What Fresh Hell?

Season 1, Episode 12, Aired
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When a young girl is abducted in broad daylight from a playground in a seemingly safe neighborhood, the BAU initially believes her father is responsible. When he is able to provide an alibi, the team is forced to look for clues near where the girl lives to determine who is really responsible.moreless
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  • girl taken from park, father accused ....

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    By furfer8, Jan 14, 2011 Report Abuse
    Total tear jerker for me. having young kids I think about this often.I can't imagn losing my own daughter justs blocks away from my home.

    Amber alert for an 11 year old girl named Billy. missin gfrom a park a few blocks from her home. father and mother seperated fathers alibi checks out. With the father taken off the suspect list the team decides to take all uniform police off the case or atleast of the street. they do this so it won't scare the guy if he is still around.they believe he still close to home.They firgure he is a nice guy who lives in a nice neighborhood were everyone likes him.

    the parents of billy go on tv and ask about a witness(suspect)They say he is driving a green suv.They get a call from a guy whos nieghbor drives an greensuv. they ask him if he has a dog. he did named candy.

    The team went in his house and found the girl in the attic.

    everything the team suspected about the suspect was true is true.

     I can't inagn anything so horriable but I hope and pray that if my daughter were every to be kidnapped I would have people like them looking for her.moreless

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  • Another great installment.

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    By Data-Dox, Jan 14, 2011 Report Abuse
    Another great episode, though it shows ‘normal people’ as idiots, this can be very true from time to time, so no biggy. As long as it’s not a prevailing theme that they find nothing but idiots through out the show. The show was a good storyline, rescuing the child is always a good bet in the end.

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  • By-the-book abduction of a white teenage female.

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    By wave54, Jan 14, 2011 Report Abuse
    This plot has been done so many times before and done better! Gideon\'s spastic running up the street and breaking into the suspect\'s home without a warrant was truly embarassing to watch. The geeky character just stood by throughout the episode and acted like, well... a geek.

    I expect more originality and clever writing from a modern crime show -- this episode was disappointingly shallow and dull.

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  • What a great episode. Dealt with the issue of child abduction really well, with the respectful subtlety of slightly less comedy from Garcia making it even more real.

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    By rainbowgnu, Jan 14, 2011 Report Abuse
    What a great episode. Dealt with the issue of child abduction really well, with the respectful subtlety of slightly less comedy from Garcia making it even more real.

    Loved the touch of Gideon's photo collection at the end, developing him even more in the direction that the series so far has brought him in.

    Overall an enjoyable episode from a so far enjoyable series.

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  • way to go gideon!

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    By RibbitJen923, Jan 14, 2011 Report Abuse
    ok, i like gideon. i think he is a great charecter, but more than that i respect the relationship he has with his team and with the world around him. he seems to understand people better than anyone else on the team, and always knows what needs to be said to keep everyone around him calm, yet on their toes. i love that we saw him fight on a more personal level, to save this little girl. also, the scene where they found the body in the creek and reid looked like he might cry, i love that gideon reached out to him. no wonder there are so many slash fanfics about the two of them...ha ha ha...seriously though, the show was great.moreless

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    • This episode was based on the case of the kidnapped child that SSA Jim Clemente saved and keeps a photo of him in his wallet. The photograph was also the basis of the scene in the episode where Reid is having nightmares and Gideon ends up showing him the photo of the children in his wallet. Edit
    • The song at the end of this episode was "When the Music is Not Forgotten" by Deadman. Edit

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    • Reid: Long-term stranger abductions of children Billie's age are rare - they represent less than one-half of one percent of all missing cases per year. But they are usually more likely to be fatal. Edit
    • Garcia: Thank you for the flowers! (reading from the card) "I know I can be challenging, but your work is appreciated. J. Gideon." I appreciate the appreciation and, by the way, you're not challenging. Oh, well, you're totally challenging, but you're not challenging at all in a bad way. Sir. Edit

    • Hotchner: Mr. Jones isn't interested in pressing charges.
      Mr. Copeland: What am I supposed to be grateful? The bastard's a pedophile.

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    • Mr. Copeland tells Agent Gideon that he was at Sloan-Kettering Hospital. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is one of the country's leading cancer research institutes. Edit
    • The title of this episode, "What Fresh Hell?" is often attributed to Shakespeare, but is actually a quote from Dorothy Parker, who was interrupted by the telephone during her train of thought and exclaimed "What fresh hell is this?" This became something of a famous saying of hers and is reputed to be the way she continued to answer the phone. Edit
    • The Wilmington Police and Agent Reid refer to CARP - the Child Abduction Response Plan, which puts into place CART - Child Abduction Response Teams. This program was established in 2005, and is used in an Amber Alert or when a child abduction does not meet Amber Alert guidelines. Edit

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