S17E10

Save the Children

Criminal Minds · 2024-08-01 · 55 min

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from 28 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

When the identity of the last Gold Star member is revealed, the pieces of the puzzle click together. Prentiss, now in mortal danger, must confront Jade and her accomplice to expose the truth behind the “conspiracy” before time runs out for the BAU.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 28 comments — 13 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 13 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“They did Rebecca dirty with that fruitbowl haircut in the final scene oh my God”
▲ 132about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Emily talking Jade down wrecked me.”
GeoJP25▲ 88about 80–90% inread it ↗
“I really love the last half of the season, I think in a binge this will actually feel a good pace to rewatch”
grimorie▲ 87about 50–100% inread it ↗
“I really liked the flashbacks they had with Doug and Pete, it made me so sad because I really got attached to Doug last season and then they killed him 😭😭 seeing them roughhouse in the office was so sweet”

who made it

directed: Glenn Kershaw
written: Breen Frazier

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Nicholas D'Agosto as Doug Bailey
Nicole Pacent as Rebecca Wilson
Clark Gregg as Ray Madison
Liana Liberato as Jade Waters
Brian J. White as Vincent Orlov
Josie Nivar as Mila Sandoval
Tuc Watkins as Frank Church

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