The Blob! You know, never see movies about movie theatre disasters in movie theatres. Just saying.
Another evocatively named small town.
Also, CM rocks the arson episode cold open.
Movie theatre smooching is foreshadowy. And I like the way JJ's haircut is growing out. Hotch is back in his fleecy thing--sleeping in the office again? Reid called in in the middle of the night looks exactly like Reid on the job, except no necktie: everybody else is in shlub clothes.
JJ looking out for the small town perspective. And Garcia uncomfortable with taking the lead.
"We didn't have enough room in the hospital for everyone."
And a nice job both establishing the victims, and then showing the cost of their death.
"There was nothing I could do."
Greenscreen! Drink! Morgan takes Gideon's role, and puts himself in the place of the victims.
"Sometimes, the best way to do that is to forget that it ever happened."
"A pattern of small gasoline fires--"
"There's nothing but crossover."
Nice dynamic with Garcia, JJ, and Reid there.
"I'm not a profiler."
"Well, you're going to have to be."
Uh oh. Sirens bad.
"We got a completely different MO."
"I am all out of witty and banter and I am struggling with love."
Reid's pronunciation of "theatre" is a bit idiosyncratic.
Hospital interviews, still painful.
JJ is pretty happy not to live in a small town anymore. Is it any wonder she keeps secrets almost compulsively?
"What if he grew up in Royal and he moved away?"
Garcia cracks the case! Ponytail headache. D'oh.
Kirsten Vangsness -- also still good at her job.
Wooo, Garcia going after the small-town hypocrisy and Reid backing her up. Reid's defensive curl up when the sheriff says "Nobody was talking about it," is really nice. Continuity of character!
"The truth didn't matter."
And Garcia freaking out that she's broken the rules, and then realizing that she's done the same thing the townsfolk did.
"This is the part I'm actually good at."
And Rossi finds the clue box.
The ending is really reminiscent of "Empty Planet."
And Hotch comes to make amends to Penelope. Mom may be leaking stuffing on his own behalf, but he's there for his team. Go, Mom.
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How did he pronounce it? (I don't remember). The reason I'm asking is that my born-and-bred Texan husband says 'The-A-tre' and it drives me up a tree. If Reid said it like that, I might not have even noticed.
(Liberal application of filters on Usenet, ban_set on LJ, and /ignore on IRC do help with that, though. *wry*)
And it bothered me to see Garcia plunked in the middle of this mess being the one to sort it all out. I do agree with you about JJ, and Reid's reactions; instant flashback to EM - interesting that it was Garcia who went ballistic this time while Reid reacted silently. Anything else would have been too predictable, and CM usually is NOT that. (I thought of you when I saw the green screen DRINK!)
I liked this - I wasn't expecting much after "Brothers in Arms" but I thought Holly Harold captured the tone much better in this. I liked the echoes of earlier episodes and the way that mob behaviour is challenged. CM respects the rights of individuals to be themselves and to not be persecuted.
And Hotch at the end was just what Garcia needed. *loves Hotch*
I may have to update my "Morgan and Rossi as the keepers and revealers of secrets" theory to include Garcia. Though honestly, I should have thought of that in the first place.
...I'm not sure I've ever told you about that, actually.
(And I add a Garcia icon just in time for a relevant episode! Go me!)
Then, once their secrets were revealed--forcibly, in both cases--they became the people who revealed other people's. Morgan basically spent Rossi's first two or three episodes trying to figure out what made him tick. Morgan and Rossi were the two team members who accompanied Reid on his quest to find out what happened to Riley Jenkins. (And Morgan actually kind of insinuated himself even earlier than that, pulling the kid's police file.) Rossi's the one who pulls Prentiss's secret out of her.
It's a Thing, is all.
Well, JJ actively kept secrets too, but she's a liar...
Also, she doesn't go out of her way to reveal other people's.
Speaking of, the day after this aired I found out about multiple assaults that have recently been happening in said teeny-tiny crime-free town; of course, it's all being kept under wraps and I've only heard bits and pieces of what's happened. And there was an armed bank robbery last week that had maybe one tiny mention in the news (even though the FBI was there).
Oh, and guess what. There was a fire in the local HyVee last week, too. Talk about creepy.
Is it just me, or did the doc know something from the very beginning and just never spoke up? His discomfort is fishy.
Also, love on Hotch for understanding Garcia enough to reassure her at the end. :D