CRIMINAL MINDS
Air Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Time Slot: 9:00 PM-10:00 PM EST on CBS

Episode Title: (#318) "Tabula Rasa"

WRITTEN BY: Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie
DIRECTED BY: Steve Boyum

THE BAU TEAM REOPENS A CASE WHEN A SUSPECTED SERIAL KILLER AWAKENS FROM A COMA AND DOESN'T REMEMBER HIS OWN NAME.

"Tabula Rasa" - The team uses brain fingerprinting to see if a suspected serial killer who wakes up after four years in a coma really doesn't remember any of the crimes he supposedly committed, on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, May 14 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:

David Rossi: Joe Mantegna
Aaron Hotchner: Thomas Gibson
Emily Prentiss: Paget Brewster
Derek Morgan: Shemar Moore
Dr. Spencer Reid: Matthew Gray Gubler
Jennifer: A.J. Cook
Garcia: Kirsten Vangsness

GUEST CAST:

Brian Matloff: Eric Lange
SWAT Officer: Jon Barton
Detective Jarvis: James Sharpe
Cece: Amy Carlson
Nurse: Sarah MacKay
Doctor: Bob Gebert
Lidia: Roxana Brusso
Mr. Corbett: James Eckhouse
Lester Serling: Steven Culp
Judge: F. William Parker
Technician: Loreni Delgado
Nina Moore: Anne Betancourt
Husband: Dick Herlan
Woman: Jenny Powers
Sergeant: Beau Dremann
Resident Jogger: John Pirruccello

awesome. its sounds great! thanks for the info Jentzer!

Not sure where this info came from, maybe sides.....

****from spoiler TV*****

**A young man is in prison as a convicted killer. A female corrections officer is very sympathetic and feels sorry for him and becomes a victim when he takes advantage of her kind nature. The man's birth mother feels guilty about rejecting him when he came to her, asking to be a part of her life, and feels responsible for the man he became. The team convinces her to testify against him when they point out how he has been tying her in to each murder he commits. **

Thanks for the info :)

not so fond of Steven Culp. He's always gonna be that jerk Webb for me....

Thanks the info!!! (I love it!)

He's always gonna be the poor clueless husband who ended up dead thanks to his cluelessness to me. ;)

So this one seems case centric. I'm actually happy about that because we've gotten so many character ones lately, and when you throw that in it doesn't always allow time to develop the unsub (I never thought I'd say 'no more character eppies,' but yeah).

a slide show with pics from "Tabula Rasa"

Spoiler TV!!

Yay, scenes in a courtroom!

Sorry, the potential future lawyer in me had to point that out. ;)

looks like Hotch is back home in a courtroom!

and Morgan's in a tie! we haven't seen that since...the pilot, practically! :lol:

he was Commander Skinner on NCIS and of course Rex Van De Kamp from Desperate Housewives......


and i really liked "alex taylor", theThird Watch character, played by amy carlson......I know people will throw things at me....but how about her and hotch...??

*throwing things at you*

right now, i can't see Hotch with anyone.

CM promo

the CTV promo seems to have the team divided....... :blink:

I'm getting up early tomorrow morning so I can watch the episode before I go to school

Actually, I'm in the middle of this episode right now, and I could see that. ;)

ok loving it!! what a great episode...who wrote it???

loved it...loved reid and the waterfall
loved amy carlson's legs :rolleyes:
fab hotchner and reid :D

and the "team meeting"....that was just huge BONUS!! loved it and the camera angle!! loved it some more, still loved the team meeting!! They profiled AND they profiled very well!!

No pregnant JJ akward moments

30 minute mark...super into the show its got me paying attention...LOVE IT!

:lol: Gomez....Baby Girl lol :lol:

Hotch is GREAT! He profiled and he profiled very WELL!! Lawyer/Rex lol!!
spencer he called him spencer! :rolleyes:

so did not want dad to kill the bad guy....been done this week already...
what about the "come alive" bodies as they found the "trophies"...BUSTED!!
Reis was brilliant...so was hotch
great great great!!
8.5 out of 10
:D :D

super nice ep! I love how they showed how the team started. Baby girl! XD
And i love the scene in the courtroom where hotch profiled the lawyer. super awesome. i couldn't help but think of sherlock holmes with reid as his dr. watson.

anyone knows the poem at the end? i knew reid knew what it was! super nice.

I originally didnt like the format this episode held, even though it was interesting and all to see what happened, i didnt think the whole flashback thing worked well for the program.

Having said that though, im so glad i was alone out here watching this,because i Squeed at the whole 'babygirl' thing! I thought it was excellent that they put that in there,and maybe just maybe, its a sign that they know we fangirls are out here. And maybe one day, we might get what we want :D

*grins*

All in all though, i did end up enjoying the episode in the end. I thought the killer really considers himself a different person now,and i liked the poetry in the end.. Reid has such a beautiful voice for reading poetry, even though im not really a fan of him as such. Made me cry, as usual... Doesnt seem to be an episode go by of this show that i dont cry lol

I didnt go much on that female lawyer though, i dont honestly think she has enough feelings... I mean yeah, you would be happy about the case being closed, but i thought she was entirely too peppy the whole way through, and i would have liked to see her display just a little emotion at the fact of what the killer had been through to get where he was at the end of the show.

I could see the chemistry between her and Hotch too, but i honestly think Hotch needs someone softer though and someone more able to show emotion and feel. Although that could just be a projection from me wishing things i cant have seeing as i am such an emotional person .

The lack of emotion at all in this woman except for her to grin maniacally all the time was quite disturbing. Im glad they went with the ending that they did of the team going back and not having drinks with her though..

The poem is called

Ode On Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth

And you can find the full poem at this blog here

http://poevies.blogspot.com/2008/05/criminal-minds.html :P

What was with the high school photo of Emily?
I hope they develop some sort of storyline as to why she looked like that and the fact that she can't remember looking like that..

I really thought this was a great Reid episode, he was a lot more confidant, he seemed grown up!!

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, 175-186
William Wordsworth

That photo was very rough!! :D :D :D

Glory In The Flower

what the dad said:

what reid finished:

William Wordsworth

:wub: Me loved the episode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reid kicked ass here! And I liked how he was with the father, specially that he went by at the end of the episode.

The cap looked good on Morgan! :wub:

Emily's high school photo… :lol: well she looks waaaaaaaaaaaaay better now ;)

Hotch was good too, specially on the witness stand ;)

And Rossi's remark: "Course it went well, I taught him everything he knows about giving testimony." :D

And the way technical analyst 'Gomez' looked when she was called 'baby girl' (and she has heard worse…or better, just depending on the way you look at it ;) )

i liked this episode, not my favorite but it was pretty good...i liked how reid profiled the dad and stopped him from blastin the guy...oh, and that part where morgan freaking jumped from one building to the next...the first thing i thought was omg, i don't think i'd make that if i pulled something like it lol

I particularly enjoyed this episode because it gave us insight into the team without making it a character episode. I LOVE character eppy's but a good strong case-oriented episode was needed.

Garcia = Gomez.. :lol: :lol:
My Goood!!!!!


Bad Reid!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Question

in LDSK didn't Hotch say Reid worked in the FBI for 3 years... in 2005... so... Reid would've joined in 2002, wouldn't he?
I got stuck...