Criminal Minds
Season 5, Episode 14
Air date	February 3, 2010
Written by	Oanh Ly
Directed by	Charles S. Carroll
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"Parasite" is the fourteenth episode of Season Five of Criminal Minds.

Summary Edit

An FBI agent from the San Diego White Collar Crime division seeks assistance from the BAU when the con artist he's been tracking for years has begun to murder his victims.

Guest Cast Edit

• John Idakitis - Frank McKelson
• Suzanne Quast - Carla Marshall
• Rebecca Staab - Lorraine Horton
• Bryce Robinson - John Davison Hodges
• Victor Webster - William Hodges
• Annabeth Gish - Rebecca Hodges
• Anna Marie Wood - Dina McKelson
• Valerie Cruz - Brooke Sanchez
• Mike Randleman - Stuart
• David Eigenberg - Agent Russell Goldman
• Calvin Harrison - Agent Cal

Referenced Criminals Edit

• Bernard Madoff

Music Edit

• "Luck Be a Lady" by Frank Sinatra

Bookend Quotes Edit

• David Rossi: "If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who, then, am I?" German psychologist Erich Fromm
• Emily Prentiss: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott

See Also Edit

• Episodes