Killing Teams 17 Criminal Minds episodes
Unsubs who kill in pairs or groups, with a dominant partner, a follower and a bond the team must break.
- Season 1 · Episode 1
Extreme Aggressor
Called back from medical leave, Jason Gideon leads the BAU to Seattle to stop a pair of killers before their latest captive’s time runs out.
- Season 2 · Episode 3
The Perfect Storm
When a pair of killers in Jacksonville start mailing videos of their torture to victims’ mothers, the BAU must find out which partner is really in charge before another woman dies.
- Season 2 · Episode 21
Open Season
When young travelers vanish on the roads into Spokane and turn up dead in the Idaho wilderness, the BAU hunts two brothers who stalk people like game.
- Season 2 · Episode 22
Legacy
When a Kansas City detective insists that dozens of homeless people have quietly vanished from his beat, the BAU must find a legal way in before a mission-driven killer strikes again.
- Season 3 · Episode 4
Children of the Dark
When Denver-area families are wiped out in their homes, the parents beaten and the children given lethal injections, the BAU hunts two foster brothers acting out their own abuse.
- Season 3 · Episode 7
Identity
After a militia-minded kidnapper kills himself during a traffic stop, the BAU hunts the submissive partner who helped him imprison women and is now becoming him.
- 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 3 · Episode 20
Lo-Fi
When random shootings spread fear across New York, the BAU joins a strained FBI and police task force and begins to see a terrorist plot behind the killings.
- Season 4 · Episode 12
Soul Mates
When a jailed suspect’s alleged victim turns up freshly killed, the BAU hunts the secret partner he has been writing to online.
- Season 4 · Episode 13
Bloodline
A nomadic family that has stolen girls and killed their parents for generations strikes in Alabama, and the BAU follows the clues a rejected captive remembers.
- Season 4 · Episode 26
…and Back
On an Ontario pig farm, the BAU uncovers dozens of victims and races to find the brother of a paralyzed doctor before he kills a kidnapped girl.
- Season 5 · Episode 3
Reckoner
A dying judge hires a hitman to execute people he believes escaped justice for crimes against children, and the case pulls Rossi back into his Long Island past.
- Season 5 · Episode 4
Hopeless
A trio of construction workers kills strangers for the thrill of it in a gentrifying D.C. neighborhood, while Morgan’s bond with a victim’s sister worries Garcia.
- Season 5 · Episode 5
Cradle to Grave
A couple holds runaways captive to bear children, killing each mother after she gives birth, while pressure from Strauss leads Hotch to step down as unit chief.
- 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 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 20
…A Thousand Words
A serial killer tattooed with his victims’ faces stages his own suicide, and the BAU races to find the hidden partner still holding a missing college student.