Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 23 - Our Darkest Hour

Summary: The BAU team hunts a serial killer in Los Angeles who preys on his victims in the dark, killing entire families except for one left alive to remember.

Airdate: 26 May, 2010 3:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 22 - The Internet Is Forever

Summary: The BAU team profiles a serial killer who uses the Internet as his hunting ground, bringing a whole meaning to the term "social networking".

Airdate: 19 May, 2010 3:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 21 - Exit Wounds

Summary: Garcia plays a crucial role in a case when she travels to Alaska with the BAU team to investigate the murders of several members of a small town.

Airdate: 19 May, 2010 3:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 20 - A Thousand Words

The BAU team must profile a serial killer covered in tattoos who commits suicide, but leaves clues to the whereabouts of his last

Forest Whitaker in a possible Criminal Minds spin-off?

Yesterday, Criminal Minds Season 5 episode 18 the Fight was different… They worked with another team, under the direction of Sam Cooper (Forest Whitaker), and because they introduced us the team in lengthy manners, my sister guessed that they would be new characters for a spin-off. After all, Criminal Minds is in its 5th season and still going strong. Turns out she was right.

It’s too bad they spend that amount of viewing time introducing those characters because the story was really interesting and we didn’t get to see much of

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 19 - Rite of Passage

Summary: The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants attempting to make safe passage into the U.S.

Airdate: 14 April, 2010 3:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 18 - The Fight

The BAU team travels to San Francisco to investigate the murders of several homeless men and teams up with a separate group of BAU operatives who are

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 17 - Solitary Man

Synopsis: After a child abduction case this week, the "Criminal Minds" BAU team will deal with a highway killer next week. A truck driver is kidnapping women and disposing of them in random locations and the BAU must find out his motive in order to catch him.

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Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 16 - Mosley Lane

After a three-week hiatus, Criminal Minds returns tonight with another creepy episode. The team profiles a child abductor who may have been harboring children

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 15 - Public Enemy

Tonight on Criminal Minds, the team profiles a serial killer who murders his victims in public places, hoping to cause widespread fear. The BAU is summoned to Rhode Island to investigate the case in Providence, and things not so surprisingly turn intense as the

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 14 - Parasite

Summary: The BAU follows the mental decline of a con artist whose schemes have become so complicated that he begins to eliminate the people involved in

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 13 - Risky Business

Synopsis: From someone who abducts women and turns them into real-life dolls, now we go to teens committing suicide? It's hard to decide which is creepier/sadder. On tonight's episode of Criminal Minds, the BAU is called to assist local authorities in a rural Wyoming town when teens are found dead from

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 12 - The Uncanny Valley

How's this for a Hotch welcome party? On the upcoming episode of Criminal Minds, there will be dolls, and a woman who kidnaps four women to turn them into her real-life doll collection. Elsewhere on "The Uncanny Valley" SSA Hotchner is struggling to

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 11 - Retaliation

Morgan and Prentiss are in pursuit of Dale Schraeder, a recently paroled bank robber, now wanted for murder and kidnapping his own daughter. Schraeder is apprehended and placed under arrest. As Prentiss and

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 10 - The Slave of Duty

On tonight's episode of Criminal Minds, Agent Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) takes a leave of absence from the BAU, and the team must regroup to solve a home invasion case.

So will there be a Hotch-Prentiss hug, finally? There are also rumors of a couple breaking up on the show. Is it

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 9 - One Hundred

Each member of the BAU is part of an internal investigation about events that have already transpired. The story of the case is told through each of their interviews. When Karl Arnold aka 'The Fox' told Hotch that the letters

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 8 - Outfoxed

A series of family annihilation killings brings Hotch and the team face to face with one of the most horrific killers from their past, Karl Arnold AKA "The Fox" (Season 1), after a series of serial family killings over the last two years show eerie similarities to the

Criminal Minds Season 5, Episode 7 - The Performer

The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seem to align with the tour pattern of a popular rockstar. The dark, vampire-like stage persona presented by the aging star seems to point to him as the killer, but the team struggles with so

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 6 - The Eyes Have It All

Summary: While Hotch and the rest of the team look on, Morgan and Chief Strauss discuss the current cases at hand. It's broken up by their next assignment: tracking an enucleator, a killer who removes the eyes of his victims. As the investigation gets underway in Oklahoma City, another victim is found, a jogger tripped up by a wire on a remote trail. Looking at the victim,

Criminal Minds Season 5 Episode 5 - Cradle to Grave

One more ill-minded case is brought to the table on "Criminal Minds". In "Cradle to the Grave" which is airing October 21, the team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them. Guest cast include Hallee Hirsh, Jayne Atkinson and Erik Sundquist.