Criminal Minds

Television series
German title	Criminal Minds
Original title	Criminal Minds
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2005-2020
Production ; company	The Mark Gordon Company (2005–2020) ; Touchstone Television (2005–2007) ; ABC Studios (2007–2020) ; Paramount Television (2005–2006) ; CBS Paramount Television (2006–2009) ; CBS Television Studios (2009–2020)
length	42 minutes
Episodes	324 in 15 seasons ( List )
genre	Crime , drama , thriller
idea	Jeff Davis
music	Steffan Fantini ; Marc Fantini ; Scott Gordon ; Mark Mancina (Seasons 1-4)
First broadcast	September 22, 2005 (USA) on CBS
German-language ; first broadcast	Aug 10, 2006 on ATV
occupation
synchronization

Criminal Minds is an American television series that was first broadcast on September 22, 2005 by CBS . In the series, the work of is FBI in the field of operational case analysis by the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU short; Engl. For "behavioral analysis unit") from Quantico shown. The investigations focus on profiling and victimology . With a few exceptions, the consequences are self-contained. Criminal Minds is therefore a so-called procedural drama .

In 2016 Shemar Moore announced his departure as Derek Morgan, initially Thomas Gibson as Aaron Hotchner, Matthew Gray Gubler as Dr. Spencer Reid, AJ Cook as Jennifer Jareau, and Kirsten Vangsness as Penelope Garcia are the remaining members of the original cast. However, Gibson had to leave the series due to an incident on the set at the beginning of season twelve.

In January 2019, the series was extended by a final 15th season, which is to be produced directly after the 14th season and then to be broadcast in the 2019/2020 TV season. The ten episodes of the last season were broadcast in the USA in January and February 2020 and the series concluded with a total of 324 episodes.

characters

main characters

Jason Gideon: Senior Supervisory Special Agent / Former Unit Chief. He was considered the best profiler in the history of BAU. Until he suffered a breakdown after six FBI agents were killed under his command, he was the head of BAU, which he co-founded with David Rossi. Gideon only returned to BAU when the series began. Gideon had a particularly good relationship with Dr. Spencer Reid, he treated him almost like a son. He enjoyed reading philosophical texts, playing chess and collecting bird paintings. He also advised his employees to “think outside of schemes”. He worked with his intuition and seemed emotionally very hypothermic, but was actually a philanthropist and even risked his life to save others. After Sarah, a long-time friend of Gideon, falls victim to the serial killer Frank Breitkopf at the end of the second season and her loss clouds his judgment and makes him lose faith in happy endings, Gideon unexpectedly turns his back at the beginning of the third season of BAU. In the middle of season 10, he is killed by a serial killer. The perpetrator is convicted by the BAU and ultimately killed by Rossi "in self-defense", but actually Rossi asked him to use a trick to turn the gun on him, since Jason Gideon would have been celebrated as a hero in prison as the murderer of Jason Gideon. Gideon had a son with whom he had little contact throughout his life.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Senior Supervisory Special Agent / Former Unit Chief. Prior to his transfer to BAU, he was employed at the FBI's Seattle branch , before that he was a prosecutor. At the beginning of the series, he leads the team together with Gideon. He just became a father in the first season and his attempt to keep work and family in balance is discussed several times in the series. In the third season there are multiple arguments with his wife Haley, who accuses him of not thinking enough about his family. They split up and a few episodes later, Haley files for divorce.; While the "Reaper" threatens his family, he gives up his position as head of the team to Morgan. After the "Reaper" was killed, he was regained his position in the middle of the fifth season. After Haley's murder and his return to BAU, his sister-in-law Jessica helps him raise his son Jack. Hotch has a younger brother Sean, with whom the relationship is a bit strained. Her father was also a prosecutor, and Sean should pursue that career path but becomes a chef instead. The father died of a heart attack at the age of 47. In season 12, Hotch and his family are included in the witness protection program, and he also has to leave BAU and completely cut off contact with his team colleagues.

Elle Greenaway: Supervisory Special Agent. Like Hotch, she worked at the FBI Seattle branch before joining BAU. She is a specialist in sexual offenses. Greenaway is half-Cuban and speaks fluent Spanish. Her father was with the NYPD and was killed while on duty when she was eight years old. She was shot at the end of season one, which is why she has been paranoid ever since. During an undercover operation, she experienced a déjà vu and a little later shot a serial rapist. She claimed to have shot him in self-defense, which is not the case. The investigation was closed. Towards the beginning of the second season, she quits her job at the FBI because of these experiences.

Derek Morgan: Supervisory Special Agent / Deputy Unit chief. Before he went to BAU, he was a police officer in Chicago . He is a specialist in obsessive-compulsive crime and has been an undercover investigator for 18 months. In the second season, it is revealed that he was present at his father's murder and suffered from sexual abuse as a child. His jokes are often at the expense of his colleague Reid, which, however, are not malicious in nature, but only meant to be funny. He has a special relationship with Garcia because she is "his girl" - they are very close. In the fifth season, with the resignation of Hotch, he becomes the head of the team. However, after killing the "Reaper", he ceded the position to Hotch. Morgan is a black belt wearer in the martial art of Judo and has experience in explosive devices. In the 16th episode of the eleventh season he is kidnapped and tortured, but can be freed in time. In the 18th episode of season 11, his wife Savannah is shot in front of a hospital and has to give birth to the baby he is expecting by caesarean section. Due to the latest experiences and to protect his newborn son Hank Spencer Morgan, he turns his back on the team in the same episode.

