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"Criminal Minds"
Derailed (2005)
6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Too Many Unexplained Scenes Make This Not One Of The Better Episodes, 10 January 2007
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States
A delusional, paranoid mental case, prodded by his "buddy," takes five hostages on a train headed toward Dallas. One of the hostages in the train is "Elle" from the BAU of the FBI.
We hear a few quick profiles of some of the other passengers at the beginning of the show before the whack-job takes control. Since the show never followed up on this stories, what was the purpose that....to kill another three minutes of the show? Later, there were more unexplained actions by people, leaving this a bit disjointed.
Gideon and the BAU team must discover why this man of severe delusions wants to see "someone of higher authority" (someone of official government capacity, we find out) and why he "wants it removed" before he totally cracks and starts killing people. The BAU must find out what "it" means, too.
It's supposed to be a super-suspense story, but I didn't find it such. It was okay, but the first time so far in this series that I can safely say it's not an episode I wouldn't watch a second time. It wasn't one of the more intelligent episodes of the season.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
One of the best episodes to date, 4 October 2006
Author: moysant from Australia
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Elle is on her way to interview a prisoner when a psych patient, who is being taken to a conference by his psychiatrist, has a psychotic breakdown and takes the train carriage hostage. The team must come to the rescue by buying into his delusions in an effort to convince him to let everyone go.
Early on we are shown the back stories of the handful of hostages, with some top notch acting. The psychotic and his 'invisible' friend (who eggs him on to kill everyone) are completely convincing.
There's great interplay between the team members, especially Reid and Morgan, and Morgan and Garcia. Reid takes a central role (again) but is acted off the screen by Mandy Patinkin as Gideon. Gideon is having one of his bad stress days, which is something about this show I really like - we never know if we're going to get warm and fuzzy Gideon or brittle and tetchy Gideon.
Overall a tighter script and more action than other episodes to date, but yet again it is left up to a non-BAU team member to save the day. Some of the back stories presented at the beginning are never 'resolved', something this show does quite often, leaving it up to the watcher to worry about what happens next to minor characters. I just wanted to know if the guy who saves the day at the end goes off to kill his wife as he intended at the beginning. Guess I'll never know.
Fun on a Texas Train, BAU style, 25 May 2007
Author: llala412 from United States
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The bad news? Elle ends up on a train with a psych patient who loses touch with reality. The good news? The people on the train had a BAU member with them. Why? Because for some reason, instead of flying into Dallas, she flew 637 miles southwest of her destination, to El Paso, and backtracked on a train to Dallas. And - call me slightly obsessive, it's okay, I had to look it up - the train only leaves El Paso at 9am on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. I couldn't find a flight that would get her in early enough to make the train. The cheapest flight I found? Connected in Dallas.
And the pregnant girl - you're telling me that there wasn't another clinic within 637 miles of El Paso other than Dallas?? I know Texas is conservative, but seriously... Terlinguia is 300 miles from El Paso, 585 miles from Dallas.
Round trip ticket to El Paso: $285, 6 hours.
Amtrak trip from El Paso to Dallas: $105, 29 hrs, 30 minutes.
Being on a train in the middle of Texas with a delusional psychotic: Priceless.
(actually, according to the audio commentary on the DVD, it was so Lola Glaudini could work with an actor she admired, so I guess that's what was priceless!)
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