Criminal Minds: Season 1

Episodes

• Extreme Aggression

  When a fourth woman goes missing in Seattle during the course of four months, the team is asked to profile her captor and try and find him before he strikes again. Gideon returns to help the team after six months leave. While the team works to hunt down the attacker, Hotch is asked to discreetly evaluate whether or not Gideon is really ready to return to full-time duty.

• Compulsion

  The team investigates a series of fires set on a college campus. With a lack of hard evidence, Gideon and his team must rely on psychological analysis to identify the fire-starter.

• Won't Get Fooled Again

  Gideon suspects that a serial bomber attacking a small town is actually a disciple of Adrian Bale, his greatest enemy. The Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) are on the hunt for a serial bomber who turns out to be a copycat of Adrian Bale, the bomber responsible for murdering Gideon's previous team of profilers in Boston several years prior. Gideon must confront his old nemesis face to face in order to get important information that could help them catch Bale's protégé.

• Plain Sight

  The team goes to San Diego to profile a suspect who commits his crimes in broad daylight but has remained illusive to the authorities. The BAU team creates a profile to aid in the investigation and attempts to catch the killer before he strikes again.

• Broken Mirror

  The team is faced with a tricky situation when the daughter of a U.S. District Attorney is kidnapped and then attempts to abduct her twin sister as well. The team must find away to keep both girls safe.

• L.D.S.K

  Hotchner and his team work to catch a man who is shooting his victims in broad daylight and in an attempt to try and stop the violence, they liaise with local law enforcement to recreate one of the shootings.

• The Fox

  The FBI team attempts to catch a killer who preys on families while they are supposed to be away on vacation. The Behavioural Analysis Unit pieces together a profile of a serial killer who takes families hostage and lives with them as a father figure during what is supposed to be their family vacations. When another family is victimized, Hotchner and his team must act quickly to take the necessary steps to crack the case.

• Natural Born Killer

  When an undercover cop is taken captive, the Behavioural Analysis Unit believes a serial killer is responsible. Their investigation leads to surprising developments in several unsolved missing persons cases.

• Derailed

  Hotchner and Gideon must move quickly to save Elle and other passengers taken hostage on a train by a schizophrenic passenger.

• The Popular Kids

  Hotchner and his team investigate whether or not two high school students murdered in a small town may have been victims of a cult killing or whether the killer is in fact a local.

• Blood Hungry

  Hotchner and his team attempt to get inside the mind of a psychotic killer whose fantasies lead him to murder.

• What Fresh Hell?

  Gideon, Hotchner and their team investigate the mysterious kidnapping of a young girl from a local park in broad daylight and question whether her father is responsible.

• Poison

  Gideon, Hotchner and their team attempt to catch a suspect who has poisoned many residents of a small town. They must identify what type of person they are dealing with, such as vengeful or prankster, in order to ascertain his motive and predict whether he will strike again and claim more victims.

• Riding The Lightening

  The FBI profilers interview husband and wife serial killers two days before they are set to be executed. Gideon suspects that the wife may be innocent of the crimes committed and so races against the clock to prove she was one of her husband's victims, rather than his partner in crime.

• Unfinished Business

  Gideon, Hotchner and their team reopen the unsolved case of a serial killer who has attacked someone for the first time in 20 years. The serial killer contacts the Behavioural Analysis Unit with the promise that he will kill another victim in the next five days. Gideon enlists the help of a former colleague who worked the case when it was fresh to help find the killer.

• The Tribe

  The BAU team investigates the murder of five college students killed in an ancient method similar to that used by a local Native American tribe in times of war. Gideon, Hotchner and their team believe that a pack of killers who are part of a dangerous cult may be responsible for the student deaths.

• A Real Rain

  The team investigate murders taking place in Manhattan - they seem random but then the NYPD begins to fear that the serial killer is copying the in"p;quot;Son of Sam." When the Behavioural Analysis Unit is brought in to help with the case, they discover a link between the victims that leads them to a vigilante taking revenge on criminals let go by the justice system.

• Somebody's Watching

  Dr. Reid falls for a Hollywood starlet at the centre of a murder investigation. When people surrounding the successful television actress start dying, Gideon and Dr. Reid call in the rest of the Behavioural Analysis Unit to assist with the case.

• Charm and Harm

  Gideon and his team race to catch a serial killer on the run across the South before he takes his next victim.

• Secrets and Lies

  The CIA takes over the FBI field office when Gideon and the team are called in to profile a CIA mole. The mole is leaking classified information from within the CIA, putting the lives of several operatives at risk.

• The Fisher King, Part 1

  Gideon, Hotchner and their team become pawns in the fantasy game of a psychopathic killer who challenges them to unravel a series of clues and riddles in order to save his next victim. It is up to Gideon, Hotchner and the rest of the team to put all of the interlocking clues and messages together in the hopes of solving the case.