S19E5

Friendly Fire

Criminal Minds · 2026-06-18 · 56 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 21 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Alvez and Tyler team up to investigate the murder of an FBI training instructor, while the rest of the BAU explore ways to lure out The Fan.

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 21 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.

Reddit21 read

“I wasn't expecting at all a murder going down at the end of the episode!!!”
Informal_Toe_2129▲ 16about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The first is that I wish we would have spent more time with Tom before they killed him off. His death would have hit a lot harder.”
Valenstein77▲ 15about 0–15% inread it ↗
“This episode was going so well until the dreaded words "gut the department" were uttered. Even the mere hint of that tired plot point returning is such a boring proposition.”
babylovesbaby▲ 11about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I actually laughed out loud first when I saw the sign, and again when he protected it from Viot.”

who made it

directed: Nelson McCormick
written: Sullivan Fitzgerald

guest cast

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

Paul F. Tompkins as Brian Garrity
Nicole Pacent as Rebecca Wilson
Jamison Jones as Agent Tom Milliken
Connor Storrie as Lance Kingston
Xavier Jiménez as Agent Billy Lowell
Nicholas Gonzalez as Peter O'Connor
Calahan Skogman as Agent Joey Barlow

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