"Criminal Minds" Extreme Aggressor (2005)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Richard Shepard

Writers:

Jeff Davis (creator)
Jeff Davis (writer)

TV Series:

"Criminal Minds" (2005)

Original Air Date:

22 September 2005 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Supervisory Special Agent Jason Gideon returns to the Behavioral Analysis Unit after an extended medical leave...

Plot Keywords:

Title Spoken By Character | FBI Profiler | Serial Killer

Cast

Mandy Patinkin	...	Jason Gideon
Thomas Gibson	...	Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner
Lola Glaudini	...	Elle Greenaway
Shemar Moore	...	Derek Morgan
Matthew Gray Gubler	...	Dr. Spencer Reid
Lukas Haas	...	Clerk
DJ Qualls	...	Richard Slessman
Meredith Monroe	...	Haley Hotchner
Andrew Jackson	...	Tim Vogel
Kirsten Vangsness	...	Penelope Garcia
Chelah Horsdal	...	Heather Woodland
David Lewis	...	David Woodland
Louise Grant	...	Mrs. Slessman
Hiro Kanagawa	...	Seattle ASAC
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kwesi Ameyaw	...	SPD Officer
Trevor Beeby	...	SWAT Soldier
Artine Brown	...	SPD Detective Holmes
G. Michael Gray	...	Unsub
Natalina Maggio	...	College Student
Alonso Oyarzun	...	FBI Student
David Pearl	...	Cop
Malcolm Stewart	...	Warden
Joanne Whalley	...	Karen Donovan
Kirsten Williamson	...	Brick Agent

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Company:

Touchstone Television

Trivia:

In this episode, Gideon profiles a killer and correctly predicts that he would have a speech impediment. This was based on a real life case, investigated by FBI agent John Douglas, former chief of the FBIs Investigative Support Unit.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The CD Reid lifts from Slessman's laptop is Metallica's "Some Kind Of Monster". This album contains various live recordings. However, the song "Enter Sandman", which turns out to be the password, is not one of the tracks.

Quotes:

Jason Gideon: Emerson said, "All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle

Impressed With First Look

This is the pilot episode for the new-and-successful TV show delving into the minds of all kinds of criminals, from serial killers to arsonists to rapists, on and on. The first case deals with a guy up in Seattle who is luring girls - this latest case through a sports car ad - to him, then holding them for seven days in a cage before killing them. He clips their fingernails, one of a few idiosyncrasies. But that doesn't turn out to mean anything. However, what does turn out is that he has a partner, so they have to find two people.

We are introduced to the main character, "Gideon" (Mandy Patakin), a grim- faced 50-something who apparently did this line of work before in this unit of the FBI but had a nervous breakdown. This is his first case back since the "major depression," as it is now labeled. The question is whether he can "cut it" and return to field action. We slowly get to see the people is going to be working with, I assume. (This DVD is my introduction to the series.)

It's an interesting and suspenseful opener. The final minute leads into a second show and a new case. I don't know if this is going to be the way the show operates on a regular basis or not.