"Remembrance of Things Past" is the third episode of Season Six and the 117th overall of Criminal Minds.
Summary[]
When several women in Virginia are found murdered in a similar manner, Rossi reopens an unsolved cold case in Bristol that has haunted him for a quarter of a century because he believes the original killer might have returned.
Guest Cast[]
- Josh Braaten - Colby Bachner
- Hunter Drago - Pharmacy Customer
- Mary Beth Evans - Candice DeLilly
- Megan Gallacher - Jenny DeLilly
- Ellie Gerber - Heather Langley
- Mark Hutter - Mr. Langley
- Cristen Irene - Anna
- Michael Ketzner - Young Colby Bachner
- Ashley Morgan Kilbride - Butcher Victim
- Michael Lesly - Officer
- Nan McNamara - Mrs. Langley
- Renato Powell - Jocelyn Sherman
- T. Shaun Russell - Prison Guard
- Heather Simpson - Karen Bachner
- Marissa Skell - Shelly
- David Rees Snell - Detective Green
- Michael Spound - Sam DeLilly
- Daniel J. Travanti - Lee Mullens
- Mateus Ward - Lyle DeLilly
- Josh Woodle - Michael Young
Referenced Criminals[]
- Ray and Faye Copeland
- The September 11 Hijackers
- Jack the Ripper
- Ted Bundy
- Jeffrey Dahmer, The Milwaukee Cannibal
- Dennis Rader, BTK
- Lonnie David Franklin, The Grim Sleeper
Bookend Quotes[]
- David Rossi: Marcel Proust wrote, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
- David Rossi: Mark Twain wrote, "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But my faculties are decaying now... and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."
Trivia[]
- The father and son's crimes appear to emulate the plot of a 1970 giallo film, Hatchet for the Honeymoon. In it, a serial killer murders women engaged to be married who come in and out of his dead mother's bridal salon, out of a buried memory he obsesses over trying to remember through the murders being triggers for him. His homicidal frenzy even drives him to killing his wife because she's too burdening a presence in the house. When a woman offers herself up for a sting operation by police, and the killer nearly murders her too, he remembers he killed his mother and her new husband out of resentment once they were married.
- Ashley Morgan Kilbride, the actress who portrayed a murder victim, also portrayed Amy Sherigan in an episode of Suspect Behavior, the short-lived Criminal Minds spin-off.
- Although this was the third episode to air, it was the fourth episode produced.