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- DirectorMichael LangeStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreIn this first part of a two-part season finale, the BAU encounters a gang of bank-robbing serial killers in the nation's capital. As the team tries to negotiate the situation unfolding inside a bank, one of the team is taken hostage.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreIn part two of the season finale, the BAU races to understand the ultimate goal and core dynamic of the remaining Face Cards and their design in keeping Will captive and alive.
- DirectorLily MariyeStarsJoe MantegnaMatthew Gray GublerA.J. CookThe BAU takes charge of a hostage situation at a law firm in D.C., where Matt Simmons' wife, Kristy, works.
- 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.
- DirectorRichard ShepardStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe team travels to Seattle to find the captor of four missing women.
- 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.
- DirectorCharles S. CarrollStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhile trying to get two suspects to reveal what they've done with a missing woman, the BAU brace themselves for the loss of one of their own.
- DirectorCharles HaidStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe BAU go to Detroit to catch a man who burns his victims alive during the pre-Halloween celebration Devil's Night.
- DirectorRob SperaStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhen bodies begin turning up in the cornfields of Indiana, the team must catch a pack of serial killers targeting exotic dancers.
- DirectorConstantine MakrisStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerPeople in Maryland with large social media followings are murdered by an unsub who takes on the persona of an Internet urban legend. Meanwhile, Morgan and Savannah struggle to find quality time for each other due to their business careers.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerThe members of the BAU team are brought back to their origins as they look at one of Gideon and Rossi's old cases.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreReid 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.
- DirectorGuy Norman BeeStarsThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe 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.
- 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.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe unit tracks a man working through his fears by working them out on others.
- DirectorSteve ShillStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterThe BAU travels to New Orleans' French Quarter where a Jack the Ripper type serial killer is on the loose.
- DirectorRob HardyStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe BAU are called to Louisiana to get information from an autistic boy who has witnessed his parents' abduction. Meanwhile, Prentiss calls in two old colleagues to track down Ian Doyle.
- DirectorCharles S. CarrollStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhen a series of killings occur on the BAU's home turf, Prentiss realizes that Ian Doyle is responsible.
- DirectorMatthew Gray GublerStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhile Prentiss has gone missing to track down Ian Doyle and finish him, her team attempts to track her down and digs deeper into her past.
- DirectorNelson McCormickStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerThe BAU hunts a stalker in San Diego who is targeting college students. Meanwhile, the team comes under Strauss' scrutiny in the wake of the loss of Prentiss.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe BAU team is at a crossroads as they are questioned by a Senate Committee for their retaliatory actions in the wake of Prentiss' loss, but an unexpected familiar face could help them win their case and keep the team together.
- DirectorCharles HaidStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe BAU team looks into the real reasons behind an apparent mass suicide of a small group of youths at a military academy. Also, Hotch and Morgan butt heads when a team member could be in jeopardy.
- DirectorRob SperaStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhen a series of tornadoes hits Kansas, the BAU is called in to investigate bodies of young boys that turn up in the aftermath of the storms. Also, work pressures cause tension on JJ's home front.
- DirectorDermott DownsStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA boy named Angel is found wandering in the desert, and when another boy turns up missing, the BAU searches for the kidnapper.
- DirectorDouglas AarniokoskiStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerThe BAU travels to Los Angeles looking for an UnSub who is kidnapping nannies and the children they care for on the same day each year.
- DirectorBethany RooneyStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerOn a lunch hour in crowded Archer Plaza in Dallas, Texas, a sniper, firing twelve shots, manages to kill six people. The BAU has to figure out if it is a random attack, a targeted attack, a terrorist attack - homegrown or foreign - or even something related to the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the shooting death of John F. Kennedy. The six unrelated victims were killed in different parts of the plaza, the remaining six bullets splattered elsewhere throughout the plaza, leading to the team initially believing that it was a random attack by someone who was a bad shooter. But the nature of the six killed leads them ultimately to believe that the sniper was indeed an excellent shot, with the six non-fatal bullets being red herrings. They have to look at the backgrounds of the six dead to see who was the intended target or targets. Reid is able to narrow the target list to three, and most likely no more than two, the remaining victims being collateral damage. When a second sniper shooting occurs at a gas station leaving three more dead, the theory that it was a targeted hit is strengthened based on the location of the shooter in relation to the station itself. They have to find a connection between whoever the target(s) in the first shooting to whoever the target(s) in the second shooting to at least find the unsub's motivation. Even if they are able to find the connection, discovering the identity of the actual sniper may be a little more difficult.
