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 3 episodes
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The team investigates a serial killer who is targeting women at a small college in Flagstaff, Arizona. The BAU shuts down the campus, creates a detailed profile of the unsub, and arrests a suspect. However, the team members begin to have doubts about themselves when another woman is killed while the suspect is in custody.
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Directed by Gloria MuzioWritten by Chris MundyGuest stars Mandy Patinkin, Shawn Michael Patrick, Elizabeth Hendrickson, Vince Grant, Shelly Cole, Angela Oh, Tori White, Anthony Diaz-Perez
In Milwaukee, a series of women have been found murdered with their hearts crudely removed. The BAU is assigned to the case, but they are short three members: Gideon, who is missing, Hotch, who is on suspension and Prentiss, who resigns her commission to join the Foreign Service. Supervisor Strauss steps in as lead, but she doesn't handle herself well in the field.
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Directed by Edward Allen BerneroWritten by Chris MundyGuest stars Mandy Patinkin, Gordon Clapp, Eddie Cibrian, Chandler Canterbury, Yvonne Jung, Stefan Marks, Grace Renn, Mary Ostrow
The BAU travels to Portland to assist local authorities in investigating the disappearances of people who are new to the city and have no strong social ties.
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Directed by Félix AlcaláWritten by Debra J. Fisher, Erica MesserGuest stars Michael O'Keefe, Matt Bushell, Stephanie Venditto, Danielle Sapia, John Bobek, Jennifer Lee Keyes, Randy Crowder, M.J. Karmi
When home invasions involve the murder of entire families, the BAU is called to Denver to identify the killers who possibly have been abused while in foster care.
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Directed by Guy Norman BeeWritten by Dan Dworkin, Jay BeattieGuest stars Francis Capra, William Lee Scott, Bill Tangradi, Jhoanna Flores, Stephanie Erb, Christine Healy, Tom Kiesche, Mark Doerr
The investigation turns to the family as the BAU and local authorities race against time to locate a young girl who has disappeared from a local shopping mall.
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Directed by John GallagherWritten by Andi BushellGuest stars Alexander Gould, Suzanne Cryer, Nigel Gibbs, Emmanuel Xuereb, Paula Malcomson, Salvator Xuereb, Molly Baker, Ariel Winter
The 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.
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Directed by Skipp SudduthWritten by Charles MurrayGuest stars Andrew Kavovit, Michael O'Neill, Sandra Robinson, Tarri Markel, Elimu Nelson, Kelli Kirkland, Robert C. Sloan, Kelly McCracken
The team is called to Montana to investigate the case of four kidnapped and murdered women. When another woman disappears, the search leads to a man who apparently has assumed the identity of his dead partner.
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Directed by Gwyneth Horder-PaytonWritten by Oanh LyGuest stars Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Michael Cudlitz, Jim Beaver, Pat Skipper, Jenna Gavigan, Danielle Kennedy, Kristopher Logan, Jason Hamer
A team member's life is put in jeopardy when the BAU investigates serial killings in Florida that appear to involve the occult and satanic worship. Garcia believes she has met her dream man, but her first date with him doesn't go exactly as she had expected.
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Directed by Steve BoyumWritten by Andrew WilderGuest stars Nick Searcy, Bailey Chase, John Lafayette, Jamie Kennedy, Michael Beach, James Otis, John Montana, Gwen Holloway
As a team member fights for life, the BAU continues the search for an attacker that leads the unit to believe the assailant could be someone close to the investigation.
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Directed by Félix AlcaláWritten by Chris MundyGuest stars Bailey Chase, John Eddins, Bruce Katzman, Loren Lester, Sabrina Gennarino, Tamara Zook, Reena Dutt, Anne McCarthy
The BAU and local authorities in Los Angeles investigate gang-related serial killings that might possibly involve a famous comic book artist.
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Directed by Edward Allen BerneroWritten by Edward Allen BerneroGuest stars Steve Richard Harris, Bailey Chase, Parry Shen, Frankie Muniz, John Walcutt, Ellen Hollman, Sara Van Horn, Craig Gellis
The new sheriff in Fredericksburg, Virginia, requests the BAU's assistance in the investigation of a series of mutilation murders that appear to mimic similar crimes that had occurred over two decades earlier.
