The Behavioral Analysis Unit consists of an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds and anticipate their next moves before they can strike again. Criminal Minds stars Thomas Gibson as Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner, Joe Mantegna stars as Senior Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi, Paget Brewster as Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss, Shemar Moore as Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan, Matthew Gray Gubler as Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Spencer Reid, AJ Cook as Supervisory Special Agent and Media Liaison Jennifer "JJ" Jareau and Kirsten Vangsness as Analyst Penelope Garcia. Originally created by Jeff Davis, executive producers are Edward Allen Bernero, Mark Gordon, Deborah Spera, Simon Mirren and Chris Mundy. Criminal Minds is produced by ABC Studios in association with CBS Paramount Network Television.
Summary: The BAU team hunts a serial killer in Los Angeles who preys on his victims in the dark, killing entire families except for one left alive to remember.
Summary: The BAU team profiles a serial killer who uses the Internet as his hunting ground, bringing a whole meaning to the term "social networking".
Summary: Garcia plays a crucial role in a case when she travels to Alaska with the BAU team to investigate the murders of several members of a small town.
Summary: The BAU team must profile a serial killer covered in tattoos who commits suicide, but leaves clues to the whereabouts of his last victim.
Summary: The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants attempting to make safe passage into the U.S.
Summary: The 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.
Summary: A truck driver is kidnapping women and disposing of them in random locations and the BAU must find out his motive in order to catch him.
Summary: The team profiles a child abductor who may have been keeping children for more than eight years.
Summary: The BAU is called to investigate a serial killer who is targeting random victims in highly visible places to create a sense of public fear.
Summary: The BAU follows the mental decline of a con artist whose schemes have become so complicated that he begins to eliminate the people involved in them.
Summary: The BAU is called to assist local authorities in rural Wyoming when teens are found dead from apparent suicide that are linked to a game on the internet.
Summary: As SSA Hotchner struggles with his return to work, the team is called upon to profile a suspect with an unusual personal obsession who is abducting certain types of women.
Summary: An ex-con escapes while in the custody of the BAU, and the team must review his criminal career in order to determine where he may have gone.
Summary: When Hotchner takes a leave of absence from the BAU, the team must regroup to solve a home invasion.
Summary: When The Reaper returns to Washington for a final showdown, the team works frantically to catch him before he reaches SSA Hotchner's family.
Summary: While investigating a series of murders of entire families in Hampton, Virginia, the BAU is forced to visit Red Onion State Prison to seek advice from one of the most atrocious killers from the team's past, nic...
Summary: The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seems to align with the tour schedule of a rock star.
Summary: The BAU is called to Oklahoma City to help local authorities track a serial killer who removes the eyes of his murder victims and keeps the eyes as souvenirs.
Summary: The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women, has them give birth and murders them.
Summary: The team profiles a group of killers who travel as a pack and chose victims randomly. Tamara Barnes: Salli Richardson-Whitfield.
Summary: SSA David Rossi's personal and professional life is brought to the forefront when the BAU is called to investigate a case in Commack, Long Island, Agent Rossi's hometown.
Summary: The BAU must determine what caused a disturbed man to murder several people at a pharmacy before he harms anyone else.
Summary: As Rossi, Morgan and JJ profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor, Prentiss realizes that Hotch is missing.
