California 11 Criminal Minds episodes
The BAU works 11 cases in California, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chula Vista and Lockeford, from “Plain Sight” (2005) to “Our Darkest Hour” (2010).
Los Angeles, California
- Season 1 · Episode 18
Somebody's Watching
While teaching in Los Angeles, Gideon and Reid join the hunt for a stalker who kills a young TV actress’s rivals, and Reid grows close to her.
- Season 2 · Episode 4
Psychodrama
When a Los Angeles bank robber who strips his hostages starts staging violent scenes with them, the BAU must understand his fantasy before he kills again.
- Season 3 · Episode 10
True Night
A string of brutal killings of Los Angeles gang members leads the BAU to a graphic novelist whose new pages show the crime scenes and whose mind has broken since a gang attack.
- Season 5 · Episode 7
The Performer
When young women in Los Angeles are found drained of blood, the BAU’s trail leads to a goth rock star whose fans worship his vampire persona.
- Season 5 · Episode 23
Our Darkest Hour
During a Los Angeles heat wave, the BAU hunts a killer who invades homes during rolling blackouts and always leaves one witness alive, and whose past crimes reach into the lead detective’s childhood.
San Francisco, California
- Season 2 · Episode 19
Ashes and Dust
When an arsonist burns San Francisco families to death in their homes, the BAU traces him through a radical environmental group whose secretive, dying leader may be the key.
- Season 5 · Episode 18
The Fight
Sam Cooper persuades Hotch to defy orders and let his Red Cell team join the BAU’s case in San Francisco, where a former convict abducts fathers and daughters and makes the fathers fight for their lives.
Elsewhere in California
- Season 1 · Episode 4
Plain Sight
The BAU hunts a San Diego killer who strikes in daylight, glues his victims’ eyes open and slips past heavy patrols unseen.
- Season 3 · Episode 12
3rd Life
When two teenage girls disappear from a movie theater and one turns up dead, the BAU must sort out whether a witness’s violent past or a local gang of drunken boys is to blame.
- Season 4 · Episode 5
Catching Out
When a killer who makes himself at home in his victims’ houses strikes across California’s farm country, the BAU follows the rail lines to find him.
- Season 4 · Episode 5
Catching Out
When a killer who makes himself at home in his victims’ houses strikes across California’s farm country, the BAU follows the rail lines to find him.
- Season 4 · Episode 11
Normal
A seemingly ordinary father turns Orange County’s freeways into a shooting gallery, and the BAU races to reach his family before he does.