Criminal Minds Season 3 Episodes and Air Dates

 

                                                Episode:                                             Air Date:

                                               1. Doubt                                              9/26/07

                                               2. In Birth and Death                           10/3/07

                                               3. Scared to Death                             10/10/07

                                               4. Children of the Dark                       10/17/07

                                               5. Seven Seconds                               10/24/07

                                               6. About Face                                    10/31/07

                                               7. Identity                                             11/7/07

                                               8. Lucky (Part I)                                 11/14/07

                                               9. Penelope (Part II)                           11/21/07

                                              10. True Night                                     11/28/07

                                              11. Birthright                                        12/12/07

                                              12. 3rd Life                                           1/9/08

                                              13. Limelight                                         1/23/08

                                              14. Damaged                                         4/2/08

                                              15. A Higher Power                               4/9/08

                                              16. Elephant's Memory                         4/16/08

                                              17. In Heat                                           4/30/08

                                              18. The Crossing                                    5/7/08 

                                              19. Tabula Rasa                                    5/14/08

                                              20. Lo-Fi (Part I)                                  5/21/08

Criminal Minds Season 2 Episodes and Air Dates

                                               Episode:                                             Air Date:
                                  1. The Fisher King (Part 2)                              9/20/06
                                  2. P911                                                           9/27/06                      
                                  3. The Perfect Storm                                       10/4/06
                                  4. Psychodrama                                              10/11/06
                                  5. The Aftermath                                            10/18/06
                                  6. The Boogeyman                                         10/25/06
                                  7. North Mammon                                          11/1/06
                                  8. Empty Planet                                              11/8/06
                                  9. The Last Word                                          11/15/06
                                 10. Lessons Learned                                      11/22/06
                                 11. Sex, Birth, Death                                      11/29/06
                                 12. Profiler, Profiled                                       12/12/06
                                 13. No Way Out                                             1/17/07
                                 14. The Big Game (Part 1)                               2/4/07
                                 15. Revelations (Part 2)                                   2/7/07
                                 16. Fear and Loathing                                     2/14/07
                                 17. Distress                                                    2/21/07
                                 18. Jones                                                       2/28/07
                                 19. Ashes and Dust                                        3/21/07
                                 20. Honor Among Thieves                              4/11/07
                                 21. Open Season                                            5/2/07
                                 22. Legacy                                                     5/9/07
                                 23. No Way Out II: The Evolution of Frank    5/16/07

Ciminal Minds Seaon 1 Episodes and Air Dates

                                                 Episode:                                        Air Date:
                                        1. Extreme Aggressor                              9/22/05
                                        2. Compulsion                                         9/28/05
                                        3. Wont Get Fooled Again                      10/5/05
                                        4. Plain Sight                                           10/12/05
                                        5. Broken Mirror                                    10/19/05
                                        6. L.D.S.K                                             11/2/05
                                        7. The Fox                                              11/9/05
                                        8. Natural Born Killer                             11/16/05
                                        9. Derailed                                             11/23/05
                                       10. The Popular Kids                              11/30/05
                                       11. Blood Hungry                                    12/14/05
                                       12. What Fresh Hell                                 1/11/06
                                       13. Poison                                               1/18/06
                                       14. Riding The Lightning                           1/25/06
                                       15. Unfinished Business                            3/1/06 
                                       16. The Tribe                                           3/8/06
                                       17. A Real Rain                                       3/22/06
                                       18. Somebody's Watching                        3/29/06
                                       19. Machismo                                          4/12/06
                                       20. Charm and Harm                               4/19/06
                                       21. Secrets and Lies                                 5/3/06
                                       22. The Fisher King (Part 1)                    5/10/06

Criminal Minds David Rossi- Joe Mantegna

Senior SSA David Rossi, one of the "'founding fathers" of the BAU, was in early retirement until his voluntary return in 2007, replacing Jason Gideon, who had abruptly resigned. He had retired in order to write books and go on lecture tours, but he returned to settle some unfinished business that was not immediately specified. It was later revealed that the case involved three young children whose parents had been murdered in a possible home-invasion case that had remained unsolved. This case haunted Rossi for twenty years and prompted him to return to the BAU, where he eventually solved it.

Criminal Minds Alex Blake- Jeanne Tripplehorn

FBI Linguistics expert Alex Blake replaces SSA Emily Prentiss. She is introduced in Season 8.
Upon her employment at the BAU was met with some mixed reactions as the team was close to Prentiss. She joined to restore her reputation after an incident in the Amerithax case. As a result, she and Erin Strauss do not get along, with Strauss accusing her of joining for selfish reasons, but they eventually make amends. The rest of the team recognize her expertise and are generally less antagonistic towards her. As Season 8 progressed, Blake found herself in danger when she is threatened by a serial killer.

Criminal Minds Penelope Garcia- Kristen Vangsness

Played by Kristen Vangsness, Penelope Garcia is the team's Technical Analyst at headquarters. She is fun-loving and provides the rest of the team with comic relief. She got her last name from her stepfather—hence the Latina implication—but she is not Hispanic. She was shot and almost killed in season 3. She and SSA Morgan share a very friendly-flirty relationship but never go beyond that, although Penelope shows mild jealousy when she sees him dancing with two other women, and he responds negatively when asked for proposal advice by her boyfriend, Kevin Lynch. Penelope lost both of her parents at the age of 18. She taught herself to hack after she dropped out of college and was grouped with the best hackers in the world. After being caught by the FBI, she was given a choice of living in a high-security prison for the rest of her life or working for the BAU as an analyst. She is in a relationship with fellow FBI employee Kevin Lynch. When Jennifer Jareau leaves the BAU for a promotion to a position at the pentagon, Garcia takes up her responsibilities as media liaison and retains this position even when JJ returns to the BAU as a profiler.

