Criminal Minds: Season 4

2008 · 26 episodes · ★ 8.0

What Season 4 of Criminal Minds

Season four opens with the UAC in full crisis: a bomb explodes beneath a federal vehicle in New York, and Hotch is seriously injured. While the team hunts the terrorists responsible, Reid faces the loss of his father. Prentiss returns to a painful past, and Morgan confronts a murderous police officer. The cases take the agents across the country, from a religious community in Colorado to a wave of deadly robberies in California. Garcia brings her technical expertise, and Rossi plays his part in the group. The profilers rely on one another to catch the criminals before they strike again.

26episodes

Sep 24, 2008premiered

May 20, 2009latest episode

17.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Mayhem
Sep 24, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 8.4
When an SUV carrying members of the team explodes, the rest of the team fights to save them and catch the terrorists responsible for the bombing.
Directing: Edward Allen Bernero · Writing: Simon Mirren · Starring: Michael Steger, Jack McGee, Erik Palladino, Adoni Maropis
4x02 The Angel Maker
Oct 1, 2008 · 41 min · ★ 7.8
A series of murders is linked to a serial killer executed a year earlier, and the BAU team must find the link between the dead killer and the new spate of crimes.
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin · Starring: Blake Lindsley, Neil Hopkins, Patrick St. Esprit, Darin Cooper
4x03 Minimal Loss
Oct 8, 2008 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
Reid and Prentiss are taken hostage when they go under cover to investigate possible child abuse at an underground cult.
Directing: Félix Alcalá · Writing: Andrew Wilder · Starring: Luke Perry, Jenna Boyd, Kathleen Wilhoite, Jeff Fahey
4x04 Paradise
Oct 22, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 8.0
The BAU joins the manhunt to catch a serial killer who conceals the manner of his crimes by staging car accidents.
Director: John Gallagher · Writers: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: David Andrews, William Mapother, Wil Wheaton, Robyn Lively
4x05 Catching Out
Oct 29, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 7.6
The BAU investigates a series of murders that appear to be connected to a killer who jumps trains and chooses his victims based on their proximity to the railway.
Director: Charles Haid · Writer: Oanh Ly · Starring: Andre Royo, Pepe Serna, Meta Golding
4x06 The Instincts
Nov 5, 2008 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
While investigating the abduction of a young boy in Las Vegas, Dr. Reid starts to have dreams that might help reveal buried memories from his childhood.
Director: Rob Spera · Writer: Chris Mundy · Starring: Kari Matchett, Taylor Nichols, Bruce French, Reed Diamond
4x07 Memoriam
Nov 12, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 8.1
As Reid's investigation of a young boy's murder in Las Vegas continues, he discovers possible connections to his own past.
Director: Guy Norman Bee · Writers: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin · Starring: Dee Wallace, Taylor Nichols, Bruce French, Meta Golding
4x08 Masterpiece
Nov 19, 2008 · 39 min · ★ 8.3
When a narcissistic psychopath confesses he has killed seven people and more will die, the team must locate his latest victims before it is too late.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser · Writer: Edward Allen Bernero · Starring: Paul Michael Glaser, Ali Landry, Meta Golding, Gina Garcia
4x09 52 Pickup
Nov 26, 2008 · 41 min · ★ 7.4
Agents Prentiss and Todd go undercover to profile a serial killer who uses skills of persuasion to lure women into danger.
Director: Bobby Roth · Writer: Breen Frazier · Starring: Gabriel Olds, Keri Lynn Pratt, Courtney Ford, Meta Golding
4x10 Brothers in Arms
Dec 10, 2008 · 39 min · ★ 7.7
The BAU team hunts for a serial killer who targets members of the police department in Phoenix, Ariz., a case that hits close to home for Morgan, a former cop.
Directing: Glenn Kershaw · Writing: Holly Harold · Starring: Meta Golding, Dylan Sprayberry, Jake McLaughlin, Doug Jones
4x11 Normal Mid-Season Finale
Dec 17, 2008 · 40 min · ★ 8.4
The team investigates a serial killer who shoots luxury car owners on Southern California's freeways.
Directing: Steve Boyum · Writing: Andrew Wilder · Starring: Drew Garrett, Elaine Hendrix, Meta Golding, Faith Ford
4x12 Soul Mates
Jan 14, 2009 · 41 min · ★ 8.1
The BAU team suspects a member of an affluent community in Atlanta is responsible for the disappearance of a local young woman and that the suspect may have worked with an accomplice
Director: John Gallagher · Writers: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: Dana Davis, Valarie Pettiford, Michael Boatman, Meta Golding
