#criminal minds 4x22

[hotch-girl]

PENELOPE GARCIA and SPENCER REID | 4.22 “THE BIG WHEEL”

[softhairedhotch]

Aaron Hotchner, Season 4 Episode 22.

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[lucicorn72]

I watched Criminal Minds 4x22: The Big Wheel for the first time and I actually-

The parallel between “I wish you were my dad” and “Did he kill my mom?” made me fall to my knees 😭😭😭😭

[foolbo]

my fav episodes from the first 4 seasons of cm (im only on s5 rn LMAO) badly described

teen who wants to kill prostitutes bonds with local autistic man

local autistic man lies to team to save school shooter in the making

local autistic man almost dies from anthrax

offbrand waco siege

news girl has a relationship crisis while gay people kill each other

homeless people get saw trapped

tech girl has a REALLY bad date

boss's british fling gets blown up

local autistic man confronts his daddy issues

man pseudo adopts a blind kid and then kills himself

[stephsycamore]

S4 ep22 the big wheel. Idk why but it never clicks in my head that the one with the unsub filming through his glasses and the one with the unsub on the ferris wheel with the kid are one episode. I always think these are different episodes

Idk its a big cognitive jump for me i guess between guy who brutally kills women and guy who has sympathy for this orphaned child??

Anyway i love an episode where penelope travels with the team!

[prettybaby-reid]

Criminal Minds topics I could write an essay about:

-Haley is over-hated and many of the things people used to justify disliking her are reaches and actually don’t mean anything in actuality. you can simply just not like her character, but acting like you have real “moral” justification is just delusional atp.

- in 4x22/5x01 when Foyet attacks Hotch in his apartment, it’s 100% s/a in some form. whether it’s in the traditional sense or not, Foyet clearly intends for it to have the same effect on Hotch.

-Yes Elle was valid to a certain extent for shooting the rapist in her second to last appearance, it was 100% not the same thing as Hotch murdering Foyet in episode 100.

-Spencer is highly baby-ified by the fandom and it’s insufferable to watch the way people treat other characters for offhanded teases they make at him.

-Jj wasn’t wrong for not telling Spencer that Emily was alive. Jj was wrong for continuously letting Spencer come over for 10 weeks to cry about it, knowing that Emily was alive and she was playing fucking scrabble with her. She could have easily said she wasn’t able to handle everything and let him go to morgan/garcia.

-The writers of criminal minds know how to write episodes and plotlines, but they don’t know how to write consistent character ideas and backstories. they also don’t know how to properly write characters trauma. immediately after Jj is kidnapped, they’re all in a bar together…that doesn’t make sense. she should be in a hospital or at home, not keke-ing with the homies.

-Although the writers are inconsistent with backstories, some of the things people think “don’t add up” actually do add up if you thought for longer than 5 seconds.

-the Cat Adams plotline and Cat as a character is so good until Reids prison arc when they say that Cat had the other girl s/a him, that’s so out of bounds for her. She hates men for what they do to women, specifically the violence men perpetrate towards women, more specifically s/a and domestic violence…why would she s/a Spencer.

-On the topic of the Cat/Spencer s/a topic…that’s definitely a pullover from the fact that it was supposed to be Hotch who was in prison but they had to switch it after Thomas Gibson left. I have an idea of what it could have originally been considering it was supposed to be Hotch/Mr. Scratch, but no solid proof.

[release-your-sweets]

Criminal Minds episodes I rewatch the most (Seasons 1-5)

Season 1

1x01 Extreme Aggressor

1x05 Broken Mirror (Highlight: Gideon sharing his orange)

1x06 L.D.S.K. (Highlight: Reid's gun plot)

1x09 Derailed (Highlight: Spencer Reid)

1x10 The Popular Kids

1x18 Somebody's Watching (Highlight: Spencer Reid)

1x22 The Fisher King Part 1

Season 2

2x01 The Fisher King Part 2 (Highlight: Spencer Reid)

2x02 P911

2x06 The Boogeyman (Highlights: The fear conversation, the plot twist)

2x08 The Empty Planet (Highlight: Derek Morgan)

2x09 The Last Word (Highlight: How they catch the unsubs are so funny)

