Assignment One

Assignment One Serenity Spring

Actors: An actor is someone who transforms themselves to be someone else. The reason why I chose the Actors and Actresses that I did is because they’re the most significant in my figured world. Yes there were other characters, but they didn’t develop as much over the time span.

Penelope Garcia: The tech analyst. She is the spunky behind the scenes woman. She is the kind innocent one of the group. She always has a headband or clip in her hair, doesn’t go a day without looking top notch. She isn’t very good with the whole thought of seeing the crime scenes and dead bodies. She is better at breaking down firewalls.

Kate Callahan: Kate is hard and straight to the point. We can tell that she had a tough background. When children are the victims you can see that she is more on edge. But none the less Kate is clever.

David Rossi: David comes across as stern. You would automatically think that he is a rule follower and expects others to follow rules. Underneath it all he is really just a hard working teddy bear.

Spencer Reid: Spencer is a Brainiac. He is one of the lucky guys who can remember everything. He loves chess. But he is also very awkward. He’s like the geeky little brother that you can’t help but love.

Aaron Hotchner: Aaron is the group leader, he is the one that takes charge. He also like Rossi is a rule follower. But you can tell he also has a soft side. We see this most when he is interacting with his son, Jack.

Derek Morgan: The ever so beautiful Derek Morgan. Derek Morgan came from a rough background. He overcame a rough past, living in a gang ridden neighborhood. He and Penelope have a flirtatious relationship that is also a really sweet one. (Also one of my favorites)

Jennifer “JJ” Jareau: JJ is a loving mother who would do anything to protect those close to her. She like Kate is also more on edge when children are the victims. Mostly because it makes her think of her son Henry. The friendship her and Reid have is also kind of like Penelope and Derek, it’s one that only works between the two.

Artifacts: An artifact is an object of importance. It doesn’t always have to be an object, it can be a place or state of mind. In my figured world there wasn’t really a whole lot of obvious artifacts other than the office and the plane. These are the most common meeting places for the team.

The office: This is where the team first talks about a crime and discusses what has happened. The first speaking’s of a profile submerge. And they begin to get ideas of who could’ve committed an act. The office is significant because they are seen here in every episode and this is where they leave from and come back to, this is their home.

The Plane: The plane is the team’s means of transportation to a lot of the places they deal with cases at. This is also where Hotch gives everyone assignments of where to start when they land.


Communities of Practice: A community of practice is a group of people who share a common domain. These communities may share a hobby or an interest. For instance, all of the people in my figured world want to save and protect lives, therefore they share a community of practice.

The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation): This is the team of Criminal Minds. They all share the common goal of trying to solve a crime. They’re all interested in stopping deaths, kidnappings etc. before they happen.

Domain: The domain is the shared hobby/interest in the community of practice. This is the common objective of the group. What they want to get out of the situation. In this figured world it would be to solve the crime, which is the number one goal of everyone involved in the show.

Solve the Crime: The common goal of everyone on the team is to solve the crime and get back home safely with the lowest number of casualties. This is also the common goal of many other FBI teams, but with this team, they really are like a family and when something significant happens to one of them it effects everyone.

Literacy Practices: Literacy practices is how the actors of your figured world communicate. How they understand one another. In my figured world most things are vocal through phone calls or in person. But a lot of other times I really do feel as if they read one another’s minds.

Phone Calls: Phone calls are used when a team member has new information. Phone calls are used when criminals try to contact police for things like ransom. They are used for half of the teams communication.

Brain waves: Can that count? I believe that brain waves are used. It is almost as if sometimes the team can communicate without actually communicating at all. They make connections between things that most people wouldn’t make connections of.

Rules and Conventions: Rules and Conventions are practices that might otherwise not be okay or be okay. Like Penelope and Derek’s friendship, they have a flirtatious but loving bond, yet they are coworkers. In most other settings this wouldn’t be okay, but because of the bond between the group, it is.

