The most confusing part of Criminal Minds is how whenever anyone from one of the shows I watched as a child guest stars, they are always a psychotic killer.  Dawson Leery became an unstable torturer, Malcom in the Middle became a psychotic comic artist, and now Wesley Crusher was a misogynistic serial killer.

It took me a while to realize it was him because of some rather unfortunate facial hair, but once I saw him as Wesley I couldn't see him as anyone else.

While using actors well known for being the nice guy is one way for said actors to change the perception of casting directors, it also makes it harder for me to believe in them being truly evil.  I just can't believe that Dawson would really be that mean, I just can't believe that Malcom would lose his mind without his mother shaking some sense into him.  And I can't see Wesley as a woman hating serial killer.

So, maybe Criminal Minds wins in this respect after all.  Their antagonists are rarely clear-cut evil.  They're just as human as their protagonists, but only partially because of the writing.  A large part is also the casting.

Back to the episode.  I have so much love for J.J. this season.  She's clearly in love with being pregnant, but that doesn't mean that she's falling down on the job.  Instead, she's just as devoted, just as focused as always, but at the same time, re-centering around the baby.

When the Sheriff mentioned that day old Chinese food made her nauseous, but looking at pictures of dead bodies didn't move her, it wasn't chastising.  It was just a reminder that she was still the same person who was unaffected by dead bodies but now more – because of the baby inside her, Chinese food made her sick.

The best part was how well the team was taking her pregnancy.  On the plane, everyone was a little in awe, but at the same time, on the ground no one babied her.  She was still a teammate, still capable.

This episode was another reminder of the transition Hotchner is going through.  Although he's still the leader in all the ways that matter, and he still interacts with his team, we're seeing the more guilty, gun-shy version of Hotch.  Although in one moment he was able to dryly say, "Remind me to have her [Garcia] drug tested," the next he missed seeing the killer in front of him.

No one can blame him for that – after all, who thinks that Wesley Crusher is going to be your serial killer? But Hotch blamed himself, even when Rossi tried to absolve him.

If there was one last thing to take from the episode it was this: poor truck drivers!  The killer used them to commit his final rapes on couples and the horror of the general public thinking that they were the killers was only emphasized by the climax of a truck killing the unsub.  

Earlier in the episode, when the truck driver that hit the third couple was being interviewed by the BAU it showed him as a deeply human person.  The expression on his face when he was told he couldn't even tell his wife that he hadn't killed the couple was subtle.

Here was a hard working man thought a villain by everyone, and yet he was willing to sacrifice his reputation to help the investigation.  It was the type of expression that reminded us that Criminal Minds doesn't just do villains well: it does everyone well.