Criminal Minds: Team Red

Television series
German title	Criminal Minds: Team Red
Original title	Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
Country of production	United States
original language	English
year	2011
Production company	The Mark Gordon Company Bernero Productions CBS Television Studios ABC Studios
length	45 minutes
Episodes	13 in 1 season
genre	Crime , drama , thriller
idea	Chris Mundy Edward Allen Bernero
production	Edward Allen Bernero Andrew Bernstein
First broadcast	February 16, 2011 (USA) on CBS
German-language first broadcast	August 24, 2011 on 3+
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Criminal Minds: Team Red (Original title: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior ) is an American television series and the first offshoot of Criminal Minds . The series was produced by CBS Television Studios and ABC Studios from 2010 to 2011 . While CBS owns the rights to the broadcast in the US, ABC has the rights to the international broadcast.

On May 17, 2011, the series was discontinued by CBS after a season consisting of 13 episodes. Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior ends with a cliffhanger .

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The series shows the FBI's work in the field of operational case analysis ("profiling") by the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) from Quantico , Virginia .

production

In early 2009, Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello reported that ABC and CBS Studios were considering an offshoot of the Criminal Minds series . The producer Ed Bernero announced that it was certain that there would be an offshoot in the near future. The series consists of Kirsten Vangsness , whose role as Penelope Garcia was taken over from the original series Criminal Minds , from a new cast.

After CBS put the pilot in series, it was announced on June 9, 2010 that Andrew Bernstein would be directing .

Forest Whitaker was cast as the chief of the department. Richard Schiff played a supporting role as FBI Director Jack Fickler. The team around Whitaker was introduced and introduced in a backdoor pilot in the episode Fight for Survival (Original title: The Fight ) in the fifth season of Criminal Minds . The episode first aired on April 7, 2010 in the United States and July 18, 2010 in Germany.

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  Forest Whitaker (2010)

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  Beau Garrett (2012)

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  Michael Kelly (2011)

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  Janeane Garofalo (2008)

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  Kirsten Vangsness (2007)

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  Richard Schiff (2012)

Role name	actor	Number of episodes	Voice actor
Sam Cooper	Forest Whitaker	13	Tobias Master
Mick Rawson	Matt Ryan	13	Tommy Morgenstern
Gina LaSalle	Beau Garrett	13	Ann have a lot
Jonathan "Prophet" Simms	Michael Kelly	13	Bernhard Völger
Beth Griffith	Janeane Garofalo	13	Anke Reitzenstein
Penelope Garcia	Kirsten Vangsness	13	Almut Zydra
Jack Fickler	Richard Schiff	11	Kaspar Eichel

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United States

The backdoor pilot premiered in the US on April 7, 2010 on CBS . The 13 episode series started on February 16, 2011 on the slot after Criminal Minds and ended on May 25, 2011.

German-speaking area

In Germany, the backdoor pilot was shown for the first time on July 18, 2010 on the pay TV channel 13th Street and on January 29, 2011 on the free TV channel Sat.1 . In September 2010 the ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group secured the rights to the German broadcast . It was broadcast on Sat.1 from August 28 to November 20, 2011 on Sundays following the mother series. Even though it fell over the course of the broadcast, the Sat.1 broadcast - in contrast to the US broadcast - achieved excellent values ​​of an average of 2.00 million viewers, which corresponds to a 14.6 percent market share. In the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds, the market share was 16.9 percent with 1.11 million viewers.

In Switzerland, the station 3+ aired the series from August 24 to November 16, 2011 as a German-language premiere.

Episode list

Backdoor pilot

No.	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)
-	fight to survive	The fight	Apr 7, 2010	July 18, 2010

