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3.11 Birthright

Season: 3 Episode # 11 Original Air Date: December 12, 2007

Birthright

Synopsis:

The new sheriff in Fredericksburg, Virginia, requests the BAU's assistance in the investigation of a series of mutilation murders that appear to mimic similar crimes that had occurred over two decades earlier.

Best Moments Between Characters:

Between Rossi and retired Sheriff Caulfield; when they discussed their old cases that they were not able to solve. Sheriff Caulfield's had been the murders committed by Robert Wilkinson 27 years prior and Rossi admitted his case was 21 years prior, which continues to haunt him. Sheriff Caulfield tells Rossi not to let his case get to 22 years unsolved.

Hotch and JJ's scenes when he reassured her that it was okay to let cases get to her once in a while and told her, maybe he should have let them get to him.

Best Lines:

Morgan (holding his cell phone up): "Garcia's got something."
Garcia: "Don't worry, it's not contagious."

The turning point in the investigation:

When they discovered Robert Wilkinson had 2 sons, who were born after his death; Charlie, by his wife, and Stephen, by one of his victims. They questioned Stephen and discovered Charlie was missing. Upon searching Charlie's barn, Hotch found a hatchet and blood and they realized it was Charlie.

Whodunit?

Charlie Wilkinson. His father Robert Wilkinson had died 27 years earlier, in December 1980; while his mother pregnant with him. His mother admitted she killed Robert after she'd discovered he'd kidnapped, tortured, sexually assaulted and killed 5 women. She did not want her unborn child to be born into what his father was doing. Later in life, an anger filled Charlie, got a hold of his father's journals, read them and with all his anger, recreated what his father had begun. Charlie saw this as his "birthright". He kidnapped and tortured young girls and killed 2 of them; 2 survived. In the end, his pregnant wife found, confronted him, then shot and killed him.

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MasterBard

Feeling Smart

Jan 22 2009, 8:46 AM EST by Special_Agent_Marta

Thread started: Dec 12 2007, 10:12 PM EST Watch

I am feeling really smart right now. I figured out that the first killer's wife had killed him, and I figured out that it had to be the wife's son (not the rape victim) because he didn't have a father figure at all. The rape victim's son had the stories that his mother had told him untill he figured out the truth.

The way the show ended was kind of creepy though with the second serial killer's wife being pregnant made me feel like this might just be another link in a series. If they come back twenty years later for another killer they should knock on the second killer's kid's door first. Especially if it's a son with violent tendancies.

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By: Special_Agent_Marta, Jan 22 2009, 8:46 AM EST

"Those were great scenes with Hotch and JJ. When she first walked away from the crime scene, I could see him watching here while still paying attention. He was in tune with everything going on and he was "human" when he talked with her. I know some people say he's not and avoids emotion but he doesn't; he has to be the rock.

Ah, I noticed the missing kevlar when he went running up the hill in the woods in his suit and nice shoes! ;) I hoped he didn't slip and mess up his pants or suit jacket but wanted to know where his kevlar was!!! But "our hero" he went in first and rescued those 2 young girls....what a man! Tonight, I'd have taken the Hotch to hug; he needed one. Poor guy.... saves a few lives, comes back, agrees to go out and the rug is pulled out from under him."

I loved this episode! it was finally again team-centric and profiling-centric! :D
I loved it also because those great Hotch scenes! first of all the dialogues with JJ and then the intense and very sad final scene when he receives the *surprise* from Haley...
I'm wondering if he maybe already expected sth like that.. he looks actually not so surprised but perhaps he wants not to show his reaction... anyway it was really sad to receive that bad news when he was finally going out with the team for a little moment of relax... it would have been so funny if he would have decided to go with them though! for Haley's sake! eheheh I'm joking, we don't know exactly what happened later but I'm sure he wouldn't have been able to do that: he's too sensitive... :")

yes, Lisa, the scenes in the woods without bulletproof (with "kevlar" you mean that, right?) were wonderful! he's always ready to save people in danger and in so sharp dressed he's even a more beautiful hero!!!! %)

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I miss Criminal Minds

Jan 9 2008, 11:39 AM EST by TiffanyQ

Thread started: Jan 8 2008, 9:29 PM EST Watch

I wish the tv people would get a grip and give the writers a part of the DVD money already! Good thing this is heighten sports season or there would be nothing to watch on tv!

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Education Goes to Use

Dec 20 2007, 1:37 AM EST by sue1313

Thread started: Dec 18 2007, 12:39 PM EST Watch

First, and foremost, loved the episode. It did really seem to go back to the "old style" and I always loved that get the case, discuss the case, do some interviews, present the profile, catch the killer/rapist/bomber/terrorist.

But that's not the point. I'm currently studying criminology and I love it. The best part is, CM fits so perfectly into my work! Half of the things I had to remember for my forensic psychology exam I remembered because of something I saw on Criminal Minds.

But again, I digress. The final essay question in my sociology exam was actually is there a difference between criminals and non-criminals. There are a million theories out there, some of them genetically based and some of them based on socialization (a distinction Hotch actually made at one point) but it's constantly said that not one theory is going to prove a person a criminal or not.

Unfortunately, with most of the CM episodes, they usually have the killer as someone with a mental disorder or someone with a bad childhood, which isn't always true. Every once in a while (that I can remember) they pull out an episode that is someone completely normal, no sort of outside motivation except one stressor, at one point, that made them flip (Jones is an example).

But here's the all-important question: are criminals born or made? Opinions?

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3.11 Birthright

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