"Criminal Minds" The Boogeyman (2006)

Director:

Steve Boyum

Writers:

Jeff Davis (creator)
Andi Bushell (written by)

TV Series:

"Criminal Minds" (2005)

Original Air Date:

25 October 2006 (Season 2, Episode 6)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

While the team profiles a killer in a small town, Hotch must stay and deal with Elle who is beginning to unravel.

Plot Keywords:

Eight Year Old | Reference To Plato | Beating | FBI Profiler | Serial Killer

Cast

Mandy Patinkin	...	Jason Gideon
Thomas Gibson	...	Aaron Hotchner
Lola Glaudini	...	Elle Greenaway
Shemar Moore	...	Derek Morgan
Matthew Gray Gubler	...	Dr. Spencer Reid
A.J. Cook	...	Jennifer "JJ" Jareau
Kirsten Vangsness	...	Penelope Garcia
Robert Knott	...	Chief Jones
Sean Bridgers	...	James Charles
Elle Fanning	...	Tracy Belle
Cameron Monaghan	...	Jeffrey Charles
Geoffrey Lewis	...	Coroner
Chris Conrad	...	Deputy Mack (as Chris A. Conrad)
Bobby Preston	...	Henry (as Bobby Preston-Weiss)
Martha Boles	...	Agent Breen

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:PG

Company:

Mark Gordon Company, The

Quotes:

Derek Morgan: So, why the woods, JJ?
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Hmmm?
Derek Morgan: Your fear, you said it was of the woods.
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Err, I used to be a camp counselor when I was a teenager, in the woods up around Vermont. I had the night shift, you know, tuck the girls in, turn off the lights, you know, the typical drill. Everything seemed fine. The kids were asleep, you know, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Until... I noticed that there was some blood, on the hallway floor. So I followed the blood trail down the hall to the camp director's cabin, walked up to his bed, and... he was just lying there, under his covers, dead. Someone stabbed him. I ran out of there so fast, out the door, down the hall. I can just remember it being really dark. Once I got to the door, there was another counselor; I guess she heard me scream. They caught the caretaker on his way in to town. I guess he still had the knife on him. Anyway, I guess that's probably when I decided I didn't like the woods.
Derek Morgan: You're serious?
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: [sips coffee looking serious and pauses] No!
[shakes head]
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: I mean you fell for that?
[they laugh]
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Come on! I don't know why I'm afraid of the woods! I am. Why is he still afraid of the dark?
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Psycho (1960)

Soundtrack:

Blue Light of the Flame

"He's hunting children"- Jason Gideon

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This is an excellent episode because their is many intense scenes and a shocking twist in the end that you won't see coming.

The team goes to a small town in Texas because of the deaths of 3 kids in one month, starting with a 6 year old boy. When they get there they enforce the "buddy system" and a 5pm curfew, but soon enough another child, Matthew, goes missing. His younger brother has a secret, saying Matthew was just going to "ring the doorbell" of the haunted house on the hill. The team investigates the house not finding the man who owns it until they go to the woods outside the house. Buried outside the house, the old man is dead, the boy nowhere to be found. Reid and Gideon are looking outside by the staircase when they here something, yelling at the person to come out comes a small voice "don't hurt me" and out comes 8 year old Matthew unharmed. He says he was hiding because he heard a tree branch. Although the boy is unharmed, they still don't know who the unsub is. Then they get some shocking news about who their unsub may be, the officer who as been helping them this whole time. They go to his house and find him carrying a bag, once they catch him they look through the bag and find a red hat, the hat the first child was wearing while alive, but was missing after he was killed. They take in the officer and question him, but of course he denies everything. Then the team gets the information that the officers 8 year old son never showed up for school. Thinking he killed his son Morgan starts yelling at him. Then reality hits them, and hits them hard, the officer is not the killer, his 8 year old son, Jeffrey, is the killer. And now an 8 year old girl, Tracy never showed up at home. Through the buddy system she was walking home with the Jeffrey, the killer. Through a shortcut, Tracy becomes tired and wants to get home. Jeffrey gets mad and throws her book bag, and then goes at her with a bat. She kicks him in the kneecap, making him fall, and she takes off running. The team finds the bus stop, splits up and goes from there ending in the same woods as the two kids. Hearing her screams as he comes after her, the team runs towards them. As Jeffrey finds Tracy and goes for one hard swing of the bat, Gideon runs up and seizes the boy and the bat, while JJ grabs the girl taking her to safety. The boys is shown being taken away in a police car. The children are now safe. The teams heads back to headquarters for their next assignment.