Plain Sight (2005) User Reviews (7)

In The First Four Shows, This Is The Best Episode

[ccthemovieman-1 · 9/10 · 3 January 2007]

The BAU travels to San Diego, Cal., to find and capture a serial rapist-murderer who is targeting high middle class women. He seems to know exactly when the right time to strike occurs, and he leaves messages from a medieval ballad. That is just so everyone knows it's he who is doing the killers. He obviously craves recognition.

So, the best way to get this guy out in the open and have him come to the FBI guys is to blame someone else for the murders. Enraged he isn't getting the publicity, the plan works.

This is an excellent episode: the best I've seen so far in the first season of this TV program.

Pretty interesting

[lottiemarshalllm · 8/10 · 29 July 2020]

Disclaimer:I am no expert reviewer, I just need a show to binge watch and I'm going to Write a review for every episode I watch.

This episode was incredibly intense and honestly pretty horrifying. Lots of twists and turns to keep me interested which I appreciate.

My favorite twist was that I was for sure that that woman's husband was just racist and wanted to get a black man arrested but I was wrong and it was two different people which really threw me through a loop. I also really enjoyed how they were able to get killer angry enough to have him call in. And OMG when Gideon was able to persuade him with the promise of publicity also very good. Just really good writing in my opinion.

Maybe a little slower at parts but overall really good episode.

Season 1 continues to go strong

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 31 December 2016]

Even better episodes were to follow with the likes of "The Fox", "Riding the Lightning", "L.D.S.K", "Charm and Harm" and "The Fisher King Part I" (in a mostly very good first season with "Machismo" being the only less than mediocre episode).

This said, Season 1 got off remarkably strongly, with one of the show's best season premieres in "Extreme Aggressor" and "Compulsion" was every bit as good an episode and even better. "Plain Sight" is perhaps the best episode up to that particular point in the show.

It isn't perfect of course. Was much more surprised by the reveals of "Extreme Aggressor" and "Compulsion", whereas "Plain Sight" while still very clever with a strong twist was comparatively slightly predictable and how the case is figured out has been more plausibly done in other episodes.

What makes "Plain Sight" work so well though is the excellent profiling, which is classic 'Criminal Minds' and some of the best of the entire season, and the character interaction with the BAU which has always been a strong point with 'Criminal Minds' but in so many ways (too many to list) it's quite special and the character personalities and such are well-established and interesting. The case itself is very suspenseful and never less than engaging, atmospherically it is also very unnerving, even the subject matter makes one feel uneasy. While Season 1 got off to a great start, "Plain Sight" is a sure sign of the show maturing and finding its place, things you don't always find in shows so early into their runs.

Visually, it's very well made as pretty much to be expected, with the camera work being especially clever and atmospheric. The music is dynamic and haunting, not always enhancing but never once distracting. Direction is solid, the script and pacing are taut and thought-provoking and the acting all round with no weak link is very good, particularly Mandy Patinkin, Matthew Gray Gubler and the creepy performance of the unsub.

All in all, great episode and what it achieves so well is remarkable for so early on in the show. 9/10 Bethany Cox

One of the better episodes alr this season

[hanchilles · 10/10 · 25 September 2020]

This show keeps getting better and better and Gideon has been super amazing , I'm getting to adore each character and their respective personalities , I love Reid too, that fella is brilliant AF!

A Slight Improvement Over The First Few Episodes

[nebohr · 17 November 2021]

There is a 5.4% chance that monkeyface Gideon will show some human emotion this episode.

This episode begins with a plot hole- even though there are clips for it there is no screen in the window the unsub uses to gain entry into the home.

Gideon believes that finding new ways to hurt each other is what humans are good at.

The team constantly marvels at how much Reid knows. Reid has gained his knowledge in the same way as the rest of us: he reads and asks questions.

At 37:14- Hollywood cliche #060: never take an easy shot at an armed suspect holding a hostage.

back to back Great episodes

[projectsgamer · 9/10 · 14 September 2021]

Really good episode back to back great episodes this was interesting how he kills the victims once again Gideon at the last second figures out where he works and his name to know where he might be a all round great episode really enjoyable to watch.

A busy birthday of Reid

[TOT_EchoofGlory · 5 June 2020]

Reid had a busy birthday. The killer in this episode left symbols, and had clear goals. Really creepy.