Blood Hungry

Episode aired Dec 14, 2005
TV-14
42m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

3.2K

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Thomas Gibson, A.J. Cook, and Lola Glaudini in Criminal Minds (2005)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

The BAU team must profile a delusional killer in rural Tennessee, and a family member protecting him puts a child at risk.The BAU team must profile a delusional killer in rural Tennessee, and a family member protecting him puts a child at risk.The BAU team must profile a delusional killer in rural Tennessee, and a family member protecting him puts a child at risk.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

3.2K

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Featured review

5/10

CM On A Two-Episode Losing Streak

The BAU, minus its leader Gideon who stayed back with a leg injury, heads to a small town in Tennessee. After no murders in decades, there have been two grisly murders in the past 48 hours.

One is a music teacher and the little boy who was singing with her might have seen the killer outside the window. There is a third killing and the little boy winds up being kidnapped.

The killer is a totally-insane person who has been in a mental hospital recently. The mother has been too embarrassed over a longtime family reputation being ruined to even visit the son, etc.., and, of course, we get the anti-religious agenda so popular on TV these days. Anyone shown to have any faith is a nut-case killer. That's pretty much the credo of modern- day TV writers. You don't see the opposite, especially on crime shows.

After a good run, this is two sub-par episodes in a row.

Trivia
Reid mentions Richard Trenton Chase, a paranoid schizophrenic who was convicted of murder in 1978. He started out killing and eviscerating animals and eating their entrails, and moved up to humans. The bloody rings made by the unsub's containers in this episode were found at Chase's crime scenes. He suffered from many delusions including the "alien" one mentioned by Reid.

Goofs
Will sings the song "This Is My Father's World" with his music teacher at the beginning of the episode. The sheet music is displayed both on the piano and later spattered with the victim's blood. Although the sheet is titled correctly, the music on the sheet is not "This Is My Father's World" but is instead a beginning piano piece called "The Spinning Wheel."

Quotes
Mary Mays: Mr. Hotchner. Do you have children?
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Yes, I do.
Mary Mays: Is there anything you wouldn't do for them?
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: I wouldn't clean the blood of the victims off the floor.
Mary Mays: I didn't know my son was killing anyone until he brought home that boy.
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: You know, Mary, sometimes what we don't do... is every bit as powerful as what we do.
Mary Mays: You don't understand.
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: I understand that your son was drowning, and you made no effort to save him.
Mary Mays: You don't know what I did.
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: I know what you didn't do. You didn't call the police. And every day of your life, you're gonna have to ask yourself what would have happened if you'd gone to Boston to help him.
Mary Mays: Eddy told me he was bringing me an angel. I... I wanted to protect my son. What else was I supposed to do?
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Almost anything would have been better.