Top 10 Saddest Criminal Minds Episodes
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- We're still haunted over the saddest "Criminal Minds" episodes. For this list, we’ll be looking at BAU cases that continue to break our hearts. Our countdown includes "Ashes and Dust," "Seven Seconds," "Hope," and more! What do YOU think is the saddest "Criminal Minds" episodes? Let us know in the comments!
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Mosley Lane BROKE ME... that dad realizing his son was alive yesterday was absolutely devastating. If I remember correctly, that was the first episode that Matthew Gray Gubler directed.
What really messed me up with that episode is that we never even found out why they were kidnapping kids to begin with
@@ChaoticNalilitoMC I agree. Most of the time- not all the time- criminals have motives. But they both died before the team got their answers
Omg yes… that episode always has me in tears.
I had to skip the MOsley Lane section of this video. The actors were so amazing (especially the horrible lady) that it is un-
watchable.
That’s one of my favorite episodes because it has really good acting and I cry every time I watch it 😭
“He was alive yesterday?” Will never not haunt me. Brutal line, and the actor delivered the crap out of it.
Rights! I tear up every time 😢
@@iceis82 same I cry every time!!!
makes me cry every time, like I would not be able to function after that.
@@iceis82 qþrrt111
Agreed. I always cry no matter how many times I’ve watched that episode. The delivery of that line coupled with the raw talent that is EP is just wow. It showed the dichotomy of two families: one mother who never gave up on finding her son and the parents who gave up too soon. And their guilt is heart wrenching. You can just imagine that they’ll live with that guilt the rest of their life.😢
Paget Brewster’s performance in “7 Seconds” when she’s interrogating the aunt is one of, if not THE, best scene she has ever done.
For Real, that is one of the reasons i have watched that episode so many times, Paget’s performance in the entire episode is impeccable, but that scene omg i love it
AMEN!!
Agree! I wanted to strangle that Aunt.
Amen
Overall or just in the show?
To me, the episodes "To Hell..." "...And Back" were the most traumatizing. Over 100 victims who lived on the streets who got tortured, experimented on and ripped apart to be fed to pigs. And the local authorities didn't care about the missing people cause they were 'junkies'.
Those episodes still haunt me how dehumanizing they were.
I agree especially at the end of the continuing episode where Hotch does that speech it's haunting
@zesty lemon you think that's sad, the story was real. Look up Robert Pickton
It's in season 9
And that the killer was special needs and being manipulated by his brother just made the whole thing even sadder
It was based on a real case also, you can check Robert Pickton case
The episode in season 1 where the mum is on death row even though she’s innocent. Heart breaking.
OMG and then Gideon attends the boy's recital 😭😭😭
Yeah that always makes me cry
Yes very heartbreaking
Riding lightning. Yes.
That episode should have been in the list, she was innocent and her words at the end "that her life was over the day she met Jacob" was heartbreaking.
7 Seconds is my favorite episode. No jigsaw maniac, no killer cult, just a quiet story of two families obliterated by one man’s sick desires. The episode doesn’t mention it explicitly but with the fathers being identical twins, that poor little girl is going to see her molester’s face every time she looks into her innocent dad’s eyes. The fact that the actions taken shatter every family bond is a real emotional gut punch and the ending scene makes me tear up every time.
I so agree because that was the most heartbreaking thing about that episode to to know that Katie was always going to be traumatized because her dad looks exactly like her molester with them being identical twins and to know that her auntie tried to kill her. That always broke my heart
That episode shook me
its my favorite too bc it reminds me of a book i read once about a boys whos dads best friend molested him for years until he killed him. then the friends son went on a murder spree for revenge
Did not realize until watching this video that the fathers were meant to be twins!
I never even thought of the twin aspect. That is especially haunting.
It seems as if people hardly ever mention the episode "Riding the Lightning" from season one, but that one personally is in the top five saddest for me. The way the mom was innocent, and could have saved her life, but died so her son could live a normal life free of knowing who she was brings me to tears every time.
I totally agree. "Riding the Lightning" is one of my favorite Criminal Minds episodes ever. The love that woman had for her son was total and pure. Her asking that Gideon's face be the last thing that she sees gets me every time, also.
