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Criminal Minds — Season 3

To catch a criminal, you have to think like one.

200720 episodes8.0/10 (395 votes)

About this season

An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.

Episodes (20)

Doubt
E1

1. Doubt

8.3

Aired 26 September 2007 • 43 min

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.

In Name and Blood
E2

2. In Name and Blood

8.2

Aired 3 October 2007 • 42 min

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.

Scared to Death
E3

3. Scared to Death

8.3

Aired 10 October 2007 • 42 min

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.

Children of the Dark
E4

4. Children of the Dark

8.2

Aired 17 October 2007 • 42 min

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.

Seven Seconds
E5

5. Seven Seconds

8.1

Aired 24 October 2007 • 41 min

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.

About Face
E6

6. About Face

7.9

Aired 31 October 2007 • 40 min

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.

Identity
E7

7. Identity

8.0

Aired 7 November 2007 • 41 min

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.

Lucky
E8

8. Lucky

7.5

Aired 14 November 2007 • 43 min

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.

Penelope
E9

9. Penelope

8.3

Aired 21 November 2007 • 43 min

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.

True Night
E10

10. True Night

8.2

Aired 28 November 2007 • 40 min

The BAU and local authorities in Los Angeles investigate gang-related serial killings that might possibly involve a famous comic book artist.

Birthright
E11

11. Birthright

8.0

Aired 12 December 2007 • 41 min

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.

3rd Life
E12

12. 3rd Life

8.1

Aired 9 January 2008 • 42 min

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.

Limelight
E13

13. Limelight

7.8

Aired 23 January 2008 • 40 min

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.

Damaged
E14

14. Damaged

8.3

Aired 2 April 2008 • 42 min

Rossi travels to Indianapolis to continue his investigation into the two unsolved murders that have plagued him for 20 years.

A Higher Power
E15

15. A Higher Power

7.8

Aired 9 April 2008 • 40 min

The BAU is called to Pittsburgh after an unusually high suicide rate appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.

Elephant's Memory
E16

16. Elephant's Memory

8.0

Aired 16 April 2008 • 43 min

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.

In Heat
E17

17. In Heat

7.1

Aired 30 April 2008 • 40 min

The BAU is called to Miami to investigate a serial killer who appears to have a conflicted sexual identity.

The Crossing
E18

18. The Crossing

8.0

Aired 7 May 2008 • 40 min

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.

Tabula Rasa
E19

19. Tabula Rasa

7.9

Aired 14 May 2008 • 42 min

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.

Lo-Fi
E20

20. Lo-Fi

8.4

Aired 21 May 2008 • 40 min

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.

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