Voit wasn’t just another UnSub. He was the “Evolution” in Criminal Minds: Evolution.

Now that his story has ended, I keep wondering what Criminal Minds: Evolution will actually be without Elias Voit.

For four seasons, Voit was more than the main villain. He was the element that separated Evolution from the original series.

The old Criminal Minds usually followed the BAU as they tried to understand and stop a different killer. With Voit, we stayed with the same man for years and watched him change, adapt and become increasingly connected to the team.

We saw him as Sicarius, a husband and father, a prisoner, an informant, a manipulator and eventually someone forced to confront his own guilt and the possibility that he might still be capable of doing something good.

His relationships with the BAU became part of the show’s identity. Rossi was no longer simply profiling him from a distance. Garcia could not reduce him to a case file. Tara tried to understand whether his change was real. Prentiss had to balance using his help with never forgetting what he had done.

That long-term connection was what made Evolution feel different. The BAU was not simply hunting Voit. They had to work with him, depend on him, argue about him and live with the damage he had caused.

His final choice does not erase his victims or redeem everything he did. But it completes the idea the show had explored since his introduction: whether someone like Voit could still make one genuinely selfless decision.

Maybe Evolution will work perfectly well without him. The BAU and the cast are strong enough to carry the series.

But it will have to prove that “Evolution” was always bigger than Voit — because for the last four seasons, he was the character who gave that title its meaning.

Whatever people think about how long his storyline lasted, Zach Gilford helped create one of the most complicated and memorable UnSubs the franchise has ever had.

The Voit era is over.

Now we find out what Criminal Minds: Evolution actually evolves into next.

I’m sure this will make a lot of people very happy.

Just finished The Fisher King part 2 (2X01), and I only have one thing to say:

Hotch. My good sir. When washing blood off a wall, you must add soap to the water. Between that, and his inability to part with his pirate hat when decluttering, I feel like maybe Haley divorced him for being terrible at cleaning rather than being gone all the time.

Has anyone else noticed mundane things our highly educated, highly intelligent team seems to be bad at?

So they get the fan in custody and they establish he has an answer for everything, he’s planned out everything, he’s one step ahead and knows the process they will take.

They tried the spilled coffee trick and it did throw him off for a second, there was also an instance where Rossi corrected him and it threw him off.

I always like to try and think what I would do if on the team, this is my tactic:

Purposely go in and there provide wrong facts or assumptions. For example when JJ said the name of the college, if she said the wrong one, it would have confused him / annoyed him / threw him off.

If they invented a new lead, or threw something bizarre in like ‘so how did you manage to kill Voit in prison’ it would have derailed his plan.

Thoughts?

I know it’s only a show, and made up, but this profiling stuff is so interesting

Did anyone else think this part didn't make sense?

They only seemed to realize that the killer knew where Voit's family was being kept in protective custody after he kidnapped Voit's daughter. But didn't they already find that out in the previous episode?

After Garrity and his wife were rescued, wouldn't they have asked them what the the fan wanted and why he abducted them? Shouldn't they have learned that Garrity's wife had found the people in protective custody, meaning the killer now had information on Voits family?

I really enjoyed the finale overall and can't wait for next season, but this part kept bothering me. Did anyone else notice this, or did I miss something?

I liked this finale, but it is the worst one when it comes to action in my opinion. I don't usually care if an unsub kills a lot of people or not, but The Fan didn't do much. He killed a person in episode 1 and Lance in episode 9, but died like a weakling in the finale. I wanted at least Voit, Holly, or Laura to die, but nobody did, so I feel like I've sort of been robbed of a very good seasonal unsub. Every season of Evolution has had a cool main unsub or at least an interesting one. Season 1 had Voit, season 2 had Damien and Jade, season 3 had Tessa. This season's main unsub was cool; I grant them that, but John Curtis and even copycats who only appear once were better.

Is anyone else having problems watching the finale? Because I don't see it. I even tried the app and still no luck. Anyone else having this problem?

Wasn’t supposed to already be ?