In " The Apprenticeship ", Morgan takes Reid out to practice hitting a baseball as his team is in need of another substitute player. After the case is finished up, Reid goes to watch Morgan's game and is drafted to play second base. At the bottom of the ninth, with the FBI team trailing by 1 point and Spencer up to bat, Morgan gives him a little pep talk and tells him to get out of his head and just play by feel as well as a chance to erase all his bad childhood athletic sports memories.
In " The Lesson ", Reid takes time to call the mysterious woman he admires several times throughout the case to get some insight. Towards the end of the episode, she tells Spencer that she's ready to meet in person and that she thinks it's safe enough. Reid and the mysterious woman both show signs of nervousness and anxiousness, mirroring each other simultaneously at their respective homes.
Spencer shows up slightly before her with a book "The Narrative of John Smith" wrapped as a present. Spencer sees a man look over a few times and has a hunch that this man might be the stalker that his friend is so afraid of. He calls her to not come in and leave right away and goes to confront him, only to find out that it's the wrong person.
He returns to his table disappointed and finds that his friend left him the same exact book as a present. In " Zugzwang ", Reid receives a collect call from "Adam Worth" at a payphone, only to hear the term Zugzwang, which is a chess term that describes the point in a game when a player realizes he'll inevitably be checkmated, and thus he has the decision whether or not to resign or play the game through to the end.
This, coupled with the fact that they both use pseudonyms to disguise their letters, Spencer addressing himself as Dr. Visibly distressed, Reid pleads his case to his teammates, though Hotch reminds them that they're likely not to receive the case through the BAU, meaning that they'd strictly be using their private off time to work the case, everyone stays to help.
The mysterious woman, identified as Maeve Donovan, is abducted by her stalker, also identified as Diane Turner, and despite his efforts to rescue her, he watches in horror as Diane simultaneously kills herself and Maeve with a single.
He breaks down into sobs of grief. Maeve's death left a lasting impact on Reid for the rest of the season. In " Magnum Opus ", he is allowed to stay behind while the team investigates Bryan Hughes.
During that time, Reid barely left his apartment and therefore never saw any of the gifts the rest of the team left behind by his door as condolences. However, Reid finally decides to catch up with the rest of the team but stays behind when the team identifies the unsub and discerns that the delusion that is fueling his killings will motivate him to commit suicide or suicide by cop. Indeed, the unsub is shot and killed by Hotch when he tries to kill another victim.
In " The Gathering ", Reid tries to reason with Peter Harper who was subsequently bent on suicide , but he is unsuccessful and the man slashes his own throat with a knife. This visibly upsets Reid afterward. In " Alchemy ", Reid, still haunted by Maeve's death, tries to remedy this failure by personally tracking down any potential cases and finds the one of Raoul Whalen and Tess Mynock. Throughout the entire case, he is consoled by Rossi and opens up to him about the fact that he never saw her personally prior to her death and that he never even touched her once.
Reid also cites that he has barely slept, fearing that he will dream about her. When the case is concluded, Rossi successfully gets Reid to finally move on. Reid falls asleep on the jet and dreams about Maeve, whom he shares a dance with. In " Persuasion ", when Cesar Jones ' case came up in his hometown of Las Vegas, Reid calls his mother's sanitarium, intending to visit her.
He is surprised to learn that her mental condition was beginning to improve, as she wasn't signed into the sanitarium as frequently and was actually allowed to have a supervised vacation to the Grand Canyon simultaneous to the investigation.
When asked about it, Reid stated that he was overjoyed to learn about this, although he also expresses his belief that his mother might have actually forgotten about him, since they barely kept in touch. By the end of the episode, Reid receives a number of postcards and a golden collectible miniature of the Grand Canyon from Diana. These gifts please him, as that meant his mother still thought about him.
He appeared to be critically wounded. In " Demons ", the follow-up to "Angels", it was revealed that the bullet barely missed his carotid artery and he underwent surgery. He spent most of the episode in the hospital, where Greg Baylor , who was posing as a nurse, attempted to kill him by injecting carbenicillin into his IV. When Baylor, whose true identity had not been exposed yet, ignored his objections, Reid slapped the syringe out of his hand.
Baylor then pulled out a gun, but Garcia shot him with Reid's own gun, wounding him. Reid was then escorted home by Blake, who opened up to him about her deceased son Ethan before leaving. Reid said goodbye and then found that she had left him her badge and ID.
Reid was the team member who was the most upset when Gideon was murdered by Donnie Mallick in " Nelson's Sparrow ", even storming out of the crime scene in tears after Gideon's identity was confirmed to him. In the following episode " Hero Worship ", Reid struggled to cope with the loss of Gideon. He began playing the chess game that Gideon had been playing prior to his murder in the hopes of keeping it going and thus keep part of him alive. Rossi later joined in the game to help him finish it.
In " Rock Creek Park ", he asks Agent Dorian Loker for coffee after spending the following day doing surveillance together. In " Target Rich ", Reid mentions to JJ that his mother wasn't doing so well with her current medications.
As a result, he takes a sabbatical for a few following episodes so he can visit her. In " Entropy ", Reid returned to assist the team in taking down the Hitman Network tracking down Garcia.
