"Foundation" is the eighteenth episode of Season Seven and the 156th overall of Criminal Minds.
Summary[]
When a scared, emaciated young boy is found in the Arizona desert and another boy goes missing, the BAU begins searching for the abductor as Morgan, reaching into his own scarred past, tries to bond with the found child.
Guest Cast[]
- Mary Bonner-Baker - Emma Nelson
- Garrett M. Brown - J.B. Allen
- Hedy Burress - Samantha Allen
- Madison Carlon - Young Samantha Allen
- Jonathan Castellanos - Angel Suarez
- John Gleeson Connolly - Matt Nelson
- William Duffy - Doctor Larson
- Kate Enggren - Meredith Henderson
- Mike Gomez - Detective Perez
- Lance Irwin - Richard Henderson
- Odalys Nanín - Lupe Suarez
- Jackson Pace - Billy Henderson
- Max Rose - Adam Nelson
Bookend Quotes[]
- Emily Prentiss: "Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin." — Barbara Kingsolver
- Derek Morgan: "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." — Michel de Montaigne