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Year: 2005  |  2006  |  2007  |  2008  |  2009  |  2010


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Extreme Aggressor

Original Air Date—22 September 2005
Supervisory Special Agent Jason Gideon returns to the Behavioral Analysis Unit after an extended medical leave, and BAU team leader Aaron Hotchner must secretly evaluate Gideon's performance. Gideon's first case upon his return involves tracking down an unsub (unknown subject) in Seattle before he kills his latest kidnap victim.
Next US airings:
Fri. Jan. 88:00 PMAETV
Sat. Jan. 912:01 AMAETV

Season 1, Episode 2: Compulsion

Original Air Date—28 September 2005
The team are called to an Arizona college when an arsonist who operates in a very unusual way kills a student.
Next US airings:
Fri. Jan. 89:00 PMAETV
Sat. Jan. 91:01 AMAETV

Season 1, Episode 3: Won't Get Fooled Again

Original Air Date—5 October 2005
A bomber in Palm Beach forces Gideon to confront an old adversary.
Next US airings:
Fri. Jan. 810:00 PMAETV
Sat. Jan. 92:01 AMAETV

Season 1, Episode 4: Plain Sight

Original Air Date—12 October 2005
A serial rapist-killer active in San Diego targeting middle class women glues his victims eyes open.
Next US airings:
Fri. Jan. 811:00 PMAETV
Sat. Jan. 93:01 AMAETV

Season 1, Episode 5: Broken Mirror

Original Air Date—19 October 2005
One of a lawyer's identical twin daughters is kidnapped. The kidnapper contacts him and demands ransom money. The team's investigation, however, reveals that he doesn't really want the money, but both girls.
Next US airings:
Tue. Jan. 128:00 PMAETV
Wed. Jan. 1312:01 AMAETV

Season 1, Episode 6: L.D.S.K.

Original Air Date—2 November 2005
The team chases a sniper in Des Plaines, Illinois who for some reason only wounds his victims.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Fox

Original Air Date—9 November 2005
The team attempts to catch a killer who preys on families while they are supposed to be on vacation.

Season 1, Episode 8: Natural Born Killer

Original Air Date—16 November 2005
The disappearance of an undercover officer in relation to a triple murder puts the BAU on the hunt of a possible serial killer who's turned it into a profession.

Season 1, Episode 9: Derailed

Original Air Date—23 November 2005
A paranoid schizophrenic takes other passengers on a train hostage, including Elle.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Popular Kids

Original Air Date—30 November 2005
The apparent death by Satanic ritual brings the BAU to a small town, and the profiling morphs into a search when it's learned that a teenage girl is missing.

Season 1, Episode 11: Blood Hungry

Original Air Date—14 December 2005
The BAU team must profile a delusional killer in rural Tennessee, and a family member protecting him puts a child at risk.

Season 1, Episode 12: What Fresh Hell?

Original Air Date—11 January 2006
The team must determine whether an abducted girl is the pawn in a bitter divorce, or something more sinister has happened.

Season 1, Episode 13: Poison

Original Air Date—18 January 2006
The apparent spiking of citizens of a town in New Jersey, puts the BAU on the trail of a poisoner who may not be done.

Season 1, Episode 14: Riding the Lightning

Original Air Date—25 January 2006
The team of investigators interview husband and wife serial killers with their execution date set for two days time.

Season 1, Episode 15: Unfinished Business

Original Air Date—1 March 2006
When a serial killer reappears, the team works with a retired BAU agent who just published a book about the perpetrator.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Tribe

Original Air Date—8 March 2006
The massacre of students using Native American rituals leads the team to consult the reservation policeman, who is also an activist.

Season 1, Episode 17: A Real Rain

Original Air Date—22 March 2006
The team travels to Manhattan to work with the NYPD in tracking and apprehending a serial killer who is intent on dispensing his own style of vigilante justice.

Season 1, Episode 18: Somebody's Watching

Original Air Date—29 March 2006
In town to conduct a seminar, Gideon and Reid become involved in a stalker case that has escalated to murder.

Season 1, Episode 19: Machismo

Original Air Date—12 April 2006
The BAU is requested to assist on a case in Mexico to determine if there is a serial killer in the town of a police captain who attended one of Gideon's seminars.

Season 1, Episode 20: Charm and Harm

Original Air Date—19 April 2006
Team members track a known "chameleon" serial killer across the southeastern U.S. trying to stop him before he kills again.

Season 1, Episode 21: Secrets and Lies

Original Air Date—3 May 2006
The BAU team investigates a CIA counter-terrorism unit to identify a traitor who had a fellow agent murdered and who is trying to find and kill the unit's informant, a Saudi woman with two children who are in hiding.

