Criminal Minds
Season 1
22 listed hours · 2005–2020 · CBS
From the desk
How this season is filed
The jet, the profile board, the unsub of the week: CBS packaged serial-killer dread as a long-haul appointment ritual. Criminal Minds is bullpen warmth against formulaic dark — Reid's brain, Garcia's color, a procedural that lasted long enough to grow folklore and a streaming encore.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Criminal Minds (2005–2020) on CBS as the first listed season of 19 — 22 listed hours, 2005-09-22–2006-05-10 from “Extreme Aggressor” (S01E01) to “The Fisher King (1)” (S01E22). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Extreme Aggressor
Extreme Aggressor opens the bullpen: serial-killer dread as appointment ritual, Reid's brain and Garcia's color already the warmth against the formula.
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S01E01 Extreme Aggressor
CRIMINAL MINDS revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again.
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S01E02 Compulsion
The team investigates a series of fires set on a college campus.
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S01E03 Won't Get Fooled Again
Gideon suspects that a serial bomber attacking a small town is actually a disciple of Adrian Bale, his greatest nemesis.
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S01E04 Plain Sight
The Behavioral Analysis Unit travels to San Diego to profile a rapist and murderer who commits his crimes in the middle of the day.
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S01E05 Broken Mirror
When the daughter of a U.S. District Attorney is kidnapped, the suspect attempts to take her twin sister as well.
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S01E06 L.D.S.K.
The Behavioral Analysis Unit is called in to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight.
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S01E07 The Fox
The FBI team attempts to catch a killer who preys on families while they are supposed to be away on vacation.
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S01E08 Natural Born Killer
When an undercover cop is taken captive, the Behavioral Analysis Unit believes a serial killer is responsible.
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S01E09 Derailed
Hotchner and Gideon must move quickly to save Elle and the other passengers taken hostage on a train by a delusional fellow passenger who threatens to kill them all.
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S01E10 The Popular Kids
Hotchner and his team investigate whether or not two high school students murdered in a small town may have been victims of a cult killing.
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S01E11 Blood Hungry
Hotchner and his team attempt to get inside the mind of a psychotic killer whose fantasies lead him to murder.
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S01E12 What Fresh Hell?
Gideon, Hotchner and their team investigate the suspicious kidnapping of a young girl from a local park.
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S01E13 Poison
Gideon, Hotchner and their team attempt to catch a suspect who has poisoned multiple residents of a small town.
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S01E14 Riding the Lightning
The FBI profilers interview husband and wife serial killers two days before they are set to be executed.
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S01E15 Unfinished Business
Gideon, Hotchner and their team reopen the unsolved case of a serial killer who has attacked someone for the first time in 20 years.
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S01E16 The Tribe
The BAU team investigates the mass murder of five college students killed in a method similar to that used by a local Native American tribe in times of war long ago.
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S01E17 A Real Rain
Gideon, Hotchner and their team investigate a series of killings that appear to be the work of a vigilante.
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S01E18 Somebody's Watching
Dr. Reid falls for a Hollywood starlet at the center of a murder investigation.
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S01E19 Machismo
Gideon, Hotchner and their team head to Mexico to aid in the investigation of a serial killer who preys on the elderly.
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S01E20 Charm and Harm
Gideon, Hotchner and their team race to catch a serial killer on the run across the South.
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S01E21 Secrets and Lies
The CIA takes over the FBI field office when Gideon and the team are called in to profile a CIA mole.
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S01E22 The Fisher King (1)
Gideon, Hotchner and their team become pawns in the fantasy game of a psychopathic killer who challenges them to unravel a series of clues and riddles in order to save his next victim.
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