Dr. Spencer Reid: Supervisory Special Agent. At the beginning of the series he is 24 years old and has three doctoral degrees (mathematics, chemistry and engineering), he also has a bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology. In the fourth season he is working on his bachelor's degree in philosophy. He finished high school when he was twelve. Reid is a statistics expert. He himself says that intelligence cannot be measured, but admits that he has an eidetic memory , an IQ of 187 and can read 20,000 words per minute. He describes himself as a genius. He had a very special relationship with Gideon. This treated him almost like a son. Reid is the godfather of JJ's son Henry. In the middle of the second season he is captured, tortured and made addicted to drugs by a psycho killer. The addiction is not addressed in further episodes, but there are indications that he is still dependent. Only in the middle of the third season can you see him at a drug consultation. There he mentions that he has not used drugs for ten months.; In season six, there is evidence that he, like his mother, may develop schizophrenia. In season eight, he has contact with a woman named Maeve Donovan, who is being followed by a stalker. The two fall in love, although they have never met. Shortly before their first meeting in a restaurant, Reid suspects to have spotted her stalker, Maeve warns, whereupon she leaves the place again. Shortly thereafter, Maeve is kidnapped by her stalker. It turns out that the stalker is a woman. When the team finds the place where Maeve is being held, Reid first goes in alone and tries to trick the stalker, Diane Turner, into letting Maeve go. But he doesn't succeed and Diane shoots Maeve and herself in front of Reid's eyes. In the following episodes you can see that this loss affects him very much. In season 12, he is arrested in Mexico for drug possession and murder, but his team can prove he was set up.

Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Supervisory Special Agent. She is BAU's liaison to the press and the local police authorities. After Elle Greenaway left, Hotch offered her a job as a profiler, which she declined because she enjoyed her job as a liaison woman. She once went to a Washington Redskins game with Reid , but nothing developed from that date. In the third season she meets with Detective William LaMontagne, Jr. In the fourth season they have their son Henry, whose godparents are Reid and Garcia. During her maternity leave, she is represented by Jordan Todd. In the fifth season, it is revealed that her older sister killed herself when JJ was eleven years old. At the beginning of the sixth season she has to leave the team involuntarily and is transferred to the United States Department of Defense , but returns to the team as a profiler at the beginning of the seventh season. At the end of the seventh season, she marries Will. During her time in the Defense Ministry, she suffered a miscarriage while on duty in Afghanistan . At the end of season 10, it is revealed that she is pregnant again. Their second son is named Michael.

Penelope Garcia: Technical Analyst. She is a bit eccentric and the technical expert for BAU at the headquarters in Quantico. With the help of her special computer skills, she hacked the FBI's network and got the job at BAU. In the third season, she is shot after a date. She survived this attempted murder because the bullet just missed the heart. In the following episode, Kevin Lynch takes over her job and is amazed at her place of work. In the course of the season a relationship develops between the two, which they end in the seventh season. She is also Henry's godmother.

Emily Prentiss: Supervisory Special Agent / Unit Chief. She joins the team in the middle of the second season. Actually, Hotch had refused the transfer, but this was not reported to her. He had checked her mother's staff, who is an ambassador, to make sure that they were safe, and assumes that she got the job at BAU because of their relationships. At the end of the episode, however, she can convince him to add her to the team. Originally she was brought into the team by the superior Erin Strauss to collect evidence against Hotch, which she ultimately refuses.; Prentiss is fluent in Arabic, having spent her childhood in the Middle East. She also speaks Italian, French, Spanish and partly Russian. In the middle to the end of the sixth season, the team learns that they were investigating Ian Doyle undercover eight years ago. She is later apparently killed by him, but, as it later turns out, survived and only faked the death with the help of JJ to protect herself from Doyle. She returns to the team early in the seventh season. At the end of the seventh season, she leaves the team for good. In season 12, she initially returns as a substitute for Hotch, who was allegedly assigned to a special mission. In the sixth episode of season 12, however, it is announced that Hotch and his family have been accepted into the witness protection program and that he must therefore leave BAU. As the successor to the post of unit chief, Hotch recommends Prentiss, which she accepts after long deliberation at the end of the episode.

David Rossi: Senior Supervisory Special Agent. He founded BAU with Jason Gideon. Until his early retirement he was head of BAU with Gideon. In the third season he returns to BAU due to the departure of Gideon. Rossi retired to go on a reading tour for his books. His fame makes it difficult for him to get along with Hotch at first. In addition, as one of the first two profilers, he was still used to doing a lot on his own. As an unsolved case from his past that still preoccupied him but can be solved with the help of the team, he learns to work with the team. He has the character of a father figure for the team. When his first wife Carolyn returns to him after being diagnosed with a serious illness, she asks Rossi to help her kill herself. She eventually takes sleeping pills and dies in Rossi's arms. It is also revealed that Rossi had a son with her who died shortly after he was born. He has a daughter named Joy Struthers with his second wife, Hayden, who is an African American , but he only meets her as an adult in the tenth season. His wife had kept it from him because he wanted to advance his career with the FBI. Joy has a son named Kai, Rossi's grandson. The only thing known about his third wife is that he married her drunk in Las Vegas .

Ashley Seaver: FBI cadet and special agent. A young woman who is doing her training with the FBI and who is joining the BAU team in the sixth season as a replacement for Jennifer Jareau. Her father is a serial killer who killed 25 women. He's in jail and writes letters to Ashley, but she doesn't read them. At the end of the sixth season she changes to Andi Swann's FBI unit, this is known at the beginning of season 7.

Dr. Alex Blake: Supervisory Special Agent. She joins the team at the beginning of season eight as the successor to Emily Prentiss. She has been with the FBI since she was 24 in various positions and has several university degrees. She also teaches at a university and has a doctorate. She is married to a doctor named James. James hardly appears, however, as he works most of the time for "Doctors Without Borders" abroad. They had a son who, however, died of unknown causes at the age of nine. Blake previously worked in Seattle and met Erin Strauss in one case there. At the end of the ninth season, she leaves the team again.

Kate Callahan: Supervisory Special Agent. She joins the team at the beginning of season 10 after Alex Blake's departure. She previously worked as an undercover agent for a few years and was part of Andi Swann's unit. Kate is married and takes care of her niece Meg with her husband, Chris. Kate's sister and her husband - Meg's parents - were killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the Pentagon when Meg was a baby. Towards the middle of the tenth season, Kate becomes pregnant, which leads to tension with Meg. After Meg was kidnapped in the finale of the tenth season, Kate resigns her job because she wants to focus on her family and take care of Meg and her baby more.

Dr. Tara Lewis: Supervisory Special Agent. She is a psychologist. Originally from San Francisco , California, Tara worked for the FBI office there before joining BAU. Your job was u. a. by asking criminals to understand them better. This is also the reason why, in addition to her work at BAU, she leads a large-scale crime survey program. She got engaged to a man named Douglas, but separated from him at the beginning of season 11. All that is known about her family is that her father has an alcohol problem.

