The BEST episodes written by Erica Messer
#1 - Run (2)
Criminal Minds - Season 7 - Episode 24
As the BAU team continues to pursue the bank-robbing serial killers, the team determines that the suspects have a bigger target in the nation's capital, and with one of the team still a hostage, they must work quickly to diffuse an explosive situation. Wedding bells ring for one of the BAU. Prentiss ponders her future.
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#2 - The Replicator (2)
Criminal Minds - Season 8 - Episode 24
The Replicator zeroes in on the BAU when the killer targets one of the team as the next victim. The team is also called in to investigate a string of deaths in Manhattan tied to apparent ecstasy overdoses. Hotch discovers that his estranged brother is caught in the middle.
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#3 - Demons (2)
Criminal Minds - Season 9 - Episode 24
The BAU continues its murder investigation in Texas, and clues uncover a deep web of corruption that could be the motive for the killings. As one team member's life hangs in the balance, another concerned BAU member must face a sad secret from the past. Garcia is thrust into action to save a colleague.
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#5 - The Storm
Criminal Minds - Season 11 - Episode 22
The BAU is shocked when Hotch is apprehended by a SWAT team and suspected of conspiracy, and as the team scrambles to prove his innocence, they suspect a larger plot is on the horizon.
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#6 - A Beautiful Disaster
Criminal Minds - Season 11 - Episode 18
When an UnSub targets the BAU, and the team goes into action to find out who is responsible.
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#7 - 300
Criminal Minds - Season 14 - Episode 1
When Reid and Garcia are abducted by Benjamin Merva, it’s up to the rest of the team to find them. The BAU finds surprising clues in their own history to solve why the two heroes have been targeted by a mass murderer. It’s a race to save them before a “Believers” prophecy is fulfilled.
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#8 - And in the End (2)
Criminal Minds - Season 15 - Episode 10
Following an explosive face-to-face encounter with “The Chameleon,” Reid suffers from a brain injury and, while experiencing hallucinations, is visited by ghosts from his past. The BAU makes a shocking discovery about Lynch that affects Rossi personally. The entire team comes together to celebrate Rossi’s retirement.
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#9 - Rendezvous
Alias - Season 1 - Episode 21
Will's life is about to change as he is sent to find the person responsible for leaking information to him about SD-6. Meanwhile, Sloane finds himself on the cusp of finally tracking down Khasinau when SD-6 captures "The Man's" right-hand man, Mr. Sark. Dixon becomes suspicious of Sydney's activities.
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#10 - Mosley Lane
Criminal Minds - Season 5 - Episode 16
The BAU is called by local authorities in Ashburn, Virginia, to profile a predator who may have been abducting children for at least eight years.
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#11 - All That Remains
Criminal Minds - Season 8 - Episode 14
A writer's daughters vanish on the anniversary of their mother's disappearance, which leads the BAU to investigate the man as a possible suspect.
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#12 - To Bear Witness
Criminal Minds - Season 9 - Episode 4
The BAU meets their new section chief, Mateo Cruz, who, unbeknownst to them, shares a long work history with JJ. Cruz joins the team as they comb the streets of Baltimore for an unsub who leaves victims unable to communicate.
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#13 - Gabby
Criminal Minds - Season 9 - Episode 16
When a 4-year-old girl goes missing while staying with a relative in Mississippi, the BAU uncovers some startling truths as the team races to find the child and bring her to safety.
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#14 - Valhalla
Criminal Minds - Season 6 - Episode 17
After a series of murders, Prentiss becomes suspicious of a former nemesis and fears for the safety of her team.
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#15 - Our Darkest Hour
Criminal Minds - Season 5 - Episode 23
A series of rolling blackouts in the city of Los Angeles lures a serial killer out of hiding, giving him renewed opportunities to continue his killing spree.
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#16 - Legacy
Criminal Minds - Season 2 - Episode 22
When homeless persons begin going missing mysteriously from the streets in Kansas City, a local detective calls the BAU to investigate the disappearances.
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#17 - It Takes a Village
Criminal Minds - Season 7 - Episode 1
The BAU team is at a crossroads as they are questioned by a Senate Committee for their retaliatory actions in the wake of Prentiss' loss, but an unexpected familiar face could help them win their case and keep the team together.
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#18 - Just Getting Started
Criminal Minds - Season 16 - Episode 1
When a family annihilator abducts a teen girl, the Behavioral Analysis Unit works the case on either side of the country to save her. But an unlikely connection to a mysterious kit leads to a bigger investigation and at the center of it is Penelope Garcia.
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#19 - Supply and Demand
Criminal Minds - Season 6 - Episode 24
As the BAU searches for a suspected human trafficking ring when the bodies of two missing persons are found in the trunk of a car, Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner intimates there could be changes within the team due to budget cuts as Jennifer "JJ" Jareau returns to the FBI. The team is also assisted by SSA Andi Swan, the head of the Domestic Trafficking Task Force.
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#20 - The Last Word
Criminal Minds - Season 2 - Episode 9
The daughter of high-powered diplomats, Special Agent Emily Prentiss joins the team, and she must convince Gideon and Hotchner she deserves the job based on merit and not on her family connections. The BAU is then called to St. Louis to investigate two serial killers who appear to be competing with each other. By setting a trap based on one killer's profile, the team creates a media event by which to capture the second killer.
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#21 - Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Criminal Minds - Season 7 - Episode 9
The BAU team looks into the real reasons behind an apparent mass suicide of a small group of youths at a military academy. Also, Hotch and Morgan butt heads when a team member could be in jeopardy.
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#22 - Birthright
Criminal Minds - Season 3 - Episode 11
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.
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#23 - Hell's Kitchen
Criminal Minds - Season 12 - Episode 18
The BAU investigates an urban vampire in New York who kidnaps his victims at night and holds them underground in the sewer system. Also, Reid makes an impossible decision in prison that severely affects himself and other inmates.
