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Speaking with John Henson about “Criminal Minds,” A.J. Cook addressed the technical terms required in scripts that are necessary to the jobs being portrayed on screen, like unsub. Cook revealed that term alone inspired endless questions from fans.
“People ask me that all the time, ‘What does unsub mean?’ It means unidentified subject — the killer, basically. So that’s a favorite one that we say at least 50 times per episode,” she told Henson in their interview on Henson’s “Watch This!,” which ran from 2005 to 2007. Cook revealed in the same interview that the subject matter and dictionary’s worth of words and phrases required for “Criminal Minds” to feel authentic enough appealed to her because she’d always been interested in psychology.
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“I’ve always been a big fan of psychology. That’s always been so interesting to me,” she said, revealing she would profile strangers in Los Angeles for fun. The unsub term is likely far more widely known today, in part thanks to its constant use on “Criminal Minds,” a series that ended in 2020 but returned only two short years later in the form of “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” where Rossi and his team continue chasing down unsubs.