During an undercover operation to capture its last two members: Cat Adams and Sharon Mayford , he indirectly reveals to the team that his mother was recently suffering from dementia, which he later confirmed directly afterward. He also expressed his fears that he will contract dementia as well since he missed the genetic marker of schizophrenia when he turned Morgan then assigns Reid to be the godfather of his son. In " Keeper ", Reid reveals to Rossi that his mother was accepted as a participant in a groundbreaking study on Alzheimer's, titled Metabolic Enhancement for Neurodegeneration , at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Reid is excited by the news, as earlier tests had found ways to not only slow the disease but actually reverse it. Later, during the case of Cormac Burton , he learned that his mother was found wandering around a casino, confused and not knowing who she was.
She was safely taken in by police and has since recovered, but was embarrassed by the situation. By the end of the episode, it was revealed that his mother was one of the several participants who had to be cut out of the study due to unexpected budget restraints. This disappoints Reid, and he tries to find another study that his mother could participate in. He eventually finds one in Houston, Texas, before the events of " Surface Tension ", but later decides to take his mother out of it and bring her home with him so he could take care of her.
After several unsuccessful attempts, he hires a caretaker named Cassie Campbell to assist him. However, Reid is forced to deal with the combination of his mother's schizophrenic episodes and lapses in memory. At some point, in Houston, Reid met a woman calling herself Rosa Medina, a doctor who wrote an article on Alzheimer's. Between November and January , Reid traveled to and from Mexico three separate times, all without notifying the FBI about his movements.
In " A Good Husband ", following the conclusion of a case , he informs Prentiss that he has some unfinished business to do in Houston.
However, in " Spencer ", he was arrested in Mexico on suspicion of drug possession with the intent to distribute, and the murder of Rosa, who was actually named Nadie Ramos, and who was found in a hotel room Reid was also at.
He was nearly transferred to a maximum-security Mexican prison for Nadie's murder, but it was stopped when it was revealed that Nadie has dual American-Mexican citizenship, and he was extradited back to the U. However, the federal government refused to provide legal assistance for Reid, because he entered Mexico without informing the Bureau, which broke protocol.
The prosecutor, A. Manny Martinez , offers a deal in which Reid pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in exchange for a sentence of two to five years in prison. After Reid turns down the offer, the knife used to kill Nadie is found in the Mexican desert, leading to another plea bargain of five to ten years in prison.
Reid turns down this offer too, and later, he is denied bail by Judge Willa Frost , despite Fiona's best efforts, who believes Reid is flight-risk due to his behavior when he fled the crime scene in Mexico. He is nearly killed by Milos and his gang for taking back his belongings which they had earlier stolen , but is saved by another inmate named Calvin Shaw , a former FBI agent imprisoned for killing Elena Olegnova.
As a result, Reid befriends Shaw, who is also proficient in reading and chess, and who gives him tips to survive in prison. However, Frazier and Duerson brutally beat him in retaliation. Did you know Edit. Trivia Mandy Patinkin was dressed in warm clothes during the final scenes because he was going to be performing a concert in New York soon after and was afraid of getting sick.
The temperature was 22 degrees Fahrenheit -5 degrees Celsius. Goofs The first time the team members see Reid, Hankel is clearly standing behind the camera. When we switch to the teams point of view, they can see Hankel standing in front of the camera.
When we go back to the shack, he is back behind the camera. Quotes Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : You know, I always take advantage of Reid for his brain, but I never actually teach him how to deal with things emotionally.
Connections Referenced in Criminal Minds: Spencer User reviews 6 Review. Top review. My favorite episode. Details Edit. A lot of the writing is tight, very thought-provoking and genuinely emotional, one really does feel for Reid here.
In "Zugzwang", the team dynamic is always enjoyable and the characters well-established, Maeve finally getting some meat to her character which Beth Riesgraf does quite well with.
The acting is very good on the most part, with Matthew Gray Gubler especially being a revelation, his heart-break and devastation is emotionally devastating. Generally "Zugzwang" was quite decent, though it does kick off with a very strange and awkwardly sappy dream sequence. Also, although there was very little to complain about with the acting, this reviewer didn't really care for Michelle Tratchenberg here, she seemed rather bland and evokes neither menace or sympathy.
But the biggest let-down is the badly botched, no let's rephrase that as slap-in-the-face ending, which is emotionally manipulative, implausible, ridiculous, forced and a cheap way of not only writing out a character that seemingly fans were not warming to but reminding us that Reid can't be happy or that's how it felt.
In conclusion, a decent episode marred badly by the worst ending in 'Criminal Minds' history. TheLittleSongbird Jul 9, Details Edit. Release date January 16, United States. United States Canada. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 41 minutes. Dolby Digital. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. See the full list.
This is every single qualification that Reid possesses on "Criminal Minds. If this isn't enough, he also has BAs in Sociology and Psychology. According to Paramount , he can even read 20, words per minute. While these latter two degrees are arguably more relevant to most cases that Reid and the BAU team will run into, his vast array of knowledge from his PhDs comes into play on "Criminal Minds" more than once.
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