"Mixed Signals" is the twenty-first episode of Season Thirteen and the 298th overall of Criminal Minds.
Summary[]
The BAU travels to Taos, New Mexico to locate an unsub who targets a specific part of the victims' brains.
Guest Cast[]
- Kelly Albanese - Dee Montoya
- Alexis Carra - Chief Karen Carlson
- Vince DonVito - Jake Owens
- Marykate Harris - Patron
- Denise Jaxon - Elizabeth Tappin
- Alysia Livingston - Chikodili Mahoney
- Billy Lush - Caleb Sands
- Amanda Maddox - Sarah Sands
- Alex Marino - Ben Montoya
- Jeff Marlow - Terry Rossett
- Zachary Mooren - Joe Mahoney
- Karina Noelle - Stacy Uqalla
- Stephanie Nogueras - Alma Hernandez
- David Villar - Michael Uqalla
- Richard Wharton - Medical Examiner Darryl Sutton
Referenced Criminals[]
Bookend Quotes[]
- Luke Alvez: "Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Tara Lewis: "Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future." – Daphne Rose Kingma
Trivia[]
- Despite being credited in the opening sequence, Matthew Gray Gubler, who portrays Reid, doesn't appear in the episode. This is actually the 26th of 29 episodes in which characters are credited despite not appearing in the episodes. The others are:
- Season One
- "Broken Mirror" - A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear. Penelope Garcia, portrayed by Kirsten Vangsness, also doesn't appear.
- Season Four
- "Masterpiece" - A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "52 Pickup"- A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "Brothers in Arms" - A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "Soul Mates" - A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "Bloodline"- A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- Season Six
- "25 to Life" - Thomas Gibson is credited even though Hotch doesn't appear.
- Season Eleven
- "The Witness" - A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "'Til Death Do Us Part" - A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "Outlaw"- A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "The Night Watch"- A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "Pariahville"- A.J. Cook is credited even though JJ doesn't appear.
- "Awake" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- "Internal Affairs" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- "Future Perfect" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- Season Twelve
- "Taboo" - Aisha Tyler is credited even though Lewis doesn't appear.
- "The Anti-Terrorism Squad" - Aisha Tyler is credited even though Lewis doesn't appear.
- "Profiling 202" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- "Seek and Destroy" - Matthew Gray Gubler and Aisha Tyler are credited even though Reid and Lewis don't appear.
- "Hell's Kitchen" Aisha Tyler is credited even though Lewis doesn't appear.
- Season Thirteen
- "Dust and Bones" - Aisha Tyler is credited even though Lewis doesn't appear.
- "Neon Terror" - Matthew Gray Gubler and Aisha Tyler are credited even though Reid and Lewis don't appear.
- "False Flag" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- "Submerged" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- "All You Can Eat" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- Season Fourteen
- "Broken Wing" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- "Flesh and Blood" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear in present day and is only shown in flashbacks.
- "Sick and Evil" - Matthew Gray Gubler is credited even though Reid doesn't appear.
- Season One
Notes[]
- In this episode, when Garcia sends information to the profilers in the field, the screen can be seen showing the phrase "encryption sequence 12859-HB88". A similar string was used in "Believer", where Spencer Reid received an anonymous email from "HB88-12859/anon", and Criminal Minds: Evolution, where one of Elias Voit's aliases is "AmonUser12859HB88".