Criminal Minds — Season 1
All 22 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
CRIMINAL MINDS revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again.
- 02
The team investigates a series of fires set on a college campus.
- 03
Gideon suspects that a serial bomber attacking a small town is actually a disciple of Adrian Bale, his greatest nemesis.
- 04
The Behavioral Analysis Unit travels to San Diego to profile a rapist and murderer who commits his crimes in the middle of the day.
- 05
When the daughter of a U.S. District Attorney is kidnapped, the suspect attempts to take her twin sister as well.
- 06
The Behavioral Analysis Unit is called in to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight.
- 07
The FBI team attempts to catch a killer who preys on families while they are supposed to be away on vacation.
- 08
When an undercover cop is taken captive, the Behavioral Analysis Unit believes a serial killer is responsible.
- 09
Hotchner and Gideon must move quickly to save Elle and the other passengers taken hostage on a train by a delusional fellow passenger who threatens to kill them all.
- 10
Hotchner and his team investigate whether or not two high school students murdered in a small town may have been victims of a cult killing.
- 11
Hotchner and his team attempt to get inside the mind of a psychotic killer whose fantasies lead him to murder.
- 12
Gideon, Hotchner and their team investigate the suspicious kidnapping of a young girl from a local park.
- 13
Gideon, Hotchner and their team attempt to catch a suspect who has poisoned multiple residents of a small town.
- 14
The FBI profilers interview husband and wife serial killers two days before they are set to be executed.
- 15
Gideon, Hotchner and their team reopen the unsolved case of a serial killer who has attacked someone for the first time in 20 years.
- 16
The BAU team investigates the mass murder of five college students killed in a method similar to that used by a local Native American tribe in times of war long ago.
- 17
Gideon, Hotchner and their team investigate a series of killings that appear to be the work of a vigilante.
- 18
Dr. Reid falls for a Hollywood starlet at the center of a murder investigation.
- 19
Gideon, Hotchner and their team head to Mexico to aid in the investigation of a serial killer who preys on the elderly.
- 20
Gideon, Hotchner and their team race to catch a serial killer on the run across the South.
- 21
The CIA takes over the FBI field office when Gideon and the team are called in to profile a CIA mole.
- 22
Gideon, Hotchner and their team become pawns in the fantasy game of a psychopathic killer who challenges them to unravel a series of clues and riddles in order to save his next victim.
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