Criminal Minds: Season 2

2006 · 23 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 2 of Criminal Minds

Season two of Criminal Minds begins with a change in the team. Elle leaves the unit, and Emily Prentiss joins, the daughter of a powerful diplomat, who must prove to Gideon and Hotch that she earned her place. The cases range from a psychopath threatening his last victim to rapists attacking at religious schools and arsonists setting fire to upscale homes. The team faces kidnappings and torture, and tension rises when Morgan is arrested for murder in Chicago. Reid struggles with Dilaudid, while Gideon takes on a case that hits close to home. Hotch leads the agents from Quantico.

23episodes

Sep 20, 2006premiered

May 16, 2007latest episode

16.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 The Fisher King (2)
Sep 20, 2006 · 41 min · ★ 8.2
The BAU team continues to unravel the clues given to each of them by a psychopath in order to save his most recent victim. Gideon decides not to focus on the personal aspects of the case. Rather, he tells the team to profile the killer as they would in any other investigation. Reid stays behind to work on a personal connection that could solve the case as one member of the team fights for life.
Directing: Gloria Muzio · Writing: Edward Allen Bernero · Starring: Lola Glaudini, Anne Marie Howard, Josh Clark, Charley Rossman
2x02 P911
Sep 27, 2006 · 41 min · ★ 7.7
A young boy who had disappeared a year ago turns up for sale by a child pornographer on an online auction in Cleveland. A former profiler who now heads the FBI's Crimes Against Children Unit asks Hotch and the BAU to help her save the boy's life before it's too late.
Directing: Adam Davidson · Writing: Simon Mirren · Starring: Lola Glaudini, Mary Page Keller, John Rubinstein, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
2x03 The Perfect Storm
Oct 4, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
The BAU has reason to believe a series of murders might have been committed by two people working as a team after the victims' families receive DVDs after each crime that includes psychological attacks.
Directing: Félix Alcalá · Writers: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: Lola Glaudini, Frank Ashmore, Michelle Pierce, Brad Rowe
2x04 Psychodrama
Oct 11, 2006 · 41 min · ★ 7.6
The BAU is called to investigate a series of bank robberies after it becomes evident the crimes are not based on money because the robber abuses his victims by forcing them to undress before he leaves the crime scene.
Directing: Guy Norman Bee · Writing: Aaron Zelman · Starring: Lola Glaudini, Jason Wiles, Michael Chieffo, David Fabrizio
2x05 Aftermath
Oct 18, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
The BAU investigates a serial rapist who had been attacking young women at religious schools and stopped for six weeks. He has resumed his attacks, but is now targeting a different demographic of women. Elle makes a decision that could end her career with the BAU.
Directing: Tim Matheson · Writing: Chris Mundy · Starring: Lola Glaudini, Tuffet Schmelzle, Dahlia Salem, Mandy June Turpin
2x06 The Boogeyman
Oct 25, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
The BAU travels to a small Texas community to investigate the murders of children. Meanwhile, Elle is having readjustment issues after being shot, and Hotch becomes worried about her when she misses a mandatory psych evaluation and isn't answering her cell phone.
Directing: Steve Boyum · Writing: Andi Bushell · Starring: Lola Glaudini, Geoffrey Lewis, Cameron Monaghan, Elle Fanning
2x07 North Mammon
Nov 1, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
After a man kidnaps three teenaged girls and locks them in a cellar, he tells them only two of them will live and they must choose which one will die. The BAU team takes the case when the mother of one of the girls travels to Quantico to ask JJ to intercede with the FBI on the girls' behalf.
Directing: Matt Earl Beesley · Writing: Andrew Wilder · Starring: Kelly Kruger, Mimi Michaels, Jason Beghe, Jamie McShane
2x08 Empty Planet
Nov 8, 2006 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
The BAU travels to Seattle to identify and catch a serial bomber who has been terrorizing the city and targeting centers of automated techology. Working with the author of a science fiction novel that has become a guide for the bomber, the team attempts to determine why certain sites have been chosen as targets.
Directing: Elodie Keene · Writing: Edward Napier · Starring: JoBeth Williams, Jamie Elman, Gary Werntz, Cheryl Francis Harrington
2x09 The Last Word
Nov 15, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 6.9
The daughter of high-powered diplomats, Special Agent Emily Prentiss joins the team, and she must convince Gideon and Hotchner she deserves the job based on merit and not on her family connections. The BAU is then called to St. Louis to investigate two serial killers who appear to be competing with each other. By setting a trap based on one killer's profile, the team creates a media event by which to capture the second killer.
Directing: Gloria Muzio · Writers: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Maury Sterling, Jason O'Mara, Christopher B. Duncan
2x10 Lessons Learned
Nov 22, 2006 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
Gideon, Reid and Prentiss travel to Guantanamo Bay to interrogate the leader of a terror sleeper cell being detained there after a chemical weapons dispersal device is discovered during a raid at a suspicious house. Working with Reid, Emily's fluency in Arabic proves to be useful as they scrutinize the suspect.
Directing: Guy Norman Bee · Writing: Jim Clemente · Starring: Anthony Azizi, Lauren Stamile, Kevin Chapman, Roger Ranney
2x11 Sex, Birth, Death
Nov 29, 2006 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
