User Reviews

The father and hotel there are linked to a crime of a serial killer. As women are turning up dead. As one woman dies as she was running to a restaurant as the waitress was defenseless there to stop the woman from being hurt.

Isobel has an estranged father. And that both of them have not seen each other in twenty years. The boss of the NYC FBI is learned her own mother wanted to work for the FBI and her father that seems to be a very wealthy man there. Never seemed to like his own daughter's choice and career.

But in the end, both seem to take a small step to reconciliation there. It is a start despite a long way to go.

The fact that Isobel does the wrong thing and her father dies the right thing per U. S. judicial process to protect citizens rights and then save tries to guilt him and we are supposed to sympathize with her? That's absolute crap. She should be suspended or fired for that, not felt sorry for. I guess it just mirrors some of the actual bullies and jackasses in law enforcement though, which have forgotten or never cared about the way it is supposed to work.

Arguably the worst episode so far and it is likely due to Julian McMahon's decision to break his contract and exit his show as it seems to have affected a lot more. Jess is mentioned once near the beginning of this episode but red flags had already surfaced.

Was introducing Isobel's father in this episode a coincidence or was it related to what happened to Jess' family? It was weird.

First, when exactly does the female employee in the restaurant call police? She has her cellphone in her hand but we never see her call. It is inferred later. Instead, we see her follow the kidnapper to the doorway and apparently sees him carrying the woman she had tried to protect. I am not buying this. The first thing most people would do in that situation is call the police, not put themselves at risk (e.g. Suspect sees her and opens fire).

Next, there is no mention of the initial suspect vehicle by anyone but yet Tiffany and Scola verbally confirm the vehicle description and license plate when they see the suspect vehicle? Let's go back, the local police officer on the scene tells the FBI that her officers searched the woods across the street from the restaurant. No vehicle? The witness never mentioned a vehicle. Local police didn't even know there was a suspect vehicle?! Sure, we saw the initial suspect's profile on the FBI computer screen but there was no vehicle information. It would be easy to get that but making the leap from no mention of any vehicle to finding it and matching the make, model, and license plate number, is too much. After all, they were only tracking the suspect's cellphone so realistically he could have been anywhere at that gas station. I am so confused.

Also, the "fight" scene between O. A. and the killer is predictable. So the FBI doesn't train agents on how to defend against a choke hold? I shook my head when it was revealed that the killer and his brother had been abused by their father as kids. However, the trigger was getting dumped by his girlfriend and the killer is targeting women, not those who remind him of his father. Anyone who is familiar with "Criminal Minds" knows that the vast majority of suspects suffered abuse or bullying as children. It got to the point that it was predictable with that series. Untreated mental illness is scary but the last thing I want in a crime drama is predictability. Another predictable aspect of "Criminal Minds" was that whenever an agent was flying solo (no immediate backup) bad things were going to happen, every time. When I saw O. A. alone, I knew what was going to happen. It doesn't make any sense to not have immediate backup when you are tracking a violent criminal who is TRAINED to fight. It would have made sense for O. A. to yell so Maggie knew where he was. Maggie should have heard something anyway. Too much time goes by to make it believable. I laughed when I realized that when Maggie and O. A. arrive at the airport, they see two men, including the suspect and they mention "...they are heading for the plane" so the other man must be the pilot but what does the genius suspect do, he uses his pilot as a shield until he can escape into the hangar. Sacrificing believability for added drama backfired repeatedly. Everything about a crime drama must be believable.