Criminal Minds' Shemar Moore on Revisiting Morgan's Past: We Needed to Do It

by Joyce Eng

Will Morgan finally get closure on his painful past on Criminal Minds?

Shemar Moore thought he did six seasons ago when the BAU's resident tough guy revealed that he had been sexually abused by his mentor Carl Buford (Julius Tennon) as a pre-teen and confronted Buford to in a successful attempt to arrest him. But then came a pitch earlier this season from writers and producers.

"They came to me and said, 'We have a follow-up that we'd like to do. Would you be willing to go there again?'" Moore tells TVGuide.com. "Honestly, I expected it to be a one-time thing. [Season 2's] 'Profiler, Profiled' was a really good episode. I'm proud of it and I think it can still stand on its own, but I was definitely interested in exploring it again. I was like, 'Really? As long as we do it right.' Then I heard the pitch and I realized, of course, we needed to do it. And I think — I hope — we did it right."

Wednesday's episode (9/8c, CBS) will bring Morgan and the BAU back to his Chicago hometown on a seemingly routine case in which an unsub is targeting...

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