Criminal Minds: Season 8
CBS Television (2012)
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IMDB   8.2
22 hr 0 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Thomas Gibson Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner
Shemar Moore Derek Morgan
Matthew Gray Gubler Dr Spencer Reid
Rachel Nichols Ashley Seaver
Joe Mantegna David Rossi
Mandy Patinkin Jason Gideon
Paget Brewster Emily Prentiss
Jeanne Tripplehorn Alex Blake
Lola Glaudini Elle Greenaway
Kirsten Vangsness Penelope Garcia
Andrea Joy Cook Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau
A.J. Cook Jennifer Jareau
Director
Larry Teng
Writer Breen Frazier

Based in Quantico, Virginia, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) is a subsection of the FBI. Called in by local police departments to assist in solving crimes of a serial and/or extremely violent nature where the perpetrator is unknown (referred to by the Unit as the unknown subject or unsub for short), the BAU use the controversial scientific art of profiling to track and apprehend the unsub. Profiling entails coming up with basic characteristics of the unsub and the victims (referred to as the victimology), using evidence from the case and matching that information to historic precedents and psychological analyses as a means to solve the case. Because of the nature of the work conducted by the BAU - the work being time consuming and psychologically demanding - its members are fiercely loyal to the Unit and to its other members. Also because of the work's overall demanding nature, not many members of the BAU have been able to maintain a happy or stable family life. Written by Huggo
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    9/26/2012  1.  The Silencer
When a Texas prisoner escapes during a transfer, he leaves behind victims with his unique trademark, sewing their mouths shut, a signature the BAU remembers as unique to the UnSub "The Silencer." While they investigate who he was and who he's become, the BAU also gets to know the newest member of the team.
Director:  Glenn Kershaw  Writer:  Erica Messer 
Guest starring:  Sam HenningsJayne Atkinson
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/3/2012  2.  The Pact
When the bodies of two seemingly unrelated victims are found just hours apart in San Diego and Los Angeles respectively, the BAU suspects that that not one, but two killers are working together to commit these murders.
Director:  Karen Gaviola  Writer:  Janine Sherman Barrois 
Guest starring:  Kim WayansMackenzie Phillips, Brandon Keener
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/17/2012  3.  Through the Looking Glass
An UNSUB who kidnaps families with the intention of making them admit to and pay for their indiscretions.
Director:  Dermott Downs  Writer:  Sharon Lee Watson 
Guest starring:  Josh Stamberg, Danielle Bisutti, John Fleck,  Gary Grubbs, Shelby Young,  Bellamy Young
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/24/2012  4.  God Complex
When a legless body is found in the New Mexico desert and a second unwilling amputee shows up at the hospital, the BAU team searches for this amateur surgeon before he preys upon his next reluctant victim. Also, Reid's phone calls to a mystery woman have the team intrigued.
Director:  Larry Teng  Writer:  Breen Frazier 
Guest starring:  Ray Wise, Jamie Rose,  Arjay Smith, Chris McGarry
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/31/2012  5.  TBA
The team heads to Oregon as four men have gone missing.
Director:  John Terlesky  Writer:  Bruce Zimmerman 
Guest starring:  Anne Dudek, Rebecca Wisocky
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/7/2012  6.  The Apprenticeship
When prostitutes in Miami are discovered murdered in a similar style to local animals found dead there, the BAU must work fast to find an unsub whose confidence is quickly escalating. Also, Morgan tries to increase Reid's athletic skills by convincing him to join the bureau softball team.
Director:  Rob Bailey  Writer:  Virgil Williams 
Guest starring:  Mathew Lillard
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/14/2012  7.  The Fallen
The BAU travels to Santa Monica when burned bodies of homeless people begin showing up by the famous pier. Also, Rossi reconnects with his former Marine sergeant from Vietnam.
Director:  Douglas Aarniokoski  Writer:  Rick Dunkle 
Guest starring:  Meshach Taylor, Shane Johnson, Conni Marie Brazelton
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/21/2012  8.  The Wheels on the Bus...
The BAU team goes in pursuit of a missing school bus full of children outside the Washington, D.C. area, and it becomes a race against time for them to bring them home safely.
Director:  Rob Hardy  Writer:  Kimberly A. Harrison  / Kim Harrison 
Guest starring:  David Gallagher, Andrew James Allen,  Devon Werkheiser, Brittany Curran, Reginald C. Hayes,  Nicholas Brendon
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/28/2012  9.  Magnificent Light
An attendee at a popular motivational-speaker's conference in Seattle is murdered and the speaker himself disappears soon afterward. Meanwhile, Garcia is puzzled when Morgan refuses to attend a dinner honoring an old family friend.
Director:  John T. Kretchmer  Writer:  Sharon Lee Watson 
Guest starring:  Patrick FabianRaphael Sbarge, Matthew Yang King, Rico E. Anderson, Kelly Smith
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/5/2012  10.  The Lesson
A ritualistic killer is hunted after male bodies are found that have been physically altered. Meanwhile, Reid gets anxious at the prospect of meeting his mystery woman.
