Gideon in “Unfinished Business”

Gideon

[writing the first lines of his letter in voiceover] I knew it would be you who came to the cabin to check on me. You must be frightened. I apologize for that. I never meant to cause you any pain. And I also never envisioned writing this letter. I've searched for a satisfactory explanation for what I'm doing. All I've come up with is, "A profiler needs to have solid footing." I don't think I do anymore. The world confuses me, the cruelty, indifference, tragedy. When my dear friend Sarah was murdered, it tore a hole in me. And I truly believe the way to hand the pain was to get back to our work as quickly as possible. Get on to helping somebody else. I thought I could handle Sarah's murder. Work through it. Remember the very first case we had after? It was on a college campus.