Criminal Minds
Season 7, Episode 22
Air date	May 9, 2012
Written by	Virgil Williams
Directed by	Felix Enriquez Alcalá
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"Profiling 101" is the twenty-second episode of Season Seven of Criminal Minds.

Summary Edit

The BAU present one of the longest-tenured serial killer cases to an undergraduate Criminology college class, and they take the class through a seventeen-year chase for the murderer. Meanwhile, Rossi deals with personal demons concerning the case.

Guest Cast Edit

• Jolie Adamson - Georgina Yates
• Rene Ashton - Grace Powell
• Eugenia Care - Marie
• Denise Carole - Crystal
• Kay D’Arcy - Trudy Yates (2009)
• Julie Dove - Brianne Matloff
• Paul Morgan Fredrix - Donald
• Eileen Fogarty - Doctor Lin
• Alec Gatlin - Thomas Yates (Age 10)
• Daniel Guzman - Doctor Castro
• Richard Henning - John
• Sally Hughes - Devin
• Elizabeth June - Professor Marsha Grant
• Linda Sandee Larson - Lynn
• Ashley Leggat - Sloan
• Kelly Lynn Warren - Trudy Yates (1977)
• Cyndi Martino - Diane
• Kellen McGee - Angie
• Adam Nelson - Thomas Yates
• Dan Owens - Steve
• Kagiso Alicia Paynter - Bianca
• Thomas Phelan - Thomas Yates (Age 15)
• Tara Shayne - Tina Dyson
• Elizabeth Southard - Becca
• Shannon Sullivan - Ruth Taylor
• Nate Thomas - Lance
• Zack Weinstein - David Zimmerman

Referenced Criminals Edit

• Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker (mugshot only)
• Jeffrey Dahmer, The Milwaukee Cannibal (mugshot only)
• John Wayne Gacy, The Killer Clown (mugshot only)
• Aileen Wuornos, The Florida Highway Killer (mugshot only)
• Andrei Chikatilo, The Rostov Ripper
• Efren Saldivar
• David Parker Ray, The Toy Box Killer
• John Edward Robinson, The Slave Master

Bookend Quotes Edit

• David Rossi: The philosopher Voltaire said, "We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth."
• David Rossi: Irish statesman and author Edmund Burke wrote, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

See Also Edit

• Episodes