Criminal Minds

Episodes

Season 1 · 22 episodes

• E1 Extreme Aggressor
  Sep 22, 2005 45 min

  After a fourth woman goes missing in as many months, the team is brought in to track down the guy before he kidnaps again. Hotch is asked to secretly evaluate Gideon to see if he is ready to work full time again.

• E2 Compulsion
  Sep 28, 2005 45 min

  The team of investigators tries to capture a serial arsonist who has been terrorizing a college campus.

• E3 Won't Get Fooled Again
  Oct 5, 2005 45 min

  Gideon and his team track down a copycat bomber terrorizing a quiet community.

• E4 Plain Sight
  Oct 12, 2005 45 min

  The BAU team travels to San Diego to stop a rapist and murderer who commits his crimes in the middle of the day.

• E5 Broken Mirror
  Oct 19, 2005 45 min

  The BAU investigates the kidnapping of a U.S. District Attorney's daughter and determines the kidnapper isn't seeking money -- he's after her twin sister.

• E6 L.D.S.K.
  Nov 2, 2005 45 min

  The BAU is asked to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight, and the team works with local law enforcement officers to recreate one of the shootings.

• E7 The Fox
  Nov 9, 2005 45 min

  The BAU profiles a serial killer who takes families hostage and lives with them as a father figure during what is supposed to be their family vacations.

• E8 Natural Born Killer
  Nov 16, 2005 45 min

  When an undercover cop in Baltimore involved in a mob investigation goes missing, the BAU believes a serial killer rather than organized crime has something to do with his disappearance. The probe leads to several unsolved missing persons cases.

• E9 Derailed
  Nov 23, 2005 45 min

  Elle, along with many others, is held hostage on a train in Texas by a paranoid schizophrenic who is convinced that the U.S. government is monitoring him. Hotchner and Gideon are forced to play into the man's fantasy to save the people he has taken hostage.

• E10 The Popular Kids
  Nov 30, 2005 45 min

  The team investigates the death of one teen, and the disappearance of another , which may be linked to a satanic ritual.

• E11 Blood Hungry
  Dec 14, 2005 45 min

  While Gideon is stuck at the office on crutches, the rest of the team travels to Tennessee to track down a killer who disembowels his victims and supposedly eats their organs.

• E12 What Fresh Hell?
  Jan 11, 2006 45 min

  When a young girl is abducted in broad daylight from a playground in a seemingly safe neighborhood, the BAU team initially believes her father is responsible. When he is able to provide an alibi, the team is forced to look for clues where the girl lives to determine who is really responsible.

• E13 Poison
  Jan 18, 2006 45 min

  The team travels to New Jersey where several people have been poisoned (one fatally) with LSD ten times more potent than the street version.

• E14 Riding the Lightning
  Jan 25, 2006 45 min

  After interviewing a couple on death row for serial murders, Gideon suspects that the woman is actually innocent. But since she's set to be executed in two days, it's a race against time to prove it.

• E15 Unfinished Business
  Mar 1, 2006 45 min

  A serial killer reappears after 20 years of silence and contacts the BAU with the promise he will kill another victim in the next five days.

• E16 The Tribe
  Mar 8, 2006 45 min

  The BAU team believes a dangerous cult may be responsible for the mass murders of five college students in an empty house.

• E17 A Real Rain
  Mar 22, 2006 45 min

  The BAU unit travels to NYC to investigate a series of murders that appears to have been committed by a vigilante conducting revenge on former criminals who have been released by the justice system.

• E18 Somebody's Watching
  Mar 29, 2006 45 min

  Reid finds himself in danger when he falls for a starlet whose stalker has turned into a killer.

• E19 Machismo
  Apr 12, 2006 45 min

  The BAU team travels to Mexico to aid in the capture of a serial killer who is targeting elderly women.

• E20 Charm and Harm
  Apr 19, 2006 45 min

  The BAU works to capture a serial killer who has evaded capture by altering his appearance.

• E21 Secrets and Lies
  May 3, 2006 45 min

  The BAU works with the CIA to identify a mole within that organization whose leaks are putting operatives at risk.

• E22 The Fisher King (1)
  May 10, 2006 45 min

  While on their vacations, each of the team receives a clue from a psychopathic killer challenging them to save his next victim.