Monday, September 15, 2008

Criminal Minds, Season 3


SEASON 3: AIRED FROM SEPT 26,2007 – MAY 21, 2008
1. “Doubt”
A serial killer in Flagstaff, Arizona is targeting women at a small college so the BAU is requested to create a profile and stop the unsub. When the team thinks they’ve caught the killer, another woman appears dead.
2. "In Name and Blood" aka "In Birth And Death"
This time, the BAU is requested in Milwaukee to help solve the brutal murders of women who were found with their hearts torn apart. The case begins with a rough time since half of the team is off (Hotch, Prentiss and Gideon)
3. "Scared to Death"
After finding a group of bodies in various states of decomposition, the BAU travels to Portland, Oregon to search for an answer. The team has a very tough job since the MO of every victim varied dramatically and another people goes missing while the investigation is on.
4. "Children of the Dark"
Cherry Creek, Colorado is the new place receiving the BAU after a series of brutal family murders have happened. The team discovers that the murders were performed in a team of two which personalities differ quite a lot.
5. "Seven Seconds"
When a local girl named Katie is kidnapped in the Potomac Mills mall only weeks after another child is kidnapped and murdered in a similar kidnapping, the BAU moves in.
6. "About Face"
The first episode where Agent David Rossi appears as the new member of the BAU; he travels with the team all the way down to Dallas where a woman is kidnapped after she finds a ton of adds with her face and the phrase “Have you seen me?” that looked just like a Halloween prank.
7. "Identity"
Montana is the new city requesting the BAU’s services when a woman is kidnapped from a grocery store by Francis Goehring, when he gets caught he blows himself but the kidnaps don’t stop.
8. "Lucky"
In this ultra surprising episode, the team flies to Florida when a Satanist killer murders a woman brutally. Back in Quantico, Penelope meets a guy at a coffee shop never imagining what he will do to her.
9. "Penelope"
Penelope has been shot by the guy she met in the last episode, she survives and is ready to know why the hell the guy did this to her.
10. "True Night"
LA is suffering for a series of killings that happened to be done while the killer had a psychotic break. The murders happened in two weeks and the MO is the same on everyone which means the killer has ventured out of his territory for a reason.
11. "Birthright"
When a series of women go missing in Fredericksburg, Virginia, the team takes the case. This episode involves a killer from the past and his copy cat in the present which allows the team to create a profile based on the original assassin.
12. "3rd Life"
After 2 teenagers vanish and the team stands over the freshly dug grave of one of them the investigation begins.
13. "Limelight"
An auction for the contents of self-storage facility in Philadelphia uncovers a roomful of items that might be indicators of a serial killer in the making. Rossi and Reid head up to investigate and the items sway Rossi into believing they have a killer on their hands.
14. "Damaged"
In this episode the team is split in 2: Rossi investigating his unfinished business and Hotch with Reid interviewing a sadistic serial killer on death row.
15. "A Higher Power"
The BAU is requested this time on Pittsburg where an unusual high suicide rate begins to look like the work of an Angel of Death.
16. "Elephant's Memory"
The BAU is called to a small town in Texas to investigate what looks like spree killings that involve a teenaged boy and his girlfriend.
17. "In Heat"
The BAU is called to Miami to investigate a serial killer who appears to have a conflicted sexual identity.
18. "The Crossing"
In this episode, the team tries to protect a woman from her stalker while Hotch and Rossi are called as consultants on another case.
19. "Tabula Rasa"
This time, the BAU is part of a trial against a serial killer that has been in coma for four years.
20. "Lo-Fi"
In this breath-taking season finalle, five seemingly unrelated victims are shot at random in two weeks in New York City. The team is called in to investigate, and determines that a large group (possible terrorism) is responsible. At the end of the episode the team separates into 5 SUV’s and one of them explodes.

