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 Watch Criminal Minds Season 8 Episode 16 Carbon Copy 02-27-2013

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Victims are found in Philadelphia who were killed in a similar style to victims of the Replicator, the BAU's stalker.

Episode Summary

The Replicator makes his first mistake, and the team moves quickly to Philadelphia—where the victims are—to take advantage of their stalker's lapse.

An excellent episode. Very tense all the way through because of the little things. Little things that in previous episodes signal someone in the team is about to get hurt, like Rossi mentioning coffee and Garcia being at home alone. I had a thought about during this episode... imagine if the Replicator was Gideon (WHAT!!). HaHa probably not but still... imagine. Very good lead up to the room playing jazz and the multitude of team photos. That really was creepy.

Criminal Minds Boss on The Replicator's Big Move: "It's a New Ballgame"

If you found yourself rewinding to the beginning of last week's Criminal Minds episode after it finished, then you did exactly what the producers thought you'd do.

The episode closed with another ominous shot of the BAU's season-long unsub/stalker The Replicator going through photos of the team's closed cases. The final slide wasn't a photo, but a video of Blake (Jeanne Tripplehorn) teaching her linguistics class from the episode's opening, shot from the students' seats in the lecture hall.