An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.
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- Seasons
- 19
- Episodes aired
- 364
- Latest aired
- S19E10
- Total runtime
- 10d 21h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 2005 – May 2006 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 2006 – May 2007 23 episodes
- Season 3 September 2007 – May 2008 20 episodes
- Season 4 September 2008 – May 2009 26 episodes
- Season 5 September 2009 – May 2010 23 episodes
- Season 6 September 2010 – May 2011 24 episodes
- Season 7 September 2011 – May 2012 24 episodes
- Season 8 September 2012 – May 2013 24 episodes
- Season 9 September 2013 – May 2014 24 episodes
- Season 10 October 2014 – May 2015 23 episodes
- Season 11 September 2015 – May 2016 22 episodes
- Season 12 September 2016 – May 2017 22 episodes
- Season 13 September 2017 – April 2018 22 episodes
- Season 14 October 2018 – February 2019 15 episodes
- Season 15 January 2020 – February 2020 10 episodes
- the show was away for 2 years and 9 months
- Season 16 November 2022 – February 2023 10 episodes
- Season 17 June 2024 – August 2024 10 episodes
- Season 18 May 2025 – July 2025 10 episodes
- Season 19 May 2026 – July 2026 10 episodes
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S01E01 Extreme Aggressor
September 22 · 40min find the promo
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After a fourth woman goes missing in as many months, the team is brought in to track down the guy before he kidnaps again. Hotch is asked to secretly evaluate Gideon to see if he is ready to work full time again.
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S01E02 Compulsion
September 28 · 43min find the promo
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The team of investigators tries to capture a serial arsonist who has been terrorizing a college campus.
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S01E03 Won't Get Fooled Again
October 5 · 41min find the promo
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Gideon and his team track down a copycat bomber terrorizing a quiet community.
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S01E04 Plain Sight
October 12 · 40min find the promo
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The BAU team travels to San Diego to stop a rapist and murderer who commits his crimes in the middle of the day.
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S01E05 Broken Mirror
October 19 · 42min find the promo
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The BAU investigates the kidnapping of a U.S. District Attorney's daughter and determines the kidnapper isn't seeking money -- he's after her twin sister.
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S01E06 L.D.S.K.
November 2 · 40min find the promo
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The BAU is asked to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight, and the team works with local law enforcement officers to recreate one of the shootings.
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S01E07 The Fox
November 9 · 42min find the promo
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The BAU profiles a serial killer who takes families hostage and lives with them as a father figure during what is supposed to be their family vacations.
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S01E08 Natural Born Killer
November 16 · 42min find the promo
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When an undercover cop in Baltimore involved in a mob investigation goes missing, the BAU believes a serial killer rather than organized crime has something to do with his disappearance. The probe leads to several unsolved missing persons cases.
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S01E09 Derailed
November 23 · 41min find the promo
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Elle, along with many others, is held hostage on a train in Texas by a paranoid schizophrenic who is convinced that the U.S. government is monitoring him. Hotchner and Gideon are forced to play into the man's fantasy to save the people he has taken hostage.
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S01E10 The Popular Kids
November 30 · 41min find the promo
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The team investigates the death of one teen, and the disappearance of another , which may be linked to a satanic ritual.
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S01E11 Blood Hungry
December 14 · 43min find the promo
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While Gideon is stuck at the office on crutches, the rest of the team travels to Tennessee to track down a killer who disembowels his victims and supposedly eats their organs.
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S01E12 What Fresh Hell?
January 11 · 43min find the promo
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When a young girl is abducted in broad daylight from a playground in a seemingly safe neighborhood, the BAU team initially believes her father is responsible. When he is able to provide an alibi, the team is forced to look for clues where the girl lives to determine who is really responsible.
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S01E13 Poison
January 18 · 40min find the promo
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The team travels to New Jersey where several people have been poisoned, one of them fatally with LSD, ten times more potent than the street version.
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S01E14 Riding the Lightning
January 25 · 43min find the promo
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After interviewing a couple on death row for serial murders, Gideon suspects that the woman is actually innocent. But since she's set to be executed in two days, it's a race against time to prove it.
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S01E15 Unfinished Business
March 1 · 41min find the promo
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A serial killer reappears after 20 years of silence and contacts the BAU with the promise he will kill another victim in the next five days.
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S01E16 The Tribe
March 8 · 43min find the promo
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The BAU team believes a dangerous cult may be responsible for the mass murders of five college students in an empty house.
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S01E17 A Real Rain
March 22 · 42min find the promo
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The BAU unit travels to NYC to investigate a series of murders that appears to have been committed by a vigilante conducting revenge on former criminals who have been released by the justice system.
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S01E18 Somebody's Watching
March 29 · 42min find the promo
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Reid finds himself in danger when he falls for a starlet whose stalker has turned into a killer.
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S01E19 Machismo
April 12 · 41min find the promo
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The BAU team travels to Mexico to aid in the capture of a serial killer who is targeting elderly women.
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S01E20 Charm and Harm
April 19 · 41min find the promo
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The BAU works to capture a serial killer who has evaded capture by altering his appearance.
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S01E21 Secrets and Lies
May 3 · 42min find the promo
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The BAU works with the CIA to identify a mole within that organization, whose leaks are putting operatives at risk.
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S01E22 The Fisher King (1)
May 10 · 41min find the promo
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While on their vacations, each of the team receives a clue from a psychopathic killer challenging them to save his next victim.