Criminal Minds: Season 1, Episode 14 – Riding the Lightning

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Criminal Minds: Season 1, Episode 14 – Riding the Lightning

December 11th, 2009 |

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Season: 1 Episode # 14 Original Air Date: January 25, 2006

Riding the Lightning

Synopsis:

After interviewing a married couple sitting on death row for serial murder, Gideon suspects the woman is actually innocent. But since she’s set to be executed in two days, it’s a race against time to prove it.

Best Moments Between Characters in Criminal Minds in Full Episodes:

In the end when Hotch shows up at Jacob’s execution. He has the pleasure of letting him know just before he dies that his son is still alive; he was not dead.

When Gideon hugged Sarah Jean in the end and gave in to her wishes to be executed to save her son from knowing who his real parents where and the “legacy” they left behind.

The opening and final scene when Gideon attends Riley’s Cello performance (Bach’s Cello Suites, Suite 1); he had tears streaming down his face in the end, knowing the sacrifice his biological mother made for him.

Best Lines in Criminal Minds in Full Episodes:

Hotch: “Are there more bodies?”
Jacob Dawes: “If I told you that, what would I have left for myself?”
Hotch: “You could help these families get closure before you die.”
Jacob Dawes: “Oh. Pass.”

Warden: “Any last words?”
Jacob Dawes: “Bring it on.”

Hotch: (holds up a picture of a grown Riley for Jacob to see before he’s executed) “Riley! You lose.”

(JJ enters the room where Hotch is speaking with Jacob)
Jacob: Oooh! Who are you?
JJ: My friends call me JJ…
Jacob: Well…hello JJ!
JJ: You’re not my friend: you can call me Jennifer.

The turning point in the investigation in Criminal Minds in Full Episodes:

Gideon finds a picture of teenage Riley hidden in the canvas of one of Sarah Jean’s paintings in her cell and realizes the boy is still alive.

Whodunit?

Jacob Dawes. He tortured, sexually abused and killed 14 victims and admitted to 4 more before he was executed. He believed his wife, Sarah Jean, had also killed their young son, Riley.

After finding a picture of a teenage Riley in Sarah Jean’s cell, Gideon had Garcia do a trace on the child and discovered that he was still alive and had been adopted. Jacob Dawes went to his death knowing his son was still alive, as Hotch told him just before his execution. Although the team knew that Sarah Jean was innocent, she would not cooperate with the team as she felt he was better off not knowing who his real parents were and the reputation/legacy they left behind. She gave up her life to protect her son.

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