- DirectorLarry TengStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerThe BAU call Emily Prentiss for help to find JJ, who has been kidnapped. The truth about JJ and Cruz's past is revealed.
- DirectorCharles HaidStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe team are called to an Arizona college when an arsonist who operates in a very unusual way kills a student.
- DirectorKevin BrayStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniA bomber in Palm Beach forces Gideon to confront an old adversary.
- DirectorErnest R. DickersonStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe team chases a sniper in Des Plaines, Illinois who for some reason only wounds his victims.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniA paranoid schizophrenic takes other passengers on a train hostage, including Elle.
- DirectorAndy WolkStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe 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.
- DirectorMatt Earl BeesleyStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe massacre of students using Native American rituals leads the team to consult the reservation policeman, who is also an activist.
- DirectorMatt Earl BeesleyStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe 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.
- DirectorGloria MuzioStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe 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.
- DirectorCharles HaidStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe BAU team must profile a delusional killer in rural Tennessee, and a family member protecting him puts a child at risk.
- DirectorAdam DavidsonStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniThe 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.
- 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.
- DirectorTim MathesonStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonLola GlaudiniAs the team assists in finding a rapist in Ohio, Elle's actions may compromise her career.
- 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.
- DirectorElodie KeeneStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonShemar MooreWhen a bomber targets Seattle, the BAU has to determine if it's a protest group or an individual with a much different agenda.
- DirectorJohn GallagherStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterGideon matches wits against the most prolific serial killer ever found, and the results are surprising.
- DirectorRob SperaStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterThe 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.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsMandy PatinkinThomas GibsonPaget BrewsterDerek is arrested as a serial killer, and the team must delve into his secrets in order to free him.
- DirectorHeather CappielloStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerAs Reid narrates to one of the hitmen how they tracked her, the BAU works to get him out of the hitman's gunpoint.
- DirectorRob SperaStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe BAU team tracks a serial killer who takes the eyes of his victims.
- DirectorCharles HaidStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhile Agent Hotchner takes a leave of absence from the BAU, the team must regroup to solve a home invasion case.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe BAU must profile a criminal's past in order to catch him after he escapes from custody and begins a killing spree.
- DirectorRob SperaStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA rash of startling teen suicides in a small Wyoming town is the focus of a BAU investigation.
- DirectorNelson McCormickStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA serial killer who targets random victims in highly visible places to create a sense of public fear is the subject of a BAU investigation.
- DirectorRichard ShepardStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe 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.
- DirectorRosemary RodriguezStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreThe BAU team must profile a serial killer covered in tattoos, who commits suicide but leaves clues to the whereabouts of his last victim.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA serial killer in Boise, Idaho, is revealed to have been posting his murders on the Internet, accumulating quite a collection of fans in the process.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerThe BAU goes to Morgan's old neighbourhood in urban Chicago in search of an UnSub targeting middle-aged men, and a clue leads Morgan to believe that they are after someone connected to the man who molested him as a child.
- DirectorEdward Allen BerneroStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreAs The Prince of Darkness continues his murderous rampage across California, the BAU go after him to save Detective Spicer's daughter from him.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhen the kill count of a mass-murdering arsonist active in a small town reaches 31, the BAU are called in.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreMorgan, an ex-cop, takes it personally when a serial killer targets police officers in Phoenix, Arizona.
- DirectorCharles S. CarrollStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA copycat serial killer is recreating murder techniques used by famous killers from the past.
- DirectorJohn GallagherStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhile the BAU are in Miami investigating a series of bizarre ritualistic murders, Reid suffers from intense migraines which makes him concerned about his health.
- DirectorGlenn KershawStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreWhen a boy is found murdered on the Appalachian Trail, the BAU team goes deep into its forests in search of a man lurking in the wilderness who is targeting children.
- DirectorSteve BoyumStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA 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.
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreMore is learned about Garcia while the team tries to find the persistent unsub threatening her.
- DirectorDouglas AarniokoskiStarsJoe MantegnaShemar MooreMatthew Gray GublerThe BAU is called to a North Carolina mountain town after a woman is found badly injured and another is missing, and they discover that these two are not the only victims.
- DirectorRob SperaStarsJoe MantegnaPaget BrewsterShemar MooreA child abduction case in Las Vegas causes Reid to have strange nightmares which appear to be connected to an event in his past.