S18E2

The Zookeeper

Criminal Minds · 2025-05-15 · 58 min

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from 36 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Voit awakens from his coma. The team finds videos from a dormant Sicarius Network killer called "The Zookeeper" indicating that the network has reactivated. With Voit still in recovery, the BAU must tackle this reawakened network on their own.

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 36 comments — 19 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 19 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

“Ending was a shock”
ghusu123▲ 87about 85–100% inread it ↗
“The scene at the end must have been so difficult to film for everyone. It was done very well.”
▲ 64about 75–100% inread it ↗
“my heart broke when I saw JJ's face when she told everyone Will was dead. I teared up”
emmamason2324▲ 45about 75–100% inread it ↗
“As soon as he made that promise I was all “great, now she’s gonna die.””
Ancient_Cheesecake21▲ 30about 75–100% inread it ↗

who made it

directed: Aisha Tyler
written: Christopher Barbour

guest cast

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

Mekhai Andersen as Henry LaMontagne
Josh Stewart as William LaMontagne Jr.
Nicole Pacent as Rebecca Wilson
Ariel Jackson as Nurse Monica Luna
Aimee Garcia as Dr. Julia Ochoa
Elden Henson as Clyde Smets
Sadie Stanley as Tia Ryder

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