Exit Wounds

Season 5, Episode 21, Aired
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Garcia plays a crucial role in the case when she travels to Alaska with the BAU to investigate the murders of several residents of a small town.
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  • Great to see Garcia travelling along for the ride on this case as the BAU go to Alaska to investigate murders in a small town.

    7.0
    "Good"
    By Lady_Lancaster, Oct 11, 2011
    Three murders in a very short space of time in a small Alaskan town has the BAU incestigating, taking Garcia along for her technical knowledge.

    In theory, it shouldn't be too hard to find a killer in a town with a population of less than fifteen hundred but it's not as simple as it appears, particularly when several residents leave town because they fear for their lives.

    When a local boy who has recently returned to the town to help his mother run a hotel is considered the prime suspect, it looks as though the case is solved until Garcia witnesses another murder which the boy in custody could not have committed.

    An okay episode made more so by seeing more of Garcia. Not much in the way of profiling again though. This has become an unfortunate habit during many episodes of this season.moreless

  • Good episode. Liked the plot and the story about hunting a hunter. Definately on the edge of the couch the entire show.

    10
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    By gamsallup, Apr 18, 2011
    Although I loved this episode 'and any episode that highlights Derek Morgan. However, I am not a fan of Derek and Garcia having a relationship that is more than just friends, and that is where I felt this episode was trying to lead us. Derek and Garcia, have a great relationship. I would hate for it to be ruined by anything romatic happening. I know I'm in the minority, but it definately would crash and burn. Garcia would never be able to handle Morgan (as her love interest) being out in the field. Bad, Bad move -- don't do it.moreless

  • Another ho hum episode

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    By Hearty2, Oct 06, 2010
    I am getting very tired of this series - so much so that despite some awesome characters like Reid and Morgan and Hotch I just can't sit through an episode anymore.

    Criminal Minds is all about creative serial killers. Thats it. End of story. Yawn. There seems to heavy competition between the writers to make the weekly serial killers more creative and interesting at the expense of anything on the BAU team and their lives. What happened to our main cast of characters? The're reduced to babbling statistics and profiling information. There's nothing new - except for the weekly murders. Reid has gone around for half the series with a cane. Do we hear why he's having so much trouble with it? Morgan might as well have no family at all for all we hear about them. Same for most of the other main characters. They might as well live in the office for all we see re their family and home lives. I'd like to find out more about the main characters. Hell if they are all so good at their jobs couldn't they be head hunted a little bit by other agencies - and I don't mean the serial killer kind. Sigh. Don't they have to train occasionally? Basically, I'm begging for some stuff on our BAU team members. Is there something besides graphic murders to put the team onto? Serial Killers are becoming so boring! What about other criminal activities? There are other major criminal activities out there.

    Perhaps they could come across a situation that will not be resolved overnight. A situation that gathers momentum and tension over several episodes and giving our BAU team some character development. Even a touch of angst would look nice at this stage.

    Come on writers - get creative, or this series will end soon.moreless

  • this show is going down hill and we all know it but it still deserves at least a 9

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    By jurassic343, Aug 31, 2010
    Criminal Minds, what a great show right? well yes for the time being but the direction its heading in is not a good one, now remember in the first few seasons,that intense feeling of build up to find out who the unsub was? well now that feeling is totally void of the show, they don't even bother with insinuating they unsub into the case granted it depends on the unsub but still there was still that feeling of shock of WOW that was the guy/girl!?! Now its just some random guy who we've never seen before, no build up no payoff. Interestingly enough though i greatly enjoyed this episode, it had a fun sort of feel to it, there was actually some comedy like the earlier seasons and at least attempted to make the characters feel human this time instead of them just endlessly reciting dialog about the case, something criminal minds has become all to comfortable with, this show needs more of that human interaction, it can still be about the case but just not reciting what the (quote on quote) text book says.

    Over all as a whole this episode was good but its ending was out of place or rather too in place, we get yet another tired scene of everybody holding everybody at gun point, greaaat! its just too easy we know Hotch or one of the gang will talk them out of it or a bullet will be fired to stop it, did the writers ever think to try something more unexpected? like maybe the unsub gets away or they never even find him for the shoot out to even take place something more realistic? i don't know i hope they do.moreless

  • A series of killings in a small comunity makes the team travel to Alaska

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    By jordinajamaica, Aug 31, 2010
    The whole team, including Garcia, fly to Alaska to find a serial killer that has ended with the life of 3 people of a little fishing community. The unsub hunted his victims. The BAU suspects of all the young men that like to hunt of the town but another murder happens while they have them locked up. After associating the murders to some animal mutilations they profile changes to a teenager with abandonement issues.
    Meanwhile, Garcia whitnesses one of the murders and gets pretty shacken up, especially after Morgan pressures her to explain him what happened. At the end they share a really sweet scene.
    All the team has an important role but Rossi is especially important since he is a hunter himself.
    All in all a rally great and exciting chapter with some sweetness... Great!moreless
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    • Joe Mantegna originally had a line in the scene where Rossi enters the BAU office wearing a tuxedo, "It's OK. Ringo will have other parties." Joe loved this line, but it was subsequently cut from the episode.

    • The shopping scene between JJ, Prentiss and Garcia was originally written for "The Slave of Duty" (without the reference to Mick Rawson and his accent). When the decision was made to kill off Haley Hotchner in "100," the episode was completely rewritten.

    • Deputy Jace Stiller was named after the two writers' production assistants: Erik Stiller and Jace Sparks.

    • When Garcia refers to her speed dial setting as "lucky number 7," this was in inside joke. Kirsten Vangsness is #7 on the cast call sheet.

    • Sheriff Steve Rhodes and Dedaimia Swanson were named after professors at Franklin College, where Rick Dunkle studied for three years before moving to Los Angeles.

    • The "Xana-don't" line was improvised by A.J. Cook.

    • Franklin, Alaska, is a fictional town created by the writer of this episode, Rick Dunkle, as homage to his hometown of Franklin, Indiana. Lafayette and Bloomington are also mentioned, and these are towns in Indiana where he frequented his youth. There is, however, a town called Franklin in Alaska that is a ghost town now.

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    • (Rossi arrives for the briefing in a tuxedo)
      Prentiss: Whoa!
      Hotchner: Sorry to ruin your night.
      Morgan: What, are you working on Wife No. 4?
      Rossi: I see you people way too much.

    • Kevin Lynch: (speaking to Garcia on the phone) What do you mean, you're sharing a room with Morgan?
      Garcia: Oh, you're jealous.
      Kevin Lynch: Jealous? Why? Because you're bedding down with a muscle-bound, modern-day 007?
      Garcia      : Mmm, he's more like Jason Bourne.
      Kevin Lynch      : Oh, what's there to be jealous about?
      Garcia      : He took the floor.
      Kevin Lynch      : OK. Just... just make sure he keeps his weapon holstered, OK?

    • Morgan: I'm not sleeping with Reid.

    • Garcia: Ralph W. Sockman said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength."

    • Garcia: "Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." John Morley

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    • Hotch refers to Robert Hansen as being the first serial killer in Alaska since the eighties. Hansen was described as being quiet and a loner, who had a dysfunctional relationship with his domineering father. Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen murdered between 17 and 21 people near Anchorage, Alaska.

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