"Profiler, Profiled" is the twelfth episode of Season Two and the 34th overall of Criminal Minds.
Summary[]
While visiting his family for his mother's birthday in Chicago, Morgan is accused by local police of murdering three young boys, and the BAU investigates to find the real killer and exonerate him. Meanwhile, Hotch begins to suspect that Morgan may be hiding more than his sealed juvenile record after questioning him.
Guest Cast[]
- Jordan Aaron Carroll - Young Derek Morgan
- Erica Gimpel - Sarah Morgan
- Kerrie Keane - Fran Morgan
- James G. MacDonald - Detective Wally Dennison
- Benita Krista Nall - Desiree Morgan
- Skipp Sudduth - Detective Stan Gordinski
- Myzel Robinson - Damien Walters
- Julius Tennon - Carl Buford
- Keith Tisdell - Rodney Harris
- Jascha Washington - James Barfield
Music[]
- "In Times Like These" by Mavis Staples
Bookend Quotes[]
- Derek Morgan: "All secrets are deep, all secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets." ā Writer Cory Doctorow
Trivia[]
- The episode bears heavy similarity to the giallo film Don't Torture a Duckling, where a serial killer of boys being tracked is intermixed with the wrong suspect and the activities of a youth center leader.