Virginia 16 Criminal Minds episodes
The BAU works 16 cases in Virginia, in Arlington, McLean, Alexandria and Ashburn, from “The Fox” (2005) to “Mosley Lane” (2010).
Arlington, Virginia
- Season 1 · Episode 7
The Fox
The BAU tracks a killer who moves in with families about to leave on vacation, plays the father for days and then murders them in the basement.
- Season 1 · Episode 22
The Fisher King: Part 1
On vacation, each BAU agent receives a clue from a killer who sets the team a medieval quest to save a girl missing for two years.
- Season 5 · Episode 9
100
In the 100th episode, an inquiry into the BAU’s hunt for George Foyet retraces how the Reaper found Hotch’s family in hiding and how the chase ended.
McLean, Virginia
- Season 2 · Episode 23
No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank
When Frank Breitkopf kills a woman in Gideon’s apartment and leaves him under suspicion, the BAU hunts Frank as he targets the people Gideon has saved.
- Season 5 · Episode 1
Nameless, Faceless
A vengeful father threatens a trauma surgeon’s teenage son, while the BAU discovers the Reaper has attacked Hotch and found his family.
Elsewhere in Virginia
- Season 1 · Episode 10
The Popular Kids
When a quarterback is killed and his girlfriend goes missing beside satanic symbols on a Virginia mountain, the BAU looks past the devil-worship panic to the person staging it.
- Season 1 · Episode 21
Secrets and Lies
Called into CIA headquarters, the BAU must expose a mole in a counterterrorism unit before a Saudi diplomat finds the wife who informed on him.
- Season 2 · Episode 1
The Fisher King: Part 2
With Elle shot and a kidnapped girl still missing, the BAU decodes the Fisher King’s last clues and finds that Reid’s mother knows who he is.
- Season 2 · Episode 1
The Fisher King: Part 2
With Elle shot and a kidnapped girl still missing, the BAU decodes the Fisher King’s last clues and finds that Reid’s mother knows who he is.
- Season 2 · Episode 2
P911
When a boy the FBI lost track of a year ago appears in a live online auction, the BAU joins the Crimes Against Children Unit to find him before the sale closes.
- Season 2 · Episode 2
P911
When a boy the FBI lost track of a year ago appears in a live online auction, the BAU joins the Crimes Against Children Unit to find him before the sale closes.
- Season 2 · Episode 10
Lessons Learned
With an anthrax attack days away, Gideon tries to reach a terror recruiter held at Guantanamo Bay while the rest of the BAU hunts his sleeper cell.
- Season 3 · Episode 5
Seven Seconds
When a 6-year-old disappears inside a Virginia mall a week after another girl was abducted and killed, the BAU searches the locked-down building and finds the danger is closer to home.
- Season 3 · Episode 11
Birthright
When women start vanishing around Fredericksburg in the pattern of an unsolved 1980 killing spree, the BAU needs the original sheriff and a survivor who has denied her ordeal for decades.
- Season 3 · Episode 19
Tabula Rasa
When a suspected serial killer wakes from a four-year coma claiming to remember nothing, the BAU must rebuild its old case to convict him at trial.
- Season 4 · Episode 8
Masterpiece
A killer who has studied David Rossi’s books turns himself in and dares the BAU to find a kidnapped mother and four children before his deadlines run out.
- Season 4 · Episode 8
Masterpiece
A killer who has studied David Rossi’s books turns himself in and dares the BAU to find a kidnapped mother and four children before his deadlines run out.
- Season 5 · Episode 8
Outfoxed
As a killer wipes out Virginia military families while the fathers are deployed, Hotch and Prentiss question the imprisoned family annihilator who received the killer’s fan mail.
- Season 5 · Episode 16
Mosley Lane
When a girl is snatched from a crowded festival, the BAU comes to believe a grieving mother who has spent eight years insisting her own abducted son is still alive.
- Season 5 · Episode 16
Mosley Lane
When a girl is snatched from a crowded festival, the BAU comes to believe a grieving mother who has spent eight years insisting her own abducted son is still alive.