Criminal Minds - Compromising Positions

The BAU team searches for a serial killer who is preying on married couples. Also, Hotchner looks to one of the team to fill JJ's vacant role, on CRIMINAL MINDS.

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The BAU travels to Ohio to identify a serial killer who is murdering married couples in Akron. Meanwhile, Agent Hotchner looks within the team to fill a recent vacancy.
Airs: 10/13/10 Wednesday 9:00 PM on CBS

The Behavioral Analysis Unit consists of an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds and anticipate their next moves before they can strike again.

Criminal Minds stars Thomas Gibson as Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner, Joe Mantegna stars as

Senior Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi, Paget Brewster as Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss, Shemar Moore as Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan, Matthew Gray Gubler as Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Spencer Reid, AJ Cook as Supervisory Special Agent and Media Liaison Jennifer "JJ" Jareau and Kirsten Vangsness as Analyst Penelope Garcia.

Originally created by Jeff Davis, executive producers are Edward Allen Bernero, Mark Gordon, Deborah Spera, Simon Mirren and Chris Mundy. Criminal Minds is produced by ABC Studios in association with CBS Paramount Network Television.

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When several women in Virginia are found murdered in a similar manner, SSA David Rossi reopens an unsolved cold case in Bristol that has haunted him for a quarter of a century because he believes the original killer, who is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, might have returned.

A family is leaving to go to a football game when the phone rings. The mother is about to answer the phone, but her husband just wants the caller to leave a message on the machine. The caller is their daughter, Jenny. She tells them she's in a lot of trouble, and by the time they listen to the message, she'll probably be dead.

Marcel Proust wrote, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."


Rossi tells the team about an unsub called The Butcher, who was killing young blonde women in Bristol in the early 1990s. Rossi was able to pinpoint the unsub's location, but then the murders stopped and Rossi couldn't get any closer to The Butcher. The killer's MO also included the victim calling their loved ones and then ending the calls with "I enjoyed it." This didn't happen with Jenny's murder, so Rossi initially believes this might be a copycat crime.


Lee tells Colby he wants to go hunting again, and doesn't remember that he had killed Shelly. Colby wants to placate his father, so he tells him that they're going after Anna. Meanwhile, the team tracks the duo down, but they're apprehensive about arresting Lee because it appears he has Alzheimer's Disease. Lee is literally unable to remember when he killed his last victim.

Meanwhile in another location, Colby has abducted Anna and is tying her up.

Rossi shares the details of The Butcher's murders with Lee, and reminds him that he had killed his wife Karen when she found out about the previous murders. Lee gives a vital clue about a brand of electroshock therapy equipment called Lexwell. Garcia tracks down the places that still use this brand, and locates an abandoned mental hospital nearby. The team finds Colby and Anna there just in time, and Colby is reminded about the time he helped murder his mother. Colby had always believed his mother had abandoned the family. Colby suddenly remembers that his mother told him goodbye to his face, right before she was killed. As Rossi leaves Lee finally recognizes him, and tells him, "you're the reason I stopped."

Mark Twain wrote, "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so that I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."

While he is in jail, Lee Mullens attempts to take his own life by slashing his wrists, but he isn't successful.