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Season 4 finale of Criminal Minds was aired on May 20, 2009. It was very thrilling episode and had a great suspense. As expected, the finale was the best episode of the season, with a perfect ending.

In the opening scene, BAU tracks the Unsub (supposed to be the Boston Reaper) who is a serial killer. He chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border to Canada. He is the one whom Hotch was desperately looking for in connection with his first case as a lead profiler.

He wasn’t caught but as there were no more murders, he was assumed dead. But after many years, Hotch comes to know that the Boston Police detective with whom he was working on the Reaper’s case had made a fair deal with the devil. The detective was supposed to get the manhunt called off and get the case closed and the Reaper would stop killing. This deal was to last as long as both of them were alive.

But Hotch didn’t find everything perfect and he had suspicion about the whole scenario. That’s why he continued investigation at his own level. After many years when the detective was on his deathbed, he confessed all his deeds to Hotch. The detective even assured Hotch that the Reaper was still alive and killings would start again once he was dead. And the same happened.

Now, Hotch was offered the same deal by the Reaper but he turned it down. And as the FBI came closer to catch the devil, he escaped. Hotch was shot at in the end of the season finale and whether he survived or met his death remained mystery as the series was wound up for the season. This mystery would be solved in the next season which would start some time in September 2009. All lose ends of the main story arch were neatly tied up and there was a nerve wrecking suspense. That’s the reason which will make all the viewers wait eagerly for another suspenseful season of “Criminal Minds”.