Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior “Jane”, Season 1 Episode 7 – I’ve often poked fun at CSI: Miami in my reviews of that show that all of the episodes seem to begin with a party scene. However, recently the episodes have been getting away from that trend, and it looks like Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior decided to take a leaf out of their book this week in “Jane”.
It could be that I didn’t pay as much attention to this show as I should, seeing as how I’m usually typing here while I’m watching it, but I got a little lost in this episode. Sometimes I couldn’t tell who they were talking to and why. I knew there were multiple victims here, but I got lost with all of the friends and witnesses that were being interviewed. Maybe I’m a little slow if I’m getting lost on a basic procedural episode, but it could have been made clearer what was going on.
Beau Garrett’s character Gina made her very first attempt at standing out this week. I’ve made it very clear that up to this point, she’s been little more than a piece of glorified scenery. She’s obviously the token eye candy for the team, but not much else. However, in “Jane”, there was a somewhat interesting scene between Beth, Gina, and one of the victim’s friends. This person asked Beth and Gina who they worked for, and Beth almost told the truth and said they worked for the BAU, but then Gina butted in and said that they worked for Missing Persons in order to make her feel better. I guess that’s her angle, that she’s just super-sympathetic to the point of lying about what she does. It may not be very intriguing now, but it’s a habit that could get her into trouble down the road and become a more interesting character arc. I’m not holding my breath, though.
This week’s unsub was one of the most sadistic killers we’ve seen on this series since “See No Evil”. Putting the remains of his victims in barrels reminded me of Boyd Fowler from this last season of Dexter, and how about that scene where he nonchalantly opens up his fridge and grabs a beer that was placed right next to some girl’s head! That was pretty chilling, and really drove home how damaged this killer was. I was pretty disappointed, then, when he got taken out so easily by the team. Open up the trunk, tackle him into the wall, and that’s it. No chase, no last minute rescue for a damsel in distress, he just squirts Prophet in the eye with some pepper spray as his last hurrah. Pretty lame.
Despite an unsub that goes out with a bang rather than a whimper, this was still a pretty intense episode. Hopefully Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior can take further steps to flesh out the team in future episodes, as well as give us the sick and twisted unsubs we love so much!
Random Thoughts:
- In case you were wondering why that vice cop that Prophet spoke to might have looked familiar, it’s because he was in the highest grossing movie of all time. Yup, he was one of the marines that destroyed Hometree in “Avatar”, as well in being in a handful of other scenes.
- There seemed like an awful lot of product placement in this episode. Well, not so much product placement as product mentions. Facebook, Home Depot, AAA, etc. None of these instances seemed forced in any way, as they all seemed very natural for the people to be saying. I mean, the lady was waiting for her car to be fixed by AAA, and no other company really does that. They’re like the “Kleenex” of roadside assistance.
- Did anybody else feel like this episode was short? I felt like as soon as the unsub was caught, that they must have caught him so early because there’s an accomplice to catch. But…nope. The episode was over.
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