 Club" awarded the episode a "B+".She argued that the episode was "the best season finale cliffhanger the show ever did", and compared it to the second season finale "Anasazi"; she noted that while the latter episode was "pretty amazing", "Requiem" has "a finality" to it and a "sense that nothing will ever be the same" that made its cliffhanger ending work.VanDerWerff also wrote that the references to the pilot episode helped to show how far the series had evolved in seven years.