L.D.S.K.

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired
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The BAU is asked to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight, and the team works with local law enforcement officers to recreate one of the shootings.''
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  • Long Distance Serial Killer. Awesome episode!

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    By Sami5118, Oct 16, 2011 Report Abuse
    In this episode, the BAU is asked to identify a killer who is shooting his victims in broad daylight. The whole team ( not including Garcia) is sent to Illinois to investigate the three shootings that have happened in the past three weeks. All the people that were shot were shot in the abdomen, and only one of them died. They figure out that the shooter is experienced and that he shoots from far away ( hence the name Long Distance Serial Killer), and that he commits his crimes during shift changes- more specifically, shift changes at one of the hospitals. They eventually figure out that the serial killer worked at the hospital that the victims were brought to. The killer holds Reid and Hotch hostage in the hospital and Reid ends up shooting him dead.

    Overall, I think that this was one of my favorites and definately one of the best of the season.moreless

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  • Long Distance Serial Killer. Terrific and sublime episode!

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    By amazing_race, Oct 16, 2011 Report Abuse
    'Criminal Minds' continues to produce episodes of an exceptionally high calibre. Even though we are still in the wshow's early stages, it is still producing terrific episoes, which are highly memorable!

    This episode was clearly no exception, and I really enjoyed the concept of a 'long fdistance serial killer'. It was a nice change from anything we've seen in the first five aepisodes.

    I thought the end scenes, with Hotchner and Reid being held hostage, were magnificently done! It was a prime example of the show's core concept of profiling, and it showed the concept of how well a profile may be utilised by the BAU to beat an unsub, even when the unsub has a massive gun and every desire to pull the trigger.

    Subliem episode! Great work by the actors, particularly Hotchner and Reid in the episode! It was sublime acting and I would highly recommend this episode!moreless

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  • An L.D.S.K. (long distance serial killer) keeps the team busy in this episode as Reid fails his firearms test and wonders if he will ever be permitted to carry a gun?moreless

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    By Lady_Lancaster, May 22, 2011 Report Abuse
    I enjoyed this episode but I admit that I was bugged by the problems that Reid was having with his firearms qualification. After all, whilst training at Quantico and obviously before joining the BAU, he certainly would have had to be able to perform more than adequately with a weapon and yet he is still not able to shoot accurately while, at the same time, being sent out into the field.

    Meanwhile, in Des Plaines, Illinois, a sniper who is so as accurate as Reid is hopeless is on the loose. The strange thing is, he only wounds and does not kill his victims and it soon becomes obvious that the L.D.S.K. intends for it to be that way. The profile and the marksman's accuracy lead the team to deduce that he is somehow connected to law enforcement or an area where top-notch shooting is required.

    When the killer has Reid and Hotch in a 'kill or be killed' situation, Reid comes through, putting a bullet right between the man's eyes. The fact that he was aiming for his leg is immaterial and Hotch declares that the young man has passed his firearms test in a way that is good enough for him.

    Great to see the spotlight on Dr. Reid because, as we know, he soon becomes one of the most popular and beloved characters on the show.moreless

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  • Great one

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    By Parricida, Mar 20, 2011 Report Abuse
    I liked last episode but this was so much better - the whole storyline of Reid who is afraid he cannot shot a gun and how he in the end saves the moment.

    Ok - but the beginning. Random shootings in first random looking places. Sniper shots in long distance and it goes against all the known profile types and team has a lot of work to do on sight - and they got many wrong suspects. First they think it is a policeman who is playing shooter in their re-actment. What a way.. and they really manage to get him but the shooter was out there.. and takes down that police officer.

    Then the suspect is surgent and the common factor is near the hospital - he wants to save those people. And while on the hospital, Reid and Hotchner got it right - someone on ER.. but they do not manage to get out and it ends up hostage situation..

    Anyway - episode full of action, nerve wracking moments.moreless

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  • A long distance serial killer is targeting people, the BAU is called in to figure it all out.

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    By JayceeMaycee, Mar 20, 2011 Report Abuse
    I'm fairly new to this show and have three years of episodes to catch up on. Going in order, this is the episode that solidified me as a fan, and made me really like the characters. I liked the way suspicion was placed on certain guest characters (I was all over wanting it to be the narcisistic doctor) and the cop in the trunk was a rather interesting twist, too. The way it ended though with Hotch and Reid in the bad guy's clutches were gripping. Great character moments between Reid and Hotch while they were in the situation, and then later outside the ambulance. This one's a keeper.moreless

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    • This was the first episode in which someone other than Gideon presented the voiceover quotation. Edit
    • It is revealed that Hotch was part of SWAT. Edit
    • It would have been very difficult for Reid to have fired the shot that hit Phillip Dowd straight through the head because Reid was lying on the ground and the unsub was standing up. Edit

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    • The closing quote in this episode is misattributed. It was not William Shakespeare who wrote "Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable." This was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Edit
    • Marcus Giamatti and Timothy Omundson played together in Judging Amy for several years. Edit
    • The song heard at the closing was "Tears and Rain" by James Blunt. Edit

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    • Garcia: (answering the phone) Rainmaker. How wet do you want it? Edit

    • Reid: You were right. You don't need a gun to kill somebody.
      Gideon: No, you don't.
      Reid: But it helps.

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    • Hotchner: Nice shot.
      Reid: I was aiming for his leg.
      Hotchner: Well, I wouldn't have kept kicking, but I was afraid you didn't get my plans.
      Reid: I got your plan the minute you moved the hostages out of my line of fire.
      Hotchner: Well, I hope I didn't hurt you too badly.
      Reid: Hotch, I was a 12-year-old child prodigy in a Las Vegas public high school. You kick like a nine-year-old girl.

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    • Gideon says they are dealing with "a hero killer," someone who endangers people so they can save them and appear heroic. Reid names hospital nurse Richard Angelo as an example. Angelo gave patients paralyzing drugs and put them into respiratory arrest so that he could earn praise for reviving them or attempting to do so. He worked at Good Samaritan Hospital in Long Island, New York. Edit
    • Hotchner: (about the LDSK's vehicle) Like the Beltway Sniper, it's probably a sedan. The Beltway Snipers, who terrorized Washington and Maryland for months in 2002, traveled in a blue Chevy Caprice. Their names are John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. When a police officer jokes about the LDSK driving a white van, this is also a Beltway Sniper reference. The sniper was erroneously reported to be driving a white van at one point during the killing spree. Edit

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