Minor characters

Haley Hotchner: She was the wife of Hotch, with whom she had her son Jack. Because Hotch cared too much about his job and too little about his family, she moved out of his home at the beginning of the third season and divorced him. She appeared at irregular intervals in the series until her gruesome murder in the fifth season by the "Reaper".

Dr. Diana Reid: She is the mentally ill , highly intelligent mother of Reid. She was complicit in the murder of a pedophile who nearly molested her then four-year-old son Spencer. She and her husband William separated because they could not process this experience together. This event was shown around the middle of the fourth season. Diana currently lives in a mental hospital near Las Vegas after her son Spencer admitted her when he was 18 years old. She was a professor of literature in the 15th century.

William "Will" LaMontagne, Jr.: He was a detective in the New Orleans Police Department and first appeared towards the end of season two, when he was already dating JJ. However, their relationship won't be revealed until Season 3. They have two sons together, Henry, who is born in season four, and Michael, who is born between seasons 10 and 11. At the end of season seven, Will and JJ eventually get married. He moved to Virginia from New Orleans to be closer to his family and now works as a detective for the MPD .

Erin Strauss: Section Chief of the BAU. She observed the work of the team and especially that of Hotch very closely. Hotch's instructions were often only reluctantly implemented. During the course of the seventh season, it is noticeable that Strauss has a considerable drinking problem and Hotch gives her an ultimatum to ask the director to give her time off for withdrawal. After surviving withdrawal, she will later return to her post. In the season eight finale, the "copycat" gives her an overdose of drugs. As a result, she dies in Hotch's arms.

Kevin Lynch: Technical Analyst. A technical expert from the FBI, who represents Garcia after her gunshot wound in the third season and meets with her shortly afterwards. They split up again, but Kevin Garcia supports or represents them in some cases.

Jordan Todd: Supervisory Special Agent. She was JJ's replacement during their maternity leave. She initially has differences with Hotch, but can quickly resolve them. By the middle of season four, Jordan is grateful to hand the job back over to JJ and return to the anti-terrorist unit.

Mateo "Matt" Cruz: Section Chief of the BAU. After Erin Strauss' death, he takes over the position of Section Chief of BAU at the beginning of the ninth season and thus becomes the new manager of Hotch and his team.

Dr. Savannah Morgan: She's been Morgan's boyfriend since season nine. Savannah is a doctor at Bethesda General Hospital in Virginia. At the beginning of the tenth season, she moves in with Morgan. In the 16th episode of the eleventh season, the two become engaged shortly after Derek found out that she was pregnant. In the 18th episode of season 11, she is shot in front of a hospital and has to give birth to the baby by caesarean section.

Joy Rossi: She is Rossi's daughter from his second marriage to African American diplomat Hayden Montgomery. Joy learned from her late stepfather that Rossi is her biological father. Her mother didn't want to stand in the way of Rossi's career plans and never told him about the pregnancy. Joy is married to the Italian Shawn Struthers and has a son named Kai. She works as a crime reporter and has written a novel about the Zodiac killer . Before she took her birth father's last name in season 11, her name was Joy Struthers .

Episode structure

The consequences usually begin in a US city where a person is murdered. Often the perpetrator can already be seen, or at least it shows how the murder happened. Then there is a change of scene to the headquarters in Quantico, or to a scene from the life of the investigators, which opens a subplot, which is mostly completed in the course of the episode. After a brief briefing on the case and some initial assumptions, the team gets ready to fly the jet. Then comes the opening credits and the first quote from a famous person is read.

On the plane, it's about setting up theories, while technical analyst Garcia provides information on the victims. Team boss Prentiss (formerly: Hotch) then usually divides the team into groups of two. Some go to the local police station, while others visit the crime scene or visit the forensic medicine department. Relatives of the victims are often interviewed at the police station. As soon as another victim shows up, it becomes clear that the perpetrator has either changed his approach or a clear pattern is recognizable. The team then presents the profile to the department in order to be able to narrow down the perpetrator. Often, with Garcia's help, the person you are looking for can be found. It also provides additional information from newspaper articles or the like, which are supposed to explain the perpetrator's motives or what the trigger for the murders was.

Depending on the situation, the team uses different methods to force the perpetrator to give up, who is usually about to kill another person. Usually he gives up or is shot because he chooses to commit suicide at the hands of the police. Then the case is solved, only in the rarest of cases the perpetrator cannot be caught. At the end, the subplot is often ended and the episode ends with the reciting of the second quote (see: Special features ). This pattern is seldom deviated from. Sometimes the shape of the cliff hanger is also chosen to end a sequence.

Cast and dubbing

Matthew Gray Gubler (2017)
Thomas Gibson (2010)
Shemar Moore (2012)
Mandy Patinkin (2008)
Lola Glaudini (2016)
AJ Cook (2010)
Kirsten Vangsness (2007)
Paget Brewster (2010)
Joe Mantegna (2010)
Rachel Nichols (2012)
Jeanne Tripplehorn (1992)
Jennifer Love Hewitt (2008)
Aisha Tyler (2014)
Adam Rodriguez (2015)
Daniel Henney (2008)

The German-language dubbing of the series takes place at EuroSync GmbH in Berlin . Dagmar Preuss wrote the dialogue books for the first two seasons. Her successors were Peter Krone (seasons 3 to 9) and Paul Kaiser (from season 10). Preuß also directs the dialogue with Elke Weidemann.

