The BAU team searches rural Oklahoma when women are found murdered after being robbed of one of their five senses. Also, JJ and Prentiss get the cold shoulder from Reid as he deals with thei... Read allThe BAU team searches rural Oklahoma when women are found murdered after being robbed of one of their five senses. Also, JJ and Prentiss get the cold shoulder from Reid as he deals with their deception about Prentiss' presumed death.The BAU team searches rural Oklahoma when women are found murdered after being robbed of one of their five senses. Also, JJ and Prentiss get the cold shoulder from Reid as he deals with their deception about Prentiss' presumed death.
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- TriviaAt the end, "Mambo Italiano" by Dean Martin plays in the background. Joe Mantegna (SSA David Rosso) played Dean Martin in the movie The Rat Pack (1998).
- GoofsReid states that sulfuric acid can turn human flesh into soap. This is not true. Saponification, or soap formation, occurs when fats are hydrolyzed in the presence of caustic solutions, like lye (sodium hydroxide). Dr Reid should have known this.
- Quotes
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: I get it, okay? You're disappointed with the way we handled Emily.
Dr. Spencer Reid: [dodging her] Listen, I have a lot going on, all right?
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: But, you... you know what I think it is?
Dr. Spencer Reid: What?
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: You're mad that Hotch and I controlled our micro expressions at the hospital and you weren't able to detect our deception.
Dr. Spencer Reid: [hurt beginning to show beneath his anger] You think this is about my profiling skills? Jennifer, listen: the only reason you were able to manage my perceptions is because 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.
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [guiltily, fighting tears] I couldn't.
Dr. Spencer Reid: [skeptically] You COULDN'T or you wouldn't?
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [frustrated] No, I COULDN'T!
Dr. Spencer Reid: [a little more calmly now] What if I had started taking dilaudid again? Would you have let me?
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [a little nervously] You didn't.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, but I thought about it.
[starts to leave]
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Spence!
[Spencer stops and looks back at her impatiently]
Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: I'm sorry!
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's too late! All right?
[He walks away, leaving JJ almost in tears and the rest of the team looking concerned]
- ConnectionsReferences Iron Chef (1993)
This time, the world of Criminal Minds seems more like the world of The Closer: a complex mixture of endless shades of gray, multiple viewpoints and not just black and white, right and wrong. Also, the repercussions of Prentiss' return are now allowed to play out - something that was crucially lacking from the "All Is Well" spirited season opener.
Normally, it would be necessary to give spoilers in order to point out the flaws, but not here: The plot and unsub-of-the-week are both layered, complex and surprising. More importantly, everything holds up in the end. Most importantly, the disturbing atmosphere established in the opening refuses to dissipate over the course of the episode and for once, not everything ends up neatly tied up in a pretty package. The unsub's methodology has a progression similar to John Doe's in SE7EN, yet is different. The unsub is more human than ever before and harder to simply brand as "a psycho" or a sociopath. You might even feel sympathy for them. *This* will linger in the memory for a long time.
Without the damage to the overall credibility to Criminal Minds that the Reaper arc and the Doyle arc did to the series, this would be a 9/10. Now it's "just" an 8/10 - but that is still great!
- ttapola
- Mar 25, 2012
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- 16:9 HD