I recently went back and rewatched it, it's one of my favorite episodes and I can't help but cry every time. She sacrificed herself so her son could continue his life not in the shadow of his horrible father. So sad
If I ever have a terminal illness I'm going to request Mandy Patinkin looking in my eyes smiling as I breathe my last breath.
riding the lightning is the reason criminal minds became my favourite show. made me bawl.
I think about Riding The Lightning every goddam day
Also the storyline where we find out that jj lost her baby because of an explosion, purposely caused by a member of her team, and she couldn't tell anyone because it was a secret pendagon operation, but emily and reid found out anyway , it was very sad. Her suffering ptsd from torture trauma should be on this list.
As well the episode where they focused on reid's mom's alzheimer and in the end everyone helped him to pull himself together, it was a very bittersweet moment. 😢
That episode’s name was 200. The story of her PTSD was an overarching story in several episodes that season
@@anyabarton5224 can you tell me which season was that? i cant find it with tge name
@@user-ni2tf5be8u Season 9 Ep. 14 i believe
@@estebanpons2015 thank you❤️
Another JJ one to mention is the one where she had to choose which child to save in a burning fire and she admits that she chose the brother because of her own two boys. She’s retelling the story to Will and my heart breaks when she tells him about that moment. Sick Day S12.2
“He was alive yesterday?” is the most heartbreaking line in the series. It’s a tv moment that has stayed with me for years after first seeing it.
Omg me too!!! That’s a total nightmare moment as a parent, i feel the same
One of the saddest episodes on Criminal Minds is when JJ has to save two siblings that have been abducted from the burning warehouse and she saves the younger brother first but can't save the sister in time and the sister is just screaming "Jennifer, Jennifer" that episode broke me along with the top one being Haley's death. I cried for hours.
What episode was this
@@jacobhall9321 “Sick Day” Season 12, episode 2
Is that the one she recounts to Will once she gets home? If so, that is sad!
@@rebeccaroberts8120 yes! I was literally so sad 😭
I remember that episode VIVIDLY
Criminal minds was such a roller coaster and I ABSOLUTELY ADORED IT
Me too. It’s one of the few series I’ve watched in its entirety from start to end - every episode of every season….multiple times too.
@@LucienSabre I KNOW, I love rewatching it
I have watched the entire series twice but refuse to watch the final episode. I am pretending it isn’t over.
Just jerks my emotions every episode it's madness with anxiety with crying all in one episode every episode just beautiful 😍
Before this countdown even started, I knew Haley's death would be number 1. I feel like faking Emily's death should have been a bit higher on the list and Strauss' murder should have at least gotten an honorable mention.
yeah, but i don't think many were affected by strauss dying, in a way they were getting rid of a character that was no longer relevant to the story, probably why they killed hayley as painful as her death was
Удивительно, что про Дерека Моргана забыли. Он перенес такие пытки и боль, что удивил профессиональных мучителей, а когда Дерека погрузили в скорую его сердце не выдержало и остановилось. Он смог выйти на роботу только через 6 месяцев.
Lauren doesn't go higher on the list because we know she's alive by the end of the episode. They show JJ giving her her new ID in Paris.
@@carr0760 I always found it odd that they did that. They should’ve at least let the audience think she was dead for a few episodes. By revealing she’s still alive right away like that, it took all the weight away from that scene and that whole storyline imo
@@boppityboopy114 agreed. Watching the next few episodes where they were grieving, doing counselling, etc was just frustrating because we knew they were lied to. We should have found out when they did...when Emily walked back into the BAU to save Declan.
Another sad episode I just thought of is “The Big Wheel”. The only witness to the killing of his own mother is a young boy that’s blind and he unknowingly befriends the man that killed his mother. He finds this out at the very end of the episode as the unsub dies from a gunshot wound after taking the young boy on a Ferris Wheel ride as a birthday present. This episode was devastating in more ways than one as we learn the unsub listened to his own mother being killed by his abusive father as a child and he constantly has a recording of her murder being played in his apartment as an adult.
Yes! Stan and Vinsent. When the boy said "I wish you were my father", I cried so hard. And Stan was crushed in the end. If only they've met before Vinsent started to kill.
@@tanyam5471 Yeah but I guess that episode was a case of “like father, like son” because I said Vincent heard or possibly even watched as his father killed his mother back when he was a child.
I forgot about that episode. I was a sobbing mess by the end.