role	actor	Main role (episode)	Supporting role (episode)	Voice actor
Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Spencer Reid	Matthew Gray Gubler	1.01-15.10		Nicola Devico Mamone
Supervisory Special Agent Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner	Thomas Gibson	1.01-12.02		Thomas Nero Wolff (seasons 1–6) Frank Röth (seasons 7–12)
Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan	Shemar Moore	1.01-11.18	12.22, 13.05	Michael Deffert
Supervisory Special Agent Jason Gideon	Mandy Patinkin	1.01-3.02		Erich Rauker
Supervisory Special Agent Elle Greenaway	Lola Glaudini	1.01-2.06		Sabine Arnhold
Supervisory Special Agent Jennifer "JJ" Jareau	AJ Cook	1.02–6.02 7.01–15.10	6.18, 6.24	Tanja Geke
Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia	Kirsten Vangsness	2.01-15.10	1.01-1.22	Almut Zydra
Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss	Paget Brewster	2.09–6.18 7.01–7.24 12.03–15.10	9.14, 11.19	Ulrike Stürzbecher
Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi	Joe Mantegna	3.06-15.10		Jan Spitzer
Special Agent Ashley Seaver	Rachel Nichols	6.15-6.24	6.10–6.12	Debora refuses
Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Alex Blake, b. Miller	Jeanne Tripplehorn	8.01-9.24		Anke Reitzenstein
Supervisory Special Agent Kate Callahan	Jennifer Love Hewitt	10.01-10.23		Melanie Hinze
Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Tara Lewis	Aisha Tyler	12.01-15.10	11.01-11.22	Arianne Borbach
Supervisory Special Agent Luke Alvez	Adam Rodriguez	12.01-15.10		Florian Halm
Supervisory Special Agent Stephen Walker	Damon Gupton	12.08-12.22		Matthias Klages
Supervisory Special Agent Matthew "Matt" Simmons	Daniel Henney	13.01-15.10	10.19, 12.13	Florian Hoffmann
Haley Hotchner, b. Brooks	Meredith Monroe		1.01-3.05, 5.01, 5.09-5.10, 9.05	Schaukje Könning
Dr. Diana Reid	Jane Lynch		1.22–2.01, 2.15, 4.06–4.07, 12.11, 12.20, 12.22, 15.02, 15.10	Marina Krogull (up to season 12) Heike Schroetter (season 15)
Detective William "Will" LaMontagne, Jr.	Josh Stewart		2.18-5.10, 7.07-9.14, 11.22-15.10	Sven Hasper
Section Chief Erin Strauss	Jayne Atkinson		2.23-3.06, 5.05-8.24, 9.14, 15.10	Barbara Schnitzler
Jack Hotchner	Cade Owens		3.02-11.22	Julian Kohler
Technical Analyst Kevin Lynch	Nicholas Brendon		3.09-10.02	Stefan Krause
Supervisory Special Agent Jordan Todd	Meta Golding		4.05-4.13	Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Beth Clemmons	Bellamy Young		7.10-8.23	Giuliana Jakobeit
Dr. Savannah Morgan, b. Hayes	Rochelle Aytes		9.08-11.18	Antje von der Ahe
Section Chief Mateo "Matt" Cruz	Esai Morales		April 9-10, 2019	Marcus Off
Joy Rossi, formerly Struthers	Amber Stevens West		10.09–11.07, 14.15	Julia Meynen
Kristy Simmons	Kelly Frye		13.03-15.10	Heike Beeck
Crystal Richards	Gail O'Grady		13.18-15.10	Karin Grüger

Personnel decisions

Lola Glaudini

At the beginning of the second season, Lola Glaudini left the series. In a message it said that Glaudini could not make friends with the Los Angeles location and would move back to the east coast of the USA for personal reasons.

Mandy Patinkin

Shortly before filming for the third season began, Mandy Patinkin left the series by surprise in 2007. Five years later, he put it this way: “The biggest public mistake I have ever made was that I accepted (the job) 'Criminal Minds' in the first place. I thought it was going to be different. I never thought that they would kill and rape all of these women every day, every night, every week, and year after year. It wasn't good for my soul or my personality. ”He said that he doesn't judge the taste of the audience, but that he is concerned about the effect, since the series is used as a bedtime story all over the world.

AJ Cook

At the beginning of the sixth season, AJ Cook's contract was not renewed due to austerity measures by the broadcaster CBS , as a leading actress was about to leave. After a large number of fan protests, however, CBS Cook put back a contract for the seventh season, which she signed. Since then she has been part of the regular cast of the series again.

Paget Brewster

Along with Cook's contract termination, it became known that Paget Brewster would not be seen in all episodes of the sixth season. Negotiations could reach them, is a pilot episode of the transmitter NBC to be allowed to join. Since the pilot did not go into series, however, CBS was able to bring Brewster back to the series because of a contractual clause, so that she was a full member of the main cast again in the seventh season. In February 2012, however, she announced that she had “after six wonderful years as Emily Prentiss” decided to “look for a new challenge”. She also wanted to take time off for other projects while filming was still in progress, but the broadcaster and production studio did not allow this. After leaving, she made two guest appearances on the series. At the beginning of the twelfth season, she should initially only return to the series for a longer story arc. However, as a result of Thomas Gibson's departure, Brewster was returned to the regular main cast.

Rachel Nichols

Rachel Nichols had joined the series as a replacement for Cook and Brewster during season six. After that season, her role was written off the series. She did not find out about this personally, but through a public announcement by the broadcaster.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Jeanne Tripplehorn joined the series as the successor to Paget Brewster in the eighth season. With the finale of the ninth season, she left the series without prior notice because she did not renew her contract. Before that, she and producer Erica Messer had agreed on an end to their story. However, Tripplehorn commented positively on her role and said that the role had come at exactly the right time for her because she wanted to impersonate a slightly "darker" role.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt joined the series as a replacement for Tripplehorn . The actress became pregnant while filming season 10, which was carried over to her role. The actress left the series on her own initiative because she “wanted to give her second baby the same attention as the first, and that means taking time off and being a full-time mother.” She could return to the series at any time .

Shemar Moore

Towards the end of the eleventh season, Shemar Moore surprisingly expressed the wish for the producers to leave the series, as he wanted to devote more time to his private life and new projects. As with Hewitt, the actor's wish was transferred to his role.

Adam Rodriguez

Adam Rodriguez , known from CSI: Miami, was hired to replace Shemar Moore who had left the club .

Thomas Gibson

In August 2016, Thomas Gibson was fired without notice after allegedly kicking Virgil Williams , one of the show's co- executive producers, in a dispute .

Damon Gupton

In June 2017 it was announced that Damon Gupton will not be returning for the upcoming 13th season.

Daniel Henney

In June 2017 it was announced that Daniel Henney from Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders will be part of the regular cast of Criminal Minds in his role as special agent Matt Simmons after his removal from the 13th season.

