The excellent news: Anticipate some pleasure from Felony Minds: Evolution Season 19 after the BAU suffered loads of loss this previous yr. For instance, Tara and Rebecca (Nicole Pacent), who ended Season 18 engaged, are pleased, Aisha Tyler instructed TV Insider.
However that doesn’t imply that the BAU isn’t nonetheless going to must cope with their Voit drawback. Zach Gilford debuted because the serial killer Elias Voit (a.okay.a. Sicarius) in Season 16, with a community of like-minded people. Earlier than the tip of that season, he’d kidnapped and trapped Rossi (Joe Mantegna) in a storage unit. Then, in Season 17, he had information of Gold Star, the following Large Dangerous. On the finish of that season, he was attacked in jail. Season 18 started with Voit in a coma because of this, then when he woke, he was modified. He had amnesia and mind scans confirmed he was not a psychopath. The truth is, he helped the BAU all through the season, together with to cease the one who had taken over his community and to find all of the killers on it nonetheless round. Now, he’s again in jail.
There’s going to be a yr time bounce between seasons, showrunner Erica Messer instructed TV Insider after the finale. She mentioned in that point, there’s been therapeutic. And so once we caught up with Aisha Tyler for her Who Needs to Be a Millionaire? look, we needed to discover out what meaning for Tara, who was shot in Season 18 and nonetheless recovering when she returned to work for its ultimate two episodes. She’s going to have a big function to play with the present diving into one thing the BAU does in the actual world: interview serial killers in jail.
With that yr time bounce, “the crew is admittedly, I feel, in some methods, using excessive on the truth that we have been capable of put Voit’s community away and in addition put Voit lastly behind bars, the place he belongs. We’ve constructed this symbiosis with him. And I feel the connection between the BAU and Voit is a real-world relationship, , the best way that the BAU was constructed. And also you might need folks on the market may know a bit bit about this when it comes to the historical past of the actual profilers within the FBI, or from watching a present known as Mindhunter, that they constructed their profiling system primarily based on interviews with actual serial killers,” Tyler shared.
“So in a number of methods, the prison and the legislation officer, they depend on one another. One can’t exist with out the opposite. And I feel you’re seeing a bit little bit of that symbiosis and reliance, each in [Season] 18 and particularly in 19; we’d like Voit as a result of we wish to perceive how he works, in order that we are able to cease different folks like him. And in order that’s been an enormous theme of the season,” she continued. “My character, Dr. Tara Lewis, she’s a forensic psychiatrist. She leans into the mechanics and the construction of how sociopaths are constructed and the way they transfer by means of the world, and she or he makes use of that, these analytic instruments, to assist her crew cease these guys.”
Due to that, “Tara is prospering. She loves to select aside the brains of unhealthy guys, and so she’s attending to do a number of that this season, which is admittedly nice,” Tyler mentioned.
She additionally revealed that they’re about midway by means of filming Season 19 now. “It’s a very sensible season,” she previewed. “It’s a very mental season. It’s tremendous dynamic. It’s tremendous emotional this yr. There’s nice explosive turns for all our characters, Voit is being very Voit-y. So it’s gonna be a very juicy one.”
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Felony Minds: Evolution, Season 19, TBA, Paramount+
—Further reporting by Brittany Sims