Casting spoilers from TV Guide!

[klutzy-girl.livejournal.com]

Hill Street Blues star Daniel J. Travanti is headed to the other side of the law: The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor will guest-star as a serial killer in upcoming episode of Criminal Minds, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively

Travanti will play Mr. Mullens, a crotchety 75-year-old whose brutal murders 20 years ago earned him the nickname "The Butcher." Now suffering from Alzheimer's and depending on the live-in care of his adult son, Mullens crosses paths with Hotch (Thomas Gibson) and the rest of the Behavioral Analysis Unit when he comes out of retirement in a desperate attempt to reprise his violent past — a past he can no longer remember.

Travanti, 70, is best known for playing the intense, somber Capt. Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues, a role for which he earned two Emmys and Golden Globe. He also starred on ABC's short-lived Missing Persons in the early '90s and more recently guest-starred as President Richard Mills on Fox's Prison Break.

Criminal Minds returns Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 9/8c on CBS. Travanti will appear in the season's fourth episode, "Remembrance of Things Past," which is slated to air in October.

Do you think Travanti will make a good adversary?

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[fun-french-fri.livejournal.com]

So many questions... (How the hell is he trying to relive a past he can't remember? How does he know what he did?) I trust you, CM writers!

[alphabet26.livejournal.com]

How the hell is he trying to relive a past he can't remember? How does he know what he did?

Yes, this! I wonder it's a copycat thing (maybe the son?) and the dad has to try to reprise it to help them. Since it's a "desperate attempt" and all. It would be odd phrasing if he started killing again.