7.6/102,202 votes#1 - Doubt
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2007
The team investigates a serial killer who is targeting women at a small college in Flagstaff, Arizona. The BAU shuts down the campus, creates a detailed profile of the unsub, and arrests a suspect. However, the team members begin to have doubts about themselves when another woman is killed while the suspect is in custody.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Chris Mundy
7.9/102,301 votes#2 - In Name and Blood
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2007
In Milwaukee, a series of women have been found murdered with their hearts crudely removed. The BAU is assigned to the case, but they are short three members: Gideon, who is missing, Hotch, who is on suspension and Prentiss, who resigns her commission to join the Foreign Service. Supervisor Strauss steps in as lead, but she doesn't handle herself well in the field.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero
Writer: Chris Mundy
7.6/102,291 votes#3 - Scared to Death
Season 3 Episode 3 - 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.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Debra J. Fisher, Erica Messer
7.9/102,200 votes#4 - Children of the Dark
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2007
When home invasions involve the murder of entire families, the BAU is called to Denver to identify the killers who possibly have been abused while in foster care.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie
8.3/102,516 votes#5 - Seven Seconds
Season 3 Episode 5 - 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 local shopping mall.
Director: John Gallagher
Writer: Andi Bushell
7.5/102,182 votes#6 - About Face
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2007
The team gains a new, familiar member and some growing pains while trying to find the latest victim of a killer who puts up wanted posters of his victims before he abducts them.
Director: Skipp Sudduth
Writer: Charles Murray
7.4/102,168 votes#7 - Identity
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2007
The team is called to Montana to investigate the case of four kidnapped and murdered women. When another woman disappears, the search leads to a man who apparently has assumed the identity of his dead partner.
Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Writer: Oanh Ly
8.2/103,173 votes#8 - Lucky
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2007
A team member's life is put in jeopardy when the BAU investigates serial killings in Florida that appear to involve the occult and satanic worship. Garcia believes she has met her dream man, but her first date with him doesn't go exactly as she had expected.
Director: Steve Boyum
Writer: Andrew Wilder
8.7/103,436 votes#9 - Penelope
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2007
As a team member fights for life, the BAU continues the search for an attacker that leads the unit to believe the assailant could be someone close to the investigation.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Chris Mundy
7.8/102,570 votes#10 - True Night
Season 3 Episode 10 - 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.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
7.7/102,247 votes#11 - Birthright
Season 3 Episode 11 - 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.
Director: John Gallagher
Writer: Debra J. Fisher, Erica Messer
8.0/102,432 votes#12 - 3rd Life
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/2008
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.
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Writer: Simon Mirren
7.5/102,234 votes#13 - Limelight
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/2008
After the contents of a self-storage unit purchased at an auction take the BAU to Philadelphia to investigate a series of murders, the local agent becomes the center of the case. To catch the killer, the team must profile the items inside the unit.
Director: Glenn Kershaw
Writer: Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie
7.9/102,955 votes#14 - Damaged
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 4/2/2008
Rossi travels to Indianapolis to continue his investigation into the two unsolved murders that have plagued him for 20 years.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
7.4/102,287 votes#15 - A Higher Power
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/2008
The BAU is called to Pittsburgh after an unusually high suicide rate appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Michael Udesky
8.3/103,136 votes#16 - Elephant's Memory
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 4/16/2008
The BAU is called to West Bune, a small town in Texas, to investigate what appears to be spree killings that involve a teenaged boy and his girlfriend.
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Andrew Wilder
7.6/102,366 votes#17 - In Heat
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 4/30/2008
The BAU is called to Miami to investigate a serial killer who appears to have a conflicted sexual identity.
Director: John Gallagher
Writer: Andi Bushell
7.6/102,198 votes#18 - The Crossing
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 5/7/2008
The team members try to identify a stalker before he can attack a woman who is being stalked in Silver Spring, Maryland. Meanwhile, Hotch and Rossi are called as consultants on a possible battered woman syndrome murder case in Boston.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Debra J. Fisher, Erica Messer
8.1/102,894 votes#19 - Tabula Rasa
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 5/14/2008
After a suspected serial killer wakes up from a coma, the BAU reopens the case and uses brain fingerprinting to determine if he really doesn't remember the crimes that had been committed four years earlier in Roanoke, Virginia.
Director: Steve Boyum
Writer: Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie
8.5/103,079 votes#20 - Lo-Fi
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/2008
The BAU faces one of its toughest cases when the team is called to New York City to determine if a series of random shootings is the work of one serial killer or a team of killers working together.
Director: Glenn Kershaw
Writer: Chris Mundy
The Best Episodes of Criminal Minds Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Doubt" is the best rated episode of "Criminal Minds" season 3. It scored 7.6/10 based on 2202 votes. Directed by Gloria Muzio and written by Chris Mundy, it aired on 9/26/2007. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "In Name and Blood".