CM6: The Remembrance of Things Past
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sawylBickering family, missing tickets, an air of menace, and more than few jumps before the pay-off phone call. Rossi has writer's block. And also noisy neighbours. I'd always imagined he'd live in a vast, detached palazzo. Hotch with the news: a phone call and a death, with similar details to a significant and unsolved ase from Rossi's pass. Cue the Box File of Doom.
Garcia tidying JJ's empty office. Morgan is still in touch with Ellie. Mom is all business, all details of torture and murder. Morgan with the name: the Butcher. Reid does exposition, Em handles snark, while Rossi recaps: he was on the trail in the 90s, they warned every blonde in the county and the killings just stopped. Given the passage of time, Hotch thinks it must be a copycat. Proust, naturally, for the opening quote: "Remembrance of things past is no necessarily remembrance of things as they were" Victimology. The phone calls: scripted; a display of control and dominance. "What's in the box?" "Evil" Oooh.
Guy unpacking his shopping. Colby. I don't know yet but I already fear for you Joe's Coffee Girl. Crusty guy is crusty. And also psychotic. "Would you say the lexical features are consistent with her vernacular?" Reid backslides, Rossi interprets. Hotch does a beter job with Jenny's parents. Coby and crusty guy going through slides: guy obviously has memory problems and also a murderous temper. iPad! Em and Morgan work out how to blitz someone from the carpark: it's a team. "Stunningly creepy" Reid sums the phone calls. Consistent lexical features from the Butcher's last kill. The old guy can still turn on the charm when he needs to. OK, what happened to Heather's dog? Re-creation. Rossi is doubtful about the copycat theory; it's the nuances, stupid.
House full of junk, creepy discussion about the details of the murder. Crusty guy is clearly losing it. Cody helped with his first murder aged 10. Joe's Coffee Girl is called Anna, apparently. Latest victim is selling knives at the pharmacy: irony much? Rossi realises the murders are father/son thing. Heather's call features the signature. Knife woman shows signs of agency! Drink! Reid realises the significance of the breaks in the pattern. "If I'm doing work like that, then you need to kill me. Just kill me!" Crusty guy realises he's loosing it. Rossi and Garcia crack the case! Lee Mullens and Colby Bachner: a father/son team of electricians related to one of the Butcher's earlier victims.
Colby tries to make things right: poor Coffee Girl Anna. Rossi gets his man. Sort of. "This guy gets to forget, while the family has to live with this forever" Alzheimer's. The Butcher is trying to recreate the murders he can't remember. (The guy playing Mullens is great in this scene, a mix of senility and calculating evil) "I like trophies. It proves you won something" Colby doesn't know that his father killed his mother. "When she saw the Lexwell, her eyes went so wide she scared me half to death." An ECT machine: the clue that's going to save CGJ. Rossi talks the boy down, breaking him with the truth about his mother's death. With Anna safe and the Butcher, pere et fils, in custody, I think this counts as a win.
Morgan and Prentiss discuss Ellie. Morgan gets it: Ellie is clingy because she's got PTSD and she needs to talk to someone who has been through the same thing. "Hey Rossi. I do remember you. In the end, you're the reason I stopped." Beautifully creepy read from Daniel Travanti on the Butcher's last line. And what a punitive ending: the Butcher as a broken man, imprisoned, wheelchair bound, his mind shattered.
Garcia tidying JJ's empty office. Morgan is still in touch with Ellie. Mom is all business, all details of torture and murder. Morgan with the name: the Butcher. Reid does exposition, Em handles snark, while Rossi recaps: he was on the trail in the 90s, they warned every blonde in the county and the killings just stopped. Given the passage of time, Hotch thinks it must be a copycat. Proust, naturally, for the opening quote: "Remembrance of things past is no necessarily remembrance of things as they were" Victimology. The phone calls: scripted; a display of control and dominance. "What's in the box?" "Evil" Oooh.
Guy unpacking his shopping. Colby. I don't know yet but I already fear for you Joe's Coffee Girl. Crusty guy is crusty. And also psychotic. "Would you say the lexical features are consistent with her vernacular?" Reid backslides, Rossi interprets. Hotch does a beter job with Jenny's parents. Coby and crusty guy going through slides: guy obviously has memory problems and also a murderous temper. iPad! Em and Morgan work out how to blitz someone from the carpark: it's a team. "Stunningly creepy" Reid sums the phone calls. Consistent lexical features from the Butcher's last kill. The old guy can still turn on the charm when he needs to. OK, what happened to Heather's dog? Re-creation. Rossi is doubtful about the copycat theory; it's the nuances, stupid.
House full of junk, creepy discussion about the details of the murder. Crusty guy is clearly losing it. Cody helped with his first murder aged 10. Joe's Coffee Girl is called Anna, apparently. Latest victim is selling knives at the pharmacy: irony much? Rossi realises the murders are father/son thing. Heather's call features the signature. Knife woman shows signs of agency! Drink! Reid realises the significance of the breaks in the pattern. "If I'm doing work like that, then you need to kill me. Just kill me!" Crusty guy realises he's loosing it. Rossi and Garcia crack the case! Lee Mullens and Colby Bachner: a father/son team of electricians related to one of the Butcher's earlier victims.
Colby tries to make things right: poor Coffee Girl Anna. Rossi gets his man. Sort of. "This guy gets to forget, while the family has to live with this forever" Alzheimer's. The Butcher is trying to recreate the murders he can't remember. (The guy playing Mullens is great in this scene, a mix of senility and calculating evil) "I like trophies. It proves you won something" Colby doesn't know that his father killed his mother. "When she saw the Lexwell, her eyes went so wide she scared me half to death." An ECT machine: the clue that's going to save CGJ. Rossi talks the boy down, breaking him with the truth about his mother's death. With Anna safe and the Butcher, pere et fils, in custody, I think this counts as a win.
Morgan and Prentiss discuss Ellie. Morgan gets it: Ellie is clingy because she's got PTSD and she needs to talk to someone who has been through the same thing. "Hey Rossi. I do remember you. In the end, you're the reason I stopped." Beautifully creepy read from Daniel Travanti on the Butcher's last line. And what a punitive ending: the Butcher as a broken man, imprisoned, wheelchair bound, his mind shattered.
