The essential episodes of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Garrett and his unit travel to Thailand when three American volunteers go missing during a trek to Bangkok. Once there, former colleague Clara Seger, a cultural anthropologist, helps them rush to gather evidence leading to the UnSub before a storm threatens to wash it away,
- 02
The team heads to Cairo to uncover who is behind a gas attack there on an Egyptian-American and the disappearance of the victim's friend.
- 03
The team travels to Japan to assist local law enforcement in investigating homicides made to look like suicides. Meanwhile, Mae encourages Clara to get out and enjoy herself.
- 04
The International Response Team heads to Paris to search for an UnSub targeting Americans who live there.
- 05
The International Response Team heads to Belize to search for a couple who disappears while on their honeymoon in what appears to be a targeted abduction.
- 06
The International Response Team travels to Morocco when a retired couple from Idaho is kidnapped while visiting the country on a cruise.
- 07
When a woman vacationing in Mexico with her family is the victim of foul play, the International Response Team investigates her husband as the prime suspect when he flees.
- 08
When an American college student working in Johannesburg is killed and his brother goes missing, the International Response Team suspects a gang could be behind both. Jack works the case with Lieutenant Ananda Doshi, a profiler he's worked with before who has an unorthodox style of investigation.
- 09
When American victims are found in different locations throughout Cuba, the International Response Team heads to the island nation to search for possible spree killers.
- 10
The IRT heads to Pamplona, Spain, for the running of the bulls, where the ears of a missing American tourist are found.
- 11
When the daughter of an American family visiting Haiti to adopt a child is kidnapped, the International Response Team travels to the island nation to try to find her. Also, Jack and his wife prepare to send their daughter to college.
- 12
Jack has to keep his cool when he comes across his son working undercover with the Mexican cartels.
- 13
The International Response Team is called to Taipei when it appears that an American committed a crime that's similar to an unsolved case in New York.
- 14
The International Response Team searches for the killer of a woman on a Yoga retreat in Nepal, and Monty goes on his first international mission with the team.
- 15
The International Response Team travels to Russia when an American ballerina is kidnapped, and Jack tangles with an ex-KBG agent who escaped from prison.
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