season 1

No.	German title	Original title	Summary	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (CH)
1	The gift	Two of a kind	In Cleveland , an eight-year-old white girl disappears outside her parents' house in broad daylight. During the investigation, Team Red comes across three more missing persons cases in recent months of girls of the same age, but black. After two of the black girls were found murdered a little later, the autopsy revealed that the perpetrator had neither physically nor sexually abused them. In addition, the perpetrator had given the two girls a doll shortly before their death ...	Feb 16, 2011	Aug 24, 2011
2	Three moves ahead	Lonely Hearts	In Cincinnati , three men were stabbed to death in their hotel rooms within two weeks. The investigators assume a blond, severely disturbed woman as the perpetrator. After another murder, the team believes that because of the victims' injury patterns and the traces at the scene of the crime, the woman's aim is not to kill quickly, but to watch their victims die. The trail leads to a convicted woman murderer in prison ...	23 Feb 2011	31 Aug 2011
3	See nothing, hear nothing	See No Evil	The team is summoned to Tucson for a gruesome murder , where the eyes of a man in his vehicle have been removed. Based on the profile, the team quickly assumes a woman is the murderer. The trail leads to the hospital, where a patient died after an operation due to an infection and looked like the victim. Apparently someone wants revenge for his death. But after another murder of a doctor, who had an ice pick rammed through the ear into the skull, a nurse was targeted by the team ...	2nd Mar 2011	Sep 7 2011
4th	Just one shot	One shot kill	In Chicago , a sniper kills four people indiscriminately at a great distance in a few days. The perpetrator then seems to want to compete with a sniper from the investigation team and shoots two other people. However, the team is able to prevent another attack by the shooter and finds out that the killer is probably the son of a former sniper who is said to have struck for the first time twelve years earlier ...	9 Mar 2011	Sep 14 2011
5	Here is the fire	Here is the fire	In Fredericksburg , the team starts the investigation into a school bomb attack. According to the profile, the perpetrator acts for personal reasons after a severe blow of fate. The search eventually leads to a religious father who wants to kill his three sons by explosions. In the hospital where his wife died giving birth to their fourth child, the finale takes place ...	16. Mar. 2011	21 Sep 2011
6th	The executioner	Devotion	Two men were hanged in Omaha and Joliet after being previously drugged. After another murder, Team Red investigators identify the perpetrator as a young man who travels across the states with his dead sister to ultimately punish his father, who lives with a new family in Washington ...	23 Mar 2011	28 Sep 2011
7th	Jane Doe	Jane	The team is called to Indianapolis to investigate a series of kidnapping women. The only two witnesses are a woman who was heavily drunk at the time of observation and her boyfriend, who is critically injured by the perpetrator for his moral courage and dies in hospital after a brief questioning by Sam Cooper. After the first body was found, it turns out that the perpetrator is a brutal psychopath who carves up his victims alive and casts them in barrels ...	30th Mar 2011	Oct 5, 2011
8th	The dark side	Night Hawks	Within four hours, a stranger kills three men with a baseball bat in Tulsa . The investigators assume a gunman who, because of his appearance, is not perceived as a threat. After a fourth murder, the perpetrator goes to the ringing cellphone of his victim and speaks to his mother, revealing remorse for the first time. The investigators now believe that the perpetrator himself was the victim of a crime ...	Apr 6, 2011	Oct 12, 2011
9	Mother's love	Smother	Manchester police turn to Team Red for help after three mothers disappeared within days. The babies they were traveling with were each left unharmed at the crime scene. After two of the women are found murdered, the investigators assume a woman to be the perpetrator. After the discovery of the third body, however, the perpetrators seem more likely to be a man and a woman ...	Apr 13, 2011	Oct 19, 2011
10	The time is now	The Time Is Now	After ten years in prison, Veronica Day finds a lawyer who appeals for her. The only murder she is said to have committed herself is that of her mother, who gave her away as a baby. The other murders appear to have occurred while causing boys to shoot their own parents. Sam Cooper is supposed to testify impartially about the profiling from back then.	May 4, 2011	Oct 26, 2011
11	Look into the abyss	Strays	A judge's daughter is kidnapped in Washington. Sam Cooper is assigned to find her again. The profilers quickly track down the kidnapper. After his arrest, however, it becomes clear that the perpetrator has a client and that a lot of psychological instinct is required to find out where Emma was taken.	May 11, 2011	Nov 2, 2011
12	The blue mask	The Girl in the Blue Mask	A US Marine dies in Quantico after someone tears the left half of his face to pieces. During the investigation, the team members come across the case of a 17-year-old who was found dead ten days earlier on the outskirts of Quantico with similar injuries. While the investigators vaguely assume a skin collector and continue to puzzle over the perpetrator's motives, a jogger is ambushed and also cut up on the left half of her face. But the woman survives and reveals to Sam Cooper that the perpetrator is committing the crimes because he has promised someone ...	May 18, 2011	Nov 9, 2011
13	A life for a life	Death by a Thousand Cuts	The team is ordered to Dallas , where within two weeks, a homeless person, a drug dealer and an old man were shot. The only connection is the type of weapon used in the crimes, a Model 13, caliber .357 Magnum. It appears that apparently bourgeois people are being coerced into murder in order to get a kidnapped loved one back ...	May 25, 2011	Nov 16, 2011

Web links

• Criminal Minds: Team Red in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of Sat.1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nellie Andreeva: CBS Renews 'CSI: NY', Cancels 'Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior' . Deadline Hollywood . May 17, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
2. ^ Mariano Glas: Kirsten Vangsness in both «Criminal Minds» series . Serial junkies . July 20, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
3. ^ Kris De Leon: 'Criminal Minds' Spin-Off in the Works . BuddyTV . July 7, 2008. Archived from the original on February 23, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2010. 
4. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Criminal Minds: CBS orders spin-off with Forest Whitaker . Serial junkies . May 17, 2010. Retrieved November 13, 2010.
5. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior: Andrew Bernstein as a director . Serial junkies . June 9, 2009. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
6. ↑ Michael Ausiello: Scoop: Forest Whitaker to headline 'Criminal Minds' spin-off! . Entertainment Weekly . January 25, 2010. Archived from the original on January 28, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2010. 
7. ^ Adam Bryant: Richard Schiff Joins Criminal Minds Spinoff . TV guide . August 5, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
8. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Richard Schiff: From the "West Wing" to the "Criminal Minds" spin-off . Serial junkies . August 6, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
9. ↑ Hotch and his agents join forces with another BAU team to solve a series of murders in San Francisco, on “Criminal Minds”, Wednesday, April 7 . CBS Press Office . March 9, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
10. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: CBS Midseason Program: New Series and Program Experiments . Serial junkies . December 22, 2010. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
11. ↑ Ralf Döbele: Sat.1 secures "Criminal Minds" offshoot . Wishlist . September 24, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
12. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Bernero also becomes a showrunner at the Criminal Minds spin-off . Serial junkies . October 6, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
13. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Sat.1 shows the spin-off Criminal Minds: Team Red from August . Serial junkies . July 28, 2011. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
14. ^ Fabian Riedner: Quota check: "Criminal Minds: Team Red" . Oddsmeter.de . November 22, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
15. ↑ Criminal Minds: Team Red: broadcast dates of the TV series on 3+ . Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved August 3, 2011.