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Criminal Minds Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
The Fisher King: Part 2
Wed, Sep 20, 200642 mins
The unsub has identified the "her" in the "save her" messages as eighteen year old Rebecca Bryant, a Bostonian who has been missing for two years. However, by the BAU not following his rules, the unsub has attacked Greenaway at her home, she who is now clinging to life. As with some of the victims thus far, the unsub scrawls a note on Greenaway's wall using her blood. Morgan and J.J. are tasked with following the leads on Rebecca Bryant, while Reid is tasked with deciphering the increasingly complex puzzle, which leads to a personal connection to him. The two tasks come full circle when they both lead to a common end point, which at least identifies the unsub and the reason he contacted the BAU in the first place. The last task is to locate him before he commits his ultimate act in the puzzle. Meanwhile, Greenaway's subconscious battles with thoughts of wanting to live or die.
Episode 2
P911
Wed, Sep 27, 200642 mins
The Crimes Against Children unit in Maryland finds an Internet website with an auction club for the sale of incarcerated, long ago abducted boy Peter. Screening the website leads to a suspect, Grahamaz Rose, and a web-cam in his house on another captive boy. The FBI raids it and finds an older teenage minor, Kevin, formerly abused by his alcoholic father, who runs himself there a pornographic website, HUGZ, and clearly is no longer non-consenting, but accepts to help finding the younger kids by seeking contact with his pedophile viewers, which succeeds with nearby elementary school principal Howard Rawlings...
Episode 3
The Perfect Storm
Wed, Oct 4, 200642 mins
Jacksonville student Laura Clemensen is kidnapped, raped and tortured for days before fatal manual strangulation; just as with the previous victim, also a good girl student without problems, a DVD is sent to the family, her father Frank has a fatal heart-attack, the body is dumped in a degrading position, wrapped only in saran-wrap. The team concludes there are two sadistic killers, master and slave. The DVDs are sent to the mothers since the first one asked God to forgive the killers, as rejection of guilt. There's another abduction, Tiffany Spera. Tracing car parts allows to find Joey Davin, but he rather draws and gun and gets himself shot then be arrested with a strike three record...
Episode 4
Psychodrama
Wed, Oct 11, 200642 mins
Four times an LA perfectionist bank-robber made the clients-hostages strip before locking them in, so none would do anything, and violates one, but quickly slips into more violent assault against uniformed men. The team realizes he started out as a clever thief, but the opportunity made the sadist awake, who forces odd couples to play sex in front of the others and becomes more violent. The race is on, fearing he'll become murderous...
Episode 5
Aftermath
Wed, Oct 18, 200642 mins
After six weeks of no activity, a serial rapist in Dayton, Ohio has reemerged with a new victimology. Whereas his previous victims were young women attending Holy Trinity University of Ohio - a bible college - his newer victims have been thirtysomething women. What has remained consistent is that the rapist knows very personal details of each victim and that he leaves a voice mail for the victim prior to the attack, which occurs at the victim's home where the unsub lies in wait. This latter aspect may hit a little too close to home for Greenaway, whose recent almost fatal shooting was similar. As rapes are generally under reported, the authorities believe there may be more victims. When they track a previous unreported rape victim down, she who the BAU believe was the final bible college victim, they find the stressor that made the unsub change his victimology and a common link to all the women. Not any closer to finding the actual identity of the unsub, the BAU feel they need to flush him out. As the case progresses, Greenaway does take it to be more of a personal mission, which could compromise her career.
Episode 6
The Boogeyman
Wed, Oct 25, 200642 mins
In Ozona, Texas, 2500 population, young boys Robbie Davis and Nicholas Faye were bludgeoned to death in the woods, next Sara, dumped there after posthumous abuse. The team believes it's a smart, methodical local trusted by the kids, who are meanwhile advised the buddy-system. An eight-year old tells Jason, who noticed he's burdened by a secret, his older brother Matthew is missing- since two rascals dared him to pull the bell at the local 'ghost house' of old hunter Finnegan, whose wife disappeared 50 years ago. He's out, Robbie's bag lies there, but his corpse is found, buried in the woods before the first murder. Next suspect is school counselor James Charles, abandoned by his wife, who has victim Nicholas Faye's baseball team cap when he fails to flee arrest; his own 12 year-old son Jeffrey Charles is missing, after a search Jason quickly guesses the horrible truth... Meanwhile Hotch tries to get reluctant Elle Greenaway, FBI-cleared but a mental mess, to take shrink therapy...
