The Fisher King (2)

Season 2, Episode 1, Aired
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The team continues to decipher the clues given to each of them by a psychopath in order to save his most recent victim. Gideon decides not to focus on the personal aspects of the case. Rather, he tells the team to profile the killer as they would in any other BAU investigation. Reid stays behind to work on a personal connection that could solve the case as one member of the team fights for life.moreless
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  • Amazing episode

    9.7
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    By Parricida, Apr 07, 2011 Report Abuse
    I liked this one even more than first part - this one had the complete feeling and again - that kind of amazing quest game and the excitement..

    I most say I loved the whole thing around Reid - the way he did not want everyone to know about her mother but how it all was accepted and it was not a problem.. but the way he said to Garcia that it is genetic.. some great atmosphere..

    And the whole Rebbecca storyline.. her father, the whole adoption, the castle like house - and the way the got the man and he blew him self up.. the fire in the end.. I most say - a really great episode.. had it all - adventure, tragic, secrets.. and really beautiful storyline on Greenaway side.moreless

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  • the second part is just as good

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    By bellagirl_008, Apr 07, 2011 Report Abuse
    The best episode ever i loved this, i loved all of it even the cliff hanger is really good awesome seing the teams on vacation and there personal life priceless,absolutly hilarious can't wait to see more like this and come on modern knights of the round table great concepts it was cool to met Reids mum all though sad at the same time she seems sweet is crazy, Morgan and Elle at the beach were fun untill people died.

    The case was really clever as well, with the way he was doing things to get to the team and how he really thought he was the fisher king. Plus his poor daughter stuck down there for years

    oh and P.S is it just me or is Reid getting smarter.moreless

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  • Incredible!

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    By amazing_race, Apr 07, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode was the second part to last season's finale, and in my opinion, it was just as great!

    I really enjoyed seeing Dr. Reid and Garcia work out which book they needed to find. That was a classic moment for me.

    I liked seeing Reid's mom. That was very sad and sweet for me. Very emotional.

    Thankfully also, it was great to see Agent Greenaway survive the gunshot. I thought it had ended on such a sad cliffhanger, but fortunately for me, everything worked itself out.

    Overall, a thoroughly planned and well written episode. It was by far one of the best episodes and I would love to see more like this one!moreless

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  • A fantastic episode with which to open the second season as the unsub reacts to the team's refusal to play by his rules by targeting a member of the team personally.moreless

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    By Lady_Lancaster, Mar 22, 2011 Report Abuse
    Tensions are running very high at the BAU headquarters in Quantico as they race against the clock to try and track the unsub who knows too much and is one of the most sophisticated killers they have ever dealt with.

    When the girl being held hostage by the unsub is named as Rebecca Bryant, a young woman who has been missing for two years, the team must try to figure out how Rebecca and the unsub are connected to the BAU team. Meanwhile, Elle Greenaway is exhausted and she is ordered to go home to rest. Upon entering her house, she is shot by the unsub and has a dream in which she is speaking to her father who died when she was eight. Does she want to move on and join him or will she fight to live? The unsub has shown that by not following the rules he set down and playing the game his way, that he will retaliate, and shooting Elle is his way of showing the team what he will do if they contin ue to cross him.

    The pieces begin to come together when it is discovered that Rebecca Bryant was adopted as a child when her whole family except her father, Randall Garner, died in a fire. Randall, it seems, suffered horrific burns while dragging her from the flames and ended up in a psychiatric institution due to not being able to cope with the tragedy. The same psychiatric hospital inhabited by Reid's mother, Diana ... When Reid admits that he tells his mother many things about the team in his daily letters to her and it's learned that Rebecca Bryant is actually Rebecca Garner and the unsub (and the man holding her) is her biological father, the team move in to end the nightmare for themselves and Rebecca.

    A superb piece of drama, excellently written and full of suspense all the way. Don't miss this one because if you do, you're missing some great television.moreless

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    By cavanagh15, Dec 25, 2007 Report Abuse
    I thought it was a very good conclusion to the season one finale, but at times I thought there could have been a little more to the episode. There wasnt too much left to solve other then to get the book and where the man was located. There was only one continuity error that I saw when the Fisher King went to Las Vegas to speak to Reids mother, that didnt make much sense to me. Other then that though I did think that the two hour episode came to a very good conclusion, with the Criminal Minds team being able to find the man and Spencer not able to talk The Fisher King out of blowing himself up. Overall I would say that the epsidoe was a very good conclusion to the epsiode that season one started and is a very good way to start of the beginning of a season for a series that uses a standalone format.moreless

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    • According to Garcia's research, Randall Garner stayed in the Bennington Sanitarium from 1996 to 2001, so he could not have known about JJ's secret when she joined the team only in 2005. It was never established that Garner visited Diana Reid after he left the facility. Edit
    • Early in the episode when Garcia is telling Morgan what happened to the Garners, she says, "both Garner boys." Later in the episode when Reid is speaking to Randall Garner, Garner says "and my son." Edit
    • In the first part of this two-parter, Morgan is seen on the beach without a shirt on. He has intricate tattoos on both his shoulders, but nothing on his back. In the second part of the two-parter, which picks up moments after the first part ends, a tattoo is clearly visible above the collar of his tee shirt at the back of his neck when he is speaking to the detective in front of the Bryant family house. Edit

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    • With this episode, Kirsten Vangsness was changed from her "also starring" billing to the main cast in the opening credits. Edit
    • "The Riddle" by Five for Fighting plays over the end scenes. Edit

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    • Morgan: Detective, I've seen kids missing for a decade and their rooms look exactly the way they did the day that they left. Parents don't just pack up their kids stuff and put them in boxes in the garage. Parents don't give up, ever. What the hell is going on here? Edit
    • Reid: People tell me their secrets all the time. I think it's because they know I don't have anyone to betray them to. Except my mother. I tell her pretty much everything. Edit

    • Diana Reid: You know I'm terrified of flying.
      Reid      : I know, mom, I'm sorry.
      Diana Reid: Then why did you have those fascists arrest me?
      Reid: Mom, they're not fascists and you were not arrested. I'm trying to protect you.
      Diana Reid: By forcing me to do the one thing that frightens me more than anything else?

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  • Allusions

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    • Randall Garner continually tells Reid to "Ask the question" so that he may be healed. According to Arthurian legend, Percival was to ask the Fisher King "Whom does the grail serve?" This was to lead the Fisher King to a realization of his own unworthiness, and thereby heal his wounds and allow him to receive redemption. Percival - Reid - never asks this question. Edit

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