An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.
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An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.
Season 2 episodes
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The BAU team continues to unravel the clues given to each of them by a psychopath in order to save his most recent victim. Gideon decides not to focus on the personal aspects of the case. Rather, he tells the team to profile the killer as they would in any other investigation. Reid stays behind to work on a personal connection that could solve the case as one member of the team fights for life.
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Directed by Gloria MuzioWritten by Edward Allen BerneroGuest stars Lola Glaudini, Anne Marie Howard, Josh Clark, Charley Rossman, Steve Heller, Jeff Marchelletta, Joey Nader, Elizabeth Liang
A young boy who had disappeared a year ago turns up for sale by a child pornographer on an online auction in Cleveland. A former profiler who now heads the FBI's Crimes Against Children Unit asks Hotch and the BAU to help her save the boy's life before it's too late.
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Directed by Adam DavidsonWritten by Simon MirrenGuest stars Lola Glaudini, Mary Page Keller, John Rubinstein, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Daryl Sabara, Michael Len, David Pevsner, Dig Wayne
The BAU has reason to believe a series of murders might have been committed by two people working as a team after the victims' families receive DVDs after each crime that includes psychological attacks.
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Directed by Félix AlcaláWritten by Debra J. Fisher, Erica MesserGuest stars Lola Glaudini, Frank Ashmore, Michelle Pierce, Brad Rowe, Nicki Aycox, John Verea, Nick Hoffa, Rebecca Gray
The BAU is called to investigate a series of bank robberies after it becomes evident the crimes are not based on money because the robber abuses his victims by forcing them to undress before he leaves the crime scene.
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Directed by Guy Norman BeeWritten by Aaron ZelmanGuest stars Lola Glaudini, Jason Wiles, Michael Chieffo, David Fabrizio, Marco Sanchez, Gary Wolf, Jean St. James, Connie Cooper
The BAU investigates a serial rapist who had been attacking young women at religious schools and stopped for six weeks. He has resumed his attacks, but is now targeting a different demographic of women. Elle makes a decision that could end her career with the BAU.
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Directed by Tim MathesonWritten by Chris MundyGuest stars Lola Glaudini, Tuffet Schmelzle, Dahlia Salem, Mandy June Turpin, Jason London, George Alan, Bruce Gray
The BAU travels to a small Texas community to investigate the murders of children. Meanwhile, Elle is having readjustment issues after being shot, and Hotch becomes worried about her when she misses a mandatory psych evaluation and isn't answering her cell phone.
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Directed by Steve BoyumWritten by Andi BushellGuest stars Lola Glaudini, Geoffrey Lewis, Cameron Monaghan, Elle Fanning, Robert Knott, Sean Bridgers, Chris Conrad, Alina Phelan
After a man kidnaps three teenaged girls and locks them in a cellar, he tells them only two of them will live and they must choose which one will die. The BAU team takes the case when the mother of one of the girls travels to Quantico to ask JJ to intercede with the FBI on the girls' behalf.
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Directed by Matt Earl BeesleyWritten by Andrew WilderGuest stars Kelly Kruger, Mimi Michaels, Jason Beghe, Jamie McShane, Lisa Waltz, Kayla Mae Maloney, Tom Schmid, Todd Jeffries
The BAU travels to Seattle to identify and catch a serial bomber who has been terrorizing the city and targeting centers of automated techology. Working with the author of a science fiction novel that has become a guide for the bomber, the team attempts to determine why certain sites have been chosen as targets.
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Directed by Elodie KeeneWritten by Edward NapierGuest stars JoBeth Williams, Jamie Elman, Gary Werntz, Cheryl Francis Harrington, Tom Choi, Jennifer Jalene
The daughter of high-powered diplomats, Special Agent Emily Prentiss joins the team, and she must convince Gideon and Hotchner she deserves the job based on merit and not on her family connections. The BAU is then called to St. Louis to investigate two serial killers who appear to be competing with each other. By setting a trap based on one killer's profile, the team creates a media event by which to capture the second killer.
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Directed by Gloria MuzioWritten by Debra J. Fisher, Erica MesserGuest stars Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Maury Sterling, Jason O'Mara, Christopher B. Duncan, David Barry Gray, Scott Michael Morgan, Victoria Garcia-Kelleher, Natalie Salins
Gideon, Reid and Prentiss travel to Guantanamo Bay to interrogate the leader of a terror sleeper cell being detained there after a chemical weapons dispersal device is discovered during a raid at a suspicious house. Working with Reid, Emily's fluency in Arabic proves to be useful as they scrutinize the suspect.
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Directed by Guy Norman BeeWritten by Jim ClementeGuest stars Anthony Azizi, Lauren Stamile, Kevin Chapman, Roger Ranney, Wiley M. Pickett, Michael Rose, Brad Blaisdell, Cassius M. Willis
The BAU is called to investigate a series of murders of prostitutes in Washington D.C. and Reid suspects a teenager he met asking for his help is guilty of the crimes. The case becomes complicated when a congresswoman, who about to make a speech to praise the city's lower crime rate, threatens to take away the case if Hotchner calls a press conference to discuss it.
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Directed by Gwyneth Horder-PaytonWritten by Chris MundyGuest stars Mel Harris, Jessica Tuck, Thomas Crawford, Annie LaRussa, Susie Kantar, Emily Brooke Hands, Katy Magnuson, Burnadean Jones
Morgan is arrested as a serial killer after he goes home to Chicago to visit his family. Because the detective making the arrest had used a profile provided by Gideon, the team travels to Chicago to help the local authorities find the real killer and exonerate Morgan.
