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Criminal Minds: Distress (2007)
Big overlook
This really was a good episode, and the acting was well done. The plot was fresh, and feeling sympathetic to the unsub was understandable.
However, two glaring plot holes prevented me from rating this higher. First, Reid. We don't actually know how much time passes from one episode to the next. Sometimes it can be months. I'll buy the premise that time has passed while Reid tries to assimilate again, but he's obviously having trouble. The odd reaction isn't from Reid, it's from the big-time profilers he works with, who look shocked when he is agitated or says the wrong thing. Could have done that better.
The second is just utterly ridiculous. They all know who the unsub is. They know why he's acting this way, as a suffering war veteran who thinks he's in the middle of a war zone. They finally know where he is and move in slowly to bring him in, without harm. Wouldn't you think that the local police and the FBI's BAU Unit could have cleared the area? Instead, smack in the middle of the supposedly well-thought plan to save this man's life, and anyone else he might hurt, a kid rides up on
them on a bike, just as a jack hammer goes off. Seriously?