2x11 Sex, Birth, Death (Highlight: Anton Yelchin)

2x12 Profiler, Profiled (Highlight: Derek Morgan)

2x18 Jones (Highlights: William Lamontagne Jr., Ethan)

Season 3

3x03 Scared to Death (Highlight: Elevator scene)

3x05 Seven Seconds (This whole episode is just good)

3x13 Limelight

3x14 Damaged (Highlights: David Rossi, Spencer Reid)

3x16 Elephant's Memory (Highlight: Spencer Reid)

3x17 In Heat (Highlight: JJ and Will)

3x18 The Crossing (Both cases are super interesting to me)

3x19 Tabula Rasa

Season 4

4x02 The Angel Maker (Highlight: "He's so lifelike")

4x03 Minimal Loss

4x07 Memoriam

4x08 Masterpiece (Highlight: the Fibonacci sequence)

4x09 52 Pickup (Highlights: Emily Prentiss, Magic)

4x11 Normal

4x12 Soul Mates

4x16 Pleasure is My Business (Highlights: Megan Kane, "How am I a whore?"

4x20 Conflicted

4x21 A Shade of Gray (Highlight: The plot twist)

4x22 The Big Wheel

4x24 Amplification

Season 5

5x01 Nameless, Faceless (Highlight: The way they had MGG sitting the whole episode)

5x02 Haunted

5x03 Reckoner

5x07 The Performer (Highlight: Twilight)

5x11 Retaliation

5x12 The Uncanny Valley (Highlight: Spencer Reid)

5x13 Risky Business (Highlights: Penelope Garcia, The Star Puzzle)

5x14 Parasite

5x15 Public Enemy

5x19 A Rite of Passage

5x20 ...A Thousand Words

5x22 The Internet is Forever (Highlight: Boyband hair)

[vulgarpr1nce55]

4x22 of criminal minds i MISSS elle greenaway

itching to watch cute criminal minds edits but god knows i hate spoilers so i wont

[afaimsarrowverse]

250(ish) Favorite Arrowverse Episodes: Part 7: 100-76

Picked from „Arrow“, „Black Lightning“, „Supergirl“, „Legends of Tomorrow“, „The Flash“, „Barwoman“ Season 1+2 and „Superman & Lois“ Season 1+2. I did consider kicking „Superman & Lois“ of this list, but since it pretended to be part of the Arrowverse for its first two seasons I left it on here.

 100. Armageddon Part 4 (The Flash 8x4)

155, Written by: Lauren Barnett, Directed by: Chad Lowe

 "Thawne, what did you do? You're not The Flash, Allen. I am."

 99.  Ground Control to Sara Lance (Legends of Tomorrow 6x1)

83, Written by: James Eagan, Mark Bruner, Directed by: Kevin Mock

 „See, my girlfriend's from another time.“

„ Oh, like the future?“ „No. Well, technically, yes. But she's from the future with a different timeline entirely. Now she lives in a totem. And I'm forced to be at peace with it.“

 98.  The Fixed Point (Legends of Tomorrow 7x10)

107, Written by: Matthew Maala, Paiman Kalayeh, Directed by: Maisie Richardson-Sellers

 "Fixed point. Noun. An occurrence so pivotal to history that no time travel is allowed on or near it."

 97.  Emerald Archer (Arrow 7x12)

150, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Emilio Ortega Aldrich, Directed by: Glen Winter

 "Villains or vigilantes? Criminals or heroes? From Star City to Central City to Gotham City, Americans have debated this question. Do the ends justify the means? Does the law have to be broken to uphold it?"

 96.  The Quest for Peace (Supergirl 4x22)

87, Written by: Robert Rovner, Jessica Queller, Rob Wright, Derek Simon, Directed by: Jesse Warn

 "The truth is meaningless. The people of Earth believe I am their savior. They needed a human hero, and I fulfill that need. Nothing will ever change their minds. Facts are irrelevant. All that matters is spin."

 95.  Seance and Sensibility (Legends of Tomorrow 4x11)

62, Written by: Grainne Godfree, Jackie Canino, Directed by: Alexandra La Roche

 "You feel the energy in this room? It's like sitting on a keg of dynamite. You see, wakes are notorious soft spots where the supernatural meets the living world."