Episode 7
North Mammon
Wed, Nov 1, 200642 mins
In North Mammon, a close small town, a man abducts three girls who return from the boys football pep rally, and tells them to chose which of them will be killed. Girls soccer player Polly Chambers' mother gets Quantico agent Judy Homefeldt to convince the team to take the case and local Sheriff Yates to officially invite them, but on arrival he states the girls aren't even officially missing, as the mother is an unreliable depression patient. The elaborate preparation, including soothing messages to the parents mentioning Friday, convince the team it's the work of a local, who plausibly plans something relating to the football game, a long-awaited finale. This leaves various suspects to be eliminated, and it looks like the kidnapper planted false forensic material to incriminate innocent men. When Brooke gets sick, the other two decide to sacrifice her- they are given hammers to kill her, then released near the police...
Episode 8
Empty Planet
Wed, Nov 8, 200642 mins
A man sends ominous phone messages to cities around the US before detonating his first, light pipe-bomb hidden in an umbrella, with remote he dumps on the street nearby, on a bus for 25 in Seattle, only two dead, 7 wounded, he even included peas softening the blow. After crossed robot-logo carved on the bomb links the killer to FFT, an anti-technology-group with a violent actions record, his initial profile is a local loner, smart, organized, aloof, possibly self-employed, moody...
Episode 9
The Last Word
Wed, Nov 15, 200642 mins
The team is sent to St. Louis to catch two serial killers who appear to be competing against each other. They are polar opposites; one is called the Mill Creek Killer and kills middle-class women using blunt trauma and the other calls himself Hollow Man and shoots prostitutes. Meanwhile, a new team member, Emily Prentiss, reports for duty.
Episode 10
Lessons Learned
Wed, Nov 22, 200642 mins
A DEA raid in Virginia accidentally finds an Al Qaeda-type chemical bomb, presumably the work of Jind Allah and his Omega cell. Hotch convinces Jason, due to her training and Middle Eastern experience, including speaking fluent Arabic, to take newcomer Emily Prentiss along for the interrogation in Gitmo (Guantanamo base, on Cuba). Gideon uses no further torture but Muslim-friendly reasoning, even invoking the Quran. Info gleaned causes a DEA SWAT team find anthrax but lose a man at a second site. The team learns the prisoner's true identity is Egyptian: imam Jamal Abaza, who turned jihadist after his son Amir's death, and set up a US MIS cell recruiting home-grown 'second choice' terrorists, who plan a bombing soon; Gideon tricks him.
Episode 11
Sex, Birth, Death
Wed, Nov 29, 200642 mins
When Dr. Spencer Reid is approached in Washington, D.C. by high-school boy Nathan Harris, who attends his lectures out of fascination, he realizes only after the kid leaves he might be a serial killer, which seems to check out after having the details he mentioned verified, the victims being prostitutes marked in the flesh by a sick mind who is tortured and wants to get caught. However there seems to be another killer at work...
Episode 12
Profiler, Profiled
Wed, Dec 13, 200642 mins
When Derek Morgan visits his mother in Chicago, he always visits the grave of a teenager whose corpse he found at age 13. This time he's arrested by detective Stan Gordinski, as a suspected serial killer, blamed for the death of several other teenage boys, none of whom were ever identified, embarrassingly based on a profile Jason wrote without knowing the details. The team is baffled. Derek has a whole past he hid from them, including a gang-related juvenile criminal record expunged by a judge at the recommendation of the highly respected local youth center director Buford, who inspired his - also previously unmentioned - career as a college football-scholarship student until he had a knee injury. Finally, an unlikely alternative suspect is shown to have his own, ongoing hidden past...
