- 9.3/1010 votes
#1 - Entropy
Season 11 Episode 11 - Aired 1/13/2016
The BAU implements an elaborate strategy to try and take down the “Dirty Dozen” hitmen ring, with Reid playing a central role.
Director: Heather Cappiello
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 9.3/103 votes
#2 - The Walk-In
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/2007
A body goes missing from the morgue and Melinda searches for the body. When the ghost visits Melinda she finds she needs help from Professor Payne to figure it out.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 9.2/103 votes
#3 - Memento Mori
Season 16 Episode 9 - Aired 2/2/2023
Rossi will go to any lengths to prove that Elias Voit is Sicarius. But Voit turns Rossi into his own worst enemy, putting his future at the BAU in jeopardy.
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 9.0/101 votes
#4 - Unhappy Medium
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2007
Melinda and Jim discuss a kidnapping where the family has contacted a psychic who Melinda believes is telling the family stuff that they want to hear just so he can make money off of them. Melinda goes and talks to the family and finds that something else has happened to the missing girl.
Director: Fred Toye
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 9.0/102 votes
#5 - Blood Brother
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1999
Max is injured in a car accident and Liz pressures Alex to help protect him from medical procedures that could expose his identity by providing blood samples to replace Max's.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 9.0/102 votes
#6 - To Serve and Protect
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/22/2001
When Isabel develops a psychic connection to a girl who has been buried alive, she races to find the teenager before it's too late. Meanwhile the FBI comes to town and starts asking questions concerning Valenti and his involvement with Max and Isabel.
Director: Jefery Levy
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.9/107 votes
#7 - Believer
Season 13 Episode 22 - Aired 4/18/2018
When Reid discovers former FBI Special Agent Owen Quinn locked inside a storage unit, the BAU questions the credibility of Quinn's bizarre accounts of searching for an UnSub that he named "The Strangler".
Director: Glenn Kershaw
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.8/1016 votes
#8 - 100
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/2009
The BAU team races to help Hotchner find The Reaper and save his family before it's too late.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.8/1012 votes
#9 - Mr. Scratch
Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 4/22/2015
When three people implicated in murders claim they were attacked by a “clawed shadow monster” at the moment each crime occurred, the BAU searches for an UnSub who is controlling their minds. Also, the search for the culprit puts one of the team in jeopardy.
Director: Matthew Gray Gubler
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.8/106 votes
#10 - Red Light
Season 12 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/2017
Derek Morgan brings the BAU a lead in the case against serial killer and escaped convict Mr. Scratch.
Director: Glenn Kershaw
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.6/1013 votes
#11 - Zugzwang
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/16/2013
When Reid discovers that his girlfriend has been kidnapped by her stalker, he and the BAU team band together to find her before it's too late.
Director: Jesse Warn
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.5/1013 votes
#12 - Lauren
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 3/16/2011
As Prentiss faces off against Ian Doyle, JJ receives a call and returns to help them find Prentiss and capture Doyle before it's too late.
Director: Matthew Gray Gubler
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.4/1010 votes
#13 - The Job
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2015
The BAU is interviewing different candidates to join their ranks in the wake of Kate’s departure, including a forensic psychologist, Dr. Tara Lewis, who is eager to assist their efforts. Also, the BAU hunts for a serial killer who leaves behind distinctive evidence that points to someone intent on revenge.
Director: Glenn Kershaw
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.3/1015 votes
#14 - The Uncanny Valley
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2010
An unusual personal obsession is at the center of a BAU abduction case. Meanwhile, Hotch struggles with his return to work.
Director: Anna Foerster
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.3/1011 votes
#15 - Blood Relations
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 4/2/2014
Two murder victims are found in a West Virginia backwoods community. The investigation reveals that the homicides may be linked to a long-simmering feud between two families.
Director: Matthew Gray Gubler
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.3/107 votes
#16 - Chameleon
Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/2019
Rossi questions his actions in the aftermath of a near-death struggle with a serial killer who appears to have outsmarted the BAU.
Director: A.J. Cook
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.3/106 votes
#17 - Saturday
Season 15 Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2020
The members of the BAU enjoy a Saturday off in vastly different ways. While Rossi and Prentiss help Simmons assemble a new crib, Garcia leads a hacking competition, and Dr. Reid strikes up a conversation with a woman named Maxine.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.3/106 votes
#18 - Sicarius
Season 16 Episode 2 - Aired 11/24/2022
As the team hunts an UnSub who severs spinal cords, they uncover a clue from their last case that points to a serial killing network. To figure out how big this network is, Rossi has to convince a reluctant Garcia to do the one thing she doesn’t want: come back to the BAU.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.2/1016 votes
#19 - Unknown Subject
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/2012
The team is called to Texas to search for a serial rapist in Houston known as "The Piano Man" who has returned and is attacking his past victims. Meanwhile, Prentiss begins to deal with the traumatic experience caused by Ian Doyle after returning to the BAU.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.1/108 votes
#20 - Mirror Image
Season 12 Episode 7 - Aired 11/30/2016
The BAU team opens an investigation when a man who fully believes he’s Dr. Tara Lewis’ brother arrives in town, knowing everything about her and her family, and she is unable to make contact with her real sibling.
Director: Joe Mantegna
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.0/1011 votes
#21 - The Forever People
Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/2015
When frozen bodies are found in Nevada floating in water, the BAU’s investigation leads them to suspect that the victims were part of a cult that could be behind the deaths. Also, JJ confronts old demons from her abduction and torture last year.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 8.0/106 votes
#22 - False Flag
Season 13 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/2017
When two members of a conspiracy group in Roswell, N.M., perish in quick succession, the BAU is called to investigate.
Director: Joe Mantegna
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 7.9/1016 votes
#23 - Cradle to Grave
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2009
The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them.
Director: Rob Spera
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 7.9/1014 votes
#24 - God Complex
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2012
When a legless body is found in the New Mexico desert and a second unwilling amputee shows up at the hospital, the BAU team searches for this amateur surgeon before he preys upon his next reluctant victim. Also, Reid's phone calls to a mystery woman have the team intrigued.
Director: Larry Teng
Writer: Breen Frazier
- 7.9/1013 votes
#25 - Number Six
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2013
The BAU goes to Detroit to track an UnSub with a rapidly changing MO. Also, Blake's husband returns from overseas with a life-changing career proposition for her.
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writer: Breen Frazier