Criminal Minds - Foundation

Criminal Minds – Foundation

(Series 7 – Episode 18)

This episode opens with a man driving his family home and nearly falling asleep as the wheel, we see the man get out getting some fresh air and joke around with his wife and son. This screams unsub attack but in a nice twist as the man starts the engine and the headlights come on they see a young beaten boy.

We then see Morgan and JJ visit the young boy at the hospital, he is being kept in a dim room away from much noise dues to his sever circumstances. When Morgan sees the child who has cramped himself under a table and refusing to communicate he tells JJ that this boy has been in captivity for years.

Before the team got to the station they were sent some video footage of a woman named Sam Allen who came to tell the police that she remembers seeing a boy about thirty years ago just in chains just like the boy they have just found. However when she saw a photograph of her father she freaked out and left. When Prentiss and Rossi track her down and ask her about it she says that she made a mistake.

Morgan is sat at the end of the hospital bed and rolls a coin to the boy who is still under the table, after a while the boy begins to roll the coin back to him. The boys confidence builds and he decides to come from under the table however when one of the machines goes of to alert the doctor he races back under. You can see the trust the boy has in Morgan when after he calms him down the boy then comes back. JJ sits at the side of Morgan and asks the boy his name, the boy refuses to speak even when JJ asks him in Spanish but instead points to the wings on the coin Morgan has been rolling to him and then points to his back where JJ finds out he is called Angel. Morgan doesn’t leave Angel along and they bond as he teaches him how to turn the coin down his fingers.

Sam later returns to the station to see Prentiss and admits that her father use to keep her busy with sports because he was always busy at work and it was when she saw the news report on the boy that she had a flash of memory but she doesn’t know if it is real or not. The team have also worked out that the boys must have met the unsub before because after speaking to the new boy that disappeared parents they weren’t the type of children to just go off with strangers.

Prentiss decides it is best for Sam to undergo a cognitive interview where Sam reveals that she wasn’t feeling well so called out for her mother who was too weak so she crawled into bed with her. Something made her go downstairs into the basement and she sees a man putting a chained boy into the back of the truck, she cannot make out whether or not it is her father. After the interview is finished Sam claims that her father cannot be behind all of this because he raised her. The team have found out that JB Allen aka Sam’s father lives in a house that is pretty isolated and would be perfect for hiding a child.

Morgan and JJ go back to see Angel and quickly stop Angel from stabbing his arm. Meanwhile Garcia has tracked Angel’s mother down and she is on her way, it is then that Morgan tells JJ that Angel might not be ready to see her and his mother will just have to find a way to deal with it.

Angel’s mother tells JJ that she wants to hold her son when JJ suggests that they go and get a drink, as Morgan goes to see what is going on Angel grabs his arm so he stays put. JJ asks Angel’s mother why she never contacted the police when Angel was abducted and she said she had wanted to but if they found her they would send her back home and she had to protect her family.

Prentiss suggests that Sam should go back to the basement in her father’s home to see if it triggers anything else, they wire her up. She goes to her father’s place and asks if he still has her catcher’s mitt. He tries to distract her from going in the basement but as Sam persists he doesn’t stop her. After she didn’t find anything that links him to the abductions Rossi announces that all they have now is the kid.

Morgan is back at the hospital with Angel and is explaining that the challenge coin represents a French soldier who crawled his way through no mans land and into French territory and the French thought he was German and he was nearly executed, it wasn’t until another soldier recognised the marks on the coin that they knew he was telling the truth. Morgan then gives the coin to Angel and tells him to keep it as it has kept him safe over the years, he then goes on to tell him about Karl Bueffer was his coach and did some bad things to him when he was younger and he thought about slitting his wrists too but decided he never wanted to let the son of a bitch beat him. He promises Angel that the guy who did this to him will not win.

Back at the station Prentiss is asking Sam what her father was like as she was growing up and says that she thinks she has buried the extreme mood swings he used to have and then it comes to light he use to give her gifts to make up for them she said he gave her the catchers mitt and a bike and it had not been the bike she had asked for.

Morgan asks Angel what the man had done to him and he said he use to bite him and then shows him the bite marks, Morgan asks if he will let the doctors examine him in the hope that they can match dental records.

Prentiss asks Sam if her father had given her anything in 2004 and she remembers that’s when he had given her a puppy, after checking with Angel’s mother JJ tells the team that he had been playing with a puppy on the night he was abducted. JJ mentions that they are trying to get a match on the bite marks for dental records when Sam shockly announces that her father had his teeth capped a few years ago.

We then see JJ open a trap door and tell the new boy Billy not to give him any trouble.

Morgan rushes from the hospital when JJ tells him that the team are on their way to pick JB Allen up, they also found out that he met the children before by giving them rides on his construction sites

After the team couldn’t find JB Allen at his home they ask Sam if there is a particular work place that he is proud of and she gives them the address to his first development where he likes to add something to it each year – how long has he been killing?

We see JB Allen throw Billy in to the built out grave and begin to use the machine to bury him. He begins to run when the team catch up on him but Morgan is right behind him. When he catches up with him he begins to repeatedly punch him but Rossi stops him before he takes things too far.

Morgan is then back at the hospital with Angel who says he is ready to be reunited with his mother who embracing him in a hug.

Back at Quantico Morgan and JJ are in his office where he has a row of challenge coins and he explains that he gave Angel the only one that had wings on it. They discuss what happened to Morgan when he was younger and Morgan confesses that he wouldn’t be where he was today if it wasn’t for Karl Bueffer. JJ still apologises all the same. The episode ends with Morgan and JJ heading down the hall.