Beyond Borders

Beyond Borders
Airdate	April 8, 2015
Written by	Erica Messer
Directed by	Glenn Kershaw
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"Beyond Borders" is the nineteenth episode of Season Ten and the 229th overall of Criminal Minds.

Summary

When a family of four is abducted while on vacation in Barbados, and the case is connected to several others, including one they investigated last year in Florida, Hotch and the BAU are called in to assist Unit Chief Jack Garrett and his International Response Team, which specializes in cases that involve Americans staying abroad, in a joint investigation.

Guest Cast

• Newell Alexander - Joe Sullivan
• Sterling K. Brown - Fitz
• Maritza Cabrera - Assistant Alisha Paun
• Dylan Garza - Young Jerry Tidwell
• Gatlin Green - Alison Sullivan
• Anna Gunn - Agent Lily Lambert
• Daniel Henney - Agent Matthew Simmons
• Darri Ingolfsson - Jerry Tidwell
• Shawn Kyles - Mr. Tidwell
• Lu Louis - Local Driver
• Judith McConnell - Pat Sullivan
• Jakob and Andrew Miller - Nick Sullivan
• Sara Montez - Charlotte Keller
• Esai Morales - FBI Section Chief Director Mateo Cruz
• Jami Platt - Mrs. Tidwell
• Tom Everett Scott - Greg Sullivan
• Gary Sinise - Unit Chief Jack Garrett
• Bonnie Somerville - Colleen Sullivan
• Tyler James Williams - Analyst Russ Montgomery

Referenced Criminals

• Joran van der Sloot and the Natalee Holloway case

Music

• "Sleep Peacefully" by Lily Kershaw

Bookend Quotes

• Aaron Hotchner: "No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness is always there first." — Terry Pratchett
• Jack Garrett: "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." — Henry Ford

Trivia

• This episode is the backdoor pilot episode of the short-lived spin-off series, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, created by Erica Messer (the writer of this episode).
• A similar version of the opening bookend quote recited by Hotch was recited by Reid in the Season Four episode "Conflicted".
• This episode marks the third of four times the BAU has gone to another country to investigate a case. The others are:
  • "Machismo" - Where the BAU goes to Mexico on a serial killer case.
  • "To Hell and Back, part 1" and part 2 - Where the BAU went to Canada to investigate the Turner Brothers case.
  • "Spencer" - The BAU returns to Mexico with the IRT to investigate Reid's framing.
• This is the 6th of 9 episodes in which a non-BAU/ guest cast character, Jack Garrett, recites a bookend quote. The other episodes are:
  • "Tabula Rasa" - Ending bookend quote recited by both Mr. Corbett and Spencer Reid.
  • "Coda" - Ending bookend quote recited by Ian Doyle.
  • "Lauren" - Ending bookend quote recited by JJ (who was with the State Department at that time)
  • "Zugzwang" - Ending bookend quote recited by Maeve Donovan.
  • "200" - Beginning bookend quote recited by Prentiss. (Who was with Interpol at that time)
  • "Tribute" - Beginning bookend quote recited by Prentiss. (Who was with Interpol at that time)
  • "Chameleon" - Beginning (and only) bookend quote recited by Krystall Richards.
  • "Family Tree" - Beginning and end bookend quote recited by Everett Lynch.

