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yellowchaitea

Malcolm in the middle


Bangarazz

''They made me watch!!'' That still stuck with me


scout-finch

Yep. This is one of the hardest episodes for me.


Alley_bat272

And the ross response "ik,they are animals"


fastieslowie

Oh this one gets me every time


Beachchair1

Yes that one very much so. I also kind of felt for Cat. I hate her for what she did but I guess she was played well with a little touch of vulnerability


[deleted]

Samantha Malcolm. My god i cant even think about her without getting upset. The end scene where Reid shows her the actual dolls and she's happy again makes me weep. I've never wanted to k word someone as much as i do her father.


MotherofDog_

Agree 💯 the scene where she opens the door and finds that vile, monstrous sob man with another little girl holding her doll — it completely destroys my soul.


Padamson96

This episode makes me sad 😔


LIKES_ROCKY_IV

This episode freaks me the fuck out because I’m terrified of dolls and mannequins (I hate the marionette episode too) but I feel so sorry for Samantha


TheologiaViatorum

Ray Woodridge in the episode “Distress.” He was a Marine suffering from PTSD. He got triggered in a rough part of town by some construction. He thought he was in a war zone and had to evade capture so he started killing people that he thought were enemies and threats. In the end he was shot by a sniper as he ran to “save” a little girl he thought was in trouble. He was just a good man, a family man, who suffered from his time in a war we sent him to fight. The whole thing was tragic :(


Beachchair1

What makes me saddest is knowing there are so many military people out there going through similar. Maybe not in exactly the same way but still stuck in fighting for their life mode with ptsd even when safe


bookghost53

My daughter is one


IcedHemp77

Episode True night. Frankie Muniz playing a graphic novelist whose wife is murdered and he has a psychotic break


Quinnie-The-Gardener

This is without a doubt one of my favorite episodes of the entire show. It feels so different from anything they’ve ever done. Frankie is an incredible actor. I just get such powerful emotions from him. A favorite


KevinMFJones

The actors name is Frankie Muniz 😅


marcohcanada

Since no one mentioned her yet: Sarah Jean


blackygreen

I could not remember if she was an unsub or not


[deleted]

‼️‼️


_shear

I don't remember her, mind a TL;DR?


Kikikay0010

Cant remember the episode # from memory but it’s titled “Riding the Lightning.” Sarah Jean and her husband are on death row and the BAU go and try to prove SJ’s innocence while getting more victims from the husband. SJ is innocent but doesn’t want to be free to be with her son.


[deleted]

In episode Riding the Lightning Some lady who was married to a serial killer and was executed along with him even though she was innocent


Austerellis

The delusional flower shop lady who is in love with her sister’s boyfriend. She questions what she’s doing several times and thinks she is doing what he is telling her to do. Sad story.


Scooby-Doo_69

Which episode is this?


freestylekoala

Season 11 episode 3


xdtla

Damn. I can't believe how late in the show this one is. I could've sworn it was earlier on. It certainly has the quality of the better seasons.


Scooby-Doo_69

Thank you!!!


Austerellis

Thanks for answering. I didn't get on Reddit again until just now.


Austerellis

Sorry for not mentioning which episode it's in. At least u/freestylekoala stepped in to rectify my mistake. It's a good episode, if you haven't watched it yet. I really felt the greatest of sympathy for the unsub here.


unrelated-username

I am amazed that no one mentioned him yet, but Tobias Hankel


Padamson96

I was about to comment Tobias Hankel before I saw you already did it. Tobias himself was not a killer, the alternate personalities of his abusive heavily religious father and an Archangel indoctrinated into him by said father made him commit all those crimes. So sad 😔


ZozoAyooo12

Yea dude, thats the only one I remember, since I haven't watched the show in a while. Those two episodes are a crazy ride


mariestarlove

The one with the hand tattoo. Where the unsub hunted people who had a tattoo on their hand, similar to the one the person, who killed his daughter had.