Season 1, Episode 22: The Fisher King: Part 1

Original Air Date—10 May 2006
Team members become pawns of a psychopathic killer.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Fisher King: Part 2

Original Air Date—20 September 2006
Elle's fate is unknown, and the unsub continues dropping clues as the team scrambles to identify him before another tragedy occurs.

Season 2, Episode 2: P911

Original Air Date—27 September 2006
The case of a missing boy placed up for auction online by a child pornographer draws the BAU team to work together with a former profiler who now works for the Innocent Images Unit to find the boy before the auction ends.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Perfect Storm

Original Air Date—4 October 2006
The BAU team investigates a series of murders in Florida, suspecting a partnership between two deviant persons with complementary personalities due to the nature of torture videos taken of the victims sent to the victims' parents.

Season 2, Episode 4: Psychodrama

Original Air Date—11 October 2006
The team flies to Los Angeles to pursue a bank robber who is quickly disintegrating into an enraged, sexually-motivated, spree killer.

Season 2, Episode 5: Aftermath

Original Air Date—18 October 2006
As the team assists in finding a rapist in Ohio, Elle's actions may compromise her career.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Boogeyman

Original Air Date—25 October 2006
While the team profiles a killer in a small town, Hotch must stay and deal with Elle who is beginning to unravel.

Season 2, Episode 7: North Mammon

Original Air Date—1 November 2006
Three soccer stars are abducted and the unsub plays games while the B.A.U. desperately tries to narrow down the suspects.

Season 2, Episode 8: Empty Planet

Original Air Date—8 November 2006
When a bomber targets Seattle, the BAU has to determine if it's a protest group or an individual with a much different agenda.

Season 2, Episode 9: The Last Word

Original Air Date—15 November 2006
Two serial killers send the BAU to St. Louis, and a new team member reports for duty.

Season 2, Episode 10: Lessons Learned

Original Air Date—22 November 2006
When a bomb is found at what was thought to be a drug lab BAU is brought in, and while Hotch conducts a state-side investigation Gideon matches wits with a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay.

Season 2, Episode 11: Sex, Birth, Death

Original Air Date—29 November 2006
A young man seeks out Reid for help regarding his fantasies of killing prostitutes, just as a serial killer starts brutalizing prostitutes near the capitol.

Season 2, Episode 12: Profiler, Profiled

Original Air Date—13 December 2006
Derek is arrested as a serial killer, and the team must delve into his secrets in order to free him.

Season 2, Episode 13: No Way Out

Original Air Date—17 January 2007
Gideon matches wits against the most prolific serial killer ever found, and the results are surprising.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Big Game

Original Air Date—4 February 2007
The slaughter of a wealthy couple just after a super bowl party puts the BAU on the trail of two killers.

Season 2, Episode 15: Revelations

Original Air Date—7 February 2007
Reid has been kidnapped, and the BAU's only things to profile are a house, a computer, and the live feed the kidnapper is sending to them.

Season 2, Episode 16: Fear and Loathing

Original Air Date—14 February 2007
The death of four African-American girls in a a predominately white community brings the BAU in to try to solve the case before racial tensions explode into violence.

Season 2, Episode 17: Distress

Original Air Date—21 February 2007
The seemingly random killings in a Houston ward bring the BAU down for the profile, but finding the pattern proves difficult.

Season 2, Episode 18: Jones

Original Air Date—8 February 2007
The BAU travels to New Orleans' French Quarter where a Jack the Ripper type serial killer is on the loose.

Season 2, Episode 19: Ashes and Dust

Original Air Date—21 March 2007
The team tries to identify a serial arsonist who has escalated to murder.

Season 2, Episode 20: Honor Among Thieves

Original Air Date—11 April 2007
The BAU finds themselves sparring with the Russian Mob, but even more puzzling is the behavior of one of the victims.

Season 2, Episode 21: Open Season

Original Air Date—2 May 2007
The team is called to investigate when bodies of missing people are discovered in the Idaho wilderness. This leads the team to determine that the subjects they are profiling have been hunting humans for sport.

Season 2, Episode 22: Legacy

Original Air Date—9 May 2007
A detective presents himself at the BAU, asking for help because the homeless in his area have begun to disappear.

Season 2, Episode 23: No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank

Original Air Date—16 May 2007
Frank is back on the hunt, and the team must protect Gideon while he profiles Frank again. Elsewhere, the team faces a review with some surprising results.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Doubt

Original Air Date—26 September 2007
The team tries to identify a serial killer based on a shaky profile with devastating consequences.