4x13 Bloodline
Jan 21, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
The BAU team becomes involved in the case of a family working together to abduct young girls.
Directing: Tim Matheson · Writing: Mark Bruner · Starring: Slade Pearce, Cynthia Gibb, Andrew Divoff, Meta Golding
4x14 Cold Comfort
Feb 11, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
The mother of an abducted child works with the BAU to apprehend a serial killer who kidnaps, murders, and embalms his victims.
Director: Anna Foerster · Writers: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin · Starring: Lolita Davidovich, Michael Biehn, Randolph Mantooth, Mercedes McNab
4x15 Zoe's Reprise
Feb 18, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 7.7
The team pursues a copycat serial killer who is recreating the techniques used by past famous murderers.
Director: Charles S. Carroll · Writer: Oanh Ly · Starring: Amy Davidson, Bess Armstrong, Shannon Woodward, Johnny Lewis
4x16 Pleasure Is My Business
Feb 25, 2009 · 41 min · ★ 7.3
The team searches for a female suspect who uses her professional skills as a high class call girl to lure and kill high-powered executives.
Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Writer: Breen Frazier · Starring: Dirk Blocker, Kristin Richardson, Melissa Keller, Catherine Dent
4x17 Demonology
Mar 11, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
Agent Prentiss has a personal connection to one of the victims in a series of deaths with religious overtones.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero · Writer: Chris Mundy · Starring: Roxanne Hart, Walton Goggins, Bruce Davison, Carmen Argenziano
4x18 Omnivore
Mar 18, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 8.5
Agent Hotchner revisits the first case he worked at the BAU when details come forth that one of the deadliest serial killers in New England's history has struck again after a 10-year hiatus.
Directing: Nelson McCormick · Writing: Andrew Wilder · Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Frank Novak, Louis Ferreira, James Hanlon
4x19 House on Fire
Mar 25, 2009 · 39 min · ★ 7.7
The BAU team must track down a serial arsonist who instills fear in a small town by setting fire to community meeting places and killing several residents in the process.
Director: Félix Alcalá · Writer: Holly Harold · Starring: Tommy Dewey, Michael Rooker, Shannon Lucio
4x20 Conflicted
Apr 8, 2009 · 41 min · ★ 8.4
The team travels to Fort Lauderdale during spring break to find a serial killer who is targeting co-eds on vacation.
Director: Jason Alexander · Writer: Rick Dunkle · Starring: Jackson Rathbone, Brett Novek, Susan Ward, Rick Malambri
4x21 A Shade of Gray
Apr 22, 2009 · 41 min · ★ 8.2
When profiling a series of child abductions and murders, the team discovers that one of the cases may not be the handiwork of the serial killer they apprehended.
Director: Karen Gaviola · Writers: Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher · Starring: Gretchen Egolf, Spencer Garrett, John Allen Nelson, John Billingsley
4x22 The Big Wheel
Apr 29, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 8.4
When the team is sent a videotape from a serial killer detailing one of his crimes, they discover a hidden message asking them to help him stop his murderous ways.
Directing: Rob Hardy · Writing: Simon Mirren · Starring: Erika Alexander, Jake Cherry, Rebecca Avery, Alex O'Loughlin
4x23 Roadkill
May 6, 2009 · 41 min · ★ 7.6
An unsub who kills with his car is the subject of a BAU investigation.
Directing: Steve Boyum · Writing: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin · Starring: Dale Midkiff, Timothy Carhart, Jim Meskimen, Nicholas Brendon
4x24 Amplification
May 13, 2009 · 41 min · ★ 8.4
When a new type of chemical warfare is released into the open air, the BAU must act quickly to find the source before any more innocent people are exposed.
Directing: John Gallagher · Writing: Oanh Ly · Starring: Dan Lauria, Tamlyn Tomita, David Dean Bottrell
4x25 To Hell... (1)
May 20, 2009 · 41 min · ★ 7.9
The BAU tracks a serial killer who chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border into Canada, and an agent's life is in peril.
Directing: Charles Haid · Writing: Chris Mundy · Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Willam Belli, John Lacy, Rowena King
4x26 ...And Back (2) Season Finale
May 20, 2009 · 42 min · ★ 8.8
The BAU tracks a serial killer who chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border into Canada, and an agent's life is in peril.
Directing: Edward Allen Bernero · Writing: Edward Allen Bernero · Starring: C. Thomas Howell, John Lacy, Rowena King, Garret Dillahunt