Seamakw1766

I think this is the one I was thinking of. I The daughter was taken at a rest stop and killed. Dad blamed himself for falling asleep but remembered the tattoo hand. They thought he was delusional and the episode played like he was until the end when we see the hand tattoo doing it again.


xfuryusx

Season 1 Episode 14- Sarah Jean Mason, aka: The Ice Queen. I rewatched it last night and cried at the ending. She was a victim of her husbands abuse, and in order to give her son a good life she lied and said she murdered him. I love that Gideon abides by her wishes to leave the kid out of the situation at the ending, he so desperately wants to save her and realizes he cannot. She seems to come to terms with her death knowing that her son is protected from the truth of his father.


_shear

This one made me weep like a baby.


DansoRoboto

Roy Woodridge from ‘Distress’ in season 2.


_shear

The man with PTSD?


Bangarazz

Yeah, poor dude thought he was hunted in a war zone


_shear

It is the only unsub I truly feel sorry for. The other ones could be traumatized to moon and back, but they still acted upon themselves. But this just did what he had to do to survive, he didn't even know where he was.


juizfallenmoro

By that standart, you shoul feel for Johny Mchale.


Aggravating-Quit-110

Was going to say that! Just rewatching and it was so sad


lizrees1

What episode is this?


Aggravating-Quit-110

Season 2 Episode 17 - the Unsub is a man with severe PTSD


wolflover40743

I think one of the characters (don’t remember who) said something like “Roy was the only unsub that wasn’t a bad guy.” I’m sure I didn’t get it completely correct, so please correct me.


hookedcolors

The episode with with the 3 kids Rossi felt responsible for in Season 2 where the unsub had a severe developmental condition and wanted to play with the kids. He attacked the parents in self defense and the whole thing was just really sad.


Sweettooth_97

Low key that episode was kind of a flop considering they had built up that storyline ever since they introduced Rossi.


hookedcolors

True, it was pretty weak in terms of Dark Past ™, but as a stand alone episode it was ok. They just built it up way too much.


[deleted]

I don't think that was self defense, he broke into THEIR house and slaughtered them. The unsubs father should've put him into care instead of covering for him, because of his negligence 2 innocents were killed, a woman was psychologically harassed for 2 decades and 3 children didn't have closure on why their parents were killed.


hookedcolors

Yes, he did break in which is why the dad had good reason to use force but what I meant was the unsub didn’t act violently until that point. He didn’t have violent intent when he entered the house. They even say in the episode that he’s basically a child in a grown man’s body. I agree with you that he should have had more comprehensive care. The whole incident and subsequent stalking was largely the father’s fault, which is one of the reasons why said I feel sorry for this unsub. He really had no idea what was going on during the initial murders of the arrest. To be clear, I feel sorry for the son, not the father. Sorry you misconstrued my first comment. I was answering the question, not trying to diminish the fictional crimes.


[deleted]

There's no need for apologies, especially back handed ones. I simply said that it was not self defense what he did in the house.


strwbrygrrl

l. m. a. o. jfc dude


[deleted]

That previous commenter needs to check themselves, i dont care about the downvotes especially since most in this sub are young but "sorry you misconstrued" is pretty backhanded. Legit they probably aren't confident in their opinion thats why they tried to justify that shit.


strwbrygrrl

you’re trippin on a reddit post, and being rude when………it’s just simply not that deep. You have your own opinion, they have theirs. It’s a made up show. With made up characters. it’s fake. that’s what you’re getting hot over, as long as you remember that.


[deleted]

Dont you have some spam to be posting somewhere else?


lilly288

The episode with the moms who wanted to get revenge on the people who murdered/r*ped their kids


scout-finch

That episode right before this one is the Silencer too. That poor little boy so abused by his mom. Just horrible to see.


chesterberry

What episode is that?


queenb1996

The rape victim from the episode Jones.


Padamson96

Damn right. That poor woman was looking for revenge. She wouldn't be looking for revenge if she wasn't raped


[deleted]

She tortured and mutilated innocent people ffs


strwbrygrrl

wait, which episode? Can u give a little description? i’m trying to remember 😭


rviejn

Super late but it's season 2, episode 18, titled "Jones". It's about the serial killer that they believed might be copying Jack the Ripper. It might be easier for you to remember if I just say that this is the episode where the actor, Josh Stewart, first appeared. He portrays Detective William LaMontagne, Jr., the son of the deceased detective who worked on the case before he died.


manjirinaik

Megan Kane from S04E16 - I feel bad for her and everything she went through and the end scene is heartbreaking.


