Wont Get Fooled Again Criminal Minds

Synopsis – On a sunny florida morning time, a human being is diddled upward by a package in plain brown wrapping. Miraculously, he isn't killed, just horrificially injured. Some other similar bombs have gone off in the area and then the squad is called in to deal with the terrifying prospect of a serial bomber working the sunshine state. Making matters worse, when a 3rd bomb goes off in the background of a live news broadcast, the squad has to bargain with the possibility of a public panic over the possibility of a terrorist attack.

On the plane to Florida, Greg outlines the case – 3 people were bombed: An former lady, the guy from the opening, and the woman who lived across the street. I say 'lived' because the guy from the beginning was the only survivor. Doing the smart thing, the team has already checked out connections betwixt the victims. It turns out the guy was a partner in a failed real-estate scheme in which the old lady had invested. The woman across the street had no connection.

When they arrive at the scene, the team marvels at how the bombed guy could have gotten the bomb, with its vibration-sensitive trigger, all the way to his car without blowing himself upward. This leads them to investigate the possibility of him being the bomber. A search of his house reveals many potential flop-making materials, but then he'south ruled out equally a suspect when they turn out to be the belongings of an explosion-loving nephew who had stayed with them over the summer. It'southward non clear whether they enter the nephew's proper noun into some kind of a organisation, given that a childhood predilection for arson is one of the likely indicators for series killing later in life.

Weird fun thing:

Was the cover art of 'Anarchist's Cookbook' copyrighted? If so, does anyone else have a trouble with that idea?

Mandy dismisses the idea that the guy could exist the bomb-maker because he doesn't fit the profile of a mad bomber: he shows empathy, has a sense of humour, has a hobby that isn't related to bomb-making. The fact that another bomb killed one of his investors doesn't come up upward every bit an of import part of the conversation.

Back at Quantico, black agent is putting the pieces of the flop back together, and is shocked when the design of the bomb is unusually familiar to him. Finally it hits him – the bomb looks exactly similar those built past Adrian Bale, the human who blew up six FBI agents in Boston. Of course, he couldn't have committed the crime, since he's in a federal pen. Mandy agrees to go and talk to Bale, which leads to some astonishing dramatic possibilities, since losing those agents is the tragic incident that defines his character.

Then Mandy goes to see the bomber that haunts his nightmares at the Federal Pen in Georgia. Where he's in jail, despite the fact that he killed all those FBI Agents in Boston. Finally we get some details on Mandy's tragic past, and they're a piddling ridiculous. Bale taunts Mandy about the fact that he managed to beat him the last time they went upwardly against one another. Hither's the situation – Bale had some a earnest hidden in a warehouse that was total of bombs. He surrendered himself to Mandy and walked out. And then Mandy sent the agents into the warehouse to rescue the hostage without securing Bale in any way, shape, or course, or waiting for the flop squad to show up then that they could ensure that the bombs were deactivated before it was safe to motility the hostage out. Bale took this opportunity to utilize a hidden detonator to blow up the warehouse, killing anybody.

Iii episodes in, we learn that Mandy's big breakdown was caused by the fact that, as an FBI Amanuensis, he'south utterly terrible at his job. While he might be a decent psychologist (that remains to be seen), he flat-out admits in this scene that the only reason he sent the agents in was because he felt he knew Bale well plenty to say that he didn't have the guts to actually kill anyone. Whether that'south true or not (it isn't), it doesn't change the fact that Mandy would accept lost zilch by being prophylactic and both securing Bale and letting a flop squad bargain with the warehouse. The evidence failed to even plant that at that place was any kind of a ticking clock with the bombs in the warehouse, so there was no possible reason for Mandy to transport the agents in before the bombs had been disarmed and Bale was far abroad in custody, other than rank arrogance and stupidity.

Bale even goes so far as to tell Mandy that, because he's a serial killer, Mandy should have known that, given the opportunity to kill someone, he'd ever take it, because no deal he could cut in court by letting the hostage get could be amend than the thrill of murdering someone. This is the second episode in a row where they're really striking the point that Mandy is simply atrocious at his task.

