IMDB Link: Click Here IMDB Rating: 8.3 Premiere Date: 2009-09-23 Views: 9246 Plot: Based in Quantico, Virginia, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) is a subsection of the FBI. Called in by local police departments to assist in solving crimes of a serial and/or extremely violent nature where the perpetrator is unknown (referred to by the Unit as the unknown subject or unsub for short), the BAU use the controversial scientific art of profiling to track and apprehend the unsub. Profiling entails coming up with basic characteristics of the unsub and the victims (referred to as the victimology), using evidence from the case and matching that information to historic precedents and psychological analyses as a means to solve the case. Because of the nature of the work conducted by the BAU - the work being time consuming and psychologically demanding - its members are fiercely loyal to the Unit and to its other members. Also because of the work's overall demanding nature, not many members of the BAU have been able to maintain a happy or stable family life.
A local doctor receives a threat from a killer stating that he will kill the doctor’s son. Until his son is dead, the killer will murder one person a day. Facing a ticking clock, the team must protect the doctor and his son while they track the UnSub.
A troubled man experiences a psychotic break and has left five people dead in his wake. The BAU must figure out what triggered the break and find him before he kills again.
When a young woman who has very recently given birth is found dead, the team believes it has uncovered a horrific baby-selling ring. But they soon discover a pattern that suggests something much bigger, a killing team who abducts women to be surrogates for their own children.
While Hotch and the rest of the team look on, Morgan and Chief Strauss discuss the current cases at hand. It’s broken up by their next assignment: tracking an enucleator, a killer who removes the eyes of his victims. As the investigation gets underway in Oklahoma City, another victim is found, a jogger tripped up by a wire on a remote trail. Looking at the victim, the team believes that by using a trip wire, the Unsub has hunting experience. Pressure mounts when two more victims are found in a park. The Unsub cut the power to the park lights and using night vision, hunted his prey. However, one of victim’s eyes was damaged during the altercation and was not removed. This leads Morgan to theorize that the Unsub has knowledge of taxidermy. Before he can kill again, our team apprehends him. They discover that the Unsub is the son of a taxidermist who died three weeks before. Faced with the death of his father and the news that the bank was taking his home, the Unsub began killing to finish his father’s work, by putting his victims’ eyes into the stuffed animals for his customers.
The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seem to align with the tour pattern of a popular rockstar. The dark, vampire-like stage persona presented by the aging star seems to point to him as the killer, but the team struggles with so simple a solution, and begins to build a profile that not only looks at the troubled rocker, but also focuses on his circle of sycophantic followers and hangers on as well.
A series of family annihilation killings brings Hotch and the team face to face with one of the most horrific killers from their past, Karl Arnold AKA "The Fox" (Season 1), after a series of serial family killings over the last two years show eerie similarities to the crimes committed by the now incarcerated Arnold.
Each member of the BAU is part of an internal investigation about events that have already transpired. The story of the case is told through each of their interviews. When Karl Arnold aka “The Fox” told Hotch that the letters he received in prison came from George Foyet aka “The Reaper”, the team focused their attention back on their investigation into Foyet. By deducing the medication cocktail Foyet needed to survive all his self inflicted wounds and figuring out the name he was picking up the medication with, they located his apartment, but Foyet was gone. They found surveillance pictures of Sam Kassmeyer, the US Marshall assigned to protect Hayley and Jack, Hotch’s wife and son, currently in witness protection. Telling her that both Sam and her husband, Aaron, were dead, Foyet tells Haley to go back to her home that that she and Aaron shared and wait for him. Foyet calls Hotch and lets him know he’s with Haley and Jack at their home. Unfortunately, Hotch arrives too late to save Haley. With Foyet still in the house, Hotch hunts him. Hotch empties his clip into a hiding Foyet, but his bullet proof vest absorbs the shots. A melee ensues ending with Hotch beating Foyet to death. As the rest of the team arrives to the scene, Hotch raced upstairs to find his son Jack unharmed. Through the team’s testimonies and his own, the panel finds Hotch’s actions acceptable.
A club valet attendant copies the keys of women then waits for them in their home. A psychologically-haunting home invasion story about self-delusion and loneliness, the Unsub convinces himself he's part of the women's lives. But ultimately the BAU profiles their way to the fact that connection is only in the Unsub's mind.
Morgan and Prentiss are in pursuit of Dale Schraeder, a recently paroled bank robber, now wanted for murder and kidnapping his own daughter. Schraeder is apprehended and placed under arrest. As Prentiss and Detective Bunting escort a handcuffed Schraeder to the station, their car is hit by a truck and tumbles down a ravine. Injured and unable to move, Prentiss watches as Schraeder strangles Bunting. The driver of the truck approaches their car, frees Schraeder and prevents him from killing Prentiss. Both men escape before Morgan arrives on the scene. The team is now hunting Schraeder and his partner, Joe Mueller, an undercover cop being forced to help Schraeder. Years earlier, Joe's testimony put Schraeder behind bars. Upon his release, Schraeder kidnaps Joe's family and uses Joe to obtain the key for the money he hid in a safety deposit box before his incarceration. Before the men can make it to the bank, they are stopped by Prentiss and Morgan. When Schraeder threatens Joe's life, Prentiss kills him. The team helps Joe rescue his kidnapped family.
Hotch’s first case back since his attack by Foyet finds him and the team in Louisville on the trail of Darrin Call who killed 8 people and injured 3 others at a pharmacy, before escaping on foot Weaned off his anti-psychotic meds, Darrin suffered a mental break triggered by another’s touch. Trying to make sense of the flashbacks he’s having, Darrin goes to his doctor, but kills his doctor’s patient and his doctor in the process. With his medical file in hand, he tries to make sense of his past. When Darrin was younger, he helped his father abduct boys and then after his father killed them, he disposed of their bodies. But he helped one boy named Tommy escape. In the present and in his delusional state, Darrin mistakes a boy at an orphanage for young Tommy and kidnaps him. They wind up at his father’s house where Darrin demands answers from his father for what he did. The team finds Darrin there and with nothing to lose, Hotch walks unarmed into the house where Darrin has a gun trained on his father. Hotch is able to distract Darrin enough to get the kidnapped boy out of the house, but does little to stop Darrin from killing his father.
The BAU tracks a con artist whose lost control and instead of just stealing the money of his wealthy victims he now kills them.
J.J. introduces the team to Agent Goldman from the San Diego White Collar Division. Goldman has been following a con artist for five years and two nights ago, he killed one of his marks, Carla Marshall in her Miami home. The week before Carla had contacted Agent Goldman to report a scam and her story matched the con artist Goldman had been tracking. Goldman informs the team that his con artist’s playground is investment fraud and he’s scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars from his wealthy victim-investors. He uses his looks and charms to target single wealthy women or the wives of wealthy men. But he’s never been violent before. Con men profile as psychopaths and the team believes that this man killed because he lost control of the situation and if he continues to spiral, everyone around him will be in danger. He will kill again and whatever is making him kill is not financial by psychological.
They discover that the UnSub set up nine identical investment websites but with different names. Juggling all of these different aliases is fracturing the UnSub mentally, causing him to lose control. At the yacht of one of his clients, the UnSub tries to remember which alias he’s using. This time he’s Randy Summerland. But he slips up and tells his client to make out the investment check to Henry Moffet. When the client becomes suspicious, he kills him. From the information obtained at the latest crime scene, the team believes that the UnSub is on a mission to eliminate all of his aliases by assassinating all of his victim-investors. The UnSub’s travel patterns reveal that at one point, he stayed in San Diego three and half years and after that never stayed in a city that long again. The team believes that the reason for Unsub’s extended stay in San Diego was that he married and started a family. Knowing that con men put everything in their wife’s name, Garcia tracks women who’ve rented homes and cars within the last 8-12 months in the Fort Lauderdale area and had a history in San Diego. She comes up with one name, Rebecca Hodges, mother to J.D. Hodges and wife to William Hodges, our UnSub.
Trying to get away, the team finds the UnSub dragging his son out of a home to their car. A standoff ensues. The UnSub releases his son to the BAU. Wanting to end it there, the UnSub puts his hands in his pocket and removes something. Thinking it’s a gun, Agent Goldman puts a bullet in the UnSub’s chest, killing him.
The BAU is called to Providence, RI, to stop an UnSub who is slashing people's throats in public places. After the Team profiles this UnSub has the psychopathy of an arsonist, and not a spree killer, and is motivated by an underlying hatred for his father, they are able to catch him by creating a ruse which he cannot resist.
After an Amber alert goes past the critical 24th hour without success, a woman known to JJ claims this current case is identical to her son's disappearance eight years ago. But it's a claim she has made numerous times over the years. JJ uncovers a crucial link between the cases which makes her believe there's a connection and she persuades the team to investigate. To the horror of our BAU team, they discover the owners of a crematorium have been abducting children and keeping them alive for over ten years.
The team is called to San Francisco to investigate the murders of homeless men who are kidnapped and forced to fight to the death or be killed. Hotch and company join forces with another BAU team whose leader believes that a series of additional murders of father and their teenage daughters are tied to the first case.
In the Mexican border town of Terlingua, Texas, three decapitated heads are found outside the sheriff's office. One of those heads was a recent death, while the other two were killed some time ago, although the decapitations themselves conducted recently. The BAU's initial thoughts are that it has to do with the border drug trade, or that because the more decomposed heads displayed now, the drug trade issue is a red herring for illegal immigration from Mexico. Indeed the three deaths are of John or Jane Doe's, fueling the BAU's speculation that they are illegal immigrants from Mexico. Believing the murders drug related, the deputy sheriffs in Terlingua arrest Omar Morales, head of one of the local drug cartels. Recently arrived Sheriff Ruiz on the other hand is certain Morales is not guilty of these murders, and that the deaths have to do with her knowledge of known illegal immigrants missing, the heads a sign for her to stop what has only been her limited investigation thus far. Based on physical evidence of the heads and an interview with Morales, the BAU come up with a profile. But it isn't until J.J. divulges some information she overheard that the BAU connect the profile to the unsub.
In a warehouse filled with photos and clippings of missing women, the serial killer who abducted and murdered these women takes his own life. Our team arrives on scene and sees that the killer's body is covered in tattoos. Every tattoo corresponds to the photos of the missing women, except one, Rebecca Daniels who vanished three weeks ago. The team profiles the dead serial killer in the hopes that Rebecca is still alive.
The team, including Garcia, go to the small town of Franklin, Alaska to catch a rapidly escalating serial killer before the locals take justice into their own hands.
The team goes to Boise, Idaho to pursue an Unsub preying on victims through social networking sites. By the time the team arrives, three women have gone missing in a year. They interview friends and relatives of the last victim and discover that the Unsub, by following their lives online, gains entry to his victim’s homes when they’re out and installs hidden cameras so he can learn their security codes and routines. The Unsub puts the viral videos of the intrusion and killings live online for anyone to stream. He’s good with computers and proves challenging for Garcia to trace the video’s origin. Through the victims’ pictures, Reid discovers a facial pattern throughout them and believes the Unsub’s facial structure is the same. After they deliver the profile, a key detail they withhold from the press conference is leaked and the Unsub accelerates his process, expressing rage in his next live video stream. Garcia is unable trace the video, but traces the chat room while the team watches him take his next victim. In the Unsub’s haste, he leaves fiber optic cable which reveals he’s working for an internet installation company, his way into his victim’s home. Looking over his client list, they find the woman with the same facial structure, but she’s gone. With Garcia’s chat room trace, they discover that one of his followers built the Unsub a freezer that he stores his bodies in. Now with the Unsub’s address, the team stops the next killing.
The team is called to LA to investigate a series of home invasions turned homicides and they posit that the killings are all being done by the same Unsub. At the same time, because of the heat wave going on, there’s a series of rolling blackouts going through the city. The team discovers that the Unsub is taking advantage of the city’s rolling blackouts to pursue his victims; he has his pick because everyone is vulnerable. The team realizes that in order to stop the Unsub from killing when the lights go out they need to stop the rolling blackouts. The risk they take in doing this is the potential for an ENTIRE city blackout which is what ultimately will happens by Act Four.
The team figures out that the Unsub chooses to kill in dark for a reason. They look at previous home invasions where the power was cut and Garcia finds that this MO was popular 25 years ago where there was a series of home invasions/homicides in San Diego, Orange County and LA. No one put it together before because they never realized that the power being cut was actually the characteristic that linked all of them together. What the team also discovers is that this Unsub has been active since then but he’s being working his way throughout California killing people at random.
So why is he back in Los Angeles now? There’s something personal for him to come back to LA. The lead detective on the case, Matt Spicer, is a hot shot, young mid-30s cop. He’s basically touted as the hero of the city, consistently praised for being such a great detective at such a young age. He happens to be a survivor of one of the previous home invasions, 25 years ago, where the Unsub killed his single mother and left him as the sole survivor. This was the reason he became a cop – for vengeance and to catch serial killers like the one that killed his mother. The Unsub is now back because he loves taunting his victims, screwing with them. He’s seen Spicer on the television. He is the head of the homicide unit and the Unsub knows that the only reason he’s there is because of what the Unsub did to him. He returns to LA just to screw with him. And the ultimate reward for the Unsub is that this detective now has a daughter of his own, Ellie.
By the end of the episode, the detective is back at his old house, the original scene of the crime, with his daughter, Ellie, his sister Kristin and Morgan. The Unsub is there as well and forces Spicer to beg for his life or else he’ll kill his daughter. Morgan is restrained and unable to do anything to help. Spicer begs for his life and the Unsub shoots him in the head and takes off with Ellie. And this is where we leave the season only to pick up next year with our team chasing the Unsub and the girl.
Are We Missing Episodes?
We DO OUR BEST to update shows each week but with so many shows it is hard to keep track. Please help us keep our shows up to date.
