Other things may change us, but we start and end with family...

[a_blackpanther]

This is the discussion post for Episode 7x16 - "A Family Affair". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.

Comments

[tryxkittie.livejournal.com]

also, why does every ep have to end in the BAU-ers pointing their guns at an unsub who's pointing a gun at a hostage?

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

Because otherwise we wouldn't get awesome scenes of one or more BAU members talking the suspect into lowering their guns? That would be my guess.

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

It's kinda awesome when the BAU kick down doors and stuff, but I kinda miss the unique reveals of S1-S2. Like, "Natural Born Killer", they've caught him already, so it was figuring out how his mind works to figure out where the FBI hostage is, and the whammy was Hotch telling him how it's not too surprising he turned out the way he is, but that "some grow up to catch them".

"Blood Hungry" was about the failings of parents, from bad to worse, almost anything else the unsub's mother could have done would have been better (whammy?), according to Hotch, who dropped more stuff about his background in the car, he comes from some money and know people who put reputation first. The episode ends with Gideon, who wasn't a very good parent - he was estranged with his son, and he was afraid to call because he thinks his son doesn't want to talk to him, but from what we seen of the phonecall, it's not true.

"North Mammon" - the quiet way he went because he accomplished what he set out to do, "I never touched any of them"

"Ashes and Dust"!


I could go on and on, but I miss how unique the early season episodes were. How many endings did we have this season where it's the team rushing in to confront the unsub with a hostage?

"Painless""

"From Childhood's Hour"

"Epilogue"

"Hope"

"Snake Eyes"

"Closing Time"

"A Thin Line"

"A Family Affair"

TBC


Srsly.

Considering how the son was brandishing the knife earlier, I think the BAU should have arrived on scene to just arrest Jeffrey Collins after he had killed his mother.

As for "A Thin Line", considering Trevor Mill's connection to the Mittens Clone, I think he should have been arrested early on, with the climax of the episode being how they get into his head and get him to give up the Mittens Clone.

"Hope", as much as I would like to believe that the sad sack of shit who stole the life of a little girl was properly put down like a rabid dog by the the girl's mother - and that the girl's mother had gotten away with it - I would have liked it better if they had arrested him, and then we got to see the interrogation where they got him to confess (quicker trial, less pain for the mother), and to have one or two of the team to dress down how what he did to Hope wasn't love. To dissect for the viewers the pathology of his inadequate personality, yanno, the Criminal Mind. Hey, have JJ Jareau in the room, she looks almost like his type, get him to confess that he doesn't love Hope, he just need a young girl to control because he's too inadequate to relate to his age peers and he feels entitled to own another person so he'll feel less useless.