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There's too many episodes to count from this show that are sad. I've said it before, I'l say it again. Shows like Criminal Minds and Supernatural know how to make us cry with heartbreaking moments like the episodes on this list. I will say, watching this list makes me wish we have a Criminal Minds tribute music video set to Carry On Wayward Son. Since that song fit Supernatural perfectly, I think it would've been perfect for Criminal Minds. Because both the team and Sam and Dean have lost so many loved ones on both shows and it wasn't only on them but for us as well.
The saddest was the one called "To Bear Witness," where the German unsub tortures his sister and leaves her and her boyfriend paralyzed and unable to attend medical school any more. He succeeded in everything before getting caught. I would have liked to at least see his father disown him.
The Reaper killing Hailey and Prentiss dying, those were the saddest shows for me. I'm surprised the episode when Garcia was shot didn't make this list. That's my #3. Criminal Minds is just a dam good show!
I immediately teared up. I remember watching it as a kid and not know how to handle the heavy feeling of seeing my favorite characters die on the inside
Ughh Mosley Lane gets me every single time. No matter how many times I have seen that episode, that “he was alive yesterday” just hits my heart! They nailed the casting for this episode, Evan Peters is so good in anything he does anyways, the lady who played his mom was fantastic and the guy who played the dad at the end gave such a heartbreaking performance 🥺
Me too. It was sick of that elderly couple to separate children from their parents and then cremate them in an incinerator. They were twisted. But I’m glad Charlie fought back and protected the other captives.
I think elephant’s memory should’ve been mentioned as it’s heartbreaking to see that a whole town practically turned Owen into a killer as no one chose to help him and saw him as a freak and it was heartbreaking to learn more about Reid’s childhood and to see him identify with Owen
It’s just unfortunate that Thomas Gibson wasn’t able to control his anger and punched one of the crew members when they did something that made him mad. If he had controlled his anger then there’s no doubt in my mind that he would’ve been in the show until the very end. Wasn’t he basically the boss of the BAU?
Outfoxxed gets me every single time. When the man finds out his whole family were killed and says "i want to go home now" is absolutely awful. It makes me cry without fail. Saddest sentance how it is said. Everything.
The scene from the episode "Normal" (4.7) where the killer realizes that he murdered his entire family is absolutely devastating and deserves a mention here. I'm glad "Big Wheel" got a spot on this list though.
It doesn't matter HOW MANY TIMES I've seen it, the episode where Haley dies is a punch to the heart. Her and Maeve. Seeing the agonized looks on Hotch's and Reid's faces is devastating.
One that makes me cry is the episode where we first meet Rossi’s marine sergeant who has become homeless. Such a good episode but it really reminds you how the government treat war/army veterans 😢
Then the follow up episode where he helped him reunite with his son and his family, finally meeting his grandson. And the last episode about him when he passed from cancer that Rossi wasn't aware of. What Rossi does to get him buried in Arlington with several high ranking military in attendance to honor him.
The saddest thing abiout Strauss's death was the forceful drinking, not least cos it ensured her death but it threw away and perverted everything she fought so hard for. :(
100 always destroys me. I remember when it first aired, I was working my first job in highschool and my mother picked me up after my shift. The episode had been recorded so I could watch it when I got home. She handed me a box of tissues telling me I was going to need them. I remember sobbing my eyes out. All these years later and I still feel my heart shattering.
Seven Seconds will be one of my all time favorite episodes from this show purely thanks to Paget’s performance during that interrogation scene. Amazing acting!
The episode where the man kills his family and drives around thinking they’re with him always makes me really sad. He genuinely didn’t realize he had killed them
Criminal Minds is a special show. Most fictional crime shows like this often make killers out to be just unempathetic people who kill in cold blood over small things. However Criminal Minds often does the opposite, letting you see things from the killer's point of view and quite often makes you almost feel bad for the people the BAU hunt for. I still remember the season 4 episode "Normal" where your average everyday family man is turned into a spree killer when his daughter is tragically hit by a car right in front of him. Its amazing how often I find myself crying for the killers as much as the victims in this show.
@@brennathecatlover4360 most definitely. Well a high security psychiatric hospital.I just appreciate the episodes where there is empathy to those who definitely suffered beyond measure, while it by no means justifies their actions. She is not able to be around people. Not safe for them and not safe for her. But she's not a psychopath who is doing it out of enjoyment. Felt the same way with True Night, Frankie Muniz as Jonny McHale. You can empathise with them while still be horrified with what they've done.
@@lolly5657 yea obviously I think they don’t deserve their shitty childhoods but still what they did was wrong and having a bad childhood shouldnt excuse it either like some people say when they defend killers
Ashes and Dust - The mom in the hospital bed dying is such a gut punch. Especially when the 'i'll stay with you until you're ready' in terms of her family 'seeing' her. You can tell then she knows then her son and husband are dead. That hotch is staying with her until she goes.
Regelations was so heartbreaking! Watching Reed get tortured was so sad and watching Tobias struggle with his other personalities was also very heartbreaking
The episode In Heat is also a episode worth talking about because it involves an unsub whose father physically abused him to the point where he believed became he was gay, he was filthy and ended hating himself thus with every kill he does, he mimics the victim's identities and behavior and avoids being himself in the process There's also the episode Conflicted with Jackson Rathbone as the unsub Adam Jackson who after the abuse he suffered from his stepfather developed dissociative identity disorder with the alter being called Amanda who took the abuse for him and later committed three murders and two attempted murders and in a act of protecting Adam from the consequences of her actions after attempting to kill Adam's stepfather takes control of their body permanently and Reid interviewing her hoping to eventually bring Adam back which we never entirely get an answer to as whether Reid fully succeeds or not in doing that
For me the most emotional moment of that episode was rossi talking to her kids at the funeral and his speech about how proud she was to get her 1 year sobriety chip. As someone who has been through the aa program myself I felt that in my soul
This show knows how make me cry. Riding the light is my favorite episode. I cry every time. Poor Sara Jean. Her life was horrible. And it is amazing how she could save the love in her heart for Riley, the pure mother's love. The relationships between her and Jason... Even the guard knew Sara Jean is innocent. Also Haley's death were devastated. She was a very strong woman till the end.
Riding the Lightning is the episode that made me fall in love with the show. Gideon was faced with an impossible choice: Help an innocent woman, but destroy a boy's life; or let an innocent woman die. She was happy to die, but it didn't make it easier.
Hotch losing Haley hurt so much, you can see as he held her that he still loved her, cared for her, and felt so guilty of bringing her into that dangerous life. And then baby Spence T-T
All of these are gut wrenching and many more. The one with the live dolls always hits hard when Reid tells her she can take her friends with her, empathizing with her and knowing her father destroyed her the way he did.
The episode JJ was kidnapped and almost assaulted also tortured by being reminded of her miscarriage I was relieved when I saw it stopped and when the team found her . Also an another JJ episode I was on the edge of the seat for was when will and JJ were married I think Henry her son was unharmed I think endangered by unsub ? Anyway this show really got to me i know it’s a tv show but it taught me to make better tv viewing choices
I'm gonna include Pleasure is My Business, where Megan Kane becomes the call girl her dad would like - after he neglected her and her mom all their lives. She killed herself in the end, but got revenge on the father who only wanted to protect himself and his like-minded "loaded loser" club friends. She told Hotch he was the only man who ever kept his word to her, so he didn't let her die alone.
One of my favorite episodes was a unsub who was previously deaf got a cochlear implant emitting sound to him. And everytime it would drove him so insane he would murder to get rid of the noise. In the end they ended up removing it to pacify him.
He had been forced to get the experimental implant in by his mother, who considered him a re***d because he was deaf, but the implant was like having a speaker set to the highest volume placed in his ear
I don’t remember the title, but the episode that starts with the movie theater fire, the episode where the guy turns his victims into puppets to save his father, and the kill that used tobacco soaked dress are pretty sad to me. Really, any episode where the killer doesn’t understand that they are hurting people are the worst
Season 7 episode 6: epilouge is my choice when Rossi's ex-wife Carolyn is dying of disease and she ends her own life, then we find out rossi had a child who died as an infant, literal tears
The first time I saw Ashes and dust was a rerun. I asked a friend if it was weird I loved the opening music playing over a family dying horribly. The friends answer was "Oh the house fire episode. That is a good song"
Well I paused the entire episode to Google the song , researched it ,listened to it and then downloaded then cried later on ,that family died in pain ... what can I tell you ..
True Night made me sad mostly because he didn't know he was doing them and he lost his fiance and unborn child it makes me feel really bad, he's not a serial killer or a bad person he's just hurt and because of that he's done stuff he can't remember doing.
The episode The 100 of Criminal Minds always makes me very emotional and that’s what this episode gives all the audience whether if their rewatching it or viewing it for the first time.
Yes, Riding the Lighting, ripped me to shreds! 😭😭 Doing what is best to protect your child is sometimes torture. I know this first hand. He hates me, but I know I protected him from the horrific abuse we were both suffering from. I couldnt get away until a year later, by that time it was too late to get him back because I had to go into hiding. (This was 30 years ago, and I am still in fear.)
I believe part of why Samantha snapped was knowing what those dolls were a gift for. I think she knew what he was doing to those girls. I know that’s not the main reason but I do believe it’s part
I found that "Distressed" was rather sad episode too. Veteran suffering from severe PTSD reliving his time in the war zone & trying to a kid he wasn't able to was pretty heartbreaking.
Zugzwang, particularly because it isn’t kept just to that episode. We see Spencer’s love for Maeve develop, we see their hope for the future, and then we see how Maeve’s death crushes Spencer. I still tear up when he silently puts Maeve’s photo on Garcia’s ofrenda.
😅 Love that episode with Samantha where Spencer goes from basically sweet and innocent to her knowing what she's been through to literally telling her dad I can destroy you with merely words put you in a jail people that know what they do to people like you and I can sleep soundly at night listening to your screams
True night and there were 2 others that I can’t recall names of where veterans were acting out due to PTSD. One guy was killed by cops (he was living on streets where they were digging it up) and the other guy they successfully took the guy in but he has to have his eyes covered because he gets triggered.
The woman on death row was the saddest one cause she never killed her son instead she gave him away and she died for a crime she gets executed for a crime she didn't committ
One of the saddest scenes from an episode of criminal minds is that an unsub who calls himself the prince of darkness killed detective spicer in front of his kids and Derek Morgan that scene kinda reminds Derek Morgan about how his father died in the line of duty
I think Outfoxed has to be one of the hardest pills to swallow. Imagine being deployed overseas, fighting for your country, and when you come home everyone you love is dead. You are protecting your country, not knowing at the same time that you can't protect your own family. Losing a spouse or child is hard enough, I can only imagine losing all of them would be unbearable. And to be asked "is there anyone you'd like us to call?" was clearly a punch in the gut for him, because he did think of someone, his wife... only to realize she's dead.
Hayley's death is devastating but hearing "Mosley Lane" alone is enough to make my eyes water. The suddenness and violence of Hayley's death is extremely sad but I cannot imagine holding on to hope for so long only to have it ripped away at the last moment. Mosley Lane will forever be #1
When I rewatched the episode The 100 a few months ago the phone call moment between Aaron and Haley did get me sad but the scene that affected me most emotionally was Jack’s line to his dad Aaron “I work the case Daddy just like you said.”
You can't skip over that fact that Mark Hamill played THE greatest villian of all time in animation. The Joker, and then came into Live action, and brought the pain.
To me True Night episode should be closer to the top it's a truly tragic episode all around....other episodes are sad but in True night it's just hurt after hurt and tragedy after tragedy for a young couple just on the cusp of a whole future but the hurt for the guy keeps coming when they have to tell him what happened and he had a psychotic break
The Lauren episode always makes me cry although I know Emily's fine and that she eventually comes back. But it's so hard to see my favourite character go thought all that
Seven Seconds Will always be my number one tear jerking episode When I saw this episode I even noticed some red flags The first red flag was when Prentice was talking to the boy And the uncle and aunt Cut Prentice off By guilt tripping their own son in the process There are also a few others from of uncle Talking to Prentice about katie To the aunt who Wanted to be by her son while being interrogated And the fourth red flag. Was actually when The aunt brought up a lighter that she was having a engraved for her husband This episode not only made me cry But it also Pissed me off It's like you don't even know a person even if they're related to you You still don't know who they are
I clicked on this video initially for the fact of Derek crying he was my favorite character and I forgot about the episode where he confronts his childhood abuser
Don't forget the episode when Derek outs Buford to the other prisoners as a child molester, and talks down his former frenemy by identifying he too was a victim of that 'Pillar of the Community' who had welched on the deal he made to tell All, and not just all-he-thought-they-knew-about...
Mmmmm.. funniest episodes in a show that deals with murder in each one? 🤭 Sure, I could see that. That episode where Emily touches Spencer's face and says "He's so life like" 😂😂😂😂
I believe they were in Florida for this episode. But Reid was going over a chat log identify the two different men that were talking back and forth. As he is explaining things to Rossi and the local police officer the officer asked Rossi where did you find this guy. Rossi's reply was that he was left on their doorstep.
"Penelope" was a pretty heart-wrenching episode when Garcia was shot, so I am surprised it didn't get an honorable mention. I would have been STUNNED if 100 hadn't gotten the number 1 spot. I cry every single time I watch that episode.
I genuinely felt for Johnny McHale. Something about the fact that Frankie Muniz has lost so much of his memory to concussions adds a depth to the whole performance. I remember hearing him talk about rewatching parts of Malcolm in the Middle that he doesn’t remember doing. The weirdness of watching himself on the screen and having zero recollection of ever filming the episode, but he can’t deny it’s him on the screen. An excellent episode with a rare sympathetic unsub.
I can’t believe the toll this took on the actors that played the roles. Even playing this as make-believe is difficult, disgusting, and full of despair.