 94.  Lost Souls (Arrow 4x6)

75, Written by: Beth Schwartz, Emilio Ortega Aldrich, Directed by: Antonio Negret

 "What's happening with Ray - to Ray - is my fault!"

 93.  The Runaway Dinsoaur (The Flash 2x21)

44, Written by: Zack Stentz, Directed by: Kevin Smith

 "I don't understand. If I'm the Flash then why are you doing this to me? Why do I have to catch this 'thing' before you let me go back?"

 92.  Goldfaced (The Flash 5x13)

105, Written by: Jonathan Butler, Gabriel Garza, Directed by: Alexandra LaRoche

 "If I want to stop Cicada, I can't be so precious about getting the Flash's hands dirty. Sometimes the ends justify the means, I get that now."

 91.  Canary Cry (Arrow 4x19)

88, Written by:Wendy Mercile, Beth Schwartz, Directed by: Laura Belsey

 „ Laurel Lance became a lawyer to help people who may have appeared helpless. She wanted to give a voice to the silent. But just being a lawyer wasn't enough. She wanted to do more for those people, and for this city. And she loved this city so much. By now, everyone knows that Laurel was killed in the Iron Heights prison riot. And while it's true that she was an assistant district attorney, that's not what she was doing there that night. Before she died, Laurel told me the truth: Laurel Lance was the Black Canary.“

 90.  The Book of Resistance: Chapter Four: Earth Crisis (Black Lightning 3x9)

38, Written by: Lamont Magee, Directed by: Tasha Smith

„Are you seeing this?“

89.  This is Gus (Legends of Tomorrow 6x9)

91, Written by: Tyron B. Carter, Directed by: Eric Dean Seaton

 „I can promise you, alien hybrid to alien: bananas are overrated.“

 88.  Holding the Wrench (Superman & Lois 1x8)

8, Written by: Kristi Korzec, Directed by: Norma Bailey

 "Jon, if there's anyone here who gets what you're going through, It's me. I know what it's like to be in the orbit of someone who can juggle semi-trucks, and you want to help out. You want to save the world and all you can do is just stand there holding the wrench. And I know the fear of being vulnerable, and I want to teach you some ways to handle that. But right now, I just want you to know that we're on the same team. We are the extraordinary humans in a family of superpeople, and we have to stick together."

 87.  O Brother, where art though? (Supergirl 4x15)

80, Written by: Derek Simon, Nicki Holcomb, Directed by: Tawina McKiernan

 "Lex and Lena Luthor, teaming up to save Superman's best pal. What would Mother think?"

 86.  The House of L (Supergirl 4x16)

81, Written by: Dana Horgan, Eric Carrasco, Directed by: Carl Seaton

 "This is a paradigm shift. Aliens are among us. And for the rest of human history, there will only ever be 'before Superman' and 'after'. I am protecting mankind from an extinction event. And if this pearl-clutching jury of my... peers... wants to put me behind bars for it, they are welcome to try. But know this. I will always have my thumb on the scales."

 85.  Luck Be a Lady (The Flash 4x3)

72, Written By: Sam Chalsen, Judalina Neira, Directed By: Armen V. Kervokian

 "Becky, this isn't some higher power fixing a miscalculation. You have powers. And they're affecting everyone around you, making them feel as awful as you used to feel."

"I'm sorry about that. But, maybe it's just their turn. Maybe for once, everyone else can feel for a second how bad I felt my entire life."

 84.  Canaries (Arrow 3x13)

59, Written by: Jake Coburn, Emilio Aldrich, Directed by: Michael Schultz

 "I'm surprised. People usually don't return for a second dose of Vertigo."

