CM6: The Longest Night
Jan. 17th, 2012 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylSo, where were we? Ah, yes, with LA in darkness, Matt Spicer dead and Morgan knocked out, and Ellie Spicer on the road with the Prince of Darkness. The Prince's internal soundtrack features Leonard Cohen! Poor Ellie; running is just what he wants you to do. The backup team find the Prince by profiling Morgan. Cognitive interview under suboptimal conditions. The way the Prince wipes off the blood is uber-creepy. Shocked Prentiss is shocked. And tough Morgan is tough. The Prince is a talk radio fan! Derek lets things get to him. Hotch: master of the game face.
Ellie doesn't buy into the Prince's attempts at Stockholm Syndrome. "The question isn't, why do I kill people. The question is, why I don't kill everybody... I'm like God" OK, issues much? "Uh-oh. Even a God finds that sometimes, people just have bad luck." And the police have just identified Ellie. The BAU play psychobabble tag with COTW. Devolution! Reid is worried by the change in behavour and Emily is the woman with plan. JJ realises the Awful Troof but Rossi is still optimistic. Emergency Alert System: "How hard can it be?" Very, I'm guessing. Ellie has trauma hair. The Prince has a pedagogic bent. Hah! Smart girl! "You can't kill them all, can you?" "I can try"
Prentiss tries to get Morgan to unburden. And getting access to the EAS is enough to make Saint JJ swear. Lynch mob! Of course the door won't open: there's no power, you dummy! "Ballsy neighbours!" "California has its moments" Rossi and COTW exchange wise-cracks. Reid: ever the optimist. Morgan's turn to realise the Awful Troof. JJ uses the big big D. "That's a pretty twisted delusion" "It only has to make sense to him" Hotch cuts to the core of things. "This is the room" The vision shatters: from cornfields to Blue Velvet. (My god, Tim Curry's teeth are horrible!) "I don't know who was talking right then. But. Word" Garcia and Morgan make up: "Our love is rock, no bad day can come between us!"
Hotch has strategies but JJ plays it her own way: pulls the Prince in to her narrative; refusing to forgive but getting him to empathise. "Yes, there are monsters and it's OK to be afraid of them. But it's not OK to let them win. And it's not OK to be one." Thematic statement! "Hello Doctor..." No way that's going to be good news. "What!?!" They teach you that on a negotiation course, Derek? "This one is mine" Morgan recognises his nemesis. "I know more about you than you know about yourself" The Prince is working himself up to suicide-by-cop. Self-aware UNSUB is self-aware — Tim Curry is fantastic in this scene.
More Cohen, a quote from the Buddha, a touching close up of Ellie, and that's a pretty respectable season opener wrapped up.
Ellie doesn't buy into the Prince's attempts at Stockholm Syndrome. "The question isn't, why do I kill people. The question is, why I don't kill everybody... I'm like God" OK, issues much? "Uh-oh. Even a God finds that sometimes, people just have bad luck." And the police have just identified Ellie. The BAU play psychobabble tag with COTW. Devolution! Reid is worried by the change in behavour and Emily is the woman with plan. JJ realises the Awful Troof but Rossi is still optimistic. Emergency Alert System: "How hard can it be?" Very, I'm guessing. Ellie has trauma hair. The Prince has a pedagogic bent. Hah! Smart girl! "You can't kill them all, can you?" "I can try"
Prentiss tries to get Morgan to unburden. And getting access to the EAS is enough to make Saint JJ swear. Lynch mob! Of course the door won't open: there's no power, you dummy! "Ballsy neighbours!" "California has its moments" Rossi and COTW exchange wise-cracks. Reid: ever the optimist. Morgan's turn to realise the Awful Troof. JJ uses the big big D. "That's a pretty twisted delusion" "It only has to make sense to him" Hotch cuts to the core of things. "This is the room" The vision shatters: from cornfields to Blue Velvet. (My god, Tim Curry's teeth are horrible!) "I don't know who was talking right then. But. Word" Garcia and Morgan make up: "Our love is rock, no bad day can come between us!"
Hotch has strategies but JJ plays it her own way: pulls the Prince in to her narrative; refusing to forgive but getting him to empathise. "Yes, there are monsters and it's OK to be afraid of them. But it's not OK to let them win. And it's not OK to be one." Thematic statement! "Hello Doctor..." No way that's going to be good news. "What!?!" They teach you that on a negotiation course, Derek? "This one is mine" Morgan recognises his nemesis. "I know more about you than you know about yourself" The Prince is working himself up to suicide-by-cop. Self-aware UNSUB is self-aware — Tim Curry is fantastic in this scene.
More Cohen, a quote from the Buddha, a touching close up of Ellie, and that's a pretty respectable season opener wrapped up.
