Gideon does not know at all; he just told the killer that to buy himself time. Then he gets inside the killer’s head, rattles him and gets the upper hand. “I’ll tell you what I do know about a stutter: I know how to provoke one.”

Gideon lied to the Footpath Killer and the used his knowledge about stuttering to cause anxiety and nervousness in that killer which worsened the stutter so much that the Footpath Killer could barely speak. And when the Footpath Killer was distracted Gideon managed to disarm and tackle him.

However, Gideon did not truly know the answer but was merely trying to provoke a stutter in order to distract the killer. The killer forced Gideon down a hall and into a small room full of pictures of his many victims, an amount that was more than law enforcement had found.

In ” Plain Sight “, Gideon is a major reason that the team is able to catch ” The Tommy Killer “, a serial rapist and killer who would glue his victims’ eyes open. Gideon discovers that this serial killer is a phone technician and glues his victims’ eyes open because he feels invisible.

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