The WORST episodes of Criminal Minds
Every episode of Criminal Minds ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Criminal Minds!
Special Agents Jason Gideon and Aaron Hotchner head up the FBI's most elite profiling team, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, the experts in analyzing criminal psychology. With each mind-blowing case, they put their lives on the line as they travel the country, matching wits with the most ruthless criminals on Earth.
#1 - Roadkill
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/6/2009
An unsub who kills with his car is the subject of a BAU investigation.
#2 - Paradise
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2008
The BAU joins the manhunt to catch a serial killer who conceals the manner of his crimes by staging car accidents.
#3 - Today I Do
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2011
The BAU is called to upstate New York to investigate mysterious disappearances. Also, Prentiss gets some disturbing news about one of her former Interpol colleagues.
#4 - Brothers in Arms
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2008
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.
#5 - Sense Memory
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2011
The team investigates unusual murders in Los Angeles, and more information about Prentiss' past arises.
#6 - Parasite
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/2010
The BAU follows the mental decline of a con artist whose schemes have become so complicated that he begins to eliminate the people involved in them.
#7 - 'Til Death Do Us Part
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2015
When brides-to-be in Savannah are killed on the eve of their nuptials, the BAU suspects a jilted UnSub is at work.
#8 - The Wheels on the Bus...
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2012
The BAU team goes in pursuit of a missing school bus full of children outside the Washington, D.C. area, and it becomes a race against time for them to bring them home safely.
#9 - Nameless, Faceless
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2009
As Rossi, Morgan and JJ profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor, Prentiss realizes that Hotch is missing.
#10 - Catching Out
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2008
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.
#11 - The Night Watch
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2015
When the BAU investigates incidents of bodies being incorporated into macabre graffiti art in Detroit, they suspect an elusive-yet-notorious street artist could be the UnSub. Also, Dr. Lewis struggles to balance her relationship with her fiancé and her work.
#12 - Blood Hungry
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2005
While Gideon is stuck at the office on crutches, the rest of the team travels to Tennessee to track down a killer who disembowels his victims and supposedly eats their organs.
#13 - Cold Comfort
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2009
The mother of an abducted child works with the BAU to apprehend a serial killer who kidnaps, murders, and embalms his victims.
#15 - Conflicted
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/8/2009
The team travels to Fort Lauderdale during spring break to find a serial killer with multiple personalities who is targeting co-eds on vacation.
#16 - The Stranger
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/2011
The BAU hunts a stalker in San Diego who is targeting college students. Meanwhile, the team comes under Strauss' scrutiny in the wake of the loss of Prentiss.
#17 - Rite of Passage
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/14/2010
The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants attempting to make safe passage into the U.S.
#18 - Pay It Forward
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/10/2013
When a time capsule in a small Colorado town is opened twenty-five years later and contains a gruesome discovery, the BAU investigates the crime and find a possible link to the death of a local police officer.
#19 - Epilogue
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2011
The BAU search Californias Angeles National Forest after a number of bodies mysteriously turn up in the mountain lakes there. Also, Rossi struggles with an agonizing decision regarding his ex-wife, Carolyn.
#20 - The Angel Maker
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2008
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.
#21 - Devil's Night
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/2010
The team searches for a killer who has struck the past three years during Detroit's raucous pre-Halloween celebrations.
#22 - A Higher Power
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/2008
The BAU is called to Pittsburgh after an unusually high suicide rate appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.
#23 - Tabula Rasa
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/14/2008
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.
#24 - Big Sea
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/2011
When the BAU is called to Florida after bodies are discovered buried in the ocean floor off the Jacksonville coast, the case hits home for Morgan because his aunt fears her missing daughter could be one of the victims.
#25 - Demonology
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/2009
Agent Prentiss has a personal connection to one of the victims in a series of deaths with religious overtones.