Criminal Minds - Heathridge Manor

Criminal Minds – Heathridge Manor

(Series 7 – Episode 19)

Well here we finally are, the long wait is finally over, Matthew Grey Gubler’s third directed episode was aired on Friday night. The episode started back in 1996 and showed a woman reading a story to her son before being taken away to a psychic hospital. She tells her son to make sure he looks after his sister.

Present day it shows two teenagers sneaking in to an abandoned psych hospital only for them to find the dead body of a woman. The woman was dressed in renaissance clothing and bound, when the team look at the case Reid says that limestone was found under her fingernails so the unsub killed her in a secondary location.

We then see another woman who is crying for help in a well type dungeon and buckets of water are being poured on her every few seconds filling the well up.

This episode also starred the famous Robert Englund more famously known as Freddy Krueger playing the lead detective which was quite weird to watch him playing one of the good guys. At the crime scene Rossi notices that the bed has been dragged into the centre of the room, the bed is heavy to move so it must have had some importance to the unsub.

Back at Heathridge Manor we see the boy talking to his mother and she is telling him that he is the chosen defender and he must be vigilant to destroy them before they destroy the family. The boys name is James and his sister is called Lara who wants to go back to school but James is adamant that it is safer for her hear as at school she will get teased. Lara is confused as she has friends and she tells him that maybe their mother is wrong and he doesn’t have to find the wives.

The team have been trying to track down the dresses but they are told that that line is no longer in production. Prentiss notice some numbers wrote on the hospital wall along with the graffiti and next to one of the numbers has the victim’s name which tells them that there are more victims to come.

We then see James pull out the woman who he left drowning in the well and both he a Lara watch as the woman begins to cough up water and James declares that she is one of them. We then see James sewing her into another medieval type dress. In the meantime Reid has worked out that the numbers in front of the victims names are all dates from the satanic calendar of sacrifice.

Lara has a visitor – a friend from school that James rudely kicks out. Lara stresses that she wants to go to the prom with her friends but James says that she will only bring on unnecessary danger.

Rossi and Prentiss check out the play costumes through a theatre that is across the road from the latest crime scene and find out that the costumes were stolen and they are from the play ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’

We then see James speaking to his mother again who says that Lara is at a very vulnerable age and he needs to be careful as the devil will take notice of that.

Reid works out that the unsub is trying to the devil, not worship him; this is because of the white make up he puts on the women after their death showing their purity. Garcia also finds out that an actress donated the dresses to the theatre sixteen years ago and was a patient at the psych hospital and was believe to be the one who started the fire.

At Heathridge Manor, James has created Lara her very own prom and tells her that he has the final wife. Lara is happy about this because it means that it is over and she can go back to school. We now see that Lara has a fake arm although we are yet to find out the reason behind this. When they go to check on the final wife the woman does not wake up which means she was innocent, Lara gets upset and tells James she wants to ring the police which makes him angry and he says he will get the final wife but Lara tells him that this will never end.

Prentiss and JJ find a woman with the surname Heathridge at the place where the old psyche files have been kept; this woman was a textile heiress and came off her anti psych medication whilst she was pregnant. During this time she had a small part in the play ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ in which she ended up killing one of the actresses as she thought she was the devil bride. She also chopped off her baby daughters arm to make her less appealing to the devil. Reid suggests that the Heathridge children are carrying out their mothers delusions whilst Garcia finds the team the address.

James wakes up Lara and dresses her up in an Elizabethan dress and ties her up and tells her that when the devil comes for her he will kill it so that she can live. He then passionately kisses Lara which gave me the creeps as they are brother and sister.

As the BAU search the manor we see Lara having difficulty breathing and Morgan finds a mausoleum with a dead woman inside who he assumes is James’s first victim. Prentiss finds Lara and struggles as she tries to get the dress that has been sewn on undone. Hotch has gone down to the dungeon where James starts a fight with him, James has the unfair advantage of using a fire poke as a weapon. Hotch however gives it all back and James ends up falling down the well type dungeon.

Lara seems to be fine even though her brother is dead but the team however still worry about her. The manor seems to breed illusions, how long before Lara starts acting on hers? We then see Lara answer the door where a man tells her that he has been waiting for her for a long time and that she must go with him now. However it then shows us the viewers that no one is actually there, it looks like the manor has claimed another victim.

I loved this week’s episode especially as it had Salem’s witch trial theme to it. I also thought that Matthew did an excellent job in directing this episode and I will look forward to another episode being directed by the Gubler again.

Criminal Minds - Foundation

Criminal Minds – Foundation

(Series 7 – Episode 18)

This episode opens with a man driving his family home and nearly falling asleep as the wheel, we see the man get out getting some fresh air and joke around with his wife and son. This screams unsub attack but in a nice twist as the man starts the engine and the headlights come on they see a young beaten boy.

We then see Morgan and JJ visit the young boy at the hospital, he is being kept in a dim room away from much noise dues to his sever circumstances. When Morgan sees the child who has cramped himself under a table and refusing to communicate he tells JJ that this boy has been in captivity for years.

Before the team got to the station they were sent some video footage of a woman named Sam Allen who came to tell the police that she remembers seeing a boy about thirty years ago just in chains just like the boy they have just found. However when she saw a photograph of her father she freaked out and left. When Prentiss and Rossi track her down and ask her about it she says that she made a mistake.

Morgan is sat at the end of the hospital bed and rolls a coin to the boy who is still under the table, after a while the boy begins to roll the coin back to him. The boys confidence builds and he decides to come from under the table however when one of the machines goes of to alert the doctor he races back under. You can see the trust the boy has in Morgan when after he calms him down the boy then comes back. JJ sits at the side of Morgan and asks the boy his name, the boy refuses to speak even when JJ asks him in Spanish but instead points to the wings on the coin Morgan has been rolling to him and then points to his back where JJ finds out he is called Angel. Morgan doesn’t leave Angel along and they bond as he teaches him how to turn the coin down his fingers.

Sam later returns to the station to see Prentiss and admits that her father use to keep her busy with sports because he was always busy at work and it was when she saw the news report on the boy that she had a flash of memory but she doesn’t know if it is real or not. The team have also worked out that the boys must have met the unsub before because after speaking to the new boy that disappeared parents they weren’t the type of children to just go off with strangers.

Prentiss decides it is best for Sam to undergo a cognitive interview where Sam reveals that she wasn’t feeling well so called out for her mother who was too weak so she crawled into bed with her. Something made her go downstairs into the basement and she sees a man putting a chained boy into the back of the truck, she cannot make out whether or not it is her father. After the interview is finished Sam claims that her father cannot be behind all of this because he raised her. The team have found out that JB Allen aka Sam’s father lives in a house that is pretty isolated and would be perfect for hiding a child.

Morgan and JJ go back to see Angel and quickly stop Angel from stabbing his arm. Meanwhile Garcia has tracked Angel’s mother down and she is on her way, it is then that Morgan tells JJ that Angel might not be ready to see her and his mother will just have to find a way to deal with it.

Angel’s mother tells JJ that she wants to hold her son when JJ suggests that they go and get a drink, as Morgan goes to see what is going on Angel grabs his arm so he stays put. JJ asks Angel’s mother why she never contacted the police when Angel was abducted and she said she had wanted to but if they found her they would send her back home and she had to protect her family.

Prentiss suggests that Sam should go back to the basement in her father’s home to see if it triggers anything else, they wire her up. She goes to her father’s place and asks if he still has her catcher’s mitt. He tries to distract her from going in the basement but as Sam persists he doesn’t stop her. After she didn’t find anything that links him to the abductions Rossi announces that all they have now is the kid.

Morgan is back at the hospital with Angel and is explaining that the challenge coin represents a French soldier who crawled his way through no mans land and into French territory and the French thought he was German and he was nearly executed, it wasn’t until another soldier recognised the marks on the coin that they knew he was telling the truth. Morgan then gives the coin to Angel and tells him to keep it as it has kept him safe over the years, he then goes on to tell him about Karl Bueffer was his coach and did some bad things to him when he was younger and he thought about slitting his wrists too but decided he never wanted to let the son of a bitch beat him. He promises Angel that the guy who did this to him will not win.

Back at the station Prentiss is asking Sam what her father was like as she was growing up and says that she thinks she has buried the extreme mood swings he used to have and then it comes to light he use to give her gifts to make up for them she said he gave her the catchers mitt and a bike and it had not been the bike she had asked for.