In criminal minds, it is okay for your coworkers to be your family. I remember one of my favorite episodes, something severe had happened to JJ and Reid was really upset about it. While talking to one of the other team members he mentioned to them “She’s the only person who’s ever called me Spence.” I truly love this show. I love how close the characters are. In how many work settings is it OKAY for two colleagues to call each other “Handsome” or “Baby Girl”? Well right there we have Derek and Penelope. No they’re not “Together”. They are both in very happy relationships. But that’s okay. In this show it isn’t okay to lie to one another on the team. It isn’t okay to be mad at each other. At the end of the day they all get back on that plane and they go home. They prepare themselves for the next stalker, serial killer or kidnapper. Through time the characters have grown and the rules and conventions have somewhat changed. Prior to Penelope’s relationship, it wasn’t okay for two federal agents to see one another (Penelope’s


boyfriend is a tech analyst in another sect of the bureau). Also in this show you can’t be someone who takes everything to heart. You must be as tough mentally as you are physically. In one of the earlier seasons there was a woman who was a part of the team who had to basically be bait for a suspect and she couldn’t handle it. So the biggest rule is to be there for one another when you are needed and always come back home safe.

Observation One Notes:

“A Thousand Suns”

3:00 Minutes – The episode starts out showing a plane flying. Then it cuts to a little boy playing with a little yellow toy truck. There is a baby crying. Then a man who is stressed about all the noise who looks to be on the flight for some sort of business and he puts in headphones to try and get some work done. Then it shows a young couple with a baby and the woman mentions she forgot to pack diapers and her husband makes a witty comment about how they’ll get some when they land “it’s not like they’re going to Afghanistan.” The flight attendant looks frazzled trying to please everyone. A mid-twenties blonde woman complains of the Wi-Fi not working properly. A man complains “One lady has an allergy and no one can get peanuts? This is crazy!” Turbulence hits and rocks the whole plane. Two girls sitting side by side looking stressed about flying to begin with talk to one another about the one “walking down the aisle.” Businessman tries to work on laptop again and it crashes. Woman beside him complains to her husband “I just want to get off this plane.” Plane gets jolted with turbulence again. Passengers are instructed to buckle their seat belts. Woman getting married jokes “Wouldn’t it be crazy if we went down in a ball of flames right before my wedding?” Plane gets rocked again. Everyone panics and begins to freak out. There is crying and screaming. Oxygen masks drop from overhead. Flight attendant falls. The scene cuts to black. Ambulance goes by sirens blaring. Kate and JJ are sitting in the car and Penelope calls with bad news “something awful happened” that everyone is meeting at the plane. Kate, JJ and Spencer are walking into the plane to see Rossi and Hotch with Penelope on the laptop screen video chatting to brief them on what’s going on. Garcia says “Trans Alliance Flight 420 Just crashed in a Colorado field Northwest of Durango.” One of the girls ask “Any survivors?” Hotch says “152 passengers all presumed dead.” Morgan asks “Where was it coming from?” Penelope replies “Pittsburgh. It was going to Phoenix.” Rossi says “We’ve been asked to determine if there was a crime. And if so the profile of the offender” There is a bunch of fire fighters and it’s at the scene of the crash and there is a bunch of commotion.

6:00 Minutes – There is a bunch of dead bodies and a ton of rubble from the plane. The pilot is unbuckling his safety belt. He’s looking around at all the dead passenger’s, stumbling. We find out that this is actually the copilot. The plane was about 150 miles off of its flight plan when it lost communication. Just 13 minutes before the plane crashed. This is all discussed in the briefing between officers when they arrive to the state the plane crashed in.

9:00 Minutes – The FBI’s top priority is to try and rule out terrorism. They must check all the names of the passengers who were on board in order to 1. Do background checks and see if anyone wanted to harm anyone on the plane and 2. Contact the families and let them known the


terrible fate of their loved ones. There was a witness who saw a flash of light just moments before the plane went down. The team goes to the crime scene. The first thing seen being picked up is the little yellow truck from the little boy at the beginning of the episode. We see that it is Kate who picks it up, Kate has kids of her own so this really gets to her heart. Kate then admits to Reid that her sister and brother-in-law died in 9/11 that they were working at the Pentagon. This is significant because it is bringing back a lot of painful memories. Reid confides that “his girlfriend was killed in front of him and his mom has schizophrenia…” Kate then shares “after her sister died she adopted all 10 of her kids.” (She was kidding) But Kate did take in her sisters’ daughter Meg. As they walk to the copilot’s seat they notice that the passenger’s all got sick before the plane went down.

