The last episode of Criminal Minds saw a tough case fall for the BAU, who originally thought they were only investigating the disappearance of a prominent defense attorney.
However, as the investigation continues, it becomes clear this man is actually a pedophile and the most likely people who took him were his victims. This episode, called “The Boys of Sudworth Place,” touched on a painful subject for Derek Morgan, who was molested as a child himself.
As the episode continued, we discovered that one of the man’s victims had committed suicide, triggering his friends and fellow abuse survivors to go into a fit of rage before kidnapping their abuser. When they decide to tell their friend, Brian, an accident occurs leaving one of the boys dead. At one point, Brian is left alone with the man and he ends up helping him out of the hole where he is being kept. But when he finds out it was a trick, he shoots him. Brian seems like a victim at first, but we find out there is more to him as well.
Then at the very end of the episode, we see Kate’s niece, Meg, send a photo of herself with a friend to a man they think is a teenage boy. We have no idea how this will play out, but it is a frightening thought that it could be happening under an FBI agent’s nose. We’re taking a look at some of the top ten moments from the episode of Criminal Minds.
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10. JJ and Linda
JJ is very compassionate with Jack Westbrook’s wife, Linda, who is in her third trimester of pregnancy. But when it is discovered he is actually a pedophile, JJ has to be firm with her and we eventually find out that Linda asked JJ if she knew any good divorce attorneys.
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9. Photo
The team’s investigation takes them to an apartment that is owned by the Westbrook and at first, they think he is simply cheating on his wife. But as Kate is talking to Morgan, she discovers an envelope filled with photos of nude young boys and they realize there is more to the victim than they realized.
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8. Not you, too
A funny moment in the episode is seen between Kate and Rossi. She tells him the specific number of people living in the city and he mournfully asks her this, meaning she is doing something Reid would normally do. Kate balks and insists she googled the information.
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7. Unsubs fight
Chad and Andrew have a fight when Brian finds out about them abducting their abuser and he urges them to let him go. But then a struggle ensues and Chad ends up falling to his death into the hole where Westbrook is.
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6. Man cave
Morgan and Kate go to Westbrook’s man cave, which is covered in arcade games and various items useful for someone who wants to be alone. At first it seems innocuous, until you realized it was just a place for him to go to abuse boys he met through his volunteer work at Sudworth place.
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5. Death of Westbrook
After Brian helps Westbrook get out of the hole where he was being kept, he is angry when he realizes Westbrook lied about going to the police with him. In a fit of rage, he shoots Westbrook to death.
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4. Brian
When the team is searching for Brian when they find out he used to be a victim, they discover through his apartment where he stays that he himself grew up to be a pedophile. They realize they will have to find him and put him away, too.
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3. Morgan talks him down
Of the actual kidnapping duo, Andrew is the only one left and he holds a gun to the police when they arrive at the building where Westbrook was kept. Morgan confides in Andrew about his own abuse and gets him to put his weapon down by telling him he will get a confession, which only confuses Andrew since Westbrook is dead. Then he finds out about Brian when JJ comes over to make the arrest.
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2. Morgan and Kate
Morgan and Kate share a touching moment when Morgan realizes she knows he was abused. When asked who told her, she tells hum that she saw it through his body language and how he handled the case. She apologizes for what he went through and he insists it’s in the past. He is asked how he is able to compartmentalize cases like the ones they just had, and he tells her that it was actually one of the easier ones.
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1. Meg
Meg is home with a friend of hers when the girls get a photo of a boy they are talking to. The boy asks for a photo of them and the girls decide to take one together. But then we see that the person on the other end is actually an adult male and we can only begin to wonder how this will play out.