Felicity Huffman ’s Dr. Jill Gideon has already shaken up the team dynamic on Criminal Minds: Evolution — and now she’s bringing the heat and the PDA factor. “What if you use me as bait?” Jill asks Dave Rossi ( Joe Mantegna ) in Us Weekly ’s exclusive sneak peek at the Thursday, July 18, episode titled “North Star,” while discussing their latest case.
While Rossi is against the idea, Jill insists that they are in the “dangerous” situation because of “what I did,” referring to her part in creating the “Controllable Variables on Emerging Teenage Psychopathy” document — a.k.a.
a guide on how to become a serial killer — when the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) was in its infancy. Rossi, who was initially resistant to Jill joining the team this season, notes that her past research was meant to “help kids,” and it’s not her fault that Stuart House — a reform school that later became a place where the kids were abused — was twisted into something dark. “I’ll tell you what I’ve learned, if you don’t take responsibility somebody else will,” Jill says, noting that her late ex-husband Jason Gideon ( Mandy Patinkin ) “tried to go hide in his cabin and look where that got him.
” Jill’s remark makes Rossi pause before he inquires if she’s been back to the cabin since Gideon’s death. (Gideon died off camera during season 10 of the series at the hands of an Unsub. Jill was his ex-wife, and therapist, who was mentioned on the series .