Morgan asks Angel what the man had done to him and he said he use to bite him and then shows him the bite marks, Morgan asks if he will let the doctors examine him in the hope that they can match dental records.

Prentiss asks Sam if her father had given her anything in 2004 and she remembers that’s when he had given her a puppy, after checking with Angel’s mother JJ tells the team that he had been playing with a puppy on the night he was abducted. JJ mentions that they are trying to get a match on the bite marks for dental records when Sam shockly announces that her father had his teeth capped a few years ago.

We then see JJ open a trap door and tell the new boy Billy not to give him any trouble.

Morgan rushes from the hospital when JJ tells him that the team are on their way to pick JB Allen up, they also found out that he met the children before by giving them rides on his construction sites

After the team couldn’t find JB Allen at his home they ask Sam if there is a particular work place that he is proud of and she gives them the address to his first development where he likes to add something to it each year – how long has he been killing?

We see JB Allen throw Billy in to the built out grave and begin to use the machine to bury him. He begins to run when the team catch up on him but Morgan is right behind him. When he catches up with him he begins to repeatedly punch him but Rossi stops him before he takes things too far.

Morgan is then back at the hospital with Angel who says he is ready to be reunited with his mother who embracing him in a hug.

Back at Quantico Morgan and JJ are in his office where he has a row of challenge coins and he explains that he gave Angel the only one that had wings on it. They discuss what happened to Morgan when he was younger and Morgan confesses that he wouldn’t be where he was today if it wasn’t for Karl Bueffer. JJ still apologises all the same. The episode ends with Morgan and JJ heading down the hall.

JLS

JLS

THE 4^TH DIMENSION TOUR

(Sheffield – 28/3/12)

The highlight of my week was definitely going to see JLS on their current tour. I went with my best friend, cousin and my little brother who had never been to a concert before let alone a boy band concert. It was also the first time we had managed to get floor seats.

First of all came the support acts – we had NVS up to start the ball rolling who seem to warm the crowd up nicely, one of the guys did remind me of a younger version of Marvin. The came Oritse’s girl group Vida who even though there music is not exactly my cup of tea got the crowd going and it was nice to see the support from the JLS fans and finally came Starboy Nathan who really got the crowd worked up and got himself a new fan in me – I love his song ‘Who Am I’.

Now it was time for the main act itself and after a bit of confusion of whether they were going to come down from the roof at the front of the stage (as we say people up there) they had travelled across the arena and came down one by one into a middle stage and kicked off the show with Take You Down followed by The Club Is Alive. The crowd went crazy as the guys ran through the crown to get to the front of the stage.

I loved the whole then to this years tour with it being a matrix / ghostbusters / video game thing. The show was full of surprises like flying about in the air while doing their own rendition of hit song Earthquake to emerging in to the middle of the crowd again on a triangle scaffolding getting up close and personal with their fans.

They played hit after hit and even treat us to some album tracks off of their other albums including Outta This World and That’s My Girl. They even did a medley of Chris Brown and Usher which they absolutely smashed.

After singing their anthem Everybody In Love in the middle stage earlier on in the night it led me to wonder what song they would finish with. Of course everyone was up on their feet when they belted out their summer smash hit of 2011 She Makes Me Wanna and I along with the people that came with me was doing the famous dance routine. It was time to slow it down a bit and let us catch our breath while they beautifully sang their new single which is also in aid of Sports Relief – Proud. I have to congratulate Aston and JB in particular on the high notes that they hit during the song – I was completely amazed.

It was drawing to the end of what was going to be a fantastic night and yet I still couldn’t work out what song they would end on – they had already sung Everybody In Love and She Makes Me Wanna, I had completely forgotten about Do You Feel What I Feel until the beat music started.

All in all JLS completely smashed the show from beginning to end – it was completely AB – tastic with Oritse flashing his new abs at the crown, it was only JB who kept his shirt on but with the arms he has got he doesn’t need to flash his abs.

I left the arena with my ear ringing and hardly being able to speak but it was completely worth it. The only problem JLS have is how the hell are they going to top this years tour next year. I will look forward to finding out.

Criminal Minds - I Love You Tommy Brown

Criminal Minds – I Love You Tommy Brown

(Series 7 – Episode 17)

The episode opens with a teenage girl sneaking out of her house late at night to meet up with her boyfriend. While they are making out in the garden whilst the rest of the street is dead you think potential victims…Wrong. We see the teenage girl go back to her house to find her foster parents have been murdered whilst she has been away.

We are then at Quantico where we see a nervous Kevin trying to ask Morgan for his advice on proposing to Garcia however Derek is busy and needs to get to a meeting, unfortunately Garcia has seen the pair talking and she wants to know what it is about. Morgan tried brushing her off with ‘guy talk’ but Garcia is having none of it but she will have to wait as she has a case to present. In the meantime the unsub has already targeted another couple.

We know that the unsub is a woman as we saw her kill the other couple and we next see her sat out of a café overlooking a pregnant woman with a young child and asks to touch the bump. She then goes to a woman’s house claiming she is from social services on a routine check, when she realises the woman no longer has a child in her care she makes her remove her dress and necklace and when the woman is reciting the fathers prayer she gets angry and shoots her multiple times, definite overkill. During this time Reid and Rossi have worked out that she kills the foster parents when she knows they haven’t got a child, so she will keep on killing until she finds a child.

At the latest crime scene we see that Morgan is ignoring Garcia’s calls and when JJ asks why he says that it’s complicated. We then see Garcia leaving him an angry voicemail and angry voicemail saying that this is the 67^th voice message she has left and she wants him to get in touch and tell her what he and Kevin were talking about otherwise she is going to post the picture of him when he posed nude for her art class and not the good one. Wouldn’t we all like to see that? Kevin then comes in and she gets straight to the point in which while sweating he lies and says they were talking about basketball. The reason he shouldn’t lie is because she picks up on the fact that Morgan hates basketball and is a hockey fan, he then leaves pretty quickly leaving a trail of sweat behind him.

The team have worked out that the unsub is motivated by maternal desires so either the woman is pregnant or has recently loss a child in one way or another. While the team are given the profile the unsub has already got another victim who has a baby held in the car at gun point. The woman is called Karen and after looking after the baby she decided to adopt him and name him Ben, the unsub is sat in the back with the baby and keeps calling him Johnny and when Karen tells her his name is Ben she goes mad and yells that his name is Johnny and that she changed it before revealing that she is his real mother and she is taking him back.

The team receive a call that another woman has been shot, back at Quantico Kevin takes dinner to Garcia and when she says she is too busy he gives her a velvet cupcake in which she says that he only buys her one of these on special occasions in which he says they will talk later.

We then see the unsub with baby Johnny and wearing the dress and necklace from her previous victim going to a house where a teenage boy answers and we find out that she is called Maggie, they boy is happy to see her and is surprised that she is out.

Maggie wants Tommy to move away with her so they can be a proper family and when he asks about his mum she says they don’t need her, after all she was the one that sent her to jail. They are interrupted by a girl called Julie who has come to ask Tommy to the dance since he hasn’t dated since Miss Holman aka our unsub. When Julie sees that Miss Holman is in the house she reminds Tommy that his mum has a restraining order on her in which Maggie says things change, after all she got out of prison due to overcrowding. She then tells Tommy to take the baby to the car and when Julie threatens to call the police she shoots her in the leg and crushes her phone before leaving.

While this was going on the team have found out that Maggie was released for overcrowding and that all of the victims looked after baby Johnny after Tommy’s mum refused to look after the baby when it was born.

Tommy is worried about Julie so Maggie pulls over the car and tells him if she is not the love of his life like he is hers then he should get out. Tommy locks the car door and they then drive off to this big house where they can be a happy family, just the three of them.

Garcia is looking in to Maggie’s prison life and even though she had limited internet time she searched and emailed someone called Johnny Lewis countless times. It turns out Maggie was up for molester charges on Johnny but they were dropped and this was two years before she met Tommy. The Lewis’s have since moved and the house was bought by no other then Maggie herself.

Maggie hears the police sirens and gives Tommy the gun and tells his to protect his family. Tommy goes to the front porch, gun in hand and tells them to leave. Morgan tells him that Maggie is a predator and they repeat some of the emails she wrote to Johnny. Maggie comes out and yells at Morgan and JJ she doesn’t want him to know about Johnny. When Tommy realises that he isn’t the only one and that what everyone was telling him was right he drops the gun to the floor. As Maggie runs to get the gun Hotch shoots her from inside of the house. Tommy race to Maggie and as she dies her last words are ‘I love you Johnny Lewis.’

