They pause for more bad ripperology, announcing that Jack was an ‘impetuous lust murderer’, while this one is more organized, since ‘he’ is faking impetuous lust. It’s time for the profile! Since it’s based around the idea that the killer is male, the thing is useless, so let’s move on. So the Jack connection isn’t exactly apt. And he did it over the course of three months – including taking all of October off. Emily opines that this might be the point, ‘He terrorized London for months without ever getting caught’.Įxcept Jack only killed five people, as this killer now has.
And it gives them a chance to totally misrepresent Jack the Ripper! Jr comments, based on the two bodies in two days, that he can barely keep up with the killer.
Oh, and given my observation last time that they’re terrified of the concept of a gay serial killer, I’m guess that we’re going to be dealing with a Jill the Ripper this week. As if you could read that letter and think anything else. Reid eventually gets there – but the other two are made to look like idiots by having them be surprised by the revelation. I haven’t studied serial killing at Quanitco or anything like that, but something tells me that, somewhere in their classes, Jack the Ripper must come up, right? You don’t have to be a god-damned ripperologist to figure this one out. They go in for some blather about sexual sadists justifying their actions, and the possibility that it’s a gay killer who stabs because he’s impotent, but none of the three characters in the scene (Greg, Emily, repository of random trivia Reid) mentions the elephant in the room. They assume it can’t be the name of the killer, because no one involved in the case had that name.Įxcept the files were destroyed, so how can they know that? Let’s move on, though… to the letter, which has now turned me against the episode fully, FYI. Jr takes the team to his childhood home, and they all puzzle over the possible meanings of the word ‘Jones’. The victims had their throats slashed first, and were then gutted! Seems like you’d notice someone covered in the amount of blood that would generate, but hey, it’s New Orleans. The team looks over the crime scene while JJ flirts with Jr, and they get a look at the letters from the killer, in which the crimes are described in vivid detail. What’s bugging me about this episode? From here on out, I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt. Oh, and also please note the LA office buildings are visible in the backgrounds of shots in ‘New Orleans’. And what’s going on with the evidence cards being 9, 7, and 2? Shouldn’t they be dropping those things near one another? Yeah, I know it’s humid down there, but come on. The team heads down to the crime scene, and they’ve managed to arrive so quickly that there are still pools of wet blood on the ground. Oh, and the detective died, all the evidence was lost in the flood, the killer stopped for a year and a half after Katrina, but is now back, and now the detective’s son (detective jr!) is in charge of the case. But what does ‘Jones’ mean? Only time will tell! Now that’s dedication to your line of work right there. How determined is he? When knocked over by a collapsing tree, and with just moments of life left in him, he manages to grab a piece of broken glass and scrawl the word JONES on the wall of his living room. We also open with a flashback to Hurricane Katrina, as a cop, desperate to catch a serial killer, refuses to leave his home as the levee’s break, he’s that sure he’s close to a solution. Is this going to be the end of the storyline, or is it going to start getting really bad?
This episode is even opening with a ‘previously-on-Criminal-Minds’ package about Reid’s drug abuse.