them hate themselves. I think it tears families apart and damages people." Hotchner eventually makes a public announcement to lure the congresswoman to him again; when she comes to his office, he wants her to meet with some of the prostitutes who give her a description of a man, and she recognize it, so they have his name. They are all on the streets looking for him, when he approaches a prostitute and she blows a whistle to alert them and they catch him.
Nathan says "the only way for me to save lives in the future is to kill myself". This Nathan Harris kid is played by Anton Yelchin. Nathan then goes to meet a prostitute but can't control his urges so he cuts his own wrists but Reid and Garcia save him. At the end, Gideon is comforting Reid, Morgan is comforting Garcia :-)
Garcia's car is called Esther :-p
- T.S. Eliot wrote: between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow;
- T.S. Eliot wrote: between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends.
ep 12 - Profiler, profiled - Morgan is in Chicago; he goes there every year for his mother's birthday. He has two sisters :-) But he gets arrested for murder, so the team goes to Chicago to help him. It proves to be a hard thing to do because he doesn't want them digging into his life. He had a criminal record: resisting arrest, vandalism, aggravated battery, supposed to be expunged by a judge. Carl Buford runs the youth center, coached him at football.
Oh God, my dvd is jumping again, I don't know what happened, it must have been damaged somehow... :-(
Turns out this Carl uses to take kids to his cabin, treat them like sons, apparently he "likes" young boys, he touches them, does things to them. He did them to Derek too. So now Derek confronts Carl who says: "you could have said no" which is the worst, lamest thing to say!! What a shit!
This is what Derek didn't want his team to know.
Morgan's father died when he was ten. At fifteen, December 1991, he saw a boy his age murdered, and collected money for his burial. So he's 33 now...
It starts lovely, with Reid showing JJ, Penelope and Emily is magic "rocket" trick, and Hotch even makes a joke :-)
Anyone else thinks Derek has such percect, most white teeth?!? wow!
- One begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sherlock Holmes;
ep 13 - No way out - Golconda, Nevada. We meet for the first time sadistic serial killer Frank, who likes to see the fear in his victims's eyes as he cut them open while they're still alive. There has been 13 cases in 30 years, at least. Frank is played by this episode's special guest Keith Carradine. Frank is the most prolific serial killer ever. A psycopathic sexual sadist. After a while it appears he might have killed hundreds of people in over 30 years, then he made wind chines with the victims rib bones and gave them to crazy Jane; well, he left them at her house. He travelled, and every year he made the same route, killing people and them stopping at Golconda. We see him talking to Gideon in a diner, so calm and confident, because he knows he has a plan, he knows he'll walk out of there alive and free! Why? Because he's the only one who knows where he left the town's children, after having killed their driver. He wants to be free, but he also wants Jane with him. He succeeds and goes free with Jane while Gideon finds the children.
Frank says to Morgan: "if I had your looks, do you know how muchg easier my life would be?"
Hotch to the local authorities: "the guy who sometimes forgets his manners is Jason Gideon" :lol: Oh Hotch!
- Aristotle said: Evil brings men together
ep 14 - The big game - It starts very nicely, with the team in a club, Morgan dancing, Emily drinking with Hotch and Haley, Garcia watching Morgan dancing, Hotch inviting Haley to dance :-) I wanted to see him dance! :-/ JJ playing darts and winning, Reid answering questions on Star Trek :lol: all this while Jason is at the Smithsonian Institute to see an "original, hand-coloured Audubon etching entitled Turdus Polyuglottus" that apparently he likes because he says "or the mockingbird. It's gorgeous" :-) Of course it all ends much too quickly because they get a new case :-( This is the episode with James Van Der Beek in it, that I never liked when he played Dawson, but here with the beard and the disorder attitude he was good. I liked him here, a lot. He plays Tobias who has a multiple personalities disorder, so inside his head there are also his father, religious fanatic that tortured him as a boy, and a certain Gabriel, not the forgiving type unfortunately. Now Tobias repairs computers for a living, and that's how he did it all: he kept hold on the computers, spied on people's lives, and after killing them he posts the video on the internet. His second video is of a woman killed by dogs, ad a policeman recognizes the dogs, he knows they are Tobias's. JJ and Reid are there right now with no cell service so they can't call for back-up. How come that cell phones actually never work when they're needed?? Anyway. They realize it's him and split up. JJ finds herself in the barn with the dogs that attack her, while Reid follows Tobias in a field, but instead of catching him he's himself caught. End of part one.
Reid"you seem unhappy" - Gideon"I am unhappy. I'm tired of people using religion to justify the terrible things they do."
