Criminal Minds/Trivia

• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • President John Keeler/Captain Matthews is Gideon's mentor.
  • Gideon himself is Inigo Montoya.
  • Andy Bellefleur is a hostage taker on a train in season one.
  • Ira Gaines apparently became a serial killer
  • Syed Ali is a mob boss in season one.
  • Before becoming an agent for a shadowy government organization, Gretchen worked for the FBI's Child Crimes Unit.
  • Juni Cortez shows up in the second episode of season two as a young kid with strange connections to pedophiles.
  • Malcolm is a graphic novelist in Season 3.
  • Young Kyle Reese is a young boy with fantasies about murdering prostitutes, and Nan Flanagan is his mother.
    • Adult Kyle Reese shows up later as well, in season 4 as a detective.
  • Lundy apparently got his skills as a profiler by being a serial killer for over thirty years! Sgt. Kay Howard was nearly one of his victims.
  • Dawson Leery is a serial killer with multiple personalities, and Charles Westmoreland gives the team some information on him and his father.
  • Billy Bedlam is a war veteran whose brother suffers from PTSD.
  • Reid is an old friend and rival of Sean Hillinger
  • Hoyt is a human-hunter towards the end of season 2.
  • The Pin is the Footpath Killer.
  • Erin Strauss is possibly better known as Karen Hayes
  • A murder victim in season 3 is Emily Lightman, and her best friend's father arrested Kate.
    • Speaking of Lie to Me, Jimmy Doyle and Ian Doyle are not only played by the same person, but are very, very similar characters.
    • And Gillian Foster is another serial killer.
  • It would appear Ryan Chappelle took a job as a detective.
  • Hey, that's Abu Fayed in the Season 4 premiere!
  • Holly is the admirer of a serial killer.
  • A cult that captures Prentiss and Reid is lead by Dylan McKay. Frank Lapidus is an old associate of his.
  • Wesley Crusher is a serial killer, and Ethan Rom is one of his targets.
  • The kidnapped boy's mother in "The Instincts" is Lisa Miller.
  • Xander Berkeley, one of the most notable "That Guys" of all time, is a detective, and amazingly he actually isn't the bad guy
  • Jacob moonlights as a cop in his spare time.
  • Assistant Director Skinner as the UnSub in "Normal", with Corky Sherwood as his wife and Zoe Washburne as the Cop of the Week.
  • Back in 2004, Dr. Rowling from "House On Fire" crashed on an island and was separated from his wife. Heather Vanderwaal from "Reckoner" was in the same section as him.
  • Ponyboy is now a serial killer. ET would be so disappointed in him.

"Yep. I got stabbed by Ponyboy. So much for staying gold." --C.T. Gibson

• • Xander Harris apparently really does like smart girls.
  • Duck Phillips is the head of the congressional committee investigating the team at the start of season seven, proving that he's a schmuck across all time periods.
  • Sue Sylvester is also Reid's schizophrenic mother.
  • Jackson Rathbone, who plays Adam Jackson, is mostly known for his roles in Twilight and The Last Airbender.
  • Alex O'Laughlin, a.k.a., Vincent Rowlings, is now the lead on another CBS crime drama, Hawaii Five-O. He's also Mick St. John
  • You'll surely recognize Bud Cort if you've seen Harold and Maude. Beth Grant has appeared in various movies, including Speed and No Country for Old Men.
  • And this isn't the first time Joe Mantegna has played a no nonsense law enforcement officer who "doesn't work with psychics"
  • Wendell Bray apparently rapes and kills strippers in his free time.
  • Noah Bennett is a manipulative child abductor.
  • Deathstalker shows up as the dad of a young psychopath.
  • Robert Englund shows up in "Heathridge Manor" ... as a detective.

• Retroactive Recognition:
  • The twin sisters who are the targets of a FBI agent's obsession in "Broken Mirror" is now Morgan Brody on CSI
  • The unsub in "L.D.S.K" is now Lassiter on Psych.
  • "Derailed": Dr. Bryar is now Andy Bellefleur on True Blood.
    • And in "Open Season", one of the killers is Hoyt from the same show.
  • A pre-fame Amber Heard plays Lila Archer in "Somebody's Watching".
    • The same episode had Peter Jacobson, who is now Dr. Taub on House.
    • It also featured Katheryn Winnick as Lila's stalker. She now plays Booth's girlfriend on Bones.
  • Jane Lynch, who plays Reid's mom, is now extremely well-known for playing Sue Sylvester on Glee.
  • Several actors who played bit parts/recurring roles on Supernatural are minor characters in this show. "The Thirteenth Step" has Jess as one half of a young couple on a killing spree, Lilith's child vessel was abducted to be StockholmSyndromed into a twisted Roma marriage in "Bloodlines", Lucifer's second-choice vessel was a cop in "Brothers in Arms", and Rufus was an unhelpful police chief in "Legacy."
  • Anton Yelchin, now known as the new Chekov and teenage Kyle Reese, appeared in "Sex, Birth, Death" as the prime suspect.
• Word of Saint Paul: Matthew Gray Gubler says that Reid is mildly autistic