On Wednesday night’s Season 8 finale of “Criminal Minds,” the identity of the sinister serial killer known as the Replicator was finally revealed. And though the BAU team finally took him out, it wasn’t before he managed to kill one of their own.
It turns out the Replicator, whom the team had been tracking for most of the eighth season, was none other than guest star Mark Hamill. Hamill may be riding a new crest of notoriety following the disclosure that he’ll be appearing in the next “Star Wars” movie, but to viewers of “Criminal Minds” he was just John Curtis, a demoted FBI agent out to get revenge on his former partner, Erin Strauss (played by Jayne Atkinson), who managed to become the BAU section chief and has been on the show since its second season.
Hamill himself live-tweeted the episode as it aired Wednesday night, though he seemed to be giving fans a big spoiler when he finally wrote, “I’m unconvinced! Where’s the body? You got it see you next season!!”
Does this mean Hamill’s Replicator isn’t truly dead? The series will indeed return for a ninth season in the fall.
On Wednesday night’s Season 8 finale of “Criminal Minds,” the identity of the sinister serial killer known as the Replicator was finally revealed. And though the BAU team finally took him out, it wasn’t before he managed to kill one of their own.
It turns out the Replicator, whom the team had been tracking for most of the eighth season, was none other than guest star Mark Hamill. Hamill may be riding a new crest of notoriety following the disclosure that he’ll be appearing in the next “Star Wars” movie, but to viewers of “Criminal Minds” he was just John Curtis, a demoted FBI agent out to get revenge on his former partner, Erin Strauss (played by Jayne Atkinson), who managed to become the BAU section chief and has been on the show since its second season.
Hamill himself live-tweeted the episode as it aired Wednesday night, though he seemed to be giving fans a big spoiler when he finally wrote, “I’m unconvinced! Where’s the body? You got it see you next season!!”
Does this mean Hamill’s Replicator isn’t truly dead? The series will indeed return for a ninth season in the fall.
Curtis then appears where Morgan and Garcia are watching her. While Morgan makes the speech, Curtis a glass of wine in which Morgan was and puts if in plastic bag takes if and puts it in hid table. He then copies then copies the signature of John Nelson killing his victim simply by cutting his leg and replacing by another by the leg of the third victim.
After that Curtis goes back to the room where he arrested BAU only to find out that they escaped. And near the end Rossi confronts Curtis feeling the defeat he holds to himself and Rossi from inside the pleasure sensor chair. However Rossi has managed to lock the door looking mechanism using a coin from Strausss Alcoholics Anonymous, and Rossi is saved while Curtis dies in the blast.
Evil-doer
Full Name
John Curtis
Alias
The Replicator
Adam Worth
Diane Turner
Origin
Criminal Minds
Occupation
Supervisory Special Agent
Intelligence Oversight Section agent
Powers / Skills
No information
Hobby
Taking photos of BAU and copying other serial killers that BAU solved their cases
Goals
Getting revenge against Erin Strauss
Defeating BAU (both failed)
Crimes
Serial murder
Type of Villain
Psychopathic Serial Killer John Curtis, or simply known as The Replicator, is the main antagonist of the season Eight of Criminal Minds. He is a serial killer who copies the crimes of other serial killers arrested or killed by the FBIs Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU).
In his first appearance with his revealed face, he proved to be sophisticated, cool and methodical in addition to being a narcissistic psychopath, when he was demoted he blamed both Blake and Strauss and wished revenge for it, he soon began copying the serial killers that BAU had solved the cases, being John Nelson, John Myers, Bryan Hughes and the pair of serial killers David Roy Turner and Toby Whitewood and also Adam Rain. He is also very prone to psychological tactics like drug Rossi and senging a flower ship to JJ which is for Reid teilling Zugzwang and also teilling about Foyet and their conversations that caused the deaths of many innocent people on the bus.
At the beginning of the episode Curtis sends a ship of flowers to Jareau and that it is written Zugzwang, with that Reid realizes that Curtis sent them and not Diane. Throughout the episode, Curtis manipulates Donnie Bidwell and makes BAU believe its The Replicator, most due to the non-hitting profile and he commit suicide they soon realizes that she was not The Replicator even though he had copied Byan Hughes as revenge. And at the end of the episode Curtis copies David Turner and Toby Whitewood giving an ax to a photos of the team and everything surrounded by the word Zugzwang written in red.
[SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains spoilers about the Season 8 finale of Criminal Minds. Read at your own risk.]So it was Luke Skywalker after all.Criminal Minds season-long unsub/stalker The Replicator was finally unmasked on Wednesdays two-hour finale as Mark Hamills federal agent/biochemistry nut John Curtis. At the end of the first hour, Curtis breaks into Strauss (Jayne Atkinson) hotel room, after which he forces the recovering alcoholic to drink before drugging her with “Doctor Death,” the meth/ecstasy mix at the center of the case the BAU had just solved. He lets Strauss wander the New York streets, where the section chief dies on a bench in the arms of Hotch (Thomas Gibson) — not her BAU-member-with-benefits Rossi (Joe Mantegna).
[SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains spoilers about the Season 8 finale of Criminal Minds. Read at your own risk.]