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S18E5
The Brutal Man
Criminal Minds · 2025-06-05 · 53 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 24 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
JJ works with Dr. Ochoa to help Voit process the truth about his violent past, and tells him that one of his followers has a message from a mysterious unsub who appears to be organizing the remaining members of Voit's serial killer network.
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
60
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
0
how much it moved you
Read from 24 comments — 5 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
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
“What a cliffhanger!!”
shonnaneverleft▲ 56about 90–100% inread it ↗
“That reveal that Voit had been sitting there the whole time really got me. I was not expecting that.”
Jaca122▲ 26about 50–75% inread it ↗
“Every episode I feel like things are becoming clearer yet changing direction each episode which I like.”
ltbr55▲ 11about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Halfway through this definitely has the potential to be the best season of Evolution”
Wakattack00▲ 9about 50–100% in
who made it
- directed
- Nelson McCormick
- written
- Sullivan Fitzgerald
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Aimee Garcia as Dr. Julia Ochoa
Winter Andrews as Ronald Graber
Daniel Adaro as Trevor Nicoletti
Madison Calderon as Taylor D'Anna
Chad Cox as Anthony Nicoletti
Ruben Dario as Bryan D'Anna
Heather Dowling as Nina Nicoletti