[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 18 Episode 4 “I’m Fine. It’s Fine. Everything Is Fine.”]
Presumably probably the most disturbing storyline from Felony Minds‘ 18 seasons up to now comes up once more within the Thursday, Might 29, episode: BAUGate. Keep in mind that darkish web site with the deepfake porn of JJ (A.J. Prepare dinner)? Effectively, it delivers one thing else to creep you out.
To the workforce’s shock, JJ, after an extended two weeks following her husband Will’s sudden dying, reveals up at work. With time on her arms, she’s been obsessively checking BAUGate, which had been shut down prefer it ought to have been, till the day earlier than. The location isn’t reactivated, however a brand new video has been posted of a masked man going by means of a home at evening and recording as a younger child in a nightgown, holding a stuffed animal, walks by. The particular person then appears to be like in a mirror and removes a part of the masks to make eyes. He desires his viewers to see what he can do. In addition to them and serial killer Voit (Zach Gilford), who has amnesia and whose mind scans say he’s now not a psychopath, who is aware of about BAUGate to put up this? Is it his community?
Prentiss (Paget Brewster) recollects when JJ informed her she didn’t need her to guard her and needed her to be sincere and does so once more right here, by asking the way to assist her. JJ desires to speak to Voit, and he or she doesn’t purchase that he can’t keep in mind something. “F**king bulls**t, I would like him to provide me some goddamn solutions,” she says. Prentiss refuses however does permit her to work with Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) on the video, so long as she guarantees to prioritize herself and take break day or go into her workplace and scream if wanted. “I’m advantageous. Every part’s advantageous,” JJ assures her, then asks how Voit’s doing. “Higher than you, simply barely,” Prentiss says.
JJ sits with Garcia and appears by means of pictures of masks to attempt to discover the one from the video. Garcia, after all, checks on her. “I’m advantageous. It’s advantageous. Every part is okay,” JJ says. And the boys? It’s too quickly to know, JJ admits, however Michael is asking her to sleep in his mattress with him (she doesn’t thoughts) and Henry requested how any of that is honest and he or she didn’t have a solution. In spite of everything, how is it honest that Will is gone and Voit continues to be right here? JJ then finds the masks (Yase-Otoko), representing a ghost who suffers in hell, and Garcia will get to work digging into it. JJ hugs her, ensuring she is aware of she’s the most effective buddy. It’s a candy second, one which JJ wants (and we have to see for her).
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Rossi (Joe Mantegna) and Tara (Aisha Tyler), with Julia (Aimee Garcia) watching, proceed to work with Voit, now displaying him the video. He doesn’t acknowledge it and even asks if the little woman is okay and if she’s his daughter. (Questions on well-being from Voit? Nonetheless…flawed.) “Am I a foul particular person?” he asks Rossi because the agent’s leaving the room.
Voit’s struggling complications, from the medicine that Julia has prescribed him that has a danger of an overdose. The physician argues that the stress of remembering is bodily taxing on him (akin to a nosebleed) and since she has a job to do, he’ll reply questions on his timetable, not the BAU’s. Talking of nosebleeds, Voit has one and calls out for assist, resulting in him being introduced into the OR the place a surgeon, sporting the identical masks from the video, drills into his head … It’s clearly a dream, and when he wakes, he insists he wants to speak to Rossi and Tara, not take extra medicine. He additionally apparently must shave his head. His complications received’t cease, like one thing attempting to get out, and he desires to start out over, he tells Rossi, who sees his dream as an excellent signal: his unconscious attempting to interrupt by means of to assist him keep in mind who he’s.
Voit’s keen to do something to assist velocity it up, and the brokers have simply the factor: a type of dream evaluation involving a Rorschach check. It’s unproven, Julia argues, however Tara factors out they’re working out of a option to get inside his unconscious and there’s a community of killers locked inside. The physician insists it’s carried out on her phrases, and Tara agrees, however she’s observing from exterior. Convincing Voit isn’t onerous; Rossi tells him it could give perception into who the masked man is and what he represents to him and agrees to stick with him.
When Voit sees the masks and drilling into his head within the ink blots, Tara encourages him to maintain that on the entrance of his thoughts as she continues the check. Then, he sees Rossi and decides he now not feels secure round him. Rossi later makes use of Voit’s personal phrases from when he was hallucinating him, a few totem and one thing his unconscious was attempting to repress, and divulges that he as soon as helped him and desires to return the favor. Voit agrees to proceed the check, if Julia administers it. When she does, Voit remembers drilling into one in all his victims in his storage container. He is aware of his identify (Oliver Younger) and the date. “It’s actual, it’s August 8, 2018,” he says. “I’m drilling into his head, and I prefer it. Why would I like that?” He appears to be like to Rossi, then realizes why he’s in handcuffs: “Am I a killer?” He walks out.
Whereas watching the video once more, JJ has Garcia pause when the UnSub pushes on the masks, attempting to determine why he used his center fingers and touched them collectively. JJ then recollects her dialog with Voit, when he was locked in his cell, wherein he talked about connecting like-minded individuals on the community. JJ is so certain that it’s Voit behind the masks, that he pre-recorded it and had another person launch it.
When JJ will get to the hospital, she ignores Julia’s protests and walks proper into his room, solely to seek out that Voit has seemingly overdosed by hoarding the medicine that the physician prescribed him. JJ shakes him, and when he stirs, she will get proper in his face, demanding, “Do you keep in mind me? … You don’t get to die, no, and this, that is why you’re nonetheless alive. Yeah, I obtained you. You’re caught with me, you piece of s**t.” Whereas the docs work on him, Tara asks if JJ’s okay. “I’m f-” she says, and the episode ends, slicing her off.
As for the (under no circumstances Voit-related) case that takes Prentiss, Luke (Adam Rodriguez), and Tyler (RJ Hatanaka) to Tucson, Arizona, a physician (Derek Webster) skins his victims alive earlier than killing them (after which eradicating their organs) in an try and heal his daughter (Taylor Buck) following a automotive accident he brought about that killed her mom and gave her third-degree burns. (He companions with an EMT, so, you understand, nightmare and belief points gasoline.) She learns what her father’s been doing and confronts him simply because the FBI finds them, and when he refuses to face down, she stabs him within the neck with a scalpel, killing him, then collapses herself. She has an autoimmune dysfunction, and it’s too late to save lots of her, so Tyler grants her dying want of seeing the celebs another time.
It’s after that that we get what Paget Brewster informed TV Insider is “a number of the greatest dialogue I’ve ever had the consideration of claiming.” On the jet residence, Prentiss checks in on Tyler following yet one more loss for him. “I’ve been the place you’re, questioning if I earned my spot on this workforce. Can I inform you a secret? Hotshots with 10 years of expertise wish to sit the place you’re sitting as a result of they assume this job is about staring down evil, but it surely’s not,” she tells him. “It’s about loss. Loss isn’t part of the job; loss is the job. Each time we take a case, somebody has misplaced an important particular person of their life. So Tyler, take into consideration who you’re and take into consideration what you’ve already misplaced, and ask your self, can you reside with it? As a result of in case you can, then you will have earned your spot right here.” He can. “I do know,” she says.
“It’s so well-written,” Brewster stated, admitting she by no means remembers strains. “It’s not simply being a tricky man. It’s a psychological research of humanity that requires humanity, not robust man weapons, not, oh, she’s a badass bitch. It’s actually particularly with profilers getting contained in the thoughts of the particular person to cease them from hurting extra individuals. It’s that easy, but it surely’s probably the most advanced factor to clarify and I really like that scene.”
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