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Shortly thereafter, JJ and Will arrive with Jack, Henry, and Michael, deciding to keep the boys at the BAU for safety’s sake.

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On the plus side, that means there should be recorded proof of such a call for the team to analyze. And since SWAT would naturally take 911 calls at their word, they’d be required to treat this very seriously, not knowing it was meant as a prank. Charming, no? Learn something new every day. Apparently that’s a term for a sort of prank gamers play on opponents, in which they fake 911 calls to mess with them. Rossi’s focused on trying to figure out where Hotch is being held, and Garcia’s initial theory is that Hotch might’ve been “swatted”. In no time flat, the rest of the team gathers at the BAU to try and answer that question. So of course, now the big question is, why in the hell is Hotch, of all people, being arrested? He watches his dad being cuffed and led out of the house, and ugh, my heart hurts so much for both Hotchner boys right now. Jack especially is understandably deeply terrified and upset – that child has had to deal with far too much trauma in his short life.

True to form, Hotch remains as cool as a cucumber during all of this, which is good, because JJ’s completely stunned, and poor Henry and Jack are looking on in total confusion and horror. Despite knowing this was coming thanks to the promos, it was no less startling to see it play out in context – I honestly jumped a little when the door burst open.

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Of course, since this is “Criminal Minds” we’re talking about, we know full well by now that any happiness these guys experience rarely seems to last long, and that’s soon proven in one heck of a dramatic way, as seemingly out of nowhere, a SWAT team barrels through Hotch’s door and orders him to his knees. All in all, it’s a pleasant start to the episode. Henry and Jack have this sort of brother-esque friendship going on, which is super cute, and the idea of Hotch and JJ doing a carpool for their kids is rather adorable. Vacations are being planned, reunions are happening (more on that later), and Hotch and JJ are prepping a carpool to take their kids to school. But the particular cliffhanger the episode did end on has me both quite anxious and slightly nervous about what the show will be cooking up next year, now that we know season twelve is a go.īefore we delve into the many possibilities for next season, however, let’s focus on how this episode, and season eleven as a whole, fared.Īfter such an unsettling encounter with Antonia Slade in “Devil’s Backbone”, things start off surprisingly innocently, with everyone on the team enjoying their own peaceful mornings. Thankfully, those fears didn’t come to fruition – the team came out of their latest ordeal in one piece. Would someone else’s life be on the line? Would another team member be in danger of leaving the group, or the show as a whole? Especially given the knowledge Hotch would be arrested and accused of being part of a conspiracy, and the fact that at the time the news of a cliffhanger broke, the show had yet to be renewed. When it was revealed this season would end on a cliffhanger, naturally, everyone was concerned. Even then, however, we and the team can’t catch a break, as the season wraps up with one heck of a case that involves Hotch being arrested, a familiar unsub from the past rearing their ugly head, and an unsettling premise for season twelve.

After a roller-coaster of a season that saw Garcia going into Witness Protection, team members coming and going in quick succession, Morgan being kidnapped and tortured, a new family being made, and the departure of an original team member (Morgan again), we’ve finally arrived at the end of season eleven.