Guest and supporting actors

The main guest and supporting actors with appearances in more than one episode (associated seasons are given in brackets):

Gonzalo Menendez as Josh Cramer (1-2)
Molly Baker as Jessica Brooks (1, 3, 5, 9-10)
Neal Jones as Karl Arnold (1, 5)
Ian Anthony Dale as Detective / Lieutenant Owen Kim (1, 5)
Eric Johnson as Sean Hotchner (1, 8)
Lukas Haas as a hiking trail killer (1)
Taylor Nichols as William Reid (2, 4)
Erica Gimpel as Sarah Morgan (2, 7)
Skipp Sudduth as Detective Stan Gordinski (2, 8)
Elle Fanning as Tracy Belle (2)
Keith Carradine as Frank Breitkopf (2)
Amy Madigan as Jane Hanratty (2)
James Van Der Beek as Tobias Hankel (2)
Bill Smitrovich as Detective Farraday (2)
Don Swayze as Charles Hankel (2)
Sienna Guillory as Kate Joyner (3–4)
Jack McGee as Detective Breast (3–4)
Erik Palladino as Detective Cooper (3–4)
John Eddins as Detective Walker (3, 5)
Marc Vann as Adam Fuchs (3, 10)
Gia Mantegna as Lindsey Vaughan (3, 12)
Fredric Lehne as Jack Vaughan (3, 12)
Jamie Kennedy as Floyd Feylinn Ferrell (3, 13)
Bailey Chase as Jason Battle (3)
C. Thomas Howell as George Foyet / The Reaper (4–5, 9, 15)

Garret Dillahunt as Mason Turner (4)
Sharif Atkins as William Hightower (4)
Tim Curry as Billy Flynn (5-6)
Robert Davi as Detective Kurzbard (5–6)
DB Sweeney as Sam Kassmeyer (5)
Salli Richardson as Tamara Barnes (5)
Timothy V. Murphy as Ian Doyle (6-7)
Denise Dowse as Yvonne Burns (6-7)
Angus Macfadyen as Sean McAllister (6)
Siena Goines as Tsia Mosely (6)
Sebastian Roché as Clyde Easter (6)
Mark Moses as Senator Cramer (7–8)
Isabella Hofmann as Carolyn Baker-Rossi (7)
Tricia Helfer as Izzy Rogers (7)
Josh Randall as Matthew Downs (7)
Evan Jones as Chris Stratton (7)
Teresa Huang as Dr. White (8-10)
Meshach Taylor as Harrison Scott (8-9)
Beth Riesgraf as Dr. Maeve Donovan (8, 12, 15)
Hector Hugo as Detective Sam Ogilvie (8, 12)
Mark Hamill as John Curtis / The Imitator (8)
Russell Richardson as Thomas Scott (9-10)
Faran Tahir as Tivon Askari (9-10)
Molly Culver as Agent Tia Canning (9-10)
Fred Koehler as Wallace Hines and Jesse Gentry (9)

Camryn Manheim as Carla Hines (9)
Michael Trucco as Owen McGregor (9)
Brett Cullen as Justin Mills (9)
Bodhi Elfman as Peter Lewis / Mr. Scratch (10-13)
Hailey Sole as Meg Callahan (10)
Greg Grunberg as Chris Callahan (10)
Melora Walters as Paige (10)
Aubrey Plaza as Cat Adams (11-12, 15)
Robert Neary as Giuseppe Montolo (11)
Marisol Nichols as agent Natalie Colfax (11)
Sheryl Lee Ralph as Hayden Montgomery (11)
Frances Fisher as Antonia Slade (11)
Tracie Thoms as Monica Walker (12-13)
Harold Perrineau, Jr. as Calvin Shaw (12)
Richard T. Jones as Officer Lionel Wilkins (12)
Jeananne Goossen as Fiona Duncan (12)
Corey Reynolds as Phil Brooks (13-14)
Daniella Alonso as Lisa Douglas (13-14)
James Urbaniak as Agent Owen Quinn (13-14)
Michael Hogan as Benjamin Merva (13-14)
Kim Rhodes as Assistant Director Linda Barnes (13)
Stephen Bishop as Agent Andrew Mendoza (14-15)
Michael Mosley as Everett Lynch (14-15)
Sharon Lawrence as Roberta Lynch (14-15)
Rachael Leigh Cook as Maxine (15)

particularities

The characteristics of the series include quotes from well-known personalities after the opening credits and at the end of the episode, which relate to the respective case. These will be spoken by a member of the team.
Mandy Patinkin and Thomas Gibson worked together on the Chicago Hope series .
Mandy Patinkin, who plays Gideon in the series, has a son named Gideon himself.
The second season broadcast Sat.1 with a different broadcast pattern than the channels CBS , Premiere and ATV . The station only showed the two episodes “The Sign” and “God's Judgment” on December 23, 2007. Sat.1 wanted to cover the story of Dr. Don't "tear apart" Spencer Reid. The series saw another change on February 3, 2008, when it was replaced by Numbers - The Logic of Crime , although Sat.1 had not yet aired three episodes. These were broadcast from February 14, 2008 on Thursdays at 10.15 p.m., as the episodes could only be broadcast after 10 p.m. due to the FSK -16 rating.
The 13th episode of the fourth season was not yet broadcast on Sat.1, so the number of episodes in the fourth season was only 25 instead of the 26 episodes produced. This episode was then shown in the repeat of the fourth season on September 11, 2010.
In the fifth season, which ran on Sat.1 in 2010 and 2011, some episodes could only be seen from 10:15 p.m. due to the FSK-16 rating. Due to this restriction, Sat.1 decided to broadcast all episodes as double episodes.
Matthew Gray Gubler , Thomas Gibson and Joe Mantegna directed several episodes.
Aisha Tyler and Adam Rodriguez each directed two episodes.
AJ Cook first directed season 14.
Kirsten Vangsness was involved in a total of five episodes, including the series finale, as a screenwriter.
Although never mentioned in the credits, Jon Barton, who originally acted as a technical advisor, appeared as a SWAT leader in over 60 episodes.
A special feature is the relation to reality within the series. Thus, all cases are based on real crimes, which, however, have been alienated so that no one involved in a crime can recognize themselves in the series. According to showrunner Edward Allen Bernero at the time, the cases have also been significantly weakened. The core of the plot is therefore real, everything else is just fiction. A researcher is specially employed for Criminal Minds, whose only job is to look for real cases.
On the series, AJ Cook aka JJ is the mother of a son, Henry. This is embodied by the child actor Mekhai Andersen (* 2008). Andersen is her son in real life too. This constellation continues with their second child Phoenix (* 2015).
Several people played themselves in the series, including the neurologist James H. Fallon, the crime writer Patricia Cornwell , the former American football players Michael Irvin and Willie Williams, as well as the rock guitarist Joe Walsh and various American television reporters.
Matthew Gray Gubler was actually the second choice for the role of Spencer Reid. This is evident from the audio commentary on the DVD for the first season. Originally Lukas Haas should have taken on the role. But since Haas did not want to be tied to a long-running television series as a leading actor at this point in his life, he decided not to. That is why Haas embodied the so-called “hiking trail killer” in the pilot film.
Jim Clemente, who is a consultant and writer on the series, was a real life profiler for the FBI . The episodes he wrote often show crimes against children that he solved in real life. The episode “Tears of Joy” (9.16) is based on one of his last cases. As a child, he suffered from sexual abuse, which formed the basis for the character of Derek Morgan. He only agreed to take on the advisory post because the producers promised not to portray the local police officers as failures or to insult them. Otherwise, the wrong impression could arise that the FBI disregard the police officers and that this could lead to their being no longer requested.
The 200th episode of the series, in which Paget Brewster had a guest appearance, ran within the ninth season on February 5, 2014 in the USA.
In the tenth season, which was ordered in March 2014, Jennifer Love Hewitt joined as the new lead actress, but left the series at the end of the season.

