‘Criminal Minds’ season 10, episode 5 spoilers: Thomas Gibson on big family episode

Thomas Gibson is directing Wednesday night’s new episode of “Criminal Minds,” and clearly, he felt that this was the perfect opportunity to get the whole family involved in some way. You’ve got two of his sons and his daughter being involved in production in some way, and he is also the one behind the camera as the episode’s director.

So what is the whole setup for this crazy story? Speaking to TVLine, the actor did his part to tease the story with the following message:

“We’ve got a guy abducting kids annually on Halloween for some strange reason, and after we find the kid that he’s released on the 30th we fly to San Diego on the 31st to keep him from grabbing another one. We kick into high gear and do everything we can to find this child — who happens to be best friends with a kid played by my son Travis. My daughter [Agatha, 10] is in it as well, as a trick-or-treater, and my oldest son, J.P. [15], who’s a budding filmmaker, shadowed me during prep and shooting and post, and also wrote a song on the radio that our bad guy’s listening to while he’s medicating himself.”

Gibson’s challenge is making this episode still feel normal, without it looking like there are just so many different characters shoe-horned in here. What we can say is that there are going to be many creepy notes in here, and while Hotch will have some moments in the spotlight, he turns out to be quite the giving director when it comes to some of his co-stars as well.

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