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"Remembrance of Things Past" is the third episode of Season Six and the 117th overall of Criminal Minds.

Summary[]

When several women in Virginia are found murdered in a similar manner, Rossi reopens an unsolved cold case in Bristol that has haunted him for a quarter of a century because he believes the original killer might have returned.

Guest Cast[]

Referenced Criminals[]

Bookend Quotes[]

  • David Rossi: Marcel Proust wrote, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
  • David Rossi: 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 I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."

Trivia[]

  • The father and son's crimes appear to emulate the plot of a 1970 giallo film, Hatchet for the Honeymoon. In it, a serial killer murders women engaged to be married who come in and out of his dead mother's bridal salon, out of a buried memory he obsesses over trying to remember through the murders being triggers for him. His homicidal frenzy even drives him to killing his wife because she's too burdening a presence in the house. When a woman offers herself up for a sting operation by police, and the killer nearly murders her too, he remembers he killed his mother and her new husband out of resentment once they were married.
  • Ashley Morgan Kilbride, the actress who portrayed a murder victim, also portrayed Amy Sherigan in an episode of Suspect Behavior, the short-lived Criminal Minds spin-off.
  • Although this was the third episode to air, it was the fourth episode produced.


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