S19E5
Friendly Fire
Criminal Minds · 2026-06-18 · 56 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 21 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
Alvez and Tyler team up to investigate the murder of an FBI training instructor, while the rest of the BAU explore ways to lure out The Fan.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
15
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
61
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 21 comments — 5 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“I wasn't expecting at all a murder going down at the end of the episode!!!”
Informal_Toe_2129▲ 16about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The first is that I wish we would have spent more time with Tom before they killed him off. His death would have hit a lot harder.”
Valenstein77▲ 15about 0–15% inread it ↗
“This episode was going so well until the dreaded words "gut the department" were uttered. Even the mere hint of that tired plot point returning is such a boring proposition.”
babylovesbaby▲ 11about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I actually laughed out loud first when I saw the sign, and again when he protected it from Viot.”
Misspunkag1984▲ 5about 0–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Nelson McCormick
- written
- Sullivan Fitzgerald
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Paul F. Tompkins as Brian Garrity
Nicole Pacent as Rebecca Wilson
Jamison Jones as Agent Tom Milliken
Connor Storrie as Lance Kingston
Xavier Jiménez as Agent Billy Lowell
Nicholas Gonzalez as Peter O'Connor
Calahan Skogman as Agent Joey Barlow
Yvette Nipar as Cindy Milliken