S18E8

Tara

Criminal Minds · 2025-06-26 · 54 min

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what happens

When the team works to hunt down the person who shot Tara, they discover "The Disciple" deliberately had them chasing their tails. While undergoing critical surgery, Tara gets to the root of her relationship issues.

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 25 comments — 7 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 7 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

“that was such a letdown. there were a couple of sweet moments, and i liked the first half of her dialogue with mum, but there was no anxiety/suspence in terms of “what will happen to Tara”.”
dkoj▲ 25about 0–100% inread it ↗
“it also lessened the impact of the episode for me. I don't want to say I didn't care if she lived or died, but I just felt apathetic towards those parts of the episode. I just never really had a connection to the character. If she died, I doubt I'd really think twice about it. It's not like when we first thought Prentiss died lmao. But I also knew she wasn't going to die because of how much this show likes to pretend one of the main characters is dying. There are no stakes anymore”
afarensiis▲ 21about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I’m disappointed that her name episode was so… middling. During all the Tara-centric parts, I really felt the age of the show.”
LoversAlibis▲ 16about 33–66% inread it ↗

who made it

directed: Sharat Raju
written: Chikodili Agwuna

guest cast

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

Aimee Garcia as Dr. Julia Ochoa
Geoff Stults as Evan Delray
LaTanya Richardson Jackson as Caroline Lewis
Dahlya Glick as Paramedic Hickman
Amol Shah as Dr. Mark Badal
Roy Williams Jr. as Paramedic Mundi

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