On August 11, 2016, Gibson was suspended (after appearing in two episodes of the 12th season of Criminal Minds) following an on-set altercation with a writer-producer; he apologized for the confrontation in a statement, claiming the dispute arose from creative differences in an episode he was directing. Strauss becomes more prominent in season eight. When JJ leaves the BAU for a promotion to a position at the Pentagon, Garcia and Hotch take up her responsibilities as media liaison, and Garcia retains this position when JJ returns to the BAU as a profiler. It was later revealed that the case involved three young children whose parents had been murdered in a possible home-invasion case that had remained unsolved. Since 2014, Vangsness has co-written four episodes of Criminal Minds. Played by Cade Owens, Jack Hotchner is the son of series regular Aaron Hotchner, his first appearance being in "The Fox". In the season seven premiere "It Takes a Village", it was revealed that Ashley transferred to the Domestic Trafficking Task Force, which is led by Andi Swann. She quickly realizes the job is not for her and resumes her job as a technical analyst. In season two it was explained that after the death of his father when he was ten, Derek struggled somewhat: youthful fighting earned him a juvenile offender record. Mark told Buzzfeed that it was his daughter, who's a big fan of the show, who encouraged him to take the role. She and Matthew Gubler's character have a very interesting, very complicated but very loving relationship. He is an actor, known for Seinfeld (1989), General Hospital (1963) and Dexter (2006). She was introduced to the show because Shemar Moore, the actor who portrays Morgan, had requested that his character get a romantic partner. In "The Replicator", Erin Strauss is killed in the line of duty when Curtis poisons her with spiked wine and leaves her to die. In 2005, he was cast as Supervisory Special Agent Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner, the unit chief of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), in the series Criminal Minds. The team travels to upstate New York to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances. Strauss indirectly helps defeat Curtis post mortem when Rossi uses her sobriety chip to escape his trap, leaving him to possibly die in an explosion. [4] His mother was a social worker, and his father was a lawyer and liberal Democrat who served in the South Carolina state Senate and House. After an introduction, he never shakes hands. In 1992, Gibson made his movie debut in Ron Howard's Far and Away, in which he portrayed Stephen Chase. He was unable to live with this knowledge though he claims he tried; he said "the weight of knowing what happened was just too much". Later, one of the skeletons found is identified as Mary Ann and the connection between her and Lyle is traced, to which JJ and Cruz tell him about it, assuming that he killed her out of rage, and then moved on to the second victim because she was physically similar to Mary Ann.