Season 3, Episode 2: In Name and Blood

Original Air Date—3 October 2007
With Gideon still missing, Hotchner puts in for a transfer and Prentiss tenders her resignation, but both are drawn back to work by a serial killer targeting women in a particularly heartless fashion.

Season 3, Episode 3: Scared to Death

Original Air Date—10 October 2007
The unit tracks a man working through his fears by working them out on others.

Season 3, Episode 4: Children of the Dark

Original Air Date—17 October 2007
The BAU travels to Denver, Colorado, where they investigate a series of home invasions that end in the murders of entire families. However, the case takes a turn when they begin to suspect that the killers were once-abused children.

Season 3, Episode 5: Seven Seconds

Original Air Date—24 October 2007
The unit works against the clock when a little girl is disappears in a mall, believing a serial killer has struck a second time and the first girl died within an hour of abduction.

Season 3, Episode 6: About Face

Original Air Date—31 October 2007
The team gains a new, familiar. member and some growing pains while trying to find the latest victim of a killer who puts up wanted posters of his victims before he abducts them.

Season 3, Episode 7: Identity

Original Air Date—7 November 2007
The unit has to deal with the militia when they're called to rural Montana to track a killer who's obsessed with his mentor.

Season 3, Episode 8: Lucky

Original Air Date—14 November 2007
A killer is abducting women and forcing them to eat fingers before killing them, Rossi plays with Morgan's head, and Garcia meets a man at the local coffee shop.

Season 3, Episode 9: Penelope

Original Air Date—21 November 2007
More is learned about Garcia while the team tries to find the persistent unsub threatening her.

Season 3, Episode 10: True Night

Original Air Date—28 November 2007
The team heads to LA to investigate a number of brutal killings which turn out to be related to the creator of a graphic novel, Jonny McHale.
Next US airings:
Tue. Jan. 51:00 PMAETV
Tue. Jan. 57:00 PMAETV

Season 3, Episode 11: Birthright

Original Air Date—12 December 2007
The team travels to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where women are being abducted, burned and mutilated. Soon it turns out that similar killings happened in the 1980s.

Season 3, Episode 12: 3rd Life

Original Air Date—9 January 2008
Two teenage girls go missing, one of which is soon found dead and freshly buried. The team soon suspects that the killings are related to the witness protection program.
Next US airings:
Fri. Jan. 81:00 PMAETV
Fri. Jan. 87:00 PMAETV

Season 3, Episode 13: Limelight

Original Air Date—23 January 2008
The auction of the contents of a self-storage facility in Philadelphia reveal a possible serial killer in the making.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 61:00 PMAETV
Wed. Jan. 67:00 PMAETV

Season 3, Episode 14: Damaged

Original Air Date—2 April 2008
Rossi determines that the case that haunts him has gone unsolved too long on its 20th anniversary, and the team horns in on his investigation despite his displeasure. Elsewhere, Reid and Hotchner interview a manipulative death-row convict.
Next US airings:
Tue. Jan. 121:00 PMAETV
Tue. Jan. 127:00 PMAETV

Season 3, Episode 15: A Higher Power

Original Air Date—9 April 2008
An unusually high suicide rate in Pittsburgh appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 131:00 PMAETV
Wed. Jan. 137:00 PMAETV

Season 3, Episode 16: Elephant's Memory

Original Air Date—16 April 2008
When a spree killing begins in a small Texas town, Reid's identification with the killer may endanger the girl with him, and cause Reid to put his own life in jeopardy.
Next US airings:
Fri. Jan. 151:00 PMAETV

Season 3, Episode 17: In Heat

Original Air Date—30 April 2008
The team travels to Miami in pursuit of a serial killer whose conflicted sexual identity fuels his crimes.

Season 3, Episode 18: The Crossing

Original Air Date—7 May 2008
Hotchner and Rossi profile a woman who murdered her husband as a favor to the D.A. in Boston, although she may not like their findings. Back at the office, J.J.'s personalization of a stalker case baffles the rest of the team.

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Season 3, Episode 19: Tabula Rasa

Original Air Date—14 May 2008
A suspected serial killer who's been in a coma since 2004 due to an accident when he was arrested wakes up 4 years later, with no memory of his past, not even his name. While he is tried in court, in which Hotch is testifying against him, the rest of the team investigates his past further.

Season 3, Episode 20: Lo-Fi

Original Air Date—21 May 2008
People who apparently have nothing in common are being shot randomly in New York City and the team must determine whether it is the work of a single shooter or a team.

Season 4


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Season 4, Episode 1: Mayhem

Original Air Date—24 September 2008
As the city is on high alert, the team begins to believe that they have made a mistake with the profile and that everything the terrorists have done so far may in fact just have been diversion for something even bigger.

