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Best Case Worst Case

169 | Joe Mantegna Faces A Familiar Serial Killer

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Criminal Minds’ Joe Mantegna takes us inside a series of Episodes where a very familiar face played a dangerous role on the show.

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0:00.0

No matter how hard we work on the side of justice, unfortunately, in the end, it can all come down to a jury.

0:12.0

And those losses where the jury came back with an outright of whittle still haunt me, literally haunt me.

0:21.0

I think it was vitally important for us to try to portray this organization as honestly as possible.

0:31.0

Oh, welcome to Best Case Worse Case. This is Jim Clemente Retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer-reducer on the amazing CVS show Criminal Minds.

0:47.0

And with me today, electronically is...

0:50.0

Everybody, it's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor-gem. I am still at XG East in Atlanta after a little bit of R&R.

1:00.0

But I definitely did not want to miss being able to interview with you our very special guest.

1:06.0

This is Joe Bantania, aka David Rossi from Criminal Minds.

1:10.0

Well, Joe, thank you for coming back. This is an amazing opportunity to talk to somebody who not only have I had the pleasure of working with for the last 13 years, but I've seen your work on TV.

1:23.0

And it's amazing. I mean, the body of work that you have produced over the last 50 years.

1:30.0

50 years, yeah.

1:31.0

50 years. It's amazing.

1:34.0

And it's so cool that you were the guy who CVS went to to fill that space and became David Rossi on the BAU.

1:47.0

The first Italian American member of the BAU on Criminal Minds, as I was the first Italian American member of the BAU in the FBI.

1:58.0

Perfect. Well, you were my role model.

2:00.0

And there you go. Well, I'm very excluded. I'm wondering, is there a pasta on the table, Jim? Did you schedule this interview?

2:08.0

Knowing I'd get a tap just to exclude me from the Italian.

2:11.0

No, I'm not just going to leave it though. You never know.

2:13.0

Well, you know, well, Fred, see, the fact is that if you were actually an FBI agent and cool, then you'd be in the room too with us.

2:21.0

Every matter of prosecutor across the country has just slept their head in disgust.

2:28.0

So what I played a few prosecutors actually, twice I played a prosecutor in a film of Madonna, a body of evidence.

2:35.0

I was also a prosecutor in the film Suspect with Cher.

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