airdate: March 3, 2010
written by: Simon Mirren, Erica Messer
directed by: Matthew Gray Gubler

• Sara tells the team that when Charlie was taken a mother was screaming for her baby, just like when Aimee was taken.

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• Who dunnit and why?
  
  
• Roger and Anita. A couple who stole children under the ruse of finding lost ones. Anita would approach the parents of a young child, and ask for help it looking for their lost son or daughter. Roger would then usually take the young child.
  
  
  
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• What were the best scenes in the episode?

• Charlie shot Anita to save Aimee.

• When the parents were reunited with their children.

• The ending scene with JJ, Emily, Garcia and Charlie's mother.

• Sarah Hillridge just found out a female UnSub took the children and Reid says "They're also the most violent."

• When Sarah Hillridge asked Emily, JJ and Garcia why they do what they do and Emily replied "For days like this."

• At the end, when Reid and Sarah Hillridge are talking and Reid tells her "I'm a doctor, I put my faith in facts and statistical probabilities. But today, eight parents are going to have closure, three children are going home with their families, all because you believed your son was alive. That's as close to a miracle as I've ever seen."
  

• This episode was Matthew Gray Gubler's (Spencer Reid) directorial debut
• This episode contains references to "Harold and Maude", a film from 1971 in which Bud Cort (Roger Roycewood) starred. The hearse, the oddness of his character, manner of his demise...

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