Who is stalking the criminal minds team

The Reaper is much like The Zodiac Killer, who remains officially unidentified, though many theories exist. Both of the killers enjoyed sending the authorities messages they needed to decode. Both killers murdered at random and varied their methods of killing. In this episode, the BAU members were tracking a serial killer than proved to be uneducated and seemed to kill women who had children , after raping them in the LA area.

He murdered at least 13 people in southern California, raping and robbing others before getting caught by the police. Both killers were apprehended by a mob of angry citizens who were tired of the killings. This led them to two brothers who had been murdering transients and then feeding them to the pigs on their farm.

This is much too like real-life killer Robert Pickton, who worked alone to kidnap homeless people, prostitutes, and drug users for his kills. He was convicted of 6 murders but is believed to have killed at least Like on Criminal Minds , he actually fed some of his victims to his pigs. The case began after the bodies of American teenagers are found skinned and impaled, in what is originally believed to be Native American rituals.

The team is able to work out, with the help of local reservation policeman, that it was the work of a group, calling themselves The Apaches, who staged the killings to frame Native Americans. This draws a very striking parallel to the real Manson family, who were a cult that prayed on the innocent, with the false stories of a racial war as they wanted to make different races pit against each other. The leader of the Apaches, The Grandfather, met a very similar demise to leader of the Manson family, Charles Manson, as one of his followers was caught bragging about their killings and who their teacher was.

Spencer Reed meet with a different serial killer in prison who is eerily similar to Kemper. Both killers had traumatic childhoods that fueled a lot of rage toward their mothers, they enjoyed brutally raping college women, and had no regard for the life of others.

Crime Drama Mystery. Director Glenn Kershaw. Harrison executive story editor. Top credits Director Glenn Kershaw. See more at IMDbPro. Photos 3. Add image. Top cast Edit. Matthew Gray Gubler Dr. Spencer Reid as Dr. Spencer Reid. Cook Jennifer Jareau as Jennifer Jareau. Mark Moses Director as Director. Teresa Huang Dr. Weiss as Dr. Glenn Kershaw. Storyline Edit. Immediately following the Ecstacy case in New York City, the Replicator has hacked into Garcia's computer system, on which he posts photographs of each of the team members in New York and his "Zugzwang" calling card.

That focus, another calling card left by the Replicator in what he believes is from a past case, and that he seems to have easy access to almost anywhere the team has access, leads to the team believing he works within the bureau. Looking at what the Replicator has done up to this point in time, they also believe the motive for his actions has something to do with what was the feud between Blake and Strauss. Even if the team does determine the identity of the Replicator, they have to tread carefully as the Replicator has thus far been able to manipulate the team into what he has wanted them to do, and his final end move may take place before they can find him.

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller. Add content advisory. And then soon after the end of the episode Curtis appears with photos of all BAU members and putting them as the main target. After the team solved the case of serial killers David Turner and Toby Whitewood , he receives a call from the authorities in Dallas, informing them that someone killed a man with the same MO as John Myers or The Silencer a serial killer who killer people putting something in their mounths, since it is seen that John Myers is this, then BAU conclude that he is an imitator and so they decide to investigating this further.

At the end of the episode Curtis is seen taking pictures during a shoftball match in his car. Curtis then appears where Morgan and Garcia are watching her. While Morgan makes the speech, Curtis a glass of wine in which Morgan was and puts if in plastic bag takes if and puts it in hid table.

He then copies then copies the signature of John Nelson killing his victim simply by cutting his leg and replacing by another by the leg of the third victim. After solving the case of serial killer Willie Kestler , Hotch and Rossi informs the team in a informs the team in a briefing room about Curtis's imitation of some of the serial killers that BAU had solved and that they would investigate about it.

Curtis makes a short appearance and gives a public phone call at the home of Maeve Donovan in which he identifies himself as Adam Worth and speaks the word Zugzwang at the time, Reid the other members of BAU though that it was Diane Turner the pursuer of Maeve and that already that both Reid and Maeve used names related to Arthur Conan Doyle in their correspondences.

Curtis appears at the end of the episode and watching a BAU news coverage live while he sees photos of his victims on his laptop, and it is also revealed that he copied another serial killer Adam Rain and killed a woman in the same style as him.

At the beginning of the episode Curtis sends a ship of flowers to JJ and that it is written Zugzwang, with that Reid realizes that Curtis sent them and not Diane. Throughout the episode, Curtis manipulates Donnie Bidwell and makes BAU believe it's The Replicator, most due to the non-hitting profile and he commit suicide they soon realizes that she was not The Replicator even though he had copied Byan Hughes as revenge.

And at the end of the episode Curtis copies David Turner and Toby Whitewood giving an ax to a photos of the team and everything surrounded by the word Zugzwang written in red.