#BEST CRIMINAL MINDS EPISODES EVER SERIAL#

Perhaps the worst part of this episode, though, is that Frank really does walk away at the end – and although he appears again the season finale, he escapes justice by throwing himself under the train. It’s those thoughtful touches that really keep a romance alive. You’d think a man like that wouldn’t have a sweetheart, but Frank is convinced he’s in love with the one woman whose calmness under torture caused him to spare her – so now, once a year he sends her a wind chime made out of the ribs of his latest victim. Here’s a man who has travelled across the country for years, dismembering women along the way – and just for fun, he commits his horrific deeds in a room with a mirrored ceiling, so that they can watch themselves being tortured and killed.

#BEST CRIMINAL MINDS EPISODES EVER SERIAL#

What could be creepier than a serial killer calm enough to sit opposite Jason Gideon in a diner, and sip milkshake whilst casually concluding that the BAU will simply let him walk away? But that’s just what Frank Breitkopf does in this episode. No doubt I’ve missed a few obvious ones – in which case put a case forward in the comment section below!

What follows are the ten episodes which stuck in my mind as being particularly dark. Over the show’s ten seasons, it seems to have set itself a goal to make each season more disturbing than the last, and coming from a series that has featured paedophilia, cannibalism, people being forced to kill each other, and pictures painted in blood, that’s saying something. There’s no way that a TV show about profiling serial killers can help but have more than its fair share of creepy moments, and Criminal Minds is no slouch in that department.

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