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S19E9
Special Agent Garrity
Criminal Minds · 2026-07-16 · 57 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 22 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
After The Fan sets his sights on Brian Garrity and Voit devises a strategy to deal with his nemesis, the BAU must use their profiling prowess to identify The Fan and save their ally.
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
50
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
47
how much it moved you
Read from 22 comments — 8 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
“When Sheila called Brian at the beginning of the ep, I was absolutely sure Bob was the Fan in disguise too :D”
meriporsas▲ 53about 0–15% inread it ↗
“such an intense episode”
meriporsas▲ 53about 0–100% inread it ↗
“man I was rooting so hard for him to survive!”
blackshotgun55▲ 32about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I was genuinely so fucking shocked when Garrity didn’t respond and I thought he was dead, I cried for like 7 seconds”
Cool_Cupcake9418▲ 31about 75–85% in
who made it
- directed
- Bethany Rooney
- written
- Breen Frazier, Ryan McGonnigal
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
Connor Storrie as Lance Kingston
Jessi Case as Laura Boyd
Justin Kirk as James Crowley
Yvette Nicole Brown as Sheila Watkins
Eddie Blackwell as Carter (Guard #1)