Criminal Minds · Crimes
Hostage Standoffs 4 Criminal Minds episodes
Standoffs in which an offender holds people captive and the team has to talk, profile and wait.
- Season 1 · Episode 9
Derailed
A schizophrenic physicist takes a train car hostage in West Texas, with Elle among his captives, and Reid boards to play along with his delusion.
- 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 4 · Episode 3
Minimal Loss
When a raid on a Colorado cult goes wrong, Prentiss and Reid are trapped inside with its prophet, and the BAU must get the women and children out alive.
- Season 5 · Episode 14
Parasite
A con man juggling ten aliases begins killing the investors who see through him, and the BAU follows his paper trail to the family he keeps hidden.