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Criminal Minds - “Jones”

by Lindsay Stetler

This week the team is called to New Orleans (which JJ in all her Pennsylvania-girlness cannot pronounce properly) to investigate a series of murders that seem to mirror Jack the Ripper. Except the victims are male. Anyway, the lead detective on the case died in Katrina, but before he shuffled off this mortal coil, he had the time to carve “JONES” into the wall of his house. Now his son - who actually looks more strung out than Reid supposedly is - is heading the investigation. They eventually figure out that the killer is a woman luring men away with promises of sex and Jones is a bar where she was raped nine years ago.

This is the first time I’ve actually had several problems with the profile/actions of this killer. First, as they have mentioned several times on this show, blitz attacks show that the killer is insecure and cannot charm their victims into coming with them willingly. So I don’t see how the woman could have been confident enough to lure men away from the crowds. Second, the way the victims were killed. Garcia said that Jack the Ripper only ever removed a kidney from his victims, which isn’t true. He also removed the uterus. If the woman was indeed like Jack, she would in all likelihood castrate her victims to rob them of their masculinity as Jack removed his victims’ feminimity.

I’m really pissed off about this so called “resolution” to Reid’s drug storyline. “I’ll never miss a plane again”? THAT IS NOT A RESOLUTION TO ANYTHING. If Reid’s using the Dialudid as his friend Ethan made it seem (since we’ve never actually seen Boy Genius shoot up), that little discussion he had with Gideon isn’t going to do a damn thing.

And now I move to the shallow end. Let’s talk about hair. Yes, hair. I had a lot of issues with hair in this episode. Let’s start with the good. Is it bad that I absolutely LOVE Reid’s drug hair? It nearly doubles my urge to just hug him and pet him and feed him soup, poor thing.

Next, Prentiss. I actually liked her character in this episode, and I’m ashamed to admit that it had a lot to do with her hair. They curled it this episode and WOW, what an improvement. Let’s compare, shall we?

Prentiss Hair2Prentiss Hair

It’s like they’re two different people.Morticia Addams and Emily Prentiss.

And finally, the bad. JJ. Oh, JJ, I loved you this week but I have to ask; what is up with your hair? She seriously looks like she’s been standing in front of a fan and the hairspray in her hair stuck that way.

So that’s about it. No Bones this week because American Idol has once again taken over our televisions. Tomorrow: CSI.


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