That episode is 100% the saddest one for me, it made me bawl my eyes out which is _really_ impressive considering it was a one episode build up compared to the other tear jerkers that tend to be two parters or directly involved with the team. That ending breaks my heart to no end...
i was bawling during that one. 2 things that got me was the fact the team only found out about him b/c he was asking for help (leaving a video asking for help) to stop him from killing and the only reason he started trying to stop his urges was b/c of the blind kid. That ferris wheel scene hit me hardest especially when he said "remember when u said, I wish he killed me too. [..] dont ever wish for that. because you helped me see." it was a long time ago so it may not be word for word, but damn that line got me crying.
Saddest episode: When Hotch’s wife dies. No contest.
It gets me crying every time
but it was so satisfying to watch hotch beat the reaper to death.
Agree
Fully agreed
Who dont cry when the gun shot been heard and see Garcia cry
“True Night” broke my whole heart and I can’t believe it wasn’t even mentioned. When you realize he’s been calling her phone to hear her voice 😭😭😭😭
💙💀💙
The fact he was held down while he was forced to watch her raped and then he was disemboweled only to barely survive. The way he sat there in the end with his only request being to have the phone to listen to the message over and over as he draws us just unbelievably heartbreaking and tbh he is one of the most justified mental breaks in the show
i cant watch that episode, once was enough it was just too heartbreaking
Yes that is my favorite episode of all criminal minds it was the saddest episode.
I was waiting for it to come up :(
Yesss... Frankie showed out in that episode!
The dad breaking in Mosely Lane, realizing his son was alive yesterday breaks me
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Especially when in context, they had made themselves believe he was already dead. They'd given up searching. It was their worst nightmare come to life "What if we'd just kept looking?"
ive watched that episode at least a dozen times and i ball my eyes out every time
I cried like a baby on that one
Maeve's death was by far the worst thing that happened to Reid. I wish he saved her.
I wanted them to be together!! So sad for Spence.
It really was the worst thing to happen to him besides prison…
Revelations was hardest for me. I hated seeing him in prison but seeing him become even more assertive and protective than he already was while in prison made it bearable.
I watched this the other day and I texted my best friend whos seen this episode before me and I was SOBBING and like texting her every few seconds narrating my emotions -now it’s funny but like it was shattering cuz I’m an emotional wreck sometimes lol
So many bad things happened to Reid over the course of the show! Getting kidnapped and forcibly addicted to drugs, his headaches, his mum's medical issues, Maeve dying in front of him, being falsely accused and jailed... I'm sure I'm missing other major things as well, but they put him through so much more than any other character, I think. And then that half baked storyline about JJ being in love with him! He deserved a whole love for himself from someone who isn't married with children. I'm glad they introduced a potential love interest at the end but they could've done it sooner. Or saved Maeve. Something.
Season 1's Riding the Lightning is the saddest one for me. I still remember how broken hearted I was for this innocent woman to choose to die on death row instead of letting it be known that she didn't kill her son, but gave him away to keep him safe instead. She'd rather that happen than have him know the truth of his family.
That woman was one of the best one episode characters
The saddesr episode ever
"Lauren" should have been much higher on the list. The audience did not know that Prentiss was still alive until after JJ tells the team and then her and Hotch go away to talk. At that point it is still only really confirmed at the very end of the episode.
tbh i kinda knew prentiss was still alive cuz 1. i watched it on netflix 2. the beginning shows all the main actors
@@supportingcharacter2908 But if you were watching it when it aired, you wouldn't have known that. Plus at the time, it was widely known that Paget Brewster was leaving the show, so most people thought they might actually kill the character.
At the end of the episode doesn't JJ give Emily passports and stuff in Paris? or is that in a different episode?
@@HollyEversideBCs Yes, it was that episode. But that is what I meant by you had to wait until after JJ told the team that she was dead. When she comes out and tells the team she is dead, it is believable, until she gives Hotch a look and they go off alone to talk. And then of course the ending when she's in Paris giving her the passport. But up until that point the audience truly believes that she is going to die or has died.
@@stephaniecasey9100 Got ya, I thought you meant the episodes following that one
"100" had one of the saddest scenes (Haley's death) and one of the most satisfying (Hotch beating Foyet to death)
Yes !!! I love that part
this was the hardest for me, hearing the gun shots and seeing the reactions it was not easy to listen too or see
it was a tragic scene indeed but i love how Hotch still managed to save his son by something which was only their secret.