JJ had the best arc in the show imo. Every show about her was heartbreaking. But still, 100 was the hardest hitting episode. Makes me cry like a baby 😢😢
It should be “100 saddest episodes of criminal minds” because this show is always heartbreaking 💔 North Mammon is so sad and I hate that I remember it so well
I was expecting to see "Ashes and Dust" a lot higher on the list. Because what you mentioned is only in the episode's opening. (spoilers below) They proceed to trace it to a group of environmental activists who had that house and others that were torched on a warning list, think the head of the organization is planning to stage a big one but later discover he's preparing for an inevitable death of cancer from exposure to hazardous and poorly contained chemicals, he disbands the group, which infuriates the killer and causes him to start attacking people at random, and before they can track down and arrest the killer, the group's founder lures the killer to a dump site that is slated to become a school and purposely starts the fire early and kills them both.
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Episode 100
Mosley Lane and The Uncanny Valley
There's too many episodes to count from this show that are sad. I've said it before, I'l say it again. Shows like Criminal Minds and Supernatural know how to make us cry with heartbreaking moments like the episodes on this list. I will say, watching this list makes me wish we have a Criminal Minds tribute music video set to Carry On Wayward Son. Since that song fit Supernatural perfectly, I think it would've been perfect for Criminal Minds. Because both the team and Sam and Dean have lost so many loved ones on both shows and it wasn't only on them but for us as well.
The saddest was the one called "To Bear Witness," where the German unsub tortures his sister and leaves her and her boyfriend paralyzed and unable to attend medical school any more. He succeeded in everything before getting caught. I would have liked to at least see his father disown him.
The Reaper killing Hailey and Prentiss dying, those were the saddest shows for me.
I'm surprised the episode when Garcia was shot didn't make this list. That's my #3.
Criminal Minds is just a dam good show!
"He was alive yesterday?" never fails to give me chills and make me tear up. Such a heartbreaking episode
Especially with how the children were killed
Just watching that line made me tear up on the spot
That episode killed me.
Yeah this one destroys me😭
That scene was truly heartbreaking 💔
Episode 100. Hotch racing to save his wife, and the entire team hearing it? Knowing they can't save her?? I still sob at that episode
Him beating the 🤬 to death and getting away with it as the team knew what happened was satisfying
This episode traumatized me. I couldn't watch it anymore
I immediately teared up. I remember watching it as a kid and not know how to handle the heavy feeling of seeing my favorite characters die on the inside
Every single time like a baby
@@Lesse29 That’s a lot of emotions all at once for a kid to handle ❤
Ughh Mosley Lane gets me every single time. No matter how many times I have seen that episode, that “he was alive yesterday” just hits my heart! They nailed the casting for this episode, Evan Peters is so good in anything he does anyways, the lady who played his mom was fantastic and the guy who played the dad at the end gave such a heartbreaking performance 🥺
I feel the same. I cry every time Stephen’s dad says “he was alive yesterday”
That was the first CM ep directed by Matthew Gray Gubler.
it brings me to tears every time
Welcome to the club
Me too. It was sick of that elderly couple to separate children from their parents and then cremate them in an incinerator. They were twisted. But I’m glad Charlie fought back and protected the other captives.
I think elephant’s memory should’ve been mentioned as it’s heartbreaking to see that a whole town practically turned Owen into a killer as no one chose to help him and saw him as a freak and it was heartbreaking to learn more about Reid’s childhood and to see him identify with Owen
Reid seemed like he was mentally still in high school in that episode.
I agree. That one should have been on here. Owen was bullied to the point it turned him into a killer. No one helped him. It’s sad. Very very sad
I was bullied at school. Morgan's remark about how when it comes to remembering our bullies, we all have an elephant's memory stuck to me
@@angelmichel1936not to mention witnessing the abuse his girlfriend was going through too because of her learning disability
@@ChaoticNalilitoMC right. He’s seen way more than I care to see that’s for sure.
Literally every episode of this show was sad and haunting. Shemar Moore and Matthew Gray Gubler made it less painful because they’re fine.
Oh in my opinion their pain was some of the most traumatic and heartbreaking to watch
I think Gideon was fine, too!😍
"Jack I need you to work this case with me bud" I still ball everytime I watch that episode
"Then he was alive yesterday" is the most heartbreaking line, and most well delivered tragedy line in the whole show. Actor David Youse.
As a child I loved Spencer so much but rewatching as an adult, Hotch is literally the love of my life it’s hard to watch without him.
Same here and I never watched any episodes without him. I watch the reruns he was in and that’s all. He was so wonderful in that role.
Me too
Me too.
It’s just unfortunate that Thomas Gibson wasn’t able to control his anger and punched one of the crew members when they did something that made him mad. If he had controlled his anger then there’s no doubt in my mind that he would’ve been in the show until the very end. Wasn’t he basically the boss of the BAU?
@@cassandraspoelhof3752 he basically was, also I heard that the person he kicked/punched was saying weird things.
Outfoxxed gets me every single time. When the man finds out his whole family were killed and says "i want to go home now" is absolutely awful. It makes me cry without fail. Saddest sentance how it is said. Everything.