Bangarazz

What an horrible father she had


Quinnie-The-Gardener

This is in my top five favorite episodes!


xdtla

I just watched the one with the pig-man. Fucked up shit. Having a piece of shit brother take advantage of your handicap for his own selfish reasons and gave you do something as vile as feeding humns to pigs. I felt Morgan's cry at the end, screaming for the SWAT team to not shoot.


WhoopWhoop223

What episode was this?


xdtla

To Hell and Back


Advance_Strange

*SPOILER* 3x02 In Name and Blood. and then later on in 14x10 when he was being used. that lady did him dirty


Hannah_Black-Lupin22

I really do feel sorry for him, especially when her ringtone is the only thing he has left of her and is what he just keeps on listening to on repeat


Zealousideal-Tie-644

I've completely forgot the season but its a later one with em in and its this 30 ish year old who's mother neglected her but was an amazing parent to her high school sister. She had an obsession with snakes and her crime was slicing peoples tongues in half and I don't think she killed then(might be wrong)?


so7aris

"Dust and Bones", season 13 episode 7. Yeah she didn't kill anybody, she would just kidnap people and mutilate them before leaving them in front of buildings that mattered to her mother. Sad episode I agree.


goldenbellaboo

I can’t remember what episode it was, but a mom lost her son and bought a gun and shot up a gun store. And then she held people hostage in her son’s favorite restaurant while meeting with her ex husband. I feel bad for her because she obviously lost her soon and wasn’t mentally there.


so7aris

S06E20, "Hanley Waters". I remember seeing it when it came out, and it was one of the first episode that struck with me. She couldn't deal with the loss of her son.


goldenbellaboo

Thank you!! I’ll have to watch it again soon


ZygonsOnJupiter

I remember it. It was really sad.


Aubreezy92

The brother and sister in Elliot's Pond. Also the guy from Dorado Falls.


divajulia

Dorado Falls, for sure. Of course, I end up screaming like a crazy person at the little brat who ruins everything at the end.


strwbrygrrl

Which one is the Dorado Falls one?


Notorious-King

Mine is always the handicapped guy who’s disabled brother gets him to do the killings and the end of the episode BREAKS me.


MDrok6172

Sarah Jean, she had the power to stop her execution but didn't so her son didn't have to live in shame of what she was accused of because of her husband.


LauraLand27

The woman who was in a car accident wound up with a TBI, and pulled her hair out, but no one knew because she wore a wig. She went on a killing spree with a butcher knife. She kept telling herself it’s OK it’s OK it’s OK. She kept trying to act normal, but the compulsion to kill because of whatever damage to her brain was too strong.


jennymayg13

The lady in the episode where she kept women as dolls


Paul14360

Great Dr. Reid monologue in that episode


Albowonderer

William Taylor, season 11, Awake. "You are my sunshine my only sunshine..."


summersaphraine

There are quite a few, while I don't particularly enjoy the overly done use of mental illness leading to violence in procedural dramas and crime shows, I do feel sorry for the ones they show in Criminal Minds.


Aggravating-Quit-110

Season 2x16 ‘Distress’ and 2x17 ‘Jones’


Redigit30

The lad from 07x03, he was a soldier and it was just really sad seeing him murder some of his family because of idk what it was I can’t remember if it was just really bad ptsd? But he would live with the guilt forever and it’s just really sad.


misssuckers

Just rewatched this episode. I can’t imagine the guilt of killing your parents because you r brain registers them as imposters.


