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Torture 10 Criminal Minds episodes

Unsubs who hold their victims and draw out their suffering, and the team’s race to reach them in time.

  1. Season 1 · Episode 8

    Natural Born Killer

    Aired November 16, 2005

    A Baltimore triple murder leads the BAU to a mob hit man who tortures his victims, and to an undercover FBI agent who has gone missing.

  2. Season 1 · Episode 20

    Charm and Harm

    Aired April 19, 2006

    The BAU races to catch an identified serial killer, a master of disguise, as he flees Florida and kills his way across the South.

  3. Season 2 · Episode 13

    No Way Out

    Aired January 17, 2007

    Called to a Nevada town where bodies missing a single rib have surfaced for years, the BAU closes in on the most prolific serial killer it has ever tracked, who has a hostage plan of his own.

  4. Season 2 · Episode 20

    Honor Among Thieves

    Aired April 11, 2007

    When Prentiss’s mother asks the BAU to help a Russian immigrant family whose father has been kidnapped and mutilated, the team finds that the mob, the ransom and the daughter are not what they seem.

  5. Season 3 · Episode 3

    Scared to Death

    Aired October 10, 2007

    When a mass grave in Portland reveals victims killed in wildly different ways, the BAU tracks a psychiatrist who poses as a phobia specialist and uses each patient’s worst fear against them.

  6. Season 3 · Episode 7

    Identity

    Aired November 7, 2007

    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.

  7. Season 3 · Episode 11

    Birthright

    Aired December 12, 2007

    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.

  8. Season 3 · Episode 13

    Limelight

    Aired January 23, 2008

    When a storage unit sold at auction turns out to hold a sadistic killer’s journals, the BAU works with a fame-hungry Philadelphia agent to find the man who wrote them.

  9. Season 4 · Episode 9

    52 Pickup

    Aired November 26, 2008

    A former motel killer reinvents himself as a nightclub charmer, and the BAU must work out what a pickup-artist guru taught him.

  10. Season 5 · Episode 9

    100

    Aired November 25, 2009

    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.

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