Criminal Minds: Season 3

2007 · 20 episodes · ★ 7.9

What Season 3 of Criminal Minds

The season opens with Gideon's departure and the arrival of David Rossi, one of the founders of the BAU, a hot-tempered agent who must fit in with the rest of the team. Hotch goes through his divorce while leading the profilers on increasingly demanding cases. Reid struggles to overcome his Dilaudid addiction and remembers the bullying he endured in high school. Garcia is shot, and JJ is in a relationship with Will Lamontagne while expecting their first child.

20episodes

Sep 26, 2007premiered

May 21, 2008latest episode

13.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Doubt
Sep 26, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
The team investigates a serial killer who is targeting women at a small college in Flagstaff, Arizona. The BAU shuts down the campus, creates a detailed profile of the unsub, and arrests a suspect. However, the team members begin to have doubts about themselves when another woman is killed while the suspect is in custody.
Directing: Gloria Muzio · Writing: Chris Mundy · Starring: Mandy Patinkin, Shawn Michael Patrick, Elizabeth Hendrickson, Vince Grant
3x02 In Name and Blood
Oct 3, 2007 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
In Milwaukee, a series of women have been found murdered with their hearts crudely removed. The BAU is assigned to the case, but they are short three members: Gideon, who is missing, Hotch, who is on suspension and Prentiss, who resigns her commission to join the Foreign Service. Supervisor Strauss steps in as lead, but she doesn't handle herself well in the field.
Directing: Edward Allen Bernero · Writer: Chris Mundy · Starring: Mandy Patinkin, Gordon Clapp, Eddie Cibrian, Chandler Canterbury
3x03 Scared to Death
Oct 10, 2007 · 42 min · ★ 8.2
The BAU travels to Portland to assist local authorities in investigating the disappearances of people who are new to the city and have no strong social ties.
Directing: Félix Alcalá · Writing: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Matt Bushell, Stephanie Venditto, Danielle Sapia
3x04 Children of the Dark
Oct 17, 2007 · 42 min · ★ 8.2
When home invasions involve the murder of entire families, the BAU is called to Denver to identify the killers who possibly have been abused while in foster care.
Directing: Guy Norman Bee · Writers: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin · Starring: Francis Capra, William Lee Scott, Bill Tangradi, Jhoanna Flores
3x05 Seven Seconds
Oct 24, 2007 · 41 min · ★ 8.1
The investigation turns to the family as the BAU and local authorities race against time to locate a young girl who has disappeared from a local shopping mall.
Directing: John Gallagher · Writer: Andi Bushell · Starring: Alexander Gould, Suzanne Cryer, Nigel Gibbs, Emmanuel Xuereb
3x06 About Face
Oct 31, 2007 · 40 min · ★ 7.8
The team gains a new, familiar member and some growing pains while trying to find the latest victim of a killer who puts up wanted posters of his victims before he abducts them.
Directing: Skipp Sudduth · Writer: Charles Murray · Starring: Andrew Kavovit, Michael O'Neill, Sandra Robinson, Tarri Markel
3x07 Identity
Nov 7, 2007 · 41 min · ★ 7.8
The team is called to Montana to investigate the case of four kidnapped and murdered women. When another woman disappears, the search leads to a man who apparently has assumed the identity of his dead partner.
Directing: Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Writer: Oanh Ly · Starring: Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Michael Cudlitz, Jim Beaver, Pat Skipper
3x08 Lucky
Nov 14, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
A team member's life is put in jeopardy when the BAU investigates serial killings in Florida that appear to involve the occult and satanic worship. Garcia believes she has met her dream man, but her first date with him doesn't go exactly as she had expected.
Directing: Steve Boyum · Writer: Andrew Wilder · Starring: Nick Searcy, Bailey Chase, John Lafayette, Jamie Kennedy
3x09 Penelope
Nov 21, 2007 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
As a team member fights for life, the BAU continues the search for an attacker that leads the unit to believe the assailant could be someone close to the investigation.
