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Season 12  "Taboo"  12x3

Aired 8 years ago - Oct 12, 2016

The BAU welcomes back Emily Prentiss as they are called upon to investigate the disappearance of three women.

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Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 1
I mean, this Alvez could be a real loner type.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 2
putting the band back together again, so...
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 3
the body of a woman was found
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 4
Burying his victim like this may be the unsub's form of torture.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 5
Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 6
If she was known as a whistle blower,
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 7
Prentiss, you and I will check out the latest crime scene.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 8
to get the drum here.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 9
All the earmarks of a cemetery.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 10
I won't know more until I can complete a full exam.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 11
which means that he went through the trouble
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 12
Hi. Sorry to bother you,
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 13
According to Garcia, there's no evidence
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 14
Why don't you two see what you can find out.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 15
unless they have a special sticker on their car with a code.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 16
Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 17
Punishing his victims could be his way of punishing her.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 18
What do you want?!
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 19
Yeah, well, his need-based compulsion
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 20
Any sign of sexual assault?
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 21
who may be performing crude chemical lobotomies on his victims.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 22
and when his experiments fail, he may be entombing his victims
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 23
You wore me out with all your "again, Mommy, again."
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 24
Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 25
Oh.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 26
And by swimming, I don't mean like the glammy olympic way.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 27
Ok, Garcia, keep searching.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 28
Let me count the ways.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 29
Mm-hmm. Not Boston, Philly, um...
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 30
And, yeah, my parents were diplomats.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 31
Oh, I forgot one thing about you, Prentiss.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 32
Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 33
Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 34
so, he's probably angry.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 35
No, you raised me to believe there were consequences
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 36
Look, I'm tired. It's late.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 37
and found no sign of sexual assault.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 38
And the lobotomies are still probably the unsub's way
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 39
our guy is trying to turn the switch off.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 40
his victims' brains in his own misguided hope of fixing them?
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 41
Any of them have damage to the frontal lobe?
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 42
I don't know why she's gone now, but...
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 43
Garcia, can you check males 35 to 40
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 44
some family dirt of the hidden variety.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 45
Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 46
I don't want to talk.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 47
No. No, that... That's not true.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 48
Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 49
I wanted to have sex with my own mother.
 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 50
No!

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Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 2
putting the band back together again, so...
#2 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 3
the body of a woman was found
#3 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 4
Burying his victim like this may be the unsub's form of torture.
#4 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 5 #5 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 6
If she was known as a whistle blower,
#6 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 7
Prentiss, you and I will check out the latest crime scene.
#7 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 8
to get the drum here.
#8 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 9
All the earmarks of a cemetery.
#9 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 10
I won't know more until I can complete a full exam.
#10 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 11
which means that he went through the trouble
#11 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 12
Hi. Sorry to bother you,
#12 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 13
According to Garcia, there's no evidence
#13 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 14
Why don't you two see what you can find out.
#14 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 15
unless they have a special sticker on their car with a code.
#15 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 16 #16 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 17
Punishing his victims could be his way of punishing her.
#17 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 18
What do you want?!
#18 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 19
Yeah, well, his need-based compulsion
#19 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 20
Any sign of sexual assault?
#20 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 21
who may be performing crude chemical lobotomies on his victims.
#21 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 22
and when his experiments fail, he may be entombing his victims
#22 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 23
You wore me out with all your "again, Mommy, again."
#23 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 24 #24 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 25
Oh.
#25 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 26
And by swimming, I don't mean like the glammy olympic way.
#26 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 27
Ok, Garcia, keep searching.
#27 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 28
Let me count the ways.
#28 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 29
Mm-hmm. Not Boston, Philly, um...
#29 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 30
And, yeah, my parents were diplomats.
#30 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 31
Oh, I forgot one thing about you, Prentiss.
#31 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 32 #32 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 33 #33 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 34
so, he's probably angry.
#34 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 35
No, you raised me to believe there were consequences
#35 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 36
Look, I'm tired. It's late.
#36 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 37
and found no sign of sexual assault.
#37 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 38
And the lobotomies are still probably the unsub's way
#38 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 39
our guy is trying to turn the switch off.
#39 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 40
his victims' brains in his own misguided hope of fixing them?
#40 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 41
Any of them have damage to the frontal lobe?
#41 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 42
I don't know why she's gone now, but...
#42 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 43
Garcia, can you check males 35 to 40
#43 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 44
some family dirt of the hidden variety.
#44 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 45 #45 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 46
I don't want to talk.
#46 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 47
No. No, that... That's not true.
#47 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 48 #48 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 49
I wanted to have sex with my own mother.
#49 Recap of Criminal Minds Season 12 Episode 3 (S12E03) - 50
No!
#50