Criminal Minds 3x09

[ratcreature]

This week's resolution mitigated my serious WTF?!? reaction to last week's Garcia plot. I'm still a bit disgruntled that "of course" they couldn't have just let her have a fun date, and I dislike the tendency of crime shows in general to whump their law enforcement characters in a round robin fashion as crime victims, rather than to weave in characterization and personal life bits in another way, that may take a bit more effort. But at least there was a job-related reason that the killer targeted her, and the plot wasn't bad, and I liked finding out a bit more about Garcia and her non-conformist past.

Also while it is a bit cliche to have her set up with another fellow geek for romance in the end, Xander (sorry I'm bad with names, I have no idea what his character was called here) is cute, and they'd make a nice couple.