While Hotch and Morgan examine the crime scene, Seaver and Prentiss head to the music store, and Reid and Rossi try to interview Sammy. They recently took out a large bank loan, which the BAU thinks might be motivation for a robbery. If given a choice between spending time with the unsub and spending time with Hotch and the gang, I’ll pick the team every single blasted time, no question.Ĭharlie and Alison Sparks own a music store, which, like many other businesses in this oil spill-devastated area, is on the rocks. Also? With the exception of the opening scene, the unsub doesn’t make an appearance until twenty minutes into the episode, which leaves more time to devote to the team. Chasing a kidnapper instead of a serial killer is a nice change of pace, and it’s good to see the team attempt some actual, like, profiling, instead of standing around aimlessly waiting for Garcia to solve their case for them. Overall, though? This episode isn’t bad, especially by the greatly lowered standards of this season. Sure, the rest of the team hassle Reid all the time for his love of geeky minutiae, but Seaver hasn’t yet earned that right. The show is facing an uphill battle to get viewers to like and accept Seaver, given the controversial circumstances of her addition to the cast, and I’m not sure having her snub both Doctor Who and Reid in one fell swoop is the best way to do that. In the back of the jet, Reid rambles on about Doctor Who, and Seaver bluntly lets him know he’s boring her. The BAU goes over the case details en route to Louisiana. Though it’s technically not a BAU case - it seems to be a straightforward kidnapping - the police think profilers might have a better chance of getting information out of Sammy. There’s been no ransom demand, and Sammy is non-responsive to their attempts to ask him about the attacks on his parents. Sammy’s parents, Charlie and Alison, are both missing, and blood was found in their home. The New Orleans police ask the BAU for their help with the Sparks case. Prentiss wants to bring in the BAU to track down Doyle, but Clyde and Tsia shoot down that idea. It’s all very secret agent-y, with more than a faint whisper of absurdity: They sit close together in an open public area, not looking at each other, and carry on a conference about Doyle in hushed tones on disposable cell phones, which they toss immediately after hanging up. She then has a clandestine meeting with her former Interpol cohorts Tsia, whom we met last episode, and Clyde ( Fringe’s Sebastian Roche). Before getting into her car, she checks underneath it, then steps back and starts the engine remotely. Later, he shows up at his elementary school, lunchbox in hand, his face still splattered with blood.īack in Virginia, Prentiss grows nervous and twitchy about the possibility that the mysterious Ian Doyle is out to kill her. He looks at the smeared blood on his hand with nothing more than idle curiosity. Sammy stops playing and wipes off his face. A spray of blood splatters Sammy’s face from some unclear burst of violence behind him. While Sammy continues to play the piano, his mother, Alison (Jessica Lundy), struggles with a shadowy figure in the background. Throw me a few scraps of decent character development or intra-episode continuity, and I’m pathetically grateful. …My standards for this show are so very, very low these days. More, with just these fleeting nods to past developments in the lives of our characters (Reid is now plagued with crippling migraines, Hotch is now raising a young son on his own), it’s already clear we’re in better hands in this episode than we’ve been for much of this season. It’s a fitting start for a case that will hinge upon the importance of routines. This is intercut with a montage of our BAU members going through their morning routines - Reid walks to work with a book on migraines tucked under his arm, Hotch helps young Jack get ready for the day. Sammy Sparks (Skyler Brigmann), an autistic ten-year-old boy in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, plays a classical piece on the piano.
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