Criminal Minds: Season 16

2022 · 10 episodes · ★ 8.2

What Season 16 of Criminal Minds

Season 16 opens with the Behavioral Analysis Unit team facing its biggest threat yet. An unknown figure has used the pandemic to build a network of serial killers, and the agents, led by Aaron Hotchner, must track them down case by case. As the world returns to normal, the network springs into action, and the profilers try to stop it before it strikes again. The Sicarius case drives the season's pace, with Rossi, Alvez and Garcia involved on several fronts at once.

10episodes

Nov 24, 2022Aired

Feb 9, 2023last episode

8.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 16 Episodes

16x01 Just Getting Started
Nov 24, 2022 · 51 min · ★ 8.1
When a family annihilator abducts a teen girl, the Behavioral Analysis Unit works the case on either side of the country to save her. But an unlikely connection to a mysterious kit leads to a bigger investigation and at the center of it is Penelope Garcia.
Directed by: Nelson McCormick · Written by: Erica Messer · Starring: Zach Gilford, Josh Stewart, Sebastian Schier, Manuel Rafael Lozano
16x02 Sicarius
Nov 24, 2022 · 54 min · ★ 8.0
As the team hunts an UnSub who severs spinal cords, they uncover a clue from their last case that points to a serial killing network. To figure out how big this network is, Rossi has to convince a reluctant Garcia to do the one thing she doesn’t want: come back to the BAU.
Directed by: Nelson McCormick · Written by: Breen Frazier · Starring: Zach Gilford, Josh Stewart, Nicholas D'Agosto, Sara Anne
16x03 Moose
Dec 1, 2022 · 44 min · ★ 8.1
At the heart of the serial killing network is Elias Voit. Dangerous psychopath. Manipulative narcissist. Loving father and husband. In order to find him, the team must find all of his kill kits. But one is missing, and the path leads to a bomb in the middle of Washington, D.C.
Directed by: Joe Mantegna · Written by: Matthew Lau · Starring: Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Nicholas D'Agosto, Nicole Pacent
16x04 Pay-Per-View
Dec 8, 2022 · 48 min · ★ 7.9
The BAU hunts for the next connection to the serial killer network when they pursue a home invasion team. Alvez and Garcia convince Tyler Green to submit a cognitive interview to unlock his memories of Sicarius.
Directed by: Adam Rodriguez · Written by: Christopher Barbour · Starring: Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Josh Stewart, Corey Fogelmanis
16x05 Oedipus Wrecks Mid-Season Finale
Dec 15, 2022 · 53 min · ★ 8.4
A surprising connection forces Deputy Director Bailey to ask the BAU to take a case involving young D.C. socialites who are bitten by a sadistic UnSub. But when the case turns political, the BAU finds themselves in the crosshairs from a high-powered senator. The team is led to a second shipping container that’s rigged to blow.
Directed by: Sharat Raju · Written by: Jayne A. Archer · Starring: Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Josh Stewart, Nicholas D'Agosto
16x06 True Conviction
Jan 12, 2023 · 56 min · ★ 7.9
The explosion looks to have exposed the true mastermind behind Sicarius, but all is not what it seems. Is someone taking the fall for these deadly actions? The BAU is determined to seek the truth.
Directing: Bethany Rooney · Writing: Chikodili Agwuna · Starring: Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Josh Stewart, Nicholas D'Agosto
16x07 What Doesn’t Kill Us
Jan 19, 2023 · 55 min · ★ 7.9
With the fate of the Sicarius investigation hanging in the balance, the BAU takes a case in West Virginia, where an UnSub practices his own twisted form of Old Testament vengeance.
Directed by: Aisha Tyler · Written by: Sullivan Fitzgerald · Starring: Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Josh Stewart, Nicholas D'Agosto
16x08 Forget Me Knots
Jan 26, 2023 · 47 min · ★ 8.4
Voit’s internal struggles with himself lead him to a desperate kidnapping. But Rossi’s obsession brings the BAU closer to the truth than they’ve ever been.
Directed by: A.J. Cook · Written by: Carlton Gillespie · Starring: Zach Gilford, Mekhai Andersen, Phoenix Andersen, Josh Stewart
16x09 Memento Mori
Feb 2, 2023 · 57 min · ★ 8.7
Rossi will go to any lengths to prove that Elias Voit is Sicarius. But Voit turns Rossi into his own worst enemy, putting his future at the BAU in jeopardy.
Directed by: Douglas Aarniokoski · Written by: Breen Frazier · Starring: Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Josh Stewart, Nicole Pacent
16x10 Dead End Season Finale
Feb 9, 2023 · 56 min · ★ 8.4
With Rossi in Voit’s clutches, he grapples with the limits of his technical know-how and mental strength. As the BAU tightens their grip on Voit, he reveals just how far he’s willing to take his deadly crusade.
Directed by: Glenn Kershaw · Written by: Christopher Barbour · Starring: Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Josh Stewart, Gail O'Grady