Yes !! I could understand all that anger and frustration. Everyone has a dark side
The episode where the Boxer/father at the end tells his dying son that sometimes you lose your fights, and that's ok because you did your best..... seconds later, the boy dies and leaves everyone in the room including Hotchner and the watching audience, heartbroken 💔
Yes! Idk why they didn't include that episode. It was the only one that made me cry.
What episode is this?
@@gonzalocorrea1498 season 7: episode 10, The Bittersweet Science 👍🏻 make sure you have tissues on hand
Season 7 made me cry so much
I agree with your #1 pick! That brought tears back seeing Hotch holding his wife's body. His family was everything to him.
I cry everytime I watch that whole episode
I think the most moving part is the perfect chemistry between the two of them. You can tell they are still in love even though they are divorced. Neither has even tried to move on with another lover. It makes her Erath in the end all the more tragic.
One of the saddest for me was in "Distress" where the veteran is reliving his experience at war in a ward in Houston and is eventually, needlessly shot and killed by a SWAT member. Broke my heart. Gideon at the end proclaims, "the only thing humans have been good at is killing each other".
yeah this one's sad too TT
The episode that was so wild and sad to me was the episode where they’re looking for the girl whose missing only to find out the killer served her body in chili to all the search volunteers!
That was the episode Lucky that is right before the episode Penelope.
“God is in all of us”
“So is Tracey Lambert.”
@@axelthealpha8147 i swear my jaw was on the floor when i realized what he said
I remember I’m glad my mom doesn’t remember that episode
That episode was so twisted!!!
Saddest and most traumatising episode for me is North Mammon. The guy who kidnapped the 3 soccer girls because he wanted to teach their parents a lesson. I think about that episode a lot
I have freaking nightmares about that episode
Me too I never became normal after that. It still haunts me.
For me personally all the best episodes are the worst ones... The saddest ones. The extremely horrible one. The ones I'll never forget!!
I was looking for this comment. This one traumatized me.
Season and episode
Mosley Lane is heartbreaking. Not only for the “he was alive yesterday?” line but also because of Charlie’s mother. She never gave up hope and tracked every similar disappearance around the area. But everyone thought she was crazy and needed to move on because she was a drunk. She was right the whole time but all those years had no support system because no one believed her.
For me, one of the scenes that always makes me tear up, was from "the fox" when the brother of one of the victims was brought in as a suspect. And after they realize he isn't a suspect due to his size and learning disability, and after retelling his events of the last time he saw his sister, it dawns in him that "she wasn't saying leave, she was mouthing help me". So out of guilt and anger at himself, he starts punching himself in the head repeating stupid while crying.
Yup, I cried so, so much, it was really incredibly written and portrayed...
I watched that episode a few times, but the last scene was chilling.😧
Omg yes..
Which episode is this?
I can rewatch any episode of Criminal Minds, but I find myself struggling to rewatch "The Fox".
The psychological impact when you have a family of your own is so impactful.
The scene mentioned here with the brother is heart-wrenching.
Him talking to his wife as they both knew she was going to die was so heartbreaking. Seeing Hotch cry, a man who never cried, 💔.
You're right... However I think the most heartbreaking one was when he was under the knife, And he was reunited with his wife to watch videos of their son.
the only other scene that left me weeping..
The Frankie Muniz episode is so heartbreaking, when he listens to the voicemail again and again
I agree that episode was heartbreaking
Episode is True Night.
Oh that one broke my heart it was so sad.
YES!
Almost like, "The Crow."
Even though most of us weren’t fans of her, Strauss’ death really blindsided me and stuck with my for a while after. She’d been through so much and fought her demons and to be killed like that really struck me, her calling out for her kids and Hotch comforting her I just 😭
The line, “he was alive yesterday” gets me every time. The idea that their son was almost saved is one I hope to never have to deal with.
That episode Mosley Lane absolutely breaks me… just when the kids were all reunited with the parents and the one kid who died the DAY BEFORE having Charlie tell the parents he was a hero and the cries of the father and mother just absolutely break me.. I cant imagine being a parent finding out your son has been alive all those years and just when you could possibly see him he dies hours before.. heartbreaking
I wish "The Big Wheel" had been on here. It was one of the very few episodes where I actually sympathized with the killer by the end and was sad to see them die, and when the young blind boy found out that the man he looked up to and wished was his father was the one that killed his mother, it nearly broke me.