12:00 Minutes – The man who saw the light is being interviewed. He says “It was at 10:01am I was standing at the kitchen sink and I saw the flash out the window.” They mention 10:01 is very precise and he responded he knew it was that time because his favorite show was just starting and he could hear the theme music. The man describes the light he saw as “Squiggly, smoky, green sort of trail, and then pow, this blinding white light.” The man seems unsure if the police are on his side. The man claims to have known who did it. A group of men in the back woods all wearing bullet proof vests and handling large weapons, one of which includes a missile launcher. Then it goes to the hospital, Derek and JJ are trying to interview the copilot. But the man cannot remember, he seems worried and panicked. He says “There was a jolt, severe turbulence.” He cries “it was so bad.” He says “I said stop. I said stop.” The nurses then rush him to surgery. Being that the weather was clear, Derek and JJ go back and forth trying to decide what would’ve caused turbulence and they settle on the possibility of a missile strike. We see a woman in a car on the phone, she looks like she’s been crying. She’s saying she has called the airline and it just keeps going to a recording.

15:00 Minutes – It’s the man being integrated again. Hotch claims to be losing his patience, the man says just one more question. “Edgewood Arsenal, What Happened there?” After Hotch correctly answers the question and can “be trusted” the man then claims it was the military who took down the plane. There is a huge room of people asking where their loved ones are. The woman from the vehicle comes in asking for her husband. The woman is the copilots’ wife.

18:00 Minutes – Penelope runs the background checks on everyone in the area of the crash and everyone on the flight, one person who comes up is Jesse Bronwen and the other is David Marshak. David was a former army missile operator who was dishonorably discharged for misconduct. The cops are then coming to get both men for questioning. Rossi mentions how David posted him and his brother Cole could shoot down a plane and start world war 3. Rossi asked if that was what they were trying to do.

21:00 Minutes – Copilots’ wife is questioned of her husband’s mental stability and his health due to the new evidence which would indicate that someone in control of the plane could have caused it to go down. His wife mentions that her husband had stopped taking his depression


medication 4 months prior. The wife now feeling that the copilot is being made a suspect she mentions how the pilot had rented out a room in his home to a girl from Indonesia and the woman mentions how weird he is. Frank, the copilot is speaking with JJ and he had mentioned earlier saying something about telling someone to just stop. JJ asked if this was said to the Pilot of the plan and Frank confirms, he says that he and Gerry, the pilot, were having an argument. Frank was the one who turned off the radio which is what caused the plane to lose communication with the control tower. But Frank cannot remember why he did it. They found the black box (The machine with the recordings of conversations and locations). On this the first thing you hear is the Captain asking “What did you do to the autopilot?” Frank says “Nothing. You must have hit it. It’s off now.” One of the two voices says “No. I can’t set a new altitude. Are you messing with me?” The other voice says “Calm down” Frank asks Gerry why he deployed the slats, and Gerry claims “It just happened.” Frank voices “What are you doing with the yoke? Just stop it!” Gerry responds “I’m trying to keep her steady.”

24:00 Minutes – The conversation is continuing Gerry mentions “Something’s buggy in the system.” They shut down the system because of a catastrophic failure. The team now considers that someone other than the pilot and the copilot was controlling the plane. This means they’re now profiling for a seral killer. We then see a scene of a man coming into a small shack with a dead rabbit and he is then looking at screens with planes. This could be their guy. This could be the killer.

27:00 Minutes - Frank is receiving death threats. They’re angry emails and voicemails, hang-up calls. People are mad that he lived while everyone else perished. Though this could just be the result of distraught family members the team still looks into this and also increases security for the copilot and his family. We then go back to the man in the shack and he is watching the news, he gets up out of his seat when he hears of the stable condition of the copilot. It then shows us a plane getting closer into range of the shack. We get the feeling that the man isn’t happy about Frank’s condition.

30:00 Minutes – The man in the shack has circled the number IA61 this could be his next target. 3 days prior to the crash, a woman on the plane received a text that said “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” This text came from a prepaid throwaway cell phone in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The woman who received the text was seemingly normal, she was an ICU nurse, married to an insurance salesman and had 3 kids. They then get news that all planes responded to commands to land except Interlantic Air Flight 61. The flight left San Diego at 1405 Zulu, and it was scheduled to land in DC at 1915. There’s 301 passengers on board. They’ve had no communication since the order to ground all flights. They have been out of touch 11 minutes. We see the plane and some passengers. A woman trying to play games on her tablet there is a glitch. Were back in the station and the FBI is talking about how the news is now saying it looks like a mechanical failure which will as Rossi says “Hopefully the unsub will poke is head up.” We find out that the passenger who had received the strange text had went on a blind date with an aerospace engineer 8 years prior, they know this because the woman posted about it on Facebook


saying it was the world’s worst blind date. His name was Hayman Vasher, soon after the failed date, the man quit his job and dropped out of society.

