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S18E1
Swimmer's Calculus
Criminal Minds · 2025-05-08 · 48 min
FLICKFEEL
50
from 46 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
When bodies wash up on the Maryland shoreline, the BAU races to find the UnSub. After surviving a prison attack, Elias Voit has been placed in a medically induced coma while Rossi is investigated for the incident.
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
0
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
18
how much it moved you
Read from 46 comments — 15 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 15 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
“this was very much the calm before the storm as far as the plot goes”
Jaca122▲ 73about 75–100% inread it ↗
“the whole episode just felt kind of scattered and like a prequel/setting the scene rather than an actual episode”
ssf837▲ 33about 0–100% inread it ↗
“his storyline is boring now”
what-the-hell0807_▲ 27about 0–100% inread it ↗
“the ending was not satisfying at all.”
Outrageous_Towel9039▲ 23about 75–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Bethany Rooney
- written
- Breen Frazier
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Nicole Pacent as Rebecca Wilson
Jade Harlow as Kristi Estes
Tate Moore as Vivian Estes
Eddie Mills as Curtis Estes
Gilli Messer as Agent Beatriz Carr
Cortes Alexander as Travis Townsend
Eric Alperin as Work Friend