Future Perfect

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December 9, 2015

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"Future Perfect" is the tenth episode of Season Eleven and the 243rd overall of Criminal Minds.

Summary

When two victims in Florida are found dead from bizarre medical experiments, the BAU finds 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

Los Narco-satanicos
The West Memphis Three (Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin)

Music

"Sometime Soon" by Steven Davis

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, which 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. This is actually the fifth of fifteen episodes in which characters are credited despite not appearing in the episode. The others are:
- Season One
  - "Broken Mirror" - A.J. Cook and Kirsten Vangsness are credited even though JJ and Garcia don't appear.
- Season Six
  - "25 to Life" - Thomas Gibson is credited even though Hotch doesn't appear.
- Season Eleven
  - "Awake" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
  - "Internal Affairs" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- Season Twelve
  - "Taboo" - Aisha Tyler is credited even though Lewis doesn't appear.
  - "The Anti-Terrorism Squad" - Aisha Tyler is credited even though Lewis doesn't appear.
  - "Profiling 202" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
  - "Seek and Destroy" - Matthew Gray Gubler and Aisha Tyler are credited even though Reid and Lewis don't appear.
- Season Thirteen
  - "Dust and Bones" - Aisha Lewis is credited even though Lewis doesn't appear.
  - "Neon Terror" - Matthew Gray Gubler and Aisha Tyler are credited even though Reid and Lewis don't appear.
  - "False Flag" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
  - "Submerged" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
  - "All You Can Eat" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
  - "Mixed Signals" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.

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

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