this is currently occupying my 'screen time' like 90% of the time, when I'm not doing my work... I love this series too! But compared to the CSI series, this is much more darker and 'heavier'. Its about the Behavior Analysis Unit (BAU) in FBI, and they usually deal with psycopath killers, serial killers, serial rapists... you get it. People with severe psychological disorders. Those more serious and aggressive crimes. The story plots are quite good, but cos alot killers already lost their senses, alot of the crimes... instead of with motives, they are killing 'cos they cant help it, or to satisfy some weird, warped ideas.

but a few sad stories too... like how this solder who returned from serving in Somalia. He had to kill a child soldier to save his comrade. However, even after he was back home, in the words of his wife 'he never really returned'. He suffered severe post-trauma stress disorder (I think this is roughly what its called). The impact of the war on him was so great, he sort of lost it. While out on the highway one day, his car broke down and he heard a drill at a construction site nearby which resembled the gunshots on the warfield.

That sparked off the rampage. He was 'transported' back to the war zone in his mind. He went around hiding from his 'enemies' and when he chanced upon people, strangers near his hiding place... he killed them thinking they were the enemy troops. In the end, they set a trap to lure him out. Just when he was about to be saved by the FBI (the poor man nds psychological treatment), a little kid drove by on his bicycle.

He ran towards the little boy, thinking he was the one he had killed in the war. He wanted to tell him its not safe, to save him. But the sniper thought that he wanted to kill the little boy... so he ended up being shot, to death.

Yeah, so they have plots with depth, thought provoking ones... that makes you really think about the grey areas in life. There is one particularly impressionable quote from one of the agents after interrogating the criminal:

"You know, it is inevitable that some people who grew up in broken families or suffered abuse to become killers themselves. Its a case of the abused becoming the abuser."

"You said some, what happen to the others?" (this was the criminal)

"Others grow up catching them"