Reflection of Desire
- Episode aired Nov 10, 2010
- TV-14
- 43m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
The team hunts a serial killer after a kidnapped woman is found murdered in an alley with her lips cut off.The team hunts a serial killer after a kidnapped woman is found murdered in an alley with her lips cut off.The team hunts a serial killer after a kidnapped woman is found murdered in an alley with her lips cut off.
Amelia Rose Baldwin
- Taylor Conwright
- (as Amelia Rose)
Jeffrey Boehm
- Reporter
- (as Jeff Boehm)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIt is shown that Penelope Garcia does theater. Kirsten Vangsness has starred in numerous plays and performance art pieces and is a member at Theatre of NOTE in L.A.
- GoofsRossi states that the victim had trihalomethane in her hair, which Reid says is chloroform. Technically that is incorrect, trihalomethanes are a group of chemicals, one of which is chloroform, they are commonly used as solvents and refrigerants. The chemical name for chloroform is trichloromethane. It is an understandable mistake for Rossi to make, but Reid should know the difference and always points out small distinctions such as this.
- Quotes
Dr. Spencer Reid: This building has three exits, north, south and west. You're here to target a woman, but you don't want to attract attention.
Aaron Hotchner: Well, standing in the middle, gawking at passing women, would certainly attract attention. Like you're doing now.
Dr. Spencer Reid: What's that?
Emily Prentiss: Just like that. IQ of 187 is slashed to 60.
- ConnectionsReferences Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- SoundtracksCriminal Minds Theme
Composed by Mark Mancina
Featured review
Step out of your comfort zone, why don't you? This is a good episode!
I think that this is an entertaining experiment and undeserving of low ratings. I suspect that all good series teams want to test their boundaries and see how far they can stretch. Look at Jos Whedon's musical effort in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6, Episode 7 (Once More With Feeling) - completely off the rails so far as the style of the rest of the series went, but for me it really worked - I thought it was one of the high points of all seven years of the series. For this to be presented in the style of 1940/50ish film noir with a melodramatic atmosphere is fine: it covers all the bases of a normal episode with a different slant on presentation.
Other reviewers complain of too much Garcia - why? Because the bean-counters screwed up and sacked A. J. Cook. Without the JJ character they tried using Garcia to fill in, so of course Garcia gets more screen time. (Well, they were probably trying to get Kirsten Vangsness to cover A. J. Cook's rôle at the same salary - that wouldn't have been right either!) That character extension explains why Garcia handles the press conference - she is (part-time) the official communications liaison for the Unit.
Over the past five years the team has been developed to become a family, of which JJ is an integral part, so I'm not surprised that the others of the family are upset at her departure. In the end, although I personally find Garcia very entertaining and don't mind seeing more of her, the bean-counters had to admit defeat and bring JJ back after a few episodes. I'd like to think that that was due to the popularity of JJ, rather than any lack of popularity of Garcia.
I thought that her play at the start was in keeping with the theme of the episode. I also thought it was good to see Garcia outside her lab or the local bar. As for other complaints, they found the suspect by logic and locating his mother's house, not by "driving around". In all these series we have instances where something happens or evidence is found and one of our heroes exclaims "This must mean..." when in fact "This might mean...". Conclusions are jumped to all over the place! These shows would not be nearly so entertaining if conclusions could not be jumped to and we had to undergo a long drawn out logical exposition of the same conclusion. The viewer is expected to infer or accept that the missing logical steps would have been accomplished were this not a dramatic performance. The audience also has to provide some intelligent thought. Here Garcia is presented with a monochrome photo and can deduce the eye makeup worn by the subject. Yes, of course! From the photo she is able to recognise the style of makeup and from her knowledge of the period she can say what constituents were used in the manufacture of the eye makeup in question. Being really pedantic, I believe that Garcia is an FBI agent, just not maybe field qualified. As we saw a couple of episodes back, she's certainly got the badge.
The bottom line is that I was entertained by this episode.
Other reviewers complain of too much Garcia - why? Because the bean-counters screwed up and sacked A. J. Cook. Without the JJ character they tried using Garcia to fill in, so of course Garcia gets more screen time. (Well, they were probably trying to get Kirsten Vangsness to cover A. J. Cook's rôle at the same salary - that wouldn't have been right either!) That character extension explains why Garcia handles the press conference - she is (part-time) the official communications liaison for the Unit.
Over the past five years the team has been developed to become a family, of which JJ is an integral part, so I'm not surprised that the others of the family are upset at her departure. In the end, although I personally find Garcia very entertaining and don't mind seeing more of her, the bean-counters had to admit defeat and bring JJ back after a few episodes. I'd like to think that that was due to the popularity of JJ, rather than any lack of popularity of Garcia.
I thought that her play at the start was in keeping with the theme of the episode. I also thought it was good to see Garcia outside her lab or the local bar. As for other complaints, they found the suspect by logic and locating his mother's house, not by "driving around". In all these series we have instances where something happens or evidence is found and one of our heroes exclaims "This must mean..." when in fact "This might mean...". Conclusions are jumped to all over the place! These shows would not be nearly so entertaining if conclusions could not be jumped to and we had to undergo a long drawn out logical exposition of the same conclusion. The viewer is expected to infer or accept that the missing logical steps would have been accomplished were this not a dramatic performance. The audience also has to provide some intelligent thought. Here Garcia is presented with a monochrome photo and can deduce the eye makeup worn by the subject. Yes, of course! From the photo she is able to recognise the style of makeup and from her knowledge of the period she can say what constituents were used in the manufacture of the eye makeup in question. Being really pedantic, I believe that Garcia is an FBI agent, just not maybe field qualified. As we saw a couple of episodes back, she's certainly got the badge.
The bottom line is that I was entertained by this episode.
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- akicork
- Feb 12, 2022
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