-Condemned murderer Perry Smith said of his victims, the Clutter family: I didn't have anything against them, and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it.
ep 15 - Revelations - JJ shoots the dogs and is really shaken, both from the fear and because she's worried it might be her fault if Reid was captured, because she wasn't with him, and when she said something she received simply a "you're here, he's not. what do you think?" or something like that, but honestly it seemed to me kind of unfair because she couldn't have done differently, could she? First Reid was the one that said Let's split up, right before running away, and second: she's the communication liaison, she's not Gibbs!!! Anyway. Tobias brings Reid somewhere: Gabriel is dangerous yes, but it's the father that tortures Reid. Tobias on the other hand is sorry about this and gives him some drugs to lessen the pain; because of the drugs Reid remembers when his father left him years ago.
At some point he has an attack and the father has no problem in leaving him to die, while his team sees it all through a camera, but then comes Tobias and he saves him doing CPR, then comes Raphael making him choose one member of his team, which one shall die, and Reid chooses Hotchner to send him a message he knows he'll understand. Tobias drugs him a third time and Reid remembers when he was 18 and had his mom hospitalized. The team finds him, Reid shoots Gabriel (or maybe father). Reid hugs Hotch saying "I knew you'd understand", but before going with them he comes back and takes the drugs from Tobias' pocket...
-There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins - Ecclesiastes:7:20.
ep 16 - Fear and loathing - Emily tells Morgan that she screwed up a date because she's a nerd and because she said "Kilgore Trout" and the guy didn't understand, while Morgan replies "the guy has a problem with Kurt Vonnegan?" - "You know Kilgore Trout?" - "I read slaughterhouse-5 when I was 12 and it blew my mind" :-) sadly I didn't so I don't know what they're talking about, still it seemed a little weird. Who did she go out with, that would freak out and lose interest in her only because she actually reads books?? Come on, maybe she only needs to choose better. Anyway, happy as a little child she'll bring it up again later with Morgan :-p
The case: In New York black girls are killed and a swastika is painted on their faces, simply to derail the investigation. A reverend makes things worse shouting about racism and thus creating it where there wasn't any.
Eventually they say that it's a black serial killer, and the black policeman is shot by an idiot with a gun and dies.
Reid can't forget Tobias, and hides in a bathroom to drug himself only he is called back so he has no time to do it. For the first time looking at crime scene pictures upsets Reid "for the first time, I know".
-From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate - Socrates
- The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Cicero
ep 17 - Distress - Houston. A war veteran in distress thinks he's in a war zone.
Garcia and Morgan acting their usual: "are you lonely in the lone star state? Are you wearing chaps?" "Only in your dreams, Garcia" "Oh, not necessarily. I have photoshop" :lol:
Reid acts weird, he's still not his old self again, he's still troubled.
- Our life is made by the death of others. Leonardo Da Vinci.
- If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine
ep 18 - Jones - New Orleans, Louisiana. We meet Bill Lamontagne, the detective son of William senior who worked the case before dying because of Katrina. Nine years ago, on Mardi Gras, a girl was raped but Lamontagne's partner didn't believe her, and had him transferred to shut him up. That girl now kills men, tells them "you asked for it".
In New Orleans there's a friend of Reid's. Ethan, who quit after only one day of Fbi training. Regrets? "you know, I may not be changing the world, but my music makes me happy. It doesn't take a profiler to see that you're not". When Emily calls Reid, he ignores all the calls. She's worried, and Gideon snaps "come on, you think I'm not aware something's going on with him?".
At the end, Reid is listening to Ethan's music, and Gideon joins him. "how did you find me?" - "you're not that hard to profile" :-p
"I've been playing at this job one way or another for almost thirty years. I've felt lost. I've felt great. I have felt scared, sick, insane. I don't know. I guess the day this job stops gnawing at your soul, and your hands stop feeling cold, maybe that's the time to leave"
JJ is from Pennsylvania.
- Robert Kennedy once said: tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live;
ep 19 - Ashes and dust - South San Francisco, California. A man puts houses on fire, killing the family inside. A serial arsonist. "he's like a drug addict.. almost impossible for him to quit without help" then Gideon looks at Reid and he avoids his gaze.
Hotch talks to Evan Abby, who tells him the unsub's name. Gideon:"you saw something in Abby that you identified with" - Hotch:"I catch killers, I save lives, I'm a hero until my key hits my front door and then I'm just the father and the husband who's never there" Gideon:"yeah, I got that one" Hotch:"here's the thing. When I'm home, I'm in this silent panic because I know that I have to be as good as I can, as fast as I can, because any minute the phone is going to ring and my time is up, and that panic is exactly what I saw in Abby" Gideon:"good. You're Abby. You're a dead man walking and you've got to make this right. You have no time left. How do you do it? Come on, don't think about it. You know the answer. What is it?" Hotch:"I'd stop him" G:"how?" H:"I'd burn him. The same way he killed them. And I'd do it where nobody could get hurt"
Hotchner is a great character, he's The Hero, but he's not perfect, and he has strong feelings; usually he doesn't show it, so when you see a breach in the armour it's touching; he's always so strong, sure, serious, and that's why a smile from him feels so precious, a laugh makes your day, a tear breaks your heart. I didn't at first, but now I see that he is this show, he's the beating heart of it.
