‘Criminal Minds: Evolution’: How Voit’s Fan Uses Connor Storrie

Brian Garrity (Paul F. Tompkins) remains the thorn in the BAU’s side on Criminal Minds: Evolution in the Thursday, June 18, episode, but the profilers have to use him to try to reach the “Fan” of serial killer Elias Voit‘s (Zach Gilford) — and stalker Lance Kingston (Heated Rivalry‘s Connor Storrie, continuing to impress) is right in the middle of it. Warning: Spoilers for Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 19 Episode 5 ahead!

Garrity reaches out to Prentiss (Paget Brewster) after receiving “evidence of a pre-crime.” The Fan sent him a manifesto, with “Some may call me a fan, but He must call me God” typed over and over again, in shapes, just like the mail that Voit received after his “pathetic” comments on Garrity’s podcast, The Sicarius Files. The postmark is from Kensington, Pennsylvania. While this was sent to Garrity, the “He” indicates it’s still to Voit, with the capitalization conveying a God-like status to the killer, one he wants to share.

When Voit looks at the latest messages, he says the Fan is gauging the levels of his own restraint and trying to slow himself down; if he can’t, it will cost someone else their life. He may have already killed, but thinks he has the power to show mercy. He also knows that the goal is to get Voit back on Garrity’s podcast again. And since that won’t happen, they need someone else who will engage him enough to get careless enough to reveal himself. The only possibility: Rossi (Joe Mantegna), whose books he had to have read since Voit did.

And so Rossi goes on Garrity’s podcast, but he, Prentiss, and Tara stress the host must stick to the script they’ve given him or someone could die. The hope is they’ll be able to track the “Fan’s” location or get something to help them with a profile. Voit is there, only to observe, with Rossi telling Garrity not to say a word about his presence. It takes a bit, with them going through the Voit case and taking calls before what they’re waiting for happens. As the guy puts it, “Call me God.”

But it’s Lance being forced to read the Fan’s words, and this other UnSub wants to know why Sicarius spiders — and is not satisfied with the answer Voit has given. When Lance reads the question, “Are you trying to profile me?” during the exchange with Rossi, the profiler says he knows that he’s not speaking directly to the Fan.

Voit passes Rossi a note that Lance means nothing. Rossi tells the Fan that he knows he’s using Lance as a proxy, and his death will not satisfy anything for him. The Fan then brings up Ramona, whose life Voit spared and whose testimony led to his conviction, and wonders, why didn’t Voit kill her himself? Voit writes a note to Rossi, Sydney, and the agent uses that.

Garcia successfully tracks the call to a storage unit rented by Lance in Richmond, Virginia. However, when Lance, for The Fan, asks if Voit is there, then screams, Garrity admits he is, even as the agents tell him not to. Lance screams more, then the call is disconnected. “You just caused a man’s death,” Voit tells Garrity. But given that we know that Connor Storrie is in two more episodes (6, pictured below, and 9), we know he’s not dead.

Elsewhere, the BAU also has a tragic case to solve. Tom Milliken (Jamison Jones), whom Luke (Adam Rodriguez) knew for over 20 years, is fatally shot during a training exercise with selectees for a hostage rescue team. While it initially looks like Billy (Xavier Jimenez), the trainee who shot him may have done so intentionally, since Tom gave him a hard time, drilling in that he needed to take the shot when he had it when he kept failing to do so, he was set up. Rather, Tom’s chief of staff, Peter O’Connor (The Good Doctor‘s Nicholas Gonzalez), switched out the blanks for real bullets because one of the trainees that Tom had cut had been his brother, who then died by suicide.

Criminal Minds: Evolution, Thursdays, Paramount+