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Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama series that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) at Quantico, Virginia. Criminal Minds differs from many criminal system procedural dramas by focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself. The show is produced by The Mark Gordon Company in association with CBS Television Studios and ABC Studios. The original title for Criminal Minds was Quantico, and the pilot was filmed in Vancouver. In the Quantico script, Jason Gideon was named Jason Donovan.
The series centers on Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin), Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) and the rest of the BAU team. For the first season, that includes Elle Greenaway (Lola Glaudini), Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore), Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), Jennifer Jareau, or “JJ” (A. J. Cook), and Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness).
During the second season, Elle Greenaway (Lola Glaudini) leaves after the sixth episode, “The Boogeyman,” and Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) replaces her in the ninth episode, “The Last Word.” At the beginning of the third season, Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin) departs after two episodes, making his last appearance in “In Name and Blood.” After a gap of several episodes, David Rossi (Joe Mantegna) comes out of retirement in episode six, “About Face,” to replace him.
The frequently-used term “UNSUB” stands for “unknown subject” of an investigation.