Criminal Minds Episodes

Season One Extreme Aggressor • Compulsion • Won't Get Fooled Again • Plain Sight • Broken Mirror • L.D.S.K. • The Fox • Natural Born Killer • Derailed • The Popular Kids • Blood Hungry • What Fresh Hell? • Poison • Riding the Lightning • Unfinished Business • The Tribe • A Real Rain • Somebody's Watching • Machismo • Charm and Harm • Secrets and Lies • The Fisher King, Part 1 Season Two The Fisher King, Part 2 • P911 • The Perfect Storm • Psychodrama • Aftermath • The Boogeyman • North Mammon • Empty Planet • The Last Word • Lessons Learned • Sex, Birth, Death • Profiler, Profiled • No Way Out • The Big Game • Revelations • Fear and Loathing • Distress • Jones • Ashes and Dust • Honor Among Thieves • Open Season • Legacy • No Way Out II: The Evilution of Frank Season Three Doubt • In Name and Blood • Scared to Death • Children of the Dark • Seven Seconds • About Face • Identity • Lucky • Penelope • True Night • Birthright • 3rd Life • Limelight • Damaged • A Higher Power • Elephant's Memory • In Heat • The Crossing • Tabula Rasa • Lo-Fi Season Four Mayhem • The Angel Maker • Minimal Loss • Paradise • Catching Out • The Instincts • Memoriam • Masterpiece • 52 Pickup • Brothers in Arms • Normal • Soul Mates • Bloodline • Cold Comfort • Zoe's Reprise • Pleasure Is My Business • Demonology • Omnivore • House on Fire • Conflicted • A Shade of Gray • The Big Wheel • Roadkill • Amplification • To Hell and Back, Part 1 • To Hell and Back, Part 2 Season Five Nameless, Faceless • Haunted • Reckoner • Hopeless • Cradle to Grave • The Eyes Have It • The Performer • Outfoxed • 100 • The Slave of Duty • Retaliation • The Uncanny Valley • Risky Business • Parasite • Public Enemy • Mosley Lane • Solitary Man • The Fight • A Rite of Passage • ...A Thousand Words • Exit Wounds • The Internet Is Forever • Our Darkest Hour Season Six The Longest Night • J.J. • Remembrance of Things Past • Compromising Positions • Safe Haven • Devil's Night • Middle Man • Reflection of Desire • Into the Woods • What Happens at Home • 25 to Life • Corazón • The Thirteenth Step • Sense Memory • Today I Do • Coda • Valhalla • Lauren • With Friends Like These... • Hanley Waters • The Stranger • Out of the Light • Big Sea • Supply and Demand Season Seven It Takes a Village • Proof • Dorado Falls • Painless • From Childhood's Hour • Epilogue • There's No Place Like Home • Hope • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • The Bittersweet Science • True Genius • Unknown Subject • Snake Eyes • Closing Time • A Thin Line • A Family Affair • I Love You, Tommy Brown • Foundation • Heathridge Manor • The Company • Divining Rod • Profiling 101 • Hit • Run Season Eight The Silencer • The Pact • Through the Looking Glass • God Complex • The Good Earth • The Apprenticeship • The Fallen • The Wheels on the Bus • Magnificent Light • The Lesson • Perennials • Zugzwang • Magnum Opus • All That Remains • Broken • Carbon Copy • The Gathering • Restoration • Pay It Forward • Alchemy • Nanny Dearest • #6 • Brothers Hotchner • The Replicator Season Nine The Inspiration • The Inspired • Final Shot • To Bear Witness • Route 66 • In The Blood • Gatekeeper • The Return • Strange Fruit • The Caller • Bully • The Black Queen • The Road Home • 200 • Mr. & Mrs. Anderson • Gabby • Persuasion • Rabid • The Edge of Winter • Blood Relations • What Happens in Mecklinburg • Fatal • Angels • Demons Season Ten X • Burn • A Thousand Suns • The Itch • If the Shoe Fits • Boxed In • Hashtag • The Boys of Sudworth Place • Fate • Amelia Porter • The Forever People • Anonymous • Nelson's Sparrow • Hero Worship • Scream • Lockdown • Breath Play • Rock Creek Park • Beyond Borders • A Place at the Table • Mr. Scratch • Protection • The Hunt Season Eleven The Job • The Witness • 'Til Death Do Us Part • Outlaw • The Night Watch • Pariahville • Target Rich • Awake • Internal Affairs • Future Perfect • Entropy • Drive • The Bond • Hostage • A Badge and a Gun • Derek • The Sandman • A Beautiful Disaster • Tribute • Inner Beauty • Devil's Backbone • The Storm Season Twelve The Crimson King • Sick Day • Taboo • Keeper • The Anti-Terrorism Squad • Elliott's Pond • Mirror Image • Scarecrow • Profiling 202 • Seek and Destroy • Surface Tension • A Good Husband • Spencer • Collision Course • Alpha Male • Assistance Is Futile • In the Dark • Hell's Kitchen • True North • Unforgettable • Green Light • Red Light Season Thirteen Wheels Up • To A Better Place • Blue Angel • Killer App • Lucky Strikes • The Bunker • Dust and Bones • Neon Terror • False Flag • Submerged • Full-Tilt Boogie • Bad Moon on the Rise • Cure • Miasma • Annihilator • Last Gasp • The Capilanos • The Dance of Love • Ex Parte • All You Can Eat • Mixed Signals • Believer Season Fourteen 300 • Starter Home • Rule 34 • The Tall Man • Innocence • Luke • Twenty Seven • Ashley • Broken Wing • Flesh and Blood • Night Lights • Hamelin • Chameleon • Sick and Evil • Truth or Dare Season Fifteen Under the Skin • Awakenings • Spectator Slowing • Saturday • Date Night • Ghost • Rusty • Family Tree • Face Off • And in the End...