Damaged

Season 3, Episode 14, Aired
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Rossi goes to Indianapolis to continue his investigation into the two unsolved murders that have plagued him for 20 years, and he is joined by Prentiss, JJ, and Morgan when they learn about the case. Meanwhile, Hotchner and Reid interview a death-row inmate in a Connecticut prison.moreless
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  • This is one of the silliest episodes in criminal minds...are they struggling for plots? Seems like they have lost the plot!!!!!

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    By BrianFowler, Nov 02, 2011 Report Abuse
    While I like criminal minds sometime its really far fetched how quickly and easily a case is solved. This case was 20 years old they solved it when the daughter remembered a scary incident with a clown the day before her parents were killed 20 years ago. They checked circuses in the area and caught the clown. One minute they were in BAU Head quarters and next they were borrowing the jet to fly after their colleague to follow up the case. The case was not even an official case. And every year for the last twenty years the clowns father made the clown go with him while he left a present for the three orphaned kids. REALLY REALLY SILLYmoreless

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    By amazing_race, Oct 15, 2011 Report Abuse
    I absolutely loved this episode, as it was very touching, while still being immesely enjoyable. The storyline was emmaculate, and I loved how the way this episode worked itself out.

    I haven't particularly been enjoying Rossi as a character, but this was certainly a very nice episode ventred around him. It was very well written, and it turned out to be interesting.

    The only disappointment I had was the fact thit this episode didn't really have much action, and I felt that it let us down a little bit.

    But overlooking that, I would highly recommend this episode, and I think you'll absoulutely love it!moreless

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  • Really? All that hype for this?

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    By cavanagh15, Apr 10, 2011 Report Abuse
    I'm going to keep this very short and to the point. This will be the worst episode of the season and so far is my lowest rated episode of Criminal Minds to date. There was so much hype, since the day he joined the show, for this case. This was the big one. We all knew that one day he was going to get back to this case and some members of the team were going to help him solve it. We finally get there and I cannot be more upset with the ending to a twenty year old case. The unsub was awful. Not a brutal murderer but a "big kid" who followed a little girl home one night and then destroyed the parents with their own axe which he took right out of the fathers hands? Not so much. Hotchner and Reid scenes were pointless to the max. They went to interview someone on death row and it served no purpose other then to eat up some time for the episode as a whole. Was very happy to see Kevin back in this episode after I complained about it in my last review, but I am simply still in shock over how bad of an episode this was. I understand it was right after the strike had ended, but why come back with such an important episode if you were just going to flunk out on the storyline? Awful.moreless

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  • Rossi finally gets closure on the 20 year old murder case which has been haunting him for so long and Hotch and Reid interview a killer soon to be executed.

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    By Lady_Lancaster, Jul 13, 2010 Report Abuse
    I had mixed felings about this episode. I really enjoyed the entire section where Hotch and Reid interviewed Death Row inmate, Chester Hardwick. I thought that part of the script was excellent and Reid's quick thinking under pressure was very well done. The only thing that bugged me was that Hardwick was wearing a prison suit with the letters 'DR' on it, and that is wrong because there is no such place as 'Death Row', it doesn't 'officially' exist in any prison and no place is actually called that, so it would NOT be written on a jump suit.

    The Galen case finally being solved was very anti-climactic for me. With all of Rossi's obsession over it, I would have liked the conclusion to be more interesting overall. His purchase of the victim's home etc., while undoubtedly a very nice gesture, seemed just a little too much for a law enforcement officer. However, overall, the episode was interesting for the most part and it was nice that Rossi and the Galen children finally got some closure after so long.moreless

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  • We've been tantalized with Rossi's unsolved case since he joined the series and the mundane plot and ending of this disappoints seriously. This episode just punctuates how disappointing series 3 has beenmoreless

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    By thedarkknight67, Jun 01, 2010 Report Abuse
    Over all series three is very disappointing when measured against the high standards of the first two series and this episode just emphasises how dull and predictable it has become.
    Since Rossi joined the cast we have been offered tantalizing glimpses of the case that haunted him and caused him to join the BAU. Somehow this episode, which should have been a spactacular culmination of tension, falls far short of expectations. We are expected to make a leap of faith and believe that the pivitol clue of the carnival toys being delivered on the aneversary of the crime has somehow gone unnoticed for all these years, and that the kids are dumb enough to think that it is Rossi that is sending them.
    Hopefully season 4 has more to offermoreless

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    • The actors who play siblings Connie Galen and Georgie Galen, Nicholle Tom and David Tom, are real-life twins. Edit
    • Shemar Moore and guest star David Tom worked together previously on The Young and the Restless. Edit
    • In the "Birthright" episode, Rossi tells the retired local sheriff that the case in that episode had haunted him for 21 years. In the beginning of this episode, however, Rossi states that "20 years tomorrow three children woke up and found their parents murdered..." Edit

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    • After the strike was settled, Ed Bernero wrote the script for this episode, which could be produced quickly and required less time-consuming location work than usual due to time constraints. The working title was "Recall," and it was written in one week, but was subsequently renamed "Damaged." Edit
    • The song heard at the end of this episode was "We'll Get By" by Gary Louris. Edit

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    • Rossi: (to JJ, Morgan and Prentiss) Why do you care?
      Prentiss: Because you do.

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    • Morgan: What about Penelope?
      Reid: I don't know.
      JJ: (in sing-song) Garcia and Kevin sitting in a tree... (she walks away)
      Morgan: Get outta here. Are you serious?
      Prentiss: Just when I thought nothing scandalous was ever gonna happen around here. (Morgan walks away)
      Reid: What? What does that mean?
      Prentiss: Didn't you hear JJ?
      Reid: The song meant something? No. No, I missed it.
      Prentiss      : It... it... it... You know what? Never mind.

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    • Chester Hardwick: Is that true? That I never had a chance?
      Reid: (walking out the door) I don't know... maybe.

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    • Prentiss: Like Lennie in Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck and told the story of two migrant farm workers, Lennie and George. Lennie has the mind of a child in a large man's body, who accidentally kills a woman, and George is his devoted friend who takes care of him and cleans up after him. Edit

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