Episode 13
No Way Out
Wed, Jan 17, 200742 mins
In Golconda, a desert nowhere in Nevada, the team questions erudite Frank, a presumed, extremely prolific serial killer since 30 years who always takes a right rib as part of elaborate abuse before the murder, using the rape drug ketamine. He is assumed to have another victim alive hidden, missing Katherine Hale. He seems somehow to find his preys, apparently without common characteristics, along an Interstate road, often passing trough Golconda, but why and traveling unnoticed how? Survivor Crazy Jane is found, presumably the only one, but she believes to have been abducted by aliens. Frank is released for lack of proof and acts daringly...
Episode 14
The Big Game
Sun, Feb 4, 200742 mins
Dotcom millionaire Dennis Kyle and his wife Lacy are bloodily slaughtered in their suburban Atlanta home. The police were too late, even after responding within five minutes, to a call from the house that a certain Raphael there was about to kill the 'sinners'. He left a quote from the Book of Revelations about the Pale Horse. While the team flies to Georgia, 911 gets another call about Raphael going to punish sinners who possess too much. Garcia reports an Internet video of the Kyle murder. It was made on the Kyles' private computer, with a remote-controlled web camera which is still active, and watched by Raphael, who turns it off after sending his message; as Reid suspects, he works at a computer tech support help line, where clients allow him to control their computer for help, only he leaves a Trojan horse. The team is puzzled about psychologically contradictory behavior by the perpetrators. The next victim, after a one-voice call, is a handyman who apparently intruded into the Douglas home--the Biblical Jezebel quote suggests he was killed as accomplice of the adulterous, now missing wife; there's another laptop with an active web cam. Raphael records her quote and performs the punishment in his barn: being eaten by dogs. Jason guesses Raphael imagines he is the archangel. When the video is posted, the sheriff recognizes the dogs. When Reid and Jareau go to the owner, Tobias Henkel, Reid soon realizes him to be the smart killer, and they get more action then either bargained for.
Episode 15
Revelations
Wed, Feb 7, 200742 mins
Serial killer Tobias Hankle, a religious fanatic, keeps kidnapped Dr. Spencer Reid in a wood cabin, and forces the brilliant, terrified kid to 'confess' by belting his head and bare foot, then injects his own addictive drug; in trance Spencer thinks back to his own dysfunctional mother when he was a minor, till he could get her committed. The team learns Tobias was systematically abused by his Bible-obsessed father Charles, killed the fiend but developed a split personality, including his father's abusive one as Raphael, an angel of violent 'divine' vengeance. Tobias arranges a web-cam to the team showing Reid in his power, ordered to pick the next victim from his six profiling colleagues in order to be allowed saving another, but refusing to take the psycho's word. When he chooses Hotch next time, misquoting from Genesis for an absurd reason, Aaron himself cracks that clue...
Episode 16
Fear and Loathing
Wed, Feb 14, 200742 mins
A month ago 16 year-old Sandra Davis's on-off white boyfriend Ken Newcomb is shot from a car before here eyes, she next strangled to death, presumably by her date, in a park at Groten, an affluent suburb (42,000, 8% black) of New York City. It's the third of three racist killings in Westchester County, following Keisha Andrews (15) and Vickie Williams (17), black girls disappeared simultaneously from their homes in the county, corpses dropped in nearby woodland, neither raped but the date rape drug GSB found near them. Swastikas are painted on faces and cars, racism is becoming a hot political issue, the white mayor put back Lt. detective Ware in charge. Sandra was threatened by letter in advance, 'we' forbid her to keep seeing ken or tell anyone, in adolescent girl phraseology. The local police dismissed its initial suspicion of the letter-writer, black Tania Mathers (17), rumored to be dumped by Ken for Sandra, jealous after the high-school talent school. The team profiles a sexually motivated black serial killer who enjoys some type of souvenir and masquerades as racist while picking on singing black girls. Next black Naomi Dade, 16, is reported missing. The black profile causes a scared citizen to shoot 'snooping suspect' Ware. Next missing singing girl is Ally Hadley (15, black). A witness allows the team to identify the man who approached all girls... Meanwhile Spencer Reid's post-traumatic Raphael abduction-stress causes him to wrestle with substance abuse...