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#24 - X
Criminal Minds - Season 10 - Episode 1
The BAU team investigates a series of murders in Bakersfield, Ca, which have left the victims unidentifiable. New agent Kate Callahan joins the BAU fold, and assists in the effort to solve the cases.
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#25 - Spencer
Criminal Minds - Season 12 - Episode 13
When a BAU member gets in trouble in Mexico, the team enlists the services of the International Response Team for their help.
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#26 - Scared to Death
Criminal Minds - Season 3 - Episode 3
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.
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#27 - Paper Orphans
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders - Season 1 - Episode 13
When the daughter of an American family visiting Haiti to adopt a child is kidnapped, the International Response Team travels to the island nation to try to find her. Also, Jack and his wife, Karen, prepare to send their daughter to college.
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#28 - JJ
Criminal Minds - Season 6 - Episode 2
While JJ attempts to reunite a family whose daughter has mysteriously disappeared, her BAU family braces for the loss of one of their own.
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#29 - Elliott's Pond
Criminal Minds - Season 12 - Episode 6
When three children disappear while riding their bikes on the same path as a similar unsolved disappearance 30 years ago, the BAU team comes in to investigate.
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#30 - 25 to Life
Criminal Minds - Season 6 - Episode 11
Morgan suggests that a man has been rehabilitated and aids in his parole, but later regrets his decision when the man murders someone days after being released.
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#31 - The Perfect Storm
Criminal Minds - Season 2 - Episode 3
The BAU has reason to believe a series of murders might have been committed by two people working as a team after the victims' families receive DVDs after each crime that includes psychological attacks.
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#32 - The Crossing
Criminal Minds - Season 3 - Episode 18
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.
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#33 - Passage (1)
Alias - Season 2 - Episode 8
Sydney, Jack and Irina must put aside their differences and go undercover as a loving family in order to seize six nuclear warheads from an unfriendly nation. Meanwhile, Sloane announces to a suspicious staff that Mr. Sark will be working with SD-6, and later he is contacted by an unknown group claiming that Emily is still alive.
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#34 - Charm and Harm
Criminal Minds - Season 1 - Episode 20
The BAU works to capture a serial killer who has evaded capture by altering his appearance.
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#35 - Natural Born Killer
Criminal Minds - Season 1 - Episode 8
When an undercover cop in Baltimore involved in a mob investigation goes missing, the BAU believes a serial killer rather than organized crime has something to do with his disappearance. The probe leads to several unsolved missing persons cases.
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#36 - A Shade of Gray
Criminal Minds - Season 4 - Episode 21
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.
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#37 - Unfinished Business
Criminal Minds - Season 1 - Episode 15
A serial killer reappears after 20 years of silence and contacts the BAU with the promise he will kill another victim in the next five days.
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#38 - Full-Tilt Boogie
Criminal Minds - Season 13 - Episode 11
The BAU team’s investigation into a home invasion in a small town in Virginia and the attempted homicide of a police chief’s wife uncovers a world of secrets.
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#39 - The Silencer
Criminal Minds - Season 8 - Episode 1
When a Texas prisoner escapes during a transfer, he leaves behind victims with his unique trademark, sewing their mouths shut, a signature the BAU remembers as unique to the UnSub "The Silencer." While they investigate who he was and who he's become, the BAU also gets to know the newest member of the team.
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#40 - Soul Mates
Criminal Minds - Season 4 - Episode 12
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
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#41 - Lost Souls
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders - Season 2 - Episode 1
Unit Chief Jack Garrett and his international response team are called to Tanzania when a 23-member church group disappears.
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#42 - The Capilanos
Criminal Minds - Season 13 - Episode 17
The BAU is called to Oklahoma to investigate a murderous clown terrorizing the sleepy town of Guymon.
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#44 - Haunted
Criminal Minds - Season 5 - Episode 2
The BAU must determine what caused a disturbed man to murder several people at a pharmacy before he harms anyone else.
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#45 - Retaliation
Criminal Minds - Season 5 - Episode 11
The BAU is called upon to profile the past of an ex-convict and help stop him after he escapes from custody and embarks on a violent killing spree.
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#46 - Mea Culpa
Alias - Season 1 - Episode 9
Sydney's life is placed in mortal danger when Sloane is informed by his superior that she is the SD-6 mole. Meanwhile, Dixon's life hangs in the balance after he is shot on a mission, and Will realizes that his discovery of Kate Jones' pin could uncover some unexpected information.
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#47 - Paradise
Criminal Minds - Season 4 - Episode 4
The BAU joins the manhunt to catch a serial killer who conceals the manner of his crimes by staging car accidents.
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#48 - Show Ghouls
Charmed - Season 7 - Episode 15
When Daryll's friend is possessed by the spirit of an innocent killed in a fire in 1899, Phoebe and Drake transport themselves back in time to the caberet where it happened. However things go from bad to worse, when they find they cannot travel back to their own time. Meanwhile, Piper convinces Leo they need to take a family vacation.
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#49 - Once in a Blue Moon
Charmed - Season 7 - Episode 6
When a blue moon causes amok at the same time the girls are assigned a new whitelighter, thanks to the Elder's suspicion of Leo, trouble brews. Meanwhile, Agent Brody tells Paige of a powerful new threat, and Phoebe & Leslie confess their true feelings for each other as Leslie prepares to leave.
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#50 - The Harmful One
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders - Season 1 - Episode 1
Garrett and his unit travel to Thailand when three American volunteers go missing during a trek to Bangkok. Once there, former colleague Clara Seger, a cultural anthropologist, helps them rush to gather evidence leading to the UnSub before a storm threatens to wash it away,
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