Criminal Minds season 5
Criminal Minds season 5: 23 listed episodes, with episode titles, original air dates and optional synopses.
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Season 5 · Episode 1
Nameless, Faceless
· 60 min
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Hotch's unexplained absence quickly becomes apparent when the team is called back together to profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor.
Season 5 · Episode 2
Haunted
· 60 min
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When a disturbed man kills several people at a pharmacy, the BAU must figure out what triggered his actions before he hurts anyone else.
Season 5 · Episode 3
Reckoner
· 60 min
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The BAU investigates a case in Rossi's hometown that involves both his personal and professional life.
Season 5 · Episode 4
Hopeless
· 60 min
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A group of suspects with a pack mentality who kill for the thrill of it are the subjects of a BAU manhunt.
Season 5 · Episode 5
Cradle to Grave
· 60 min
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The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them.
Season 5 · Episode 6
The Eyes Have It
· 60 min
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The BAU team tracks a serial killer who keeps the eyes of his victims as souvenirs.
Season 5 · Episode 7
The Performer
· 60 min
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The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seems to align with the tour schedule of a rock star.
Season 5 · Episode 8
Outfoxed
· 60 min
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While tracking a family annihilator, the BAU must seek advice from "The Fox," one of the most horrific killers from the team's past who has an ominous message for Agent Hotchner.
Season 5 · Episode 9
100
· 60 min
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The BAU team races to help Hotchner find The Reaper and save his family before it's too late.
Season 5 · Episode 10
The Slave of Duty
· 60 min
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While Agent Hotchner takes a leave of absence from the BAU, the team must regroup to solve a home invasion case.
Season 5 · Episode 11
Retaliation
· 60 min
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The BAU must profile a criminal's past in order to catch him after he escapes from custody and begins a killing spree.
Season 5 · Episode 12
The Uncanny Valley
· 60 min
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An unusual personal obsession is at the center of a BAU abduction case. Meanwhile, Hotch struggles with his return to work.
Season 5 · Episode 13
Risky Business
· 60 min
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Rash of startling teen suicides in a small Wyoming town is the focus of a BAU investigation.
Season 5 · Episode 14
Parasite
· 60 min
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The BAU follows the mental decline of a con artist whose schemes have become so complicated that he begins to eliminate the people involved in them.
Season 5 · Episode 15
Public Enemy
· 60 min
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Serial killer who targets random victims in highly visible places to create a sense of public fear is the subject of a BAU investigation.
Season 5 · Episode 16
Mosley Lane
· 60 min
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The BAU profiles a child abductor who may have been keeping children for more than eight years.
Season 5 · Episode 17
Solitary Man
· 60 min
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Truck driver is kidnapping women and disposing of them in random locations and the BAU must find out his motive in order to catch him.
Season 5 · Episode 18
The Fight
· 60 min
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The BAU team travels to San Francisco to investigate the murders of several homeless men and teams up with a separate group of BAU operatives who are working another case they think is connected.
Season 5 · Episode 19
Rite of Passage
· 60 min
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The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants attempting to make safe passage into the U.S..
Season 5 · Episode 20
...A Thousand Words
· 60 min
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The BAU team must profile a serial killer covered in tattoos who commits suicide, but leaves clues to the whereabouts of his last victim.
Season 5 · Episode 21
Exit Wounds
· 60 min
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Garcia plays a crucial role in a case when she travels to Alaska with the BAU team to investigate the murders of several members of a small town.
Season 5 · Episode 22
The Internet is Forever
· 60 min
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The BAU team profiles a serial killer who uses the Internet as his hunting ground, bringing a whole meaning to the term "social networking".
Season 5 · Episode 23
Our Darkest Hour
· 60 min
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Series of rolling blackouts in the city of Los Angeles lures a serial killer out of hiding, giving him renewed opportunities to continue his killing spree.
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