'Criminal Minds' Season 10: Episode 16 Recap 'Lockdown'
This week on "Criminal Minds," two guards at a maximum security prison in Texas are murdered, and the BAU suspects that more than one UnSub within the prison could be at work.
"Lockdown" starts with the warden of a privatized prison getting in touch with the team. Two prison guards were killed, so Hotch and the rest of the team fly out to Texas to investigate.
Once they get there, they find out that the warden had the two guards in charge of more than 2,000 inmates. It's either other guards or some inmates who killed them, so the team proceeds with caution.
Later, they find out that the two guards who were killed both had a sadistic streak in them as they often torture inmates just for the fun of it. The team now has a suspect, Julio, and they find out that he may have a good reason for killing them.
It turns out that Julio is a confessed murderer and has been there a little over a month. Julio tells Morgan and Rossi that one day, the guards blasted him with a hose just because they felt like doing so.
As the team was about to investigate Julio, another murder has been reported inside the prison, and this time, an inmate has been killed. Not only that, but the victim has been sexually assaulted.
Later, the team finds out that the prison guards had placed bets on the inmates and have started a fight club. One of the inmates, Devon, died during a fight, and the guards covered up his death. One guard confessed to burning Devon's body—he was forced to comply with the other guards because they threatened his daughter if he continues to refuse to go along with their plans.
The guard in charge of the fight club watched the other guard confess, and when he saw that he was about to get busted, he opened all the cell doors so that the prisoners could start a riot. Morgan and Kate managed to get away when the SWAT team arrived.
"Criminal Minds" airs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on CBS.
