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.
Writer: Simon Mirren
Air date: 2008-09-24
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: When an SUV carrying members of the team explodes, the rest of the team fights to save them and catch the terrorists responsible for the bombing.
Writer: Dan Dworkin
Air date: 2008-10-01
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: A series of murders is linked to a serial killer executed a year earlier, and the BAU team must find the link between the dead killer and the new spate of crimes.
Writer: Andrew Wilder
Air date: 2008-10-08
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: Reid and Prentiss are taken hostage when they go under cover to investigate possible child abuse at an underground cult.
Writer: Debra J. Fisher
Air date: 2008-10-22
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The BAU joins the manhunt to catch a serial killer who conceals the manner of his crimes by staging car accidents.
Writer: Oanh Ly
Air date: 2008-10-29
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The BAU investigates a series of murders that appear to be connected to a killer who jumps trains and chooses his victims based on their proximity to the railway.
Writer: Chris Mundy
Air date: 2008-11-05
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: While investigating the abduction of a young boy in Las Vegas, Dr. Reid starts to have dreams that might help reveal buried memories from his childhood.
Writer: Dan Dworkin
Air date: 2008-11-12
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: As Reid's investigation of a young boy's murder in Las Vegas continues, he discovers possible connections to his own past.
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
Air date: 2008-11-19
Runtime: 39 min
Overview: When a narcissistic psychopath confesses he has killed seven people and more will die, the team must locate his latest victims before it is too late.
Writer: Breen Frazier
Air date: 2008-11-26
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: Agents Prentiss and Todd go undercover to profile a serial killer who uses skills of persuasion to lure women into danger.
Writer: Holly Harold
Air date: 2008-12-10
Runtime: 39 min
Overview: The BAU team hunts for a serial killer who targets members of the police department in Phoenix, Ariz., a case that hits close to home for Morgan, a former cop.
Writer: Andrew Wilder
Air date: 2008-12-17
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The team investigates a serial killer who shoots luxury car owners on Southern California's freeways.
Writer: Debra J. Fisher
Air date: 2009-01-14
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: The BAU team suspects a member of an affluent community in Atlanta is responsible for the disappearance of a local young woman and that the suspect may have worked with an accomplice
Writer: Mark Bruner
Air date: 2009-01-21
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The BAU team becomes involved in the case of a family working together to abduct young girls.
Writer: Dan Dworkin
Air date: 2009-02-11
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The mother of an abducted child works with the BAU to apprehend a serial killer who kidnaps, murders, and embalms his victims.
Writer: Oanh Ly
Air date: 2009-02-18
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The team pursues a copycat serial killer who is recreating the techniques used by past famous murderers.
Writer: Breen Frazier
Air date: 2009-02-25
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: The team searches for a female suspect who uses her professional skills as a high class call girl to lure and kill high-powered executives.
Writer: Chris Mundy
Air date: 2009-03-11
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: Agent Prentiss has a personal connection to one of the victims in a series of deaths with religious overtones.
Writer: Andrew Wilder
Air date: 2009-03-18
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: Agent Hotchner revisits the first case he worked at the BAU when details come forth that one of the deadliest serial killers in New England's history has struck again after a 10-year hiatus.
Writer: Holly Harold
Air date: 2009-03-25
Runtime: 39 min
Overview: The BAU team must track down a serial arsonist who instills fear in a small town by setting fire to community meeting places and killing several residents in the process.
Writer: Rick Dunkle
Air date: 2009-04-08
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: The team travels to Fort Lauderdale during spring break to find a serial killer who is targeting co-eds on vacation.
Writer: Debra J. Fisher
Air date: 2009-04-22
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: When profiling a series of child abductions and murders, the team discovers that one of the cases may not be the handiwork of the serial killer they apprehended.
Writer: Simon Mirren
Air date: 2009-04-29
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: When the team is sent a videotape from a serial killer detailing one of his crimes, they discover a hidden message asking them to help him stop his murderous ways.
Writer: Dan Dworkin
Air date: 2009-05-06
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: An unsub who kills with his car is the subject of a BAU investigation.
Writer: Oanh Ly
Air date: 2009-05-13
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: When a new type of chemical warfare is released into the open air, the BAU must act quickly to find the source before any more innocent people are exposed.
Writer: Chris Mundy
Air date: 2009-05-20
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: The BAU tracks a serial killer who chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border into Canada, and an agent's life is in peril.
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
Air date: 2009-05-20
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The BAU tracks a serial killer who chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border into Canada, and an agent's life is in peril.
