Criminal Minds: Season 13

2017 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.9

What Season 13 of Criminal Minds

The season begins with Matt Simmons joining the Behavioral Analysis Unit team in Quantico. Aaron Hotchner leads the profilers, who must anticipate the movements of killers scattered across the country. The first episode sets up a race against the clock to stop Mr. Scratch and save one of their own. Then the cases take the agents to Detroit, Silicon Valley, New Orleans, and New York. Penelope Garcia, Derek Morgan, who returns to the team, and David Rossi face investigations that also weigh on their personal lives. Linda Barnes, deputy director of Homeland Security, adds pressure to the team's work.

22episodes

Sep 27, 2017premiered

Apr 18, 2018Latest episode

15.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 13 Episodes

13x01 Wheels Up
Sep 27, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
In the wake of a devastating attack, the BAU works with former International Response Team member Matthew Simmons to save one of their own from escaped serial killer Peter Lewis.
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Breen Frazier · Starring: Josh Stewart, Bodhi Elfman
13x02 To a Better Place
Oct 4, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
The BAU investigates three similar crimes in which victims' remains are discovered in old suitcases.
Directing: Diana Valentine · Writing: Bruce Zimmerman · Starring: Alberto Frezza, Mary Jo Deschanel, Jeanine Mason, Tim Russ
13x03 Blue Angel
Oct 11, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
When successful businessmen in Detroit are targeted by an anger-driven power-assertive Unsub, the BAU is called in to investigate.
Directing: Sharat Raju · Writing: Christopher Barbour · Starring: Declan Whaley, Jamie Gray Hyder, Brandon Jay McLaren, Rose Abdoo
13x04 Killer App
Oct 18, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 8.2
The BAU investigates a workplace shooting committed by a state-of-the-art drone in Silicon Valley.
Directing: Alec Smight · Writing: Stephanie Sengupta · Starring: Emily Rose
13x05 Lucky Strikes
Oct 25, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 8.2
Morgan lends emotional support to Garcia when she experiences anxiety over a case that is personal to her from her past.
Directing: Tawnia McKiernan, Aisha Tyler · Writing: Jim Clemente · Starring: Shemar Moore, Mark Gantt, Maria Howell, Nicole Steinwedell
13x06 The Bunker
Nov 8, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
Several women go missing in Virginia and the BAU must figure out what they all have in common in order to find them.
Directing: Aisha Tyler · Writing: Karen Maser · Starring: Tristan Byon
13x07 Dust and Bones
Nov 15, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
The BAU searches for an unsub in Austin, Texas, who is targeting prominent members of the community.
Directing: Marcus Stokes · Writing: Erica Meredith · Starring: Michelle C. Bonilla
13x08 Neon Terror
Nov 22, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 7.4
When an UnSub in Miami sensationalizes his crimes by giving the local media exclusive footage, the BAU is called in to investigate.
Directing: Bethany Rooney · Writing: Erik Stiller
13x09 False Flag Mid-Season Finale
Dec 6, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
When two members of a conspiracy group in Roswell, N.M., perish in quick succession, the BAU is called to investigate.
Directing: Joe Mantegna · Writing: Breen Frazier · Starring: T.J. Alvarado, Richard Gilliland
13x10 Submerged
Jan 3, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.4
When a series of backyard pool homicides are reported in California, the BAU team searches for an UnSub with a puzzling past.
Directing: Rob Bailey · Writing: Bruce Zimmerman · Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Steven Grayhm, Brad Hunt, Shannon Merrill Brown
13x11 Full-Tilt Boogie
Jan 10, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
The BAU team’s investigation into the home invasion and attempted homicide of a police chief’s wife uncovers a world of secrets in a small town in Virginia.
Directing: Simon Mirren · Writing: Erica Messer, Kirsten Vangsness · Starring: Ben Browder, Myndy Crist, Max Adler, Hope Banks
13x12 Bad Moon on the Rise
Jan 17, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.5
The BAU is called to New York when several casualties of a brutal nature are reported in Central Park.
Directing: Christoph Schrewe · Writing: Karen Maser · Starring: Ronnie Marmo, Melissa De Sousa, Derek Anthony, Susan Slome
13x13 Cure
Jan 24, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
The BAU is called to investigate a series of D.C. homicides where cryptic messages are found inside the mouths of each victim.
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Christopher Barbour · Starring: Kim Rhodes
13x14 Miasma
Jan 31, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.5
The BAU is called when the New Orleans P.D. discovers a mass grave inside a vandalized above-ground crypt in a local cemetery.
Directing: Leon Ichaso · Writing: Erica Meredith · Starring: Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Kim Rhodes
13x15 Annihilator
Mar 7, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
The FBI's assistant director of national security, Linda Barnes, joins the BAU as they investigate a quadruple homicide of a group of roommates in St. Louis.
Directing: Rob Bailey · Writing: Erik Stiller · Starring: Deric Augustine, Yoshi Barrigas, David Chan, Rachel Quaintance
13x16 Last Gasp
Mar 14, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
Away from the watchful eye of the FBI's assistant director of national security, Linda Barnes, the BAU meets in secret to investigate an UnSub who appears to be kidnapping and photographing young women.
Directing: Adam Rodriguez · Writing: Stephanie Sengupta · Starring: Kate Amundsen, Gary Basaraba, Steve Bethers, Anissa Borrego
13x17 The Capilanos
Mar 21, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 8.3
The BAU is called to Oklahoma to investigate a murderous clown terrorizing the sleepy town of Guymon.
Directing: Matthew Gray Gubler · Writing: Erica Messer · Starring: Lincoln Sullivan, Christian Ganiere, Lowell Dean, Sean Persaud
13x18 The Dance of Love
Mar 28, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
The BAU travels to Chicago to investigate an unsub who leaves red roses on each victim. Also, Rossi gets an unexpected visit from his ex-wife, Krystall Richards.
Directing: Joe Mantegna · Writing: Bruce Zimmerman · Starring: Bobby Campo, Gwen McGee, Ruben Vernier, Jason Gedrick
13x19 Ex Parte
Apr 4, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 8.3
The BAU takes charge of a hostage situation at a law firm in D.C., where Matt Simmons’ wife, Kristy works.
Starring: Skyler Maxon
13x20 All You Can Eat
Apr 11, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
The BAU is called to investigate a series of deaths in Virginia suspected by the Center for Disease Control to be caused by bio-terrorism; Garcia visits her stepbrother to take care of a family issue.
Directing: Diana Valentine · Writing: Karen Maser · Starring: Chris Dougherty, Sam Doumit, Robin Karfo, Amy Rosoff
13x21 Mixed Signals
Apr 18, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.7
The BAU is called to Taos, N.M. to investigate an UnSub who is targeting his victims' temporal lobes.
Starring: Billy Lush, Alexis Carra, Alex Marino
13x22 Believer Season Finale
Apr 18, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 8.5
When Reid discovers former FBI Special Agent Owen Quinn locked inside a storage unit, the BAU questions the credibility of Quinn's bizarre accounts of searching for an UnSub that he named "The Strangler".
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Breen Frazier · Starring: Elyse Mirto, Aaron Guest, Georgia Norman, Blaire Chandler