History Headscratchers / Criminalminds

* In "P911", the young boy is being kept in a soundproofed cell with no door. The team eventually realises that the cell was built around him. However: 1, wouldn't that A, take a while and B, be highly problematic considering that there's someone in there while it was built? 2, the boy was kept in there for several days. The room wasn't that big and there was no ventilation, so wouldn't he have run out of air? 3, if the room was soundproofed, then how did that scene where he calls to his captor, asking to be let out, and his captor yells at him to shut up work?

* In Supply and Demand, the season six finale, it's revealed that [[spoiler:JJ's coming back.]] Earlier in the episode, it's revealed that the FBI's going to have budget cuts. So, if they're having budget cuts, how do they have the money to hire [[spoiler:JJ?]]

* This is a really minor thing, but the episode ''Roadkill'' was set in Oregon. The unsub has to keep replacing his front bumper and license plate because he's killing people with his car. We see this again and again, and, appropriately, he always replaces Oregon plates. Rossi and Morgan find his discards... and they're California plates.

* In "Mayhem" [[spoiler: the terrorist cell's plan is to set off a bomb in an ambulance to kill someone protected by the secret service. But the bomb doesn't seem large enough, especially since it would be in the underground concrete parking garage while the target was being airlifted off the roof. Were they planning to bring down the entire building? ]]

* In Safe Haven, Jeremy was supposedly one of twins and absorbed his brother in the womb. If the pregnancy was advanced enough for the mother to know she was having twins, is that even possible? One mostly-developed twin could die, certainly, but how could it just disappear?

* In ''The Silencer'': why didn't John Myers just '''write''' what his problem is? We know he's intelligent, well read, so why didn't he just write on a piece of paper "My defective earing implant is making every sound a torture, I need to be put in a place without noise"? I can understand why he never tried to tell his mother since she was probably just looking for excuses to abuse him, but he must have had teachers, neighbours, and after that the jail personnel must know this since they provided him books: someone should have at some point said "Maybe he does not speak because he's deaf and/or mute but he writes so I'll try that way to communicate"

* In the episode Cradle To Grave when the team arrive at the unsub's house it's revealed that one of the captive women had already given birth to a boy (now about four or five years old). Why then did the unsubs continue abducting and impregnating women if the female unsub already had her Michael?

** Usually based on the victims, the area of the killings, and things like that.
** To elaborate: If the victims were white women abducted in a mostly white neighborhood and no one noticed anything out of the ordinary, you can rule out a ScaryBlackMan. Or if the victims were African-Americans abducted in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and no one noticed anything out of the ordinary, you can rule out a creepy white guy. Generally serial killers who abduct people in populated areas as opposed to waiting in the woods or something, do so from areas in which they can blend in, which is either going to be a very crowded area or a neighborhood where most people match their racial background. I am not sure but I'm fairly certain they're much more likely to state a probable race in the profile if the abductions happened in a neighborhood setting as opposed to a rural area or a crowded commerce area.
*** OP Here: Thank you.

* In "Red Light" it was never explained how Cat and Lindsay met, particularly given that Lindsay has been in jail for nearly two years in Iowa while Lindsay operates primarily in border states. Lindsay's dad was relocated to Wisconsin, a bordering state of Iowa, by WITSEC, but Lindsay left the program and headed south three years before Cat met Spencer. This may later be explained by the "mole in the BAU" theory, but as of this writing it's a plot hole.

* In "Lo-Fi", comparison of video which captured two of the shootings indicates that one killer was significantly shorter than the other, and left the area at a different speed. Based on this information, the BAU presents two possible profiles: either it's a two-person team of serial killers, or it's a gang-initiation ritual. But the killings had been on the news for some time, so a rough description of what the suspect(s) wore during the attacks has presumably become public knowledge. So why was there no mention of a plausible third possibility: that someone who ''specifically'' had a grudge against the second victim heard about the shootings on the news, dressed up like the unsub, and copied his methods to eliminate the person they wanted dead?

** The male unsub was a sexual sadist. When he met his wife, he temporarily became calm, but soon regressed again, abusing her. However, because she was willing, he couldn't derive any pleasure out of it. In order to avoid killing her, they made a deal: he could rape and kill the abductees as long as she could raise the children that she chose. She was in it for Michael (and eventually more children, when she found out her cancer would kill her). He was in it mostly to satisfy his sadism.

* In "The Performer", why did Dante's agent go to the unsub's house, and more important, why did he attack JJ if he had no idea who she was?

** We don't know how long Hotch has been using the same address book. It's possible he wrote down that information when he first moved into the house and hadn't yet memorized its address.

** Also, it's a statistical fact, apparently, that serial killers have never been known to choose victims outwith their own race. White killers kill white victims, black killers kill black victims...and so on.

** The details of the abduction were the same as the other two. The autopsy wasn't finished at that stage.

* Am I the only one who finds the premise of "Beyond Borders" (Both the episode and the upcoming SpinOff) a bit unbelievable. Not the [=UnSub=], but the idea that there's a special FBI team to help Americans in trouble abroad? The US government won't even save people who ''work'' for them; they're going to dispatch a team to save some vacationers?

* In If The Shoe Fits JJ is angry at her mom for telling JJ's son about Rosaline and makes a point that she discussed telling him with Will. Yet she never bothered to tell her mom about the decision to not tell the kid ?

* In If The Shoe Fits JJ is angry at her mom for telling JJ's son about Rosaline and makes a point that she discussed telling him with Will
at length" . Yet she never bothered to tell her mom about the decision to not tell the kid ?

at length" .... Yet she never bothered to tell her mom about the decision to not tell the kid ?

* Am I the only one who finds the premise of "Beyond Borders" (Both the episode and the upcoming SpinOff) a bit unbelievable. Not the [=UnSub=], but the idea that there's a special FBI team to help Americans in trouble abroad? The US government won't even save people who ''work'' for them; they're going to dispatch a team to save some vacationers?

* Why was Ian Doyle imprisoned in ''North Korea'' after being captured by Prentiss and Interpol? (Not only North Korea, but a camp for political prisonners in North Korea???) North Korea isn't a member of interpol to begin with, and for second, Interpol is a law enforcement agency, why would they capture a terrorist and then not have him tried by whatever country he's wanted by?

* Why was Ian Doyle imprisoned in ''North Korea'' after being captured by Prentiss and Interpol? North Korea isn't a member of interpol to begin with, and for second, Interpol is a law enforcement agency, why would they capture a terrorist and then not have him tried by whatever country he's wanted by?

** The wife wrote it and it probably just got mixed in with his fan mail.