Last question, not necessairly, it depends, remember they have to be invited in, my guess is that they get that invite frome someone and I am thinking even BP isn't above using a profiler to help them.
Ahhh but knowing the where, doesn't mean they know the when, or how, maybe the person is using different methods? Different times of day? Different types of victimes (ie based on jobs, looks, homes they come from, etc) right now the descript sounds one demensional maybe thats what they want.
But it could also be that the show doesn't just want to rely on strict profiling, venture out a bit, such as through the victims eyes, through the killers eyes, through the families eyes. There is profiling involved its just not all about it. Sometimes shows that do just one constant without going off premise go stall. They do a little something different, they keep their current viewers (who want to see what they are up to) and they may get new viewers (who either hadn't heard of it, or didn't like it at first), also I think they lighten it up at times because to dark and its just viewed that way in memory. Remember when Mandy left he said it was because the show was getting to dark (okay one of his excuses), maybe some of the cast said how about we lighten it a bit do this or that, keep people drawn without throwing the whole reason were here out the window.
Not to mention when this show was first thought up, orginially it was suppost to be one case that would go the whole season, because most cop shows go case by case, but the more they thought about it, the more they liked having the case done by the end of the episode because basically they could stuff alot of stuff into it. But yet still keep some of that "episode/character arc" going (ie Rossi's mysterious reason for returning, Foyet, Reids addiction, etc).
Course this is just what I am thinking and what I read. But who knows about that ep descripts only give us a minimal amount to go on, remember some eps were it looked like OMG alot of profiling was going to be involved and it was only here and there, then some that it looked like a little here and there and it was a lot. One thing I give this show credit for no matter what they do not everyone may like something about it, but at the sametime something else might be liked. They keep fresh, even if that means veering off course a bit to do it.
