cm: The Silencer

[chocolate_death]

Bookend quotes:
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie (A. Hotchner)
A man is known by the silence he keeps. ~Oliver Herford (A. Hotchner)

• continued ups and downs for Garcia/Kevin? =/
• Garcia puts her foot in it; what a way to meet Blake
• (but continuity with how she was with Ashley)
• Reid doesn't know about the fistbump. is that really surprising? idk. he did know what the game DOA meant Dead or Alive
• Strauss calls Blake by first name. Tension we can cut with a knife.
• profiling in the jail cell-- French? multiple languages in the notes, writing
• mouths stitched while victims were alive- torture
• Rossi brings up Reid/Blake's connection
• the quiet demeanor in prison may be important clue (well, he's deaf, so they'll figure it out)
• guy in the auto shop goes towards the guy in a menacing manner; we know who's gonna come out on top; like the unsub from Haunted- reactionary maybe
• Blake familiar with Reid to ask him if he remembers reading anything that had that phrase the unsub had left in the guard's throat.
• Garcia with all her memorabilia from the trip; Garcia as stand-in for the fans' reaction a bit heavy at times, but unfortunately accurate
• Blake's expertise leading them towards the unsub being deaf/mute fluent in ASL
• Morgan not used to working with Blake and how she fits into the team, talks it out with her
• Blake might not be used to working in a team dynamic yet; can work with a partner, but groups not quite yet
• the unsub cared for the baby after offing the dad? omg. needed to nurture the infant?
• jj finds the murder kit-- handling evidence without gloves!
• cochlear implant-- from figuring out the unsub trying to hurt himself to silence the sound; couldn't handle the noise his mom made him a guinea pig to give him
• forensic linguistics narrowed down the syntax to a region; helped Garcia filter out the inmates from the possible suspects list-- teamwork!
• stories told in jail fed to the unsub who thinks that being in that paradise would solve all his problems.
• cavalry to the rescue
• Blake knows sign language
• unsub committed suicide
• Strauss wants them to rest a night before going at it again.
• Strauss trying to mend fences? Political dancing, ended up hurting Blake without intending to.
• Garcia trying to make things right, a do-over of sorts
• Garcia's souvenir gift for Blake, and conversation starter, perfect.