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Season: 3 Episode # 2 Original Air Date: October 3, 2007


In Name and Blood (In Birth and Death)


Synopsis:
Hotch requests a transfer, Prentiss resigns and Gideon is missing, leaving the team three people short as they track a serial killer in Milwaukee who abducts women in very public places.

Best Moments Between Characters:
  • When Hotch approached Prentiss at her apartment and told her that he knew what Strauss was up to and how she was using her. He told her she had ammunition against him and chose not to use it. They were still bound by their jobs and needed to go and help their team.
  • Gideon leaving a letter adressed to Spencer, because he knew it would be Reid who'd be coming to the cottage to be checking on him.

Best Lines
  • Garcia answering the phone to Erin Strauss "Talk dirty to me".
    Strauss: "This is Section Chief Erin Strauss"
    Garcia: "Ma'am, I think it goes without saying that I was expecting it to be someone else."

The turning point in the investigation:
When Hotch told Reid that he needed his head in the game. After that, Reid was able to clue into the type of child they were looking for - not one that was withdrawn, but one that was eager to please, do extra credit and was always on time. This narrowed their search and they found the boy and his father right away.

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When they're in the conference room, JJ suggests they take a look at the child and not just the UNSUB.UnSub.


Whodunit?
A single father who had been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. His wife left him six months prior after finding out he was dying. The man picked up married women with children by using his son to lure them out and he brought them home and made them be "nice to his boy". He also convinced his son that women always leave and his son was always eager to please and do as he was told.


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