Remembrance of Things Past

Remembrance of Things Past
Airdate	October 6, 2010
Written by	Janine Sherman Barrois
Directed by	Glenn Kershaw
EPISODE GUIDE
Previous:	"J.J."
Next:	"Compromising Positions"

"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

• Josh Braaten - Colby Bachner
• Hunter Drago - Pharmacy Customer
• Mary Beth Evans - Candice DeLilly
• Megan Gallacher - Jenny DeLilly
• Ellie Gerber - Heather Langley
• Mark Hutter - Mr. Langley
• Cristen Irene - Anna
• Michael Ketzner - Young Colby Bachner
• Ashley Morgan Kilbride - Butcher Victim
• Michael Lesly - Officer
• Nan McNamara - Mrs. Langley
• Renato Powell - Jocelyn Sherman
• T. Shaun Russell - Prison Guard
• Heather Simpson - Karen Bachner
• Marissa Skell - Shelly
• David Rees Snell - Detective Green
• Michael Spound - Sam DeLilly
• Daniel J. Travanti - Lee Mullens
• Mateus Ward - Lyle DeLilly
• Josh Woodle - Michael Young

Referenced Criminals

• Ray and Faye Copeland
• The September 11 Hijackers
• Jack the Ripper
• Ted Bundy
• Jeffrey Dahmer, The Milwaukee Cannibal
• Dennis Rader, BTK
• Lonnie David Franklin, The Grim Sleeper

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

• Although this was the third episode to air, it was the fourth episode produced.
• Nan McNamara, the actress who portrays Mrs. Langley, would return to the series a few episodes later in the same season in the episode "Into The Woods" as Violet Brooks.
• 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.
• 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.

Criminal Minds Episodes

Season One Extreme Aggressor • Compulsion • Won't Get Fooled Again • Plain Sight • Broken Mirror • L.D.S.K. • The Fox • Natural Born Killer • Derailed • The Popular Kids • Blood Hungry • What Fresh Hell? • Poison • Riding the Lightning • Unfinished Business • The Tribe • A Real Rain • Somebody's Watching • Machismo • Charm and Harm • Secrets and Lies • The Fisher King, Part 1 Season Two The Fisher King, Part 2 • P911 • The Perfect Storm • Psychodrama • Aftermath • The Boogeyman • North Mammon • Empty Planet • The Last Word • Lessons Learned • Sex, Birth, Death • Profiler, Profiled • No Way Out • The Big Game • Revelations • Fear and Loathing • Distress • Jones • Ashes and Dust • Honor Among Thieves • Open Season • Legacy • No Way Out II: The Evilution of Frank Season Three Doubt • In Name and Blood • Scared to Death • Children of the Dark • Seven Seconds • About Face • Identity • Lucky • Penelope • True Night • Birthright • 3rd Life • Limelight • Damaged • A Higher Power • Elephant's Memory • In Heat • The Crossing • Tabula Rasa • Lo-Fi Season Four Mayhem • The Angel Maker • Minimal Loss • Paradise • Catching Out • The Instincts • Memoriam • Masterpiece • 52 Pickup • Brothers in Arms • Normal • Soul Mates • Bloodline • Cold Comfort • Zoe's Reprise • Pleasure Is My Business • Demonology • Omnivore • House on Fire • Conflicted • A Shade of Gray • The Big Wheel • Roadkill • Amplification • To Hell and Back, Part 1 • To Hell and Back, Part 2 Season Five Nameless, Faceless • Haunted • Reckoner • Hopeless • Cradle to Grave • The Eyes Have It • The Performer • Outfoxed • 100 • The Slave of Duty • Retaliation • The Uncanny Valley • Risky Business • Parasite • Public Enemy • Mosley Lane • Solitary Man • The Fight • A Rite of Passage • ...A Thousand Words • Exit Wounds • The Internet Is Forever • Our Darkest Hour Season Six The Longest Night • J.J. • Remembrance of Things Past • Compromising Positions • Safe Haven • Devil's Night • Middle Man • Reflection of Desire • Into the Woods • What Happens at Home • 25 to Life • Corazón • The Thirteenth Step • Sense Memory • Today I Do • Coda • Valhalla • Lauren • With Friends Like These... • Hanley Waters • The Stranger • Out of the Light • Big Sea • Supply and Demand Season Seven It Takes a Village • Proof • Dorado Falls • Painless • From Childhood's Hour • Epilogue • There's No Place Like Home • Hope • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • The Bittersweet Science • True Genius • Unknown Subject • Snake Eyes • Closing Time • A Thin Line • A Family Affair • I Love You, Tommy Brown • Foundation • Heathridge Manor • The Company • Divining Rod • Profiling 101 • Hit • Run Season Eight The Silencer • The Pact • Through the Looking Glass • God Complex • The Good Earth • The Apprenticeship • The Fallen • The Wheels on the Bus • Magnificent Light • The Lesson • Perennials • Zugzwang • Magnum Opus • All That Remains • Broken • Carbon Copy • The Gathering • Restoration • Pay It Forward • Alchemy • Nanny Dearest • #6 • Brothers Hotchner • The Replicator Season Nine The Inspiration • The Inspired • Final Shot • To Bear Witness • Route 66 • In The Blood • Gatekeeper • The Return • Strange Fruit • The Caller • Bully • The Black Queen • The Road Home • 200 • Mr. & Mrs. Anderson • Gabby • Persuasion • Rabid • The Edge of Winter • Blood Relations • What Happens in Mecklinburg • Fatal • Angels • Demons Season Ten X • Burn • A Thousand Suns • The Itch • If the Shoe Fits • Boxed In • Hashtag • The Boys of Sudworth Place • Fate • Amelia Porter • The Forever People • Anonymous • Nelson's Sparrow • Hero Worship • Scream • Lockdown • Breath Play • Rock Creek Park • Beyond Borders • A Place at the Table • Mr. Scratch • Protection • The Hunt Season Eleven The Job • The Witness • 'Til Death Do Us Part • Outlaw • The Night Watch • Pariahville • Target Rich • Awake • Internal Affairs • Future Perfect • Entropy • Drive • The Bond • Hostage • A Badge and a Gun • Derek • The Sandman • A Beautiful Disaster • Tribute • Inner Beauty • Devil's Backbone • The Storm Season Twelve The Crimson King • Sick Day • Taboo • Keeper • The Anti-Terrorism Squad • Elliott's Pond • Mirror Image • Scarecrow • Profiling 202 • Seek and Destroy • Surface Tension • A Good Husband • Spencer • Collision Course • Alpha Male • Assistance Is Futile • In the Dark • Hell's Kitchen • True North • Unforgettable • Green Light • Red Light Season Thirteen Wheels Up • To A Better Place • Blue Angel • Killer App • Lucky Strikes • The Bunker • Dust and Bones • Neon Terror • False Flag • Submerged • Full-Tilt Boogie • Bad Moon on the Rise • Cure • Miasma • Annihilator • Last Gasp • The Capilanos • The Dance of Love • Ex Parte • All You Can Eat • Mixed Signals • Believer Season Fourteen 300 • Starter Home • Rule 34 • The Tall Man • Innocence • Luke • Twenty Seven • Ashley • Broken Wing • Flesh and Blood • Night Lights • Hamelin • Chameleon • Sick and Evil • Truth or Dare Season Fifteen Under the Skin • Awakenings • Spectator Slowing • Saturday • Date Night • Ghost • Rusty • Family Tree • Face Off • And in the End...