- 9.1/1035 votes
#1 - All In
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/2020
While Wendy battles personal demons, Marty struggles to keep their lives from falling apart. Darlene does Ruth a favor.
Director: Alik Sakharov
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 9.0/103 votes
#2 - Part 22
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 5/27/2016
John finds evidence that refutes his alibi. Eric makes a remark that catches Marco's attention. Meg must decide whom to protect: Marco or her family.
Director: Mikael Håfström
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.8/1016 votes
#3 - 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: Chris Mundy
- 8.7/1050 votes
#4 - The Toll
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/21/2017
During his next sermon, Mason falters. Wendy and the kids are caught trying to flee their home. Marty brokers a deal between Jacob and Del.
Director: Jason Bateman
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.5/102 votes
#5 - Blank Generation
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/2005
The team re-opens the case of Matthew Adams, a teen-aged cult member who apparently committed suicide back in 1978, when his sister comes forth with new evidence about the deprogrammer her family hired to rescue her brother.
Director: David Barrett
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.5/1015 votes
#6 - Revelations (2)
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2007
In this conclusion of a special two-part episode, finding the serial killer becomes critical to the BAU when the team realizes Reid is being held captive and a live feed of him being tortured is shown on the internet. Meanwhile, Reid's troubled childhood is revealed in flashback sequences as he drifts in and out of consciousness.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.5/1039 votes
#7 - The Gold Coast
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 8/31/2018
Marty makes plans without telling Wendy. Darlene sends a message via Jonah. Wyatt learns the truth about his dad. Ruth realizes Cade must be stopped.
Director: Amanda Marsalis
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.3/1014 votes
#8 - 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
- 8.3/1014 votes
#9 - 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
- 8.3/1018 votes
#10 - 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
- 8.2/1020 votes
#11 - To Hell... (1)
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 5/20/2009
The BAU tracks a serial killer who chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border into Canada, and an agent's life is in peril.
Director: Charles Haid
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.2/1018 votes
#12 - The Beginning of the End
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/2022
Marty and Wendy wrestle with a problematic offer. Ruth goes out on her own, Jonah rebels, and Omar's nephew makes his presence known.
Director: Andrew Bernstein
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.1/1018 votes
#13 - 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
- 8.1/1014 votes
#14 - Nameless, Faceless
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2009
As Rossi, Morgan and JJ profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor, Prentiss realizes that Hotch is missing.
Director: Charles S. Carroll
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.0/104 votes
#15 - The Badlands
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2004
Lilly returns to her last case before joining the Cold Case Squad as she re-investigates the brutal triple homicide of a restaurant owner and his family, murdered in the restaurant bathroom in 2003. Also the other team member have personal reasons to closing the case; Jeffries grew up in the predominantly black neighborhood while Vera was the one assigned to the case when Det. Rush left.
Director: Tim Matheson
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 8.0/1041 votes
#16 - Wartime
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/27/2020
Marty is pressured to move money ahead of schedule, Wendy pitches a high-stakes plan, Wyatt lives the good life, and Ruth butts heads in the casino.
Director: Jason Bateman
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.9/1018 votes
#17 - Sex, Birth, Death
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/2006
The BAU is called to investigate a series of murders of prostitutes in Washington D.C. and Reid suspects a teenager he met asking for his help is guilty of the crimes. The case becomes complicated when a congresswoman, who about to make a speech to praise the city's lower crime rate, threatens to take away the case if Hotchner calls a press conference to discuss it.
Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.9/1015 votes
#18 - The Instincts
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2008
While investigating the abduction of a young boy in Las Vegas, Dr. Reid starts to have dreams that might help reveal buried memories from his childhood.
Director: Rob Spera
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.8/105 votes
#19 - Scabs
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/2012
A tragedy leads Cullen to defuse an internal threat to the railroad.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.8/104 votes
#20 - The Lord's Day
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/30/2012
A new arrival stirs things up in Hell on Wheels, while Eva gets caught between Elam and Mr. Toole.
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.8/1018 votes
#21 - The Cousin of Death
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 4/29/2022
Devastated by a tremendous loss, Ruth heads to Chicago to enact revenge as Marty tries to talk her out of doing something she may regret.
Director: Amanda Marsalis
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.7/1016 votes
#22 - Hopeless
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2009
A group of suspects with a pack mentality who kill for the thrill of it are the subjects of a BAU manhunt.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.7/1051 votes
#23 - Reparations
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/2018
Ruth's dad gets out of jail. Approval for a riverboat casino calls for Wendy's political skills. The Mexican cartel demands reparations from the Snells.
Director: Jason Bateman
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.6/1018 votes
#24 - Aftermath
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2006
The BAU investigates a serial rapist who had been attacking young women at religious schools and stopped for six weeks. He has resumed his attacks, but is now targeting a different demographic of women. Elle makes a decision that could end her career with the BAU.
Director: Tim Matheson
Writer: Chris Mundy
- 7.6/1015 votes
#25 - Demonology
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/2009
Agent Prentiss has a personal connection to one of the victims in a series of deaths with religious overtones.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero
Writer: Chris Mundy