Derek
Derek has been abducted by criminals working for a man who wants revenge on him. Derek hallucinates talking to his dead father, and the hallucination is able to tell him that Savannah is pregnant.
Tropes in this episode
- Callback: Morgan mentions the Day of the Dead celebration from season 9
- Cold-Blooded Torture: What his captors do to Morgan.
- Hallucinations: Morgan hallucinates his father as well as other people.
- Just in Time: Reid arrives and shoots the last member of the clean-up crew right before the latter is able to kill Morgan.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Derek spends a lot of time talking to the ghost of his father, who may be a messenger of his subconscious, but still alerts Morgan to the fact that Savannah is pregnant and correctly predicts that it's a boy.
- Mr. Fanservice: Morgan spends a significant part of the episode without a shirt.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Morgan and Garcia's status as such is highlighted, with her playing a significant part in his hallucinations and also being the one waiting in his hospital room with his girlfriend Savannah for three days until he wakes up.
- Swallow the Key: Played With. Morgan's torturer swallows the SIM card to the only working phone, which is Morgan's only chance to get out of there. Morgan cuts it out of him, mostly off-screen, but it doesn't work for calling anyone but a very short list of people. Derek calls one, hoping to give Garcia a chance to track the call, knowing it would alert the "clean-up crew" to him having the phone.