One of the few episodes that actually made tears streamed down my face... Heartbreaking, showing how sometimes the Unsub is also the victim...
The way he held his hand while dying, and the ferris wheel starts running again, break my heart to pieces...
And of course Stan's breaking voice saying 'he killed my mother, didn't he?', even Derek cried...
Truly one of the saddest episodes...
@@shasharos-hari4002 Everything you said I feel the same way about. And when Derek carried stan away from the ferris wheel and Stan started calling out Vincent's name because he didn't know what was going on or that he had just died while they were coming down, it's too much, his last words were forgive me while he was still holding his hand 😭 such a good episode, I wanna watch it again
Definitely should’ve been on here. Hopefully they make a part 2. “Derek” and “Broken” should definitely be there as well.
The quiet 'i knew you'd understand' Reid says when he hugs Hotch at the end of Revelations was just 😭
My heart hurts when the dad said "he was alive yesterday"😭😭😭
That moment will always get me
And my favorite quote is in that scene. "For days like today" in response to "why do you surround yourself with the dark secrets of others?"
That hurts to see his face break 😢😭
The episode where Reid's mother goes through dementia was tough to watch. The one where she slaps him. I found it more realistic because it's something that happens to a lot of old people.
Jane Lynchs amazing acting also helps, she make it seem more real
I cried for Spencer in the episode where Gideon was killed.
Damn straight. Nelson’s sparrow should have made the list. Our poor pretty boy was so heart achingly sad and it was terrible watching him play his and Gideons last game alone until Rossi reached out
Gideon didn't die, he left
"Mosley Lane" breaks my heart, particularly at the end when Charlie tells Steven's parents that he was alive not long before Charlie and the rest of the kids were rescued and Steven's dad breaks down.
Hotches wifes death,definitely heartbreaking and had me crying, and maeves death
Why did they have to be stuffed in the fridge, like that? Or at all?
Hailey's death was a masterclass of writing. With her and Hotch separating she was effectively a non factor in the show going forward anyway, she would have had minimal appearances and affect. Instead of her just casually disappearing, kill her off and create the best villain in the franchise history while simultaneously making Hotch a sympathy character going forward.
JJ was a terrific character. She was almost always seething. Even in her quiet moments rage was just under the surface. When she smiled her face became like an icy mask; it was quite frightening. Frankly, throughout the series I was waiting for the circumstance that would finally push her over the edge. Don't misunderstand me here; I'm not criticizing her or the actress. It was exciting, and when her baby was killed by 'friendly fire' I thought that was going to be the trigger for an explosion. It never came. She was, for me anyway, a walking cliffhanger.
To me, JJ transformed to a bad ass when the bank robbers threatened her family at the end of season 7 (I think). You see her actually fighting to defend her son and that's not really something we saw from her before, if I'm not mistaken. After that episode her character really hit different from the "pretty blonde" communications liaison we met at the beginning. That seething rage that you speak of was fully on display in the episodes where a new female chief came to break up the team and got half of them reassigned. I can't remember her name but she had super short hair and was a right bitch from the start. I was surprised they didn't let JJ fight her🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@latoyakvh Do you remember what episode you're talking about them getting reassinged?
@@just88things86 no, sorry. It was probably the last or second to last season. Prentiss was reassigned, Rossi was forced into retirement, Reid was sent off to teach, Garcia was moved to a new office where she had to wear beige, Tara was stuck doing counselling for FBI agents, JJ was given Prentiss's job and the other two guys stayed at the the BAU as well. It only lasted one episode, though, as they secretly came together and solved a case that made the woman in charge look really bad, resulting in her being moved and Prentiss being reinstated with full authority to rehire whomever she wanted.
I agree. The closest episode would be the one where the kidnappers had injured her husband and one was holding her son hostage inside JJ's home. JJ broke into her own home and saved her child. Many have speculated that the actress was channeling real life feelings because the little boy was her real child.
@@latoyakvh The bitch was named Linda Barnes, and I'm with you on that one. I kept yelling at my screen for JJ to deck her.
C. Thomas Howell is imo the most underrated actor of all times. His career spans decades, starting in the 1980s (if not earlier), yet a large chunk of the mainstream public has barely (if never) even heard of him….that’s an outright shame (and disgusting too) because he’s just as much if not more talented than many more famous a-list actors.