Emily:"no statistics?" Reid:"I'm trying to be more conversational" :-)
Hotch's father died of lung cancer.
- The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. John Calvin;
- Ghandy said: Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever;
ep 20 - Honor among thieves - The team goes to Baltimore, Maryland, for a case brought to Emily by her mother the ambassador. A girl and a man kidnap russian men and cut them a finger, to force a russian mob boss to pay the ransom, but when they go too far, he'll take care of it. Well, Bau didn't do much this time, did they?
- An old russian proverb reminds us: there can be no good without evil;
- Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way: Leo Tolstoy;
ep 21 - Open season - in Idaho, two boys hunt people down in the woods with bows and arrows. Their last prey is a tough girl who reacts strongly, attacks one of themand... I'm not sure now if he dies or not, after Hotch talks to him. Anyway, eventually she's saved by the team, but not before she gets four people involved and killed; sure it wasn't her fault, she was running for her life and scared, but still it seems one of those occasions when there's an happy ending just because the one we knew is saved, not caring that many others died... although to be fair lots of people always die in "criminal minds", and the best happy ending you can get is when they catch the bastard.
JJ, Penelope and Emily are together in a bar, and they meet "a real Fbi agent" and flirting ask him if they can see the badge, then they go: Emily="tell me Brad, does it look anything like this?"; JJ:"or this?"; Garcia:"or maybe this?" and he goes away, of course. The girls are having fun :-)
At the end Emily gets philosophical on us: "we hunt these people every day. How different are we, us and them?"; now, what kind of a question is that? It's a stupid thing to say, Bau hunts them only because they kill people, not for fun. If people stopped killing, would Emily still hunt them for her own amusement? If not, then there's her answer right there! Not the same!
- One man's wilderness is another man's theme park: author unknown;
- British historian James Anthony Froude once said: wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing on itself;
ep 22 - Legacy - Detective McGee keeps notes of homeless people in his town, and says they're disappearing. At least 63 people, he says. None of his fellow policemen agree with him, but he's from Kansas city, Kansas, but the letter he found comes from Kansas city, Missouri, right across the river, which makes it federal :-) so they work the case and find it was true, and they stop this.
Gideon is watching Chaplin's tapes in his office. "A night in the show" makes him laugh :-) Hotch:"you have Chaplin on film?" Gideon:"My great granddad was an accountant at one of the first movie studios. Chicago. Essanay Studios. Closed 1920. They closed down, they let my grandpa take a couple extra prints home" Hotch:"they let him?" Gideon:"well, that's the family story. We're sticking to it" :lol: I loved this! Gideon laughs, Hotch too, but to me it seemed like he laughed in response to Gideon's laugh, not exactly to the film :-) At the end of the episode, they all watch Chaplin's film together :-) Emily, Garcia with Morgan, their heads close, JJ throwing popcorn at Reid .-) , Hotch and Gideon.
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticism made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. Herman Merville;
- Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. Charles Chaplin;
ep 23 - No way out, part II: the evolution of Frank - Jason is buying flowers for a certain Sarah, but Frank (Keith Carradine) is with her and Jason is worried sick.
At Jason's apartment, Frank kills her. Jason is greatly hit:"if I hadn't been late, she'd still be alive. He butchered her, Hotch". Jason is wanted for this, but they can't lose time so they help him secretely. Garcia brings him the files and drives him to the Smythsonian. Frank wants to kill the people that Jason saved, because Jane left him. He kills Rebecca, poor Rebecca, as if she hadn't already had enough!! Then he goes after little Tracy Belle (a great little Elle Fanning) but they save her :-)
Erin Strauss is troubling Hotchner: "as your superior, I am questioning your ability to lead your team" - "My team? Let me tell you about my team. Agent Morgan fought to protect his identity from the very people who could save him. Why? Because trust has to be earned and there are very few people he truly trusts. Reid's intellect is a shield which protects him from his emotions and at the moment his shield is under repair. Prentiss overcompensates because she doesn't yet feel she's a part of the team. She needn't worry. Every day agent Jareau fields dozens of requests for our team, and every night she goes home hoping she's made the right choices. Garcia fills her office with figurines and colour to remind herself to smile as the horror fills her screens and agent Gideon in many ways is damned by his profound knowledge of others, which is why he shares so little of himself, yet he pours his heart into every case we handle. I stand by my actions, and I stand by my team"
Well said Hotch! But she's not ready to let it go, and she tells Prentiss to help her end Hotchner's career !
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquantances ofr their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects. Oscar Wilde;
