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Season 3

Season 3

Criminal Minds

2007
Episodes: 20

Episodes

Doubt

1. Doubt

September 26, 2007

8.3
43 min

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

In Name and Blood

2. In Name and Blood

October 3, 2007

8.1
42 min

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

Scared to Death

3. Scared to Death

October 10, 2007

8.3
42 min

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

Children of the Dark

4. Children of the Dark

October 17, 2007

8.2
42 min

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

Seven Seconds

5. Seven Seconds

October 24, 2007

7.9
41 min

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

About Face

6. About Face

October 31, 2007

7.9
40 min

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

Identity

7. Identity

November 7, 2007

7.9
41 min

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

Lucky

8. Lucky

November 14, 2007

7.3
43 min

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

Penelope

9. Penelope

November 21, 2007

8.2
43 min

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

True Night

10. True Night

November 28, 2007

8.1
40 min

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

Birthright

11. Birthright

December 12, 2007

7.9
41 min

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

3rd Life

12. 3rd Life

January 9, 2008

7.8
42 min

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

Limelight

13. Limelight

January 23, 2008

7.8
40 min

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

Damaged

14. Damaged

April 2, 2008

8.1
42 min

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

A Higher Power

15. A Higher Power

April 9, 2008

7.8
40 min

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

Elephant's Memory

16. Elephant's Memory

April 16, 2008

8.0
43 min

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

In Heat

17. In Heat

April 30, 2008

6.9
40 min

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

The Crossing

18. The Crossing

May 7, 2008

7.9
40 min

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

Tabula Rasa

19. Tabula Rasa

May 14, 2008

7.8
42 min

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

Lo-Fi

20. Lo-Fi

May 21, 2008

8.2
40 min

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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