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Directed by Glenn KershawWritten by Edward Allen BerneroGuest stars Skipp Sudduth, Erica Gimpel, Kerrie Keane, Julius Tennon, James MacDonald, Jascha Washington, Benita Krista Nall, Keith Tisdell
Gideon is pitted against the scariest and most evil murderer in his entire career. When the BAU confronts the sadistic killer in a remote diner in the Nevada desert, the local authorities want to move quickly and make an arrest. But Gideon bides his time as he attempts to persuade the man, who has sworn not be captured, to reveal the whereabouts of a woman he is holding hostage.
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Directed by John GallagherWritten by Simon MirrenGuest stars Melissa Leo, Amy Madigan, James Horan, Otto Sanchez, Rusty Schwimmer, Keith Carradine
The BAU is called to investigate after a wealthy couple is murdered in their home following a Super Bowl party.
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Directed by Gloria MuzioWritten by Edward Allen BerneroGuest stars Jim Nantz, Bill Smitrovich, Jaime Ray Newman, Cullen Douglas, Gina Garcia, Todd Grinnell, McKinley Freeman, Karl T. Wright
In this conclusion of a special two-part episode, finding the serial killer becomes critical to the BAU when the team realizes Reid is being held captive and a live feed of him being tortured is shown on the internet. Meanwhile, Reid's troubled childhood is revealed in flashback sequences as he drifts in and out of consciousness.
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Directed by Guy Norman BeeWritten by Chris MundyGuest stars Bill Smitrovich, Taylor Nichols, Muse Watson, Remy Thorne, Don Swayze, Cecelia Specht, Malcolm Foster Smith, Kesun Loder
The BAU becomes involved to prevent a possible race riot when the murder of four young black women in a mostly white New York suburb appear to be hate crimes.
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Directed by Rob SperaWritten by Aaron ZelmanGuest stars Tiffany Hines, Yaani King Mondschein, Camille Winbush, David Ramsey, Billy Brown, Denice Sealy, Michael Shepperd, Shaun O'Hagan
The BAU travels to Houston to investigate a series of murders that have occurred near construction sites and abandoned buildings. Because the murders appear to be random, the team believes the killer could be a homeless person. Meanwhile, everyone is noticing an apparent change in Reid's behavior.
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Directed by John F. ShowalterWritten by Oanh LyGuest stars Joanna Going, Nick Chinlund, Holt McCallany, Kent Faulcon, Sandi McCree, Jeffrey Lorenzo, Juan Ramírez, Bridget Shergalis
A case involving a serial killer believed to be copying Jack the Ripper takes Gideon to New Orleans after three victims are found with their throats cut. Once thought to have been killed in Hurricane Katrina, the discovery of a fourth victim in the French Quarter confirms the murderer is still alive. All the evidence and files had been lost in the flood, so the only clue the team has is the word "Jones" that the lead detective wrote on the wall just before he drowned. Meanwhile, Reid meets up with an old rival as he continues to struggle with the aftermath of being held hostage.
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Directed by Steve ShillWritten by Andi BushellGuest stars Jeff Doucette, Simone Kessell, Rhys Coiro, Randy Thompson, Edward Edwards, Chris Eckles, John Edward Lee, Dufflyn Lammers
A serial arsonist who targets the homes of upper-middle-class families as they sleep is investigated. The BAU determines the arson victims are linked together through corporate development companies that have been accused of building on contaminated land.
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Directed by John GallagherWritten by Andrew WilderGuest stars Anthony Ruivivar, Stacy Edwards, Sean O'Bryan, Jordan Garrett, Tom Schanley, John Nielsen, Mercedes Colon, Reed Rudy
Elizabeth Prentiss, a foreign ambassador and SSA Emily Prentiss' mother, seeks the aid of the BAU when a Russian immigrant is kidnapped and held for ransom.
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Directed by Jesús Salvador TreviñoWritten by Aaron ZelmanGuest stars Olga Sosnovska, Elya Baskin, Gina Garcia, Kate Jackson, Irina Davidoff, Gregory Wagrowski, Dimitri Diatchenko, Zoran Radanovich
The BAU is called to investigate after the bodies of missing people are discovered in a remote region of the Idaho wilderness. The gruesome find also leads the team to determine the unsubs have been hunting humans for sport.
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Directed by Félix AlcaláWritten by Debra J. Fisher, Erica MesserGuest stars Jim Parrack, Kelly Overton, Laura Allen, Jake Richardson, Larry Sullivan, Gareth Williams, Lorna Scott, Scott Rinker
When homeless persons begin going missing mysteriously from the streets in Kansas City, a local detective calls the BAU to investigate the disappearances.
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Directed by Glenn KershawWritten by Edward Allen BerneroGuest stars Steven Williams, Kristoffer Ryan Winters, Bre Blair, Tahmus Rounds, Ronnie Steadman, Jack Donner, Mary Gillis, Wil Garret
When the prolific serial killer Frank returns and murders Gideon's girlfriend, Gideon takes off to find him without telling the team where he is going. The BAU must then profile Gideon as well as Frank to find both of them.
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Directed by Edward Allen BerneroWritten by Simon MirrenGuest stars Amy Madigan, Elle Fanning, Rebecca Lowman, Gina La Piana, Wolf Muser, Keith Carradine, Josh Barker, Melonie Mack
