<P> In the show's first episode, "Extreme Aggressor", Gideon was called back to work to help profile a killer, called "The Seattle Strangler" by the media, who abducts women and holds them prisoner before strangling them and dumping their bodies . After solving the case of the Seattle Strangler, Gideon is seen at an old - fashioned gas station in Dumfries, Virginia . While inside, Gideon notices that the cashier fits his profile of the Footpath Killer, a serial killer he had been investigating prior to being called in for the Seattle Strangler case . The man notices Gideon's gun and threatens him with a shotgun, insisting that he tell him who he is . When Gideon reveals he is with the FBI, the gunman gets even more agitated . Gideon then tells the man that he can tell him the one thing no one has ever been able to tell him: why he stutters . However, Gideon did not truly know the answer but was merely trying to provoke a stutter in order to distract the killer . The killer forced Gideon down a hall and into a small room full of pictures of his many victims, an amount that was more than law enforcement had found . Gideon intentionally demeans and insults the killer, increasingly agitating him and making his stutter worse . He takes his eyes off Gideon just long enough for him to grab the gun and subdue the killer . </P> <P> In "Won't Get Fooled Again", a copycat bomber uses the methods of serial bomber Adrian Bale (the same criminal who committed the warehouse bombing that killed his six colleagues), and Gideon has to face his past and Bale, to find out who the bomber is and stop him . After saving the lives of more agents from a suicide bombing, Gideon was forced to make a deal with Bale to have him help them get a bomb off of an innocent man . When Gideon realizes that Bale is lying about how dismantle it, he calls his bluff, saving them all from a bomb going off . He then has the pleasure of returning Bale to prison, the burden of the six agents' deaths presumably gone, even mocking him while he was being placed in a cell by using Bale's own words ("(A) n emotional release") in a sentence; he states that he finds it an emotional release in putting away criminals like Bale . </P> <P> In "No Way Out", Gideon faces the scariest and most evil serial killer in his entire career, Frank Breitkopf (Keith Carradine). The BAU had received a call from Georgia Davis, the Sheriff of the Golconda, Nevada Sheriff's Department, who had recently found two murder victims, both missing their right rib bones, similar to a case that took place in 1996 . However, Gideon realized that this unsub has been killing for thirty years . After studying one of the murder victims, he determined that the unsub has extensive medical knowledge, his victims are alive when he cut off their limbs, and that he uses Ketamine to immobilize his victims . With this information, Gideon and the team were able to build a profile of the killer . In order to find the unsub, the Sheriff's Department set up a road - block looking for an RV, truck, or trailer, which was believed was the killer's mode of transportation . </P> <P> Gideon later noticed that something was bothering Sheriff Davis, and she told him that the profile the BAU gave them reminded her of the experience made by a local named Jane Hanratty, a.k.a. Crazy Jane . Jane had encountered the unsub thirty years ago when her car broke down, but she believed that an alien had abducted her; she survived the abduction . Gideon knew that the unsub allowed Jane to survive because she wasn't scared of him . Eventually, Gideon discovered Frank in Fat Sam's Diner and Deputy Silo told Gideon he had fifteen minutes to negotiate with the unsub . Frank tells them that he had left the schoolchildren in the middle of a desert, and that if he gets Jane, he will tell them where they are . Gideon makes a deal with Frank: he and Jane will come with him if he takes them to where the children are . Frank happily agrees to that . After they pick up Jane and deliver her to Frank, Gideon drives the two to the desert and drops them off, to which Frank tells Gideon where the children are . Frank and Jane then walk off while Gideon runs in the opposite way and finds the children, all unharmed . Gideon and Hotch try to follow Frank's tracks, but they suddenly disappear in the desert . </P>

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