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Season 1

Season 1

Criminal Minds

2005
Episodes: 22

Episodes

Extreme Aggressor

1. Extreme Aggressor

September 22, 2005

7.4
40 min

After a fourth woman goes missing in as many months, the team is brought in to track down the guy before he kidnaps again. Hotch is asked to secretly evaluate Gideon to see if he is ready to work full time again.

Guest Stars: Joanne Whalley, DJ Qualls, Alonso Oyarzun

Compulsion

2. Compulsion

September 28, 2005

7.6
43 min

The team of investigators tries to capture a serial arsonist who has been terrorizing a college campus.

Guest Stars: Jennifer Hall, Evan Lee Dahl, Lukas Haas

Won't Get Fooled Again

3. Won't Get Fooled Again

October 5, 2005

7.5
41 min

Gideon and his team track down a copycat bomber terrorizing a quiet community.

Guest Stars: Joan Blair, Tom Virtue, Aria Wallace

Plain Sight

4. Plain Sight

October 12, 2005

7.6
40 min

The BAU team travels to San Diego to stop a rapist and murderer who commits his crimes in the middle of the day.

Guest Stars: Ron Roggé, Daniel Zacapa, Sunkrish Bala

Broken Mirror

5. Broken Mirror

October 19, 2005

7.7
42 min

The BAU investigates the kidnapping of a U.S. District Attorney's daughter and determines the kidnapper isn't seeking money -- he's after her twin sister.

Guest Stars: Elisabeth Harnois, Matt Letscher, Meredith Monroe

L.D.S.K.

6. L.D.S.K.

November 2, 2005

8.4
40 min

The BAU is asked to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight, and the team works with local law enforcement officers to recreate one of the shootings.

Guest Stars: Marcus Giamatti, Tony Denison, Timothy Omundson

The Fox

7. The Fox

November 9, 2005

8.0
42 min

The BAU profiles a serial killer who takes families hostage and lives with them as a father figure during what is supposed to be their family vacations.

Guest Stars: Abraham Benrubi, Tony Todd, Colton Shires

Natural Born Killer

8. Natural Born Killer

November 16, 2005

7.6
42 min

When an undercover cop in Baltimore involved in a mob investigation goes missing, the BAU believes a serial killer rather than organized crime has something to do with his disappearance. The probe leads to several unsolved missing persons cases.

Guest Stars: Deborah Geffner, Francesco Quinn, Joseph Sikora

Derailed

9. Derailed

November 23, 2005

7.9
41 min

Elle, along with many others, is held hostage on a train in Texas by a paranoid schizophrenic who is convinced that the U.S. government is monitoring him. Hotchner and Gideon are forced to play into the man's fantasy to save the people he has taken hostage.

Guest Stars: Chris Bauer, Susan Gibney, M.C. Gainey

The Popular Kids

10. The Popular Kids

November 30, 2005

7.7
41 min

The team investigates the death of one teen, and the disappearance of another , which may be linked to a satanic ritual.

Guest Stars: Will Rothhaar, Aaron Paul, Chris Butler

Blood Hungry

11. Blood Hungry

December 14, 2005

7.6
43 min

While Gideon is stuck at the office on crutches, the rest of the team travels to Tennessee to track down a killer who disembowels his victims and supposedly eats their organs.

Guest Stars: Penelope Windust, Lindsay Crouse, Mark Rolston

What Fresh Hell?

12. What Fresh Hell?

January 11, 2006

7.7
43 min

When a young girl is abducted in broad daylight from a playground in a seemingly safe neighborhood, the BAU team initially believes her father is responsible. When he is able to provide an alibi, the team is forced to look for clues where the girl lives to determine who is really responsible.

Guest Stars: Ned Vaughn, Tracey Needham, Dwier Brown

Poison

13. Poison

January 18, 2006

7.4
40 min

The team travels to New Jersey where several people have been poisoned, one of them fatally with LSD, ten times more potent than the street version.

Guest Stars: Peter MacKenzie, Braeden Lemasters

Riding the Lightning

14. Riding the Lightning

January 25, 2006

7.7
43 min

After interviewing a couple on death row for serial murders, Gideon suspects that the woman is actually innocent. But since she's set to be executed in two days, it's a race against time to prove it.

Guest Stars: Jeannetta Arnette, Roger Aaron Brown, Constance Towers

Unfinished Business

15. Unfinished Business

March 1, 2006

8.1
41 min

A serial killer reappears after 20 years of silence and contacts the BAU with the promise he will kill another victim in the next five days.

Guest Stars: Geoff Pierson, Aaron Lustig, Marc Gomes

The Tribe

16. The Tribe

March 8, 2006

8.0
43 min

The BAU team believes a dangerous cult may be responsible for the mass murders of five college students in an empty house.

Guest Stars: Chris Ellis, Skyler Shaye, Chad Allen

A Real Rain

17. A Real Rain

March 22, 2006

7.6
42 min

The BAU unit travels to NYC to investigate a series of murders that appears to have been committed by a vigilante conducting revenge on former criminals who have been released by the justice system.

Guest Stars: Mike Muscat, Ethan Phillips, Tonya Pinkins

Somebody's Watching

18. Somebody's Watching

March 29, 2006

7.5
42 min

Reid finds himself in danger when he falls for a starlet whose stalker has turned into a killer.

Guest Stars: Andrew St. John, Amber Heard, Melanie Mayron

Machismo

19. Machismo

April 12, 2006

7.4
41 min

The BAU team travels to Mexico to aid in the capture of a serial killer who is targeting elderly women.

Guest Stars: Margarita Cordova, Norma Maldonado, Carlos Gómez

Charm and Harm

20. Charm and Harm

April 19, 2006

7.8
41 min

The BAU works to capture a serial killer who has evaded capture by altering his appearance.

Guest Stars: Robert Pine, Mark Totty, Andy Comeau

Secrets and Lies

21. Secrets and Lies

May 3, 2006

7.5
42 min

The BAU works with the CIA to identify a mole within that organization, whose leaks are putting operatives at risk.

Guest Stars: Devika Parikh, Navid Negahban, Andrea Gabriel

The Fisher King (1)

22. The Fisher King (1)

May 10, 2006

8.0
41 min

While on their vacations, each of the team receives a clue from a psychopathic killer challenging them to save his next victim.

Guest Stars: Gina Garcia, Jane Lynch, Meredith Monroe

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