What episode do you think is the darkest/gruesome episode? and what episode do you think is the saddest of all episodes?And why?

To me the darkest episode is when the three high school girls get kidnapped, thrown in a room and told to choose which one of them dies. Honestly, that was the only episode that I actually had a hard time watching because I was just so horrified. When the hammers were dropped in... *shudders*

i think the darkest episode is when morgan gets arested because it is thought that he's the killer. i think the sadest episode of criminal minds is when jj leaves and emely because they are such gifted actors and they complete the family their. its also sad because prentiss would also make a good couple with morgan. the sadest episode is also the one were emely dies even though her death is faked so that ian doyle wont find her that scene really touches you and because the way she is put to death even though later on the team finds out shes alive because of hotch and jj.i say my favorito topo, início characters are jj,emely prentiss, derek morgan, penelope garcia,and hotch.

i believe it is ''Our Darkest Hour'' because of all the horror he leaves in his victims, also because spicer gets killed and norgan has to watch.

they are ALL dark & sad

I think the most darkest episodes are 5x16 "Mosley Lane" and 7x04 "Painless". The sadest episode is por far 5x09 "100". It is imposible not to cry in that episode. I completely lost it when Hotch had his last conversation with Haily. And then she was shot....

i think that all of the episodes are dark but the darkest for me was in my opinion is 'to hell ... and back' , because of the use of homless people and prostitute's bodys for experiments ans later cut into pieces and fed to pigs. the saddest episode for me would be '100 ' because Haley dies.

I believe the darkest episode is when Dr. Reid is kidnapped por tobias and is tortured and drugged! And having the whole team watch in horror as he dies in front of them and they can't do anything for him. Then when tobias brings him back to life he has to choose which one of his team members dies and he picks Hotch luckily Hotch remembered something Reid said or Reid wouldn't be alive. He is not a morgan his weapon is his brain and he is not built to be tortured and he handled it ok besides the drugs, but after the drugs he coops with it.