"Sense Memory" is the fourteenth episode of Season Six and the 128th overall of Criminal Minds.
Summary[]
When a serial killer murders women with an unusual M.O. in Los Angeles, the BAU travels there to investigate. Meanwhile, more of Prentiss' mysterious past is revealed.
Guest Cast[]
- Vahe Bejan - Taxi Driver
- Ryan Christiansen - Uniform
- Kimberly Fowler - Taxi Passenger
- Matthew Glave - Detective Bailey
- Brad William Henke - Steve
- Logan Holladay - Biker
- Timothy V. Murphy - Ian Doyle
- Stacey Oristano - Anisa Gold
- Eric Ramey - Doctor Samuel Bayo
- Uwe Schwarzwalder - French Officer
- Gray Stevenson - Linda Dean
- Stephan Todd - Officer Rick Hall
- Roberta Valderrama - Bernice
- Nicolas Pajon - ND Agent
Referenced Criminals[]
- Robert Napper, The Green Chain Rapist
Music[]
- "Smell the Funk" by Buddy Guy
Bookend Quotes[]
- Derek Morgan: "Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they are in the game." Comedian Paul Rodriguez
- Emily Prentiss: "Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." Novelist Vladimir Nabokov
Trivia[]
- "Sense memory" is a controversial treatment that involves the recollection of physical sensations related to emotional events instead of the remembrance of the events themselves.
- The story was inspired by the German novel 'The Perfume' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_(novel)