Derailed (1x09)
Main character changes: none
Recurring character(s) featured: Penelope Garcia
Location(s): unspecified, Texas
Unsub(s): Dr. Theodore Bryar (institutionalized)
Methods: holding victims hostage, shooting
Named victims: Elle Greenaway, Josh Patel, Elaine Curtis, Harry Anderson, Dr. Linda Deaton (shot, survived), Spencer Reid
Character focus: Reid, Elle
Plot points/arcs featured: Reid’s magic tricks, Reid and Elle’s friendship, Reid’s experience with his mother’s schizophrenia
Bookend quotes: "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind." Robert Oxton Bolt, "The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?" Albert Einstein
Trivia: This episode is the first to imply Reid’s personal experience with paranoid schizophrenia, though it is not directly mentioned or confirmed until the final episode of season 1, The Fisher King: Part 1.