Mayhem
Directed by Edward Allen Bernero
Written by Simon Mirren
Agent Joyner's car has been blown up, with her taking the brunt of the blast. Since the emergency responders have been instructed that they are the target and shouldn't intervene until the FBI tells them to, she has to lie there and bleed, having lost the function of her legs. A man who calls himself Sam tries to help, and because of his concussion from getting caught in the blast, it takes Hotch a while to realize that he's a terrorist intending to blow up first responders. Part 2 of 2.Written by Simon Mirren
Hotchner: "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." Ernest Hemingway.
Tropes in this episode
- Always Need What You Gave Up: Hotch and the BAU ordered the local authorities not to send in first responders until the scene has been cleared, to avoid a second attack on said first responders. When Hotch and Joyner are blown up and Joyner is dying, Hotch desperately calls for help, but nobody comes past the perimeter to them.
- Big "NO!" / Large Ham: The terrorist, when he sees the ambulance that is rigged to explode race out of the garage underneath the hospital.
- Character Death: Kate Joyner dies.
- Hospital Epilogue: Kate dies on the operation table.
- Separated by a Common Language: As she is dying from her injuries, Kate marvels at how Britons and Americans have different words for "cinema".
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!:
- Morgan is ordered to stay behind the perimeter but runs out to help Hotch anyway.
- Exploited. The UnSub masquerading as a first responder uses this as his excuse to get close to the scene.
- Trojan Ambulance: An assassination plot uses an ambulance to smuggle a bomb into a hospital, the final result of a terrorist group manufacturing a citywide crisis to get around a bypass order for a high-profile patient.