I've loved C. Thomas Howell ever since The Outsiders. He is a great actor. I was happy to see him play a villian in the show. He did such a great job at making you hate his character.
I would definitely agree with you on that only because of the fact that I have not been able to look at that actor the same way since the episode that he killed Haley. That's how you know that a actor played his role really well when no matter what else they play in all you see is the role that you see him in and mine is Foyet cuz he killed Haley
@@laurawithers5152 Watch him in “The Amazing Spider-man”. You’ll forget Foyet. :)
He was wonderful in the Outsiders. So many young stars in that film. I believe the book has been a best seller for high schoolers everywhere. Pony Boy. Stay gold.
@@laurawithers5152 I’m with you on that. I knew him first as George Foyet and that’s all I see whenever he pops up on my screen. I also can never get my head around the fact that Tim Curry was a serial killer but also was in rocky horror.
Yeah....I was GUTTED when Haley was killed. Poor Hotch and Jack.
"100" was one of the saddest ever. Haley's death was absolutely traumatizing. She was one of my favorites in the show, and will forever be missed. Foyet; one of the most terrible unsubs in the show's history.
i watched it on a plane and that was absolutely traumatic
Since I haven't seen it in the comments yet, I think we should mention the arc of Derek's final episodes, where he was tortured, his pregnant fiance was shot, and the unsub playing Russian Roulette with him while the team is on the phone.
Вы абсолютно правы!!! Дерек Морган перенес ужасные пытки, даже мучители удивились. Он смог, в казалось безвыходной ситуации, справиться с ними. Дерек перенес так много боли и ужаса, что когда его друзья погрузили его в машину скорой помощи у него остановилось сердце. Он смог выйти на работу только через 6 месяцев. У него на глазах выстрелили в беременную невесту, он мог потерять их обоих. А сколько боли когда он по телефону прощается со своей командой под дулом пистолета субъекта, играющего с ним в русскую рулетку...
The season 12 episode “Sick Day” was so heartbreaking. Where JJ comes home and tells Will about the devastating case she just worked
And Will internationally withheld medicine from Henry and caused him to have a seizure.
@@katemaloney4296 what do you mean
@@katemaloney4296 he did what now
Reid went through a lot on the show. I always felt bad for his character.
The saddest episode is when Gideon is killed. Nelson's Sparrow, i think the show is called. Or the episode when Gideon leaves the show and leaves a note for Reed at his cabin.
Absolutely! Gideon was such a good character and smart as a whip on the behavioral analysis. But the actor did not want to continue doing this type of show. I know it was hard to deal with the subject matter season after season. Mandy Patinkin was Ingo Montoya from the Princess Bride. I'll always love him for that role. I think he got sort of prima donna about acting roles and how he was treated on set. Not the most likable actor.
Hope is by far the most disturbing episode of criminal minds I’ve ever seen. And I’ve watched the whole 15 seasons twice
I’ve seen a LOT of them but somehow I have not seen Hope. During this countdown, that was the clip that affected me the most. What an absolute nightmare on so many levels. Being forced to grieve your baby girl, unexpectedly, WHILE you’re being held captive and he plans to rape you to replace her?! Jeez, I would’ve just found a way to kill myself. How do you even have the will to fight after realizing what your daughter went through as a prisoner and then finding her body. What a dark, heart-wrenching story🙈
@@lindsay9838 yes it’s extremely heart wrenching! To think your child was so close and going through so much was mental torture for the mom. All those feelings were portrayed very well in the acting and throughout the episode as well!
Zoe's Reprise was one of the saddest ones for me... Zoe (played by 8 Simple rules Amy Davidson) goes to a book signing of Rossi's, she asks his advise on what she thinks is a serial killer in her area, he brushes her off and pretty much tells her to stay in school. Zoe goes to do her own investigation and is killed, Rossi gets a call in the middle of the night as Zoe had his card on her. Rossi goes to tell her mother and feels extreme guilt about not doing more, the screams from poor Zoe's mother
Episode 100 always guts me. That had to be at the top. I just finished watching the episode "The Tall Man" and my heart broke again for what young JJ went through. Criminal Minds is one of the greatest shows of all time.
