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: Chris Mundy
Air date: 2009-09-23
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: As Rossi, Morgan and JJ profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor, Prentiss realizes that Hotch is missing.
Writer: Erica Messer
Air date: 2009-09-30
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The BAU must determine what caused a disturbed man to murder several people at a pharmacy before he harms anyone else.
Writer: Dan Dworkin
Air date: 2009-10-07
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The BAU investigates a case in Rossi's hometown that involves both his personal and professional life.
Writer: Chris Mundy
Air date: 2009-10-14
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: A group of suspects with a pack mentality who kill for the thrill of it are the subjects of a BAU manhunt.
Writer: Breen Frazier
Air date: 2009-10-21
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them.
Writer: Oanh Ly
Air date: 2009-11-04
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The BAU team tracks a serial killer who keeps the eyes of his victims as souvenirs.
Writer: Holly Harold
Air date: 2009-11-11
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The BAU team investigates the mystery behind a trail of murders that all seem to align with the tour schedule of a rock star.
Writer: Simon Mirren
Air date: 2009-11-18
Runtime: 39 min
Overview: The BAU team is tracking down a family annihilator, but needs to take a break from the case to get advice from "The Fox", who is an horrific killer from the team's past. "The Fox" surprises the team with a ominous message for Agent Hotchner.
Writer: Erica Messer
Air date: 2009-11-25
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The BAU team races to help Hotchner find The Reaper and save his family before it's too late.
Writer: Rick Dunkle
Air date: 2009-12-09
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The team needs to reunite in order to solve a home invasion case, while Agent Hotchner may have to leave the team.
Writer: Erica Messer
Air date: 2009-12-16
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The BAU is called upon to profile the past of an ex-convict and help stop him after he escapes from custody and embarks on a violent killing spree.
Writer: Breen Frazier
Air date: 2010-01-13
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: An unusual personal obsession is at the center of a BAU abduction case. Meanwhile, Hotch struggles with his return to work.
Writer: Jim Clemente
Air date: 2010-01-20
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: A rash of startling teen suicides in a small Wyoming town is the focus of a BAU investigation.
Writer: Oanh Ly
Air date: 2010-02-03
Runtime: 39 min
Overview: The BAU follows the mental decline of a con artist whose schemes have become so complicated that he begins to eliminate the people involved in them.
Writer: Jess Prosser
Air date: 2010-02-10
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: A serial killer who targets random victims in highly visible places to create a sense of public fear is the subject of a BAU investigation.
Writer: Erica Messer
Air date: 2010-03-03
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The BAU is called by local authorities in Ashburn, Virginia, to profile a predator who may have been abducting children for at least eight years.
Writer: Kimberly A. Harrison
Air date: 2010-03-10
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: A truck driver is kidnapping women and disposing of them in random locations and the BAU must find out his motive in order to catch him.
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
Air date: 2010-04-07
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: The BAU team travels to San Francisco to investigate the murders of several homeless men and teams up with a separate group of BAU operatives who are working another case they think is connected.
Writer: Victor De Jesus
Air date: 2010-04-14
Runtime: 39 min
Overview: The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants attempting to make safe passage into the U.S.
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
Air date: 2010-05-05
Runtime: 39 min
Overview: The BAU team must profile a serial killer covered in tattoos who commits suicide, but leaves clues to the whereabouts of his last victim.
Writer: Rick Dunkle
Air date: 2010-05-12
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: Garcia plays a crucial role in a case when she travels to Alaska with the BAU team to investigate the murders of several members of a small town.
Writer: Breen Frazier
Air date: 2010-05-19
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: The BAU team profiles a serial killer who uses the Internet as his hunting ground, bringing a whole meaning to the term "social networking".
Writer: Erica Messer
Air date: 2010-05-26
Runtime: 41 min
Overview: A series of rolling blackouts in the city of Los Angeles lures a serial killer out of hiding, giving him renewed opportunities to continue his killing spree.
