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"Criminal Minds" Derailed (2005)



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User Rating:
8.2/10   178 votes
Writers:
Jeff Davis (creator) and
Jeff Davis (writer)
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Original Air Date:
23 November 2005 (Season 1, Episode 9)
Plot:
A paranoid schizophrenic takes other passengers on a train hostage, including Elle. full summary | add synopsis
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Too Many Unexplained Scenes Make This Not One Of The Better Episodes more (3 total)

Cast

  (Episode Credited cast)

Mandy Patinkin ... Jason Gideon

Thomas Gibson ... Aaron Hotchner

Lola Glaudini ... Elle Greenaway

Shemar Moore ... Derek Morgan

Matthew Gray Gubler ... Dr. Spencer Reid

A.J. Cook ... Jennifer "JJ" Jareau

Chris Bauer ... Dr. Theodore "Ted" Bryar

Kirsten Vangsness ... Penelope Garcia
Susan Gibney ... Dr. Linda Deaton

M.C. Gainey ... Moretti

Jeff Kober ... Leo

Anil Raman ... Josh Patel
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Kendall Clement ... Train Security Guard

Kevin Cristaldi ... Harry Anderson
Phinneas Kiyomura ... Medic

Stephen Moffatt ... State Trooper

Scott Norris ... SWAT Team Member

Alice Rietveld ... Elaine Curtis
Mark Stefanich ... HRT Commander
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Fun Stuff

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Revealing mistakes: After the team arrives at the scene, multiple cops are shown with their weapons pointing to the train. In one scene, you can clearly see a red tip on the barrel indicating a fake gun, most likely a child's toy. more
Quotes:
Jason Gideon: Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind." more
Movie Connections:
References A Beautiful Mind (2001) more

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7 out of 13 people found the following review useful.
Too Many Unexplained Scenes Make This Not One Of The Better Episodes, 10 January 2007
6/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

A delusional, paranoid mental case, prodded by his "buddy," takes five hostages on a train headed toward Dallas. One of the hostages in the train is "Elle" from the BAU of the FBI.

We hear a few quick profiles of some of the other passengers at the beginning of the show before the whack-job takes control. Since the show never followed up on this stories, what was the purpose that....to kill another three minutes of the show? Later, there were more unexplained actions by people, leaving this a bit disjointed.

Gideon and the BAU team must discover why this man of severe delusions wants to see "someone of higher authority" (someone of official government capacity, we find out) and why he "wants it removed" before he totally cracks and starts killing people. The BAU must find out what "it" means, too.

It's supposed to be a super-suspense story, but I didn't find it such. It was okay, but the first time so far in this series that I can safely say it's not an episode I wouldn't watch a second time. It wasn't one of the more intelligent episodes of the season.

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