Criminal Minds
Season 3, Episode 15
Air date	April 9, 2008
Written by	Michael Udesky
Directed by	Felix Enriquez Alcalá
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"A Higher Power" is the fifteenth episode of Season Three of Criminal Minds.

Summary Edit

The BAU is called to Pittsburgh after an unusually high suicide rate with a suspicious two-week-long time break appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.

Guest Cast Edit

• Leslie Fleming-Mitchell - Smoker
• Brandon Ford Green - Stuart Sankler
• Tim Cummings - Man #2
• Rod Britt - Coroner
• Renee O'Connor - Pam Baleman
• Myk Watford - Curtis Fackler
• Scott Michael Campbell - Peter Redding
• Zakareth Ruben - Beth Smoler
• Paul Schulze - Detective Ronnie Baleman
• Susan Hull - Woman #2
• Brynn Horrocks - Woman #1
• Craig Patton - Man #1
• Blake Robbins - Jonathan Morris
• Jennifer Aspen - Laurie Ann Morris

Music Edit

• "Shambala" by Three Dog Night

Bookend Quotes Edit

• David Rossi: "There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession." Daniel Webster
• Emily Prentiss: "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering." Ben Okri

See Also Edit

• Episodes