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Criminal Minds: Season 5, Episode 7 – The Performer

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“THE PERFORMER”

airdate: November 11, 2009
written by: Holly Harold
directed by: John Badham

episode synopsis
The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seems to align with the tour schedule of a rock star. Gavin Rossdale plays a Goth performer who has become lost in the frightening alter-ego he portrays on stage – an alter-ego the BAU team suspects may be a brutal serial killer.

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Episode quotes

Said By: Quote: Author:
Reid “In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the Vampire, a pariah even among demons.” Montague Summers
Prentiss “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” Cyril Connolly

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The Turning Point in the Investigation in Criminal Minds Full Episodes
  • When they brought Dante in for questioning and he didn’t fit the profile.
  • Hotch received a call from the FBI lab that the DNA found on the victim’s was from a women.


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  • Ray Campion (Dante’s Manager) used one of Dante’s fans, Gina and her obsession with Dante to boost sales of his upcoming album by making her kill people in a vampiric fashion. Gina wrote to him and said she said she’d kill for him. Ray then used her obsession and sickness for publicity.

Best Moments in Criminal Minds Full Episodes
  • Reid not knowing about the Twilight saga or what BFF stands for. And he’s never seen the movie “A Clockwork Orange.”
  • On the plane ride back to the BAU. The team is joking around and laughing.
  • When JJ hits Ray over the head, knocking him out.
Best Lines in Criminal Minds Full Episodes
  • JJ: “Do you read anything besides technical books?”
    Reid: “Not much in English.”
  • Garcia: “They mostly just dress up like Prentiss did in high school and play make-up. It’s all kinds of delicious.”
  • Garcia: “Okay, I’m going to continue splonking through the various online sites and see if anything jumps out and bites me.”
  • Morgan (about Rossi): “He has a gun, he’ll be okay.”
  • Rossi: “For a pop star? I was obsessed with the Rat Pack but I wouldn’t have killed for Frank or Dean.”
    Hotch: “No you just drank whiskey and smoked cigars.”
    Rossi: “This from the man whose favorite record is the Beatles white album?”
    Hotch: “Just because Manson hijacked it doesn’t have to ruin it for the rest of us.”
    Reid: “That’s why I stick to Beethoven. No chance of guilt by association.”
    Prentiss: “Yeah? Have you ever seen little a movie called A Clockwork Orange?”
    [Reid shakes his head no.
    ]

Episode Guest Stars

  • Gavin Rossdale (P.K. Davies aka Dante)
  • Jordan David (Edwin)
  • Inbar Lavi (Gina)
  • Tonya Kay (Tara)
  • Lenny von Dohlen (Record Exec #1)
  • Eddie Jemison (Ray Campion)
  • Ian Anthony Dale (Det. Owen Kim)
  • Justin Grace (Mundy)
  • Netta Most (Erin)
  • Eric Edwards (Dr. Gillespy)
  • Ashleigh Sumner (Marcia Masters)
  • Elizabeth Chambers (Elizabeth Chambers)

Episode trivia

  • The episode features the character Detective Owen Kim, who last appeared in the fan favorite episode 1×18 “Somebody’s Watching.”

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