Criminal Minds
Season 3, Episode 19
Air date	May 14, 2008
Written by	Jay Beattie Dan Dworkin
Directed by	Steve Boyum
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"Tabula Rasa" is the nineteenth episode of Season Three of Criminal Minds.

Summary Edit

After a suspected serial killer wakes up from a coma, the BAU reopens the case and uses brain fingerprinting to determine if he really doesn't remember the crimes that had been committed four years earlier in Roanoke, Virginia.

Guest Cast Edit

• Bob Gebert - Doctor
• John Pirruccello - Resident Jogger
• James Eckhouse - Mr. Corbett
• Jon Barton - SWAT Officer
• F. William Parker - Judge
• Loreni Delgado - Technician
• Sarah MacKay - Nurse
• Anne Betancourt - Nina Moore
• Steven Culp - Lester Serling
• Amy Carlson - Cece Hillenbrand
• Beau Dremann - Sergeant
• James Sharpe - Detective Ted Jarvis
• Dick Herlan - Mr. Moore
• Jenny Powers - Woman
• Eric Lange - Brian Matloff
• Roxana Brusso - Lidia

Referenced Criminals Edit

• David Carpenter, The Trailside Killer
• Eric Robert Rudolph, The Olympic Park Bomber
• Derrick Todd Lee, The Baton Rouge Serial Killer
• Dennis Rader, BTK

Bookend Quotes Edit

• Aaron Hotchner: "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." Anatole France.
• Mr. Corbett and Spencer Reid: "What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind." William Wordsworth

Notes Edit

• The title is Latin for "blank slate", referring to Matloff waking up without his memory.

See Also Edit

• Episodes