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Connor Storrie Joins Criminal Minds: Evolution as Lance Kingston

Showrunner Erica Messer says Storrie’s performance led producers to enlarge the role into a planned multi-episode storyline.

Overview

  • Episode 4, released Thursday, June 11, 2026, marks Connor Storrie’s debut as Lance Kingston on Criminal Minds: Evolution.
  • Lance is introduced as the ex-boyfriend of a potential victim and is tied into the season-long plot about a follower of imprisoned killer Elias Voit.
  • The BAU interrogates Lance and uses a leaking-pen test as a behavioral profiling tool to assess whether he fits the obsessive profile of Voit’s correspondent.
  • The episode closes with a dramatic cliffhanger that significantly raises Lance’s narrative importance, and Paramount+ lists Storrie to recur in Episodes 5, 6 and 9.
  • Showrunner Erica Messer said the back half of the season was reworked to give Lance more agency, a change that builds a recurring thread likely to increase tension for the team and for the show’s central Voit storyline.