Best Criminal Minds Episodes
by jtcarleton | created - 05 Jul 2013 | updated - 05 Jul 2013 | PublicMy Favorite Episodes of Criminal Minds (Seasons 1-8)
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1.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Extreme Aggressor
(2005)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The team travels to Seattle to find the captor of four missing women.
Director: Richard Shepard | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Shemar Moore
Votes: 3,393
2.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Zugzwang
(2013)
TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Reid discovers that his girlfriend has been kidnapped by her stalker, he and the BAU team band together to find her before it's too late.
Director: Jesse Warn | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook
Votes: 3,185
3.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Brothers Hotchner
(2013)
TV-14 | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As The Replicator hones in on one of the BAU, Hotch gets a call from his estranged brother when party people in New York begin "boiling" from the inside out.
Director: Rob Bailey | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook
Votes: 1,671
4.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
The Replicator
(2013)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The team searches for Strauss and The Replicator and try to figure out what he wants.
Director: Glenn Kershaw | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook
Votes: 2,012
5.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
100
(2009)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The BAU team races to help Hotchner find The Reaper and save his family before it's too late.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 3,997
6.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Exit Wounds
(2010)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The team, including Garcia, go to the small town of Franklin, Alaska, to catch a rapidly escalating serial killer before the locals take justice into their own hands.
Director: Charles S. Carroll | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,568
7.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Coda
(2011)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The BAU are called to Louisiana to get information from an autistic boy who has witnessed his parents' abduction. Meanwhile, Prentiss calls in two old colleagues to track down Ian Doyle.
Director: Rob Hardy | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,772
8.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Valhalla
(2011)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a series of killings occur on the BAU's home turf, Prentiss realizes that Ian Doyle is responsible.
Director: Charles S. Carroll | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 1,966
9.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Lauren
(2011)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Prentiss has gone missing to track down Ian Doyle and finish him, her team attempts to track her down and digs deeper into her past.
Director: Matthew Gray Gubler | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,869
10.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Supply and Demand
(2011)
TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The team investigates a suspected human trafficking ring; Hotchner suggests changes are coming; J.J. returns to the team.
Director: Charles S. Carroll | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness
Votes: 1,744
11.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
It Takes a Village
(2011)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The BAU team is at a crossroads as they are questioned by a Senate Committee for their retaliatory actions in the wake of Prentiss' loss, but an unexpected familiar face could help them win their case and keep the team together.
Director: Glenn Kershaw | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,173
12.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Painless
(2011)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The team travel to Boise, Idaho where a serial killer is murdering the survivors of a high school massacre that took place exactly ten years earlier.
Director: Larry Teng | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,329
13.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Hope
(2011)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Penelope calls in the BAU when a grieving member of an emotional support group that she heads abruptly vanishes at the end of a meeting.
Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,523
14.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Snake Eyes
(2012)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A chronic gambler stumbles upon a sure-fire method for manufacturing luck - murder and the number eight.
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,471
15.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Profiling 101
(2012)
TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The BAU joins Agent Rossi as university guest lecturers, scheduled on the same day as Rossi's long-term annual commitment to visit an imprisoned serial killer.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 1,856
16.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Hit
(2012)
TV-14 | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In this first part of a two-part season finale, the BAU encounters a gang of bank-robbing serial killers in the nation's capital. As the team tries to negotiate the situation unfolding inside a bank, one of the team is taken hostage.
Director: Michael Lange | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,183
17.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Run
(2012)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In part two of the season finale, the BAU races to understand the ultimate goal and core dynamic of the remaining Face Cards and their design in keeping Will captive and alive.
Director: Glenn Kershaw | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,224
18.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Broken Mirror
(2005)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
One of a lawyer's identical twin daughters is kidnapped. The kidnapper contacts him and demands ransom money. The team's investigation, however, reveals that he doesn't really want the money, but both girls.
Director: Guy Norman Bee | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Shemar Moore
Votes: 2,663
19.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
L.D.S.K.
(2005)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The team chases a sniper in Des Plaines, Illinois who for some reason only wounds his victims.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Shemar Moore
Votes: 3,198
20.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Derailed
(2005)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A paranoid schizophrenic takes other passengers on a train hostage, including Elle.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Shemar Moore
Votes: 3,255
21.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Secrets and Lies
(2006)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The BAU team investigates a CIA counter-terrorism unit to identify a traitor who had a fellow agent murdered and who is trying to find and kill the unit's informant, a Saudi woman with two children who are in hiding.
Director: Matt Earl Beesley | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini, Shemar Moore
Votes: 2,901
22.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
The Big Game
(2007)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The slaughter of a wealthy couple just after a Super Bowl party puts the BAU on the trail of two killers.
Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore
Votes: 2,370
23.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Revelations
(2007)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reid has been kidnapped, and the BAU's only things to profile are a house, a computer, and the live feed the kidnapper is sending to them.
Director: Guy Norman Bee | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore
Votes: 3,741
24.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Jones
(2007)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The BAU travels to New Orleans' French Quarter where a Jack the Ripper type serial killer is on the loose.
Director: Steve Shill | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore
Votes: 2,982
25.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Seven Seconds
(2007)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The unit works against the clock when a little girl disappears in a mall, believing a serial killer has struck a second time and the first girl died within an hour of abduction.
Director: John Gallagher | Stars: Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,324
26.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Penelope
(2007)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
More is learned about Garcia while the team tries to find the persistent unsub threatening her.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 3,254
27.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
3rd Life
(2008)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two teenage girls go missing, one of which is soon found dead and freshly buried. The team soon suspects that the killings are related to the witness protection program.
Director: Anthony Hemingway | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,291
28.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Lo-Fi
(2008)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
People who apparently have nothing in common are being shot randomly in New York City and the team must determine whether it is the work of a single shooter or a team.
Director: Glenn Kershaw | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,931
29.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Mayhem
(2008)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As the city is on high alert, the team begins to believe that they have made a mistake with the profile and that everything the terrorists have done so far may in fact just have been diversion for something even bigger.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 3,123
30.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Minimal Loss
(2008)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reid and Prentiss, having gone undercover into an underground cult to investigate child abuse, get trapped inside the compound when a federal raid on it goes bad.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,933
31.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Masterpiece
(2008)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A serial killer turns himself in and challenges the team to find five people he has hidden somewhere before they die.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,542
32.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Demonology
(2009)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Prentiss learns from an old friend, John Cooley, that their mutual friend, Matthew Benton, just died from a heart attack. Prentiss had not seen either man in several years, both for ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Allen Bernero | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,552
33.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Amplification
(2009)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The BAU co-work with the U.S. Army to find the perpetrator behind an anthrax attack on a park in Annapolis, Maryland.
Director: John Gallagher | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,931
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