The team get back to Quantico and Morgan apologises to Garcia for not calling her back, she says she understands and that she knows what they were talking about due to Kevin bringing her  favourite meals and the excessive sweating, that and hacking in to his computer. Garcia confesses that she doesn’t want anything to change because when relationships become official that’s when things go wrong, Morgan is in the middle of telling her how stupid she is when Kevin comes over so Morgan leaves them to it. Kevin knows that she knows what he was planning and when Garcia says that she is not ready for marriage and doesn’t want to ruin anything, Kevin asks if she is against marriage or against marrying him. When she repeats that she is just not ready he says that he is before walking away.

One Tree Hill - Love The Way You Lie

One Tree Hill

Love the Way You Lie

(Series 9 – Episode 3)

Well this week’s episode had more drama in so gave me something to get my teeth in to and blog about. The only thing missing from this episode was the one and only Nathan Scott – series nine need to get Nathan some more screen time.

We find out that Alex has left Chase heartbroken to go on tour and Chase isn’t happy with Chris Keller for telling her to go – to top it off Chase’s mini me Chuck has now decided to imitate him instead. To make up for the fact that he sent Alex away Chris Keller decided to take Chase to a strip bar – where else?

Haley decides to get Chris Keller to help her cook the burgers as she is really busy and there is a new café opened straight across the street. One of my favourite moments is when Chris Keller is screaming like a girl at the fire on the burgers – LOVED IT. She becomes confused when she notices that he has sat back down and yet the burgers are still being served, when she goes to investigate it is no other than Mr Dan Scott flipping the burgers. I’ve got to say that I am liking the new relationship between Haley and Dan and intrigued to find out how Nathan will react, especially after she stuck up for him when a customer was disgusted that she has a murderer cooking for them.

Clay seems to be in a happier mood and Quinn thinks the tablets are working until she overhears a message from the pharmacy asking if he will be picking his prescription up. Quinn decides to do some investigating when he lies to her face and is shocked to find he is buying drugs. When she confronts him he admits that it’s the drugs he was on after the shooting but he hasn’t got a problem.

After not daring to tell Mouth about his weight gain Millicent blurts it out live on their TV show after Mouth keeps coming up with stupid excuses like the dry cleaner has shrunk his clothes.

Brooke is excited about golfing with her father even though Victoria isn’t too pleased and warns her not to get her hopes up. Victoria turns out to be right when Brooke gets there and her father has already played golf with some potential investors and has got her to come along to seal the deal. Coming home deflated Victoria drops the bombshell that she is leaving for New York. Who knew that one day we would grow to love Victoria?

Julian is still having trouble with hiring out his studio space, calling potential clients and not getting anywhere and even the school trips turns out to be a flop. Julian’s luck is about to change when someone rings up wanting to use his studio for a mini TV series. Excited he goes home to tell Brooke who of course is equally excited and asks him to drop baby Jude off at day care. We then see him going to the cashier and the shop to buy the finest bottle of sherry ready for his big meeting, everything seems to be going well until we see him go to his car and the window has been smashes and an ambulance is waiting – he left baby Jude in the car!! Only in Tree Hill can this happen. Will the baby be ok? Will Julian be able to get rid of his guilt? And when will Nathan Scott grace our screens apart from being on a previously.

More One Tree Hill next week.

Criminal Minds - A Family Affair

Criminal Minds – A Family Affair

(Series 7 – Episode 16)

The episode opens showing a man and woman getting things heated; it then comes to our knowledge that the man is having trouble completing the act. We then see that the woman is a prostitute. The man is pretty sure that he can get it right and asks for her to try something different after all he has paid to have her the whole night. As she sits back on his lap the man stabs her. We then see that the man is in a wheelchair.

We then see Hotch at a café with Beth and he’s not sure if he is going to make it back in time for the FBI Triathlon he has been training for, Beth says that he has been training way too hard to not make it back and she was hoping to wave him to the finish line but then she remembered that Jack will be there. This doesn’t seem to phase Hotch as he wants the two of them to meet. It’s nice to see Hotch moving on and I don’t think Beth has an ulterior motive – at least I hope not.

We then see JJ looking tired and drained and when she admits that she is on double duty with Henry as Will is working you can see that panic in Garcia’s face as they have had a salsa night booked for the past twenty-three and half days and it cannot be cancelled. I love how Garcia is on countdown to girl’s night – just like any of us girls are.

We then get to see an older couple who we find out are the unsub’s parents – they seem to be a troubled couple and the father has a drinking problem. The mother tries to get the unsub to take his medication even telling him they’re vitamins, the unsub is having none of it. The mother tells the father they have got to get him back on his medication because they both know what he does when he is off them.

After the mother overhears his physiotherapist praise him at how far he has come and to keep up whatever was making him keep getting better the mother tells the father to find another girl. When he protests that it is too soon the mother says that it is the only thing making him better so he tells her he will take care of it. Looks like the team have got three team murderers on their hands.

JJ and Prentiss are interviewing a prostitute who was friends with the first victim and at first their isn’t any information she can give them until she remembers a grey van that was parked for hours – the van was parked in a loading only zone.

Wee see a classy looking woman approach the father who says she is here to see Jeffrey, it turn out she is an escort. The next we see of her is when she comes stumbling out of Jeffrey’s room having been stabbed and as she makes her way to the front door we see the mother lock the front door as she gets near and then the father drags her away. We then see the pair of them scrubbing the blood from Jeffrey’s bedroom, the father doesn’t want to keep on doing this but the mother is adamant that they continue because it is making Jeffrey better. They then go to see Jeffrey who demands that they go find him another girls – they tell him that he has to start taking his meds again. Jeffrey gets defensive and says he is not going to turn into a pill popper like his mother. When his father defends her he sniped that he is just an alcoholic.

Back at the police department the team are reviewing the case again and wondering where the bruises that have been found on the girls thighs have comes from – they know that is has come from some sort of restraint but there was no bruises on their arms. It’s Reid who suggests that maybe the unsub is in a wheelchair and that would mean there is more than one unsub.

We then see the mother spiking Jeffrey’s food with his meds; however she stops when he catches her. Its then we see the father with a gun held in her hands, when Jeffrey is out of the way the mother comes and tells the father that it is time. What have they got planned? How will this all end?

There a knock at the door and it turn out to be Jeffrey’s physiotherapist who was invited to dinner by the mother.

The team have looked at the body of the escort and the disposing is different to the first victim, it’s neater but it also makes it too neat. It’s then that the team suggest that the team are parents and son. When Derek asks what kind of sick people would do this? Reid replies someone who has done it before which they then put the power into Garcia’s hand to find them something good.

We then see the mother preparing the dinner when Jeffrey walks into the kitchen with his physiotherapist by his side and you see how happy she is, however her happiness is soon shattered when she realises it is just an illusion. At the dinner table an awkward atmosphere is present and after dinner the mother asks the father if he has got it and he nods as he pats his top pocket.

Garcia has found out that the Collin’s family were in a car accident five years ago where the mother admitted to driving but her injuries were inconsistent to this but the fathers weren’t so it was clear that the father was driving but he had also been drinking. During this accident their son Jeffrey was paralysed.

When Erica (the physiotherapist) goes to get Jeffrey’s medication and drops them as she picks them back up she finds the necklace the escort was wearing with and hand full of blood. As she panics and goes to leave the mother is there telling her she should have left the medication for her to get after all she is her mother and then she whacks her with the gun.

We then see Jeffrey’s father driving and is upset then he has a flashback to him falling asleep at the wheel and being involved in the collision. In present time we see the father takes off his seatbelt and speeds up. He then wraps his car around a lamppost.

The police announce that he died on impact and he had a letter of confession to all four murders.

The team are now at the Collin’s family home and tell that Jeffrey’s father is dead and they know exactly what has been going off despite his confession. The mother has hold of Erica and Jeffrey is pleading to let her go and that it is the end. The mother announces that she promised to take care of everything and as she points her gun at Jeffrey, Rossi shoots her.

Back on the jet Rossi asks what time he needs to pick Jack up and his face drops when Hotch says he has to set off for 5am but he agrees to be there as long as he has a coffee pot on. He then asks Hotch if he is ready or nervous and with a smile Hotch says he is ready. We know that Rossi wasn’t asking if he was ready for the triathlon but ready for the journey of him and Beth. JJ is getting frustrated as she can’t seem to get a babysitter for Saturday night and she knows that Garcia won’t be happy if she has to cancel. Reid then offers to baby-sit, after all how hard can it be?

We then see the team waiting at the finish line for Hotch, Garcia, Prentiss and JJ with sunglasses and looking very hung-over. We also see Jack on Derek’s shoulders (a moment to coo over that for a second please.) Using Reid excellent calculation the team cheer as Hotch crosses the finishing line. After the team congratulate Hotch he is shouted over by Beth I love how she calls him Hotchner instead of Aaron. Hotch then takes Jack over so they can meet and then invites her for a burger as the team look on happy for their unit chief. I really hope this relationship has a happy ending.

One Tree Hill - Know This, We've Noticed

One Tree Hill

Know This, We’ve Noticed

(Series 9 – Episode 1)

Well last night showed the premiere of season 9 of One Tree Hill, not only that but it is going to be the last ever season of the hit TV programme sob!

When Tree Hill was last on our screens we saw Nathan and Clay embark on a new venture, Chase and Alex finally getting together, Haley and Brooke reopening Karen’s Café and Brooke giving birth to her twin boys Davis and Jude. All seemed like a fairytale but as we know it never stays that way for too long in Tree Hill.

The episode gets of to a flying start by showing us what the future holds for our Tree Hill favourites.

We see the one and only Dan Scott in the car with no other than Chris Keller and Dan is holding a gun – once a killer always a killer as they say. Clay and Quinn are arguing about Clay needing help with something and him yelling at her that he doesn’t need her here and he doesn’t want her here. We see Haley identifying a body – whose we’ll have to wait and see but hasn’t this girl gone through enough heartbreak over the years? Brooke is then shown smashing Karen’s Café up whilst a crowd watch in horror. Chase is bundled in to the back of a police car with blood over his clothes and then we are shown the lovely Julian being beat up and then goading his attacker. Of course all of this can only happen in Tree Hill.

Back to the present day we see Brooke and Julian dealing with the joys of having twin babies and being very sleep deprived joking about sending them away or selling them on EBay.

Clay wakes up on a park and a worries Quinn comes to collect him and begs him to go to the doctor, he has sleepwalked a few time and ending up outside, however Clay doesn’t want to involve a doctor just yet. We see Nathan in an airport and ringing Haley as he has been away on work for a while, no matter what these two have been through you can’t deny how much they love each other and we love watching their chemistry together.

We see Haley getting to the café but the front door has been left open, the café business seems to be buzzing and Haley tells Brooke that nothing was stolen but just to remember to lock the door. She then goes to Tric to meet the new manager of Red Bedroom Record to find none other the Chris Keller sat at her desk. In true Chris Keller style he has used a fake name to get his foot in the door and doesn’t seemed to have grown up in the slightest and still knows how to push Haley’s buttons. Chris Keller also manages to upset Alex by saying her acoustic song sucks however he seems to have made things better by remixing the song. All in good time too as Chase has already had a run in with him because when he disses his girl’s song he doesn’t get anything in the bedroom.

We see Haley in her house and one of the doors are slightly a jar which she closes immediately, after speaking to Nathan and saying how much she misses him because if someone was in the house they would get to him first whilst she ran, after we see Haley settle down to sleep we see a silhouette trying to open the door – who is stalking Haley?

After staying up all night to make sure that Chase doesn’t sleep walk through the streets of Tree Hill again he agrees to visit the doctor who gives him some tablets and is going to send him off for some tests.

We then get to see the christening of the twins Davis and Jude in which only Haley and Victoria are the guests before Brooke’s father turns up to play his godfather duties. It did make me wonder why the christening wasn’t a big affair. During the christening Julian gets a phone call to say the film that was hiring out his studio has fallen through leaving him with a studio full of equipment and a huge loan to pay off.

At the end of the christening Dan Scott walks through the church doors to speak to Haley, he explains that his diner has burnt down and he had a little place at the back of it now he has nothing. He doesn’t want their money just a place to stay, Haley reluctantly agrees but later on tells him if Nathan wants him to go he will have to leave.

The episode ends with Dan picking Lydia up from her cot and just as he gets her to calm down Nathan comes in with a cuddly toy. Father and Son reunited once more. I can’t wait for next weeks episode as the beginning of this week has really set everything up. I just can’t believe this is the end of One Tree Hill.

Criminal Minds - A Thin Line

Criminal Minds – A Thin Line

(Series 7 – Episode 15)

This week’s episode really freaked me out as soon as it started, I find home invasion episodes the scariest ones and with the electricity being cut and the little girl hiding under the bed calling 911, you knew what was coming but could do nothing about it. I admit I hid myself behind a cushion waiting for the little girl to be dragged from under her bed.

We then see the FBI enter a house and they get shot by the intruder coming from the closet, luckily it’s the one and only Derek Morgan, himself and Prentiss are at the training academy. We get to see a different side to Morgan who gives out to the trainee who made the mistake by not checking the door and getting his team killed. Back at headquarters Prentiss tells Morgan that she thinks he was a bit too harsh back at the academy, after all they are there to learn by there mistakes. Morgan then asks how he would feel if it had happened for real.

The team are dealing with two home invasions that have only been four days apart and both invasions there was an intruder shot leading the team to believe that this is gang related. On further investigation they learn that one of the black kids found was in a gang and the other was working two jobs to pay his way through college.

The team then head off to the latest crime scene and something doesn’t add up, it turns out that the head of the house didn’t shoot one of the intruders, he had already been killed and then dragged into the middle of the room to make it look like a shooting stand off had happened. It was made to look like this and it is also too messy to be reconstructed.

Hotch and JJ are at the local police department interviewing the parents of the two gang members killed, the two intruders have different social background and the second didn’t hang about in any gangs or no anyone from a gang. Back at the crime scene Prentiss, Reid, Rossi and Morgan are still figuring out what happened when Morgan says that this unsub is trying to make it look like black kids from the hood are killing white people in a white neighbourhood.

We then are shown a young guy watching Clark Preston a mayoral candidate on TV. Clark Preston is played by no other than Paul Johansson who is more famously know for playing Dan Scott in One Tree Hill and I was glad to see him back on my screen once more. Clark Preston is stating how he wants California back to the way it was making this guy clap and cheer.

We then see that this guy is our unsub when he drives and picks up a Mexican man and offers him $50 to help him move for two hours, he then takes him out of the way and stabs him with a needle that drugs him.

The team are then at another home invasion where the intruder is a Mexican man, this shows us that the unsub has been drugging people and making it look like they have committed the crimes. The team then gives their profile that they are looking for a white male in his late twenties, early thirties and can get these drugs easily but also knows about dosage in order to not kill the men he is putting as the intruder. We then see the unsub taking care of his sick mother and giving her the exact same drug.

Morgan then comes to Hotch after seeing Clark Preston’s campaign talk where he has used the phrase ‘browning of America’ which is hate talk. After asking the mayoral candidate some questions he agrees to cut back on his campaign talks as long as the BAU can prove their theories. He also directed to Morgan that it must have had to work really hard to get to where he is now.

We then see Clark Preston visit the unsub’s house with some flowers as his mother’s birthday is coming up soon. He also tells Trevor to hold back on the plans.

Ignoring what Clark had told him Trevor is watching another house, waiting for them to turn the lights off and go to bed. After he has shot the whole family we see him go to the trunk of his car to get the fake intruder, but as he does this the man jump out, attacks Trevor and makes a run for it.

We then see the guy who is called Ramone Gomez at the police station and gives them a statement; he also tells Prentiss that they made two stops before he got out. The first stop he could hear trains, laughter and music. The only reason Ramone didn’t stay drugged was because he used to be a user.

Trevor the goes to see Clark Preston as his campaign and we see that Clark is angry that he has come to where he is working, he tells him to leave and that he will come round when he can.

The team have found a pub situated near a railway and it connects Clark Preston as they are supporters there. Garcia also finds out that Trevor’s mother invests to Clark monthly. She then gives them the address of Trevor’s home and workplace and the team set off.

Trevor is leaving messages on Clark’s phone saying that he needed his help; after all he has gone along with his plan. The team are outside Trevor’s house and I may be the only one that noticed but I saw that Reid had odd socks on; one red one blue, I loved how quirky he is. The team find a note from Trevor to his mother saying goodbye; they need to find him and fast.

Garcia has also found out that Trevor was the victim of a home invasion where his father and sister was killed, the intruders also raped his mother causing her severe brain damage and leaving her as a vegetable, all this happened while Trevor was hid in the closet. After the invasion Clark Preston had bought the house and paid for everything they needed, the monthly deposits from Trevor’s mother is her disability allowance. During this time Clark had also brainwashed Trevor in to believing in his own believes and has turned him into a murderer.

Knowing that Trevor has gone for one of the other mayoral candidates, Morgan, JJ and Prentiss are outside Hillary Ross’s house and when they find out that Hotch has gotten the other candidate Morgan suggest that they split up as if Trevor runs they have covered the house.

As JJ and Prentiss enter through the front of the house they are shot at and Prentiss get hit on her arm. JJ carries on upstairs and after Morgan has jumped the back gate he joins her, Trevor also shoots at Morgan who luckily manages to escape. He then goes on to tell Trevor how Clark has brainwashed him and doesn’t really care about him otherwise he would have answered his phone. Trevor is adamant that Morgan is the bad guy and Clark said they would try and convince him that Clark was bad. Morgan then tells Trevor how the men who are inside for his home invasion said they were paid to do it but had no proof. Would Clark Preston really go that far? Trevor then pushes Hillary out of the way and goes to shoot Morgan who fires first, killing Trevor instantly. We then see Hotch and Rossi arresting Clark Preston who thinks they are having a laugh as the voicemails he has gotten from Trevor show how mentally unstable he is.

Back on the jet Morgan apologises to Prentiss for getting her shot, I loved how she mimicked how Morgan had been to the trainee agent but then tell him it wasn’t his fault when he doesn’t laugh. My heart went out to organ when he says that he got her hurt again although she just tells him he is a leader and made a great decision, not like he did with Doyle. You see the hurt in Morgan’s eyes until Prentiss starts laughing again.

Roll on next week for some more Criminal Minds fun.

Criminal Minds - Closing Time

Criminal Minds – Closing Time

(Series 7 – Episode 14)

This week’s episode opens on a beach where a group of high school leavers are having a beach party. A couple who are going to separate colleges are getting things heated under the lifeguard tower however it all comes to a stop when drops of blood drip onto the girls body. The boy goes to investigate and finds three dead bodies in the lifeguard tower, two of which are wrapped in plastic.

Erica Messer has given me what I wanted, Beth is back. We see Hotch and Beth competing against each other to get to their finish line during their training session when Beth tricks him and says she has hurt her leg before legging it straight past him. They agree to go out on a date after Beth puts him out of his misery of trying to ask her. I loved the lift scene between Rossi and Hotch when he is asking how the training is going but we all know he’s asking about if he has asked her out yet and when he admits they have a date on Friday, Rossi says that he will do all he can to make sure they are back on Friday.

Garcia is giving the team the details about the case and the victims has had their genitals removed post mortem leaving the team to wonder if the unsub is keeping them as a trophy or trying to hide the evidence of a sexual assault.

We then see the unsub is at a basketball court and a teenage kid goes over to him and tells him that he will get in trouble if they are seen together, the unsub clearly has a bad relationship with his son.

One of the victims Sean Taylor was gay so the team wonder if that is part of the unsub's motives. Another victim Joseph Kraus has been found in another lifeguard tower and they also discover that both victims cars are missing.

We find out that the unsub’s name is Mike and he is having a confrontation with a guy at a car lot place and he says he ruined his life and he should go kill himself. Mike then get a new victim called Gus Harrington whilst the team discover that he is hunting at the beach not taking the victims there.

Rossi and Reid are at the hotel room where Gus was staying, bottle strewn all over the place so he went out to get more booze. The unsub selects his victims quickly, befriends them then kills them. They wonder if the unsub is committing merciful killings, he’s doing his victims a favour because their life is crap.

Mike then visits his ex wife where she tells him he is not wanted and Hunter doesn’t want to see him either, at this point we see the guy from the car place come out of the house. Has he taken over Mike’s place in the family home?

The team discover that none of the victims purchased any alcohol so this means they had to have been served it meaning that the unsub is a barmen. After all they listen to the problems of punters whilst serving them alcohol. We then see Mike with another possible victim who is drowning his sorrows and he admits to the guy that his wife and best friend moved in with each other, he is hunting for victims with broken hearts. A woman then comes to the bar that intrigues him more, she admits that her husband has left her, Mike says that the only reason to break up a marriage is if someone has cheated, the way the girl looks suggests that she has cheated on her husband. Mike picks up on this and when the guy tries to order another drink he tells him he’s had enough.

The team are then at the crime scene where the girl from the bar, known as Kelsey Ashwood has been hacked and disposed in the bin, she had been cut up whilst she was still alive. This murder was angrier making it clear that she had committed a bigger sin.

Mike is then at the car place crushing a car, trying to get rid of the evidence when the guy we find out is called Doug Summers asks what he is doing as he doesn’t work there anymore. After some angry words Mike pushes Doug over the barrier and Doug panics as he couldn’t move and thinks he has broken his back, Mike then uses the machine to pick up the car and drops it on Doug. If that wasn’t bad enough he then presses a button which crushes the car and Doug.

JJ is talking to Kelsey’s husband and after some time he admits that Kelsey had cheated on him, only once but he couldn’t move on from it. All the victims relationships ended due to infidelity. Hotch is at the latest crime scene and says the unsub wanted Doug to suffer. When they visit his ex wife Andrea and finds out that Andrea and Doug were engaged and they found out that Doug is Hunter’s biological father. They found out two months ago which was before the killings started and the stressor for Mike. We then see Mike take Hunter from school.

Mike takes Hunter to the bar and tells him they have to go, when Hunter wants to call his Mum he says that she is not part of their life anymore. Hunter asks what he has done and he admits that Doug is dead and that he didn’t mean to. Hunter is really upset and yells at him that ‘you killed my father.’ As he goes to get by Mike hits him with the gun and says ‘I am your father.’

JJ and Morgan are searching the bar, it’s JJ that finds them in the basement Mike has tied Hunter to the chair and is pointing a gun to him. Hunter tells him what Mike wants to hear in the hope that he will give JJ the gun. When she gets the chance JJ runs at Mike and they have a scrap. It was great to see JJ kick some ass. During the fight Hunter picks up the gun and points it at Mike, its Derek that talks the boy out of it.

After Mike is arrested Reid is worried and asks how JJ is in which she replies ‘I’m fine, it’s just a scratch.’ In true Reid style he comes out with ‘you have two cuts, three bruises, a black eye and a possible fractured rib.’ He then asks the paramedic to suggest counselling for JJ. You have got to love the relationship between these two.

Back at Quantico Derek admits that he is never making JJ angry again and she says she hopes her coach is proud of her which Derek admits he’s really proud and just glad it came in handy. I’m sure I am not the only one who would like to do some combat sessions with Derek.

We then see Hotch doing some late night paperwork as usual when Morgan comes in and says that its Valentine’s Day but not to worry because he forgot too and he invited him to the bar where all the singles are going. Hotch politely declines and goes to pick up Beth with a bunch of flowers; she kisses him to get their first kiss out of the way.

I love that Hotch is taking a step forward and started dating again and cannot wait to see how their relationship plays out.

Roll on next week’s episode.

Criminal Mins - Snake Eyes

 Criminal Minds – Snakes Eyes

(Series 7 – Episode 13)

The episode started full of action showing the unsub’s first kill, the unsub was no other then Dean Cain more famously known as Superman and it was nice to se him take on a different role; the bad guy instead of the hero. He then leaves the hotel room and enters the casino, keeping an eye on the security guard. Panicking he shoves a dollar into a machine and wins the jackpot drawing attention to himself, it made me wonder how he managed to get away with not being caught with blood on his hands.

Garcia is woken up by JJ ringing her up on a Sunday morning to come down to the office, clearly she has had too much to drink the night before, having one too many bottles of wine after a fight with Kevin. She ends the conversation by hanging up the phone as she hears Kevin in the shower; she needs to make up with him before heading to the office. As she stumbles through her room she is distracted by a knock at the door and there Kevin is stood with a gorgeous bouquet of flowers looking apologetic, Garcia is in a state of shock, if Kevin stormed out and was now at the front door but is in the shower. Enter my favourite scene of the series Agent Derek Morgan fresh out of the shower in nothing but a towel. OMG! I nearly died and I’m sure he set a lot of your pulses racing too. Garcia rushes out flustered wondering if she overstepped her friendship boundaries with Derek. Once at the FBI headquarters the team are overlooking a case, Garcia rushes in and speaks to JJ   dismissive of Derek who looks confused as he doesn’t know what her problem is.

It then shows the unsub on a winning streak and even catching the eye of a beautiful woman, life couldn’t be any better for him now. He even wants to win enough money to get in to this exclusive poker game that costs $50.000 to play, serious gambling.

Prentiss and Reid are at the first crime scene and know the unsub must have snuck in straight after Danny Solveno as the hotel door had an electric strike lock which are extremely difficult to break in to. When questioned about the security tape the guy tells them that the disc was swiped and Danny had refused the standard hotel security so what was he hiding?

During this time Rossi and JJ have made contact with a local thug that they are aware have helped the FBI out with their investigations before at first he says he has retired so they are on their own but when they mention that Danny Solveno is dead and they just want him to come out of retirement long enough to get some information on Danny he agrees, after all he is dead.

Things are going really well for are unsub he’s won more money so what could possibly go wrong, his wife turning up. Angry at the fact that he has started gambling again and fed up of his excuses she announces that she wants a divorce and she will be staying with her sister. She also wants him to stay away from her after scaring her when he grabbed her arm in anger.

The team have found out that Danny Solveno had supplemented money and loaned the money to casino patrons, this is why he didn’t have the hotels standard security, he didn’t want his bosses to find out he was freelancing.

Our unsub is now on a losing streak since his confrontation with this wife and follows the woman who came over to him the night before in to a secluded car park, he tries to convince her that his losing streak is over which the woman says ‘we both turned up empty tonight’ confirming to us that she is an escort. The escort is dismissive to ithe unsub’s advances and laughs at his dream so he angrily slams her head and kills her.

The team are at the crime scene with the murdered escort and Derek says that she couldn’t have been afraid of the killer as she had had her fag lit but yet he couldn’t find any matches or a lighter around.

We then see the unsub trying his luck at the casino table with his friend who is telling him that his wife was never any good for him she always held him back and he always lost whenever he has had an argument with her. He then says its weird that the Circle of Eight killer has killed to people that he knows before showing him a picture of a really expensive watch that he carries around with him because when he wins big that is the first thing he will buy with his winnings. During this conversation the unsub is aimlessly placing bets and ends up winning, has killing the escort giving him his winning streak back?

The team have worked out that the number 8 is a ritual aspect in the unsubs killings and high form of obsessive compulsive disorder and while they are working out this the unsub has gone and bought himself a handheld gun, who is his next victim going to be? It turns out to be a random killing of a cashier who is working in a garage after all he just needs to kill someone to keep his winning streak up right? However this time is doesn’t work that way as he watches his money vanish after each bet looks like he needs to find another person to kill. On a mission he begins to walk out of the casino but then stops when he sees the watch his friend was on about. We then see the pair of them walking down an alley when the unsub gives him the friends the watch just before shooting him from behind.

The team are at the third crimes scene the number 8 is still a fixture in the killing although the unsub has been more generous by leaving $88 around the body and not robbing anything. Prentiss makes an assumption that the unsub may have known the victim as he was shot from behind, unlike any of the other victims, he didn’t want to be seen as a killer.  It is then that they get a call about another killing of a guest in a room and he has stolen $50.000 but has left $20.000 with the body. Using the power of Garcia and computer geniusy they find out about the major poker tournament.

Back at the headquarters Hotch tells  the team that the FBI wont give them the emergency fund which Rossi can understand, who would give the FBI $50.000 to play poker. It is now that Prentiss suggests that he could loan them the money, after all he is a best selling author. Rossi isn’t keen on the idea as he prefers to spend his money on the finer things in life like cigars, fine wine and art not on a game. I love the banter between Rossi and Reid when trying to convince Rossi he says ‘at your age it would be nice to try something different’ to which he replies ‘at my what?’ Rossi finally agrees to put the money up but isn’t confident that he would be able to stay in the game long enough to figure out who the unsub is however Reid would. Rossi then goes on a  rant which is one of the rants I love saying that poker wasn’t about mathematics and he wasn’t go to trust someone else with his money, during his rant Reid is proving that poker does have a mathematical element to it. You just got to love Reid.

Reid is then undercover at the poker game and asks to swap table as the lighting is know good for his glaucoma, he has spotted the circle of 8 killer and all because he has a keyring with a number eight ball on.

We then get to see more of the Garcia and Morgan drama, when he is on the phone and she has given him some information in record time Derek says that ‘you have always been fast baby girl’ to which Garcia replies she has to go leaving Derek wondering what the hell is going on with her.

Back at the poker game Reid is trying to rile the unsub he then reaches for the keyring to which the unsub freaks out and when the security guard comes over accuses Reid of trying to steal his chips. As the security guard escorts Reid out the unsub makes a run for it.

With the unsub managing to get away from the team, Garcia helps them by sharing that his name is Curtis Banks and his father was a severe gambler and the victim they found in the alley earlier that day was his best friend. It is then the Rossi works out that he is going for someone he is really close to, the only one of the victims he didn’t have a personal connection with was the garage cashier and he needs to kill someone he is close to for his system to work.

Curtis has found his wife at her sisters house and is holding them at gun point all he wanted was to make his wife happy and she decided to leave him, she says that they could start again, make a fresh start but Curtis sees straight through her.

Rossi is the one that decides to go into the house unarmed and explains that he understands him and that he didn’t mean to kill these people he just accidentally stumbled into it and doesn’t know how to stop it. Curtis decides to let the sister go but is keeping a tight grasp on his wife, she never had faith in him. JJ is trying to get and angle on Curtis as he makes his way in to the room, she asks Rossi why he keeps looking to the left of him, the only thing that is there is the clock and it is almost eight o’clock another connection to the number eight and that is the reason Curtis asked for more time. The team make a move knowing that when the clock strikes eight all of this is going to end. Curtis decides to let his wife go and then shoots himself as the clock strikes eight.

When the team are back at Quantico Derek decides to confront Garcia on her weird behaviour with him, everytime he calls he gets her voicemail and if on the of f chance he gets to speak to her he doesn’t get any sassyness from her. Garcia embarrassingly questions why he was in her shower at 7am which he bluntly replies because that’s what time he showers. When Derek clicks on that she thinks they slept together he laughs and explains that she invited him over, had too much wine, they watched a DVD with popcorn and he slept on the couch. Garcia hugs him with relief and Derek says that she has got a great guy in Kevin and when she asks what is a girl suppose to do when she had two great guys in her life which he smiles and replies not to pour that extra glass of wine.

I loved that they made Garcia question her friendsip boundaries with Morgan as when people are as close as those two why wouldn’t anything happen? But more importantly I am glad they didn’t allow anything more to happen between the two of them. Their relationship is perfect just the way it is.

All we need now is for the return of the girl Hotch met on the bike ride and I will be a happy girl and maybe some more shower scenes from Morgan J

Olly Murs - Sheffield Arena

Olly Murs

In Case You Didn’t Know Tour

Olly Murs was gracing Sheffield with his presence on Sunday night (12.2.12) and he didn’t disappoint.

Firstly we had to sit through the support acts and with all honesty this is the part I usually hate as they never seem to grasp my attention and I’m just wishing the time away until the act I have paid to see makes an appearance. However Lillygreen and Maguire have restored my faith in support acts. The songs they performed, even though I hadn’t heard before seemed to be catchy and after the first chorus I was singing along. I also really liked the mash up they did off well known songs because you could definitely sing along. Not only did they warm the crowd up with their talent they also had amazing banter with the crowd. As I watched them it wasn’t like watching a support act, it was like watching a duo that is born to do this. I hope to hear more from Lillygreen and Maguire and I suggest you check them out on Twitter. (https://twitter.com/#!/lilygandmaguire)

The tension began to rise after Olly’s second support act The Lonsdale Boys Club had finished. It is the first time that I have been amazed at how quickly it was time for the main act himself to come on stage.

The lights went down and lit up a range of people on saxophone, percussion, keyboards, strings and personally my two favourites the two back up singers that for the life of me I can’t remember there names, all I do know is that they were a pleasure to watch and really put a smile on my face.

Olly Murs was magnificently lit up at the back of the stage and as the beat to Anywhere Else started Olly emerged from the stage floor – a great entrance. I loved the addition of We Will Rock You during his second song of Change Is Gonna Come; I actually heard the song whilst I was waiting for the doors to open, so it was nice to know I wasn’t hearing things.

An embarrassing moment for Olly occurred when he split his trousers busting some moves on his little catwalk giving the front row an eye full, although judging by the response no on seemed to mind.

Olly kept coming with the surprises after his first costume change the music started and he started to sing but no one could see him on the stage. He then emerged from the crowd sending the audience in to frenzy. This is something I wasn’t expecting as the only acts I’ve known to do it have done a fair few arena tours before they decide to brave us animals.

Special guests included the one and only Miss Piggy and Animal for The Muppets who helped with his performance of Dance With Me Tonight. Clearly Olly and Miss Piggy really clicked during his stint on the Xtra Factor.

He really worked the crowd and stage making sure everyone got to see him up close and personal, even going in to the middle of the crowd by walking over a ladder that came down and left him in the middle of the arena, leaving the audience to wonder how he would make his way back. Not one to disappoint or leave anyone out he made his way to the stage walking through the crowd at the other side. According to Olly they were the craziest side, he nearly didn’t make it with his clothes on, and again I don’t think any of us would have had any complaints.

Of course a tour wouldn’t be the same without a medley and I loved his James Brown medley it really got me moving and even the little kids enjoyed it.

All good things must come to an end and the best song he could have finished on was of course My Heart Skips A Beat, which is also nominated for a Brit for Best British Single. Olly told the crowd that he will be here for as long as we are here and with that I say Mr Olly Murs is going to be around for a very long time and I will wait patiently for album after album and tour after tour.

Well done Olly, you have done yourself and your fans extremely proud.

Criminal Minds - Uknown Subject

Criminal Minds – Unknown Subject

(Series 7 – episode 12)

I’ve been looking forward to this weeks episode, not only because it is the 150^th episode but because of how great the information on the episode sounded. What would be more terrifying then being re-victimised by someone who has already raped you?

The episodes opens with a woman home alone and pouring herself a glass of wine and lighting a cigarette only to quickly panic and down a glass of water with a load of salt in to make her vomit, this showed that the woman was already prepared for if her drink was drugged again. At that moment the unsub is stood at the glassed back door, his face covered with a mask, which I believe to be scarier then if he was stood there unmasked. As he smashes his way in he calmly walks over to the TV to put some music on whilst the woman cowers behind the breakfast bar, I did wonder why she didn’t grab the knifes on the top or run but then thought maybe she didn’t get all the drug out of her system

We then see Prentiss in session with her counsellor and it seems that she is in profiler mode and saying that everything fine, she feels great and she hasn’t had a nightmare for two weeks. The counsellor then gives her something to think about when she says she hasn’t had time to mourn her own death, her colleagues got to bury her and mourn, and she did not.

The team are then taking the jet to search for ‘The Piano Man’ a rapist that is re-attacking his previous victims. It is only Hotch and Prentiss on the jet to start with as Hotch wants to discuss Prentiss’s counselling progress away from the prying eyes through his office window. He thinks that she has been overcompensating because of her guilt and he knows this because she rushed to get her relationship with Morgan back on track. Even though the counsellor has said she is healthy for the line of duty but he knows that she has lied to her counsellor as the report says that she has reached out to her mother (which she hasn’t) and she has a new man in her life called Sergio (which as we all know is her pet cat.) The only thing Hotch wants Prentiss to do is to tell him when she is having a bad day, be it today, a week or a few months from now.

The team have tried getting in touch with ‘The Piano Man’s’ previous victims but not many turned up until the press released the story and turned out a few had been re-attacked. The lack of women coming forward isn’t a surprise to the team as Reid points out that 83% of rape victims don’t report when they have been raped the first time let alone the second.

Speaking to the victims helped the team work out that he was drugging his victims through cigarettes not through drink, which explains why Vanessa’s stomach content found no traces of the drug. They also found out that he played a different piano themed song for each victim over and over again which after the attack they react to the song oddly without knowing why. One of the victims, Diane seems reluctant to speak to the team which shows that she is hiding something she remembers but says that during the second attack he told her that ‘no one believes a slut who cried wolf twice.’

We then see a waitress which turn out to be another victim when she reacts badly to a man playing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ on the piano, she then gets really drunk and stumbles into the car park with him and seems very flirty but as she searches for a lighter she pulls out a stun gun and attacks the man. Has she got the right man?

We then see the guy that the waitress attacked strung up like a puppet with piano string and sat at a piano. It’s clear that the girl has had an emotional breakdown since her attack five years ago and it obsessed with getting revenge. The guy is trying to convince her that he wasn’t playing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ by playing that song and a different one but she is convinced that he is playing the same song, she is only hearing what she wants to hear. In a desperate attempt to convince her she has got the wrong man he sings the two songs which only adds fuel to the fire and convinces her even more that he is the guy who raped her as he also sung the song during the ordeal. She was his first victim so he didn’t drug her properly and she kept coming too. In an attempt to put him through some of the pain he put her through she shoots his hand.

I loved the banter between Hotch and Garcia when she is searching for the unsub, after she came up with nothing the first time and then she decided to get in to the mind of Hotch, what would Hotch do? A classic Garcia moment that we all love and of course she has something for the team to chase. The possible unsub runs as the FBI barges in and we get to see one of my favourite people Agent Derek Morgan powerfully arm block the guy to the ground. POW!

Vanessa’s body has then been disposed and the unsub hasn’t tried to hide it, there was no signs of any sexual activity, why hasn’t he raped her? Hotch’s theory is that he wanted to stay hidden and she came round so he had to kill her, my idea was that maybe he was suffering from impotence and to get his thrill he had to kill Vanessa instead of raping her.

Diane then comes forward and tells Prentiss that she kept coming round and he kept talking to her, the reason why she wasn’t as drugged up as the other girls is because she has been a life longed smoker and knew it tasted funny so crushed it up. She had inhaled enough to drug her initially just not enough to keep her unconscious.

Afterwards we go back to the house where the waitress is keeping the guy captive at this point confusion creeps in for me as the guy says that he never did anything to her that she didn’t want. Has she captured the ‘Piano Man’ after all? He then changes and says she has gotten him mixed up with someone else just like the way she kept mixing up the songs. He then reveals that they have met before but not the way she thinks. He used to play in a bar where she would be with a different guy each week and she picked him up one night and went back to his place and showed him her scars and never saw him again. He always wondered what she was up to and now he knows since she branded him with the same scars.

During the interrogation with the guy they arrested he says ‘nobody believes a slut who cries wolf twice’ making Diane burst in tears as she it was something she wasn’t sure of.

JJ, Morgan and Reid are going over Scobey’s (arrested guy) apartment and going through his CD’s, come to the conclusion that he is too young to be the original ‘Piano Man’ however he did attack Diane. So he is just a clever copycat that the real Piano Man is trying to frame for all his attacks and the murder of Vanessa all in order to stay hidden.

After speaking to Scobey again he admits that he found the victim through reading their hospital records and he was going to go for Vanessa next but the Piano Man had already beat him to it. The team get an address when he says his victim after that was going to be Regina (the waitress). Is the Piano man the guy that Regina is holding captive or is he watching somewhere near by? We see Regina try to calm herself down in the kitchen as the guy we now know as Hemilton trying to free himself from the piano wires which he successfully does as Regina head back into the room with the gun.

Regina notices the snapped wire but Hemilton struggles with her and runs when he has knocked her into the wall. As she nervously tries to find him he makes a 911 call, would the Piano Man do that but for me as he was making the call he had a sadistic smile on his face.

The team barge in just as Regina is pointing a gun to his head. Prentiss tell her that he is not the guy as the print originally found on her glasses does not match his prints and if she shoots him she will be shooting an innocent man. As she breaks down Hotch goes to Hemilton and asks if he is alright and can walk but as he gets him outside he arrests him for the attacks.

Regina wants to give her statement to Prentiss and demands to know why she didn’t let her shoot him which Prentiss replies that she would then be in jail and what life would that be? It’s then that Regina notice that Prentiss has a monster of her own in which Prentiss reveals that he is dead but she didn’t pull the trigger. Regina’s statement is ‘Your monster is dead, mine isn’t.’ It just shows that the Piano Man being behind bars doesn’t make a difference to her; he will still be a monster for as long as he lives.

This episode ends with another nice moment from Hotch and Prentiss on the jet, she admits that she is having a bad day, keeping her promise to Hotch and in return she receives an encouraging smile.

Overall this has had to be one of my favourite episodes, it kept me guessing right until the very end whether or not Regina had the Piano Man and I loved how you saw two sides of Hemilton, the desperate guy who is innocent and being held captive and then bits of the Piano Man coming out i.e. ‘I never did anything you didn’t want.’ The only thing I had against this episode is that we didn’t get to see a lot of Rossi but then there was that much going off where would they have fitted everything in.

