FBI Dramas

Criminal Minds is about a team of FBI profilers whose specialty is to analyze and solve crimes by anticipating the criminal’s next move before they break the law again. Together this team makes up the Behavioral Analyst Unit (BAU). Each member has a skill that adds to the team’s effectiveness, and together they analyze some of the country’s most twisted criminal minds.

The cast includes Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook and Kirsten Vangsness.

Criminal Minds airs on CBS, Wednesdays at 9:00 PM ET/PT

Season 3 Episode List

Episode 3.01 – Doubt
Originally aired: 9/26/2007
The team investigates a serial killer who is targeting women at a small college in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Episode 3.02 – In Birth and Death
Originally aired: 10/3/2007
With Gideon missing, and Hotch and Prentiss off the team, the BAU investigates one of its most difficult cases yet as the remaining agents track a serial killer in Milwaukee who abducts women in public places by using his son as bait.

Episode 3.03 – Scared to Death
Originally aired: 10/10/2007
The BAU travels to Portland to assist local authorities in investigating the disappearances of people who are new to the city and have no strong social ties.

Episode 3.04 – Children of the Dark
Originally aired: 10/17/2007
When home invasions involve the murder of entire families, the BAU is called to Denver to identify the killers.

Episode 3.05 – Seven Seconds
Originally aired: 10/24/2007
The investigation turns to the family as the BAU and local authorities race against time to locate a young girl who has disappeared from a shopping mall in Potomac Mills, Virginia.

Episode 3.06 – About Face
Originally aired: 10/31/2007
The BAU travels to Dallas to assist in the search for a murderer who scares his victims with “missing” flyers that display the soon-to-be victims’ photos. The founder of the BAU returns to the team, but with a secret.

Episode 3.07 – Identity
Originally aired: 11/7/2007
The BAU is called to Montana to investigate the case of three kidnapped and murdered women.

Episode 3.08 – Lucky
Originally aired: 11/14/2007
In the first of a two-part story, the BAU pursues a cannibalistic serial killer in Bridgewater, Florida, that leads Morgan to a crisis in his faith. Garcia believes she has met her dream man, but her first date with him doesn’t go exactly as she had expected.

Episode 3.09 – Penelope
Originally aired: 11/21/2007
As Garcia fights for her life in this conclusion of a two-part episode, the BAU’s search for her attacker leads the unit to believe the assailant could be someone close to the investigation.

Episode 3.10 – True Night
Originally aired: 11/28/2007
The BAU and local authorities in Los Angeles investigate gang-related serial killings that might possibly involve a famous comic book artist.
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Episode 3.11 – Birthright
Originally aired: 12/12/2007
The new sheriff in Fredericksburg, Virginia, requests the BAU’s assistance in the investigation of a series of mutilation murders that appear to mimic similar crimes that had occurred over two decades earlier.
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Episode 3.12 – 3rd Life
Originally Aired 01//09/2008
When one teenager is found murdered and her best friend is abducted in Chula Vista, California, the BAU assists local authorities in determining whether the Witness Protection Program is involved.

Episode 3.13 – Limelight
After the contents of a storage locker purchased at an auction take the BAU to Philadelphia to investigate a series of murders, the local agent becomes the center of the case.

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