Criminal Minds

Season 5 (23 Episodes)

2009 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 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 Faceless, Nameless

1. Faceless, Nameless

Aired: Sep 23, 2009

A man is threatening to kill a doctor's son and is killing a man a day until ...

Episode 2 Haunted

2. Haunted

Aired: Sep 30, 2009

Darrin Call, a psychotic, suffers a breakdown in a pharmacy in Kentucky and s...

Episode 3 Reckoner

3. Reckoner

Aired: Oct 7, 2009

A hitman targeting people in some way guilty of children-related crimes bring...

Episode 4 Hopeless

4. Hopeless

Aired: Oct 14, 2009

The BAU go after a pack of killers who mercilessly beat their victims to deat...

Episode 5 Cradle to Grave

5. Cradle to Grave

Aired: Oct 21, 2009

The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth ...

Episode 6 The Eyes Have It

6. The Eyes Have It

Aired: Nov 4, 2009

The BAU team tracks a serial killer who takes the eyes of his victims.

Episode 7 The Performer

7. The Performer

Aired: Nov 11, 2009

The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seems to align with the tour sch...

Episode 8 Outfoxed

8. Outfoxed

Aired: Nov 18, 2009

While tracking a family annihilator, the BAU must seek advice from "The Fox,"...

Episode 9 100

9. 100

Aired: Nov 25, 2009

The BAU team races to help Hotchner find The Reaper and save his family befor...

Episode 10 The Slave of Duty

10. The Slave of Duty

Aired: Dec 9, 2009

While Agent Hotchner takes a leave of absence from the BAU, the team must reg...

Episode 11 Retaliation

11. Retaliation

Aired: Dec 16, 2009

The BAU must profile a criminal's past in order to catch him after he escapes...

Episode 12 The Uncanny Valley

12. The Uncanny Valley

Aired: Jan 13, 2010

An unusual personal obsession is at the center of a BAU abduction case. Meanw...

Episode 13 Risky Business

13. Risky Business

Aired: Jan 20, 2010

A rash of startling teen suicides in a small Wyoming town is the focus of a B...

Episode 14 Parasite

14. Parasite

Aired: Feb 3, 2010

The BAU follows the mental decline of a con artist whose schemes have become ...

Episode 15 Public Enemy

15. Public Enemy

Aired: Feb 10, 2010

A serial killer who targets random victims in highly visible places to create...

Episode 16 Mosley Lane

16. Mosley Lane

Aired: Mar 3, 2010

The BAU profiles a child abductor who may have been keeping children for more...

Episode 17 Solitary Man

17. Solitary Man

Aired: Mar 10, 2010

The relatively new Highway Serial Killer Database reveals an interstate seria...

Episode 18 The Fight

18. The Fight

Aired: Apr 7, 2010

The BAU team travels to San Francisco to investigate the murders of several h...

Episode 19 Rite of Passage

19. Rite of Passage

Aired: Apr 14, 2010

The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigr...

Episode 20 ...A Thousand Words

20. ...A Thousand Words

Aired: May 5, 2010

The BAU team must profile a serial killer covered in tattoos, who commits sui...

Episode 21 Exit Wounds

21. Exit Wounds

Aired: May 12, 2010

The team, including Garcia, go to the small town of Franklin, Alaska, to catc...

Episode 23 Our Darkest Hour

23. Our Darkest Hour

Aired: May 26, 2010

The BAU is called to California when a sadistic serial killer appears and beg...

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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: CBS

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery