![]() ![]() And though they immediately beef up security for themselves and loved ones, a suit-and-tied Lynch nonetheless gets the drop on the detail outside Rossi’s home, and then flashes a badge to get Krystal to let him in. ![]() ![]() But that topic is cut short by Diana’s voice, nudging Reid awake back in his hospital room.īack at the BAU, a fresh profile of Lynch surmises that he will now come after the team directly, on their own turf. She also expresses her wish that he finds a passion like they shared, with someone new. Maeve then leads them to the grave of Gideon, whom Reid last spoke to “12 years, seven months and 23 days ago.” (I leave any of you reading to vet that math!) When Reid worries that if he dies, he will let down his mother, Maeve notes, “You seek and gain approval by anyone,” and now it is time to stop,” because “the world needs you to do what you love,” be it magic, telling ghost stories, Jell-O, kumquats or… teaching. Maeve explains to Reid that (as with most every near-death plot device like this), he is at a “crossroads.” And to help him through it, she tells him “something you don’t hear enough of - that the world is a good place,” but it’s “even better” with him in it. Reid’s ill-fated ex likens their tragically truncated time together to a rom-com about an angel who falls in love with a human, then only has one day with them. Inside Reid’s noggin, Foyet notes the irony of the genius dying from a slow brain bleed, before handing him off to Maeve. Orlando Gaines! The Chameleon is still loose! Garcia then reports that of the eight total casualties at Lynch’s hideout, six were agents, one was Roberta and the other was… skeevy P.I. Over at the BAU, the ladies are recovering from a late night of “vision boarding,” assuming that Spence is sleeping in after the Lynch ordeal. Meanwhile in the “real” world, Krystal picks up on the fact that husband Dave is mulling retirement, now that the Chameleon threat has been neutralized. First and foremost, Reid next ran into George Foyet aka the Reaper, who fancied himself “the beginning of the BAU’s end” and taunted the agent about the six colleagues felled by the explosion at Lynch’s hideout. Rather, his unconscious self is on a “journey,” one which will present temptations. She shared Reid’s diagnosis and assured him he is not schizophrenic like his mother. Reid went chasing after Gideon and wound up in Garcia’s office, except the blonde woman minding the computer was dearly departed section chief Erin Strauss. The series finale itself opened with Reid reporting to work, business as usual, where he got caught up in a Season 1 exchange between his younger self, Derek, Elle, Hotch and Gideon. Coupled with his injury, that brain activity triggered inter-cranial hemorrhaging, and Reid passed out on the floor, with the rest of the BAU unaware. Reid came to with his head ringing, but seemed OK later upon arriving home… until, that is, his brain got to crunching the likelihood that Lynch in fact escaped the explosion, after setting it off himself and fleeing via a tunnel. And sure enough, just then, the entire house went blammo, knocking Reid to the ground, hard. Roberta negotiated the diabetic teen’s safe release, after which the team realized - too late - that she might have murder-suicide tendencies. FBI and SWAT soon had the place surrounded, as Lynch found himself in a new standoff, with his gun-waving mother. Upon reaching an impasse, Lynch slipped away into the woods and disappeared - but resurfaced not long after at his current home. Rossi arranged to meet up with Lynch, “alone” (though with sniper cover), to discuss their current standoff, seeing as Lynch has an old flame’s daughter hidden away at his latest digs, and at risk of diabetic shock. Everett’s mother Roberta, however, sweet-talked her way to a parole and got to Delvin first, gunning him down… a lot… to rob her son of the glory. In the opening hour, a Young Gideon led Rossi to realize that Everett Lynch aka the Chameleon’s endgame involved his father, Delvin, who is a salty ol’ something-something. CBS’ Criminal Minds concluded its 15-season run on Wednesday night with a double-episode series finale that featured the pursuit of one last UnSub, followed by a small time jump and then some teases about the BAU’s future. ![]()
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