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Criminal Minds: The Fisher King, Part One (finale)
(S01E22) Not gonna lie. Kind of disappointing. I thought last week's episode (the one with the mole) was way better, and this had a cliffhanger! This does, however, wrap up the first season of Criminal Minds. Twenty-two episodes have come and gone, but the way they left it off... I'm not all that excited about what happens next. I mean I want know, but I'm not on the edge of my seat.
Everyone has been working hard at the BAU, so it's vacation time. The whole team takes two weeks off except JJ and Garcia. Morgan and Elle head south to Jamaica and Hotch is spending time with his family. Gideon retreats to his cabin in the woods while Reid visits his mother (she's schizophrenic... I don't think we knew that). So everyone is relaxing until The Fisher King shows up [insert sinister laughter here].
Not sure exactly who this "Fisher King" is, but I got the impression that he's some kind of eccentric billionaire who has nothing better to do except kidnap women. Apparently that got boring for him though because he's been tracking the entire BAU team and he's now involved them all in his latest abduction.
I was kind of put off by the way he brought the team back together (from their vacations). It seemed very stretched out because I get the feeling this could have easily been wrapped up in an hour. Elle is framed for be-heading another hotel guest and then Gideon gets the head in the mail. Hotch's wife gets an envelope delivered to her and then Reid finds that he has a skeleton key waiting for him at his mother's hospital. Lots of clues and it all focused on one idea: "Save Her." Elle put it best when she said it was like an Indiana Jones movie. It just seemed like an awful lot of effort to say, "Hey, I've kidnapped someone, come find her."
So the team reassembles and has to put together all their clues only to find more obstacles. There was a dead guy with a sword in his stomach, cryptic medieval messages scrawled in blood, and music-boxes hidden in walls. It was kind of ridiculous but it all started to come together until they broke the rules. The Fisher King stipulated that only the team can be involved... no one else. But Gideon ordered JJ to hold a press conference with the information they had. Later that morning, Elle went home to catch some shut eye but she awoke to find a gun pointed at her face. Then... the gun was fired. Punishment for breaking the rules? So we're left questioning whether Elle was shot or did the shooter put a bullet into the pillow behind her? We've got the summer to debate it. What's everyone think?
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