Criminal Minds
Season 5
23 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 5 of Criminal Minds (2005–2020) on CBS as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 19) — 23 listed hours, 2009-09-23–2010-05-26 from “Nameless, Faceless” (S05E01) to “Our Darkest Hour” (S05E23). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S05E01 Nameless, Faceless
Nameless, Faceless relaunches year five on a title that sounds like the unsub file itself — long-haul procedural still using anonymity as a threat.
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S05E01 Nameless, Faceless
Hotch's unexplained absence quickly becomes apparent when the team is called back together to profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor.
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S05E02 Haunted
When a disturbed man kills several people at a pharmacy, the BAU must figure out what triggered his actions before he hurts anyone else.
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S05E03 Reckoner
The BAU investigates a case in Rossi's hometown that involves both his personal and professional life.
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S05E04 Hopeless
A group of suspects with a pack mentality who kill for the thrill of it are the subjects of a BAU manhunt.
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S05E05 Cradle to Grave
The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them.
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S05E06 The Eyes Have It
The BAU team tracks a serial killer who keeps the eyes of his victims as souvenirs.
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S05E07 The Performer
The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seems to align with the tour schedule of a rock star.
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S05E08 Outfoxed
While tracking a family annihilator, the BAU must seek advice from "The Fox," one of the most horrific killers from the team's past who has an ominous message for Agent Hotchner.
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S05E09 100
The BAU team races to help Hotchner find The Reaper and save his family before it's too late.
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S05E10 The Slave of Duty
While Agent Hotchner takes a leave of absence from the BAU, the team must regroup to solve a home invasion case.
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S05E11 Retaliation
The BAU must profile a criminal's past in order to catch him after he escapes from custody and begins a killing spree.
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S05E12 The Uncanny Valley
An unusual personal obsession is at the center of a BAU abduction case. Meanwhile, Hotch struggles with his return to work.
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S05E13 Risky Business
Rash of startling teen suicides in a small Wyoming town is the focus of a BAU investigation.
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S05E14 Parasite
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 them.
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S05E15 Public Enemy
Serial killer who targets random victims in highly visible places to create a sense of public fear is the subject of a BAU investigation.
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S05E16 Mosley Lane
The BAU profiles a child abductor who may have been keeping children for more than eight years.
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S05E17 Solitary Man
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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S05E18 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 working another case they think is connected.
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S05E19 Rite of Passage
The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants attempting to make safe passage into the U.S..
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S05E20 ...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 victim.
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S05E21 Exit Wounds
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.
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S05E22 The Internet is Forever
The BAU team profiles a serial killer who uses the Internet as his hunting ground, bringing a whole meaning to the term "social networking".
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S05E23 Our Darkest Hour
Series of rolling blackouts in the city of Los Angeles lures a serial killer out of hiding, giving him renewed opportunities to continue his killing spree.
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