I've read online theories that Strauss was guiding the team members to ultimately clear Hotch by asking just the right questions of just the right members. For example, she gets Reid to state emphatically that he remembers everything with his eidetic memory, and his recall is impeccable, thus ensuring that his testimony can't be questioned.

I love how Strauss is doing her standard combative interview technique with everyone except Garcia, because she'll remind anyone listening to the recording of the interviews of all the victims Foyet left behind, including the Hotchner family.

Ion had Empty Planet tonight. I think I'll have to move that up to my favorites from S2 list; I'd forgotten how damn good it is. I think the professor with the bomb in her car is one of my favorite one-shot characters on this show, the woman who plays her just nails it.

And of course, the scene with Morgan holding her hand as they dealt with the bomb.

And of course, the scene with Morgan holding her hand as they dealt with the bomb.

Foreshadowing the events of Lo-Fi/Mayhem

And of course, the scene with Morgan holding her hand as they dealt with the bomb.

One of my favorite Morgan scenes. It shows his empathy, courage, recklessness and stubornness all at the same time.

Definitely a great Morgan moment, up there with when he (and JJ) walked into the Montana bar full of armed militia bigots and faced them all down in his Morgan-itude, capped by giving the lead bigot his card at the end, then strolling out saying, "Take care, boys." So freakin' cool!!

Rizzolli and Isles: This weeks twist was so obvious, but maybe it is because I am so familiar with the guest actress from NCIS.

and also because there was no reason for Lola to be featured so prominently. I suspected that she was working with (I want to call him Foyet, but I can't remember his name), but I didn't think that she was the missing woman.

I was hearing Hoyt, but I'm not sure.

Yeah, I didn't expect the Stockholm syndrome angle, but I figured she was in cahoots.

but I didn't think that she was the missing woman.

I immediately recognized her picture from the file.

I'm making my way through my stack of newly-purchased Criminal Minds dvds. Just got finished with "Profiler, Profiled," the Morgan ep where we learn about The Damage In His Past, and boy, does Shemar knock it out of the park. And that little beat when Hotch and Gideon are discussing Morgan's previously-unknown juvie record, and Hotch slips and calls him a suspect, which Gideon immediately points out to Hotch--ouch.

In one of the eps I watched last night (can't remember which), there's a great little bit where someone (JJ and Gideon, I think?) are talking in the foreground at a police station, and Reid is fiddling with something while sitting in the background. It took me a while to figure out that Reid is using a pencil to pick the lock on a pair of handcuffs! Nothing is said about this, but he's just doing his usual Reid thing and constantly moving/twitching/doing something with his hands while others are talking and he's listening. Wonder if it was a directorial decision, or something MGG came up with.