Criminal Minds season 16
Criminal Minds season 16: 10 listed episodes, with episode titles, original air dates and optional synopses.
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Season 16 · Episode 1
Just Getting Started
· 50 min
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When a family annihilator abducts a teen girl, the Behavioral Analysis Unit works the case on either side of the country to save her. But an unlikely connection to a mysterious kit leads to a bigger investigation and at the center of it is Penelope Garcia.
Season 16 · Episode 2
Sicarius
· 53 min
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As the team hunts an UnSub who severs spinal cords, they uncover a clue from their last case that points to a serial killing network. To figure out how big this network is, Rossi has to convince a reluctant Garcia to do the one thing she doesn't want: come back to the BAU.
Season 16 · Episode 3
Moose
· 44 min
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At the heart of the serial killing network is Elias Voit. Dangerous psychopath. Manipulative narcissist. Loving father and husband. In order to find him, the team must find all of his kill kits. But one is missing, and the path leads to a bomb in the middle of Washington, D.C.
Season 16 · Episode 4
Pay-Per-View
· 47 min
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The BAU hunts for the next connection to the serial killer network when they pursue a home invasion team. Alvez and Garcia convince Tyler Green to submit a cognitive interview to unlock his memories of Sicarius.
Season 16 · Episode 5
Oedipus Wrecks
· 45 min
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A surprising connection forces Deputy Director Bailey to ask the BAU to take a case involving young D.C. socialites who are bitten by a sadistic UnSub. But when the case turns political, the BAU finds themselves in the crosshairs from a high-powered senator. The team is led to a second shipping container that's rigged to blow.
Season 16 · Episode 6
True Conviction
· 55 min
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The aftermath of the explosion threatens to end the Sicarius case unless the BAU can justify a reason to keep it open. The hunt takes them to a death row inmate — but is he a killer or another one of Sicarius' victims?
Season 16 · Episode 7
What Doesn't Kill Us
· 56 min
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With the fate of the Sicarius investigation hanging in the balance, the BAU takes a case in West Virginia, where an UnSub practices his own twisted form of Old Testament vengean.
Season 16 · Episode 8
Forget Me Knots
· 45 min
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Voit's internal struggles with himself lead him to a desperate kidnapping. But Rossi's obsession brings the BAU closer to the truth than they've ever been.
Season 16 · Episode 9
Memento Mori
· 56 min
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Rossi will go to any lengths to prove that Elias Voit is Sicarius. But Voit turns Rossi into his own worst enemy, putting his future at the BAU in jeopardy.
Season 16 · Episode 10
Dead End
· 56 min
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With Rossi in Voit's clutches, he grapples with the limits of his technical know-how and mental strength. As the BAU tightens their grip on Voit, he reveals just how far he's willing to take his deadly crusade.
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