Criminal Minds
Season 4, Episode 24
Air date	May 13, 2009
Written by	Oanh Ly
Directed by	John E. Gallagher
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"Ampiflication" is the twenty-fourth episode of Season Four of Criminal Minds.

Summary Edit

The BAU responds quickly after a homegrown terrorist releases a new strain of a deadly bacteria in Annapolis that threatens the public and puts a member of the team at risk.

Guest Cast Edit

• Tamlyn Tomita - Doctor Linda Kimura
• Dan Lauria - General Lee Whitworth, M.D.
• David Dean Bottrell - Chad Brown
• Miles Anderson - Doctor Lawrence Nichols
• Samuel Child - Jason
• Douglas Sutherland - Commuter #2
• Leslie Thurston - Lisa
• Traci Bellusci - Melinda
• Elizabeth Maxwell - Abby
• Eric Brandon - Ethan
• Chuck Madden - DOD Man
• Joe Holt - Jack Summers
• Donald Sage MacKay - Senator Baylor
• Joe Howard - Russ Daniels
• Penny L. Moore - Trudy

Referenced Criminals Edit

• Amerithrax
• Theodore Kaczynski, The Unabomber

Bookend Quotes Edit

• Spencer Reid: "It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt." Exodus 9:9
• Spencer Reid: "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." Helen Keller

See Also Edit

• Episodes