Mandy Patinkin lends his considerable acting chops to the role of Jason Gideon, an FBI profiler par excellence who suffered a mental meltdown six months earlier, following an incident in which several colleagues were killed. Not when there's a serial killer preying on young women in Seattle. Young women have been set upon in horrible ways in several new crime procedurals, but "Minds" is by no means the worst offender, so we won't dwell on it here.

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