: After Mandy Patinkin's departure, Gideon leaves the BAU with nothing more than a letter to his protege, Reid. : Diane Turner In "Somebody's Watching", with the team on a case to protect a TV starlet, Reid saves Lila from being harmed by a serial killer. Bobby Putnam I was hoping you'd figure out my riddle. Luke and Garcia get the ending meant for Morgan and Garcia and many fans will never get over it. Diana has paranoid schizophrenia and went off her medication during her pregnancy with Spencer. Summary: Almost a year after Maeve's death, Spencer reaches out to the recipients of Maeve's donated organs to reconnect with his lost love. | (Season 3, Episode 16) "Elephant's Memory". With Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Stay back! : Get on the ledge. Past Maeve Donovan/Spencer Reid - Works | Archive of Our Own Ew. Spencer Reid | Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki | Fandom Now, please, will you let us go? Dr. Maeve Donovan The episode ends with Reid and Maxine kissing. Dr. Maeve Donovan Reid tells Blake that he's nervous to meet her because he already believes she's the most beautiful girl in the world, and he is afraid that she won't like him because of his looks. ). However, when the receiver of her heart, Reader, doesn't write back, Spencer goes on a poorly-motivated mission to find her. He tells her he feels betrayed because he came to her house "for 10 weeks in a row, crying over losing a friend" and "not once did you have the decency to tell me the truth." "I didn't love Maeve," u/Runtyyy wrote. She thought I was cute but would only meet me if I wore a blindfold. Cookies help us deliver our Services. : They started dating but broke up after a few months. Michelle Trachtenberg plays the unsub, Diane, abducting Maeve in an act of . Hotchner reveals in the first season that Gideon insists on introducing him as Dr. Reid because Gideon fears that, because of his age, Reid will not be taken seriously as an FBI agent. In season 15, Reid is given a task by his therapist to have a normal conversation with someone outside of work. Diane Turner Bobby Putnam At the end of the episode, they go their separate ways, and Lila is not seen in further episodes. CBS Making Dr. Spencer Reid, played by Matthew Gray Gubler, the primary emotional focus of the first half of the Criminal Minds series finale was the answer to a very old and continuous call to. Reid is having trouble talking to the women in these clubs, especially since he is spouting facts about club-related deaths, but Morgan helps him out. : But you didn't love me. Her primary role in Reid's mind was convincing him to finally choose a decision based not on what he thought others wanted, but based on what made him happy. Then she gets pregnant in season three, and he proposes; their son, Henry , is born in season four, and JJ names Reid his godfather (! Reid is so traumatized that he develops an addiction to the narcotic painkiller Dilaudid. Maybe your theory could have had merit, but we don't know, because genius isn't just one good idea or one successful experiment, Diane. : No. Dr. Maeve Donovan Prove it. Diane, I offered you a deal, and you can still take it. That's it, isn't it? Of course, all of these are happening entirely within his head. If done well, character arcs like this can really affect fans who are impacted by addiction in their own lives. I never cheated on you. While on a case in New Mexico, Blake drops Reid off at a phone booth, unaware that he is going to call the mystery woman. Maeve's stalker kidnaps her and despite all the attempts from Reid to save her, Maeve is murdered in the episode "Zugzwang." . One such opinion is about the otherwise admired tragic arc of Dr. Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) and Maeve Donovan's (Beth Riesgraf) short-lived romance. Dr. Spencer Reid The BAU is a world-renowned team that's given dozens of widespread interviews. I'm getting bored. Diane Turner From being held captive by Tobias Hankel (James Van Der Beek) to being a victim to Cat Adams' (Aubrey Plaza) relentless quest of destruction, Reid went through a lot. One of Criminal Minds' long-running subplots details how Dr. Spencer Reid's girlfriend, Maeve, is terrified to leave her house because of her stalker. Adams makes Reid take her to his apartment, where Maxine is waiting and sees the two kiss. Dr. Maeve Donovan But "Criminal Minds" fans have a particular incident that broke their hearts when it comes to Spencer's storylines. The only few exceptions are Jennifer "JJ" Jareau; Lila Archer (Amber Heard), a young actress he is assigned to protect; Austin (Courtney Ford), a barmaid he "woos" with magic tricks while showing her a sketch of a potential suspect; Maeve Donovan (Beth Riesgraf), a geneticist he first meets through correspondence, then later weekly phone calls; Maxine "Max" Brenner (Rachael Leigh Cook). : Nazi scientists were recruited for the Manhattan Project. Please! [4] He moved 10 miles away, and never contacted his son. That was the deal, right? : How? Please. The BAU barely mentions him again, making the storyline even more awkward and forced. On a "Criminal Minds" subreddit discussing unpopular opinions about the show, u/Runtyyy pointed out the strange transition of Reid and Maeve's relationship from a professional to a romantic one. November 4th, 3:46 p.m. [33], Gubler stated in an interview in the show's second season "[Reid]'s an eccentric genius, with hints of schizophrenia and minor autism." Criminal Minds Storylines That Fans Hated. Stay back! Reid contracts anthrax during an outbreak in Maryland,[24] and is later shot in the leg protecting a doctor whose life is being threatened. : Reid carried a Glock handgun for the first three seasons but from season four and onward, he began carrying a Smith & Wesson Model 65 as he fares better using a revolver. Dr. Maeve Donovan Oh, sounds awful. Sta stay back, stay back! [16] It is speculated that he may also have slight obsessivecompulsive disorder, particularly from a scene in "Out of the Light"[17] where Morgan slightly moves an item in the home of a suspect affected with OCD, and Reid immediately places it back to its previous spot.[speculation? This subplot comes to a nail-biting conclusion in season 8's Zugzwang. Kirsten Vangsness agreed, adding that Garcia is more extroverted and available emotionally, whereas Reid struggles with his emotions. This killer is particularly grotesque: Heessentially turns his victims into birds, breaking their limbs, shoving them in a nest, and feeding them worms. Their story came to a tragic ending when, in captivity, Maeve and Spencer saw each other for the first time. : [2] This was a genuine concern, both for in-universe and for audience acceptance, since in real life the minimum age to become an FBI Special Agent is 23,[30] with at least three more years to obtain Supervisory Special Agent status, and appointments to the BAU do not usually occur until after at least eight to ten years in the FBI. For the first time in his life, Spencer Reid was in love. Dr. Maeve Donovan Diane Turner : "A Penrose Triangle?" She said. Cookies help us deliver our Services. [9], Currently, Reid resides in an apartment[10] in the District of Columbia, possibly near the Van Ness-UDC Metro stop. [31] While filming the pilot, the show's FBI consultant informed Matthew Gray Gubler that there was nothing realistic about his character. While the show stands by the platonic nature of Morgan and Garcia's relationship,Vangsness toldParadethat Garcia was in love with Morgan, causing her to fight her future crush on his replacement, Luke Alvez. Coerced into a confession with a gun pointed at Reid, she admits that she's always loved him. Although it is suggested by other people within and outside of the team that Reid is on the autism spectrum, it is never confirmed. Who's Thomas Merton? Just let us go, damn it! The Spencer Moment That Breaks Criminal Minds Fans' Hearts - Looper i don't own anything!. Although he had never laid eyes on her, he knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Dr. Maeve Donovan Reid finally meets Maeve face-to-face during the situation and is able to briefly subdue Turner, only to have her hold Maeve at gunpoint. Most BAU agents have a unique relationship with protocol, and while it yields results, the team goes too far on multiple occasions. Thanks to her, they are able to find the unsub and save his latest victim. By the end of the episode, Maeve's face is finally seen as she walks up to a restaurant where she plans to meet Reid. Ed Bernero, executive producer at the time,toldTV Guidethat it was "a very amicable parting."