Criminal Minds
After fifteen long years , Criminal Mindsfinally occur to an final stage in February 2020 . The show which premiere in 2005 did a great job of satisfying lover of crime and drama . The series followed extremity of the FBI ’s Behavioral Analysis Unit ( BAU ) as they work to solve complex cases .
The ratings were quite high with each time of year averaging at least ten million viewers . By the meter the serial ended , a walloping 324 instalment ( all with singular cases ) had aerate . Out of all those episodes , here are the ten better ones accord to IMDb ratings .
Best: True Genius (8.7)
The patch of Season 7 ’s eleventh episode was inhale by Leopold and Loeb . These were two students from the University of Chicago who planned and carry out the murder of a 14 - year - older boy name Bobby Franks just to see if they could put the unadulterated crime .
In the sequence , the BAU made their manner to San Francisco after a series of slaying hinted at the return of the " Zodiac Killer . " Elsewhere , Reid and Prentiss assist a seminar whose theme was " Violent Crime . " The seminar was hosted by the democratic crime novelist Patricia Cornwell .
Best: Amplification (8.7)
There was a strange occurrence in Season 4 ’s twenty fourth episode after12 masses who visited Quiet Hills Park in Annapolis , Maryland all die from anthrax toxic condition , a mere eighteen hours after . The strain of splenic fever was a pestilent one , suggesting that it had been direct by a scientist .
The BAU suspected that someone from the military was involved since such striving were used in war in previous decades . Media outlets refused to bare the story to avert scare among the world . To make matters worse , a member of the squad got exposed to the pathogen too .
Best: Zugzwang (8.7)
In the 12th episode of Season 8 , Reid discovered that his lady friend had beenkidnapped by a man who had been stalk her . He thus arrange up a saving team together with the residue of the BAU band so that they could find her before something bad happened to her .
The installment claim is borrowed from a German chess condition entail " the compulsion to move . " It refers to when one player has no choice but to move a piece even though doing so will give an vantage to the opposition .
Best: Date Night (8.7)
Max and Reid ’s third burnt umber date was reduce short when Reid was summoned to handle a new case . Someone had kidnapped a Padre and daughter and in return she wanted Cat Adams to be released .
Interestingly , Cat did n’t need to be eject . All she wanted as her terminal wish was a escort with Reid . The team was thus put in a quandary on whether to release her and save the kidnapped pair or give in to her indirect request . They were all cognizant that Cat was up to no good .
Best: Lauren (8.8)
The BAU had young headaches in Season 6 ’s eighteenth episode . Prentiss had extend miss , depart behind her badge and gun for hire . The squad managed to connect her to Doyle and so they sought the help of J.J. , to enlightened them on the purpose Prentiss had in the CIA .
They learned that Prentiss was intemperately involved with the team that profiled Doyle and thatshe had decease to look for him and punish him for his law-breaking . But they also actualize that she has no opportunity because Doyle has a vast that keeps him safe .
Best: Mr. Scratch (8.8)
There was plenty of action at law in Season 10 ’s twenty-first installment . The BAU managed to pick up three killers who had all committed the same offence of killing a make out one . What was even more puzzling was that two of the killers had similar motives .
The two indicate that monsters assail them and so they thought they were defending themselves but in reality , they were killing someone . The BAU also found out that all three cause of death had been take in in the same year when they were young . The squad thus ferment on patching the clue together .
Best: Believer (8.9)
An anonymous electronic mail was air to Reid in the season close of Season 13 . The email gave lead about the whereabouts of Owen Quinn — the FBI broker who had ambitions of joining the BAU . After breaking communications protocol while pursuing a major case , Owen had quit then disappeared for the past year .
The BAU tried to find out what the transmitter of the email wanted to achieve . They also interrogate Oliver , who confessed to having been hold captive by a family known as " The Stranglers . " But there was more evidence that hint at Oliver being part of " The Stranglers " too .
Best: Revelations (9.0)
There have been plenty of serial killers inCriminal Mindsand Season 2 ’s fifteenth instalment went that route too . In the episode , there was a sea wolf named Tobias Hankle . Tobias was a religious fanatic who punished immoral the great unwashed . He also happened to be a drug addict . Quite the unusual combination .
Tobias had kidnapped Dr. Spencer Reid and kept him intent inside an isolated cabin deeply in the woods . While digging into the Orcinus orca ’s history , the BAU found out that he had been abuse as a nestling and that his dad was also into faith . He thus developed Dissociative Identity Disorder .
Best: Mosley Lane (9.0)
This episode note the first fourth dimension where a member of the show ’s chief cast directed an episode . " Mosley Lane " was directed by Matthew Gray Gubler who play Dr. Reid .
In the episode , the BAU was called to Ashburn , Virginia where a piranha had been abduct children for the past eight years . Twelve kids had been abduct in exactly the same personal manner . Interestingly , they were all age old when they were take .
Best: Entropy (9.2)
time of year 11 ’s 11th episode was all about the Black Widow . Not the Marvel one , but an assassin who was apart of a radical named " The pestiferous Dozen . " The woman ’s real name was Cat andReid organized a blind appointment with her where he sham to have a job for her .
The BAU was seek to nab Cat and four assassinator who were all said to be using the computer code name " Snowman . " But Cat was chic and she before long key out she was being played by Reid . What postdate was a beautiful conversation between the two as they both attempt to play mind biz on each other .
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