So long, you crazy FBI profilers!
On Wednesday, CBS’sCriminal Minds quite literally went out with a bang.
We would say, “Okay, how could that happen?”
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The idea of a live episode or… what do you call it?…
a documentary film crew following the crew around.
Wait, you didn’t actually talk about a musical episode, did you?
I mean, somebody brought it up for our final 10.
“Do we do a musical?”
We were like, how in the world would we do it?
And I think the idea was gone by the time we ordered lunch but we did think about it.
It’s a classic!
You have to think about it for a second, right?
But we didn’t want to go too far off the beaten path in the show’s final run.
But then you’re never really seeing the team.
I mean, we loved the idea.
So we took a kernel of that idea and made an episode around that.
Did you consider making sure no women died in the final 10 episodes?
I would like to say that.
But per usual, we are equal opportunity offenders.
So it’s not only women who died.
You had quite a death in the finale!
The death is the bad guy, The Chameleon, who we’ve been chasing all season.
And he dies in our beloved jet, which has basically been a character for 324 episodes.
I mean, it’s major.
Our team had to stand around and watch the jet explode.
There had always been a joke that we should blow up the jet.
And I always said, no, no, no.
Other shows blow up jets and people die on the jets.
I knew we would never kill any of our characters.
Like, Oh my God, there’s our jet!
Did everyone talk in the writers' room about what they wanted to do next?
Some people love telling procedural stories and especially serial killer stories.
So some plan to keep pursuing that.
But everybody who’s been on this show has an incredible skill set that we can’t ignore.
It’s been a lot of fun.
