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Cameron Luntz is the commander of the SBPD SWAT team and steps in as a hostage negotiator when Phillip Stubbins takes several people hostage in the Santa Barbara National Savings Bank. He has 26 years of experience and is an expert when it comes to human psychology and conditioning. He is certainly not short on confidence and his condescension towards officers lower in the law enforcement hierarchy offends Lassiter. Shawn has his own reason for not liking Luntz, as he and Juliet recently started dating after meeting each other at a police district conference.

Despite his distaste for Shawn's antics, Luntz sends him into the bank with the pizzas he had promised Stubbins to make sure hostage Michael Lenhart doesn't lapse into a diabetic coma. This backfires when Shawn intentionally has himself taken hostage and takes over the negotiation from the inside. Luntz pretends to agree with the outrageous demands Shawn draws up in an attempt to make Stubbins drop his guard and have him taken out by a sniper (which is another plan thwarted by Shawn). Once Shawn has Stubbins release him as a sign of cooperation, Luntz decides to go in with tear gas. This sets the hostages free, and Luntz subsequently enters the sewer system after having been convinced by Shawn that the criminal manipulating Stubbins, Morgan Phelps, escaped into it. This makes him smell to high heaven and look like a fool, which means that (just like Shawn intended) he has to cancel his date with Juliet that night and Lassiter can get all the credit for catching Phelps.

Trivia[]

  • Luntz is so good that he can deduce only from the timbre of Phil's voice and his non-use of contractions that he's a middle child.
  • He was named after the character Alan Ruck (Phil) is most famous for portraying, Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
  • When Shawn gets himself taken hostage, Luntz sarcastically says "terrific". This is a word often used by the character Bill Lumbergh in Office Space, who was also portrayed by Gary Cole.
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