Criminal Minds never seems to disappoint, roll on the 200^th episode.

Gok's Teens - The Naked Truth

Gok’s Teens – The Naked Truth

Last night was the premiere of Gok Wan’s new channel 4 programme Gok’s Teens – The Naked Truth. The programme follows the problems that teenagers go through be it weight issues, bullying, and sexuality. I have always been a fan of Gok’s TV shows and after watching this it blew me away.

The fact that some teenagers spend ridiculous amounts of time looking at images dubbed at the ‘perfect’ body and inspire to be like them is shocking s most of the mages scream unhealthy. I believe that Gok was the perfect person to be part of this show, struggling with weight and anorexia himself shows people that you can stop and things can be better.

It is absolutely shocking that girls at the age of twelve are starting to take drastic actions to ‘improve’ their body and especially when a primary school teacher said that children as young as six aren’t happy with the way they look.

Being a teenager is the worst part of growing up, you are having trouble find yourself let alone people judging you and making you feel that you are not worth or that you are a ‘freak’, this programme goes to show that you are not on your own. Millions of teenagers are going through a variety of problems and just need someone to talk to. I for one would have loved something like this being on TV when I was going through my teenage years.

I am all for Gok’s body confidence classes being made mandatory in schools and hopefully will stop the younger generation putting themselves down. I also believe that magazines should keep photo editing down to a minimum, it is one thing making a spot disappear but after seeing how much editing was done on the model photo shoot is ridiculous, why did they need to change so much on her?

I believe all the challenges that Gok set the teens were perfect and really effective; I couldn’t help shed a few tears when the girl who was getting over anorexia had her story read out to her.

I am looking forward to next week episode especially about the girl who is being bullied, on  clip it showed her saying that she is fine until she gets to the school gates and then she starts to panic. I know that feeling all too well and cannot wait to see how Gok helps her to overcome her fears. If only he was at my school when I was there.

All the teens deserve a huge congratulations and a pat on the back for being so brave to not only share there story but let others see it and last but not least a huge congratulations to the one and only Gok Wan who is such an inspiration and without him would not be possible.

Well done Gok, you are truly amazing.

Criminal Minds - True Genius

Criminal Minds – True Genius

Series 7 – Episode 11

Criminal Minds finally returned to our UK screens last night (3^rd of February) from its Christmas break. I was on countdown all week due to severe withdrawal symptoms over the Christmas period and I was not disappointed.

The episode started with a couple parked up in a secluded area (will people ever learn?) It then skips and shows Prentiss and Reid at a seminar where Patricia Cornwell is a guest speaker and shows Reid give his own speech. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for him when the audience weren’t interacting with him but maybe that is just my love for him and wanting to give him a big hug.

Reid seemed to be disheartened after the speech when seeing Prentiss confidently speaking to people but then a senior stops him giving him the boost he needs in which Reid offers him the FBI internship (how we all would love that offer) after seeing a lot of himself in this boy. However he was shocked to find out that this senior had his own company as he was the founder of Nanavax which was going to be a multi million product. It here that we first see that something is bothering Reid.

This episode is focused on the possible return of the Zodiac killer even though this killer would now be in his sixties the similarities in the MO and crime scenes are uncanny but how could someone in their sixties still do this? I did wonder if it would revisit the idea they had with the Butcher – father/son team especially when it showed the two men playing chess, one who was significantly older then the other but thankfully they had another surprise in store for us.

When Hotch and JJ visited the crime scene it showed that the crime scene was identically to the one the Zodiac had done years before but the Reid came in claiming that it wasn’t the real Zodiac with no other evidence but a feeling. Got to love Reid and deep down you know he is right.

We then go to Morgan and Rossi going to visit the Sergeant that was on the original Zodiac case who is extremely ill and bed ridden with Parkinson’s. He use to have plenty of visits from people who was obsessed with the Zodiac, this summing up to a huge list of suspects when they find photos that had been taken at the old crime scene and places at the recent one in the Sergeants old files.

Another amazing Reid triumph came when he leads a man speaking to a press into a false security when he claims that his cousin could be the one doing all the killings and after Reid takes charge and says ‘The FBI would greatly appreciate it if people would stop making false claims in order to get their fifteen minutes of fame’

We then get to see the unsub Caleb again at his best friends pre wedding party Harvey who decides to make his own speech after the best man has made him. During his speech we get the sense that Harvey is uncomfortable during this speech, what is it that he doesn’t want his fiancée to know. It then becomes clear that Caleb has got feelings for Marissa as he says they both had a crush on her, it seems even though they are friends they have always been rivals as they met during a chess tournament. When Caleb said ‘Your soul mate stands before you’ made me think he was telling Marissa look at me, here I am. You then see Harvey not really wanting to have a whole weekend with Caleb when he is surprised with a stag weekend to Vegas but he agrees to go after Marissa tells him too. What happened between Caleb and Harvey?

We then get to see the genius that is Spencer Reid at his best when he works out a secret code that sends then to a location where they can wait for the unsub, this turns out to be a trap when they only catch someone delivery a message for Reid which reads ‘You’re not as smart as you think you are.’ In the meantime the unsub has led them onto a wild goose chase while he was killing another couple in a different location.

The profile was then given with someone that is about to lose the object of obsession forcing him to kill in such a small space of time, we know this to be true as Marissa is about to marry Caleb. We see more of Caleb’s obsession when he meets Marissa at a restaurant assuming that she is wanting to call off the wedding and then he dismisses the idea of her surprise saying that Harvey would hate it and how much did she really know about him. This making us more intrigued to his past.

We then see Reid in a café over going the online paper printouts and also seeming a little off it. He then admits to Prentiss that he doesn’t feel like he has lived up to his own expectations and not knowing why he is in the FBI. I thought this scene was really nice and it showed the chemistry that Reid and Prentiss had for the first time since she returned from the dead. I loved the reverse psychology and how antsy he got when Prentiss took over the online paper printouts which then actually gave him the answer he had been looking for. We also found out that Reid turned thirty which the rest of the team had forgot which made me think that maybe Reid’s doubts about his life choices are more to do with him getting older.

It showed Reid a code in which the unsub places an add in the paper using codes which then shows the team that not only the writes is smart but to whom it was written for had to have an IQ of 160.

Another killing involving a taxi appeared and showed the driver had been shot and Morgan noticed a void in the blood spatter pattern which Rossi tells us that there had been a passenger, but where was the passenger now? Also souvenir photography of a young boy was left.

We then see Caleb and Harvey set off on their road trip only for Caleb to change his mind and take him to the first crime scene if the killings, even though Harvey is a little resistant at first we find out that they were both obsessed with catching the Zodiac killer when they were younger. Harvey then discussed how the Zodiac would have killed the couple in great detail and he does this at every crime scene that Caleb takes him to, not once does Harvey question anything.

During this time Reid has worked out the coordinates of the crime mirrors a chess board which leads them to the final place where in chess the opponent would have been check mated or lost his queen. We then know that Caleb is holding Marissa somewhere and it was time to finish the game.

It then a race to get to the two friends and Marissa. We find out that when they were fifteen they killed a boy something that Harvey won’t take responsibility for and what he kept secret from Marissa. It is now clear that it wasn’t Marissa that was the object of his obsession it was Harvey and how they used to be. Harvey soon passes on blame when Reid interrupts them and Harvey agrees with Reid to try and get away from him. Harvey doesn’t like the home truths when Caleb tells him about how he enjoyed the killing of Robbie Shaw even though he only chose him and Harvey changes and says that they are in it together when it looks like he will get in to trouble. After finding out about Harvey’s transfer Caleb tells Reid that the body is buried in Harvey’s back yard before discarding the gun and giving himself up.

The ending really put a smile on my face and I was happy when Reid mentioned Gideon it’s nice that he hasn’t been forgotten. I loved how happy Reid was with his surprise party and it showed how much of a family the team really are and it’s a family that I am sure each and every one of us wished we were a part of.

All in all the episode stood up to my high expectations and I am happy that Derick Morgan along with the rest of the team is gracing my TV every Friday night. The only thing I am hoping for with the rest of the series is to get to the bottom of Reid’s headaches which came up in series 6 and maybe a few episodes where we don’t see the unsub until the team catch the unsub.

More Criminal Minds next week where the team search for a serial rapist known as ‘The Piano Man’ returns and is attacking his previous victims. It is also the 150^th episode. I’m looking forward to watching this episode and writing a blog about it too. =] xxx