Observation Two Notes

“The Itch”

3:00 Minutes – The scene opens in the city at night. There’s a car driving, the man is trying to send a text via siri. But the voice automated keeps messing up the text so he decides to try and send it manually as he’s texting he almost hits a man. The person driving the vehicle makes an emergency stop, managing to avoid the man stumbling and oncoming traffic. The driver jumps out trying to get the distraught man out of the road. The man does not want any help from him. He is scratching all over himself saying “Get them off me, get them off me.” The man makes it to the other side of the highway only to get hit by an oncoming car. We are now in the conference room with the team Penelope is briefing the group on what is known the itchy man’s name is Albert Stillman. He is an investigative journalist for a local paper. He disappeared 3 days prior on his way to talk to a source for a story, and last night he was killed. He was killed wondering into traffic. One of his recent stories was one about an inner city drug ring, but Morgan mentions that “Dealers wouldn’t let him loose in traffic, though.”

6:00 Minutes – We are seeing a video on a TV, the video is of Albert, he looks to be tied up and in an investigation type setting. He’s being asked “If you didn’t do it, who did it?!” There is a man at a work bench type table and he has got scars all on his arm. He’s got a pincher like tool in his hand. It shows a better view of his arm and we see something crawling. He pinches it with the tool in his hand and collects some type of sample from it. Then lets it crawl free. We see the sample, it goes from pink/red to black in a matter of seconds, and then it is put with a few other test tubes. We see the plane flying high above the clouds. As the team chatters in the plane we find that the editor could very well be hiding something.

9:00 Minutes – Were now in an interview room. Rossi and Morgan are interviewing the man from the car that tried to stop Albert from crossing the busy high way. The witness says that Albert looked like he was trying to get something off of him and right before he got hit by the oncoming car he looked right at the man and yelled “Get them off me!” The next scene is Hotch and Kate talking to the editor, he claims the reason for his skittish behavior is due to the fact Mr. Stillman was his friend and he “Deserved some privacy.” Hotch proclaims if a friend of his died in the same way, he wouldn’t rest until he got to the bottom of it. The man then claims he had filed an injunction (This means that its harder for a team to get a hold of records from the mortuary) because his friend had been on drugs for back pain and when he ran out of the pain meds the man tried to help him get more but by that point he had moved on to cheaper more accessible drugs. The man says he didn’t want Albert to be written off as just another junkie. Hotch asked about the lead Albert had been following up on and the man claims all he knew was


it had to do with vaccinations. Morgan gets a call from Penelope, she informs him that a throw away cellphone (Untraceable cellphone) that had been used to call Albert had also been used to call a Dr. Suri. Morgan recognizes this name and realizes the same man is part of an investigation from that morning. All the police know about the incident at the college is that there was a fight in the research lab, but nobody saw anything.

12:00 Minutes – The team heads over to inspect the research lab at the college. There is no sign of forced entry. This meant that Dr. Suri had to of let his attacker in. Rossi claims “This wasn’t an assault, it was an abduction.” The doctor was studying the impact humans had on insect mating habits. Rossi finds the doctors phone lying on the floor, this shows that the unsub is smart and didn’t want them to be able to track using GPS (Global Positioning System). This also means that this is serial (more than one incident; they can develop a profile.) We see the doctor, he is tied to a chair in the same room with the man who was taking samples from the thing crawling in his arm. The man claims that his blood is black, but when the doctor denies seeing the black the man only sees red. He yells at the doctor claiming he corrupted that sample. The doctor begins to argue that he was not the corrupt one that the man was. The doctor admits that he entertained the man’s theories but it is impossible. It is only real to the man and that is because he is “sick.”

