Best Criminal Minds Episodes
Criminal Minds is an amazing show with suspense-filled episodes, but these episodes stood out and are my personal favorites. (NOTE: If I put a "*" in the description, that means it was one of my major favorites.
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- DirectorMatt Earl BeesleyStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniA serial rapist-killer active in San Diego targeting middle class women glues his victims eyes open.
- DirectorAdam DavidsonStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe team must determine whether an abducted girl is the pawn in a bitter divorce, or something more sinister has happened.
- DirectorChris LongStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe team of investigators interview husband and wife serial killers with their execution date set for two days time.*
- DirectorEdward Allen BerneroStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniTeam members become pawns of a psychopathic killer.
- DirectorGloria MuzioStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniElle's fate is unknown, and the unsub continues dropping clues as the team scrambles to identify him before another tragedy occurs.*
- DirectorGuy Norman BeeStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe team flies to Los Angeles to pursue a bank robber who is quickly disintegrating into an enraged sexually-motivated spree killer.
- DirectorSteve BoyumStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniWhile the team profiles a killer in a small town, Hotch must stay and deal with Elle who is beginning to unravel.*
- DirectorGloria MuzioStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterThe slaughter of a wealthy couple just after a Super Bowl party puts the BAU on the trail of two killers.
- DirectorGuy Norman BeeStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterReid 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.*
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterThe team is called to investigate when bodies of missing people are discovered in the Idaho wilderness.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe unit tracks a man working through his fears by working them out on others.
- DirectorJohn GallagherStarsThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe unit works against the clock when a little girl disappears in a mall, believing a serial killer has struck a second time and the first girl died within an hour of abduction.*
- DirectorSkipp SudduthStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe 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.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreMore is learned about Garcia while the team tries to find the persistent unsub threatening her.*
- DirectorEdward Allen BerneroStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreRossi 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.
- DirectorBobby RothStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhen 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.*
- DirectorGuy Norman BeeStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreAs a favor to the D.A. in Boston, Hotchner and Rossi profile a woman who murdered her husband, though the D.A. may not like their findings. Back at the office, J.J.'s personalization of a stalker case baffles the rest of the team.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MoorePeople 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.
- DirectorEdward Allen BerneroStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreAs 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.
- DirectorJohn GallagherStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA serial killer targeting couples stages their bodies in a way to make their deaths look like car accidents.
- DirectorGuy Norman BeeStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreDriven by his nightmares, Reid stays behind in Las Vegas to find his father in order to find out the truth about Riley Jenkins' murder.*
- DirectorPaul Michael GlaserStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA serial killer turns himself in and challenges the team to find five people he has hidden somewhere before they die.*
- DirectorTim MathesonStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA 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.*
- DirectorNelson McCormickStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreAfter being inactive for 10 years, Hotch's first BAU case, an elusive serial killer known as the Reaper, starts killing again.
- DirectorKaren GaviolaStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreAn 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.*