
Season 3
Criminal Minds
Episodes

1. Doubt
September 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.
Guest Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Shawn Michael Patrick, Elizabeth Hendrickson

2. In Name and Blood
October 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.
Guest Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Gordon Clapp, Eddie Cibrian

3. Scared to Death
October 10, 2007
The 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.
Guest Stars: Michael O'Keefe, Matt Bushell, Stephanie Venditto

4. Children of the Dark
October 17, 2007
When home invasions involve the murder of entire families, the BAU is called to Denver to identify the killers who possibly have been abused while in foster care.
Guest Stars: Francis Capra, William Lee Scott, Bill Tangradi

5. Seven Seconds
October 24, 2007
The 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.
Guest Stars: Alexander Gould, Suzanne Cryer, Nigel Gibbs

6. About Face
October 31, 2007
The 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.
Guest Stars: Andrew Kavovit, Michael O'Neill, Sandra Robinson

7. Identity
November 7, 2007
The 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.
Guest Stars: Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Michael Cudlitz, Jim Beaver

8. Lucky
November 14, 2007
A 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.
Guest Stars: Nick Searcy, Bailey Chase, John Lafayette

9. Penelope
November 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.
Guest Stars: Bailey Chase, John Eddins, Bruce Katzman

10. True Night
November 28, 2007
The BAU and local authorities in Los Angeles investigate gang-related serial killings that might possibly involve a famous comic book artist.
Guest Stars: Steve Richard Harris, Bailey Chase, Parry Shen

11. Birthright
December 12, 2007
The 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.
Guest Stars: Sally Pressman, Jennifer Hetrick, Rodney Eastman

12. 3rd Life
January 9, 2008
When 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.
Guest Stars: Brian McNamara, Alex Hyde-White, Riley Smith

13. Limelight
January 23, 2008
After 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.
Guest Stars: Andrea Roth, Wendy Braun, Christopher Allen Nelson

14. Damaged
April 2, 2008
Rossi travels to Indianapolis to continue his investigation into the two unsolved murders that have plagued him for 20 years.
Guest Stars: Nicholle Tom, Dennis Christopher, David Tom

15. A Higher Power
April 9, 2008
The BAU is called to Pittsburgh after an unusually high suicide rate appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.
Guest Stars: Jennifer Aspen, Paul Schulze, Renée O'Connor

16. Elephant's Memory
April 16, 2008
The 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.
Guest Stars: Cody Kasch, Lindsey Haun, Tracey Walter

17. In Heat
April 30, 2008
The BAU is called to Miami to investigate a serial killer who appears to have a conflicted sexual identity.
Guest Stars: Michael Graziadei, Wendy Hoopes, Tia Texada

18. The Crossing
May 7, 2008
The 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.
Guest Stars: Scott Lowell, Bonnie Root, Brad Beyer

19. Tabula Rasa
May 14, 2008
After 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.
Guest Stars: James Eckhouse, Amy Carlson, Eric Lange

20. Lo-Fi
May 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.
Guest Stars: Patrick Cupo, Barry Pearl, Joaquín Perles
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