15:00 Minutes – The Medical Examiner has looked at the body of Albert and finds that there was residue of duct tape showing that he was held against his will. But there is something strange, there is evidence of skin under his nails but it is his own, and there are scratch marks flesh deep all over him. This is the result of him scratching himself, but why? There are also places on his arm that show signs of heroin use. JJ asks when the last time he used was and based on the wounds it was about a week before the examination. The scratch marks could be signs of withdrawal from heroin being that during his containment he was not using. But instead of keeping Albert tied up, the suspect allowed him to scratch, this tells us that it isn’t torture. There is a rash behind the victim’s ear, this could mean a new substance was introduced, or it may be a bite. We now see the doctor he looks to be in some sort of rusted tube that had a hole cut in it (Kind of like if you cut a bath shaped hole in a large water heater.) The unsub begins to pore huge hissing cockroaches onto the doctor. The doctor is pleading for the man to stop. Suri was found by a dumpster the next morning. He was shot point blank in the head. This means there was a change in M.O. (Modus Operandi Latin for Method of Operation.) The doctor shows less signs of scratching but the bite marks are still there. So the unsub wants the victims to itch. Reid finds a cockroach still left in the nose of the doctor. They are ready to deliver the profile. Hotch “We believe the unsub we’re looking for suffers from delusional parasitosis, A condition in which the patient believes that he’s being attacked or infested by bugs.”

18:00 Minutes – Though he has murdered and been the cause of the death of his victims his intention isn’t to kill them, it is a crying out for help. He kidnapped Stillman because he wanted Albert to write a story about the bugs inside him, unfortunately, because Stillman was suddenly experiencing opiate withdrawal, he was already hallucinating insects, and this led to a psychotic break. So he then kidnapped Suri thinking that he would believe him. But the FBI thinks Dr. Suri recognized the man’s symptoms to be that of mental illness. That could also explain why the doctor was killed so quickly. This man is desperate to diagnose himself, he does not want to be


labeled as crazy or insane. It is suspected that the man believes the government is trying to keep him sick. We then see the unsub, he is in a group, the people in this group have similar problems. The unsub’s name is Leo.

21:00 Minutes – The team is chatting together. Reid picks up on the fact that there might be a support group. Penelope searches and finds that there is. Leo is at a diner with a woman he met at the support group. He insists she doesn’t drink the water, he believes this is the easiest way for them to become infected. The woman then says that “That means everyone’s sick.” Leo replies “everyone is sick.” He claims that the two of them react to it differently. That’s what makes them special. While the pair has been sitting in the diner they’re chatting and bring up the fact that neither of them have felt the symptoms since they’ve been together. The girl suggests that maybe they’re the cure. He agrees to the possibility.

24:00 Minutes – Leo asks the girl “How bad does it get for you?” She responds “Pretty bad.” She takes a deep breath and asks “Do you want to see?” Leo replies “Yeah, but… not here.” Morgan and JJ go to the location where the support group meets and questions the leader. She is hesitant to cooperate with the FBI being that they’re with the government. But JJ and Morgan press on anyways. You can tell she knows something she isn’t willing to share. We see Leo and the girl. They make a small cut on her abdomen to retrieve a blood sample. They place it under a slide and she asks if he can see them wiggling, and she’s asking that he please sees them. He does. He asks her if they are only in her blood. She tells him no, and he looks up with a sense of understanding. She says “Tell me again that it’s real.” Leo “It’s real.”

27:00 Minutes – She asks if Leo can heal her. He claims he can. The team finds out that the group leader went to five different drug stores after her run in with the FBI. Each time she got diaper rash cream. Leo is in bed with the girl, he’s looking at her scars. There is a knock at the door “Hi, Jane. Honey, come on. Quick like a bunny.” It’s Lisa (the leader of the support group) Leo sounds upset that she is there, and Jane (The girl) claims that Lisa takes her to meetings sometimes. They overhear Lisa talking to one of the agents and suddenly believe she is no longer one of them.

30:00 Minutes - Hotchner uses the fact that Lisa bought the baby rash cream to discover she had a baby that had passed early in childhood. The woman breaks down and finally gives agent Hotchner the name of the man, “His name is Leo.” She claims she doesn’t have his number or anything but she did see him interacting with her friend Jane. Lisa also mentions of her knocking at the door this morning and Jane didn’t answer but there was someone inside because she heard them whispering.