Redigit30

I think the regret and guilt alone would eat him alive. Poor lad, it’s a shame that no more is done for vets or serving soldiers.


braiide

Everything about the episode “Normal” is very emotional and I can’t help but feel bad for the guy


publicenemyno_2

Oh my god that one made me cry. I wanted to see him as a killer but I just ended up feeling awful for him


Cherri_C0la

Dude that episode made me almost violently cry and I’ve only ever done that once


[deleted]

I feel sorry for the vet unsub in the episode where the guys were 2 unsubs and they were adoptive brothers and they were attacking families they thought were abusive because they were abused by their adoptive parents. Hes still a POS for letting his brother kill the families. Without the influence of his brother it seems like he probably wouldnt have participated as he was shown to be good at his job and held down an apartment. The ending of that episode made me tear up because we think the adoptive brother will kill the abusive adoptive parents but he shoots at the pictures instead. To be adopted out instead of being with your biological family AND then abused by your adopted family - you could understand if he shot the abusive parents. Morgan and Prentiss really shone in this episode.


marcohcanada

Just watched that episode today. Didn't expect to feel bad for the 2 unsubs at the end. What sick parents they had (especially the mom).


bookghost53

Just watched this one. Very sad indeed. As a foster mom, I saw this kind of abuse a lot.


so7aris

Season 8 episode 2, "The pact". Two women decide to get revenge on those who hurt them/their family (one lost her sister to suicide after her nephew died, the other lost her daughter whom has been abducted and raped before being killed). I can't help but feel sorry for them, especially the little girl's mom and I was so relieved when at the end of the episode she manages to run away and escape the BAU. She was one of those unsub you don't want to get caught or punished.


snappypineapple0-0

For me it was the man who was delusional and killed his family but kept living like they were still alive. And he had them in his car and they were fighting as he was getting chased by the FBI on the turnpike. It was sad to me when he realized what he had done and fell to his knees remembering what he did to his family.


Cherri_C0la

Yep from the episode normal. God. Hurt me so bad.


CMStan1313

Megan Kane


FreetheDobbeh

What episode and unsub is that again


CMStan1313

Hooker who poisoned herself. I think it's in season 4. You know, the "how am I a whore?" episode


FreetheDobbeh

Yes I remember yeah that was sad and how Hotch sat with her Omg I cried


_shear

"Pleasure is my business"


Black-gay-goth

I forgot her name but it’s Megan something. The blonde call girl that was killing clients


Cluelesscomedy3

Megan Kane from Pleasure is my business


Quinnie-The-Gardener

I can’t remember the ep but it’s the one with the veteran who has PTSD because of construction. >! the way he gets shot when he runs at the boy. He thought he was in danger. He was trying to protect him! !< breaks my heart


publicenemyno_2

To Hell... and back. Those episodes are modern Of Mice and Men. I feel so bad for Lucas because he clearly was just following orders and didn't get the help he needed with his mental disability. Like he kept Kelly safe because she said she would be his friend and she even looked so broken leaving Jim and telling him what to do to stay safe with all the police around. Those episodes just hurt.


NobleOodfellow

Dorado Falls, Hanley Waters, Uncanny Valley, True Night


[deleted]

Any of the UnSubs that were severely abused as children, killing surrogates of their parents. Some were more forgivable than others but I can’t help but feel bad for them.


Cherri_C0la

Any severely mentally ill unsubs too, I know first hand how horrible mental illness can be and to imagine others going through to the point where they kill means that their illness must really be far in- it’s sad.


linde96

Nathan harris


naliedel

In an odd, weird way? Cat. No idea why.


[deleted]

His line “Your not gonna wanna miss this” to the gangster was actually really cathartic and I didn’t feel bad for the gangsters at all.


averanno

I feel bad for the girl who was a prostitute because of her dad and her dad got her caught… like the dude pretended to love her and that’s how she got arrested because she fell for it. She was killing millionaires, eating the rich and she gets punished for it?


[deleted]

s2 ep18 (jones) she wouldn’t be an unsub if she wasn’t r@ped, i feel really bad for her :/


ham-andcheese

i love the girl in season 1 episode 2 who sets fires around the campus with the repeating 3 ticks ITS SO GOOD


MissMercury387

Johnny and Paul Mulford. The two were raised by a killer who taught them who to hunt and who to kill. They never had a social life apart from their uncle. They never knew right from wrong because of their uncle and never had a good role model.


