This is one of the few Criminal Minds where I wasn't mad about spending so much time with the unsub.

I was another one wondering how the hell the family didn't realize how off the brother was.

They knew something was off, just not the extent. There are a lot of examples of sociopaths of that nature, even those with some sort of frontal lobe damage, to be able to pull off being normal (ish) or at the very least, harmless and eccentric, maybe even charming (although not this one so much) so long as they have some outlet for their psychosis.

Or, they've been living with him so long, it's become "normal" for them. The wife was pretty consistently freaked by him, but the husband - his brother - was the one who kept inviting him to pretty much move in.

And I could almost imagine there being a little latent guilt there as well-- that brother was the "lucky" one and that he needed to take care of his brother-- maybe felt guilty for how he treated him when they were kids, but that's all speculation, obviously.

Yes, or their parents always told him he had to take care of his brother.

Or, of course, this is all something from the brain of a scriptwriter and, being TV, logic and rationality or psychological consistency are optional.

I'm disappointed that JJ is a profiler, now. That scene where she explained to Hotch that that wasn't her goal was one of my favorites.

Did Castle feel more... forced, or heavy handed than usual? Next week looks interesting though. Looks like the return of 3XK.

My thought, upon reaching the final scene of Castle, was "One of the writers came up with that final exchange and they desperately wanted to use it, so they built up an entire episode full of improbabilities, so they could incorporate those few lines of dialogue."

IOW: yes.

I started watching Castle, but about halfway through I realized I wasn't following, so I went to bed.

I'm sure at least some of you remember the old Remington Steele show. One episode I remember with fondness was an hour-long setup for one line. It was this long, convoluted story about a body that kept turning up and then disappearing. Towards the end, they realized it was the head of the local vineyard, the Abby of St. Costello. Which lead to the line, "You mean he was the Abbot of Costello?"

In the last Australian government, there were two ministers with the names Tony Abbott and Peter Costello. They were once the joint plaintiffs in a defamation case, heard by my father.