Criminal Minds

Villain: Peter, a very calm killer who planned all his killings. He had picked a selective group of people who go to meetings in order to gain advice from problems such as Alcohol, drugs, divorcing. He uses a drug to paralyze the victim’s body but keeps them alive and awake and then he takes the victim’s memoirs that they had written in order to improve on their problems, and he uses them as fake suicide notes in order to hide his murders as suicides.

Hero: There was a team of heroes and they were all perfect heroes as they abided by the law and all were friends within the job although there was no humour within the group.

Victim: Paul, he committed suicide by electrocuting himself with a toaster in his bath tub. Police think that his suicide was linked into other suicides following a fire that killed 14 children 5 other parents had committed suicide since the fire every 2 weeks. This brought the deaths up to next level due to the suspicion of murder (which we later found out was the case).

Set Pieces:

-Flashbacks: This particular crime drama did not use any flashbacks

-Montages: This Crime drama did not use montages

-Crime scene: A crime scene occurred during this crime drama but it was a very short scene, it lasted for about ten seconds and all that happened was the body was taken photos of and then the body was removed for autopsy. They used typical props in the drama such as cones and photographers although they did not have any police tape.

 -The Eureka moment: The eureka moment was used in this episode of criminal minds and happened towards the end of the episode after one small clue got them the location of the serial killer, this then linked in all the evidence that then later caught them the killer. The moment was shared between all of the members of the crime investigation team and it took place in the office which is another typical scene/place that we see commonly in crime dramas.

The Episode I watched was a restrictive narrative although we got to see who the killer was about 10 minutes before the end and before the crime was resolved which gives the viewer the insight and keeps them hooked on ‘how are they going to catch him’