When a 4-year-old girl goes missing while staying with a relative in Mississippi, the BAU uncovers some startling truths as the team races to find the child and bring her to safety.When a 4-year-old girl goes missing while staying with a relative in Mississippi, the BAU uncovers some startling truths as the team races to find the child and bring her to safety.When a 4-year-old girl goes missing while staying with a relative in Mississippi, the BAU uncovers some startling truths as the team races to find the child and bring her to safety.
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- Ian Little
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- TriviaThis is Julia Butters's first TV show appearance.
- GoofsIan Little's face is severely burned, but his eyebrows and lashes are intact instead of having been singed away.
- Quotes
Penelope Garcia: There were no calls, but Ian's cell pinged off of three cell phone towers outside of town on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I sent you the locations
Dr. Spencer Reid: Cell tower range and directionality can be dramatically influenced by atmospheric, electromagnetic and traffic capacity variations
David Rossi: Meaning?
Dr. Spencer Reid: A cell phone can travel to the same location but ping off of different towers on different days, due to independent outside variables.
- SoundtracksTheme from Criminal Minds
Composed by Marc Fantini and Steffan Fantini
When Season 9 was good, like with this episode, it was quite great. However when it was not good, the episodes in question especially "200" (such a waste of a milestone episode and didn't feel like 'Criminal Minds at all) were some of the worst of the whole show. "Gabby" however was a season highlight, not quite top-tier or flawless but very close. And to me it's one of the better latter season episodes, one of the few episodes in the season that had genuine power and made me feel something.
My only complaint actually was the ending with Morgan, JJ and Garcia, which felt rushed, cheesy and forced, and could easily have been excised. To a lesser extent, AJ Cook also seemed a touch distant, but it could have been to do with how JJ was coping with the horrific trauma she suffered in "200".
Production values in "Gabby", as always, are very high, love the grit, dark atmosphere and style. Other good things are the music, which is hauntingly atmospheric with a touch of melancholy, solid direction that ensures that the suspense doesn't slip or that the episode doesn't rush through the events and very intelligent writing and had what made the best of 'Criminal Minds' so great all over it.
"Gabby", to me, most excelled in the storytelling. 'Criminal Minds' have nearly always handled the child abduction episodes very well, and have done a great job making the viewer feel shock and anger towards the situation. "Gabby" is one of the better examples, and what is found out about the unsub is genuinely disturbing. While the unsub is suspected by the viewer early on, how the team find out, what they find and the unsub's attitude towards the situation and their motivation (a motivation that actually was explained and didn't feel that extreme) still made the revelation a shock.
Characters are still interesting, with an adorable team dynamic between the BAU (actually didn't have a problem with Blake here), sympathy for the mother and anger towards the unsub. The acting is very good from all the regulars, while Sianoa Smit-McPhee provides subtle chills and Ashley Jones conveys her character's anguish very poignantly.
Overall, a Season 9 highlight and quite a powerful episode. 9/10, and it actually was a 10 until the ending. Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Aug 15, 2016
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- 16:9 HD