Do the S5 dvds have any commentaries? I was bummed to find out that neither S3 nor S4 have any at all.

Yesterday morning, I was watching a bit of Uncanny Valley, and then last night I was finishing off my S3 dvds of CM. These two combined to have me wonder what the hell Rossi is always writing in his little notebooks, and how much of these cases we see them solve are going to end up in his next book.

I'd love it if the Uncanny Valley interrogation of Doctor Daddy Jonathan Frakes ends up in a forthcoming Rossi book as an example of how to do the tag-team interview, thus demonstrating the strengths of the BAU-team style that he's only become a convert to since returning to the FBI.

Oh, Ashes and Dust tonight on ION. Poor Reid, describing an addict. So certain and as close as he got to a confession to the group.

And of course, he has to do it as part of a profile presentation to the local cops. God forbid he actually, oh, I don't know, sit down and talk to his coworkers!

I still love the ep where Hotch says (I think to Gideon), "We all know about Reid and his issues..." when he's talking about all the reasons Strauss is on his ass. That was about as explicit as any of them ever got, other than Hotch telling Reid to finish watching his movie (aka, go back to the NA meeting) at the end of Elephant's Memory.

Don't forget when he went to get Prentiss in "In Birth and Death." When she asks, "And what could I have told her?" and he responds with, "You could have told her that one of my agents shot a suspect in cold blood. That another has a serious drug problem that I didn't report. Strauss gets verification of any of that and my career is over."

That was the only direct reference any of them made to his actually having a drug problem.

HOLY CRAP! REID'S MOTHER IS SUE SYLVESTER!

explains a lot, right?

Now that you mention it...

HOLY CRAP! REID'S MOTHER IS SUE SYLVESTER!

I've been waiting for this reaction...

Hee! I saw Revelations before I saw either of the Fisher King eps, so when I first saw Diana Reid, it was with the long hair. I spent most of the ep thinking, "I know her--where do I know her from???" until the final flashback where she has the Sue Sylvester short cut, and that's when the light bulb finally hit. I think it was just that I was sooo not expecting to see Jane Lynch in Criminal Minds that my mind had a complete shutdown in IDing her.

Oh, and my favorite oblique Reid-drug-problem reference was in the ep before Elephant's Memory, with the unsub targeting grieving parents who lost children in a fire. He met them in various support group meetings, and when Reid figures out that the letters everyone had assumed were suicide notes were actually "amends" letters (written in the meetings as an amends to the writers themselves), he explains them to Prentiss in a very soft, ashamed tone with his eyes averted. The next ep has him going to his first meeting, so you know, being Reid, he'd been researching the hell out of them for weeks.