Criminal Minds Episode 3.11 “Birthright” Recap
Episode Name: "Birthright"
Episode Number: 3.11
Air Date: December 12, 2007
So this story begins with some young people partying outdoors at night. J.J. fields all of BAU’s incoming cases and she is uniquely affected by this one. Fredricksburg, VA is the setting for these disappearances and killings of young women.
The killings are very similar to ones that took place 20 years ago. The character John Caufield is the sheriff from the original case. The murders from 20 years ago broke him.
Hotchner hones in on J.J.’s feelings about the murders, and tells her it’s OK to feel something. In the end, she sees the paradox of having feelings about the cases. Hotch says that its still better to care. Rossi and Sheriff Caufield bond over lost cases. Garcia finds a woman who survived a kidnapping 20 years ago in the same area. The whole storyline about the survivor, her son, the widow of the unsub and the combine harvester is extremely compelling.
Rossi was amazing in this episode. Every time I think about how Gideon would have handled a case like this, Rossi blows it all away… brilliant. Hotch was served divorce papers by his wife, Haley.
Quotes from the episode:
American poet Anne Sexton once wrote, it doesn’t matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was. -Hotchner
Wordsworth wrote, a simple child that lightly draws its breath, and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?
- J.J.
The music at the end of the show is a song called Decoration Day, by the artist, Drive-By Truckers. I felt this was the perfect song, as it complemented the setting, the battlefield area in Fredricksburg, and the relationships between the women and men.
Tags: fbi dramas, fbi, bau, hotch, hotchner, garcia, anne sexton, wordsworth, decoration, drive-by truckers, fredricksburg va, rossi, criminal minds, episode 3.11, birthright
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Does Life Imitate FBI Drama?
Dec 20, 2007 at 8:15 pm
[...] good example is in the Criminal Minds episode 3.11 Birthright. In one of the climactic scenes, FBI agents seek two young women who’ve been kidnapped at a [...]
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