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It starts off in Baltimore, Maryland where Aaliyah Nadir and her son Then, the agent (Summers) goes home and is brutally beaten by multiple unknown assailants. His neck is snapped. The perps leave and then return and stage his death as a suicide. A note is left behind that reads: I AM A PATRIOT. LONG LIVE FREEDOM. GOD BLESS AMERICAN.

Gideon reads about the "suicide" in the paper and contacts an agent in the CIA. They meet and discuss the case. The agent says that only a few people on his team knew that Summers was CIA and that there must be a mole in the department. He wants Gideon's help, yet is reluctant to allow outside help. Gideon tells him that he needs his team.

At the BAU, JJ, Reid and Garcia arrive. JJ wonders what they were called in for. Reid says that because its 2AM, it can't be something good.

Garcia fans will be happy to see that Garcia is in this episode more than previous episodes, and she is working with JJ.

The BAU travel to the CIA (which looks eerily like NCIS HQ, IMO) and learn that Summers was protecting Aaliyah from her husband (Hussan), who is very connected. Hassan is looking for his family. We (the viewers) learn that Gideon has worked/works for the CIA "unofficially." Aaliyah and her children are seen throughout the episode in an "undisclosed location".

The CIA team that the BAU study consists of Gina Sanchez, Kruger Spence and Olivia Hopkins; and each BAU agagent has something in common with the CIA agent they read about/deal with later in the episode.

Garcia and JJ stay at the BAU under the watchful eye of two CIA agents. Garcia is clearly perturbed that she can't go to CIA HQ. ("Do I look like a threat to national security to you? Seriously?") Garcia is told that she is "on a list" by an agent and while she squabbles, JJ notices that the screens in Garcia's office turn to the CIA's datatbase background. I laughed when the agent is entering the database for them, and Garcia and JJ talk behind his back:

Garcia: You do know what this means?

JJ: What?

Garcia: We'll be able to find out whether Princess Diana's death was really an accident.

JJ: I think that's exactly the kind of thing that got you on their list.

Back at the CIA, the team discusses the unsub. Gideon tells them that they are only to trust him. Garcia and JJ communicate with the team through microphones and webcams; Garcia tells them that she found a video of Gideon and Summers talking on the database.

In a cute scene, Gina tracks down Morgan's house on a infrared GPS system. It turns out Morgan has a dog named Clooney, who they see sitting on Morgan's couch.

One of the CIA agents is killed in HQ - thought you'll have to watch to see who it is!

I won't give away any more information on the episode, only because I don't want to completely give it all away - it takes the fun out of watching it! All I can say is that I enjoyed this episode, and loved the end. Remember: What you see/hear isn't exactly what necessarily happens...

Watch for:

* JJ/Garcia interaction and scenes. AJ Cook and Kirsten Vangsness have plenty of charisma and chemistry to keep the characters light and funny.

* Gina calling Garcia Morgan's "girlfriend."

* Someone saying "I love you" to Garcia.

* Morgan in a moment of weakness.

* Garcia hacking the CIA database to access Prince William's phone number. This part is hilarious.

* Two twists at the end.

* A statisfying end.

- Elle and Morgan talking in the breakroom about the resort.

- Elle and Morgan going to Morgan's friend's resort in Jamaica.

- Reid's spending the time with his family.

- Gideon going to a cabin in the woods, doesn't want any calls.

- Hotch is spending time with his wife and baby, doing chores.

- We see candid shots of the team: Reid, Hotch, Garcia, Elle. (unsub's)

- Morgan showcases his flirting abilities and his many tattoos.

- Hotch in a pirate's hat. (Pirates of Penzance)

- Gideon cooking. Now that's a show I want to see! Cooking with Jason Gideon...

- Garcia and her game.

- JJ doesn't have the same vacation time.

- We learn about Reid's mom. She's a schizophrenic in a home.

- Elle and hew new fling steam it up on the dancefloor.

- Hotch met his wife at theatre club in his junior year, joined the theatre club. (Maiden name is Haley Brooks.)

- Gideon has a dinner date.

- Hotch gets a call from an unknown person.

- An anonymous call is made to the hotel, saying that there was a murder in room 19. The police check it out. There's blood everywhere and a man is lying in the hotel bed, dead. They pull a woman out of bed - it's Elle.

- The message "all work no play" pops up on all of Garcia's computer screens.

- Gideon steams it up. On a monitor, he sees a truck approach, grabs a gun. It's a package delivery, with an envelope that says "save her". Inside the envelope is a 1963 Nellie Fox baseball card. Inside the box, is a human head.

- Garcia tells Morgan that the "information highway" is closed because someone has hacked her computer. She is very angry.

- Elle's been arrested. She is interrogated until Hotch shows up and provides evidence to support that she did not kill the headless man in her hotel room.

- JJ receives a package. Inside is a framed pale clouded yellow butterfly (indigenous to Great Britain) with the words "she has been searched for but never found" above it.

- Reid receives a package in Nevada that contains a skeleton key and a message ("She will die unless you save her Dr. Reid. Call Gideon. He knows".)

- They're after Robert (can't remember the last name). but...he's the dead man!

- They develop and discuss a possible profile.

