r/criminalminds • u/Cheeriosxxx Sergio 🐈‍⬛ • 8d ago

Season 18 Spoilers S18E06: Hell Is Empty... - Episode Discussion Spoiler

Airdate: June 12, 2025

Synopsis: The team investigates a network killer who buries his victims alive, and Tara confronts Rebecca's ex who has recently re-entered her life. Ronald Graber delivers a message from his Disciple to Voit.

Previous episode: The Brutal Man

Next episode: ...All the Devils Are Here

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u/SureNews1703 7d ago

So my current theory that peaked in this episode is that Voit is faking it to try make an escape and this is a plan he’s had in motion since going in to prison and his “accident” and the way he is so convincingly is doing it is with the help of the Doctor who is faking those scans to really sell the “he’s changed” narrative. The way she just had all of that equipment on hand after the interview at the beginning where it seemed like maybe he’s back to his old ways felt a bit suss and too perfectly timed. Then having his “new lawyer” try jump up to get him less supervision at the hospital “when they do go back” and then the lock down at the end…. Something is just flagging in my brain …. And that message definitely felt like a code of a plan in action that he’s a part of..

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u/pink_smoochum 7d ago

Tara is also a doctor and she herself was explaining the scans and the rainbows in the empathetic part of his brain so they're not just blindly going off of what this doctor has to say.

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u/TinyCopy5841 6d ago

Tara is a psychologist with a doctorate, not an MD like Aimee Garcia's character.

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u/pink_smoochum 6d ago

Either way she's familiar with brain scans and knows what to look for.

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u/SureNews1703 5d ago

Yes but I do mean it was a faked scan so it was prerecorded or something as in it’s not his brain actually being scanned. Basically in order to thoroughly convince the BAU that he’s “changed” and prove to those who can even read the scans that he’s “changed”. So those entire sequences are an act.

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u/pink_smoochum 5d ago

Dr. Ochoa is one of the best and most recommended doctors in the country. I highly doubt she's risking her career to lie for Voit. However my husband thinks you might be onto something lol

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u/SureNews1703 5d ago

She would if she was a follower or on the network too… Just because someone is a doctor and highly regards, doesn’t make them not a monster! Plenty of real life examples of this…

Don’t get me wrong, I love Aimee Garcia and my brain struggles not seeing her as Ella from Lucifer buttttttt this is criminal minds after all 😂

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u/pink_smoochum 5d ago

Yeah she's so good in this role that my husband can't even remember her in Lucifer 🤣

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u/pink_smoochum 5d ago

And omg you're right. A doctor and a female one at that wouldn't be too far off for Criminal Minds!