Unfinished Business (1 Mar. 2006)

When a serial killer reappears, the team works with a retired BAU agent who just published a book about the perpetrator.

Director:

J. Miller Tobin

Writers:

Jeff Davis (creator), Debra J. Fisher,

Stars:

Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini

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 Jareau
Kirsten Vangsness	...	Penelope Garcia
Geoff Pierson	...	Max Ryan
Aaron Lustig	...	Walter Kern
Marc Gomes	...	Det. Santangelo
Christopher Grove	...	Scott Harbin
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marsha Clark	...	Neighbor #2
Mel Fair	...	Male Reporter
Laura Gardner	...	Sylvia Gooden
Sue Goodman	...	Tortured Woman

Storyline

Retired BAU profiler Max Ryan is on a book tour, his book on the Keystone Killer, an unsolved case on which he worked twenty years earlier. The Keystone Killer murdered seven women in Philadelphia over a two year period, he communicating with the media through clues to murder details hidden in word search puzzles. Eighteen years ago, the murders just stopped. Ryan believes the Keystone Killer is still loose and perhaps active. Ryan currently lives in Philadelphia, he who is still working on the case unofficially. While on a tour stop in Washington, D.C., one at which Gideon attends, the Keystone Killer is also there, he who leaves a message for Ryan including two drivers licenses, one of his last known victim, and the other of another woman named Carla Bromwell, who had since been found dead. Bromwell's death is atypical to the other seven in many ways, the BAU thinking that the Keystone Killer may be devolving as a killer. Ryan inserts himself into the case. The BAU welcome his ...

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Plot Keywords:

word search puzzle | norman fitzroy maclean quotation | darkroom | gulfstream 450 business jet. | knot | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 March 2006 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Quixote Studios Griffith Park - 4585 Electronics Place, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

42 min 42 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Loosely based on both Dennis Rader, the B.T.K. serial killer from Wichita; and the Zodiac killer, who sent letters to a news station telling them about his latest crimes.

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Goofs

When Walter Kern is holding the gun on the final woman, just before he is captured, he points the gun and tells her to lie down on your back or he will kill her, you hear him cock his gun, but you see the gun is not cocked.

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Quotes

Elle Greenaway: You know he has no one, no family.
Aaron Hotchner: Who's that?
Elle Greenaway: Ryan. I mean, technically he's retired, but he hasn't seen his kids in years.
Aaron Hotchner: Divorce is not uncommon in the BAU.
Elle Greenaway: You know, the other night when you called - Saturday night - did you think it was weird that we all just... were able to drop everything and go to the office, that we're all available to you anytime you call, day or night?
Aaron Hotchner: No, not really.
Elle Greenaway: How do you do it? How do you do this job and still have... a wife and a baby?
Aaron Hotchner: Well, when I'm with ...
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Soundtracks

"I Don't Wanna Know"
written by Sheryl Crow & Jeff Trott
performed by Sheryl Crow

User Reviews

The BAU" Noble Work, But An Unhealthy Profession?

A retired BAU man, "Max Ryan," who a lot like Jason Gideon, is giving a talk with the presentation of a his book about a serial killer from 20 years ago. The "Keystone Killer" murdered seven women in Philadelphia and was never caught. After the talk, the lecturer is given a letter. Apparently, the killer was sitting right in the room and apparently he's back killing again as one of the women he mentions in the note is found dead.

This was a very good episode as the tense ex-BAU is emotionally involved and the current team is not as they try to figure out who this guy is and why he stayed silent for 20 years before resuming his killing with a different MO.

Without spoiling anything, I have to say this killer sure didn't look like one!

On the personal side "Ryan," I presume was supposed to show what years on the BAU team can make you into; something with no life. no family...and way too serious. His behavior doesn't go unnoticed, especially by "Elle" who worries this will happen to her.