Season 4, Episode 2: The Angel Maker

Original Air Date—1 October 2008
On the anniversary of a serial killer's execution, a murder spree which appears to be connected to him begins and the team must try and understand his mind in order to stop it.
Next US airings:
Sun. Jan. 37:00 PMAETV

Season 4, Episode 3: Minimal Loss

Original Air Date—8 October 2008
Reid and Prentiss, having gone undercover into an underground cult to investigate child abuse, get trapped inside the compound when a federal raid on it goes bad.
Next US airings:
Tue. Jan. 58:00 PMAETV
Wed. Jan. 612:01 AMAETV

Season 4, Episode 4: Paradise

Original Air Date—22 October 2008
A serial killer targeting couples stages their bodies in a way to make their deaths look like car accidents.

Season 4, Episode 5: Catching Out

Original Air Date—29 October 2008
A man is jumping trains along Highway 99, brutally killing couples in their homes whenever he stops.

Season 4, Episode 6: The Instincts

Original Air Date—4 November 2008
A child abduction case in Las Vegas causes Reid to have strange nightmares which appear to be connected to an event in his past.

Season 4, Episode 7: Memoriam

Original Air Date—12 November 2008
Driven by his nightmares, Reid stays behind in Las Vegas to find his father in order to find out the truth about Riley Jenkins' murder.

Season 4, Episode 8: Masterpiece

Original Air Date—19 November 2008
A serial killer turns himself in and challenges the team to find five people he has hidden somewhere before they die.

Season 4, Episode 9: 52 Pickup

Original Air Date—26 November 2008
A greatly sadistic serial killer who disembowels women and forces them to clean it up before killing them proves difficult to catch thanks to his social charm and simple, yet clever, disguises.

Season 4, Episode 10: Brothers in Arms

Original Air Date—10 December 2008
Morgan, being an ex-cop, takes it personal when a serial killer targets police officers in Phoenix, Arizona.

Season 4, Episode 11: Normal

Original Air Date—17 December 2008
A serial killer known as the Road Warrior is gunning down blonde women on roads in Orange County, California and the BAU suspect that the victims are surrogates and that it's only a matter of time before he kills the real one.

Season 4, Episode 12: Soul Mates

Original Air Date—14 January 2009
To his Sarasota Florida neighbors, William Harris is a model family man and upstanding citizen. However, he is taken into custody on suspicions of being the murderer of young women, accusations which followed him from Atlanta, where his family was forced to moved from because of the previous accusations. Harris denies any involvement and is confident that his wife can (and will) post the $5 million bail as she does not believe he had anything to do with the murders. The victims are held for two days before they are strangled to death. The victims are also alternately a white woman then a black woman. The latest possible victim is Missy Dewalt, who has been missing for a few hours. However, her dead body is found within the day, the time of death being when Harris was in custody. Based on a secret blog found deleted from Harris' computer and Missy's death, the BAU are certain that Harris is the murderer but has an accomplice. Harris' daughter, Andrea, grows suspicious of his involvement in the murders and sees the signs provided to her by the BAU of her father's possible accomplice.

Season 4, Episode 13: Bloodline

Original Air Date—21 January 2009
A family consisting of two parents and their son break into a home, kill the parents and kidnap their daughter. As the investigation proceeds, the BAU team begin to suspect that what they're dealing with is bigger than they thought.

Season 4, Episode 14: Cold Comfort

Original Air Date—11 February 2009
A serial killer in the Olympia, Washington area has abducted four blonde, twenty-something women. When the third victim is found embalmed, the BAU are called in and suspect that the embalming is a way for him to spend more time with them.

Season 4, Episode 15: Zoe's Reprise

Original Air Date—18 February 2009
A copycat serial killer is recreating murder techniques used by famous killers from the past.

Season 4, Episode 16: Pleasure Is My Business

Original Air Date—25 February 2009
A high priced call girl that is killing her clients must be found and stopped.

Season 4, Episode 17: Demonology

Original Air Date—11 March 2009
Prentiss learns from an old friend, John Cooley, that their mutual friend, Matthew Benton, just died from a heart attack. Prentiss had not seen either man in several years, both for different reasons. John also mentions that Matthew thought he was going to be killed just like "T. Valentine". In searching, Garcia does find someone matching that name in the area who recently died from dehydration. There are similarities between the two deaths but no medical rationale for tying the two together as murders. A third person in the area then dies in a similar way but again no medical indication of an unnatural death or rationale tying the death to the first two. However, Prentiss and Rossi, in particular within the team, are certain the three deaths are related and that they are indeed murders. They have to tread lightly and carefully since the families of the deceased refuse to speak to the FBI - especially Matthew's family who know, and do not like, Prentiss - and since there is no official case as the police have not sanctioned one. The investigation gets more complicated for the team when they find who they believe is the murderer.