I know right I’m balling my eyes out right now, and I wasn’t even tearing up earlier. It’s the saddest thing I have ever heard 😥
Same
The lines "he was alive yesterday", "I think he died because of me" and Haylie and aaron last words broke my heart
The scene from the episode "Normal" (4.7) where the killer realizes that he murdered his entire family is absolutely devastating and deserves a mention here. I'm glad "Big Wheel" got a spot on this list though.
I just watched that episode and found this video specifically to see if Normal was on here it was so heartbreaking
Is that the road rage guy taking out people in luxury cars?
So true. This episode is heartbreaking.
A solid take!!!!
Matthew Gray Gubler was an amazing actor!! He always gave everything to the role of Spencer!! His saddest scenes were always so believable!! ❤
It doesn't matter HOW MANY TIMES I've seen it, the episode where Haley dies is a punch to the heart. Her and Maeve. Seeing the agonized looks on Hotch's and Reid's faces is devastating.
One that makes me cry is the episode where we first meet Rossi’s marine sergeant who has become homeless. Such a good episode but it really reminds you how the government treat war/army veterans 😢
Then the follow up episode where he helped him reunite with his son and his family, finally meeting his grandson. And the last episode about him when he passed from cancer that Rossi wasn't aware of. What Rossi does to get him buried in Arlington with several high ranking military in attendance to honor him.
@@micheletunnell7101 yeah those were emotional too 🖤
The saddest thing abiout Strauss's death was the forceful drinking, not least cos it ensured her death but it threw away and perverted everything she fought so hard for. :(
Reminds me of that one scene from Monster.
Exactly what a Sith Lord would do.
She had just started to become likable. I actually cried when she died.
Profiler Profiled episode
Poor Derek; he was abused by Buford. Fortunately, the trauma made him stronger and helped young children and vowed to do so.
That episode just killed me. Hard to see another man vulnerable.
100 always destroys me. I remember when it first aired, I was working my first job in highschool and my mother picked me up after my shift. The episode had been recorded so I could watch it when I got home. She handed me a box of tissues telling me I was going to need them. I remember sobbing my eyes out. All these years later and I still feel my heart shattering.
Seven Seconds will be one of my all time favorite episodes from this show purely thanks to Paget’s performance during that interrogation scene. Amazing acting!
I think this episode also has some of the best hotch scenes as well
The episode where the man kills his family and drives around thinking they’re with him always makes me really sad. He genuinely didn’t realize he had killed them
Criminal Minds is a special show. Most fictional crime shows like this often make killers out to be just unempathetic people who kill in cold blood over small things. However Criminal Minds often does the opposite, letting you see things from the killer's point of view and quite often makes you almost feel bad for the people the BAU hunt for. I still remember the season 4 episode "Normal" where your average everyday family man is turned into a spree killer when his daughter is tragically hit by a car right in front of him. Its amazing how often I find myself crying for the killers as much as the victims in this show.
“He was alive yesterday?” My night is now filled with dread and sadness 😭😭😭
In the uncanny Valley I was really glad Reid was gentle and empathetic to Samantha.
Like I feel bad she was abused and it shouldn’t have happened to her and her dad should go through hell for that but also she should still go to jail
@@brennathecatlover4360 most definitely. Well a high security psychiatric hospital.I just appreciate the episodes where there is empathy to those who definitely suffered beyond measure, while it by no means justifies their actions. She is not able to be around people. Not safe for them and not safe for her. But she's not a psychopath who is doing it out of enjoyment. Felt the same way with True Night, Frankie Muniz as Jonny McHale. You can empathise with them while still be horrified with what they've done.
It's also incredibly satisfying when they destroy disgusting excuses for human beings.
@@lolly5657 yea obviously I think they don’t deserve their shitty childhoods but still what they did was wrong and having a bad childhood shouldnt excuse it either like some people say when they defend killers
@@brennathecatlover4360 .... I know that's what I said. 😊
Ashes and Dust - The mom in the hospital bed dying is such a gut punch. Especially when the 'i'll stay with you until you're ready' in terms of her family 'seeing' her. You can tell then she knows then her son and husband are dead. That hotch is staying with her until she goes.
“I’d like to go home” breaks me every time. That poor man
Regelations was so heartbreaking! Watching Reed get tortured was so sad and watching Tobias struggle with his other personalities was also very heartbreaking
The episode In Heat is also a episode worth talking about because it involves an unsub whose father physically abused him to the point where he believed became he was gay, he was filthy and ended hating himself thus with every kill he does, he mimics the victim's identities and behavior and avoids being himself in the process
There's also the episode Conflicted with Jackson Rathbone as the unsub Adam Jackson who after the abuse he suffered from his stepfather developed dissociative identity disorder with the alter being called Amanda who took the abuse for him and later committed three murders and two attempted murders and in a act of protecting Adam from the consequences of her actions after attempting to kill Adam's stepfather takes control of their body permanently and Reid interviewing her hoping to eventually bring Adam back which we never entirely get an answer to as whether Reid fully succeeds or not in doing that
That Adam one reminds me of the Crowded Roo m
The way Strauss says I don’t wanna die alone is surprisingly hard hitting in my opinion
For me the most emotional moment of that episode was rossi talking to her kids at the funeral and his speech about how proud she was to get her 1 year sobriety chip. As someone who has been through the aa program myself I felt that in my soul
This show knows how make me cry.
