Criminal Minds the Girl in the Blue Mask
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
The Girl In The Blue Mask
Original Air Date: May 18, 2011
Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
Angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
A marine stumbles through the woods covered in blood, obviously hurt when he reaches a campsite but instead of helping him the occupants flee because they saw a 'monster' stumbling out of the woods. The marine dies, the left side of his face brutally disfigured.
A horrible crime which doesn't stand on its own as the team finds out quickly after they visit the marines campsite where he was attacked and left for dead. Garcia connects the murder to another murder which happened a week prior. This victim was also disfigured on the left side of his face.
The team tries to figure out the motive behind the killings and make a possible profile for the unsub which isn't an easy task because there are several different reasons why the unsub might justify what he's doing. It could be a person who was disfigured himself or it could be someone who blames himself because he has caused a similar disfigurement in another person.
When they find a cooler at the marines campsite – which according to the marines brother – didn't belong to him the team settles for a different motive.
A new victim is found, the young woman is alive – the left side of her face was literally scraped off. Coop wants to interview her quickly before she goes into surgery but the woman can't really tell them anything helpful.
With all the new information Garcia finds a taxidermist who – a couple of months ago – went into the woods to kill a bear with only a knife to defend himself. He was attacked and his face is a mess and the team thinks that he might be the unsub.
You would say that when you drive towards a taxidermist and the guy unknown to you is watching you and shoots out half of the windscreen you would flinch, right. No! You jump out of the car and hide, which is the smart thing to do of course. Then with a few hand gestures Coop and Rawson share a lot of information and Prophet who's none the wiser asks Rawson whether they really shared all of that information when he explains what Coop was saying.
If you own knowledge of a few simple hand gestures that can tell so much in so little time wouldn't you share that with the rest of your team. Who knows you might need it some day in a life and dead situation.
Gina thinks that the unsub might be a father who somehow – maybe through abuse – caused a disfigurement in his daughter and who is trying to find a way to transplant skin grafts from the victims to his daughter. A gruesome idea which turns out to be less farfetched as it might seem. When another girl goes missing her suspicions are confirmed. This unsub now has a life victim who can be used as a direct transplant to who ever needs it. The latest victim is a seventeen year old girl who worked at a bakery, the only thing besides her missing is a birthday cake for a 'Kristi-anne'. The special spelling of the name narrows down the search results for Garcia and she can direct the team towards the house where the father and daughter have been living for the last eighteen months.
Inside the house the team finds the latest victim luckily still unharmed, the father and his daughter who wears one of those blue masks that burn victims wear to protect their skin. The father is apprehended and taken away, the other victim released while Gina talks to Kristi-Anne. She asks the girl if they can take the mask off so that the medic can look at her wounds, the girl doesn't want to because she's to ugly for anyone to look at her. Gina sends everyone out of the room and talks to the girl. Finally the girl agrees but when she removes her mask there are no wounds, there aren't even any scars.
It was wonderful to hear that there is actually one person in the whole 'Criminal Minds' universe that actually seems to have a pretty normal family. Gina LaSalle has become a little less mysterious in this episode. She has parents and a sister, all of them work for law enforcement one way or another. Her relationship with her father isn't all that wonderful and there is some sibling rivalry but all in all I guess that is a normal family.
Finally we get an interesting episode which leans heavily on Gina LaSalle's very capable shoulders. Too bad that they waited eleven episodes for it to happen, before we finally got a little bit of back story for her character.
If you watch all of these crime shows like I do, you know that if a marine is killed NCIS is called in. You would say that, especially since the marine is killed on Quantico's own ground, NCIS would be the first responders and not a BAU Red Cell. But who cares, details right. Though it would have been nice to see Abby and Garcia battling in a fight for the right answer.
So it's done. Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior is finished. Which is hardly a surprise seeing how everything played out – low ratings, boring story lines and poor character development. But that all changed and in these last couple of episodes things looked better, a lot better, but it was too little too late. Unfortunately. I however believe that if CM:SB had gotten a full season this show might have made it, I really do. Especially with the way the story lines and characters have grown lately.
Next weeks episode is the last episode of Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.
Next Week: Death By A Thousand Cuts
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