Top Ten Saddest Moments on the series Criminal Minds
10) Episode Revelations: Special Supervisory Agent Spencer Reid is abducted by a serial killer named Tobias Hankel who suffered from Dissociative Identity Order ; one which is his abusive father Charles and the other being Raphael an all powerful archangel, Reid was subdued and abducted by Tobias, being held captive in a caretakers hunt at an estate graveyard where he is beaten and drugged by Tobias’s multiple personalities while the rest of his team watches helplessly on an internet live feed, he has a seizure dying for a short period of time before Tobias saves his life but Tobias also toys with Reid by forcing him to make life-or-death choices about apparently innocent people that Tobias deems as “sinners” and he also made Reid chose one of his BAU teammates to be killed, while being under the hallucinogenic drugs Reid recalls painful memories about his mother’s descent into paranoid schizophrenia by the end of the episode Reid has an addiction to the painkiller that Tobias administered to him out of mercy.
9)Episode Profiler Profiled: In this episode Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan is visiting his family in Chicago for his mom’s birthday when local police officers arrest him for the murder of three boys, the BAU investigates to find the real killer and exonerate him but Aaron Hotchner begins to suspect that Morgan is Hiding more that his sealed juvenile record after questioning him, after some time Morgan escapes the room going to see a local boy who was friends with the latest victim , the boy revealed he currently being molested by Carl & the latest victim knew about it. Morgan then confronts Carl saying that he took Morgan up to the lake house letting him drink a very strong alcohol drink then Carl started sexually abusing him but he didn’t wanna say anything afraid that he would lose everything he had achieved finally the teams finds them and arrests Carl.
8)Episode Doubt: This Episode is narrated by Supervisory Special Agent Jason Gideon as he is writing his goodbye letter to Supervisory Special Agent Spencer Reid : he recalls the case that made him doubt himself which was The Campus Killer :The team investigates the case of “the campus killer”, who is a spree killer targeting women at a small college in flagstaff ,Arizona, The BAU team shuts down campus creating a detailed profile of the unsub ending up arresting a suspect but however they begin doubting themselves when another girl is killed while the suspect in in custody so the BAU team lets Tubbs go he cleans out his locker & leaves the building when he is then approached by a student named Anna Begley who lures Tubbs away to a courtyard where Tubbs believes Anna wants to have sex but he then grows nervous after seeing a security camera trained on him he suggests that they go to his apartment before Anna reveals what she truly wants from him ,she committed the murder that got him released but her reason doing so was she wanted Tubbs to kill her, she takes out the knife begging him to kill her but Tubbs refuses believing it’s a setup walking away when Begley grabs him & Tubbs calls her a bitch and that she’s not gonna trick into saying or doing anything incriminating after Tubbs told her that Begley stabs him in the stomach then she stabs herself in the stomach Agents Morgan and Prentiss tries to save Tubbs & Begley but Tubbs bled to death, The death of Tubbs and Begley resulted in Hotch getting suspended and Gideon resigning from the BAU.
7)Episode Lucky: The BAU team Investigates a the death of Abby Kelton whose lower half of her body is eaten by alligators, all of her finger were cut off at the knuckle's, throat was slashed & religious based satanic symbols carved into her chest, Murders purported to have a satanic ritual component are Agent Rossi’s specialty because of the religious nature of the case, the authorities interview father Mark, Although the team is on a case Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia goes to a coffee shop getting a coffee when she hears a guy struggling with his computer offering her help which the guy accepts saying he is not really good with technology after she fixes his computer he tells her that his name is James Baylor but friends call him Colby, then he asks her out on a date which raises a red flag for Penelope and calls Agent Morgan asking about him and what she shouldS11 do but unfortunately Morgan says something that upsets her but Penelope goes against her and Morgan’s initial judgement of Colby, the night of the date goes well they go to a nice restaurant but Colby has them sit in a corner of the restaurant but they get to her apartment Colby walks her to the door then back but stops saying “I’ve been thinking about doing this all night” shooting her.
6)Episode Run: The team is still attending the latest bank robbery committed by the Face Cards, following an explosion inside the bank orchestrated by the queen of diamonds the team, after assessing the human casualties find that the two surviving robbers — the “king” Chris Stratton and the still unidentifiable queen of diamonds — have managed to escape , this method which they surmise was the queens plan all along , with her association with the Stratton brothers and the robberies only a front of her grander plans. They also discover that Will , who was inside the bank at the time of the explosion and was shot by Chris prior to the explosion is probably still alive and the sole remaining hostage of Chris and the queen. After viewing the surveillance footage inside the bank prior to the explosion, the team finds out that their earlier assessment of the queen having an accomplice on the outside was only half correct, as the accomplice was one if the supposed hostages inside the bank .The team now have to figure out what the next violent move of the queen and her accomplice will be, making JJ worried knowing it will now involve Will and most likely Henry.
5) Episodes Derek and A Beautiful Disaster) Edgar Solomon and four of his colleagues abduct Morgan taking him to an abandoned house in virginia where they set up a base, Solomon personal tortures Morgan by first beating him with a baton which is unfortunately unsuccessful as Morgan put himself into a dissociative state to stave off most of the pain, Solomon then decides to switch tactics applying white phosphorus on Morgan’s torso then has his colleagues light up a fireplace & places the tip of a knife into the flames, once the blade is considerably heated Solomon runs it across Morgan’s exposed chest as white phosphorus is flammable but it also fails to wake Morgan up.
