Criminal Minds/Trivia
- Hey, It's That Guy!:
- President John Keeler/Captain Matthews is Gideon's mentor.
- Gideon himself is Inigo Montoya.
- Andy Bellefleur is a hostage taker on a train in season one.
- Ira Gaines apparently became a serial killer
- Syed Ali is a mob boss in season one.
- Before becoming an agent for a shadowy government organization, Gretchen worked for the FBI's Child Crimes Unit.
- Juni Cortez shows up in the second episode of season two as a young kid with strange connections to pedophiles.
- Malcolm is a graphic novelist in Season 3.
- Young Kyle Reese is a young boy with fantasies about murdering prostitutes, and Nan Flanagan is his mother.
- Adult Kyle Reese shows up later as well, in season 4 as a detective.
- Lundy apparently got his skills as a profiler by being a serial killer for over thirty years! Sgt. Kay Howard was nearly one of his victims.
- Dawson Leery is a serial killer with multiple personalities, and Charles Westmoreland gives the team some information on him and his father.
- Billy Bedlam is a war veteran whose brother suffers from PTSD.
- Reid is an old friend and rival of Sean Hillinger
- Hoyt is a human-hunter towards the end of season 2.
- The Pin is the Footpath Killer.
- Erin Strauss is possibly better known as Karen Hayes
- A murder victim in season 3 is Emily Lightman, and her best friend's father arrested Kate.
- Speaking of Lie to Me, Jimmy Doyle and Ian Doyle are not only played by the same person, but are very, very similar characters.
- And Gillian Foster is another serial killer.
- It would appear Ryan Chappelle took a job as a detective.
- Hey, that's Abu Fayed in the Season 4 premiere!
- Holly is the admirer of a serial killer.
- A cult that captures Prentiss and Reid is lead by Dylan McKay. Frank Lapidus is an old associate of his.
- Wesley Crusher is a serial killer, and Ethan Rom is one of his targets.
- The kidnapped boy's mother in "The Instincts" is Lisa Miller.
- Xander Berkeley, one of the most notable "That Guys" of all time, is a detective, and amazingly he actually isn't the bad guy
- Jacob moonlights as a cop in his spare time.
- Assistant Director Skinner as the UnSub in "Normal", with Corky Sherwood as his wife and Zoe Washburne as the Cop of the Week.
- Back in 2004, Dr. Rowling from "House On Fire" crashed on an island and was separated from his wife. Heather Vanderwaal from "Reckoner" was in the same section as him.
- Ponyboy is now a serial killer. ET would be so disappointed in him.
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"Yep. I got stabbed by Ponyboy. So much for staying gold." --C.T. Gibson |
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- Xander Harris apparently really does like smart girls.
- Duck Phillips is the head of the congressional committee investigating the team at the start of season seven, proving that he's a schmuck across all time periods.
- Sue Sylvester is also Reid's schizophrenic mother.
- Jackson Rathbone, who plays Adam Jackson, is mostly known for his roles in Twilight and The Last Airbender.
- Alex O'Laughlin, a.k.a., Vincent Rowlings, is now the lead on another CBS crime drama, Hawaii Five-O. He's also Mick St. John
- You'll surely recognize Bud Cort if you've seen Harold and Maude. Beth Grant has appeared in various movies, including Speed and No Country for Old Men.
- And this isn't the first time Joe Mantegna has played a no nonsense law enforcement officer who "doesn't work with psychics"
- Wendell Bray apparently rapes and kills strippers in his free time.
- Noah Bennett is a manipulative child abductor.
- Deathstalker shows up as the dad of a young psychopath.
- Robert Englund shows up in "Heathridge Manor" ... as a detective.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- The twin sisters who are the targets of a FBI agent's obsession in "Broken Mirror" is now Morgan Brody on CSI
- The unsub in "L.D.S.K" is now Lassiter on Psych.
- "Derailed": Dr. Bryar is now Andy Bellefleur on True Blood.
- And in "Open Season", one of the killers is Hoyt from the same show.
- A pre-fame Amber Heard plays Lila Archer in "Somebody's Watching".
- Jane Lynch, who plays Reid's mom, is now extremely well-known for playing Sue Sylvester on Glee.
- Several actors who played bit parts/recurring roles on Supernatural are minor characters in this show. "The Thirteenth Step" has Jess as one half of a young couple on a killing spree, Lilith's child vessel was abducted to be StockholmSyndromed into a twisted Roma marriage in "Bloodlines", Lucifer's second-choice vessel was a cop in "Brothers in Arms", and Rufus was an unhelpful police chief in "Legacy."
- Anton Yelchin, now known as the new Chekov and teenage Kyle Reese, appeared in "Sex, Birth, Death" as the prime suspect.
- Word of Saint Paul: Matthew Gray Gubler says that Reid is mildly autistic