Broadcasting and audience ratings

United States

The series was first broadcast on the US broadcaster CBS and has been broadcast since September 22, 2005.

United States Broadcasting information and ratings of the series on the original channel CBS
Season	Episodes	Broadcast period	Audience ratings		Time slot	source
Season	Episodes	Broadcast period	spectator	rank	Time slot	source
1	22nd	September 22, 2005 - May 10, 2006	12.63 million	# 28	Wednesday 9:00 p.m.
2	23	September 20, 2006 - May 16, 2007	14.05 million	# 24
3	20th	September 26, 2007 - May 21, 2008	12.78 million	# 24
4th	26th	September 24, 2008 - May 20, 2009	14.95 million	# 11
5	23	September 23, 2009 - May 26, 2010	13.70 million	# 16
6th	24	September 22, 2010 - May 18, 2011	14.11 million	# 10
7th	24	September 21, 2011 - May 16, 2012	13.20 million	# 15
8th	24	September 26, 2012 - May 22, 2013	12.15 million	# 18
9	24	September 25, 2013 - May 14, 2014	12.66 million	# 12
10	23	October 1, 2014 - May 6, 2015	14.11 million	# 11
11	22nd	September 30, 2015 - May 4, 2016	12.20 million	# 16
12	22nd	September 28, 2016 - May 10, 2017	10.86 million	# 20
13	22nd	September 27, 2017 - April 18, 2018	9.58 million	# 29	Wednesday 10:00 p.m.
14th	15th	October 3, 2018 - February 6, 2019	8.22 million	# 41	Wednesday 10:00 p.m.
15th	10	January 8, 2020 - February 19, 2020			Wednesday 9:00 p.m.

Germany

The series has been running on German television since August 13, 2006 on the private free TV channel Sat.1 . Since March 1, 2007, the series can also be seen on German pay TV . The premiere series aired the first two seasons, and Criminal Minds has been broadcast on 13th Street Universal since the third season . This first aired the fifth season, before the station continued with the remaining seasons, up to and including season 9.

The highest number of viewers was measured on September 30, 2007 with 4.03 million viewers. It ran the third episode of the second season.

