CM6: Middle Man
Jan. 25th, 2012 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawyl"You'd better run Meredith!" See this is why distance running is an important life skill. Creepy rapists in creepy masks in a creepy cornfield? iPads! "Woah!" Right back at you, Prentiss. Spencer "I don't have email" Reid is sticking with paper. "But exactly where did the funding for these come from?" "I did a thing?" The word you're thinking of, Penny, is embezzlement. "We've got less than two day to save Stephanie Wilson". Meanwhile, back at torture central, it's a tracking close up of a semi-naked woman. Oh, foul. There's now way that beer will ever wash off. Poor Steph, handcuffed to a dancing pole.
Napoleon for the opening quote. Time to unpick the pack mentality. "Prostitutes and strippers make easy targets" Rossi: so un-PC. Garcie uses FaceTime? COTW is a hardarse, but Hotch's takedown is a thing of beauty: "It's not a show. It is your case. And you can watch from the outside" Ouch. The news is out. And the low men in the pack are ruffled. I like the father and the dynamic with Hotch is great. "I'm from Las Vegas! I don't have a problem with it. These are questions we have to ask..." Reid strikes the wrong note at the pole dancing club. "Did anyone try and take her home last night?" "Everyone tries. Every night." Rossi obviously hasn't heard of GPS. Morgan cracks the case: "Manpower... Maybe we're dealing with more than one UNSUB."
The more I see of that basement, the dodgier it looks. That, junior boy, is the sound of your illusions being shattered. Hotch and Rossi with the predictions: the pack dynamics are under threat and the leader will be forced to kill Stephanie to reassert his authority. OK, shooting up your own place? Never a good a way to assert your sane and rational credentials. Junior's having qualms: he's brought his victim breakfast. (Poor Steph isn't the most assertive of CM victims but not everyone can be a Bobby Baird). COTW is in serious denial. Hotch spots the giveaway detail: the UNSUBs are students. I like the way the profile is intercut with shots of the pack. (Wow, but the leader is rocking a Johnny Depp look). Time to crank up the pressure. Except that you're wrong about the leader's response to pressure: he kills his partners when he gets run to ground.
Dear junior: you should always be wary of trips out into the middle of nowhere. And LT? You're going to have to do something unspeakable to show your loyalty too. Oh dear God! Cut to LT retching. I bet that's how the combine driver feels too. COTW has a leak on his hands. Is that really how you spell paraphernalia? Junior was a drop out: it's what made him vulnerable. "Their actions must have been deemed inappropriate to get them kicked out. Not just drug offences" Reid doesn't have a lot of time for frats. Rossi orders backgrounds checks on the copshop. OK, this is why you delete your the call lists from your cellphone. "I need to take to you guys really, really alone" Bingo! Garcie strikes oil. Hotchalanche to bring the COTW on-side. "Trust is earned" Not a phrase you really want to here from a crazy guy. Emily Prentiss, negotiator extraordiniare: "No one wants to shoot a cop's kid. But you? I might shoot you myself" And then she comes out with the Awful Troof: Michael has form for killing his team mates. "Us? Me? It's all the same..." "Medic. We need a medic!" Paging Dr Freud... I think that counts as a win.
Another great scene between Hotch and Salters. (Gibson and Newman manage to set up a nice dynamic tension in all of their scenes together) The Sheriff broken and desperate. Hotch with the pep talk that isn't anything like the sort of rousing half-time 110 per cent tirade that you might imagine would appeal to the COTW, but instead is a quiet and dignified reminder that whatever Salters thinks he has lost, he's still got a son, he's still got the time and ability to rebuild their relationship, and that there are better ways to be a father than the ones he's tried thus far. It probably says something important about Aaron's character — and about his own regrets about his marriage and his relationship with Jack — that he's able to make the point as well as he does. Just time for a quick quote from Bernard Malamud and we're done.
Napoleon for the opening quote. Time to unpick the pack mentality. "Prostitutes and strippers make easy targets" Rossi: so un-PC. Garcie uses FaceTime? COTW is a hardarse, but Hotch's takedown is a thing of beauty: "It's not a show. It is your case. And you can watch from the outside" Ouch. The news is out. And the low men in the pack are ruffled. I like the father and the dynamic with Hotch is great. "I'm from Las Vegas! I don't have a problem with it. These are questions we have to ask..." Reid strikes the wrong note at the pole dancing club. "Did anyone try and take her home last night?" "Everyone tries. Every night." Rossi obviously hasn't heard of GPS. Morgan cracks the case: "Manpower... Maybe we're dealing with more than one UNSUB."
The more I see of that basement, the dodgier it looks. That, junior boy, is the sound of your illusions being shattered. Hotch and Rossi with the predictions: the pack dynamics are under threat and the leader will be forced to kill Stephanie to reassert his authority. OK, shooting up your own place? Never a good a way to assert your sane and rational credentials. Junior's having qualms: he's brought his victim breakfast. (Poor Steph isn't the most assertive of CM victims but not everyone can be a Bobby Baird). COTW is in serious denial. Hotch spots the giveaway detail: the UNSUBs are students. I like the way the profile is intercut with shots of the pack. (Wow, but the leader is rocking a Johnny Depp look). Time to crank up the pressure. Except that you're wrong about the leader's response to pressure: he kills his partners when he gets run to ground.
Dear junior: you should always be wary of trips out into the middle of nowhere. And LT? You're going to have to do something unspeakable to show your loyalty too. Oh dear God! Cut to LT retching. I bet that's how the combine driver feels too. COTW has a leak on his hands. Is that really how you spell paraphernalia? Junior was a drop out: it's what made him vulnerable. "Their actions must have been deemed inappropriate to get them kicked out. Not just drug offences" Reid doesn't have a lot of time for frats. Rossi orders backgrounds checks on the copshop. OK, this is why you delete your the call lists from your cellphone. "I need to take to you guys really, really alone" Bingo! Garcie strikes oil. Hotchalanche to bring the COTW on-side. "Trust is earned" Not a phrase you really want to here from a crazy guy. Emily Prentiss, negotiator extraordiniare: "No one wants to shoot a cop's kid. But you? I might shoot you myself" And then she comes out with the Awful Troof: Michael has form for killing his team mates. "Us? Me? It's all the same..." "Medic. We need a medic!" Paging Dr Freud... I think that counts as a win.
Another great scene between Hotch and Salters. (Gibson and Newman manage to set up a nice dynamic tension in all of their scenes together) The Sheriff broken and desperate. Hotch with the pep talk that isn't anything like the sort of rousing half-time 110 per cent tirade that you might imagine would appeal to the COTW, but instead is a quiet and dignified reminder that whatever Salters thinks he has lost, he's still got a son, he's still got the time and ability to rebuild their relationship, and that there are better ways to be a father than the ones he's tried thus far. It probably says something important about Aaron's character — and about his own regrets about his marriage and his relationship with Jack — that he's able to make the point as well as he does. Just time for a quick quote from Bernard Malamud and we're done.