Season 4, Episode 18: Omnivore

Original Air Date—18 March 2009
After being inactive for 10 years, Hotch's first BAU case, an elusive serial killer known as the Reaper, starts killing again.
Next US airings:
Sun. Jan. 108:00 PMAETV
Mon. Jan. 1112:01 AMAETV

Season 4, Episode 19: House on Fire

Original Air Date—25 March 2009
When the kill count of a mass-murdering arsonist active in a small town reaches 31, the BAU are called in.

Season 4, Episode 20: Conflicted

Original Air Date—8 April 2009
Young, male co-eds on spring break are being raped and murdered, presumably by a man and a woman working together. The BAU are called in and suspect a shy hotel cleaner and a receptionist.

Season 4, Episode 21: A Shade of Gray

Original Air Date—22 April 2009
An AMBER alert is activated for a young boy in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and the BAU suspect it to be the work of a pedophile who has abducted and killed two other boys.
Next US airings:
Sat. Jan. 29:00 PMCBS

Season 4, Episode 22: The Big Wheel

Original Air Date—29 April 2009
The team tracks down a highly obsessive-compulsive killer who targets blonde women and leaves messages to the police asking them to stop him.
Next US airings:
Sun. Jan. 38:00 PMAETV
Mon. Jan. 412:01 AMAETV

Season 4, Episode 23: Roadkill

Original Air Date—6 May 2009
A serial killer in Bend, Oregon is deliberately killing people by running them over with his car.

Season 4, Episode 24: Amplification

Original Air Date—13 May 2009
The BAU co-work with the U.S. Army to find the perpetrator behind an anthrax attack on a park in Annapolis, Maryland.

Season 4, Episode 25: To Hell... And Back

Original Air Date—20 May 2009
The team head to Canada to investigate the disappearances of a number of homeless people, junkies and prostitutes and uncover something horrific.
Next US airings:
Sun. Jan. 39:00 PMAETV
Mon. Jan. 41:01 AMAETV

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Faceless, Nameless

Original Air Date—23 September 2009
A man is threatening to kill a doctor's son and is killing a man a day until he is successful. Meanwhile, Hotch's absence is noticed by Prentiss.
Next US airings:
Sun. Jan. 1010:00 PMCBS

Season 5, Episode 2: Haunted

Original Air Date—30 September 2009
Darrin Call, a psychotic, suffers a breakdown in a pharmacy in Kentucky and stabs 3 people to death before running off and the BAU are called in to catch him.

Season 5, Episode 3: Reckoner

Original Air Date—7 October 2009
A hitman targeting people in some way guilty of children-related crimes brings the BAU to Rossi's home town.

Season 5, Episode 4: Hopeless

Original Air Date—14 October 2009
The BAU go after a pack of killers who mercilessly beat their victims to death simply for the thrill of violence.

Season 5, Episode 5: Cradle to Grave

Original Air Date—21 October 2009
The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them.

Season 5, Episode 6: The Eyes Have It

Original Air Date—4 November 2009
The BAU team tracks a serial killer who keeps the eyes of his victims as souvenirs.

Season 5, Episode 7: The Performer

Original Air Date—11 November 2009
The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seems to align with the tour schedule of a rock star.

Season 5, Episode 8: Outfoxed

Original Air Date—18 November 2009
While tracking a family annihilator, the BAU must seek advice from "The Fox," one of the most horrific killers from the team's past who has an ominous message for Agent Hotchner.

Season 5, Episode 9: 100

Original Air Date—25 November 2009
The BAU team races to help Hotchner find The Reaper and save his family before it's too late.

Season 5, Episode 10: The Slave of Duty

Original Air Date—9 December 2009
While Agent Hotchner takes a leave of absence from the BAU, the team must regroup to solve a home invasion case.

Season 5, Episode 11: Retaliation

Original Air Date—16 December 2009
The BAU must profile a criminal's past in order to catch him after he escapes from custody and begins a killing spree.

Season 5, Episode 12: The Uncanny Valley

Original Air Date—13 January 2010
An unusual personal obsession is at the center of a BAU abduction case. Meanwhile, Hotch struggles with his return to work.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 139:00 PMCBS

Season 5, Episode 13: Risky Business

Original Air Date—20 January 2010
A rash of startling teen suicides in a small Wyoming town is the focus of a BAU investigation.

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