Director:  Matthew Gray Gubler  Writer:  Janine Sherman Barrois 
Guest starring:  Brad Dourif, Beth Riesgraf
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/12/2012  11.  Perrenials
The BAU heads south to investigate a fast-moving UnSub whose signature matches that of a serial killer from 30 years ago. Also, the team learns that someone is tracking their cases and replicating crimes the BAU is solving
Director:  Michael Lange  Writer:  Bruce Zimmerman 
Guest starring:  Bill Tangradi, Steph DuVall, Kristen O'Meara, Bethany Orr, Erika Godwin
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/16/2013  12.  Zugzwang
When Reid discovers that his girlfriend has been kidnapped by her stalker, he and the BAU team band together to find her before it's too late.
Director:  Jesse Warn  Writer:  Breen Frazier 
Guest starring:  Beth Riesgraf,  Michelle Trachtenberg
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/23/2013  13.  Magnum Opus
While Reid copes with a loss in his personal life, the rest of the BAU travels to San Francisco to investigate victims discovered in the Mission District.
Director:  Glenn Kershaw  Writer:  Jason Bernero 
Guest starring:  John Patrick AmedoriJamie Luner, Anna George, Brian Mulligan
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/6/2013  14.  All That Remains
A writer's daughters vanish on the anniversary of their mother's disappearance, which leads the BAU to investigate the man as a possible suspect.
Director:  Larry Teng  / Thomas Gibson  Writer:  Erica Messer 
Guest starring:  Ken OlinKeith SzarabajkaPaul Dooley, Sophi Bairley,  Larry Poindexter
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/20/2013  15.  Broken
The BAU heads to Austin to investigate victims found there with their watches set inaccurately, a clue which may connect the crimes. Meanwhile, the UnSub stalking the BAU inches closer in his pursuit of the team.
Director:  Larry Teng  Writer:  Rick Dunkle 
Guest starring:  Patrick John Flueger, Yani Gellman, Ken Weiler, Corey Mendell Parker, Daniel E. Smith
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/27/2013  16.  Carbon Copy
When victims are found in Philadelphia in a similar style to victims of The Replicator, the stalker who has been tracking the BAU's every move, the team thinks this could be the break they need to try and apprehend him.
Director:  Rob Hardy  Writer:  Virgil Williams 
Guest starring:  Scott GrimesJayne Atkinson
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/20/2013  17.  The Gathering
The Un-sub in this episode runs a fantasy murder writing class and acts out the murders that his class write about.
Director:  Michael Lange  Writer:  Kim Harrison 
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/3/2013  18.  Restoration
The BAU goes to Morgan's old neighborhood in urban Chicago in search of an unsub targeting middle-aged men, and a clue leads Morgan to believe that they are after someone connected to the man who molested him as a child.
Director:  Felix Alcala  Writer:  Janine Sherman Barrois  / Jim Clemente 
Guest starring:  Skipp Sudduth, Julius Tennon, Keith Tisdell
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/10/2013  19.  Pay It Forward
When a time capsule in a small Colorado town is opened twenty-five years later and contains a gruesome discovery, the BAU investigates the crime and find a possible link to the death of a local police officer.
Director:  John Terlesky  Writer:  Bruce Zimmerman 
Guest starring:  Rob Nagle,  Missy CriderRyan Cutrona, Bill Dawes, David Hayward, Jeanette O'Connor
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/1/2013  20.  Alchemy
The BAU travel to Rapid City after two male victims are discovered murdered in a ritualistic manner. Also, Reid continues to grieve over Maeve’s death.
Director:  Matthew Gray Gubler  Writer:  Sharon Lee Watson 
Guest starring:  Beth Riesgraf
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/8/2013  21.  Nanny Dearest
The BAU travels to Los Angeles looking for an UnSub who is kidnapping nannies and the children they care for on the same day each year
Director:  Doug Aarniokoski  Writer:  Virgil Williams 
Guest starring:  Yara Martinez, Christopher Amitrano, Josh Stewart
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/15/2013  22.  Number Six
The BAU goes to Detroit to track an UnSub with a rapidly changing MO. Also, Blake's husband returns from overseas with a life-changing career proposition for her.
Director:  Karen Gaviola  Writer:  Breen Frazier 
Guest starring:  D.W. Moffett, Adam Harrington,  Erin Cummings
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/22/2013  23.  Brothers Hotchner (1)
The Replicator zeroes in on the BAU when the killer targets one of the team as the next victim. Also, the BAU is called in to investigate a string of deaths in Manhattan tied to apparent ecstasy overdoses, and Hotch discovers that his estranged brother, Sean, is caught in the middle
Director:  Rob Bailey  Writer:  Rick Dunkle 
Guest starring:  Eric JohnsonMark MosesBellamy YoungNicholas Brendon, Sean Maguire,  Jayne AtkinsonMark Hamill
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    5/22/2013  24.  The Replicator (2)
The Replicator zeroes in on the BAU when the killer targets one of the team as the next victim. Also, the BAU is called in to investigate a string of deaths in Manhattan tied to apparent ecstasy overdoses, and Hotch discovers that his estranged brother, Sean, is caught in the middle
Director:  Glenn Kershaw  Writer:  Erica Messer 
Guest starring:  Brian Appel, Breanne Hill, Teresa Huang, Emma Marcus
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