 83.  Prom Night! / Prom Again (Supergirl 6x5/6x6)

111/112, Written by: Rob Wright, Jess Kardos, Directed by: Alexandra LaRoche; Chyler Leigh

 „There's nothing women like more than physics well applied. That and a modicum of emotional vulnerability.“

 „You were amazing today. How you handled those bad guys. How you handled yourself. You should be proud, Kara. I am. I'm sorry if I've been overprotective lately. When dad put me in charge of your safety, that job consumed me. But then I went away to college and-and I realized that I could be more than just Kara's older sister. But then I came home and I saw you and Kenny supering, and I was worried you were gonna mess things up. That I was gonna have to put my life on hold to help sort yours. But I was wrong. You can handle anything that comes your way.“

 82.  License to Elongate (The Flash 6x6)

120, Written By: Thomas Pound, Jeff Hersh, Directed By: Danielle Panabaker

 "Look, tonight's job was for Ralph Dibny because both parts of my identity have value. The same is true for you, only tonight I could've used your civilian half. What I'm trying to say is Barry Allen is just as important as the Flash. Try to remember that. I know I will."

 81.  What’s Past is Prologue (The Flash 5x8)

100, Written By: Todd Helbing, Lauren Certo, Directed By: Tom Cavanagh

 "Well... things just got a lot more complicated, didn't they?"

 80.  Stronger Together (Supergirl 1x2)

2, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Ali Adler, Directed by: Glen Winter

 "Did he ever tell you what that 'S' means?" "The House of El." "Yes, but... it also stands for a Kryptonian phrase, our family motto. 'El mayarah.' It means, 'Stronger together.' You say people will see me the way they see Superman one day, but... I don't want to be a hero like him. My cousin, he's so used to going it alone. He doesn't know any other way. But I do. I see it now. You, Winn, my sister, Ms. Grant, even. You've all showed me that."

 79.  Left Behind (Arrow 3x10)

56, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Eric Oleson, Directed by: Glen Winter

 "The League conducts matter of significance such as duels on grounds sacred to its beliefs. I went there. And found this. It's Ra's' custom to leave behind the instrument of death as a memorial to honor the fallen." "Merlyn, did you see... Oliver's body?"

 78.  Legion of Super-Heroes (Supergirl 3x10)

52, Written by: Derek Simon, Eric Carrasco, Directed by: Jesse Warn

 "We have to stop her." "Without Supergirl?" "We have a literal Legion of superheroes."

 77.  Mr. Parker’s Cul-De-Sac (Legends of Tomorrow 5x6)

74, Written by: Keto Shimizu, James Eagan, Directed by: Ben Bray

 „Dad, I am not a child! You can't just kill my friends anymore.“

��76.  The Climb (Arrow 3x9)

55, Written by: Jake Coburn, Keto Shimizu, Directed by: Thor Freudenthal

 "I arrived the same year as Ta-er Al-Sahfer. She was a great warrior. You did not kill her. When you face the Demon, it will be my duty to bear witness. I have no desire to watch you die. Under our code, you have 12 hours to settle your affairs. The 13th hour, be at this place. This location is consecrated ground for the League. A place for the settlement of blood debts—if one survives the climb. If you do."

[homoose]

You wanna talk about the saddest criminals minds episodes of all time??

My guy, we have to talk about 4x22 - The Big Wheel

Alex O’Loughlin’s portrayal of Vincent??? Heartbreaking and visceral and horrible. Jake Cherry as Stan??? Endearing and intelligent and DEVASTATING.

The bond between two boys who lost their mothers to violent crimes? Even though one of them also committed the crime???? WOWEEEEEEEEEE way to make me feel deeply conflicted and awful.

Vincent’s adoption of Stan’s mannerisms within his OCD because of the guilt and bond he feels to him??? OOOOOOOOOOF.

Getting shot and packing the wound with bread so he can have the final Ferris wheel ride with the boy who could have changed his life if they’d met under different, earlier circumstances??????? LMAO WOW RIP MY HEART OUT

“I wish you were my dad” ?!?!??!??!!?? FUCK DUDE

And none of this even touches on ~soft Derek~ and the face touching thing

Like holy fuck this episode had me fucking REKT

[vvalliu]

[hotch-girl]

DEREK MORGAN with CHILDREN | 4.22 “THE BIG WHEEL”

[softhairedhotch]

Aaron Hotchner, Season 4 Episode 22.

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[katrina-cornwell]

One Gif Set Per Episode:

Criminal Minds Season 4 Episode 22: “The Big Wheel”

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That's the beauty of family. We already know.

BAU + I love you

[damnhotmsimmons]

Endless gifs of Penelope Garcia

The Big Wheel-(4x22)