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Sep 28, 2005 · Compulsion: Directed by Charles Haid. With Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Shemar Moore. The team are called to an Arizona college when an arsonist who operates in a very unusual way kills a student.
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The BAU is called to Tempe, Arizona, to assess the mind of an escalating serial arsonist targeting a local university and figure out the unsub's true motive for setting the fires. Meanwhile, Gideon continues to recover from his near-death experience with a serial killer.
The episode resumes with the flashback from the last episode, where the Footpath Killer is holding Gideon at gunpoint. He has him remove his gun from his holster and tells him to throw it. When Gideon asks where to throw it, he hits him in the back of the leg, causing him to drop the gun. Gideon is then thrown against a wall inside the gas station....
Main Cast
1. Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon 2. Thomas Gibson - Aaron Hotchner 3. Lola Glaudini - Elle Greenaway 4. Shemar Moore - Derek Morgan 5. Matthew Gray Gubler - Spencer Reid 6. A.J. Cook - Jennifer Jareau
Guest Cast
1. Kristen Caldwell - Chemistry Student #2 2. Michael David Cheng - Fire Inspector Zhang 3. Evan Lee Dahl- Jeremy 4. J.J. Dashnaw - Matthew Rowland 5. Lukas Haas - The Footpath Killer 6. Jennifer Hall - Clara Hayes 7. Bob Jesser - Professor Ralph Wallace 8. Erika T. Johnson - Agent Trainee #1 9. Sage Mears - Chemistry Student #1 10. Rolando Millet - Campus Security Guard 11. Nathanial Moon - Agent Trainee #2 12. Christopher Mowod - Campus Patrolman 13. J. Karen Thomas- Dean Ellen Turner
Jason Gideon:Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."Jason Gideon:Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."Oct 23, 2021 · Reid makes a further discovery that the unsub’s fire starting is a compulsion. He notices on the original videotape that the unsub is not trying to get into Matthew’s room, but is simply turning the doorknob three times.
Clara Hayes is a serial arsonist and budding serial killer who appeared in the Season One episode of Criminal Minds, "Compulsion". When she was sixteen, the Hayes house burnt down, with Clara narrowly surviving the inferno.
Spencer Reid finds a better way to fit the facts with a rarer serial killer logic: a 'religious' compulsion, in this case both triggered and given form by a boundless obsession with the number three- if this theory holds true a third, possibly triple, arson is at hand...
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