Criminal Minds
Season 7, Episode 4
Air date	October 12, 2011
Written by	Breen Frazier
Directed by	Larry Teng
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"Painless" is the fourth episode of Season Seven of Criminal Minds.

Summary Edit

Survivors of a Boise high school massacre return to remember the event ten years later, but the BAU team is called in when a serial killer with a similar style targets the survivors. Also, Hotch is worried that his son, Jack, may be a victim of school bullying, while Morgan and Reid engage in a prank war.

Guest Cast Edit

• Kerry Barker - Tiffany Gleason
• James C. Burns - SWAT Commander
• Julia Campbell - Martha Slade
• Patrick Cohen - Caleb Brown
• Tom Derek - Chief Cole
• Michael Grant - Brandon Slade
• Stacie Greenwell - Ms. McKee
• Aaron Hill - Jerry Holtz
• Eric Jungmann - Robert Adams
• Don O. Knowlton - Principal Doug Givens
• Trisha LaFache - Chelsea Grant
• Cade Owens - Jack Hotchner
• Joe Reegan - Lewis Stuart Ramsey
• Hudson Thames - Randy Slade
• Terra Wellington - Reporter

MusicEdit

• "City Boy" by Shawn Lee & AM
• "Music for a Nurse" by Oceansize

Bookend Quotes Edit

• Spencer Reid: "You may leave school, but it never leaves you." Andy Partridge
• Aaron Hotchner: "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." Kahlil Gibran

Notes Edit

• In Brandon Slade's room, a poster hanging on his wall can be seen; the same poster can be seen in Masterpiece.
• At the beginning of the episode on the newspaper that says "Student Bombs Boise High School, Kills 13", a section of it has a student saying, "I had know idea if I was going to make it out alive."

See Also Edit

• Episodes