Episode 17
Distress
Wed, Feb 21, 200742 mins
In Houston's Fifth Ward, three murders don't fit the usual drug trade- and street gang-related violence pattern; apparently unrelated adult white men -construction worker, security guard and homeless- had their necks broken, abandoned in the streets near abandoned buildings. The team considers a homeless killer, possibly 'territorial' defending his hole at each time. Next victim, in a sewer, is city worker Travis Overby. Then a man survives, apparently because his young daughter was watching, she describes the white adult. After finding and SOS sign made of rubble, the team profiles a post-traumatic veteran reliving a war zone and finds a plausible suspect, Roy Woodridge, but his training makes him hard to catch... Meanwhile Reid is becoming insensitive...
Episode 18
Jones
Wed, Feb 28, 200742 mins
The New Orleans Police Department believe there is a serial killer on the loose in the French Quarter. He murdered three people pre-Katrina, in which he had been thought to have perished. A year and a half after the hurricane, a fourth dead body is found, killed using the same MO, which includes evisceration. Garcia locates a fifth potential victim in Galveston, Texas, that case which was not originally connected to the New Orleans killings. The unsub has been in direct contact with the lead investigator of the case, Lt. William LaMontagne, Jr. of the NOPD, by letter detailing the murder and mentioning that he is continuing what he started pre-Katrina. William LaMontagne, Sr., the previous lead investigator before he died in Katrina, also received such letters with the earlier murders. Most records of the first three murders were destroyed in the hurricane, so the BAU have only the latest murders from which to work. The significance of one piece of evidence from the earlier cases is yet unknown, that being LaMontagne Sr.'s scrawling of the name Jones before he died. On another tact, Reid notices that the murders and the letters are reminiscent of a famous case: Jack the Ripper. As the BAU progress in the case, Morgan realizes that they have been incorrect in one important aspect of the unsub's profile. They figure the only way to catch the unsub is to patrol the streets of the French Quarter, looking for two people that fit the combination unsub/victim profiles. The path leads to an old case of LaMontagne Sr.'s and a falling out with his former partner. Meanwhile, Reid reconnects with a former FBI training colleague turned jazz musician, who lets Reid know that whatever problem he is facing has not gone unnoticed by his BAU colleagues. And J.J. leaves a little bit of herself behind in New Orleans before heading back to Quantico.
Episode 19
Ashes and Dust
Wed, Mar 21, 200742 mins
An arsonist has been at work in San Francisco, setting so far two house fires in three weeks. The two sets of residents - both families - all perished, except for one person. Unlike the work of most serial arsonists, these fires were meant to kill their inhabitants. Before she dies, the sole survivor of the those two initial fires tells Hotch and Prentiss of irregularities from that evening before and during the fire: that someone had turned off the water, that the smoke alarms did not work during the fire, that someone had locked the front door in such a way that they could not escape, and that she noticed a fireman inside the house just before she passed out. That fireman they know to be the unsub. Beyond general characteristics, Garcia finds one connection between the two families: the father figures both worked for different companies accused of LUST (leaking underground storage tanks) by an environmental activist/eco-terrorist (depending on one's viewpoint) group called the Earth Defense Front (EDF). The head of the EDF is a man by the name of Evan Abby, a disillusioned former environmental consultant whose disillusionment led to the break-up of his own family. After their initial meeting with him, Hotch and Gideon don't think he's the arsonist murderer but that he knows more than he is letting on and acts like he is guilty of something. When they learn what Abby is hiding, the BAU feel they need to trust him in helping them find the unsub, who they're certain attended a recent EDF meeting at Abby's house. This case ends up being especially difficult for Hotch for personal reasons.
