Criminal Minds

For me, the episodes I find the most scary, are the ones that deal with someone being in the house with you, or home invasion. Because when I was a young girl, someone broke into our house while I was home. I was not hurt physically, but it sure scared the crap out of me. And now, to this day I have a hard time being home alone, usually at nighttime, but sometimes in the day too. I guess it is always in the back of my mind. So, why would I watch those episodes dealing with that subject? ...well, I figure it is like my huge phobia with snakes, so scared of them, but almost can't help but look? weird, I know.I thought this might make an interesting topic for discussion, but you tell me...

There are so many episodes I love, I always feel bad narrowing it down to one. But, I think this time, I can. The episode is Seven Seconds in season 3. The episode with the kidnapped girl in the mall. It's a practically flawless, emotionally charged episode. First, every team member had a purpose and did something in the episode or had an interesting scene. Minor, but still important was JJ calming down the mother and explaining why she had to ask difficult questions in order to find her daughter. Garcia demanding all the security footage and then getting the seven seconds of Katie (the little girl) walking away with the unsub. Morgan figuring out that Katie had been molested and reassuring her cousin Jeremy that he understood why he couldn't tell them what he knew because it implicated his mom. And, then, the big scenes involving Hotch, Prentiss, and Reid. Reid's interrogation of Jeremy. Hotch slow build up on intensity and disgust when he gets the uncle to admit to molesting Katie (please watch that anyone who says Hotch doesn't have or show emotion). And, finally, Prentiss figuring out the aunt was the unsub and her building up to the intense attack on her.And, people felt it was a cop out that Katie didn't die, but I feel it was an extremely poignant and not at all perfectly happy ending. (Not that happy is bad, just that this episode is much more complex than people give it credit for) I saw a broken family that would take a long time to heal and wouldn't ever completely. A father who knew that his brother - his twin, even- had molested his daughter. A little girl who would have a long way to go to heal. And, for me, the saddest, Jeremy. Seeing both his parents arrested, knowing that his mother tried to kill his cousin. Not knowing what would happen to him. And, I loved the use of music at the end. It also had one of the most devastating scenes, but one that was so simple. The image of the father watching his brother being put into the squad car. No hysterics, or screaming, they didn't even talk to each other. But, the expression on his face was just so beaten and defeated. The episode just hits me emotionally all over the place, and that emotional connection is my criteria for a great episode.

My very favorite comes at the beginning and end of each show. I love the quotes they do each time. I find them so insightful! So very applicable to each episode, it always leaves me wondering what came first the quote or the story.I also really enjoyed the episode with the torture-killer mob guy, although I don't know the name of it. At the end, once they capture him, and Hotch is interviewing him.... the exchange they have really moved me, as well as gave insight into Hotch's personality. When he told the guy he knew how he had been severly abused by his parents, and that he understood him, you knew Hotch grew up abused as well. But unlike the unsub, he grew up to catch the killers, rather than become one of the killers. If anyone knows the episode I'm referring to, please let me know, K?

The episode is Natural Born Killer.

Thank you Bessie Mae. I think I'll see if I can watch it again on one of those other sites.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TITLE OF THE EPISODE WAS CALLED BUT IT WAS THE ONE WHEN AT THE END GARCIA GETS SHOT. IT THAT ONE WAS SO GOOD. THE TEAM GOES INTO THE PARK AND DOES A VOLUNTEER S&R GROUP BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE UNSUB WILL BE THERE. WELL, THE UNSUB WAS THERE BUT NOT AS ONE OF THE SEARCH VOLUNTEERS, HE WAS THE ONE SERVING THE VOLUNTEERS THE SOUP. AND IN THE END, WE FIND OUT THAT HE PUT ON OF THE VICTUMS IN SOUP HE SERVED. I ACTUALLY SCREAMED OUT LOUD WHEN THEY FIGURED THAT OUT. IT WAS SO GOOD!

My very favourite episode is probably Elephant memory....I just love Reid, and I hadn´t got easy time on high school either...I specially love the scene when Hotch realizes, that Reid knew all the time about what the kid is going to do....but generally I really like all episodes when you feel sorry for the UnSub, like episodes True night or In heat or even the two episodes, when the UnSub took Reid. It always get me thinking what would happend to me when i went though some bad moments

i like all the shows.can anyone tell me where i can watch the whole episodes on my computer.

-somebodys watching-the big game-revelations-elephants memoryare all my faves hard to narrow it down to 1i like them manily coz there about reid, and hes my fave caracter

I love Criminal Minds, i always watch it, i also like the episode in which the girl was knicknapped of the mall, and the one that three women are tortured. But i really wanna now in which season and in which espisode those Elle fanning appears in Criminal Minds Thanks, Please reply

I loved the Revalation episodes where Reid was taken by one of the teams UnSubs and was given drugs. I was so sad afterward when he relied on drug dependance . I have the biggest crush on Reid and i was so freaked that he would die in that episode but they rarely take off main charecters. Elle and Gideon are exceptions though.

threekkkdb wrote: I love Criminal Minds, i always watch it, i also like the episode in which the girl was knicknapped of the mall, and the one that three women are tortured. But i really wanna now in which season and in which espisode those Elle fanning appears in Criminal Minds Thanks, Please reply

The Big Game/Revelations (which I count as one since it was a two parter). I loved the way that Emily very subtly took care of JJ. The way that she seemed to be the only one that treated JJ like an FBI Agent rather than some civilian that was in the way. Everyone else either ignored her completely or just told her to go rest, like she was too fragile to deal with the job. Though, I do have to say that I hold a good deal of love for the wardrobe department in this episode, Emily's blouse at the bar and the black suit later on. Very nice. Anyway, back on point, it was one of the earliest examples of Emily's incredible heart. She was there for JJ without making her feel weak or as if she blamed JJ for Reid getting taken. Instead she let JJ help them try to get Reid back.

Currently watching Red Dragon on USA. Which reminds me, they should have Anthony Hopkins as an Unsub. Anyways, too many great episodes to choose (thought the last two, Angel Maker and Minimal Loss, were both excellent). Agree with what LuvtheJEm said about Revelations, the interactions between JJ and Emily were good (but I have too many issues with that episode for it to make the favorite list). It was good, but it wasn't anywhere near the best, at least in my opinion.

My favorite one is: Machismo, where the team goes to Mexico. And they found out that the Unsub is a man that wears womens cloths. Like I said in the other forums. Mexico's police departments don't do anything to stop crimes. They don't do anything about nothing. Just waiting for the people to give them money for a coke. Well the point is that the victims (by the way women) get together kill the unsub and its there that the governer of the state realizes that there really was a serial killer. The funny thing was that when they went to get the unsub he had the body of his mother in the sofa "watching tv." What I like is that they didn't wait for the police to take action but they took it in their own hands. That's what really happens in Mexico.