- They connect the things. Gideon loves Fox (went to baseball games as a kid with his father), JJ collected butterflies, etc.

- Garcia figures the hacker got into the bureau's database through her personal laptop that was hooked up through the FBI's database. The unsub has all of the personal information on the agents (vacation days, addresses, phone numbers, etc.)

- Gideon calls garcia "stupid", she gets worked up.

- Everyone is so caught up in their thoughts and own concerns about the unsub knowing their information. Garcia says she's ID'd the hacker; the hacker is Frank Giles.

- They go to Giles's listed address and find it empty. In one of the rooms is a body lying on a mattress with a sword in his chest. Painted in blood is a message that reads: "here thy quest..." (there's more, but I can't remember).

- They discover a message engraved/written on the sword. One of the words means "medieval" (Reid jabbers on about the word, etc.) They use the sunlight and the sword to point them in the direction of a clue. Morgan tears apart the wallpaper/wall and discovers a jewelry box that plays music. Throughout this whole event, Elle is clearly dissatisfied, saying it's like something from "Indiana Jones".

- Gideon says: "The youngest holds the key," and Reid uses the skeleton key he received to open the box.

- Inside the box is a lock of blond hair (hair from the girl they're trying to save). Gideon notices a flap; they find a DVD in it.

- On the DVD is the unsub (we don't see his face). He says that the only people allowed to participate in the "quest" to save his hostage is "Jason Gideon, Aaron Hotchner, Derek Morgan, Elle Greenaway, Spencer Reid, Penelope Garcia and Jennifer Jareau." (We see candids of everyone.)

- Gideon is upset that the unsub knows of his cabin. He says its the only place he could go to escape everything. Hotch is sympathetic. Gideon asks to be alone.

- Haley shows up with the baby and a package that she says a man delivered.

- Gideon and Hotch talk to Haley about the man. She says he was a young man with dark hair and that he told her that a girl's life depended on the package.

- Inside the package is a note with a series of codes. The unsub said that a book would be required for the quest. Reid says that the three-number codes stand for page, paragraph, word.

- They don't know which book the codes are for and have no clue as to where to begin.

- The hostage is ID'd as a Rebecca Bryant, who's been missing from Boston for two years (DNA is extracted from the hair).

- Gideon orders JJ to call a press conference and to call in a forensic sketch artist.

- JJ releases the sketch to the media. We see that the unsub is upset about this.

- Hotch checks Haley and the baby into a hotel to keep them safe.

- The team tries to put the clues into context.

- Hotch catches Elle falling asleep and orders for her to go home and sleep.

- "Anderson" drives her home.

- Once inside, she puts her bag down and locks the door. She places her gun holster on the coffee table and collapses on the couch.

- She hears the his voice, wakes up. The unsub is in front of her with a gun. She tries to talk him out of shooting her.

Unsub: I told you. It was one rule.

Elle: No.

Unsub: One rule! Agent Greenaway...

Elle: Stop.

Unsub: Do you not consider that holding a press conference is going outside the team for help?

Elle: Listen --

Unsub: One rule!

Elle: Listen to me. We can talk about this.

Unsub: I told you this was important!

- Her gun holster is on the coffee table in front of her. She reaches for it (in slo-mo).

Black.

A gunshot.

The end.

Clues:

- 1963 Nellie Fox baseball card

- pale clouded yellow butterfly

- skeleton key

- head in the box (Frank Giles)

- Code

- the DVD

- jewelry box

- sword

Can you figure it out?

***

First off, I must say that I loved this episode. It provided short glimpses into everyone's vacations, although I learned more in this one episode than I have in most of this first season. We get stellar performances in all corners - everyone portrays their characters perfectly.

Now, I absolutely detest cliffhangers. If you do, you'll hate the ending to this episode. I spent half of the night lying in bed, contemplating possibilities as to what happened and what the clues mean.

We all have four-and-a-half months to figure it out. On your marks, get set...

I just want to make a couple corrections about the clues though.

Reid does explain something about the message on the sword. But it was about "the hour be none" part. He explains about how the days were broken up in medieval times: 6AM? 9AM? 12noon-sex 3PM-none 6PM-Dusk (?= I don't remember)

The head in the box Gideon received (and the decapitated murder Elle was arrested for) was Marty Harris.

Frank Giles was the one who hacked Garcia's computer, and was found with the sword through his chest. He had also checked in with Marty Harris at that resort in Jamaica two days before Elle was arrested for Harris' murder. JJ told them that he had caught a red-eye the night before back to Virginia.

The message written in blood above Frank Giles body says:

"Here thy quest doth truly begin."

I cannot wait for the season premiere in September. but I will be working on that code and the clues throughout the summer. This is going to be fun!

Yes.

According to an article in TVGuide (the issue should be on newsstands in the U.S.) executive producer Edward Allen Bernero states that Elle will survive being shot by the unsub, however she will resign around episode 2.05 because of psychological trauma, etc.

Since the writer's strike, they haven't been able to film any more episodes. But now that it's over, they're going to be filming seven more episodes. There's only twelve so far in season three.

Apparently Mandy Patinkin left because he didn't like the gore in season three. Kind of sad. Gideon was a major part of the team. But now they have Joe Mantenga.

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