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Directed by John GallagherWritten by Debra J. Fisher, Erica MesserGuest stars Sally Pressman, Jennifer Hetrick, Rodney Eastman, Dendrie Taylor, William Morgan Sheppard, Jeff Corbett, Lacey Beeman, Elizabeth Roberts
When one teenager is found murdered and her best friend is abducted in Chula Vista, California, the BAU assists local authorities in determining whether the Witness Protection Program is involved.
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Directed by Anthony HemingwayWritten by Simon MirrenGuest stars Brian McNamara, Alex Hyde-White, Riley Smith, Rick Otto, Fredric Lehne, Michael Harney, Cheryl White, Hayley McFarland
After the contents of a self-storage unit purchased at an auction take the BAU to Philadelphia to investigate a series of murders, the local agent becomes the center of the case. To catch the killer, the team must profile the items inside the unit.
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Directed by Glenn KershawWritten by Dan Dworkin, Jay BeattieGuest stars Andrea Roth, Wendy Braun, Christopher Allen Nelson, Michael Cotter, Madden Page, Jeremy Cohenour, Mary Elizabeth Barrett, Joseph Gilbert
Rossi travels to Indianapolis to continue his investigation into the two unsolved murders that have plagued him for 20 years.
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Directed by Edward Allen BerneroWritten by Edward Allen BerneroGuest stars Nicholle Tom, Dennis Christopher, David Tom, E.J. Callahan, John Gloria, Scout Raskin, Michael Shamus Wiles, 'Big' LeRoy Mobley
The BAU is called to Pittsburgh after an unusually high suicide rate appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.
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Directed by Félix AlcaláWritten by Michael UdeskyGuest stars Jennifer Aspen, Paul Schulze, Renée O'Connor, Scott Michael Campbell, Blake Robbins, Myk Watford, Zakareth Ruben, Rod Britt
The BAU is called to West Bune, a small town in Texas, to investigate what appears to be spree killings that involve a teenaged boy and his girlfriend.
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Directed by Bobby RothWritten by Andrew WilderGuest stars Cody Kasch, Lindsey Haun, Tracey Walter, Alexandra Krosney, Michael Ironside, Chris Mulkey, Kym Jackson, Tim DeZarn
The BAU is called to Miami to investigate a serial killer who appears to have a conflicted sexual identity.
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Directed by John GallagherWritten by Andi BushellGuest stars Michael Graziadei, Wendy Hoopes, Tia Texada, David Monahan, Michael Cardelle, James Martin Kelly, Jeryl Prescott, Kara Revel
The team members try to identify a stalker before he can attack a woman who is being stalked in Silver Spring, Maryland. Meanwhile, Hotch and Rossi are called as consultants on a possible battered woman syndrome murder case in Boston.
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Directed by Guy Norman BeeWritten by Debra J. Fisher, Erica MesserGuest stars Scott Lowell, Bonnie Root, Brad Beyer, Mary-Margaret Humes, Jeffrey Pierce, Barbara Eve Harris, Aviva Baumann, Julia Sanford
After a suspected serial killer wakes up from a coma, the BAU reopens the case and uses brain fingerprinting to determine if he really doesn't remember the crimes that had been committed four years earlier in Roanoke, Virginia.
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Directed by Steve BoyumWritten by Dan Dworkin, Jay BeattieGuest stars James Eckhouse, Amy Carlson, Eric Lange, Steven Culp, Anne Betancourt, Roxana Brusso, James Sharpe, F. William Parker
The BAU faces one of its toughest cases when the team is called to New York City to determine if a series of random shootings is the work of one serial killer or a team of killers working together.
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Directed by Glenn KershawWritten by Chris MundyGuest stars Patrick Cupo, Barry Pearl, Joaquín Perles, Jake Eberle, Tiffany Coty, Nina Avetisova, Brian Waller, Jack McGee
