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When an innocent family of four is abducted while vacationing in Barbados, Hotch and Cruz enlist the assistance of the FBI's most elite team in handling international cases. They realize that this situation closely resembles a case that the BAU once handled in Florida. Upon this discovery, the BAU contacts Jack Garrett, (Gary Sinise) the unit chief of the team with whom they will be working. The BAU will need to pool together their skills with Garrett's elite team in hopes to save this family. This will serve as the backdoor-pilot episode for the new spin-off, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.—MissFortuneCookie

The BAU assists its international counterpart within the Bureau - the unit which is comprised of head Jack Garrett, Agent Lily Lambert, Agent Matthew Simmons, and analyst Russ Montgomery - on its next case. It takes most of the team to Barbados, where the Washington DC residing Sullivan family - parents Gary and Colleen Sullivan and their two children, Alison and Nick Sullivan - are abducted while they are on vacation there. The reason the BAU is brought in is because the case looks to be the work of a serial unsub as similarly comprised American families have been abducted and ultimately murdered while on vacation, the first known in Aruba, and the second in Florida. In all three instances, the incidents took place in April. In general, the BAU handles the behavioral analysis of the case, while the international unit looks at the situation based on their knowledge of the countries in which they are dealing and of international law. Rossi, Hotch, Morgan, JJ, Garrett, Lambert and Simmons are in Barbados to deal with the local authorities and work on the ground. Reid and Callahan remain in DC to look into leads found at the Sullivan home, and review the case in relation to what happened in Aruba and Florida. And Garcia and Monty continue their analysis work at the office, Garcia who finds one fundamental difference between her job and Monty's. They all know they have to work fast before the Sullivans are found murdered like the families before them.—Huggo