All of the long-standing members of the team have (in a friendly way) expressed the sentiment that they preferred JJ before she became a profiler.
This episode features an unsub using a taser, abducting people while wearing a pig mask, the method used in the Saw (2004) franchise.
This is one of several episodes with no end quote.
Mecklinburg State is a fictional school. There are 17 universities/colleges in Memphis and 39 in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, but there is nowhere named Mecklinburg State.