Criminal Minds: Season 1, Episode 15 – Unfinished Business

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Criminal Minds: Season 1, Episode 15 – Unfinished Business

December 11th, 2009 |

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Season: 1 Episode # 15 Original Air Date: March 1, 2006

Unfinished Business

Synopsis:

A serial killer reappears after 18 years of silence and contacts the BAU, with the promise he will kill another victim in the next five days. He goes through Gideon’s retired mentor, Max Ryan, who had made his life’s work tracking the killer.

Best Moments Between Characters in Criminal Minds Full Episodes:

On the plane home, Elle and Hotch have a heart-to-heart about how he balances a wife and child with work. He tells her that when he’s home, he makes his family his priority, and when he’s at work, the job is his priority. He tells her that the job will eat her up if she lets it.

When Gideon tells Ryan that things have changed, and that there is a whole team of great FBI agents waiting to help him; he just needs to let them in.

Best Lines in Criminal Minds Full Episodes:

Max Ryan: “Is there anything worse than cop-shop coffee?”
Gideon: “Day-old cop-shop doughnuts.”

The Turning Point in the Investigation in Criminal Minds Full Episodes:

When Ryan realizes that the reason the unsub changed his methodology is not because he wanted to, but because he had to. They are able to pin down that he had an accident and Garcia pulls up records, leading them to Walter Kern.

Whodunit?

Eighteen years prior, Walter Kern became famous as “the Keystone Killer.” He bound his victims with intricate knots before strangling them. Kern killed seven women, before he was in a car accident on his way to the eighth victim’s house. The accident paralyzed his right side, and he stopped killing for eighteen years.

Kern resurfaces with a new modus operandi–he now hits the victim, binds her with cuffs, and suffocates her with a plastic bag. He changed his MO because of his accident, which handicapped him. The women that he is now killing were the women that he planned to kill all those years ago–thus, his “unfinished business.”

Goofs:

In the beginning, Max Ryan stated it has been 18 years since “the Keystone Killer” last killed. Later, when the team regroups at the BAU to get briefed, Morgan says it has been 20 years.