The Sum of Her Parts is one of the hardest episode of Profiler to review.
On the one hand, the creative team was obviously shooting for a creepy mother son relationship ala Psycho and Norman Bates. The relationship between Raymond and Mrs. Boudreaux was by turns disturbing and uncomfortable. Grace Zabriskie who played MRs. Boudreaux played the heck out of her role; as portrayed by Zabriskie, Mrs. Boudreaux was by turns domineering, abusive, controlling, loving and overtly sexual toward son. Standout scenes were the bath scene where she had Raymond - her adult son- scratch her back while she lounged in the tub, the scene where she straddled him and used silver polish on his teeth, and of course the scene where she settled on his bed, softened a caramel in mouth then handed it to Raymond. The scene between Mrs. Boudreaux and Raymond's work friend Lisa was venomous and nasty. Raymond's sole line in the episode (a pained "She liked me") came at the end as he finally got the courage to attack his mother, the real object of his anger. In a cheat, she survived and Raymond was arrested.
On re-viewing the episode, seeing that moment became the key to unraveling this episode's problem: it just wasn't committed to its characters. The conclusion was simply wrong. The team should have broken into the house to find Raymond - now catatonic - sitting next to his mother's dead body. Her survival cheats the viewers and the characters out of the necessarily gruesome ending they need. In a throwback to the previous seasons, the VCTF team doesn't come across as terribly bright; they find their killer mostly through dumb luck than any actual investigating. Again, we see the episode not quite committing to its characters, but also not sure what to do with them. At a couple points, it felt as if the main characters were ancillary to this episode - they were running around always behind, always missing the point until the very last moment. It was the lack of fidelity to the characters that undermined what could have been a truly creepy, disturbingly gothic and stand out episode.moreless
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Years of verbal and physical abuse take a deadly toll when its victim lashes out against his abuser. Unable to kill the actual perpetrator, his mother, the deranged man strikes those who remind him of the wretched woman. The team investigates and Sam accurately assesses the killer's pathology, but mistakenly assumes the man is acting out against his wife, not his mother. When the ages of the victims begins to rise, Sam realizes her error and theorizes that the killer is slowly working up the courage to murder his tormentor. The team then races to find the ill-fated woman before her son can exact his final revenge. B-Story- Sam realizes she and Chloe must begin a new life, and to that end, decides to move into a new home.
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 Ally Walker |
Dr. Samantha "Sam" Waters |
 Julian McMahon |
Det. John Grant |
 Peter Frechette |
George Fraley |
 Robert Davi |
Agent Bailey Malone |
 Roma Maffia |
Grace Alvarez |
 Grace Zabriskie |
Mrs. Boudreaux |
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 W. Earl Brown |
Raymond Boudreaux |
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Erica Gimpel |
Angel Brown |
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 Evan Rachel Wood |
Chloe |
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Czech Republic: Skládačka (Jigsaw Puzzle)
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