Criminal Minds: Season 2
Season 2 of Criminal Minds extends the series' focus on an elite team of FBI profilers who apply behavioral analysis to apprehend the nation’s most dangerous offenders. Across twenty‑three episodes, the unit continues to investigate complex cases, employing their expertise to anticipate criminal actions and protect public safety. The narrative maintains the show’s core premise that understanding a perpetrator’s minds
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The series centers on an elite FBI profiling team.
- Team members analyze the country’s most dangerous criminals.
- Season 2 continues the overarching saga established in the first season.
- The season consists of twenty‑three episodes.
Season overview
Season 2 of Criminal Minds extends the series' focus on an elite team of FBI profilers who apply behavioral analysis to apprehend the nation’s most dangerous offenders. Across twenty‑three episodes, the unit continues to investigate complex cases, employing their expertise to anticipate criminal actions and protect public safety. The narrative maintains the show’s core premise that understanding a perpetrator’s mindset is essential to stopping them, and it builds on the investigative methods introduced in the inaugural season. By deepening the portrayal of the profiling process, the season reinforces the series’ commitment to exploring the psychological dimensions of crime while sustaining the tension inherent in high‑stakes law‑enforcement work.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Fisher King (2)
Sep 20, 2006
The BAU team continues to unravel the clues given to each of them by a psychopath in order to save his most recent victim. Gideon decides not to focus on the personal aspects of th
P911
Sep 27, 2006
A young boy who had disappeared a year ago turns up for sale by a child pornographer on an online auction in Cleveland. A former profiler who now heads the FBI's Crimes Against Chi
The Perfect Storm
Oct 4, 2006
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
Psychodrama
Oct 11, 2006
The BAU is called to investigate a series of bank robberies after it becomes evident the crimes are not based on money because the robber abuses his victims by forcing them to undr
Aftermath
Oct 18, 2006
The BAU investigates a serial rapist who had been attacking young women at religious schools and stopped for six weeks. He has resumed his attacks, but is now targeting a different
The Boogeyman
Oct 25, 2006
The BAU travels to a small Texas community to investigate the murders of children. Meanwhile, Elle is having readjustment issues after being shot, and Hotch becomes worried about h
North Mammon
Nov 1, 2006
After a man kidnaps three teenaged girls and locks them in a cellar, he tells them only two of them will live and they must choose which one will die. The BAU team takes the case w
Empty Planet
Nov 8, 2006
The BAU travels to Seattle to identify and catch a serial bomber who has been terrorizing the city and targeting centers of automated techology. Working with the author of a scienc
The Last Word
Nov 15, 2006
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 fa
Lessons Learned
Nov 22, 2006
Gideon, Reid and Prentiss travel to Guantanamo Bay to interrogate the leader of a terror sleeper cell being detained there after a chemical weapons dispersal device is discovered d
Sex, Birth, Death
Nov 29, 2006
The BAU is called to investigate a series of murders of prostitutes in Washington D.C. and Reid suspects a teenager he met asking for his help is guilty of the crimes. The case bec
Profiler, Profiled
Dec 13, 2006
Morgan is arrested as a serial killer after he goes home to Chicago to visit his family. Because the detective making the arrest had used a profile provided by Gideon, the team tra
No Way Out (1)
Jan 17, 2007
Gideon is pitted against the scariest and most evil murderer in his entire career. When the BAU confronts the sadistic killer in a remote diner in the Nevada desert, the local auth
The Big Game (1)
Feb 4, 2007
The BAU is called to investigate after a wealthy couple is murdered in their home following a Super Bowl party.
Revelations (2)
Feb 7, 2007
In this conclusion of a special two-part episode, finding the serial killer becomes critical to the BAU when the team realizes Reid is being held captive and a live feed of him bei
Fear and Loathing
Feb 14, 2007
The BAU becomes involved to prevent a possible race riot when the murder of four young black women in a mostly white New York suburb appear to be hate crimes.
Distress
Feb 21, 2007
The BAU travels to Houston to investigate a series of murders that have occurred near construction sites and abandoned buildings. Because the murders appear to be random, the team
Jones
Feb 28, 2007
A case involving a serial killer believed to be copying Jack the Ripper takes Gideon to New Orleans after three victims are found with their throats cut. Once thought to have been
Ashes and Dust
Mar 21, 2007
A serial arsonist who targets the homes of upper-middle-class families as they sleep is investigated. The BAU determines the arson victims are linked together through corporate dev
Honor Among Thieves
Apr 11, 2007
Elizabeth Prentiss, a foreign ambassador and SSA Emily Prentiss' mother, seeks the aid of the BAU when a Russian immigrant is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Open Season
May 2, 2007
The BAU is called to investigate after the bodies of missing people are discovered in a remote region of the Idaho wilderness. The gruesome find also leads the team to determine th
Legacy
May 9, 2007
When homeless persons begin going missing mysteriously from the streets in Kansas City, a local detective calls the BAU to investigate the disappearances.
No Way Out: The Evilution of Frank (2)
May 16, 2007
When the prolific serial killer Frank returns and murders Gideon's girlfriend, Gideon takes off to find him without telling the team where he is going. The BAU must then profile Gi