A retired profiler has just released a book about the one who got away nearly 20 years earlier, when, Lo and Behold, the serial killer leaves a note at one of his book chats, and later leaves a fresh victim, to show he's back. Gideon, who just happens to be present at his old friend's seminar, gets in the BAU team to track the killer down.
A good episode with the emphasis on main character interactions. Gideon has to smooth the waters as his old friend, Max Ryan, drives the younger team members nuts with his snarkiness. OK, it's strange that they take the hardest road to track the serial killer (with Reid's super-human code breaking and Garcia's super-sonic computer hacking ability do we really need the other team members at all?) and I suspect just a full investigation of the first suspect's past would have lead them to the real killer, but it is quite suspenseful. It shows how important it is for investigators to distance themselves emotionally from the crimes or they could end up like Ryan - an obsessed and bitter old man.
There are more than the usual continuity problems of the type where actor's arms change pose when a different camera angle is used, but the really strange one is Elle's hair. Not since Babylon 5 (where the blonde psicorp cop's blunt-fringed short do changes next scene to the usual one length side-parted bob) has a female hairstyle changed mid-show, with no explanation, and backwards! At the start Elle sports a new badly cut puffy fringe, but it then morphs back to her usual one length side-parted shoulder length do. An experiment that went wrong that the show's hairstylists successfully hid in later scenes? A mid-show taping hair cut before earlier scenes were shot? Or is it code for...something? Elle certainly seems less than cool this episode (she's really cranky at having to work a weekend and lets Hotchner know it twice). It's not important, I suppose, but it is odd.
A good episode with the emphasis on main character interactions. Gideon has to smooth the waters as his old friend, Max Ryan, drives the younger team members nuts with his snarkiness. OK, it's strange that they take the hardest road to track the serial killer (with Reid's super-human code breaking and Garcia's super-sonic computer hacking ability do we really need the other team members at all?) and I suspect just a full investigation of the first suspect's past would have lead them to the real killer, but it is quite suspenseful. It shows how important it is for investigators to distance themselves emotionally from the crimes or they could end up like Ryan - an obsessed and bitter old man.
There are more than the usual continuity problems of the type where actor's arms change pose when a different camera angle is used, but the really strange one is Elle's hair. Not since Babylon 5 (where the blonde psicorp cop's blunt-fringed short do changes next scene to the usual one length side-parted bob) has a female hairstyle changed mid-show, with no explanation, and backwards! At the start Elle sports a new badly cut puffy fringe, but it then morphs back to her usual one length side-parted shoulder length do. An experiment that went wrong that the show's hairstylists successfully hid in later scenes? A mid-show taping hair cut before earlier scenes were shot? Or is it code for...something? Elle certainly seems less than cool this episode (she's really cranky at having to work a weekend and lets Hotchner know it twice). It's not important, I suppose, but it is odd.