Wont Fool Me Again Criminal Minds

Synopsis – On a sunny florida morning, a man is blown up by a package in evidently brown wrapping. Miraculously, he isn't killed, just horrificially injured. Another like bombs have gone off in the area so the team is chosen in to deal with the terrifying prospect of a series bomber working the sunshine state. Making matters worse, when a third bomb goes off in the background of a live news broadcast, the team has to deal with the possibility of a public panic over the possibility of a terrorist assail.

On the aeroplane to Florida, Greg outlines the case – three people were bombed: An old lady, the guy from the opening, and the woman who lived across the street. I say 'lived' because the guy from the start was the only survivor. Doing the smart thing, the team has already checked out connections betwixt the victims. It turns out the guy was a partner in a failed real-estate scheme in which the old lady had invested. The woman beyond the street had no connection.

When they arrive at the scene, the squad marvels at how the bombed guy could take gotten the bomb, with its vibration-sensitive trigger, all the manner to his car without bravado himself up. This leads them to investigate the possibility of him being the bomber. A search of his firm reveals many potential bomb-making materials, but then he'south ruled out as a suspect when they turn out to be the property of an explosion-loving nephew who had stayed with them over the summer. It's not clear whether they enter the nephew's name into some kind of a system, given that a childhood predilection for arson is 1 of the probable indicators for serial killing later in life.

Weird fun thing:

Was the encompass art of 'Agitator's Cookbook' copyrighted? If so, does anyone else have a trouble with that idea?

Mandy dismisses the thought that the guy could exist the bomb-maker because he doesn't fit the profile of a mad bomber: he shows empathy, has a sense of humor, has a hobby that isn't related to bomb-making. The fact that another bomb killed one of his investors doesn't come up as an of import office of the conversation.

Back at Quantico, black amanuensis is putting the pieces of the bomb back together, and is shocked when the design of the bomb is unusually familiar to him. Finally it hits him – the bomb looks exactly like those built past Adrian Bale, the man who blew upwardly six FBI agents in Boston. Of course, he couldn't have committed the criminal offense, since he'south in a federal pen. Mandy agrees to get and talk to Bale, which leads to some astonishing dramatic possibilities, since losing those agents is the tragic incident that defines his character.

And so Mandy goes to see the bomber that haunts his nightmares at the Federal Pen in Georgia. Where he's in jail, despite the fact that he killed all those FBI Agents in Boston. Finally we become some details on Mandy's tragic by, and they're a picayune ridiculous. Bale taunts Mandy well-nigh the fact that he managed to trounce him the last fourth dimension they went up against ane another. Here's the state of affairs – Bale had some a hostage subconscious in a warehouse that was full of bombs. He surrendered himself to Mandy and walked out. Then Mandy sent the agents into the warehouse to rescue the hostage without securing Bale in any style, shape, or form, or waiting for the bomb team to show up so that they could ensure that the bombs were deactivated before it was rubber to move the hostage out. Bale took this opportunity to use a hidden detonator to blow upwards the warehouse, killing anybody.

Three episodes in, we learn that Mandy's large breakdown was acquired past the fact that, as an FBI Agent, he'due south utterly terrible at his job. While he might exist a decent psychologist (that remains to exist seen), he apartment-out admits in this scene that the but reason he sent the agents in was because he felt he knew Bale well enough to say that he didn't have the guts to actually kill anyone. Whether that's true or not (it isn't), it doesn't modify the fact that Mandy would have lost nothing by beingness condom and both securing Bale and letting a bomb squad deal with the warehouse. The bear witness failed to even establish that there was whatsoever kind of a ticking clock with the bombs in the warehouse, so at that place was no possible reason for Mandy to ship the agents in before the bombs had been disarmed and Bale was far away in custody, other than rank arrogance and stupidity.

Bale even goes and then far every bit to tell Mandy that, because he'due south a series killer, Mandy should take known that, given the opportunity to kill someone, he'd always take it, because no deal he could cutting in court by letting the hostage become could be better than the thrill of murdering someone. This is the second episode in a row where they're actually hit the point that Mandy is just awful at his task.

