| “ | I wasn't on anything yet. I could have still been there. I won't ignore my gut again. I don't care what it costs me. | ” |
Sam "Coop" Cooper is the leader of the BAU's Red Cell team, the protagonists of the spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. He and the rest of the team appear in the Criminal Minds Season Five episode, "The Fight".
Background[]
“A medical condition. I'm allergic to bureaucracy”.
Much of Cooper's past is currently unknown, though he is rumored to have performed some kind of psychological operations overseas between leaving the BAU and rejoining it. He is an old friend of Hotch and Rossi, who had known for twenty years, and is very close to fellow team member Mick Rawson, whom he handpicked for his team ten months prior to the episode. Their exact relationship, nor their past, is not elaborated on, though Rawson says he'd trust Cooper with his life and would die for him. He is also a skilled practitioner of Kali.[1]
Cooper allowed Jonathan Simms to be part of his team though he knew that Simms had been in prison for murdering a sex offender.
The Fight[]
Cooper hunts for Bell.
When John Vincent Bell began another cycle of killings, Cooper defies orders from Erin Strauss not to investigate the case, and he enlists the aid of Hotch and his BAU team as he is convinced the case Hotch's team is investigating has links to his own. He and Hotch are partnered up and interrogated the wife of a man who was kidnapped by Bell along with their daughter. Strauss later finds about Cooper's actions and tries to force him into going back to Washington, but he refuses. Eventually, they are able to solve the case and Bell is killed by Rawson with a sniper rifle. At the end of the episode, Cooper receives a call from Strauss, telling him that she has a pile of cases for him.
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior[]
In "Two of a Kind"
In "Lonely Heart"
In "See No Evil"
In "One Shot Kill"
In "Here is the Fire"
In "Devotion"
In "Nighthawk"
In "Jane"
In "Smother"
In "The Time is Now"
In "Strays"
In "The Girl in the Blue Mask"
In "Death by a Thousand Cuts" The screen goes black as a gunshot is heard, leaving everybody's fates unknown.
Notes[]
- His sidearm is a SIG Sauer P229.
- He has a notable habit of imagining himself as the unsub while profiling crime scenes, even sitting and positioning himself where the unsub would be during the crime and acting out aggression and frustration in the imagined scenario, leading to him kicking chairs and other furniture. ("Devotion")
Appearances[]
Criminal Minds[]
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior[]
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References[]
- ↑ Forest Whitaker is an actual practitioner of Kali in real life, used in the 2010 movie Repo Men.