Observation Three Notes

“Boxed In”


3:00 Minutes – Its sometime in fall, around Halloween. There is pumpkins everywhere. We see a young woman trying to decide on a pumpkin. She finds one and says “Hey, this one’s good. What do you think, Honey?” Turning beside her looking for confirmation. She is frantic the person she was talking to isn’t there. She calls out slightly frazzled at first “Ty?” A little more stern she says “Tyler.” She’s beginning to panic “Tyler?” she repeats. She says this a couple more times while looking around the music is troublesome which shows us she is worried and something bad may happen. She yells “Tyler!” looking around. Finally she sees the little boy off by a tractor, she runs to him calling his name. Relieved, she tells the boy “Don’t ever do that. Ok? You can’t just walk off. You have to tell me where you’re going” The boy says “Look, mom. I found a guy taking a nap.” He pulls her to the side to show her. We then see someone laying under the front of a big machine (a tractor or combine of some sort). The boy’s mother asks her son if he had found the guy taking the nap like that. She also questioned if any adults had been close when the boy stumbled across the other person. The mother is checking out the scene and we realize the “guy taking a nap” is actually a young boy in a costume. She says “Hello. Are you okay?” The boy doesn’t budge so she lifts the mask to reveal a dirty face and possible abrasions. The boy awakes screaming “Aah! Let me out! Let me out! Aah!” We then see a city its night time and it is thundering. We see Agent Hotchner speaking with Penelope.

6:00 Minutes - Penelope is rushing Hotch out the door because it is Halloween. (Agent Hotchner has a son named Jack, Jacks mother was killed by a criminal who had been following Hotch. He would’ve killed Jack too had it not been for clever thinking.) Agent Hotchner is going to see a psychic. The psychic is a man presumably dressed in drag. Hotch was picking up something for Jack… We are now at Hotchners’ house Jack is there with his aunt. Aaron (Hotchner) opens the box to reveal a Darth Vader costume. Jack is super excited, his aunt questions “How did you find it the night before Halloween?” He gets a call to go to work. Garcia (Penelope) briefs the team “Last Halloween, 11 year old Joshua Parker disappeared in San Diego.” Thunder rolls and Lightning flashes, the power goes out. Generator kicks in and they continue. Because little Joshua was considered a Chronic runaway and had disciplinary problems. This being the case they never considered his disappearance to be an abduction. Joshua was the boy from the pumpkin patch (AKA The guy napping) He had gone missing the Halloween before.

9:00 Minutes – We find out that Joshua was not the first victim this had happened to. They had thought they caught the suspect but are now realizing they may have a copycat or the man who conducted the first abduction had a partner. The team gets ready to head to the plane. We now see a dark room, it flashes to what looks to be a cellar door opening. There is a man. He hops down. He grabs a blanket from the small room, he also grabs a pot. The man begins putting on gloves and has a bucket and some bleach. Frantically he begins cleaning everything. He then replaces the blanket and pot with some “fresh” ones. He also tosses a small pen sized flash light into the cellar. The door slams shut. The plane is up in the air and its night time. We hear Hotch saying “”There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects rather an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.”- Jean Baudrillard” We find out that both victims were found exactly 364 days after their disappearance, which suggests they were actually released. They’re trying to get an understanding of the victimology. (what the suspect wants in a victim and what it suggests about the suspect themselves.) They note that both boys


were Caucasian and they were about the same age when they were kidnapped. They try to understand why this is happening around Halloween and their best guess is that it was the result of a childhood tragedy. The team suspects that the person committing the crime is in affiliation with a man who had been known to do it before, but with the previous kidnapper he would sexually assault the boys. With the currant assailant there are no obvious signs of assault. The team begins to talk of how the first victim was found, the young boy passed away due to malnutrition and his muscles were severely atrophied (like in a person with MD his muscles were deteriorated/deteriorating.) This suggests that he had very little physical activity and it’s possible he was restrained for a portion of his containment. The first boy also had puncture wounds, bruises and was covered in splinters. The team then discusses the game plan. (Who will go where and talk to who.)

12:00 Minutes – We see the most recent victim in a hospital bed. We notice there is a tall slender man in glasses dressed in suit and tie at the boy’s bed side. The doctor is just double checking all fluids. The boy is dehydrated. As the screen pans out, we see that there is also a woman in a chair on the other side of the bed. The doctor seems frustrated. She breathes a sigh of relief when she sees JJ and Spencer. The physician makes them aware of his prognosis. He’s exhausted and slightly dehydrated, but somebody made sure he ate, maybe even gave him vitamin supplements. Remembering with the other victim, Reid asks if the newer victims’ muscles were atrophied. The woman responds “Yes. Badly. He’s going to need physical therapy but in time he should make a full recovery.” Reid also asks about splinters and puncture wounds. The woman again responds “Yes. Both.” JJ asks when the boy will be able to talk to law enforcement. The doctor responds “Uh, No time soon, I’m afraid. It’s his mental state that concerns me. He’s sedated now, but when he first came in, he was unable to communicate and extremely agitated.” The young boy was supposedly violent, tried to escape from the hospital, he kept screaming “Let me out, Let me out.” Reid suggests the boys are kept in boxes, this would account for the low physical activity and the splinters. JJ questions about the puncture wounds and Reid rebuttals the box was probably homemade so the wounds could’ve come from nails. Were then at the station and Rossi and Hotch are talking back and forth. They speak of how Josh (The most current victim) may never be able to truly tell them his story. And how solitary confinement can make grown men go crazy, it’s impossible to imagine what it can do to a child. Killing isn’t part of the plan in this situation. They speak to the man in jail for the first known abduction (a man who is a known pedophile). But from tell tail signs (proof that he’s anxious, or about to lie) that he wasn’t even the one who committed the first act and he is just a creep who is crazy.

