The Ragtag Operatives

The Ragtag Operatives (so named in this wiki) were a group of international criminals who appeared in Season Eleven of Criminal Minds.

Background
The group was created by Edgar Solomon, John Bradley, and four others, all of whom had a high amount of specialized training. They specialized in taking up jobs that involved abducting and torturing victims to extract sensitive information out of them. In 2016, they were hired by an unidentified individual to target SSA Derek Morgan, who held as-of-yet unknown information.

A Badge and a Gun
As Morgan leaves a store after buying ice cream for his girlfriend Savannah Hayes, he bumps into one of the operatives, who subtly drugs him during the encounter. Then, as Morgan has a phone conversation with Savannah, he bumps into another operative, who gets into a verbal exchange with him. The drugs begin taking effect, but Morgan fights hard to remain conscious, surprising the operatives. The four operatives then gang up on Morgan and begin beating him savagely, eventually rendering him unconscious. One of them grabs his cellphone, throws it to the street, and stomps down on it, destroying it.

Derek
After the group abducts Morgan and takes him to an abandoned house in Virginia, they begin to torture him. However, Morgan has put himself into a dissociative state to stave off most of the pain which makes the torture unsuccessful. Then, they put white phosphorous on Morgan's torso to use the knife that is heated by the fireplace to run it across the torso, but it also failed. Afterwards, Edgar Solomon tells his colleagues to have Morgan unchain and strip down. Then all of a sudden, Morgan overpowers one of Solomon's colleagues and uses the gun to kill everyone inside the house. When Morgan is distracted by Solomon by taunting and telling him that they are isolated, he calls John Bradley about the situation before he swallows the batteries and dies from his gunshot wound. Morgan tries to get the batteries out, but he is able to get the them by cutting open Solomon's stomach. Later, Bradley arrives to finish off Morgan, but the BAU are able to find the house after Morgan traced the phone to them. Reid steps inside, shoots Bradley, and the team rescues Morgan.

Modus Operandi
Little is known about the group's activities, other than they would always be hired by clients to take up for jobs for them. Their victims were tortured in a variety of ways, though specific details were not revealed yet.

Profile
No profile of the group was made by the BAU.

Members

 * Edgar Solomon . Portrayed by Charles Mesure.
 * John Bradley . Portrayed by Jonathan Cake.
 * Four unnamed men . Portrayed by Charles S. Frank, Khalid Ghajji, and two uncredited actors.

Known Clients

 * Unnamed client
 * Numerous other unnamed clients

Known Victims

 * Abducted and tortured numerous unnamed victims prior to Derek
 * February 24, 2016: Derek Morgan

Appearances

 * Season Eleven
 * "A Badge and a Gun"
 * "Derek"