CM6: The Thirteenth Step
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sawylPickup truck. Cute young couple. Gas station. Argument about marriage. Chance comment from a bitter old guy. Love the woman's expression. Massacre. NBK! "I'm a little tired. I went salsa dancing last night" Emily Prentiss: the coolest person in the BAU. Garcia with a phone message and Em's attitude shifts dramatically. "Spree killers often repeat themselves" Jump from Rossi to a scene of wholesale destruction. Charmingly unflattering video camera footage. Our UNSUB couple: Ray and Syd.
Nietzsche quote for the open. Up to 14 deaths so far. "This is just foreplay" Cue lingering footage of Syd in a state of deshabille. "Till death do us part" Yeah, because there's no way this can possibly end well. The ME is way too excited by it all. Rice: they're newlyweds. Garcia tracks a trail of dead store clerks. Ray goes to an AA meeting and unloads his backstory. "Screw you and your bottle" Tim says the wrong thing. Syd gets serious with the guy who was flirting with her. Consistency: Reid's insider knowledge of twelve step programs. The thirteen step: don't get involved with someone from the support group. Al fresco profile. "We're seeing that alcohol plays a significant role in these crimes" And yet, somehow, they're sober enough to drive from crime to crime. One's a sociopath, the other's a psychopath.
Homecoming. Video footage. Ray's dad's dawning realisation. "A bit of a lush and a meanie" Garcia's take on Ray. Russian roulette. Is the father in denial or it all in Ray's head? (I love the job the makeup people have done on Syd and Ray) Morgan and Prentiss walk through the scene. Prentiss gets a Significant Text: foreshadowing for Emily's backstory? The first marital argument solved with a quick public shag. Is Sydney the psychopath? And did she kill Ray's ex? Spokane? We haven't been there since Open Season. Syd tries to seduce her father. He's found God and tries to apologies, but she isn't having any of it: it's about vengeance. But she's not so far gone that her half-sister can't bring her up short.
Morgan wings Syd. The gas station is dry. Negotiations to buy time to get the kid out. Morgan can read Ray and Syd like a book: planting doubts, predicting behaviour, driving wedges between them. And the shots hit home. Remember the death do us part thing? It's time for a dramatic Bonny and Clyde exit, the car riddled with bullets. A brief vision of happiness snatched away and we're into the aftermath. William Glasser for the close: "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with who we are today" Which neatly presages Emily's meeting with the mysterious Sean McAllister. "Ian Doyle vanished from prison" A vengeful ghost from Emily's hidden past.
Nietzsche quote for the open. Up to 14 deaths so far. "This is just foreplay" Cue lingering footage of Syd in a state of deshabille. "Till death do us part" Yeah, because there's no way this can possibly end well. The ME is way too excited by it all. Rice: they're newlyweds. Garcia tracks a trail of dead store clerks. Ray goes to an AA meeting and unloads his backstory. "Screw you and your bottle" Tim says the wrong thing. Syd gets serious with the guy who was flirting with her. Consistency: Reid's insider knowledge of twelve step programs. The thirteen step: don't get involved with someone from the support group. Al fresco profile. "We're seeing that alcohol plays a significant role in these crimes" And yet, somehow, they're sober enough to drive from crime to crime. One's a sociopath, the other's a psychopath.
Homecoming. Video footage. Ray's dad's dawning realisation. "A bit of a lush and a meanie" Garcia's take on Ray. Russian roulette. Is the father in denial or it all in Ray's head? (I love the job the makeup people have done on Syd and Ray) Morgan and Prentiss walk through the scene. Prentiss gets a Significant Text: foreshadowing for Emily's backstory? The first marital argument solved with a quick public shag. Is Sydney the psychopath? And did she kill Ray's ex? Spokane? We haven't been there since Open Season. Syd tries to seduce her father. He's found God and tries to apologies, but she isn't having any of it: it's about vengeance. But she's not so far gone that her half-sister can't bring her up short.
Morgan wings Syd. The gas station is dry. Negotiations to buy time to get the kid out. Morgan can read Ray and Syd like a book: planting doubts, predicting behaviour, driving wedges between them. And the shots hit home. Remember the death do us part thing? It's time for a dramatic Bonny and Clyde exit, the car riddled with bullets. A brief vision of happiness snatched away and we're into the aftermath. William Glasser for the close: "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with who we are today" Which neatly presages Emily's meeting with the mysterious Sean McAllister. "Ian Doyle vanished from prison" A vengeful ghost from Emily's hidden past.
