The fifth episode of Season 12 of the American police procedural drama TV series “Criminal Minds” will be airing on CBS on November 2 and it would feature the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) team working on an interesting case that possibly involves bullying.
Episode 5 is titled “The Anti-Terrorism Squad” and the BAU will be investigating the murder of two families, where one from each family survived the assault, and both happens to be high school bullies.
As the team begins to closely look at each of the two survivors, they soon realized that bullying might have played a role in the murder cases.
The questions are whether the high school bullies killed their own families or were they both bullied to kill their parents, poses the International Business Times.
Based on the teaser trailer for the upcoming fifth episode of “Criminal Minds” Season 12, it showed Penelope Garcia, played by Kirsten Vangsness, apparently stumbling across some key evidence and saying that she is just seeing merely the tip of the iceberg.
Filling in for Hotch
Four episodes into Season 12 of “Criminal Minds,” it is still not clear who among the BAU team members shall be taking over the post left by Supervisory Special Agent Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner.
In the TV series, Hotch has been assigned someplace on a temporary duty but he is still available for consultation by the BAU on certain cases, according to Rossi.
But in real life, actor Thomas Gibson has already been fired from the TV series after a scuffle with one of the show’s producers and writers, Virgil Williams.
A few weeks ago, actor Thomas Gibson also opened up about his firing from the long-running CBS crime drama.
In an interview, he said that they were shooting a scene late one night when he went to Virgil and told him that there was a line that he thought contradicted an earlier line. But Virgil told him that it is necessary that Hotch has to absolutely say it.
He said that Virgil came into the room and started coming towards him. As the writer-producer brushed past him, he said that his foot came up and tapped him on the leg.
He explained that if he had not moved, Virgil would have run into him. Subsequently, they had some choice words for which he apologized the next day.
After Hotch’s temporary assignment, Emily Prentiss, played by Paget Brewster, and Rossi, played by Joe Mantegna, seem to be sharing the duties of the BAU team leader.
Sharing of BAU duties
The sharing of duties between Prentiss and Rossi became evident during the fourth episode of “Criminal Minds” Season 12 when the BAU tracked down an unlikely predator along the Appalachian Trail, notes TV Fanatic.
Apparently, an unsub is chopping up hikers and the BAU team went out to find out who the killer is.
Commanding duties for BAU seemed to have been evenly split, Rossi is the one on the ground while Prentiss takes command of the back office.
The unsub in episode 4 is an obvious red herring, as the homeless man, Todd Burton, lacks the cunning trait to pull off the murders.
It makes sense that Todd and his younger brother Cormac were damaged after being abused by their father and that Todd is serving as his brother’s keeper, cleaning up after Cormac’s kills. It is just too bad that the actual villain died years earlier, setting two scarred siblings loose on the world.
The BAU team actually put the pieces together, which has been the exception, not the norm. It wasn’t just Garcia pulling the solution out of her hard drive.