Future Perfect

"Future Perfect" is the tenth episode of Season Eleven of Criminal Minds.

Summary
When two victims in Florida are found dead from bizarre medical experiments, the BAU find themselves searching for a killer who appears to have an alarming obsession with the practices.

Guest Cast

 * Vaughn Armstrong - Ben Kebler
 * Bruce Barton - M.E. Kevin Gaylen
 * Tate Birchmore - Young Robert Boles
 * Matt Burns - Robert Boles
 * Nancy Linehan Charles - Eileen Kebler
 * Mike Dazé - Bryan Davis
 * Augie Duke - Jill Simmons
 * Peter Elbling - Harold McDermott
 * Ed Ford, Jr. - Old Man
 * Jill Remez - Doctor Laura Braga
 * Pamela Shaddock - Sergeant Carol Gridley
 * Mia Topalian - Andrea Gambrell
 * Alisa Torres - Diane Haller
 * Aisha Tyler - Doctor Tara Lewis

Referenced Criminals

 * The West Memphis Three

Bookend Quotes
Aaron Hotchner:  "The clock tocked loud. I threw it away. It scared me when it tocked." Tillie Olsen

Aaron Hotchner:  "The first condition of immortality is death." Stanislaw Lec

Trivia

 * "Future perfect" is a verb form that describes an action or event that is expected to be completed in the future. It is formed by combining the future tense (such as "will have" or "shall have") and the perfect.
 * Despite being credited in the opening sequence, Matthew Gray Gubler, the actor who portrays Reid, doesn't appear in the episode, just like the previous two episodes.
 * This is, in fact, the fifth episode in which a main character has not appeared despite his or her actor or actress being credited as usual. The first episode was Broken Mirror, in which A.J. Cook and Kirsten Vangsness do not appear as JJ and Garcia, respectively, despite being credited. The second was 25 to Life, in which Thomas Gibson does not appear as Hotch.