Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
An international unit of the FBI charged with coming to the aid of, and solving crimes involving, American citizens in foreign countries. A spin-off from Criminal Minds.
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- 2016-2017
- 2 seasons
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
An international unit of the FBI charged with coming to the aid of, and solving crimes involving, American citizens in foreign countries. A spin-off from Criminal Minds.
Season 2 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2017
Episode 1
Lost Souls
Wed, Mar 8, 2017 38 mins
Unit Chief Jack Garrett and his International Response Team are called to Tanzania when a 23-member church group disappears.
Episode 2
II Mostro
Wed, Mar 15, 2017 41 mins
When two casualties resemble the M.O. of the most notorious killer in Italian history, the International Response Team is called to investigate. Joe Mantegna and Paul Sorvino guest star.
Episode 3
The Devil's Breath
Wed, Mar 22, 2017 40 mins
The team is called in when Colombian authorities discover an American tourist dead in the alley behind a hotel room. It turns out that the manager is actually a criminal who is using sopolamine - the "Devil's Breath" - to put tourists into a trance, force them to clean out their bank accounts, and then kill themselves to prevent them from talking to the authorities.
Episode 4
Pretty Like Me
Wed, Mar 29, 2017 42 mins
Matt Simmons is in Seoul to meet his grandmother he gave his mother away for adoption, but must delay that and offers his local traditional inn as HQ when the team arrives as a US College student became the latest victim of a wave of abductions and savage disfiguring. After analysis of the abuse site and opportunity points to the owner, host detective Joon-Ho Kim eagerly arrests playboy-tycoon's s-heir Geonwoo Lee, but the team realizes his fascistic profile doesn't fit the vindictive MO and required carving skill, he may rather be the indirect target.
Episode 5
Made In...
Wed, Apr 5, 2017 40 mins
US textile firm partners David Curry and Robbie Garcia are missing in Dacca with local driver Uday Zaman after an appointment with Banglasdeshi sweat shop boss Niklas Poulsen, whom the trio betrayed by dealing with a competitor. Despite credibility loss risk, fabulously well-connected and -informed BBC reporter Jeffrey Kahn counsels the team and acts as translator, the tiny police force could only assign single Constable Hoque. Uday was blackmailed for debts by henchmen of a ruthless street gang who shot only him, but not on boss's orders, nor kept by them. The rogue gang intruder who has and abuses the Americans with a fatal result has his own bitterly vindictive tragic motive.
Episode 6
Cinderella and the Dragon
Wed, Apr 12, 2017 40 mins
Understaffed Singapore police's Inspector Cheong sees little reason to allow the FBI questioning the apparently open and shut murder -rare in the city state- of a colleague by US flight attendant Kathy Hall, whom security cameras recorded running after slashing the victim, even without a clear motive. The team however son suspects links with smuggling (drugs?), a lover boy and even kidnapping, all proven and tied together.
Episode 7
La Huesuda
Wed, Apr 12, 2017 40 mins
An American teen who went partying in Tijuana ('TJ') with a girlfriend went missing, is then found in a public place, not the murder site, ritually painted red, and with links to a drug trade. With several cases following, none identical, overburdened Mexican police liaison Roberto Calderon puts the team on the trail of a beach based cartel surfer-bikers-gang La Huesuda. To both's horror, this compromises the cover of Jack's son Ryan Garrett as infiltrated DEA agent, and it's a race against time to get his son back to his undercover operation.
Episode 8
Pankration
Wed, Apr 19, 2017 40 mins
Returning to his native Athens, US Greek Paul Stavros disappeared from his ex-con father's home where the family was to settle an inheritance and is found in a lavatory, forcefully beaten to a pulp before and after death, several cases with similar MO occur in the Piraeus area, all on foreigners. His brother Elias rather then Greek police liaison Balaban helps the team check on a possible feud with Albanian mob lord Besnik Heta. The disappearance before it all started of British war veteran Collin Marks is key to an unusual theory.
Episode 9
Blowback
Wed, Apr 26, 2017 43 mins
Garret rightly suspects FBI Deputy Director Walter Atwood won't properly defend him and his team members, questioned in turn, by an Internal Affairs-like panel chaired by hostile Justice official Assistant Director Linda Barnes. They are accused of various faults, procedure breaks of even crimes concerning the disastrous attempted questioning in a joint investigation with the police of civil war-torn (ficticious) Kurjikistan capital Qalea of Edward Delgado, a personal friend of Clara Seger since a Burma case, who was killed in an attack on the FBI convoy to local police captain Basir Rifai inside the 'steel ring'. The IRT itself may be 'convicted' to disbanding, unless the team finds the traitorous truth first.
Episode 10
Type A
Wed, May 3, 2017 40 mins
The team gets an atypical request from Taiwan to investigate several murders following the MO of a Brooklyn serial killer, who also frustrated Clara's study buddy. It turns out he probably wasn't inactive for years but traveled around the Pacific. He's clever enough to escape a Taipeh police trap, but the mysterious link between victims is found: a dating website for professionals with a typical profile that somehow triggers his deep trauma. Combined with a New York past, that allows profiling.
Episode 11
Obey
Wed, May 10, 2017 39 mins
US singer went to Jamaica to record a song in his cousin Winston Barlow's studio, but is arrested as sole suspect for his murder near his Blue Mountains estate shortly after an angry fallout. Seeking with Kingston liaison Inspector Jonario Shaw; against his men's prejudice against 'rich parasite artists', to prove his innocence, while in custody, the FBi team links the case to other violent crimes with different MO but roughly on a line to Kingston and by traces of red dirt to a freshly-used grave, from which they trail a 'zombie' linked to an untouchable mob baron.
Episode 12
Abominable
Wed, May 17, 2017 40 mins
The FBI team flies to Nepal, where the Senani Aadi Thakur's police team is inclined to ascribe a US yoga tourist's bloody killing to a beast, probably a yeti, which only Russ contemplates might even exist. The autopsy initially supports such theory, but concludes on an at least semi-human killer, fitting the conflicting indications found by tracker Matt. The yogi 'maharistri Pemb' was actually a Californian ex-con, but is found murdered himself, and locals keep quite about similar killings, due to Buddhist karma and to avoid scaring off tourists. Both police teams set out to search the 'killer yeti', while a profile theory links his psychopathic aggression to the recent earthquake body-count, confirmed in the cave lair.
Episode 13
The Ripper of Riga
Wed, May 17, 2017 43 mins
The famous St. Petersburg ballet exceptionally casted Yankee Felicia Pope in a lead, but she's kidnapped. Russia agreed to the FBI team helping out, but quietly, unarmed and under strict supervision from Major General Galina Glazunov. The ritual MO suggests a complex psychosis, complicated when a costume mask is returned and a severed toe is received. Garret calls in his nearly-retired ex-KGB-friend Boris, who helps trace the MO, fitting the assumed-dead 'Riga Ripper', to a mental asylum where Oleg Antakov, the Ripper of Riga, is incarcerated. He plays games and escapes. Jack realizes the madman's vindictive revenge plan is turned on his family, indeed cop son Ryan Garrett, who is abducted for a most sadistic finale.
