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In this crime series, a crack team of FBI profilers fly from Quantico to the focal point of the criminal activity of various serial killers. There they investigate the evidence from the crime scenes, compose a profile and try to prevent the next fatal strike. Top brain is academic Jason Gideon, with his more by-the-book operational right hand man Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner. The still juvenile Dr. Spencer Reid is an erudite on everything except real life, Penelope Garcia a brilliant computer whiz who gets access to any database etc. As they are mobile, cooperation with local police and FBI agents is important but often poses jurisdictional and other problems, as do some witnesses and suspects.
Season 5, Episode 1: Faceless, Nameless
Original Air Date—23 September 2009
A man is threatening to kill a doctor's son and is killing a man a day until he is successful. Meanwhile, Hotch's absence is noticed by Prentiss.
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Season 5, Episode 2: Haunted
Original Air Date—30 September 2009
Darrin Call, a psychotic, suffers a breakdown in a pharmacy in Kentucky and stabs 3 people to death before running off and the BAU are called in to catch him.
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Season 5, Episode 3: Reckoner
Original Air Date—7 October 2009
A hitman targeting people in some way guilty of children-related crimes brings the BAU to Rossi's home town.
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Season 5, Episode 4: Hopeless
Original Air Date—14 October 2009
The BAU go after a pack of killers who mercilessly beat their victims to death simply for the thrill of violence.
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Season 5, Episode 5: Cradle to Grave
Original Air Date—21 October 2009
The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them.
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Season 5, Episode 6: The Eyes Have It
Original Air Date—4 November 2009
The BAU team tracks a serial killer who keeps the eyes of his victims as souvenirs.
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Season 5, Episode 7: The Performer
Original Air Date—11 November 2009
The BAU team follows a trail of murders that seems to align with the tour schedule of a rock star.
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Season 5, Episode 8: Outfoxed
Original Air Date—18 November 2009
While tracking a family annihilator, the BAU must seek advice from "The Fox," one of the most horrific killers from the team's past who has an ominous message for Agent Hotchner.
Next US airings:
Sun. Mar. 27 8:00 PM AETV
Mon. Mar. 28 12:01 AM AETV
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Season 5, Episode 9: 100
Original Air Date—25 November 2009
The BAU team races to help Hotchner find The Reaper and save his family before it's too late.
Next US airings:
Sun. Apr. 3 8:00 PM AETV
Mon. Apr. 4 12:01 AM AETV
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Season 5, Episode 10: The Slave of Duty
Original Air Date—9 December 2009
While Agent Hotchner takes a leave of absence from the BAU, the team must regroup to solve a home invasion case.
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Season 5, Episode 11: Retaliation
Original Air Date—16 December 2009
Hotch is back at the helm of the BAU after turning down Strauss' offer of a full retirement package. He and Morgan have a heart to heart about Morgan's tenure as head of the unit. Meanwhile, while transporting a fugitive into custody in Lockport New York with a local police officer named Bunting, Prentiss is injured when the fugitive is assisted in a getaway by an unknown partner. That fugitive is Dale Shrader, who had just been paroled from prison, where he was serving time for a series of bank robberies in which the moneys stolen were never recovered. Since his release two days earlier, Shrader killed a junkie named Stacy Ryan who was the sister of someone Shrader served time with five years prior, and kidnapped his daughter Jenny as an act of revenge toward his ex-wife Connie. These two acts are seemingly a dichotomy in personality. During the getaway, Shrader killed Bunting. Prentiss did see the partner, but the BAU do not know who that partner is. They have to delve into Shrader's life as a bank robber and his eleven years in prison to uncover the meaning of Ryan's murder and of Jenny's kidnapping, and hopefully the identity of the partner and the two fugitives' whereabouts.
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Season 5, Episode 12: The Uncanny Valley
Original Air Date—13 January 2010
An unusual personal obsession is at the center of a BAU abduction case. Meanwhile, Hotch struggles with his return to work.
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Season 5, Episode 13: Risky Business
Original Air Date—20 January 2010
A rash of startling teen suicides in a small Wyoming town is the focus of a BAU investigation.
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Season 5, Episode 14: Parasite
Original Air Date—3 February 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.