Meanwhile another bomb has turned up on a doorstep, but because information technology's a little girl that found it, nosotros know that she'll exist fine, rendering the scene of the flop squad showing up to rescue her omewhat anti-climactic.

Back at the field role, Elle (the new daughter!) discovers that the old lady was having some trouble with a few coins she was trying to have insured. Her insurance company announced that they were counterfeit, and the old lady was challenging it. This leads them to a coin dealer named Walker, who Elle visits immeditately. Coincidentally, Bale was using an net message board inform people how to build his bombs, and left a message for that same David Walker that suggested he commit suicide rather than allow himself to be captured. When Elle arrives, Walker speeds out of his garage in his auto and runs over his wife earlier escaping.

In the FBI building, they're discussing the case – it seems that Walker was making forgeries and selling them, and when the old lady found out, he blew her up, then blew up a bunch of other people to brand it look similar the work of a mad bomber. Of course, this creates a bit of a plot pigsty, since nosotros're left wondering if the fact that he blew up the person in charge of the erstwhile lady's country bargain on purpose, or if it was just an amazing coincidence that served to mislead the FBI for a little while.

Just then a man shows upward at the FBI office with a bomb attached to his neck on a timer. He announces that Walker will only give them the disarm procedure if he's given a way out of the coutnry. The FBI refuses, so Walker blows himself up. This leaves the human with the bomb necklace in a world of trouble. The team's only option? Fly Bale down to the building and accept him guide the bomb disarming process, since the necklace is based on i of his designs.

After cutting a deal to move him to an insane aviary later on he saves the human being'southward life, Bale is brought to the scene, and gets them to the bespeak, which appears in every bomb-related fiction, where in that location are two wires to cut – one will disarm the bomb, the other volition detonate information technology. Bale tells them to cut the red wire, and so Mandy tells the bomb team member to cut the blue wire instead. The timer stops, the bomb is disarmed, and everyone goes home happy!

Except for Bale, who's sent back to the Federal Pen.

"The Palm Beach Bomber/Adrian Bale"

i - Was profiling in any style helpful in solving the criminal offence?

Nope. As in the last episode, instead of having to become through the trouble of profiling a bomber (which is incredibly hard to do), this time they're looking for a murderer who uses bombs as their weapon of choice. They spend well-nigh of the episode going over the psychology of bombers, but it has nothing to practice with the mode they finally abort Walker. As for Adrian Bale, one could make the statement that information technology was Mandy'southward dandy knowledge of human behaviour that immune him to guess that Bale was trying to grab two more kills at the end, but it doesn't really hold together. Afterwards all, in the earlier scene Bale flat-out tells Mandy that, if given the opportunity to kill someone, he would ever take it. That removes quite a bit of the mystique from Mandy's profiling. In one case someone has told you they're a liar, not assertive them doesn't mean you're clever, it simply means you're awake.

ii - If so, was the profiling plausible, or was it more magical and out of left field in the way it helped?

Information technology was passably solid this time out. They fabricated some broad pronouncements based on the manner that 'all bombers are' that were never shown to exist correct or incorrect, but since the profile was utterly irrelevant to solving the crime, it's not worth getting into.

three - Could the crime have been solved simply equally easily using conventional constabulary methods given the known facts of the case?

Yes – in fact, this fourth dimension around Profiling had no involvement in solving the law-breaking. They found the suspect in two carve up ways, neither of which had annihilation to do with psychology. Checking into victims gave them a motive (the old woman's apocryphal coins), which produced a suspect, and by following the known bomber'south internet usage, they were able to notice that Walker had been in contact with Bale. Those 2 utterly normal bits of policework would take been enough to secure a warrant to search his house, had he not rendered questions of quilt or innocence moot by running over his married woman while fleeing authorities.

So, on a scale of 1 (Dirty Harry) to x (Tony Hill), How Useful Was Profiling in Solving the Criminal offence?

i/x – In a first for this show, there wasn't even a pretense of psychological involvement in the solving of tonight's crime. No, it was solved with absolutely normal policework, of the type yous'd meet on any cop show. Really the whole thing seemed similar a huge waste product of the Behavioral Sciences Unit'southward fourth dimension.

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Source: http://www.vardulon.com/2008/12/criminal-minds-103-wont-get-fooled.html

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