In A Beautiful Disaster While Morgan and Savannah are standing in a hospital parking lot Savannah is shot by an unknown long distance sniper Morgan lifts her up and runs her into the hospital calling the team to inform them when he finds out that Savannah’s and the baby’s prognosis are touch & go but because of the circumstances Hotch orders Morgan off the case which makes Morgan upset & angry because in the episode “100” Hotch’s wife Haley dies but Hotch doesn’t get put off the case, the team is certain that the shooting is connected to the Dirty Dozen case and Morgan’s recent abduction that link stronger when Garcia sees a Montolo, Chazz Giuseppe’s father on the hospital surveillance footage around the time Savannah was shot , in addition to locating Chazz Montolo they have to find out if there is a long game plan to stop what him and his associates have started, Meanwhile Morgan is out for revenge and has to decide how much he will divulge to the team in his effort to achieve his own end goal finally after Morgan ends things with Chazz he rushes to the hospital where Savannah & him will be delivering their baby by C-section moments later their baby boy is born and Hotch urges him to take time off to be with his family but Morgan decides to leave the BAU team as the end of the episode he walks around saying goodbye to his team,
4)Episode 200)In this Episode JJ has been assigned to a task force that is looking for Osama bin Laden and will interrogate female suspects without the brutality used on the male suspects, she meets Mateo Cruz, Michael Hastings and Tivon Askari( her interpreter). In present day, the BAU team learns of her disappearance and that she worked with the new Section Chief Cruz, who is also missing, while searching through JJ’s office Rossi and Blake find documents about JJ’s 2010 mission , code name “integrity”, Hotch goes to the Department of State to see Under Security of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs Rosemary Jackson, the creator of JJ’s taskforce, who reveals Tivon Askari as the perpetrator but to avoid government scandal bans the BAU team from the investigation. Despite the ban Hotch calls in former BAU Emily Prentiss, the team classifies Askari as a serial killer & identifies his pattern. Askari tortures JJ and Cruz with waterboarding, electrocution , and for JJ, attempted rape in order to get the security codes to “integrity”, JJ realizes Askari works with someone else and although the team initially suspects Cruz, Hasting is the real mole. His death via roadside bomb in Afghanistan caused JJ to miscarry her baby was faked.
3)Episode Lauren: In “Lauren” Emily goes after Ian Doyle alone, finding him & his men at a bar in Boston as she aims her submachine gun at his men, Ian and his men flank her shooting her in the abdomen but she survives wearing a bulletproof vest, she is then abducted and tortured as Doyle recounts what happened after his arrest : he was taken to a prison in North Korea, where he resisted in interrogation for two years, hoping to see his son, Declan. When he was shown a series of pictures of Declan & his legal guardian being executed by a mostly unseen figure, he broke down completely and would remain there for another 5 years. Unbeknownst to him, the pictures were actually staged by Prentiss in order to save Declan from his father’s life. The BAU having found the pictures noticed that the nails of the hand holding the gun are completely bitten down; Prentiss was a compulsive nail bitter when nervous, obtaining the address of the house, they conduct a stealth raid on it, killing all of Doyle’s men but as Doyle furious to learn how he was deceived by Prentiss he begins furiously beating her but she gets the upper hand knocking him to the floor with a wooden stick once she drops it , Doyle grabs it stabbing her in the abdomen. Hearing the gunfire approach he escapes. The BAU take her to hospital but the team was told she didn’t survive.
2)Episode Zugzwang: In this episode Reid finds out that his girlfriend Maeve Donovan taken by his stalker telling the team, his stalker (Diane Turner) puts a video on showing a whiteboard with “Reid” written on it meaning that she wants Reid so Reid being the good guy goes to the location meeting Diane offering to take Maeve’s place and he figures out that Diane just wants attention from him and to be seen as an equal but he gets a clue that she might be leading him to Maeve's location so he tricks Diane into thinking he’s in love with her, he finally meets Maeve face to face during the situation & is briefly able to subdue Diane only to have Diane hold Maeve at gunpoint once again Reid offers to take Maeve's place but Diane figures out that Reid will never love her & always Maeve so she kills them both in one shot.
1)Episode 100: In this Episode Aaron Hotchner’s Ex-wife is hunted down by the killer “The Reaper” aka George Foyet because Hotch didn’t take the deal that if they stop looking for him that he’ll stop killing, Haley & Jack are in protective custody with Sam Kassmeyer so Hotch doesn’t know where they are. The team finds out that some of his medicine can be substituted with over the counter Medication after Ried figures out some anagrams for Foyets alias coming up with “Peter Rhae” narrowing down his addresses,, the team goes to his location looking at his laptop they find out that Foyet set up an alert for the alias so he knows when anyone does a search on the name and in the home are pictures of Sam Kassmeyer, Haley & Jack. They then go to the safe house finding Sam seriously injured and shot by Foyet, Sam apologies to Hotch and it’s revealed that Foyet stole Sam’s home calling all the number to find Haley, on the phone he pretends to be a marshal & detailed to a terrified Haley that Hotch and Sam are dead meanwhile Hotch calls Foyet on his phone threatening him which Foyet responds with Haley looks good with dark hair, Haley believing that Foyet is the new marshal lets him in the gate. Hotch drives frantically to their house calling Haley speaking to Foyet when Foyet tells Haley about breaking the deal by still trying to track him down therefore he has to kill Hotch’s family in retaliation, Hotch informs Jack he wants him to work the case & Jack goes to the secret place, Haley then makes Hotch promise to tell Jack how they met so that Jack will still believe in love and Foyet proceeds to shot her 3 times. Hotch arrives at the house only to find Haley dead and kills Foyet.