Criminal Minds
Mayhem
Wednesday 24 September 2008 on CBS

After a bomb explodes an SUV that is carrying BAU members, the rest of the team fights to save their colleagues and to apprehend the terrorists responsible for the mayhem.

When Simon came to Los Angeles in 2003, his agent scheduled 45 meetings in a week that included three or four people in each meeting. He doesn't recall everyone he met, but he learned that pitching is everything. He also discovered that Hollywood loves confident, enthusiastic people. (edit) Simon finds the research for Criminal Minds so disturbing that he won’t keep it in his house overnight. He leaves it in his car and brings it into his house in the morning. (edit) Simon discussed the concept of relationships on Criminal Minds in an interview with Jacki Garfinkel (April 25, 2007), and explained he wanted to explore the characters, but not because they are running out of stories. He said learning about the characters must fit within the story. (edit) Simon Mirren was quoted in Variety (March 27, 2007) as saying he's attracted to crime/spy/mystery dramas, such as Criminal Minds or Spooks, due to the emotions such shows explore. (edit) Simon and his wife, Louise, and their son, Cameron, attended the world premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at Disneyland on June 24, 2006. Helen Mirren, Simon's aunt, joined the family in the outing. (edit)

Simon Mirren: (discussing his first script meeting for Without A Trace) I was jetlagged, had a cold, feeling really rough, and I went directly to the office. I'd never met these people in my life. I don't know what they thought of me. A south London builder walks into a Hollywood script meeting. That sort of thing just doesn't happen. (edit) Simon Mirren: (on his craft) We're character writers. That's what we really, really love to write about. There's nothing more interesting for us than writing about characters. (edit) Simon Mirren: (regarding his rise to success) If you want to drive a fast car you have to drive Formula One - for me if I wanted to do television and learn more I had to come to America. (edit) Simon Mirren: The episodes of Criminal Minds are not the same thing each week. They're going on a different adventure, which is incredibly important for the success of shows these days. (edit) Simon Mirren: (discussing Criminal Minds) I think we've set ourselves up and we've shown the audiences that you don't have to have a procedural beat story every week, you can have these characters. We can start exploring that, as long as we don't explore it in a way that's not our show. (edit)

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