Germany Broadcasting information and ratings for the series on the free TV private broadcaster Sat.1
Season	Episodes	Broadcast period	Audience ratings				Time slot	source
Season	Episodes	Broadcast period	Range (from 3 years)	Market share (from 3 years)	Range (14-49 years)	Market share (14-49 y.)	Time slot	source
1	22nd	August 13, 2006 - March 18, 2007	ø 3.14 million	ø 9.3%	ø 2.20 million	ø 14.7%	Sunday 9:15 pm
2	21st	September 16, 2007 - January 20, 2008	ø 2.88 million	ø 8.9%	k. A.	ø 13.2%	Sunday 9:15 pm
2	2	February 21, 2008 - February 28, 2008	ø 2.88 million	ø 8.9%	k. A.	ø 13.2%	Thursday 10:15 p.m.
3	20th	August 31, 2008 - January 11, 2009	ø 2.73 million	ø 8.2%	ø 1.81 million	ø 12.3%	Sunday 9:15 pm
4th	25th	August 30, 2009 - February 21, 2010	ø 2.73 million	ø 8.2%	ø 1.81 million	ø 12.3%	Sunday 9:15 pm
4th	1	September 11, 2010	ø 2.41 million	ø 10.2%	ø 1.40 million	ø 14.0%	Saturday 10:15 p.m.
5	19th	September 25, 2010 - February 5, 2011	ø 2.29 million	ø 8.0%	ø 1.28 million	ø 10.8%	Saturday 9.15pm / 10.15pm (Sep. / Oct. 30, 2010) Saturday 9.15pm
5	4th	August 28, 2011 - September 19, 2011	ø 2.29 million	ø 8.0%	ø 1.28 million	ø 10.8%	Sunday 10:15 p.m.
6th	13	September 25, 2011 - December 18, 2011	ø 2.82 million	ø 10.3%	ø 1.61 million	ø 13.7%	Sunday 10:15 p.m.
6th	11	February 16, 2012 - March 22, 2012	ø 2.82 million	ø 10.3%	ø 1.61 million	ø 13.7%	Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. Thursday 8:15 p.m. (March 22, 2012)
7th	24	August 30 - November 29, 2012	ø 2.76 million	ø 9.3%	ø 1.46 million	ø 12.5%	Thursday 8.15pm / 9.15pm / 10.15pm (Aug. 2012) Thursday 8.15pm / 9.15pm
8th	13	January 10 - March 28, 2013	ø 2.97 million	ø 9.7%	k. A.	ø 14.0%	Thursday 8:15 p.m.
8th	11	August 22nd - October 17th, 2013	ø 2.97 million	ø 9.7%	k. A.	ø 14.0%	Thursday 8:15 p.m. Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. (10/17 Oct. 2013)
9	12	February 6 - April 3, 2014	ø 2.68 million	ø 9.1%	ø 1.38 million	ø 12.5%	Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. / 10:15 p.m. (Feb 6, 2014) Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. (Feb 13, 2014) Thursday 8:15 p.m.
9	12	September 4 - November 6, 2014	ø 2.68 million	ø 9.1%	ø 1.38 million	ø 12.5%	Thursday 8.15 p.m. Thursday 8.15 p.m. / 9.15 p.m. / 10.15 p.m. (Oct. 9, 2014)
10	12	February 5 - April 16, 2015	ø 2.75 million	ø 8.6%	ø 1.44 million	ø 12.5%	Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. (Feb. 5, 2015) Thursday 8:15 p.m.
10	11	August 20 - October 22, 2015	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	Thursday 8:15 p.m. Thursday 10:15 p.m. (Sep. 3, 2015) Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. (Oct. 22, 2015)
11	12	January 7th - March 24th 2016	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	Thursday 8:15 p.m. Thursday 10:10 p.m. (24 Mar 2016)
11	10	September 15 - November 17, 2016	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	Thursday 8:15 p.m.
12	9	January 19 - March 16, 2017	k. A.	ø 7.9%	ø 1.28 million	ø 11.5%	Thursday 8:15 p.m.
12	13	September 21 - December 14, 2017	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	Thursday 8:15 p.m.
13	11	January 18 - March 29, 2018	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	Thursday 8:15 p.m.
	10	October 4 - December 6, 2018	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
	1	3rd January 2019	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.
14th	15th	January 3 - April 11, 2019	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	k. A.	Thursday 9:15 p.m. Thursday 10:15 p.m. (Jan 10, 2019) Thursday 8:15 p.m. (Mar 28 - Apr 11, 2019)
15th	5	April 2 - 30, 2020					Thursday 8:15 p.m.
15th	5	July 30th - August 20th 2020					Thursday 8:15 p.m. Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. (Aug. 20, 2020)

Austria

The series has been running on Austrian television on the private broadcaster ATV since August 10, 2006. From February 2012 to May 2017, the broadcaster Puls broadcast 4 old episodes, starting with the first season (up to and including the eighth season). The station ATV2 also showed old episodes from January to July 2013 (only the sixth season).

Austria Broadcasting information of the series on the private broadcaster ATV
Season	Episodes	Broadcast period	Time slot
1	3	August 10, 2006 - August 24, 2006	Thursday 9:15 p.m.
1	19th	August 28, 2006 - January 15, 2007	Monday 9:50 p.m.
2	23	September 13, 2007 - February 14, 2008	Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:10 p.m. (Sep. 13, 2007) Thursday 8:15 p.m.
3	20th	August 21, 2008 - January 15, 2009	Thursday 8:15 p.m.
4th	26th	August 27, 2009 - February 18, 2010	Thursday 8:15 p.m.
5	23	September 16, 2010 - February 17, 2011	Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:05 p.m. (16 Sep 2010) Thursday 8:15 p.m.
6th	24	September 8, 2011 - February 23, 2012	Thursday 8:15 p.m.
7th	24	August 25 - November 24, 2012	Saturday 8.15pm / 9.15pm / 10.15pm (Aug. 2012) Saturday 8.15pm / 9.15pm Saturday 8.15pm (Oct. 27 / Nov. 2012)
8th	24	January 5 - October 12, 2013	Saturday 8.15pm Saturday 8.15pm / 9.15pm (March 9th / October 12th, 2013)
9	24	January 11th - November 1st, 2014	Saturday 8:15 p.m.
10	23	January 31 - October 17, 2015	Saturday 8:15 p.m. / 9:05 p.m. (Jan 31 / Oct 17, 2015) Saturday 8:15 p.m.
11	22nd	January 2 - November 5, 2016	Saturday 8:15 p.m.
12	22nd	January 14th - November 11th 2017	Saturday 8:15 p.m.
13	22nd	January 13 - December 1, 2018	Saturday 8:15 pm Saturday 8:15 pm / 9:05 pm (Dec. 1, 2018)
14th	15th	December 1, 2018 - April 2, 2019	Tuesday 8:15 pm / 9:10 pm
15th	10	March 31 - August 18, 2020	Tuesday 8:15 p.m. Tuesday 8:15 p.m. / 9:05 p.m. (Aug. 18, 2020)

Switzerland

On Swiss television, the series initially ran on April 4, 2007 on the private channel 3+ . On September 22, 2014, the broadcast of episode 17 of the ninth season ended. From September 27, 2014, the series ran on the private broadcaster 4+ , which previously showed reruns of the series. After the end of the first broadcast of the ninth season, the station 4+ again only showed reruns of the series. In addition, the private broadcaster 5+ has also been broadcasting reruns since April 13, 2015. Since December 28, 2015, 3+ has been broadcasting the first broadcasts in Switzerland; initially the tenth season was skipped and the eleventh season was shown directly. From March 2016, the first broadcast of the tenth season of 3+ and later 4+ was rescheduled.

From January 2018, the private broadcaster TV24 showed the 13th and 14th season as first broadcast. The last season will be broadcast for the first time on the private broadcaster TV25 . Due to the interruption of the synchronization due to the COVID-19 pandemic , only five episodes (episodes 1 to 4 and episode 6 of the season) could initially be broadcast.