Criminal Minds Aaron Hotchner- Thomas Gibson

Supervisory Special Agent  and Unit Chief Aaron "Hotch" used to be a prosecutor and was formerly assigned to the FBI field office in Seattle, but after stepping down for a period of time, he returned to lead the unit. He has a son named Jack by his deceased wife Haley. The two eventually divorced and remained on good terms until Haley was murdered by George Foyet, Aaron's Nemesis. Aaron's attempts to balance his family life and his job have been something of an ongoing struggle on the show. But in the episodes "Closing Time," "Family Affairs," and "Run," it is shown that he has moved on and is currently in a romantic relationship with Beth Clemmons.

Criminal Minds Jason Gideon- Mandy Patinkin

Mandy Patikin is mostly known for his role as BAU profiler Jason Gideon. Gideon is one of the best profiler's on the BAU team simply because he see's things other don't. He was able to help Morgan and Reid with the nightmares they were suffering from previous cases. He was known to have a very close relationship with Reid, having hand-picked him from the Academy for his team, helping him through many difficulties including his implied drug use. Gideon began to lose his confidence in his profiling skills after killer Frank Breitkopf murdered his girlfriend, Sarah Jacobs. During his final case in Arizona, he further lost faith in his abilities when his decision to release the unsub resulted in the deaths of both the unsub and a young woman.

Criminal Minds Elle Greenaway- Lola Glaudini

In the series Lola Glaudini portrays the feisty, hard head FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elle Greenaway! She was last seen in the episode "The Boogeyman" when she handed in her badge and gun to the cheif and resigned. Her reason for leaving? the guilt of shooting an alleged rapist in cold blood. Claiming that he had drawn a gun on her first, Greenaway was ruled by local authorities to have acted in self-defense, although her BAU colleagues clearly thought otherwise. The moment that had us all on the edge of our seat with greenaway would have to be when she was shot at the conclusion of the episode "The Fisher King." Upon her resignation she was replace by Emily Prentiss who is portrayed by Paget Brewster.

Criminal Minds Emily Prentiss- Paget Brewster

Paget Brewster was known as the beautiful and feisty Emily Prentiss. Paget's first appearance was made in season 2 episode 9 entitled "The Last Word" replacing character Elle Greenaway who quit! Prentiss was born to an unnamed father and her mother Elizabeth who was a US Ambassador. Her appearance surprised both SSA Hotchner and Gideon, as neither supervisor had signed off on the transfer. Hotchner was immediately suspicious of the new agent, but Prentiss, insisting that her mother had not pulled any strings for her to get the assignment, convinced him to let her join the team on a probationary basis, and eventually proved her competence and gained the team's trust. Prentiss immediately bonds with Agent Morgan due to their mutual love of Kurt Vonnegut books and they develop a close relationship. Morgan is also with Prentiss, holding her, when she is dying, dying after she is seriously injured by Doyle, and tells her that he understands what she did, and that she is brave, and he is proud of her. When he believes she has died, Morgan takes her death quite hard and expresses anger toward Doyle.

Criminal Minds Jennifer (JJ) Jareau- AJ Cook

 

AJ Cook portrays FBI BAU Supervisory Special Agent Jennifer (JJ) Jareau. Jennifer acted as the team's liaison with the media and local police agencies. Though talented and helpful, she was not considered a profiler like the other characters, actually declining Unit Chief's suggestion to take the classes. However, she does accompany the team on raids, and is proficient with firearms. This is made clear when she resolved a hostage situation inside the BAU by killing the hostage-taker, Jason Clark Battle, with a single shot (Battle is a serial perpetrator of hero homicide, who lured the teams Technical Analyst onto a date, and then shot her, in an attempt to keep his crimes from being discovered) In the series JJ is married to William LaMontagne, Jr. and has one son named Henry LaMontagne.

Criminal Minds Derek Morgan- Shemar Moore

Shemar Moore is known for his sexy role as FBI agent Derek Morgan. Derek specializes in the fixations and obsessive behaviors of the unsubs. Morgan's offical job title's are FBI BAU Acting Unit Chief and Supervisory Special Agent. Morgan deals with numerous demons from his past during the show but the most memorable is witnessing his father's murder as a young child! Morgan's biggest grudge was against the unsub George Foyet (The Boston Reaper). After Morgan was knocked out by Foyet in early 2009, Foyet stole Morgan's FBI credentials. He then used the credentials while dropping off a severely injured FBI agent in the Emergency Room after attacking and nearly killing him!

Criminal Minds Spencer Reid- Matthew Gray Gubler

Matthew Gray Gubler is known as the famous know it all Dr. Spencer Reid. Matthew stared in 186 episodes from 2005 until current. The show is currently in season 9. Matthew's very first appearance was the episode entitled "Extreme Aggressor." Spencer is a genius with an IQ of 187 and can read 20,000 words per minute due to an eidetic memory! Dr. Reid specializes in statistics and geographic profiling. Spencer was also kidnapped by serial killer Tobias Hankel!