Criminal Minds (2005)

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2005 - 2025 18 Seasons 354 Episodes 42 min Returning Series

Crime Drama Mystery

"To catch a criminal, you have to think like one."

An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.

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Episodes

Extreme Aggressor

S1E1

After a fourth woman goes missing in as many months, the team is brought in to track down the guy before he kidnaps again. Hotch is asked to secretly evaluate Gideon to see if he is ready to work full time again.

Sep 22, 2005

Compulsion

S1E2

The team of investigators tries to capture a serial arsonist who has been terrorizing a college campus.

Sep 28, 2005

Won't Get Fooled Again

S1E3

Gideon and his team track down a copycat bomber terrorizing a quiet community.

Oct 5, 2005

Plain Sight

S1E4

The BAU team travels to San Diego to stop a rapist and murderer who commits his crimes in the middle of the day.

Oct 12, 2005

Broken Mirror

S1E5

The BAU investigates the kidnapping of a U.S. District Attorney's daughter and determines the kidnapper isn't seeking money -- he's after her twin sister.

Oct 19, 2005

L.D.S.K.

S1E6

The BAU is asked to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight, and the team works with local law enforcement officers to recreate one of the shootings.

Nov 2, 2005

The Fox

S1E7

The BAU profiles a serial killer who takes families hostage and lives with them as a father figure during what is supposed to be their family vacations.

Nov 9, 2005

Natural Born Killer

S1E8

When an undercover cop in Baltimore involved in a mob investigation goes missing, the BAU believes a serial killer rather than organized crime has something to do with his disappearance. The probe leads to several unsolved missing persons cases.

Nov 16, 2005

Derailed

S1E9

Elle, along with many others, is held hostage on a train in Texas by a paranoid schizophrenic who is convinced that the U.S. government is monitoring him. Hotchner and Gideon are forced to play into the man's fantasy to save the people he has taken hostage.

Nov 23, 2005

The Popular Kids

S1E10

The team investigates the death of one teen, and the disappearance of another , which may be linked to a satanic ritual.

Nov 30, 2005

Blood Hungry

S1E11

While Gideon is stuck at the office on crutches, the rest of the team travels to Tennessee to track down a killer who disembowels his victims and supposedly eats their organs.

Dec 14, 2005

What Fresh Hell?

S1E12

When a young girl is abducted in broad daylight from a playground in a seemingly safe neighborhood, the BAU team initially believes her father is responsible. When he is able to provide an alibi, the team is forced to look for clues where the girl lives to determine who is really responsible.

Jan 11, 2006

Poison

S1E13

The team travels to New Jersey where several people have been poisoned, one of them fatally with LSD, ten times more potent than the street version.

Jan 18, 2006

Riding the Lightning

S1E14

After interviewing a couple on death row for serial murders, Gideon suspects that the woman is actually innocent. But since she's set to be executed in two days, it's a race against time to prove it.

Jan 25, 2006

Unfinished Business

S1E15

A serial killer reappears after 20 years of silence and contacts the BAU with the promise he will kill another victim in the next five days.

Mar 1, 2006

The Tribe

S1E16

The BAU team believes a dangerous cult may be responsible for the mass murders of five college students in an empty house.

Mar 8, 2006

A Real Rain

S1E17

The BAU unit travels to NYC to investigate a series of murders that appears to have been committed by a vigilante conducting revenge on former criminals who have been released by the justice system.

Mar 22, 2006