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airdate: December 16, 2009
written by: Erica Messer
directed by: Felix Alcala

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• Who dunnit and why?

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airdate: December 9, 2009
written by: Rick Dunkle
directed by: Charles Haid

• -When JJ and Reid visited the park. They realized the individual who had access to all the information was the Valet. He had access to the GPS and the keys to the victim’s homes.
  

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• Who dunnit and why?

• Joe Belser – he was engaged to married and his fiancee broke it off. His fiancee, Rose, was sleeping with the best man.

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airdate: November 25, 2009
written by: Bo Crese
directed by: Edward Allen Bernero

• The team figures out how to track The Reaper through his prescriptions that can’t be substituted by over-the-counter medications.

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• George Foyet/The Reaper. He had been tracking Hotch’s family through the US Marshal assigned to protect them.

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• Jack: “I worked the case, Daddy.”

• Hotch: “Haley, show him no weakness, no fear…”

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• Henry, JJ’s son, is played by A.J. Cook’s real-life son, Mekhai. Mekhai has been dubbed “the CM baby.”
• Bo Crese – the episode writer – is a pseudonym for the entire writing team: Breen Frazier, Oanh Ly, Chris Mundy, Rick Dunkle, Erica Messer, Simon Mirren and Ed Bernero.
• The Nietzsche quote used at the beginning of the episode is nearly identical to the one used in the pilot episode of the series.

airdate: November 18, 2009
written by: Simon Mirren
directed by: John Gallagher

• While chatting with Karl Arnold, Prentiss realized the unsub was female, not male.

• Garcia was looking at the photos on her screens and noticed the families all used the same online photo place to upload and print their photos. She ran the profile through the employee database and narrowed it down to one name.

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• Who dunnit and why?

• Miranda Jakar – she was raised in Bosnia during a time of heavy military presence and conflict. Being around military and the noise from the upcoming air show was her trigger to kill.

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• This episode features the character Karl Arnold (The Fox), who last appeared in episode 1×07 “The Fox.”
• In the casting process, Garrett Pain was known as “Angus Pain.”
• The Reaper returns, in a different form of communication, to torment Hotch.
  

airdate: November 11, 2009
written by: Holly Harold
directed by: John Badham

• When they brought Dante in for questioning and he didn’t fit the profile.

• Hotch received a call from the FBI lab that the DNA found on the victim’s was from a women.

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• Ray Campion (Dante’s Manager) used one of Dante’s fans, Gina and her obsession with Dante to boost sales of his upcoming album by making her kill people in a vampiric fashion. Gina wrote to him and said she said she’d kill for him. Ray then used her obsession and sickness for publicity.
  
  

• Reid not knowing about the Twilight saga or what BFF stands for. And he’s never seen the movie “A Clockwork Orange.”

• On the plane ride back to the BAU. The team is joking around and laughing.

• When JJ hits Ray over the head, knocking him out.

• JJ: “Do you read anything besides technical books?”
  Reid: “Not much in English.”

• Garcia: “They mostly just dress up like Prentiss did in high school and play make-up. It’s all kinds of delicious.”
  

• Garcia: “Okay, I’m going to continue splonking through the various online sites and see if anything jumps out and bites me.”

• Morgan (about Rossi): “He has a gun, he’ll be okay.”

• Rossi: “For a pop star? I was obsessed with the Rat Pack but I wouldn’t have killed for Frank or Dean.”
  Hotch: “No you just drank whiskey and smoked cigars.”
  Rossi: “This from the man whose favorite record is the Beatles white album?”
  Hotch: “Just because Manson hijacked it doesn’t have to ruin it for the rest of us.”
  Reid: “That’s why I stick to Beethoven. No chance of guilt by association.”
  Prentiss: “Yeah? Have you ever seen little a movie called A Clockwork Orange?”
  [Reid shakes his head no.]

• The episode features the character Detective Owen Kim, who last appeared in the fan favorite episode 1×18 “Somebody’s Watching.”

airdate: November 4, 2009
written by: Oanh Ly
directed by: Glenn Kershaw

• They realized that the eyes weren’t being kept as souvenirs, but as replacements. They focused on local taxidermists.

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• Earl Bulford. His stressors were his father dying, losing the house and the pending loss of the business. Then one of the customers came in, his first victim, and told him he could not do eyes like his father could. He hunted and murdered his victims in order to cut out their eyes for use in taxidermy.

• Morgan: “You know you should have waited for backup.”

Hotch: “Would you have?”
[Prentiss gives them both weird looks]
Hotch: “What?”
Prentiss: [smirks] “Nothing.”

• Garcia: [spots Morgan's necklace] “Hey, what’s that? I haven’t seen it before.”

Morgan: “Penelope, there’s a lot of my stuff that you haven’t seen before.”
Garcia: “Wow, you are a tease.”

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• Morgan is slowly becoming involved with Tamara Barnes, the sister of a victim in one of his previous cases.
• Hotch talking back to Morgan for a change…priceless! And Prentiss’ snicker following…
  

airdate: October 21, 2009
written by: Breen Frazier
directed by: Rob Spera

• When Garcia talked about that blonde haired, blue eyed bundles of joy gained top dollar on the adoption market. The team realized that the Unsubs are only interested in children with specific characteristics. Furthermore, when Reid looked at the pattern of churches where the children were left, Rossi noticed that all children who ended up in foster care were girls.

• Robert and Linda Reimann. He was abusive to his wife and then she ended up with breast cancer. She delivered a stillborn son, named Michael, 5 years prior. Robert abducted blonde haired, blue eyed women who had some form of addiction. They cleaned up the women, got them healthy and impregnated them. Linda used her cancer medication to help the girls carry the baby to term after several girls miscarried. If the women gave birth to girls, Linda brought them to a Methodist church and left them on the step where they were put into foster care and then adopted. If they were boys, they were kept. They wanted a replacement for their son Michael. Linda ended up with Stage 4 breast cancer because she used her medication on the women rather than herself.
  

• Garcia (when looking at adoption data): “Yeah, according to this, blue-eyed, blonde-haired bundles of joy pay top dollar.”

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• Morgan is recommended to become Unit Chief, although he agrees to, temporarily. Hotch is under a lot of pressure and any screwups will force them to terminate him and disband the BAU. Hotch begins to train Morgan for his job in order to preserve the Unit and it’s members.

airdate: October 14, 2009
written by: Chris Mundy
directed by: Felix Enriquez Alcala

• When the team revisited how the violence began, they realized the first home invasion wasn’t their first murder. They traced back to the townhouse that had been trashed and realized all but one room was destroyed. They knew the key to the first murder was buried within the walls. This lead them to the three unsubs.

• Who dunnit and why?

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airdate: October 7, 2009
written by: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin
directed by: Karen Gaviola

• When Garcia finds a murder case with a similar M.O. where the assailant walked free.

• Tony Mecacci was the enforcerer, a hit-man murdering and mutilating people under the alias “Basola.”

• Judge Schuller was the planner, paying “Basola” to kill people he decided needed justice following the accidental death of his wife.

• Hotch: “You told me you were cleared to travel. You lied.”
  Prentiss: “Naughty boy.”
  Reid: “No, I didn’t. I am a doctor, so technically it wasn’t a lie.”
  Garcia: “What was it, then?”
  Reid: “Um…Second opinion.”
  Garcia: “Huh. You’re my bit** now.”

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