Criminal Minds

Season 3

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The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico helps police solve violent serial crimes using profiling. Team members analyze evidence and psychology to catch unknown subjects, but their demanding work affects personal lives.

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20 Episodes

Doubt
E1
DoubtThe 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.
In Name and Blood
E2
In Name and BloodIn 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.
Scared to Death
E3
Scared to DeathThe 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.
Children of the Dark
E4
Children of the DarkThe BAU travels to Denver, Colorado, where they investigate a series of home invasions that end in the murders of entire families. However, the case takes a turn when they begin to suspect that the killers were once-abused children.
Seven Seconds
E5
Seven SecondsThe 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.
About Face
E6
About FaceThe 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.
Identity
E7
IdentityThe 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.
Lucky
E8
LuckyA 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.
Penelope
E9
PenelopeAs 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.
True Night
E10
True NightThe BAU and local authorities in Los Angeles investigate gang-related serial killings that might possibly involve a famous comic book artist.
Birthright
E11
BirthrightThe 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.
3rd Life
E12
3rd LifeWhen 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.
Limelight
E13
LimelightAfter 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.
Damaged
E14
DamagedRossi determines that the case that haunts him has gone unsolved too long on its 20th anniversary, and the team horns in on his investigation despite his displeasure. Elsewhere, Reid and Hotchner interview a manipulative death-row convict.
A Higher Power
E15
A Higher PowerIn Pittsburgh, there's a sudden suicide spike, with all of the victims being family members of or related to the victims of a recent fire. Soon the team discovers that their deaths were all arranged to look like suicide by an UnSub who believes he is killing them as an act of mercy.
Elephant's Memory
E16
Elephant's MemoryThe 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.
In Heat
E17
In HeatThe BAU is called to Miami to investigate a serial killer who appears to have a conflicted sexual identity.
The Crossing
E18
The CrossingThe 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.
Tabula Rasa
E19
Tabula RasaAfter 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.
Lo-Fi
E20
Lo-FiPeople who seemingly have nothing in common are shot at random. The BAU is dispatched to New York, where they have to determine if the shootings of victims at point blank range are the work of a single killer or a team of killers. The BAU discovers is deadlier to them than they anticipated.