Directing: Félix Alcalá · Writer: Chris Mundy · Starring: Bailey Chase, John Eddins, Bruce Katzman, Loren Lester
3x10 True Night
Nov 28, 2007 · 40 min · ★ 8.0
The BAU and local authorities in Los Angeles investigate gang-related serial killings that might possibly involve a famous comic book artist.
Directing: Edward Allen Bernero · Writer: Edward Allen Bernero · Starring: Steve Richard Harris, Bailey Chase, Parry Shen, Frankie Muniz
3x11 Birthright Mid-Season Finale
Dec 12, 2007 · 41 min · ★ 7.9
The new sheriff in Fredericksburg, Virginia, requests the BAU's assistance in the investigation of a series of mutilation murders that appear to mimic similar crimes that had occurred over two decades earlier.
Directing: John Gallagher · Writing: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: Sally Pressman, Jennifer Hetrick, Rodney Eastman, Dendrie Taylor
3x12 3rd Life
Jan 9, 2008 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
When one teenager is found murdered and her best friend is abducted in Chula Vista, California, the BAU assists local authorities in determining whether the Witness Protection Program is involved.
Directing: Anthony Hemingway · Writer: Simon Mirren · Starring: Brian McNamara, Alex Hyde-White, Riley Smith, Rick Otto
3x13 Limelight
Jan 23, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 7.6
After the contents of a self-storage unit purchased at an auction take the BAU to Philadelphia to investigate a series of murders, the local agent becomes the center of the case. To catch the killer, the team must profile the items inside the unit.
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin · Starring: Andrea Roth, Wendy Braun, Christopher Allen Nelson, Michael Cotter
3x14 Damaged
Apr 2, 2008 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
Rossi travels to Indianapolis to continue his investigation into the two unsolved murders that have plagued him for 20 years.
Directing: Edward Allen Bernero · Writing: Edward Allen Bernero · Starring: Nicholle Tom, Dennis Christopher, David Tom, E.J. Callahan
3x15 A Higher Power
Apr 9, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 7.7
The BAU is called to Pittsburgh after an unusually high suicide rate appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.
Directing: Félix Alcalá · Writing: Michael Udesky · Starring: Jennifer Aspen, Paul Schulze, Renée O'Connor, Scott Michael Campbell
3x16 Elephant's Memory
Apr 16, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
The BAU is called to West Bune, a small town in Texas, to investigate what appears to be spree killings that involve a teenaged boy and his girlfriend.
Directing: Bobby Roth · Writing: Andrew Wilder · Starring: Cody Kasch, Lindsey Haun, Tracey Walter, Alexandra Krosney
3x17 In Heat
Apr 30, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 7.0
The BAU is called to Miami to investigate a serial killer who appears to have a conflicted sexual identity.
Directing: John Gallagher · Writer: Andi Bushell · Starring: Michael Graziadei, Wendy Hoopes, Tia Texada, David Monahan
3x18 The Crossing
May 7, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 7.9
The team members try to identify a stalker before he can attack a woman who is being stalked in Silver Spring, Maryland. Meanwhile, Hotch and Rossi are called as consultants on a possible battered woman syndrome murder case in Boston.
Directing: Guy Norman Bee · Writing: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: Scott Lowell, Bonnie Root, Brad Beyer, Mary-Margaret Humes
3x19 Tabula Rasa
May 14, 2008 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
After a suspected serial killer wakes up from a coma, the BAU reopens the case and uses brain fingerprinting to determine if he really doesn't remember the crimes that had been committed four years earlier in Roanoke, Virginia.
Directing: Steve Boyum · Writers: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin · Starring: James Eckhouse, Amy Carlson, Eric Lange, Steven Culp
3x20 Lo-Fi Season Finale
May 21, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 8.4
The BAU faces one of its toughest cases when the team is called to New York City to determine if a series of random shootings is the work of one serial killer or a team of killers working together.
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Chris Mundy · Starring: Patrick Cupo, Barry Pearl, Joaquín Perles, Jake Eberle