Switzerland Broadcasting information of the series on the private channels 3+ or 4+ and TV24 or TV25
Season	Episodes	Broadcast period	Time slot
1	18th	April 4, 2007 - August 1, 2007	Wednesday 9:45 p.m.
1	4th	August 8, 2007 - September 5, 2007	Wednesday 9:00 p.m.
2	23	September 5, 2007 - February 6, 2008	Wednesday 9:05 p.m.
3	20th	August 27, 2008 - January 21, 2009	Wednesday 9:05 p.m.
4th	26th	August 26, 2009 - February 3, 2010	Wednesday 8:15 p.m. / 9:05 p.m. (26 Aug / 7 Oct 2009) Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
5	5	September 20, 2010 - October 11, 2010	Monday 8:15 p.m. / 9:10 p.m. (Sep. 20, 2010) Monday 9:10 p.m.
	9	October 15, 2010 - December 10, 2010	Friday 9:10 p.m.
	9	December 15, 2010 - February 16, 2011	Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
6th	24	September 7, 2011 - February 15, 2012	Wednesday 9:05 p.m. (Sep. 7, 2011) Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
7th	24	August 29 - November 14, 2012	Wednesday 8:15 p.m. / 9:10 p.m. / 10:05 p.m. (Aug. 2012) Wednesday 8:15 p.m. / 9:10 p.m. Wednesday 8:15 p.m. (14 Nov. 2012)
8th	24	January 9 - October 16, 2013	Wednesday 8:15 p.m. Monday 8:15 p.m. (Aug 26, 2013) Wednesday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. (Aug 28, 2013)
9	17th	January 20 - September 22, 2014	Monday 8:15 p.m. / 9:10 p.m. (Jan. 20, 2014) Monday 8:15 p.m.
9	7th	September 27 - November 8, 2014	Saturday 8:15 p.m.
10	3	March 23 - April 7, 2016	Wednesday 10:00 p.m. Thursday 01:10 a.m. (April 7, 2016)
10	20th	April 15 - September 2, 2016	Friday 10:20 p.m. Friday 11:20 p.m. (May 20 & 27, 2016) Friday 11:05 p.m. (June 10 & Sep. 2, 2016) Saturday 00:05 (Aug. 27, 2016)
11	4th	December 28, 2015 - January 18, 2016	Monday 10:30 p.m.
	8th	January 27 - March 16, 2016	Wednesday 10:05 p.m.
	10	September 9 - November 11, 2016	Friday 10:10 p.m.
12	10	January 20 - March 17, 2017	Friday 10:50 p.m. / 11:40 p.m. (Jan. 20, 2017) Friday 10:10 p.m.
13	22nd	January 10 - September 5, 2018	Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
14th	15th	January 6, 2019 - April 14, 2019	Sunday 9:00 p.m. (6 & 13 Jan 2019) Sunday 10:30 p.m.
15th	5	March 22nd - April 19th, 2020	Sunday 8:15 p.m.
15th	5	since July 26, 2020	Sunday 8:15 p.m.

DVD publications

In the USA , the first two seasons were released on November 28, 2006 and October 2, 2007. The third and fourth seasons were released on September 16, 2008 and September 8, 2009. Seasons 5, 6 and 7 followed on September 7, 2010, September 6, 2011 and September 4, 2012. The eighth season was released on September 10, 2013, and the ninth season on August 26, 2014.

In Germany , the first season was completely released on six DVDs with the German, English and Italian soundtrack. The set is released according to the FSK from 16. The playing time is 911 minutes, there are also making-ofs such as an interview with Matthew Gray Gubler , omitted scenes and Easter eggs . The second season appeared there on March 6, 2008. The playing time of 911 minutes is provided with sound and subtitles in German, English and Italian. The FSK has again given the six DVDs the age rating of 16 and over. The third season was released on April 2, 2009 with a total playing time of 825 minutes. In addition to the German soundtrack, there is also an Italian and English soundtrack. The FSK has also released the third season from the age of 16.

The fourth season was released on April 1, 2010 on seven DVDs. On April 15, 2011, the fifth season was released on DVD in Germany. The sixth season was released on DVD in Germany on May 24, 2012. The FSK has released a season from the age of 18 for the first time in this series, as the series is more and more excessive violence. The seventh season on five DVDs was released on March 7, 2013, again with an age rating of 16 and over. The eighth season was released on February 20, 2014, and the FSK again gave this season a release from the age of 16. The ninth season of the series has been available in Germany since February 19, 2015, again with FSK approval from the age of 16. The tenth season was released on February 25, 2016, also with an FSK approval from 16 years. The entire eleventh season has been available on five DVDs in Germany since March 9, 2017. The FSK also granted a rating of 16 years and older for this season.

Episode list

Spin-offs

Due to the huge success of Criminal Minds, the producers wanted to shoot a spin-off back in 2008 , but Navy CIS: LA won the bid. In late 2009, CBS announced that a spin-off was in production. The spin-off cast was featured in a backdoor pilot in ep. 5.18 of Criminal Minds. This episode, which is entitled "Kampf ums Überleben" (original title: The Fight ), was broadcast in the USA on April 7, 2010 and in Germany on July 18, 2010. The offshoot is entitled "Criminal Minds: Team Red" (Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior) and aired on Criminal Minds from February to May 2011. The series was discontinued after only 13 episodes.

In December 2014, the planning of another spin-off became known, which was introduced in the 19th episode of the tenth season. At the heart of the offshoot is a global team that helps US citizens outside the United States. The two central roles were cast in January 2015 with Gary Sinise as Jack Garrett and with Anna Gunn as Ally Lambert . After Gunn left the project after the backdoor pilot , Alana de la Garza took on the female lead.

Awards

Won :

2006 - ASCAP Award - Top TV Series (Marc Fantini, Steffan Fantini, Scott Gordon)
2017 - People's Choice Award - Best Crime Series

Nominated :

2006 - People's Choice Award - Best New Drama Series
2011 - People's Choice Award - Best crime series
2012 - People's Choice Award - Best crime series
2013 - People's Choice Award - Best crime series
2014 - People's Choice Award - Best crime series
2015 - People's Choice Award - Best crime series
2016 - People's Choice Award - Best crime series

Web links

Commons : Criminal Minds - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Criminal Minds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Criminal Minds at Fernsehserien.de
Official website (English)
Official website at Sat.1
Criminal Minds at atv.at
at Fandom : Criminal Minds Encyclopedia (English)

Wikiquote: Criminal Minds - Quotes

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[5] Jump up ↑ Criminal Minds: Season 1, Episode 14

[6] Jump up ↑ Criminal Minds: Season 1, Episode 7

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