The Boogeyman

Season 2, Episode 6, Aired
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The BAU travels to Ozona, a small Texas community, to investigate the murders of children. Meanwhile, Elle is having readjustment issues after being shot, and Hotchner becomes worried about her when she misses a mandatory psych evaluation and isn't answering her cell phone.
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  • Who's watching the children becomes even more frightening when you realise that the children aren't even safe with each other.

    7.0
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    By Lady_Lancaster, Jun 07, 2011 Report Abuse
    Ozona, Texas is a small town where everybody knows everybody else so when children start dying it is incredibly difficult for the locals to accept that one of their own must be responsible for the young bodies found battered to death in the woods.

    With the body count at three over a very short period of time, the BAU check all viable possibilities and come up with nothing except an old man from an equally old house who is a local legend of whom the children are all frightened. Talking to the children, Morgan tells them to use 'The Buddy System' - to never be alone and make sure somebody always knows where they are. A five o' clock curfew is imposed on the kids but there is still more death.

    When the old house is searched and meals for the elderly are found there but the corpse of the owner is found in the woodlands, the team have a suspect, the school guidance counsellor whose prints are all over the trays containing the lunch but he is not the killer, the killer, in many ways is far more terrifying as you will see when you watch this episode.

    On a sad note, Lola Glaudini left the show in this episode when her character of Elle Greenaway found that the job was simply too much for her following the home invasion and shooting from Season One and so we await a new agent and wonder how the team will progress from here?

    An average episode with a couple of good points, particularly from Shemar Moore and Lola Glaudini as their characters struggled with the evil of hunting and child killer and trying to function when evil has already invaded your life.moreless

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  • This is when 'pure evil' would become an understatement.

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    By amazing_race, Jun 07, 2011 Report Abuse
    This was a terrific episode of Criminal Minds! The case that the team was einvestigating was really interesting, involving abductions, murder, children and even a local haunted house!

    The case was exceptional! I didn't foressee the ending. I personally had guessed that it would be the two boys who were telling the myth, but not the other boy!

    Certinaly I thought the kid was very sick. However, the unpredictability was the best part of the episode, other than learning Reid's fear of darkeness, and the funny moment with JJ telling Morgan and Reid a fictitius ghorror story!

    Overall, a terrific episode! It was dark, yet brilliant and unpredictable, not to mention it had its funny moments. Sad to see Lola Glaudini leave the show, and farewell to her character, Elle Greenaway, but considering how amazing her to-be replacement is, it isn't such a sad farewell.

    Keep it up, Criminal Minds, and this would have to be my favorite episode of the season so far, aside from the premiere.moreless

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  • A chilling tale about a serial child killer and a confused BAU Agent.

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    By CalmTiger, Jan 21, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episodes is one the most interesting episodes. There are many twists and turns. I think the thing that caught my eye to watch was that it in volved children. The part I really didn't like involved Elle and Hotchner. I think that they should have dedicated a little bit more time to them and made it more clear on what was happening with her,rather than trying to play it off with little segments. I think the most that caught my eyes when watching this episodes when you learn that not an adult was killing the children, but rather a child themslef was killing the children.moreless

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  • A child killer thats a child interesting perspective..

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    By neokel, Jan 21, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode is split in two direction on one hand Hotchner is watching Elle worried about her missing the psychlogical review and not turnign up for work or responding he follows her. The other side the rest of the team looking into a child killer case. With geodean leading the team the four perspectives lead to a very diffrent conculsion. Which was both entertaining but chilling at the same time. Morgan discusses the fact that society has made it easy for victims to be lured stating statisical valules Reid identifies that its more common to be atacked by someone you knwo as you trust them. What was interesting abuout this case was the fact that they didn't profile for a child killer on the one hand you wouldnt suspect it could be a child on the other theres are supposdly the best profilers there is and not one mentioned an age relation to the profile. Garcias role is well played as the techy with personality.. Her lines always draw a smile. Reids wory about Elle shows an attachment which his personality type suggests he wouldnt have, so it will be interestign to see how he develops that. Hotchner finally talks to Elle and you knwo its over for her but you can see he has determination in catching the bad guys even if he knows them. It will be also interestuign to see if he can cope with the knowlegde. We learn a little more about Gideaons photos in his office in this episode they are victims he has managed to save. A kind of light in all that is dark around him. A fantastic episode full of the drama we expect from this show. the next question would be who will replace Elle?moreless

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  • The BAU heads to North Mammon, Texas to search for a person killing the town's children. Meanwhile, Elle deals with the consequences of the shooting and her own near-death experience.

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    By psycho94, Jan 21, 2011 Report Abuse
    This was a good episode-- a compelling mystery for the BAU to solve. The identity of the killer was a suprise, at least to me. As conditioned as we are to adults taking advantage of children, kids acting violently toward other kids isn't as rare as it used to be (although it IS rarer than the media sometimes leads us to think).

    Again, a balanced episode (I guess I like balance)-- each member of the team contributing to the investigation in their own way.

    Criminal Minds is a dark series, to be sure, which is one reason I like it so well. But I definitely appreciate the ray of sunshine that is Garcia. She provides vital information, a degree of comic relief, and an "outsider's" (non-profiler) perspective to all things.moreless

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    • When Elle is putting her things in her car, her convertible top is down. When Hotch watches her drive off, the convertible top is up. Edit
    • It is revealed in this episode that J.J. Jareau has a niece who is eight years old, which implies she has at least one sibling. Edit
    • Usually the unsubs/killers are adult males and females (in a few cases). However, Jeffrey Charles became the first child unsub in the series and, therefore, the youngest. Edit

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    • "Blue Light of the Flame" by Dar Williams plays at the end of the episode. Note: Closed captioning shows that the original song for this scene was "Breathe Me" by Sia. Edit
    • This episode marked Lola Glaudini's final appearance as a regular in the series. Edit

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    • Morgan: You really are afraid of the dark.
      Reid: I'm working on that.
      Morgan: You should work a little harder.

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    • Coroner: At first blush it looks like Joe Finnegan died of natural causes.
      Reid: His heart probably gave out while he was setting this (holds up a bear trap).
      Coroner: Yeah, karma's a bitch. These coyotes were gnawing on him for a week.

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    • Garcia: This is true. All complaints filed were false alarms, but then there is that matter of his missing wife.
      Reid: Wife? What wife? When did she go missing?
      Garcia: Almost 50 years ago.
      Reid: No record of her ever being found?
      Garcia: I got two words for you, my friend, Rear Window. That guy probably chopped that lady up into delicious, bite-little pieces. Think about it. She may never have left the premises.
      Reid: Garcia, I'm sitting in the dark alone. Thanks.
      Garcia: While you're waiting for a potential murderer to come home? Kind of dangerous. Kind of sexy.

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    • Garcia: I have two words for you, sweetie: Rear Window. He probably chopped her up into little bite-sized pieces. Rear Window is a 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. The plot involves a photographer who is confined to a wheelchair with an injury and starts spying on his neighbors. He begins to suspect that one of them has murdered his wife and dismembered her. Edit
    • Reid: Ted Bundy killed women who looked like a girlfriend who jilted him. Most of Ted Bundy's victims were young women with long brown hair and were similar in appearance to his ex-fiance. Bundy admitted to killing more than 30 women between 1973 and 1978, although the real number is unknown. He was executed in Florida in 1989. Edit
    • Garcia: Finnegan's house on the hill is like the Bates Motel of Ozona, Texas. This was an obvious reference to Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror movie Psycho. The Bates Motel was run by the insane Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and it was the site of Janet Leigh's famous shower scene. Edit

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