The premise was promising: the mayor's representative is found dead at a ground-breaking ceremony, and attention falls on a mysterious Eco-Activist, named Jasper. Things got even better when the office of the construction site was fire-bombed with Cho (Tim Kang) and Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) inside. Cho had to smash through a window with a chair while Rigsby helped the construction head whose leg was on fire. And after that, Jane (Simon Baker)was kidnapped by Jasper (who was also Wilson, an assistant of the mayor's, played by Firefly's Sean Maher), which would have been exciting, except that by then, it was all too obvious who the murderer was.
You see, a camera crew had been annoying our favourite CBI agents, annoying Jane to no end despite Lisbon (Robin Tunney)'s attempts to smooth things over. And, despite a mention that it was for good PR, that the news reporter was the murderer was clear because there were no other interesting, yet not singled out, possibilities.
Though it is not always the case, in most episodes of most crime series, the murderer will be introduced sometime during the course of the investigation. Maybe a person that is met for 5 seconds, and then forgotten about by us until the final reveal, maybe there are a few very likely suspects and the actual killer must be revealed, or maybe it is the really obvious person, but you thought that was too obvious. As I have been saying all month, it's about misdirection.
But once you know that it's about misdirection, even without trying hard, you'll start realizing who is being introduced and who you are being directed to ignore or forget.
The news reporter was one of the people at the ground-breaking sight. He was there to watch the body get dug up, as the CBI team would have expected the murderer to be. It might have been a twist, but there just wasn't a good enough reason to have the camera following them the whole time if that wasn't what the end was going to be.
So the murder was a little obvious (to me), but if that wasn't enough to have me classify this episode in the "not as good as usual" category, Rigsby and Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) finally told the rest of the team that they were in a relationship. Which was stupid! Since they've gotten together, their choices have been stupid.
Let me explain. They knew going in that their relationship would have to be a secret. There was no way around that. And Rigsby had talked to Cho about it, so there was no reason to suspect he wouldn't be on their side or rat them out. Jane certainly would not have told Lisbon. So to have the secrecy of it wear thin on them so quickly...that's my problem. Maybe if the season had ended like this, or something, given them more than a month or two to get tired of sneaking around...I know they aren't the sneaking type, but still. It just seems silly to me.
What do you think? Were you impressed with this episode, and I'm just boring and jaded? And what will happen to Grace and Wayne? I'm excited to see next week!
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