Riding the light is my favorite episode. I cry every time. Poor Sara Jean. Her life was horrible. And it is amazing how she could save the love in her heart for Riley, the pure mother's love.
The relationships between her and Jason... Even the guard knew Sara Jean is innocent.
Also Haley's death were devastated. She was a very strong woman till the end.
Riding the Lightning is the episode that made me fall in love with the show. Gideon was faced with an impossible choice: Help an innocent woman, but destroy a boy's life; or let an innocent woman die. She was happy to die, but it didn't make it easier.
I think Restoration also had some sad moments, too. Seeing Derek having to face Buford all over again shook me up, especially afterwards.
When the men who had become his 'brothers' found out the truth of what he had done to get in jail, his fate was sealed.
Hotch losing Haley hurt so much, you can see as he held her that he still loved her, cared for her, and felt so guilty of bringing her into that dangerous life. And then baby Spence T-T
Season 6, Episode 18 - Garcia's voicemail to Emily will ALWAYS break my heart.
All of these are gut wrenching and many more. The one with the live dolls always hits hard when Reid tells her she can take her friends with her, empathizing with her and knowing her father destroyed her the way he did.
Noticed how some of the saddest and creepiest episodes are directed by Matthew Gray Gubler lol
Almost every time, and he does them so well
we not gonna talk about JJ getting kidnapped and tortured to the point where she is almost r4p3d and the unsubs use her miscarriage againts her?
thank you! i was looking for this comment, its top 5 for sure
The episode JJ was kidnapped and almost assaulted also tortured by being reminded of her miscarriage I was relieved when I saw it stopped and when the team found her . Also an another JJ episode I was on the edge of the seat for was when will and JJ were married I think Henry her son was unharmed I think endangered by unsub ? Anyway this show really got to me i know it’s a tv show but it taught me to make better tv viewing choices
The episode with the boy who was named Angel and he had to be in the dark and was kept in a bunker or something was heartbreaking
The daughter of the unsub realizing what her father did. Is just heartbreaking.
"Mosley Lane" and "Riding the Lightning" will forever be my favorites, and they will never fail to make me sob
I'm gonna include Pleasure is My Business, where Megan Kane becomes the call girl her dad would like - after he neglected her and her mom all their lives. She killed herself in the end, but got revenge on the father who only wanted to protect himself and his like-minded "loaded loser" club friends. She told Hotch he was the only man who ever kept his word to her, so he didn't let her die alone.
"Redshirted ensign in Star Trek doomed"
I wonder if Riker being in that episode had any bearing on that lines inclusion
JJ is my favorite character and watching her breakdown in Sick Day gets me every single time.
Anything with Children or pets being hurt just makes me cry like a baby.
23:02 “I’d like to go home now” has been burned into my brain since that episode aired. The delivery is shattering.
The solider not knowing who to call and just asking to go home hurts
Hotch's phone call with Haley on the 100th epjsode makes me bawl everytime 💔
They forgot the saddest part of number one when Hotch finds Jack working the case 😢
Yesssss EVEN MORE CRIMINAL MINDS. LET'S GOOOOOOO. I LOVE THIS SHOW. ❤️
My mom, one of my best friends, and I watch this show together all the time
My mom, one of my best friends, and I watch this show together all the time
"He was alive yesterday?" always makes me tear up.
What about the one where JJ loses her baby? That should be on here.
One of my favorite episodes was a unsub who was previously deaf got a cochlear implant emitting sound to him. And everytime it would drove him so insane he would murder to get rid of the noise. In the end they ended up removing it to pacify him.
Do you mean the one where the unsub kept hearing a humming noise?
no they’re two different episodes. the guy w the implant is the silencer, the guy who hears a hum is different.
He had been forced to get the experimental implant in by his mother, who considered him a re***d because he was deaf, but the implant was like having a speaker set to the highest volume placed in his ear
All of the episodes in this ranking are sad in their own way but the cast and crew delivered phenomenally well in The 100.
I don’t remember the title, but the episode that starts with the movie theater fire, the episode where the guy turns his victims into puppets to save his father, and the kill that used tobacco soaked dress are pretty sad to me. Really, any episode where the killer doesn’t understand that they are hurting people are the worst
The Lesson, guest starring Brad Dourif
The Movie theatre fire would be House on fire
The episode titled “Normal” was pretty sad, too.
