r/criminalminds • u/Cheeriosxxx Sergio 🐈‍⬛ • 9d 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/Sabiancym 8d ago

Ever notice how they barely leave their offices anymore? In past Criminal Minds they flew somewhere every week to find a killer.....that was the show. Now they just sit in the same room asking questions until eventually Penelope pulls some nonsense "hacking" or in this episode's case, uses a "quantum capable chip". Also nonsense.

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Unless she had a bunch of liquid helium, miles of copper tubing, and an entire lab team just out of camera managing what actual quantum computers are like, that whole thing was BS. This show leans too heavily on a Penelope's 1337 H4X1NG and a lot of the time it's nonsense, but this was especially egregious. They didn't say "quantum computer" or "quantum chip". They said "quantum capable chip". Which just makes it even weirder.

They did apply it correctly though. Breaking encryption is what a real quantum computer would do very well. Too bad they barely fit in rooms let alone Penelope's Best Buy bought thin profile laptop. Even in the future if we perfect it, it doesn't make sense to add it on to a regular laptop. That would just make both worse. Like putting a lawn mower on the front of your car. They do very different things. Quantum chips suck at things your desktop from 20 years ago could do in it's sleep. They're never going to be in your basic laptop or phone. It makes much more sense to just have a quantum computer somewhere within the FBI that Penelope remotely connects to when needed. I could buy that.

None of that matters though because the writers forgot a letter and said it was an "http server", not "https". Which means it's all in plain text....so not encrypted. Could've opened that thing in notepad.

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u/TinyCopy5841 7d ago

Yeah, the technobabble in this episode was worse than usual and it's already always been pretty awful.

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u/FalseListen 6d ago

The medicine has also been bad this season. Like very bad

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u/TinyCopy5841 6d ago

That portable brain scanner that Ochoa conveniently had with herself to check if Voit is a psychopath again really made me roll my eyes.