The BAU is called to investigate a series of murders of prostitutes in Washington D.C. and Reid suspects a teenager he met asking for his help is guilty of the crimes. The case becomes complicated when a congresswoman, who about to make a speech to praise the city's lower crime rate, threatens to take away the case if Hotchner calls a press conference to discuss it.
Directing: Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Writing: Chris Mundy · Starring: Mel Harris, Jessica Tuck, Thomas Crawford, Annie LaRussa
2x12 Profiler, Profiled Mid-Season Finale
Dec 13, 2006 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
Morgan is arrested as a serial killer after he goes home to Chicago to visit his family. Because the detective making the arrest had used a profile provided by Gideon, the team travels to Chicago to help the local authorities find the real killer and exonerate Morgan.
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Edward Allen Bernero · Starring: Skipp Sudduth, Erica Gimpel, Kerrie Keane, Julius Tennon
2x13 No Way Out (1)
Jan 17, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Gideon is pitted against the scariest and most evil murderer in his entire career. When the BAU confronts the sadistic killer in a remote diner in the Nevada desert, the local authorities want to move quickly and make an arrest. But Gideon bides his time as he attempts to persuade the man, who has sworn not be captured, to reveal the whereabouts of a woman he is holding hostage.
Directing: John Gallagher · Writing: Simon Mirren · Starring: Melissa Leo, Amy Madigan, James Horan, Otto Sanchez
2x14 The Big Game (1)
Feb 4, 2007 · 41 min · ★ 7.8
The BAU is called to investigate after a wealthy couple is murdered in their home following a Super Bowl party.
Directing: Gloria Muzio · Writing: Edward Allen Bernero · Starring: Jim Nantz, Bill Smitrovich, Jaime Ray Newman, Cullen Douglas
2x15 Revelations (2)
Feb 7, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
In this conclusion of a special two-part episode, finding the serial killer becomes critical to the BAU when the team realizes Reid is being held captive and a live feed of him being tortured is shown on the internet. Meanwhile, Reid's troubled childhood is revealed in flashback sequences as he drifts in and out of consciousness.
Directing: Guy Norman Bee · Writing: Chris Mundy · Starring: Bill Smitrovich, Taylor Nichols, Muse Watson, Remy Thorne
2x16 Fear and Loathing
Feb 14, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 7.4
The BAU becomes involved to prevent a possible race riot when the murder of four young black women in a mostly white New York suburb appear to be hate crimes.
Directing: Rob Spera · Writing: Aaron Zelman · Starring: Tiffany Hines, Yaani King Mondschein, Camille Winbush, David Ramsey
2x17 Distress
Feb 21, 2007 · 41 min · ★ 7.5
The BAU travels to Houston to investigate a series of murders that have occurred near construction sites and abandoned buildings. Because the murders appear to be random, the team believes the killer could be a homeless person. Meanwhile, everyone is noticing an apparent change in Reid's behavior.
Directing: John F. Showalter · Writing: Oanh Ly · Starring: Joanna Going, Nick Chinlund, Holt McCallany, Kent Faulcon
2x18 Jones
Feb 28, 2007 · 41 min · ★ 7.5
A case involving a serial killer believed to be copying Jack the Ripper takes Gideon to New Orleans after three victims are found with their throats cut. Once thought to have been killed in Hurricane Katrina, the discovery of a fourth victim in the French Quarter confirms the murderer is still alive. All the evidence and files had been lost in the flood, so the only clue the team has is the word "Jones" that the lead detective wrote on the wall just before he drowned. Meanwhile, Reid meets up with an old rival as he continues to struggle with the aftermath of being held hostage.
Directing: Steve Shill · Writer: Andi Bushell · Starring: Jeff Doucette, Simone Kessell, Rhys Coiro, Randy Thompson
2x19 Ashes and Dust
Mar 21, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
A serial arsonist who targets the homes of upper-middle-class families as they sleep is investigated. The BAU determines the arson victims are linked together through corporate development companies that have been accused of building on contaminated land.
Directing: John Gallagher · Writing: Andrew Wilder · Starring: Anthony Ruivivar, Stacy Edwards, Sean O'Bryan, Jordan Garrett
2x20 Honor Among Thieves
Apr 11, 2007 · 42 min · ★ 7.2
Elizabeth Prentiss, a foreign ambassador and SSA Emily Prentiss' mother, seeks the aid of the BAU when a Russian immigrant is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Directing: Jesús Salvador Treviño · Writing: Aaron Zelman · Starring: Olga Sosnovska, Elya Baskin, Gina Garcia, Kate Jackson
2x21 Open Season
May 2, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
The BAU is called to investigate after the bodies of missing people are discovered in a remote region of the Idaho wilderness. The gruesome find also leads the team to determine the unsubs have been hunting humans for sport.
Directing: Félix Alcalá · Writers: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: Jim Parrack, Kelly Overton, Laura Allen, Jake Richardson
2x22 Legacy
May 9, 2007 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
When homeless persons begin going missing mysteriously from the streets in Kansas City, a local detective calls the BAU to investigate the disappearances.
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Edward Allen Bernero · Starring: Steven Williams, Kristoffer Ryan Winters, Bre Blair, Tahmus Rounds
2x23 No Way Out: The Evilution of Frank (2) Season Finale
May 16, 2007 · 42 min · ★ 8.5
When the prolific serial killer Frank returns and murders Gideon's girlfriend, Gideon takes off to find him without telling the team where he is going. The BAU must then profile Gideon as well as Frank to find both of them.
Directing: Edward Allen Bernero · Writing: Simon Mirren · Starring: Amy Madigan, Elle Fanning, Rebecca Lowman, Gina La Piana