15:00 Minutes – The team realizes they’re looking for someone entirely different. They make their statement to the press. We see a family eating supper. There is a younger boy with an older teen sister, and the mother is bantering with the son. He seems like a trouble maker. On the TV is the news report. We see the boy stocking up, he had been complaining wanting to go out with friends for Halloween. We now see the son with his group of friends, they’re egging houses and cars. The boy is hiding in a bush from a man who found the young kids egging his home. Once the man goes back into his home, the coast is seemingly clear. But the boy is being watched by someone in the distance. There is a car with the lights off. The boy sneaks out of the bushes to


retrieve a bike he had earlier dropped when they were caught egging homes. There is a sound of a car door opening, and the scene moves to the car and we see someone in a hoodie with gloves and a mask on get out. The boy begins walking fast, and the masked man begins to walk towards him. Right when the boy gets ready to run, the man comes behind him and covers his mouth and snatches the young boy up.

18:00 Minutes – Hotch is at the station talking on the phone with someone. We can suspect it’s about Jack. (Hotchners son) Hotch is half way smiling while having the conversation. He apologizes for not being there and he will see him as soon as he can. After he gets off the phone, he says to JJ standing in the room with him “Jack won best costume in school.” We get news from a local agent that a 12-year-old boy has gone missing. We see the parents from the family scene just minutes before, the mother is distraught. Though the agents try to calm the mother with the thoughts that the boy will be kept alive the mother mentions that the other boys were missing for a year.

21:00 Minutes – The mother begins to show signs of anger, which is a normal stage of grief in this type of situation. The husband tries to calm her, but there is no way she will calm down until she has her son back. We finally figure out the new boy’s name. His name is Hunter. She’s extremely aggravated, she begins yelling at the team to get out! And go find her son. Kate tries to calm the mother “Ma’am I understand that this is a lot.” The woman responds with a smart alek tone “Your son is missing as well? What a coincidence. Do you even have kids?” We then see the teenaged sister, she’s got tears running down her face and the mother goes to coddle her. Hotch then informs the mother, both him and Kate are parents and they understand how incredibly hard and terrifying her situation must be. We now see the car from the earlier abduction. There is muffled cries. The man is pulling a white cloth looking thing from the rear of the vehicle. He then unravels the cloth and the boy falls to the ground, we can see his hands and feed are taped together and we can assume his mouth is taped as well. The man is still wearing the mask and informs the boy he is going to cut him loose but if he runs he will hit the boy again. He cuts the tape from Hunter’s hands and feet and then informs the boy he is going to take the tape off his mouth but he is going to stay quiet. The boy says “Please,” and the man yells “I said, Quiet!” We then hear some shuffling as he bends over to the ground beside him, he opens a hatch like door. He tells the boy to get in. the boy begins to plead. The boy gets in and the man tells him some time down there and he might learn his lesson. The man slams the door shut. Hunter hollers, “LET ME OUT!” Latches lock. The boy is using the small pen sized flash light to look around. The man drops in two bottles of water through a small hole and then covers it with piece of plywood. The man pulls a car over top of where the box is in the ground. The boy continues to plead. We then see the man from earlier who caught the boys egging his home. He is being questioned. The man is complaining that he has work in the morning and he asks if all the questions are necessary. Rossi responds that he could care less the man has to work and neither would the parents of the missing boy.

