The BAU gang travels to Fredericksburg, Virg., to investigate a series of killings, which emulates a pattern of murders that occurred twenty years ago. Unlike the Scooby Doo folks, the BAU peeps use their ultra-fab jet. Still, the jet is missing cool designs like the Mystery Machine... I dunno. Gotta give this one to Mystery, Inc., 'cause a van like that one can get a lotta tail, knowhuttamean? Yeah. Me neither. Ahem. Back to the episode. So we're in the backwoods AGAIN. A group of teens are boozing it up and making out. One of the teens thinks it's pretty damn funny to freak the rest of 'em out by faking being stabbed in the neck! See what inbreeding can do to ya?

Graphic novelists are a breed all their own. While you're droning on about your day and how much you hate the guy in the cubicle next to you, your graphic novelist friend is playing out a murder in his mind. Could be yours, could be that guy in the next cubicle, either way, it's not at all what you were talking about. Well, not really. Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle) guest stars in this episode about a graphic novelist racked with brutal images of the last time he saw his girlfriend. And no, this time the murders in this graphic novelist's head aren't confined to Imagination Land.

We return to where we left off last week - Penelope Garcia's had the date from hell. Literally. We're not just talking about a cheap guy who takes her Burger King and then steps aside at the register to let her pay for his damn Whopper. No, it's far worse than that. As she gets ready to let herself in her front door, he calls to her, "Hey, Garcia." She turns around and he shoots her after saying, "I've been thinking about doing this all night."

It's 1988. A man pleads with a board not to let a 17-year-old juvenile inmate out. The board tells him it's policy - the kid is turning 18. The doctor tells them the kid is going to stop taking his meds and go really crazy. The board shrugs, citing policy. We then see the kid and see that not only does he like old music from the '30s, but he also has a nifty collection of occult books, particularly one dealing with Satan. No, not the fun Jon Lovitz character, but the Satan who possessed Linda Blair and made her puke pea soup.

Agent David Rossi played by Joe MantegnaThis is the episode where we meet Gideon’s replacement. His name is David Rossi, a retired special agent who was once part of the first FBI profile division. He’s been retired for over 10 years, and has made quite a name for himself. Basically, he’s the Frank Sinatra of profilers. Now he’s getting out of retirement to help out the team as a subordinate, allegedly out of the goodness of his own heart. Whatever, I miss Gideon. So I can come to terms with the fact that he abandoned his team (and me), I like to think that he’s off on a mission to avenge his father. And yes, I will milk all the Princess Bride references I possibly can.

He's so perrrtyJust like their last episode, this one involves children. I’m not liking how they’re pulling at my heart strings. I’m too fragile for all this excitement. Perhaps I should stick to the drama on AT&T commercials…..

We start the show with a woman placing a tearful 911 call from a mall: her niece Katie has disappeared. She was at the mall with her parents, aunt, uncle and cousin. In the background, everything is in slow motion. Katie’s parents are frantically looking for their little girl. Being frantic in slow motion is hard work too. The authorities, including the profiling team, arrive in no time flat. They institute a complete lock down; nobody gets in or out until this is figured out. Scanning the security cameras’ footage, they realise there is no visuals of Katie leaving the premises. She must still be inside the mall. But time is of the essence: 44 per cent of children die within the first hour of being abducted. Added to the drama, another child had been abducted from a local mall a few weeks ago: she turned up brutally murdered. But there’s more! We are told that Katie has asthma and is without her inhaler. And Britney’s become Amish! Princess Diana came back from the dead to tell off the Queen! And Paris Hilton was spotted buying crock knock offs at Wall Mart! The universe is a crazy, crazy place.

So the show opens and I’m patiently waiting for a grizzly murder to happen. These people are just too nice to stay alive. A woman is on the phone chatting with her friend, while dad is helping Beaver with his homework. Suddenly I’m thinking about the advantages of a white picket fence. But that passes quickly when there’s a suspicious knocking at the door. No lady, it’s not Carol with the Tupperware!! God it’s like yelling at my TV is useless. But it’s cathartic, so I’m not stopping. So there.

This is the first episode without Gideon, and let me tell you his smart witt was missed. A young woman peers in fear through the dirty window set into the top of a wooden trunk. She bangs on the window, begging to be let out. Dr. Stan Howard places a flashlight on the trunk, and asks her if it is “worse than she thought.” The woman gasps for breath and screams in fear as he slides a wooden panel over the window, shutting out her face. The screaming is muffled now, as he arranges magazines on the top of the trunk that he is using as a coffee table in his office. Dr. Howard sits at the desk, opens his journal and makes notes about the woman’s behavior – noting that her anxiety level is at “10.” He realizes that the screams and gasps have stopped, quickly checks on the woman, and then notes she lost consciousness after 8 minutes. He turns off his desk lamp and sits back in his chair.

We begin this episode with Gideon missing and Reid waiting for him in his office. They had a chess match scheduled and Reid hasn’t been able to reach Gideon on his cell phone. JJ walks into Gideon’s office and startles Reid awake. Joe Smith, an attractive, dark-haired man appears to be seducing a woman, caressing her and unbuttoning her blouse, but she is crying, and her hands are secured above her head. Haley brings Hotchner a cup of coffee as he sits at the dining room table watching his son, Jack, eat his cereal. Hotchner is dressed very casually, but Haley wonders if he’s all right. She assures him that he’s doing the right thing, and that getting suspended was a blessing in disguise. When she tells him that they deserve a normal life, he can only respond, “I love you.” When Morgan arrives in the BAU conference room, he looks around at JJ and Reid – the only team members present – and comments on the absence of Hotch and Gideon. JJ notes that Prentiss’ phone is going straight to voice mail as well.

We begin this season with the last episode of your beloved Gideon. Gideon is alone in his cabin, writing a letter to a friend about his experiences. He knows it will be his friend who comes to the cabin to check on him, and he realizes that his friend will be scared. He tries to explain what has brought him to this point – how he thought he would be able to recover from Sarah’s death at the hands of Frank, how he thought throwing himself right back into his work was the answer. Then, he remembers, the very next case was the spree killings of girls at a small college campus in Arizona.