"The Apprenticeship" is the sixth episode of Season Eight and the 168th overall of Criminal Minds.
Summary[]
The BAU searches for a killer with escalating confidence when a Miami prostitute is murdered in a manner similar to a series of recent animal killings. Meanwhile, Morgan tries to increase Reid's athletic skills by convincing him to join the bureau softball team.
Guest Cast[]
- Mekhai Andersen - Henry LaMontagne
- Shira Scott Astroff - Hollie Riggio
- Michael Broderick - Secret Service Player
- Veronica Diaz-Carranza - Amanda Lopez
- Hector Hugo - Detective Sam Ogilvie
- Shirley Jordan - Doctor Rosa Escobedo
- Eitra Kennedy - José Aguilar
- Nancy La Scala - Claire Whitewood
- Matthew Lillard - David Roy Turner
- Marina Lyon - Shawna Radford
- Cade Owens - Jack Hotchner
- Chuck Pierce - Umpire
- Harrison Thomas - Toby Whitewood
Referenced Criminals[]
- Thomas Dillon
- Joseph Duncan[1]
- John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, The DC Snipers
- Rick James
Music[]
- "Trucha" by Perpetual Odd & Ghostman MC
- "Black Is The Color Of My Gun" by Swan/Almighty Love Noise
Bookend Quotes[]
- Derek Morgan: "Better than a thousand days of diligent study, is one day with a great teacher." — Japanese proverb
- Spencer Reid: "The greatest good you can do for another, is not just to share your own riches, but to reveal to him, his own." — Benjamin Disraeli
Trivia[]
- Many of the characters in this episode were named after characters in The Bad News Bears series of movies. The movies were about a team of misfits playing little league baseball.
- The mentor/apprentice relationship between the unsubs in this episode is similar to the dynamic in How To Be A Serial Killer, in which Matthew Gray Gubler played the apprentice. In that movie, as in this episode, Gubler's character wore a baseball cap. Some of the scenes with Morgan patting Reid on the shoulder while coaching him mirrored the interactions between Gubler's character and the serial killer mentor in that movie.
- Other actors featured in the film are David Pearl (who played an uncredited cop in two episodes), Dameon Clarke (who played a murder victim in the Season One episode "The Fox"), Gonzalo Menendez (who played Josh Cramer in two episodes), Gary Wolf (who played Roland Lynch in the Season Two episode "Psychodrama"), the late Jack Donner (who played a murder victim in the episode "Legacy"), and Evans Ford (who played Bart in the Season Six episode "Big Sea").
References[]
- ↑ Possibly meant to be Joseph Duncan III, but the BAU's description of him doesn't match common facts about him