Criminal Minds
Season 4, Episode 14
Air date	February 11, 2009
Written by	Dan Dworkin Jay Beattie
Directed by	Anna Foerster
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"Cold Comfort" is the fourteenth episode of Season Four of Criminal Minds.

Summary Edit

The mother of an abducted woman works with the BAU to apprehend a serial killer who abducts, murders, and embalms his victims. The team gets help from a psychic, whom Rossi believes is a fake. From questioning suspects and witnesses, Hotch deduces that the killer may be a local mortician.

Guest Cast Edit

• Mark Hawkins - Detective Duran
• Doug Smith - Cop
• Lolita Davidovich - Sandra Lombardini
• Vondie Curtis-Hall - Stanley Usher
• Michael Biehn - Detective Ron Fullwood
• Nicholas Brendon - Analyst Kevin Lynch
• Matt Winston - Ivan Bakunas
• Sam Littlefield - Roderick Gless
• Mercedes McNab - Brooke Lombardini
• Randolph Mantooth - Patrick Gless
• Cybill Shepherd - Leona Gless
• Michael Merton - Coroner
• Nina Rausch - Abigail Reina Hansen
• Owen Sholar - Young Roderick Gless
• Jeff Elam - Grounds Keeper
• David O'Hara - Ed Gein
• Roxanne Beckford - Medical Examiner
• Olivia Summers - Paramedic #1
• Andrew Patrick Ralston - Bernard

Referenced Criminals Edit

• Ed Gein, The Plainfield Ghoul

Bookend Quotes Edit

• Jennifer Jareau: "... and so all the night tide, I lie down by the side, of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. In the sepulcher there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea." Edgar Allan Poe
• David Rossi: "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." Stuart Chase

See Also Edit

• Episodes