24:00 Minutes – JJ asks one of the young boys friends if he had seen anyone else at all. Reid is inspecting egg yolk on the man’s garage door. And he states that from the interview with the first


victim’s mother she could recall buying toilet paper and later that night couldn’t find it anywhere. They then make the connection that the first victim (Tommy) had been out on Halloween TPing houses. They mention Hunter was egging houses and also state that Joshua (The second victim) had disciplinary problems. They make the connection that all victims were “Bad boys.” They then release an updated profile (A profile is a description of a suspect based on evidence that has been found and based on the victims.) The profile states they are looking for a white male in his mid-20s to early 30s. This man would be fixated on Halloween, it’s also figured that it is probably related to a traumatic event from the unsubs childhood. One of the local law enforcement officers asks if they really think he is doing all of this just to punish the kids. Though they have a hotline open and have been trying to find new leads they come up short. Just when they think the end is further and further away a young girl who looks to be about 25 or so comes in asking to speak with the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). She claims that the one who kidnapped the boys was her brother.

27:00 Minutes – The girl is now being questioned. Hotch asks if her and her brother were close. She replies that they’re about 5 years apart so not so much. She claims her brother used to lock her in closets and sometimes smother her. She says that once when she was 10 her mother smelled something out by the garbage. And she found about 10 cats and dogs stuffed into boxes in the dumpster. Hotch asked her if she believed her brother killed those animals and she replied that he had admitted to doing it. Kate asked what made the girl so sure it was her brother and she informed Hotch and Kate that their dad left on the night of Halloween. We then see a scene of the young girl looking about age 5 or so and the boy about age 10 and their father yelling at him. Saying how dare he bring the police to his door, that he wasn’t so sorry when he was egging that house. The boy was then forced to get into a small trunk, the lid to the trunk then was slammed shut. The father kept telling young Johnny (The possible kidnapper) that he’d keep him in there until next Halloween to teach him a lesson. Their mother got home and lost it. Sandra (Johnny’s sister) says she hasn’t seen her brother in 3 years and doesn’t know where he might be but her mom may know. They figure out that he had been engaged to a woman 3 years ago, but the woman ended up marrying someone else, this could’ve been the trigger that caused him to want to kidnap the young boys.

30:00 Minutes – The team is now talking to the mother of the possible unsub. She claims the last time she saw him was at his engagement party about 3 years ago. Rossi says “So right before Charlene left him?” the mother says “That little Bitch broke his heart.” The mother claims her son is a good boy. She says she knowns her son, he didn’t do this. John (Johnny) is in the car listening to heavy metal music and smoking. He is also drinking.

Interview Questions

For this, I interviewed my Mom and my friend Katie. For me and my mom this is kind of our “Soap Opera.” When Criminal Minds is on you better be quiet. For my friend Katie

she has seen every episode and loves the series.


Q.1) What is your favorite aspect of the show Criminal Minds?

A.1) The plot is always changing, and you never know what to expect episode to episode. (Mom)

A.1) I love that you never know what to expect from the episodes. It isn’t always about murder it is about serial kidnappers and killers and people who commit crimes in general. (Katie)

Q.2) Tell me about your favorite character from the show.

A.2) Spencer Reid, how can you not love him? He’s overcome so many obstacles to become the individual he is today. (Mom)

A.2) Derek Morgan, He is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. I also love how complex of a person he is. I also admire how he treats the woman close to him he’s like a protector. (Katie)

Q.3) If you could, tell me what character relationships stand out to you, and explain why they stand out.

A.3) Penelope Garcia and Derek Morgan. The bond they have is special. They show what true friendship is, they are there for each other no matter what. (Mom)

A.3) Spencer Reid and JJ. They have a brother sister relationship. I loved the one episode where something had happened to JJ and they were worried they’d never see her again and Spencer mentioned to the rest of the team, “She’s the only person who’s every called me Spence.” (Katie)

Q.4) Discuss a few things that drew you into Criminal Minds the first time you watched it.

A.4) The characters, you feel like they are family and you cheer them on and cry with them when one is hurting. They kept me guessing to the end of the show. (Mom)

A.4) The crime aspect of it. I want to go to school for criminal justice, but I really liked how everything about this show was different, you really connect with the characters in the show. (Katie)

Q.5) What is it that stands out to you about this series that doesn’t stand out in other television shows?

A.5) They don’t forget the past, they talk about old team members, and don’t leave you wondering what they’re doing now. I have watched some of the characters grow from boys to men and watched families grow and shrink, you feel their heartache, and can’t wait until next week. (Mom)


A.5) Every episode is different but the characters evolve, their lives go on. They’re truly a family it isn’t like most shows today that follow the same story line through out. I really enjoy that. (Katie)

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Assignment One