Criminal Minds, Season 2


SEASON 2: AIRED FROM SEPT 20, 2006 – MAY 17, 2006
1. "The Fisher King, Part 2"
Still trying to solve the clues of the first part of this episode, the BAU has a member less and a personal side linked to this psycho but the clue of this puzzle was closer than they thought: Reid.
2. "P911"
This time the BAU is requested by another wing of the FBI: Innocent Images Unit which is seeking for a boy abducted a year ago and appears on sale on a website.
3. "The Perfect Storm"
The episode begins with a family receiving a cd that supposedly contained photos of their daughters vacation but what it really contained was a video of the girl raped and beaten and sadly found dead a day after; the BAU is called after a second case happens.
4. "Psychodrama"
After a bank robber leaves all his hostages undress, the team is called when its behavior starts turning violent.
5. "Aftermath"
The BAU works this time with an erretic rapist which changes from one target to another.
6. "The Boogeyman"
Texas is the new scenario to investigate the murders of children.
7. "North Mammon"
For this episode, the BAU is requested at a small town named North Mammon where a man kidnaps 3 girls that are supposed to chose one among them that will die in order to save the other 2.
8. "Empty Planet"
Which apparently is a radical group of anti-technology starts bombing Seattle, the BAU tries to stop it when they realize that the bomber is just a man influenced by a science-fiction novel.
9. "The Last Word"
One of Criminal Minds craziest episodes, where the serial killers involved are competing between each other. Also in this episode Emily Prentiss joins the BAU team.
10. "Lessons Learned"
The scenario this time is Guantanamo Bay, where the BAU is requested to profile the leader of a terror sleeper cell.
11. "Sex, Birth, Death"
The BAU seeks this time for a man that kills prostitutes, with the idea to cleanse the city of unwished women.
12. "Profiler Profiled"
A totally impressive episode! While Derek thinks he’s going on a vacation time to visit his mom on Chicago, he apparently looks as the killer of 3 kids over there.
13. "No Way Out"
The BAU travels to Golconda, Nevada to help match a serial killer who comes back to the same town year after year.
14. "The Big Game"
In the first part of this episode, the team is looking for an apparently group of killers that kept record of the murders with the help of webcams. The team notices that they are looking for a chameleon killer which need of killing is increasing dramatically.
15. "Revelations"
In the second part, this crazy killer kidnaps Reid. This leaves a huge sequel on our dear Spencer.
16. "Fear and Loathing"
The BAU is called to a New York suburb to help solve the murders of 4 black women which had all the symptoms of hate crimes.
17. "Distress"
The BAU goes back to Texas, this time to Houston where a series of murders have occurred near a construction site. The killings have been random so the team develops various hypothesis. The sequels of Reid’s kidnap start to be noticed during this episode.
18. "Jones"
This time, New Orleans looks like the new home of neo Jack the Ripper where 3 victims are found with their throats slit.
19. "Ashes and Dust"
In this episode, the BAU helps solve a series of murders among upper-middle-class families which are linked through corporate development companies.
20. "Honor Among Thieves"
This episode starts when Prentiss’ mom calls the BAU to solve a kidnapping of a Russian man.
21. "Open Season"
Idaho wilderness is selected as the best spot to leave the bodies of missing people, which leads that these killers may be doing this as a sport.
22. "Legacy"
The team travels to Kansas City to investigate the mysterious disappearing of homeless people from the streets.
23. "No Way Out II: The Evolution of Frank"
A serial killer, Frank, grabs Gideon’s list of people saved decided to harm them until he gets his girlfriend Jane back; the team must find him to save the girl he kidnapped and save Jane as well.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Criminal Minds, Season 1


SEASON 1: AIRED FROM SEPT 22, 2005 – MAY 10, 2006.
1. "Extreme Aggressor"
After 6 months away, Jason Gideon is called back to the Behavioral Analysis Unit to do the profile of a killer who seeks for young women in Seattle.
2. "Compulsion"
In this episode, the team is profiling a serial arsonist which loves fire not only as an spectacle but also as a killing tool.
3. "Won't Get Fooled Again"
Palm Beach is the next scenario where the BAU is requested to profile a bomber which was a copycat from a previous bomber (Adrian Bale) which killed 6 FBI agents.
4. “Plain Sight”
"Tommy" killer is the next unsub to catch in San Diego; this killer rapes, murders and glues the women's eyes wide open.
5. “Broken Mirror”
BAU is requested to search for a very important person: one of the twin daughters of an Executive Assistant US Attorney.
6. "L.D.S.K."
These letters referring to “Long.Distance.Serial.Killer” take the BAU all the way down to Des Plaines, Illinois to stop this killer before many others fall on his hands.
7. "The Fox"
In this ultra impressive episode, the BAU is looking for a killer who targets entire familes.
8. "Natural Born Killer"
In combination with the OC Unit, the BAU clears the hypothesis of a group of murderers into a serial killer responsible of a dozen of murders.
9. "Derailed"
In this episode, Elle is kept hostage while an schizophrenic has a crisis on a train.
10. "The Popular Kids"
Back in Virginia, the team investigates a possible cult which makes Reid have nightmares and being totally unable to sleep at night.
11. "Blood Hungry"
Just as the name of this episode says, the killer investigated by the BAU is LITERALLY eating blood! More specifically, he’s a cannibal which is a psychotic killer.
12. "What Fresh Hell?"
BAU is requested this time to search for an 11-year old boy which was kidnapped while he was playing at the park; he’s been missing 22 hours.
13. “Poison”
The team travels to New Jersey where several people have been poisoned with LSD ten times more potent than the street version.
14. "Riding the Lightning"
This time, the BAU team is sent to the Florida State Penitentiary to interview husband and wife serial killers set to be executed.
15. "Unfinished Business With You"
After a retired FBI agent publishes a book with the details of one of his cases, the serial killer of it starts killing again.
16. "The Tribe"
The BAU travels to New Mexico where a group of students were found tortured and murdered in a very specific way: Native American rituals.
17. "A Real Rain"
New York City is the new scenario where a vigilante takes the task of murder criminals who have been released despite their guiltiness.
18. "Somebody's Watching"
While Gideon and Reid conduct a seminar with the LAPD, the BAU is requested over there to help solve a chain of murders related to a young actress.
19. “Machismo”
The BAU is requested to assist on a case in Mexico to determine if there is a serial killer with a disturbing history targeting the elderly women of his past in the town of a police captain who attended one of Gideon's seminars.
20. "Charm and Harm"
This is a very cool episode! The killer transforms with every woman he kills, which makes the BAU almost lost its mind.
21. "Secrets and Lies"
While the CIA is recognized of being an hermetic company, the BAU is called to find a mole within this unit.
22. "The Fisher King, Part 1"
A nerve-wracking episode! This time the team is ready to take some vacation time, but they never expect that the killer will spoil that calm time with unexpected gifts, riddles and ‘encripted’ clues to find his next victim. While the BAU is trying to solve the case, one of the team members suffers an accident.