Luke’s friend getting kill shatter my heart. He didn’t deserve to die, he was just recuperating from the war.
I believed true night was also really sad because we see a comic book artist became a brutal vigilante because he was forced to watch his pregnant girlfriend get killed and we see him constantly listen to her voicemail just to hear her voice :’(
I forgot the name of the episode but it was around seasons 2-4 where those three best friends who play soccer are abducted and are told that only two will live. That have to choose who has to die. For me that episode haunted me for a while!! The trauma those two girls are left with is very difficult to even imagine!
I remember that one
Saison 2 Episode 7 , North Mammon.
I agree , i love this episode
After that episode, I can’t be in a friendgroup of 3. It absolutely terrified me- and still does
Zugzwang should be higher up…. Everyone loves Spencer and he found someone who he truly loved 💕
I agree. That episode absolutely devastated me.
“He was alive yesterday” will ALWAYS make me sob
'The Big Wheel' for me hit the most, one of the very few episodes which can actually made tears fallen out of my eyes...
Heartbreaking end...
When the unsub said 'you are special, so please don't ever think about wanting to die', how the victim's son actually said to the unsub 'I wish you were my Dad' while the unsub held his little hand before he died, his cracking voice when he finally realized who Vincent really was... 💔
Never seen such a heartbreaking TV Series episode before that, and the writing truly was amazing..
The one with Hotch always gets me no matter how many times I watch it. It’s so hard to see a character who hardly shows any emotions, except towards his family be so torn because of it being taken away by a monster. 100% agree with these picks.
"Hope" is difficult to watch, but such a great episode. I remember the first time I watched it, during the scene in the support group meeting, as soon as you saw that random hand squeeze her shoulder while she was sharing, and heard the voice saying "That's why we're here", but didn't see the face of this supposedly supportive person, right away I was like "DING, DING, DING, THAT'S THE UNSUB, WHAT DO I WIN!" Lol
Literally same
I personally feel that Zugzwang should’ve been higher on the list. It completely crushed Reid and me as well.
We need a top 20 best moments from criminal minds.
Just started watching but for me i can't remember the name oft the episode but its the one where the couple kidnapped and forced the childs they took to help them kidnap further kids and at the end one set of parents find out their son had been alive till the previous day
that was mosley lane! it was mentioned on this list i believe
It was in the list. #2 Mosley Lane. That was a good episode as well. I was surprised to see Evan Peters in the episode. Since I've only seen him in American Horror Story or the few x-men movies he's been in.
Reid getting kidnapped is still a hard episode for me to watch
I watched that episode once and never watched it again.
"He was alive yesterday" broke my heart into a million pieces. It's one of the few episodes I can't re-watch.
I would’ve added the conversion camp episode and the one where their boss dies on the bench across from their hotel
"conversion camp episode"? Which one was that?
@@thatamericanbritishbloke5672 S8E15 Broken.
The saddest episode for me was when Hotch’s wife dies there was just so much emotion it felt like it actually happened :( Criminal Minds has had some really amazing actors.
Ashes and Dust gutted me. The part that was the saddest was that she thought her family had escaped the fire, a lie of comfort Hotch told her to at least make her final moments not emotionally agonizing on top of the excruciating physical pain she was suffering. Hope and Seven Seconds are also high on my list of episodes which made me weep. Just the thought of what those little girls went through, made even worse with Seven Seconds because the perp and her father were identical twins. Of the ones not mentioned, Pleasure is my Business, Jones, and True Night were very sad because in each of these episodes, I felt a bit of sympathy for the unsubs and understood what drove their actions.
Reid's addiction never made any sense, and it certainly wasn't addressed properly. For one thing, after rescuing him, and knowing he had been drugged while held captive, not to mention beaten and tortured, they would/should have brought him straight to the hospital for treatment and detox if needed. Second of all, that plot line just kind of faded away after a few episodes, until they circle back years later showing him at an NA meeting.
thats what happens at work.
they put a bandaid on you
...and ask u to come back to work next day. Welcome to Capitalism, if this is your first day.
The last one, that was the saddest for me 😭 I never wanted it to end. Saying goodbye to those characters was so difficult.
I've never gotten more emotionally involved in a show like I did Criminal Minds. I cried when they cried. I sobbed when they were being harmed. I loved the whole cast.