Season 7 episode 6: epilouge is my choice
when Rossi's ex-wife Carolyn is dying of disease and she ends her own life, then we find out rossi had a child who died as an infant, literal tears
I think that the episode where Penelope gets shot is worth mentioning. I know it has a happy ending but she just wanted someone to like her 😢
Criminal Minds has sad episodes just like Cold Case. Reid, Morgan and Garcia try to keep the hopes up just like JJ and Emily
Oh god, Cold Case ALWAYS had me sobbing at the end.
The first time I saw Ashes and dust was a rerun. I asked a friend if it was weird I loved the opening music playing over a family dying horribly. The friends answer was "Oh the house fire episode. That is a good song"
Well I paused the entire episode to Google the song , researched it ,listened to it and then downloaded then cried later on ,that family died in pain ... what can I tell you ..
What’s the name of the song?
@@shereekathleenn Boadicea by Enya
True Night made me sad mostly because he didn't know he was doing them and he lost his fiance and unborn child it makes me feel really bad, he's not a serial killer or a bad person he's just hurt and because of that he's done stuff he can't remember doing.
the writers really did reid dirty every chance they could
The episode The 100 of Criminal Minds always makes me very emotional and that’s what this episode gives all the audience whether if their rewatching it or viewing it for the first time.
Its a real crime that Morgan didn't win a award for profiler profiled
Yes, Riding the Lighting, ripped me to shreds! 😭😭
Doing what is best to protect your child is sometimes torture. I know this first hand. He hates me, but I know I protected him from the horrific abuse we were both suffering from. I couldnt get away until a year later, by that time it was too late to get him back because I had to go into hiding. (This was 30 years ago, and I am still in fear.)
I believe part of why Samantha snapped was knowing what those dolls were a gift for. I think she knew what he was doing to those girls. I know that’s not the main reason but I do believe it’s part
I found that "Distressed" was rather sad episode too. Veteran suffering from severe PTSD reliving his time in the war zone & trying to a kid he wasn't able to was pretty heartbreaking.
Zugzwang, particularly because it isn’t kept just to that episode. We see Spencer’s love for Maeve develop, we see their hope for the future, and then we see how Maeve’s death crushes Spencer. I still tear up when he silently puts Maeve’s photo on Garcia’s ofrenda.
😅 Love that episode with Samantha where Spencer goes from basically sweet and innocent to her knowing what she's been through to literally telling her dad I can destroy you with merely words put you in a jail people that know what they do to people like you and I can sleep soundly at night listening to your screams
The one with the lady who lost her baby so she kidnapped a little boy thinking it was her baby. That was so sad
The episode where the boy kills his brother for breaking his model always gets to me
True night and there were 2 others that I can’t recall names of where veterans were acting out due to PTSD. One guy was killed by cops (he was living on streets where they were digging it up) and the other guy they successfully took the guy in but he has to have his eyes covered because he gets triggered.
Agree theese two episodes were heartbreaking
The woman on death row was the saddest one cause she never killed her son instead she gave him away and she died for a crime she gets executed for a crime she didn't committ
One of the saddest scenes from an episode of criminal minds is that an unsub who calls himself the prince of darkness killed detective spicer in front of his kids and Derek Morgan that scene kinda reminds Derek Morgan about how his father died in the line of duty
I think Outfoxed has to be one of the hardest pills to swallow. Imagine being deployed overseas, fighting for your country, and when you come home everyone you love is dead. You are protecting your country, not knowing at the same time that you can't protect your own family. Losing a spouse or child is hard enough, I can only imagine losing all of them would be unbearable. And to be asked "is there anyone you'd like us to call?" was clearly a punch in the gut for him, because he did think of someone, his wife... only to realize she's dead.
Hayley's death is devastating but hearing "Mosley Lane" alone is enough to make my eyes water. The suddenness and violence of Hayley's death is extremely sad but I cannot imagine holding on to hope for so long only to have it ripped away at the last moment. Mosley Lane will forever be #1
When I rewatched the episode The 100 a few months ago the phone call moment between Aaron and Haley did get me sad but the scene that affected me most emotionally was Jack’s line to his dad Aaron “I work the case Daddy just like you said.”
"Mommy's hugging me too tight" makes me sob. I have a 2 year old son.
I love Reid in “Uncanny,” he’s just so good with handling Samantha.
Yeah the way he was empathetic to her makes me love him even more
You can't skip over that fact that Mark Hamill played THE greatest villian of all time in animation. The Joker, and then came into Live action, and brought the pain.
100, gets you every time. When he beasts the reaper to death, can't blame him, and when he holds he ex in his arms. breaks your heart everytime.
#8 isthe saddest, hands down. I WAS SOBBING. The saddest part is when Reid was trying to save him. "I'm not gonna let you die!"