Meanwhile another bomb has turned up on a doorstep, but because it's a little girl that found information technology, nosotros know that she'll exist fine, rendering the scene of the bomb squad showing up to rescue her omewhat anti-climactic.

Back at the field office, Elle (the new girl!) discovers that the old lady was having some trouble with a few coins she was trying to have insured. Her insurance company appear that they were counterfeit, and the former lady was challenging it. This leads them to a coin dealer named Walker, who Elle visits immeditately. Coincidentally, Bale was using an internet message board inform people how to build his bombs, and left a message for that aforementioned David Walker that suggested he commit suicide rather than allow himself to be captured. When Elle arrives, Walker speeds out of his garage in his motorcar and runs over his wife earlier escaping.

In the FBI building, they're discussing the case – information technology seems that Walker was making forgeries and selling them, and when the one-time lady institute out, he blew her up, then blew up a bunch of other people to go far expect similar the work of a mad bomber. Of course, this creates a bit of a plot pigsty, since nosotros're left wondering if the fact that he blew up the person in charge of the one-time lady'south land deal on purpose, or if it was merely an amazing coincidence that served to mislead the FBI for a picayune while.

Only then a human shows up at the FBI role with a bomb fastened to his neck on a timer. He announces that Walker will simply requite them the disarm procedure if he'due south given a way out of the coutnry. The FBI refuses, then Walker blows himself up. This leaves the man with the bomb necklace in a globe of trouble. The team'due south only option? Fly Bale downwardly to the building and have him guide the bomb disarming procedure, since the necklace is based on one of his designs.

Later cutting a deal to move him to an insane asylum after he saves the man's life, Bale is brought to the scene, and gets them to the point, which appears in every flop-related fiction, where there are two wires to cut – ane will disarm the bomb, the other will detonate it. Bale tells them to cut the red wire, so Mandy tells the bomb squad member to cut the blueish wire instead. The timer stops, the bomb is disarmed, and everyone goes home happy!

Except for Bale, who'southward sent back to the Federal Pen.

"The Palm Beach Bomber/Adrian Bale"

1 - Was profiling in whatsoever way helpful in solving the crime?

Nope. Equally in the last episode, instead of having to go through the trouble of profiling a bomber (which is incredibly difficult to do), this time they're looking for a murderer who uses bombs every bit their weapon of option. They spend about of the episode going over the psychology of bombers, but it has nothing to do with the manner they finally arrest Walker. As for Adrian Bale, one could brand the argument that information technology was Mandy's groovy noesis of man behaviour that allowed him to judge that Bale was trying to grab two more kills at the terminate, but information technology doesn't really concord together. Afterward all, in the before scene Bale apartment-out tells Mandy that, if given the opportunity to kill someone, he would always take it. That removes quite a bit of the mystique from Mandy's profiling. Once someone has told y'all they're a liar, not believing them doesn't mean you lot're clever, it but means you're awake.

2 - If and then, was the profiling plausible, or was it more than magical and out of left field in the fashion information technology helped?

It was acceptably solid this time out. They made some broad pronouncements based on the way that 'all bombers are' that were never shown to be correct or incorrect, but since the profile was utterly irrelevant to solving the crime, information technology's not worth getting into.

3 - Could the law-breaking have been solved just as easily using conventional law methods given the known facts of the instance?

Yes – in fact, this time effectually Profiling had no involvement in solving the criminal offense. They plant the suspect in two dissever ways, neither of which had anything to do with psychology. Checking into victims gave them a motive (the erstwhile woman's counterfeit coins), which produced a doubtable, and past following the known bomber'due south internet usage, they were able to discover that Walker had been in contact with Bale. Those 2 utterly normal bits of policework would have been enough to secure a warrant to search his firm, had he non rendered questions of quilt or innocence moot by running over his wife while fleeing authorities.

And then, on a scale of 1 (Dirty Harry) to 10 (Tony Loma), How Useful Was Profiling in Solving the Crime?

one/x – In a first for this show, in that location wasn't fifty-fifty a pretense of psychological involvement in the solving of tonight'south crime. No, it was solved with absolutely normal policework, of the type you'd see on whatsoever cop evidence. Really the whole thing seemed like a huge waste of the Behavioral Sciences Unit's time.

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