Extreme Aggressor

"Extreme Aggressor" is the first episode of Season One of Criminal Minds.

Summary
Jason Gideon is called back from six months leave from the Behavioral Analysis Unit to profile a killer. The team flies across the country to Seattle when another young woman goes missing at the hands of another killer.

Guest Cast

 * Hiro Kanagawa - Seattle ASAC
 * Louise Grant - Mrs. Slessman
 * Andrew Jackson - Timothy Vogel
 * DJ Qualls - Richard Slessman
 * Chelah Horsdal - Heather Woodland
 * Malcolm Stewart - Warden
 * Alonso Oyarzun - FBI Student
 * G. Michael Gray - UnSub
 * Meredith Monroe - Haley Hotchner
 * David Lewis - David Woodland
 * Natalina Maggio - College Student
 * Joanne Whalley - Karen Donovan
 * Lukas Haas - The Footpath Killer

Referenced Criminals

 * George Metesky, The Mad Bomber
 * John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, The DC Snipers
 * Theodore Kaczynski, The Unabomber
 * Ted Bundy
 * William Heirens, The Lipstick Killer
 * David Berkowitz, Son of Sam
 * Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris
 * Charles Manson
 * Henry Lee Lucas, The Confession Killer
 * Jeffrey Dahmer, The Milwaukee Cannibal

Music

 * "Penitentiary" by Citizen Cope
 * "In The Air Tonight" by GodHeadSilo
 * "Rock Music" by the Pixies

Bookend Quotes

 * Jason Gideon: Joseph Conrad said, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
 * Jason Gideon: Emerson said, "All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."
 * Jason Gideon: Winston Churchill said, "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see."
 * Jason Gideon: Nietzsche once said, "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."