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.