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Season 5, Episode 15: Public Enemy
Original Air Date—10 February 2010
The BAU are called to Providence, Rhode Island where a serial killer is on the loose. He has killed three people thus far, each in an increasingly public location. Each victim was slashed across the throat with a knife, which is left at the scene without fingerprints. As the BAU go through the three murders thus far, they determine that the unsub is more like an arsonist than a killer in the way he approaches his crimes. The victims themselves seem to be secondary to the location for the unsub, and he is only killing when it is convenient as opposed to choosing a predetermined victim. The BAU feel that they are missing one step in catching the unsub, and as such make a special request of Meg Collins, the wife of the third victim who was a Iraq War veteran. Meg's willingness to assist is all based on thoughts of her daughter, Sophie, who witnessed her father's murder.
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Season 5, Episode 16: Mosley Lane
Original Air Date—3 March 2010
The BAU profiles a child abductor who may have been keeping children for more than eight years.
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Season 5, Episode 17: Solitary Man
Original Air Date—10 March 2010
The Highway Serial Killer Database exists so that information can be collated for serial murders that would not otherwise be connected due to different police jurisdictions. In reviewing the database, the BAU determine that a serial killer has killed five women thus far, the bodies found hundreds of miles apart. However Reid determines that there is a geographical focus on Edgewood, New Mexico. Each woman was strangled, the bodies laid in a fetal position found in a public location such as a ditch, and there is no sexual assault. The BAU determine that the unsub is a trucker. The case takes a turn when a woman named Nancy Campbell is abducted in front of her teen-aged daughter, Courtenay, at a highway rest stop in Edgewood. Nancy does not fit the victimology, but her abduction clarifies to the BAU what the unsub is looking for in the abducted women and ultimately the reason for the abductions and eventual murders.
Next US airings:
Sun. Mar. 27 9:00 PM AETV
Mon. Mar. 28 1:01 AM AETV
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Season 5, Episode 18: The Fight
Original Air Date—7 April 2010
The BAU team travels to San Francisco to investigate the murders of several homeless men and teams up with a separate group of BAU operatives who are working another case they think is connected.
Next US airings:
Sun. Apr. 3 9:00 PM AETV
Mon. Apr. 4 1:01 AM AETV
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Season 5, Episode 19: Rite of Passage
Original Air Date—14 April 2010
In the Mexican border town of Terlingua, Texas, three decapitated heads are found outside the sheriff's office. One of those heads was a recent death, while the other two were killed some time ago, although the decapitations themselves conducted recently. The BAU's initial thoughts are that it has to do with the border drug trade, or that because the more decomposed heads displayed now, the drug trade issue is a red herring for illegal immigration from Mexico. Indeed the three deaths are of John or Jane Doe's, fueling the BAU's speculation that they are illegal immigrants from Mexico. Believing the murders drug related, the deputy sheriffs in Terlingua arrest Omar Morales, head of one of the local drug cartels. Recently arrived Sheriff Ruiz on the other hand is certain Morales is not guilty of these murders, and that the deaths have to do with her knowledge of known illegal immigrants missing, the heads a sign for her to stop what has only been her limited investigation thus far. Based on physical evidence of the heads and an interview with Morales, the BAU come up with a profile. But it isn't until J.J. divulges some information she overheard that the BAU connect the profile to the unsub.
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Season 5, Episode 20: ...A Thousand Words
Original Air Date—5 May 2010
The BAU team must profile a serial killer covered in tattoos who commits suicide, but leaves clues to the whereabouts of his last victim.
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Season 5, Episode 21: Exit Wounds
Original Air Date—12 May 2010
The team, including Garcia, go to the small town of Franklin, Alaska to catch a rapidly escalating serial killer before the locals take justice into their own hands.
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Season 5, Episode 22: The Internet Is Forever
Original Air Date—19 May 2010
A serial killer in Boise, Idaho is revealed to have been posting his murders on the Internet, accumulating quite a collection of fans in the process.
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Season 5, Episode 23: Our Darkest Hour
Original Air Date—26 May 2010
The BAU are called to California when a sadistic serial killer appears and begins killing people in the dark during the rolling blackouts.