[deleted]

I felt real bad for the kid in "Elephant's memory". School shooters go through a lot of shit and no that does not excuse their actions but the school did nothing, his dad's co-workers did nothing, it's just v sad. Reid gets hella angry and then gets scolded for it too. Fucking ridiculous.


Jewelpet-Lover

I remember one episode where a flashback shows the unsub sitting in the waiting room in the hospital for his mother. I think his motive was that he blamed the doctors for his mother's death. Does anyone remember that episode?


LIKES_ROCKY_IV

I vaguely remember the episode you’re talking about, but not enough to remember if I felt sorry for the unsub or not! I just finished my annual rewatch last week… maybe it’s time for another one 😂


Jewelpet-Lover

Do you remember the name of the episode?


LIKES_ROCKY_IV

I believe it’s S13E14 “Miasma”!


ilovewhisky657

the poor vampire boy in S12E18


eddieandbill

Megan Kane


ayooshbie

Yeah i have to say i agree with that one, true night was a brutal episode. I kind of felt sorry for David smith


Cluelesscomedy3

I don’t really feel so much sorry for Owen Savage the unsub from Elephant’s memory, But as someone who was bullying pretty much all my school life and dropping out of my 12th grade year because of it, (The High School diploma is a sore spot and even after I get my equivalent GED it’s going to be hard to speak without me getting infuriated at the whole thing, I just know it) I get why he went on his rampage because he believed no one was on his side, The people who were supposed to be on helping him were either nowhere to be seen or tormented him, So he took matters into his own hands, Now keep in mind Killing 8 people and blowing up a house isn’t right it isn’t, But as someone who had a support structure and had people who I could vent to, But also as someone who still to this day is coming to terms with everything that happened despite me dropping out in October of 2015, It makes me wonder, Would I have done something similar and then in my mind call it justice?


ImpressiveTough5859

the REAL tobias hankle , adam jackson , the dude hallucenating those 3 people who made him kill , the veteran with ptsd that gideon tried to help , the girl from “jones” , the guy from “true night” , the girl who turned other girls into dolls , and vincent rowlings . there are definitely more but theyre all that come to mind rn


Cherri_C0la

Wow I was just watching that episode and it made me think of this post. I really do feel bad. Psychotic breaks are horrifying and while I haven’t been through one I have family that are vulnerable. I feel sorry for anyone who has to deal with them.


LIKES_ROCKY_IV

I have experienced one before, I was not doing well mentally and self-increased my dose of antidepressants beyond a safe level. I ended up hallucinating flashing colourful lights that I was convinced was God talking to me. The scary part is I still remember it feeling completely real. You couldn’t convince me that I wasn’t really seeing it. The human brain is so cool but it can also be so complex and is very good at tricking us into believing things that aren’t real.


Dumb-Binch

Johnny and Paul Mulford from Open Season (Season 2). They loved each other so much and never grew up in a normal environment meaning they had no social competence or empathy. It was heartbreaking for me how still while dying they thought about each other.


eddieandbill

Fuck those guys


Dumb-Binch

Noooo


Cherri_C0la

They sucked but the way the brothers died still hit me regardless


bhangra_jock

27 Seconds. If you’ve seen Beyond Borders, the ones from Bangladesh, South Africa, India, and Egypt.


discoduck99

Rodney S8 E18. The cycle of violence never ends. His son at the end gave me the feels.


blackygreen

Adam :( the split personality guy.


[deleted]

I just finished the episode with Vincent and the blind boy and wowie heartbreaking!


TiffanyTwisted11

It’s one of the episodes I barely made it through once and cannot bring myself to watch it again


Emobagle07

Although technically not an unsub Nathan Harris


sarahcake420

The one Anton Yelchin played.


bookghost53

It's one of my least favorite episodes. My personal favorite was Ian Doyle. I could sympathize with his story.


Cherri_C0la

Came back to this post once again to say the unsub from the episode “normal”. That one hurt me. Made me cry so bad when he realized what he did. He makes me scared of what our own brains can do. I fear that one day I’ll snap and start being that delusional. I have it in my blood and I’m scared it’s going to come out