It's night, it's the woods, and, you guessed it, a woman is screaming for help as she flees for her life! Because, you know, Crim...

The episode starts outside a mini-mart in Milwaukee, where a lady is laden down with packages. My first thought is, honestly, "is thi...

In a dark room, a woman is crying. You know, I feel like that sentence is Criminal Minds' entire raison d'etre. That's eve...

I was reading Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, as one does, and the preamble to one of the stories extensively discussed Frank Stockton...

The episode opens with a few shots of abandoned businesses and rotted out homes to establish that this episode is set amidst an environmen...

At a cold gas station a backpacking young woman walks up to a familiar character actor and asks if she can get a ride with him. He demurs,...

Okay, if I'd known when I made that prediction about JJ's storyline that 914 was the 200th episode, I'd have guessed that it w...

It's raining... somewhere... as a man writes a note while sitting in his truck. He tried to make something right, and failed, now he...

It's 2004, and we open in a interrogation room inside the San Diego field office of the FBI. There's gothed-out lady sitting at ...

Before I press start on the episode, let's just take a moment to notice that Criminal Minds reached the point where it can have an e...

A woman is woken from her rest by a phone call. On the line is a child-like voice saying 'I'm gonna get you', It's obvio...

A couple is in bed - still awake - when they hear some kind of a loud crash from outside! The man gets a gun from the nightstand and tel...

It's night, it's Chicago, it's a diner - are people about to be mass murdered? Hopefully not, since a little girl with a te...

It's early in the morning, and a guy is woken up by his alarm! This upsets his bedmate, who is not on a London-based work schedule the...

As the episode begins, a modern-day Sisyphus is carrying a boulder up a mountain so that he can add it to the pile. What's under the p...