The Silencer
- Episode aired Sep 26, 2012
- TV-14
- 41m
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7.4/10
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The team tracks an escaped inmate who sews his victims mouths shut.The team tracks an escaped inmate who sews his victims mouths shut.The team tracks an escaped inmate who sews his victims mouths shut.
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- TriviaTroy Kotsur (John Myers) is deaf in real life.
- GoofsThey call the signature a 'double-knot ligature' where it ought to be a 'double-knot suture'.
- Quotes
Penelope Garcia: Hi I'm Penelope Garcia and I don't like change.
- ConnectionsReferences This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- SoundtracksCriminal Minds Theme
Composed by Mark Mancina
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Please consult a Hearing Impaired Person when writing about Cochlear Implants
I love Criminal Minds normally, but this really stuck in my mind.
Cochlear Implants are implanted in the brain, and then an external piece is magnetically attached to the head feeding to a hearing aid in the ear. If you want to stop hearing noise/hearing at all, you can simply disconnect the external piece. You would not have "sound permanently amplified" by the internal implant in the brain. CIs simply do not work that way, and to suggest they do is quite worrying for people who look into getting them.
I know the point of the episode is that the UnSub's mother put him in an experimental trial that wasn't well received and successful or even well monitored, but even a bad Cochlear Implant wouldn't work that way.
I love Criminal Minds, but come on. Even a tiny bit of googling or talking to someone with Hearing Impairment would have cleared that up before writing. I'm shocked at them embarking on a story like this with such poor knowledge going in.
Cochlear Implants are implanted in the brain, and then an external piece is magnetically attached to the head feeding to a hearing aid in the ear. If you want to stop hearing noise/hearing at all, you can simply disconnect the external piece. You would not have "sound permanently amplified" by the internal implant in the brain. CIs simply do not work that way, and to suggest they do is quite worrying for people who look into getting them.
I know the point of the episode is that the UnSub's mother put him in an experimental trial that wasn't well received and successful or even well monitored, but even a bad Cochlear Implant wouldn't work that way.
I love Criminal Minds, but come on. Even a tiny bit of googling or talking to someone with Hearing Impairment would have cleared that up before writing. I'm shocked at them embarking on a story like this with such poor knowledge going in.
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- BethByDefault
- Jan 24, 2024
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