Episode 20
Honor Among Thieves
Wed, Apr 11, 200744 mins
The BAU work on a case on the urging of Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss, Emily's mother. The Chernuses - husband and wife, and their adult daughter Natalya - are a working class Russian family that knew of the Ambassador when she was posted in the Ukraine. The family now lives in Baltimore, Maryland having been smuggled out of the Eastern Bloc in 1988. Mr. Chernus has just been kidnapped. The family received a ransom note which includes Chernus' ring finger. Among other things, the note states that another body part will be cut off every six hours until the ransom is paid. In speaking to Josh Cramer from the FBI's Organized Crime Unit, the BAU learn that this case is typical of the Russian mob. Their victims are hesitant to speak to the authorities in general because of mistrust of the Russian authorities. In addition, the victims, generally with much money, are usually criminals themselves. Mr. Chernus does not seem to fit the typical victimology, the family having no money and he not being a criminal. Ambassador Prentiss hopes her old connections in Russia can assist in breaking this case. A local Russian mobster named Lysowsky seems to know what's going on and taunts Natalya for going to the FBI for help instead of going to him. But Natalya also seems to know more than she is letting on.
Episode 21
Open Season
Wed, May 2, 200742 mins
In separate incidents, three twenty-something Eastern Washingtonians have been found dead in Boise National Forest, Idaho. They were each on their way into Spokane when they went missing. Each deceased's fatal wounds had both front and rear entry into/from the body, with no sign of bullet fragments. And each only had other minor wounds, with no signs of struggle. The BAU immediately believe each was running away from something or someone in the forest. Piecing together the information, they learn that there are two unsubs whose killings will soon cease when the hunting season starts in three days. The unsubs are doing their own early hunting, kidnapping their victims and letting them run free through the forest like wild animal prey being chased by bow and arrow shooting hunters. They quickly learn who the unsubs are but they have a lot of forest to cover to find the two, before the unsubs kill the next missing person, a young woman named Bobbi Baird. In searching the unsubs' home and place of business, the BAU find that there are far more than three past victims and that the killings have been taking place for a generation.
Episode 22
Legacy
Wed, May 9, 200742 mins
Kansas City, Kansas Police Detective Cal McGee believes that street people in the city are being abducted and probably murdered. While others believe that the decrease in crime is due to his good work in getting the homeless off the street - he recently won a meritorious service award for doing such - he, with copious notes of those he sees on the streets, knows of sixty-three of those people whose whereabouts are no longer known. He also received a letter stating that the award was given to him without him doing any of the work. There is no official case so the BAU cannot get involved. While the rest of team work on putting together a profile of the unsub abductor, Hotch, with J.J. and on her urging, decides to go to Kansas City to at least speak to the KCPD about the detective's theory. This move is despite Hotch's feeling that Detective McGee is mentally unstable himself - he is displaying signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder. McGee's superior, Captain Wright, shows obvious disdain toward McGee (because of McGee's OCD) and the theory, about which he knew prior to Hotch's arrival. Regardless of the KCPD's view on the matter, J.J. finds a loophole that allows them to work on the case without the KCPD's invitation. Although the BAU believe that the unsub should be easy to spot in the neighborhood, they do have the added burden that those missing are unknown people except for what is written in McGee's notes.
Episode 23
No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank
Wed, May 16, 200742 mins
The last the BAU saw of serial killer Frank, he vowed never to kill anyone again if he only had Jane in his life. Because he was holding children hostage, the BAU allowed Frank to take Jane and escape incarceration in exchange for releasing the children. Frank has reentered Gideon's personal life. Apparently, Jane has come to Washington D.C. to look for Gideon. Frank in turn is holding a friend of Gideon's named Sarah until Jane is returned. Later, Gideon goes missing. The BAU have no idea what has happened to him. All they know is that Sarah is found dead in his apartment which is covered with blood spatters, and that he was seen leaving his apartment also covered in blood and brandishing a gun. However because Sarah was eviscerated of a right rib bone which was found in her hand, the BAU know that Frank is back. Since Gideon is still a suspect in the murder, they know they will not be asked to join the investigation. Gideon manages to telephone Hotch to let him know what he knows. As such, the team work clandestinely in finding Frank and Jane. While he's in hiding, Gideon's role is to figure out why Frank has a predisposition to cold-blooded murder. Frank's current motivation is a personal one against Gideon until Jane is returned to him. This is not a good time for the BAU as Hotch's boss, Erin Strauss, is conducting an early review of the unit, which has had some recent bad issues. He knows that he in particular in under intense scrutiny as unit head.