The one with Frankie M. Killed me emotionally. He was. So damn good.
Right?!! So damn sad! He was incredible in this one.
To me True Night episode should be closer to the top it's a truly tragic episode all around....other episodes are sad but in True night it's just hurt after hurt and tragedy after tragedy for a young couple just on the cusp of a whole future but the hurt for the guy keeps coming when they have to tell him what happened and he had a psychotic break
Kinda reminds me of The Crow.
Since Mark Hamill played the Replicator, I guess in a way Luke Skywalker turned to the dark side.
He already had by that point, he started voicing the joker in 1992
The Lauren episode always makes me cry although I know Emily's fine and that she eventually comes back. But it's so hard to see my favourite character go thought all that
The one where the son kidnaps his 'wife' and we find out that there are more 'families' out there doing the same thing.
Sarah Jean was insanely heartbreaking! It always makes me cry! 😭😭
Me too!!!
Seven Seconds Will always be my number one tear jerking episode When I saw this episode I even noticed some red flags The first red flag was when Prentice was talking to the boy And the uncle and aunt Cut Prentice off By guilt tripping their own son in the process There are also a few others from of uncle Talking to Prentice about katie To the aunt who Wanted to be by her son while being interrogated And the fourth red flag. Was actually when The aunt brought up a lighter that she was having a engraved for her husband This episode not only made me cry But it also Pissed me off It's like you don't even know a person even if they're related to you You still don't know who they are
This episode always makes me think, is it really just a show?
I clicked on this video initially for the fact of Derek crying he was my favorite character and I forgot about the episode where he confronts his childhood abuser
Don't forget the episode when Derek outs Buford to the other prisoners as a child molester, and talks down his former frenemy by identifying he too was a victim of that 'Pillar of the Community' who had welched on the deal he made to tell All, and not just all-he-thought-they-knew-about...
This show changed us all😢
Now let’s do the opposite; Top 20 FUNNIEST Criminal Minds episodes!
Yeah
Yes the one where Morgan pranked Reid and Reid got his own back 😂
Mmmmm.. funniest episodes in a show that deals with murder in each one? 🤭 Sure, I could see that. That episode where Emily touches Spencer's face and says "He's so life like" 😂😂😂😂
I believe they were in Florida for this episode. But Reid was going over a chat log identify the two different men that were talking back and forth. As he is explaining things to Rossi and the local police officer the officer asked Rossi where did you find this guy. Rossi's reply was that he was left on their doorstep.
Sex, Birth, Death was so sad 😭 It was so disturbing but equally heartbreaking
“U faught a hell of a fight” the acting is just so good! I love this show so much😭😭😭
John Curtis "The Replicator" played by none other than Akham Asylum's alumni "The Joker"
The one where hodge listened while his wife was killed
"Penelope" was a pretty heart-wrenching episode when Garcia was shot, so I am surprised it didn't get an honorable mention. I would have been STUNNED if 100 hadn't gotten the number 1 spot. I cry every single time I watch that episode.
The first time I saw "Penelope" I was shocked, I did not see that coming
I genuinely felt for Johnny McHale. Something about the fact that Frankie Muniz has lost so much of his memory to concussions adds a depth to the whole performance. I remember hearing him talk about rewatching parts of Malcolm in the Middle that he doesn’t remember doing. The weirdness of watching himself on the screen and having zero recollection of ever filming the episode, but he can’t deny it’s him on the screen. An excellent episode with a rare sympathetic unsub.
I can’t believe the toll this took on the actors that played the roles.
Even playing this as make-believe is difficult, disgusting, and full of despair.
Erin's death broke me, she worked hard to get and stay sober, and the bastard ruined that, her poor kids
The episode with Derek and Beuford completely wrecked me for sure
JJ had the best arc in the show imo. Every show about her was heartbreaking.
But still, 100 was the hardest hitting episode. Makes me cry like a baby 😢😢
Riding the Lightning and 100 always make me cry! Also where Mauve is shot. I was so happy that Spencer had found someone!
It should be “100 saddest episodes of criminal minds” because this show is always heartbreaking 💔
North Mammon is so sad and I hate that I remember it so well
Frankie was great in that episode.
'Never wish to die Stan, your special' 😢
I was expecting to see "Ashes and Dust" a lot higher on the list. Because what you mentioned is only in the episode's opening.
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They proceed to trace it to a group of environmental activists who had that house and others that were torched on a warning list, think the head of the organization is planning to stage a big one but later discover he's preparing for an inevitable death of cancer from exposure to hazardous and poorly contained chemicals, he disbands the group, which infuriates the killer and causes him to start attacking people at random, and before they can track down and arrest the killer, the group's founder lures the killer to a dump site that is slated to become a school and purposely starts the fire early and kills them both.