New article about the upcoming season of "Criminal Minds" from The Los Angeles Times
By Jon Caramanica, Special to The Times
One suspects, in the current climate, that the actor Adoni Maropis views the particulars of his visage as both blessing and curse. He's got a hard brow and even harder jaw; piercing eyes; crisp, bushy eyebrows; a spherical, solid bald head; and a skin tone that allows him to play a range of ethnic backgrounds.
In other words, he makes a great terrorist. On "24" last year, he played Abu Fayed, the stern, persistent, always-angry head of a terror cell and significant antagonist to Jack Bauer.
So when he appears midway through the fourth-season premiere of "Criminal Minds," 9 p.m. Wednesday on CBS, as a smiling, warm-hearted ambulance driver who arrives to help a wounded federal agent, it's difficult not to feel a little impending dread. But this show routinely subverts its mystery by telegraphing its moves way in advance -- having Maropis in this role was just one tell among many.
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