Criminal Minds

Season 12 (22 Episodes)

2016 TV-MA 42m 8.1

A group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) using behavioral analysis and profiling to help investigate crimes and find the suspect known as the unsub.

Based in Quantico, Virginia, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (B.A.U.) is a subsection of the F.B.I. Called in by local Police departments to assist in solving crimes of a serial and/or extremely violent nature where the perpetrator is unknown (referred to by the Unit as the unknown subject or "unsub" for short), the B.A.U. uses the controversial scientific art of profiling to track and apprehend the unsub. Profiling entails coming up with basic characteristics of the unsub and the victims (referred to as the victimology), using evidence from the case and matching that information to historic precedents and psychological analyses as a means to solve the case. Because of the nature of the work conducted by the B.A.U. - the work being time consuming and psychologically demanding - its members are fiercely loyal to the Unit and to its other members. Also because of the work's overall demanding nature, not many members of the B.A.U. have been able to maintain a happy or stable family life.

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Season 12 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Crimson King

1. The Crimson King

Aired: Sep 28, 2016

Luke Alvez (Adam Rodriguez) and the team track down one of the 13 prisoners t...

Episode 2 Sick Day

2. Sick Day

Aired: Oct 5, 2016

JJ tells her husband about the abduction of two children.

Episode 3 Taboo

3. Taboo

Aired: Oct 12, 2016

The BAU welcomes back Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) as they are called upon...

Episode 4 Keeper

4. Keeper

Aired: Oct 26, 2016

The BAU team searches for a serial killer along the Appalachian Trail in rura...

Episode 5 The Anti-Terror Squad

5. The Anti-Terror Squad

Aired: Nov 9, 2016

The BAU investigates the case of two murdered families where the oldest sibli...

Episode 6 Elliott's Pond

6. Elliott's Pond

Aired: Nov 16, 2016

When three children disappear while riding their bikes on the same path as a ...

Episode 7 Mirror Image

7. Mirror Image

Aired: Nov 30, 2016

The BAU opens an investigation when a man arrives in town believing he's the ...

Episode 8 Scarecrow

8. Scarecrow

Aired: Dec 7, 2016

The team heads to Yakima, Washington when the remains of a dozen people are f...

Episode 9 Profiling 202

9. Profiling 202

Aired: Jan 4, 2017

While Rossi conducts a profiling course on his birthday, he receives a call f...

Episode 10 Seek and Destroy

10. Seek and Destroy

Aired: Jan 11, 2017

The team investigates a series of home invasions in San Diego involving casua...

Episode 11 Surface Tension

11. Surface Tension

Aired: Feb 1, 2017

Reid has returned from Houston, where he was visiting his mother who is in a ...

Episode 12 A Good Husband

12. A Good Husband

Aired: Feb 8, 2017

The BAU investigates the case of a killer who dismembered their victim before...

Episode 13 Spencer

13. Spencer

Aired: Feb 15, 2017

When a member of the BAU gets in trouble in Mexico, they enlist the help of t...

Episode 14 Collision Course

14. Collision Course

Aired: Feb 22, 2017

The BAU investigates a series of pedestrian deaths while a teammate's fate re...

Episode 15 Alpha Male

15. Alpha Male

Aired: Mar 1, 2017

A series of acid attacks draw the BAU to Philadelphia, while Reid adjusts to ...

Episode 16 Assistance Is Futile

16. Assistance Is Futile

Aired: Mar 15, 2017

A mother comes forward with information to help the BAU in their investigatio...

Episode 17 In the Dark

17. In the Dark

Aired: Mar 22, 2017

The BAU suspects that two unsubs are operating at the same time when victims ...

Episode 18 Hell's Kitchen

18. Hell's Kitchen

Aired: Mar 29, 2017

The BAU investigates an urban vampire who kidnaps his victims at night and ho...

Episode 19 True North

19. True North

Aired: Apr 5, 2017

Three victims are found tied to stakes in the Arizona desert.

Episode 20 Unforgettable

20. Unforgettable

Aired: Apr 26, 2017

The BAU investigates when several federal government employees, including a c...

Episode 21 Green Light

21. Green Light

Aired: May 3, 2017

When Reid fears his mother has been abducted, he asks the BAU to investigate ...

Episode 22 Red Light

22. Red Light

Aired: May 10, 2017

Derek Morgan brings the BAU a lead in the case against serial killer and esca...

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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: CBS

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery