what episode does jason gideon die in criminal minds
"Nelson's Sparrow"
title: Jason Gideon text: Jason Gideon Jason Gideon was a fictional character in the CBS crime drama "Criminal Minds", portrayed by Mandy Patinkin. Gideon was a Senior Supervisory Special Agent and the unit chief of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, and has appeared from the series' pilot episode "Extreme Aggressor," which was originally broadcast on September 22, 2005. He is also portrayed as a younger man by Ben Savage, in flashbacks. Mandy Patinkin abruptly left the show in 2007, just as his character abruptly quit from the BAU, due to emotional distress. In 2012, Patinkin opened up about why he left stating that the title: Jason Gideon text: named Donnie Mallick (Arye Gross), which prompts the BAU team to investigate Gideon's murder. During the flashbacks focusing on a young version of him for the episode which show him working at the BAU in 1978, he is played by Ben Savage. Jason Gideon Jason Gideon was a fictional character in the CBS crime drama "Criminal Minds", portrayed by Mandy Patinkin. Gideon was a Senior Supervisory Special Agent and the unit chief of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, and has appeared from the series' pilot episode "Extreme Aggressor," which was originally broadcast on September 22, 2005. He is also portrayed title: Jason Gideon text: he did not know his destination or how he would know when he had reached it. He then left the diner and drove off, as his voiceover off-screen narrated the final lines of his letter (also marking his very final words), "I guess I'm just looking for it again. For the belief I had back in college. The belief I had when I first met Sarah and it all seemed so right. The belief in happy endings." In the Season 10 episode "Nelson's Sparrow," Gideon was murdered off-screen, having been shot dead at a close range by a serial killer title: Jason Gideon text: in his abilities when his decision to release the unsub resulted in the deaths of both the unsub and a young woman. As a result of his actions, Aaron Hotchner was suspended, which was the final straw for Gideon. At the end of the following episode, "In Name and Blood," Reid visited Gideon's cabin but found only his gun and badge, along with a letter meant for Reid in which Gideon explained his desire to regain his belief in happy endings. Gideon was last seen entering a Nevada diner; asked by a waitress where he was going, he replied that title: Jason Gideon text: in Jane, who refuses to go with Frank. Gideon shows up and tells Frank about Sarah, Frank's mother, whom Gideon claims was a whore. As Gideon and Hotch describe Frank's mother, JJ and Reid locate Tracy, who is bound and gagged but alive and unharmed. Frank convinces Jane to come back to him, and the two commit suicide. Later, Tracy calls Gideon and thanks him for saving her once again. Gideon began to lose confidence in his profiling skills after Frank Breitkopf murdered his girlfriend, Sarah Jacobs. During his final case in Arizona ("Doubt," season 3), he further lost faith