Season 1 - Episode 1 - Extreme Aggressor
Air Date: Sep 22, 2005
Description: When a fourth woman goes missing in Seattle during the course of four months, the team is brought in to profile her captor and find him before he strikes again. Gideon, who has taken a six month leave of absence since running lead on a case in Boston that ended in disaster, is asked back to help crack the case. While the team works to hunt down the serial killer, Hot ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Compulsion
Air Date: Sep 28, 2005
Description: The team is dispatched to a college campus to investigate a series of arson fires that have killed several people. The unsub seems to have a compulsion regarding the number three.
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Won't Get Fooled Again
Air Date: Oct 5, 2005
Description: Gideon suspects that a serial bomber attacking a small town is actually a disciple of Adrian Bale, his greatest nemesis.
The Behavioral Analysis Unit is on the trail of a serial bomber who turns out to be a copycat of Adrian Bale, the bomber responsible for murdering Gideon's previous team of profilers in Boston several years prior. Gideon must confront his old ne ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Plain Sight
Air Date: Oct 12, 2005
Description: The Behavioral Analysis Unit travels to San Diego to profile a rapist and murderer who commits his crimes in the middle of the day.
The suspect attacks in the light of day, yet blends so seamlessly into the neighborhoods he targets that local authorities have been unable to catch him. The BAU team creates a profile to aid in the investigation, than heads out into t ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Broken Mirror
Air Date: Oct 19, 2005
Description: When the daughter of a U.S. District Attorney is kidnapped, the suspect attempts to take her twin sister as well.
The Behavioral Analysis Unit quickly determines that the kidnapper isn't after money -- he's after the victim's twin sister. Now, they must determine how to save the original victim without putting her twin in danger, which becomes even more complicated ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 6 - L.d.s.k.
Air Date: Nov 2, 2005
Description: The Behavioral Analysis Unit is called in to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight.
As the attacks begin to escalate, Hotchner and his team work with local law enforcement to recreate one of the shootings in an effort to stop the violence before it escalates any further. However, a shocking turn of events leads the team to change their pro ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 7 - The Fox
Air Date: Nov 9, 2005
Description: The team attempts to catch a killer who preys on families while they are supposed to be away on vacation.
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Derailed
Air Date: Nov 23, 2005
Description: Hotchner and Gideon must move quickly to save Elle and the other passengers taken hostage on a train by a delusional fellow passenger who threatens to kill them all.
When a paranoid schizophrenic passenger has a delusional episode on board a train, Hotchner and Gideon must play into his fantasy in order to save the people he has taken hostage. To that end, they sen ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 10 - The Popular Kids
Air Date: Nov 30, 2005
Description: Hotchner and his team investigate whether or not two high school students murdered in a small town may have been victims of a cult killing.
Based on the crime scene evidence, the FBI profilers begin to believe that it's possible that someone other than a cult member may be responsible for the teenagers' deaths. The whole town turns out to help with the investigatio ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Blood Hungry
Air Date: Dec 14, 2005
Description: Hotchner and his team attempt to get inside the mind of a psychotic killer whose fantasies lead him to murder.
The murders are disorganized and erratic, making it hard for the team to put together a pattern of intent. However, when Gideon uncovers similar evidence at more than one of the crime scenes, it gives the profilers the key element they need to help them un ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 12 - What Fresh Hell?
Air Date: Jan 11, 2006
Description: When a young girl is abducted in broad daylight from a neighborhood playground, the FBI profilers initially think that her father is responsible for her disappearance. However, when the girl's dad turns up later with a credible alibi, the team must turn their attention to the seemingly safe neighborhood in which the child lives to find clues as to who might be respons ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Poison
Air Date: Jan 18, 2006
Description: Gideon, Hotchner and their team attempt to catch a suspect who has poisoned multiple residents of a small town.
After determining that the suspect used LSD and ruphies to poison the town residents, the team must next identify what type of poisoner they are dealing with, such as vengeful or prankster, in order to ascertain his motive.
As they piece together a pro ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Riding The Lightning
Air Date: Jan 25, 2006
Description: The FBI profilers interview husband and wife serial killers two days before they are set to be executed.
As the interviews progress, Gideon begins to suspect that the wife may be innocent of the crimes committed. Racing against the clock, the team sets out to prove she was one of her husband's victims, rather than his partner in crime, before it is too late.
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Unfinished Business
Air Date: Mar 1, 2006
Description: Gideon, Hotchner and their team reopen the unsolved case of a serial killer who has attacked someone for the first time in 20 years.
The serial killer resurfaces after 20 years of silence and contacts the Behavioral Analysis Unit with the promise that he will kill another victim in the next five days. As the team springs into action, Gideon enlists the help of a fo ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 16 - The Tribe
Air Date: Mar 8, 2006
Description: The BAU team investigates the mass murder of five college students killed in a method similar to that used by a local Native American tribe in times of war long ago.
Gideon, Hotchner and their team believe that a pack of killers who are part of a dangerous cult may be responsible for the student deaths. They interview the residents of a nearby Indian reservation, a ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 17 - A Real Rain
Air Date: Mar 22, 2006
Description: Gideon, Hotchner and their team investigate a series of killings that appear to be the work of a vigilante.
At first, the murders taking place in Manhattan seem random, but then the NYPD begins to fear that the serial killer is copying the infamous Son of Sam. When the Behavioral Analysis Unit is brought in to help with the case, they discover a link between the vi ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Somebody's Watching
Air Date: Mar 29, 2006
Description: Dr. Reid falls for a Hollywood starlet at the center of a murder investigation. When people surrounding the successful television actress start dying, Gideon and Dr. Reid call in the rest of the Behavioral Analysis Unit to assist with the case. As the team tracks down a stalker turned serial killer, Dr. Reid finds himself in danger as he grows closer to the actress in ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Machismo
Air Date: Apr 12, 2006
Description: Gideon, Hotchner and their team head to Mexico to aid in the investigation of a serial killer who preys on the elderly.
The Behavioral Analysis team initially faces resistance from local law enforcement officials, whose investigative techniques differ greatly from those used by the team in domestic cases. However, when another person is murdered, the two factions j ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Charm And Harm
Air Date: Apr 19, 2006
Description: Gideon, Hotchner and their team race to catch a serial killer on the run across the South. The serial killer changes his appearance like a chameleon in order to elude authorities and continue his killing spree. It is up to the Behavioral Analysis Unit to look beyond his multiple appearances and profile the man underneath in order to locate him before he takes his next ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Secrets And Lies
Air Date: May 3, 2006
Description: The CIA takes over the FBI field office when Gideon and the team are called in to profile a CIA mole. The mole is leaking classified information from within the CIA, putting the lives of several operatives at risk. During the team's investigation, the CIA takes over the Behavioral Analysis Unit offices and computers in order to prevent any further security leaks. Work ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 22 - The Fisher King (1)
Air Date: May 10, 2006
Description: After each receiving mysterious items while on their respective vacations, Gideon, Hotchner and the rest of the team reconvene at the BAU offices in order to put all of the interlocking clues and messages together in the hopes of solving the case.