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sawylNice cold opening (ignoring the huge Foyet recap) with an unknown POV tracking through a major crime scene: cars with party lights everywhere, a uniform looking overcome out in front, JJ possibly being sick in the bushes, Rossi on the stoop and Em on the stairs. Blood and destruction all around. Shattered-looking Morgan in one of the bedrooms with an almost unseen corpse. Hotch with the obligatory Nietzsche quote for the open: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
And suddenly we're in Moonstone territory, with each team member grilled by Strauss. JJ is determined and refuses to accept Strauss's line: "It's not just an opinion." "You have a different understanding?" And she describes how the team tracked Foyet through his meds. Garcia is nervous and Strauss is compassionate: "He was freaked out about his family, which considering what happened, I'd say, was perfectly reasonable" Pen and Kevin — yay! — do the donkey work. Reid has a nice walking stick, Em puts her foot in it and Garcia calls Kevin "the boy". Foyet's anagram alias almost as lame as Voldemort's. Jump to Rossi being an arse in his interview with Strauss, ignoring her and then calling her Erin, but then nailing the pointlessness of the enquiry: "There is nothing a bureaucrat can do to make sure that something like this never happens again." A sign and he continues with the narrative: who made the decision about when to raid Foyet's apartment. Apparently Foyet is a java programmer. That might explain his murderous tendencies. Also, he has a gun safe: a murderer who believes in safety first.
Reid is calmly adversarial "The problem is, I have an eidetic memory and that's not what happened." Reid knows from experience that everyone breaks under torture. Foyet finds a way to skip torturing Kassmeyer. Prentiss, with her bad history with Strauss, is barely concealed contempt. Fantastic phone conversation between Hotch and Foyet, with the team listening impotently on the line: "Y'know, I've been thinking..." Hotch knows that whatever's coming, it isn't going to good. But Foyet is right: Haley does look good with dark hair. And we're with Morgan, sticking up for Hotch and faithful to the profile. The final call between Hotch and Haley is agonising; they both know that they're saying goodbye and that the murderer is sitting in on the call. The gunshot and a cut to the team's reactions: Garcia beyond horror, bulletproof Prentiss looking away, JJ in tears. Morgan is utter disbelief: "And I don't know what happened after that."
And we're all but back, full circle, to where we came in.
And suddenly we're in Moonstone territory, with each team member grilled by Strauss. JJ is determined and refuses to accept Strauss's line: "It's not just an opinion." "You have a different understanding?" And she describes how the team tracked Foyet through his meds. Garcia is nervous and Strauss is compassionate: "He was freaked out about his family, which considering what happened, I'd say, was perfectly reasonable" Pen and Kevin — yay! — do the donkey work. Reid has a nice walking stick, Em puts her foot in it and Garcia calls Kevin "the boy". Foyet's anagram alias almost as lame as Voldemort's. Jump to Rossi being an arse in his interview with Strauss, ignoring her and then calling her Erin, but then nailing the pointlessness of the enquiry: "There is nothing a bureaucrat can do to make sure that something like this never happens again." A sign and he continues with the narrative: who made the decision about when to raid Foyet's apartment. Apparently Foyet is a java programmer. That might explain his murderous tendencies. Also, he has a gun safe: a murderer who believes in safety first.
Reid is calmly adversarial "The problem is, I have an eidetic memory and that's not what happened." Reid knows from experience that everyone breaks under torture. Foyet finds a way to skip torturing Kassmeyer. Prentiss, with her bad history with Strauss, is barely concealed contempt. Fantastic phone conversation between Hotch and Foyet, with the team listening impotently on the line: "Y'know, I've been thinking..." Hotch knows that whatever's coming, it isn't going to good. But Foyet is right: Haley does look good with dark hair. And we're with Morgan, sticking up for Hotch and faithful to the profile. The final call between Hotch and Haley is agonising; they both know that they're saying goodbye and that the murderer is sitting in on the call. The gunshot and a cut to the team's reactions: Garcia beyond horror, bulletproof Prentiss looking away, JJ in tears. Morgan is utter disbelief: "And I don't know what happened after that."
And we're all but back, full circle, to where we came in.
