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Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4
Year: 2005  |  2006  |  2007  |  2008  |  unknown


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.

Season 1, Episode 2: Compulsion

Original Air Date—28 September 2005
Jason Gideon's FBI profile team is called to an Arizona College campus where students and teachers fall victim to arson. However the pyromaniac profile doesn't quite apply: the culprit didn't make sure (s)he could enjoy the crimes by observing the victims perishing. Dr. Spencer Reid finds a better way to fit the facts with a rarer serial killer logic: a 'religious' compulsion, in this case both triggered and given form by a boundless obsession with the number three- if this theory holds true a third, possibly triple, arson is at hand...

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.

Season 1, Episode 4: Plain Sight

Original Air Date—12 October 2005
The team profiles the Tommy Killer, who rapes and murders women forced to watch him in upper class houses, where he destroys status symbols. As soon as the press notices that detail, he makes a habit of quoting 17th century poetic ballads on Death conversing with its victims. They are confident enough about their profile of a resentful, skilled white middle class man to rule out a less well-organized black attacker but arrest the suspect to make Tommy manifest himself, alas by an untraceable phone call- which precisely provides a crucial clue.

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.

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.
Next US airings:
Fri. Oct. 1711:00 PMAETV
Sat. Oct. 183:00 AMAETV

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 team races against the clock to rescue a boy being sold by a pedophile.

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.

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Season 3, Episode 2: In Birth and Death

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.

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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, Johnny McHale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Season 4, Episode 4: Paradise

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