Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Joe Mantegna | ... | David Rossi | |
Paget Brewster | ... | Emily Prentiss | |
Shemar Moore | ... | Derek Morgan | |
Matthew Gray Gubler | ... | Dr. Spencer Reid | |
A.J. Cook | ... | Jennifer Jareau | |
Kirsten Vangsness | ... | Penelope Garcia | |
Thomas Gibson | ... | Aaron Hotchner | |
Neal Jones | ... | Karl Arnold | |
Andrea Thompson | ... | Field Agent Anne Hudson | |
Kristina Klebe | ... | Miranda Dracar | |
Neill Barry | ... | Captain Joseph Downey | |
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James Fallon | ... | Prof. James Fallon (as Jim Fallon) |
Lorin McCraley | ... | Garrett Pain | |
Maria Maestas McCann | ... | Samantha Forester (as Maria McCann) | |
Sydney Sweeney | ... | Dani Forester |
In Hampton, Virginia, the Downey family is murdered and buried in their backyard while the family patriarch, army Captain Joseph Downey, is deployed in Iraq. A similar mass murder of a military family while the father was on military deployment occurred a year earlier. Prints lifted at the murder scenes indicate that it is the same unsub. The unsub appears to be copying the murders committed by Karl Arnold aka The Fox. The BAU worked on the case of The Fox four years earlier. The unsub has tried to contact The Fox in prison. Hotch and Prentiss interview The Fox to try and understand his motivation so as to understand the unsub. Based on some information received from The Fox and by the way the bodies are laid out in their grave, the BAU have a clearer profile of the unsub, who is not a copycat of The Fox and who is not the person who tried to contact The Fox. The Fox has some parting words for Hotch about who tried to contact him. Written by Huggo
Real quick review: Watch 'Red Dragon" starring Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton. Same everything, including the way they found how how the person was choosing victims. Not impressed.