How was the episode Sick Day not on here?!!! The suspect was burning his victims to death and the one victim died in the fire when something exploded and JJ couldn’t save her. JJ had to be dragged out by Luke and she was so messed up over it bc it reminded her of her son!
Two of the saddest episodes IMO that didn’t make the list are True Night S3,E10 and Zoe’s Reprise (S4,E15). “They made me watch…” is heart wrenching, as is his listening to the voice mail over & over because “that’s all he had left.” In Zoe’s reprise, her mom’s heartbreak is just so sad.
Agreed, "just you mentioning his line has me misty eyed.
When that dad bursts into tears (after finding out his son was alive and then murdered when he saved that kidnapped girl,) that scene brings tears to my eyes every time, his face just...wow. The actor in that scene deserves some recognition.
Seven Seconds was one of my favorites. From Prentiss’ Interrogation, the whole mystery, and the reveal left me absolutely flabbergasted. It’s definitely up there with one of my favorites of the series.
There are so many sad and terrible moments, this could easily be a top 50 list.
The episode with the death/funeral of Rossi military buddy got me 😭 because the actor who played him also passed away.
The one that broke me was the unsub who had a condition where he thought his family had been replaced by imposters
This watchmojo list has brought up shattered heart moments that I thought I buried a long deep time ago 💔
Riding the Lightning was sadder than Ashes and Dust, I cry so much whenever I watch it. The entire final sequence from Morgan and Elle arriving at the house right up until the transition from the execution chamber to Gideon watching Riley playing the cello is so tense and emotional. It breaks my heart every single time even though I know what's going to happen.
The saddest episode for me was when Maeve was killed. I was so heartbroken. I really was rooting for them. And when she was killed I actually cried because I love Reid so much. And he deserves to be so happy.
The “he was alive yesterday” line will forever haunt me it’s so sad
the lack of jj in any list on criminal minds just shows how under appreciated she is. she has arguably been through the most trauma (following reid)
I agree 100% she's actually my favourite character, the season she wasn't in was just so boring to me, especially since Emily wasn't in it either
I love JJ!!
And Emily
by far the saddest episode in my opinion was when holly died
between mosley lane father’s reaction to his son being alive the day before and hotch beating the crap out of foyet and his communication with jack and the phone call scene always gets me ..
A.J. Cook is such an underrated actor. Her non verbal acting is outstanding. I understand when they tried to fire after the J.J. Episode the fans lost it.
The thing is seeing a clip from 100 was what got me into Criminal Minds which when i saw the full thing God i never rooted for a character so hard when Hotch was beating Foyet to death.
The actress in the first is beautiful. Thomas Gibson was the only one on this show to show such true emotions. Waiting with the burn victim to die in the first showed his intense caring for people.
100 was hands down the MOST heartbreaking episode for me, Profiler, Profiled being a close second.
For once I agree with their number 1 pick. A bunch of heartbreaking shows could also be on the list. But in my opinion that episode will always be the most haunting, as far as painful deaths. Just watching that tiny clip made me cry and go into panic.
I don't remember the episode name, but the one where the unsub turned out to be a brain injured man who was no longer able to visually recognize anyone was heart breaking. Toward the end, while he was blindfolded he could recognize his wife's voice but then ripped off the blindfold when his child called out "Daddy".😢
Season 7, Dorado Falls
Penelope’s voice mail to Emily ( we are waving flashlights to guide you home) breaks me every single time.
Saddest episode is definitely when Hayley is killed. I think one of the saddest and twisted at the same time is the woman who makes real-life dolls out of her living victims.
The ashes and dust scene was so beautiful in a sad way. The music, the footage, the aftermath just all fantastically directed
Criminal Minds is a masterpiece. I don't usually like crime/police/investigation/FBI/CSI-ish like movies or series. But CM stands out. It might be my favorite serie of all time
I have watched Criminal Minds multiple times, and I still cry about Emily's "Death"
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@@laurawithers5152 anything else?
The last episode destroyed me, I was so sad to see the team go on without Penelope. I definitely think it should have gotten more than an honorable mention
i feel like the episode “The Tall Man” should’ve been on the list because at the end of the episode the only thing that JJ had left of her sister was gone
When Hotcher's wife died. I mean, Hotcher hearing her death is so devastating to see.
The saddest episodes: All the bad things that happened to Reid
A-freakin’-men.
Amen!