Is there anything worse than getting chased though the woods by hillbillies with compound bows? Doubtful. Unless it’s getting chased through the woods by hillbillies with compound bows while an editor tries to convince the audience that the
killbillies are possibly hunting deer. I know the second would be worse for me.
Anyhoo, the
killbillies deal with their prey, and then we cut to a bar where the ladies of Criminal Minds are gathered – see, it’s clever because we’
ve gone from a literal hunting ground to a metaphorical one! And things are even cleverer than they first appear, because the scene plays out with a guy thinking he’s impressing the ladies by claiming to be from the FBI, and then being humiliated when it turns out that he’s talking to three real agents! Or at least two, I’m not sure if Garcia’s allowed to carry a gun or anything.
You see? The hunter had the tables turned on him! Much like I assume the
killbillies will later in the episode! Yeah, I’m officially being too hard on the show right now. I’m probably still a little bitter over that whole ‘Jill the Ripper’ episode. Honestly, it’s a good scene, and the closest thing I’
ve ever seen to well-handled ‘matching scene themes’ in an episode, so bravo, the CM writing team.
Hey, do you think that, while they were making the terrible Jill the Ripper episode
AJ Cook told everyone that she played an identical Jill the Ripper character in terrible movie ‘Ripper: Letter From Hell”? I mean, that must have been mentioned at some point, right?
The team gets called into HQ to learn about the
killbillies’ murder spree. Because they
didn’t leave arrows in the bodies the team is stumped by what kind of weapon might have been used. Which seems like a bit of a stretch to me. Take a look at the arrows poking out of their latest victim:
While it’s true that the lack of an arrowhead would be a
hindrance in immediately identifying them as arrow wounds, the fact that the projectiles invariably when clean through their targets in completely straight lines (despite their small ‘calibres’), leaving perfectly round entrance and exit wounds would certainly point away from bullets being involved almost immediately.
Not to mention the fact that each
victim was left where they were killed, and the cops
didn’t find any bullets embedded in the trees or dirt.
So what’s gained by being mysterious about the murder weapon in this scene? It’s not a twist for the audience, since we’
ve just seen the
killbillies in action, and it kind of makes the team look a little slow.
That’s not the worst of it, though – when someone points out that the victims (who were abducted in Washington state, but killed in Idaho) are both male and female, Reid mentions that a serial killer without a sexual preference would be ‘a first’.
Um… The beltway snipers? Henry Lee Lucas? Any given ‘angel of mercy’ killer? Your own fictional serial killer ‘Frank’, the ‘Rib-bone killer’?
Despite these weird missteps the team at least manages to put together that the victims were being hunted.
Thank heavens for small favours, right?
