Season Eight Episode Guide

This is a place to collect the basic information on episodes as we hear it. If you know more details, spot a mistake, or remember a set photo I forgot to include, let me know.

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Season eight episodes:

8.01: “The Silencer”

W: Erica Messer

D: Glen Kershaw

Guest stars: Ray Mirabal, Meagen Campbell

Air date: 26 September 2012

Official summary: 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.

8.02: “The Pact”

W: Janine Sherman Barrois

D: Karen Gaviola

Guest stars: Nya Alex, Kim Wayans, Mack Phillips

Air date: 10 October 2012

Official summary: When the bodies of two seemingly unrelated victims are found just hours apart in San Diego and Los Angeles respectively, the BAU suspects that that not one, but two killers are working together to commit these murders.

8.03: “Through the Looking Glass”

W: Sharon Lee Watson

D: Dermott Downs

Guest stars: Josh Stamberg

Air date: 17 October 2012

Official summary: When one Kansas family turns up dead and another goes missing, the BAU looks for a link between the cases to find out who is behind the kidnappings and murders. Also, Hotch gets surprising news from Beth.

8.04: “God Complex”

W: Breen Frazier

D: Larry Teng

Guest stars: Ray Wise

Air date: 24 October 2012

Official summary: When a legless body is found in the New Mexico desert and a second unwilling amputee shows up at the hospital, the BAU team searches for this amateur surgeon before he preys upon his next reluctant victim. Also, Reid’s phone calls to a mystery woman have the team intrigued.

8.05: “The Good Earth”

W: Bruce Zimmerman

D: John Terlesky

Guest stars: Mekhai Andersen (Henry), Anne Dudek

Air date: October 31st 2012

Official summary: When four men go missing in rural Oregon, the BAU searches for a common link among them in order to track them down. Also, JJ gets upset when her son Henry doesn’t want to celebrate Halloween this year.

8.06: “The Apprenticeship”

W: Virgil Williams

D: Rob Bailey

Guest stars: Matthew Lillard, Nancy La Scala

Air date: November 7th 2012

Official summary: When prostitutes in Miami are discovered murdered in a similar style to local animals found dead there, the BAU must work fast to find an UnSub whose confidence is quickly escalating. Also, Morgan tries to increase Reid’s athletic skills by convincing him to join the bureau softball team.

8.07: “The Fallen”

W: Rick Dunkle

D: Doug Aarniokoski

Guest stars: Meshach Taylor, Shane Johnson, Robert Dunne

Character focus: Rossi

Air date: November 14th 2012

Official summary: The BAU travels to Santa Monica when burned bodies of homeless people begin showing up by the famous pier. Also, Rossi reconnects with his former Marine sergeant from Vietnam.

8.08: “The Wheels on the Bus”

W: Kim Harrison

D: Rob Hardy

Guest stars: Andrew James Allen, David Gallagher

Air date: 21 November 2012

Official summary: The BAU team goes in pursuit of a missing school bus full of children outside the Washington, D.C. area, and it becomes a race against time for them to bring them home safely.

8.09: “Magnificent Light”

W: Sharon Lee Watson

D: John Kretchmer

Guest stars: Patrick Fabian, Raphael Sbarge

Air date: 28 November 2012

Official summary: When a recent attendee at a popular motivational speaker’s conference in Seattle is murdered, the BAU looks at the speaker as the main suspect, but they have to refocus their investigation when the speaker himself goes missing. Also, Garcia is puzzled when Morgan declines to attend a dinner honoring an old family friend.

8.10: “The Lesson”

W: Janine Sherman Barrois

D: Matthew Gray Gubler

Guest stars: Brad Dourif

Air date: December 5th 2012

Official summary: The BAU investigates a series of male bodies that have been oddly disposed of, finding themselves in search of a killer with ritualistic tendencies. Also, Reid gets anxious when faced with the possibility of meeting his mystery woman.

8.11: “Perennials”

W: Bruce Zimmerman

D: Michael Lange

Guest stars: Bill Tangradi, Kim Robillard

Air date: December 12th 2012

Official summary: The BAU heads south to investigate a fast-moving UnSub whose signature matches that of a serial killer from 30 years ago. Also, the team learns that someone is tracking their cases and replicating crimes the BAU is solving.

8.12: “Zugzwang”

W: Breen Frazier

D: Jesse Warn

Guest stars: Michelle Tractenberg, Beth Riesgraf

Air date: January 16h 2013

Official summary: When Reid discovers that his girlfriend has been kidnapped by her stalker, he and the BAU team band together to find her before it’s too late.

8.13: “Magnum Opus”

W: Jason J Bernero

D: Glenn Kershaw

Guest stars: Jamie Luner, Craig Watkinson

Air date: January 23rd 2013

Official summary: While Reid copes with a loss in his personal life, the rest of the BAU travels to San Francisco to investigate victims discovered in the Mission District.

8.14: “All That Remains” (filmed 15th)

W: Erica Messer

D: Thomas Gibson

Guest stars: Ken Olin

Air date: February 6th 2013

Official summary: When the daughters of Bruce Morrison, a writer whose wife mysteriously vanished a year ago, go missing on the anniversary of their mother’s disappearance, the BAU is brought in to study Morrison as a possible suspect.

8.15: “Broken” (filmed 14th)

W: Rick Dunkle

D: Larry Teng

Guest stars: Christina Michelle Nelson, Devon Ogden

Air date: February 20th 2013

Official summary: The BAU heads to Austin to investigate victims found there with their watches set inaccurately, a clue which may connect the crimes. Meanwhile, the UnSub stalking the BAU inches closer in his pursuit of the team.

8.16: “Carbon Copy”

W: Virgil Williams

D: Rob Hardy

Guest stars: Jayne Atkinson (as Strauss), Scott Grimes

Air date: February 27th 2013

Official summary: When victims are found in Philadelphia in a similar style to victims of The Replicator, the stalker who has been tracking the BAU’s every move, the team thinks this could be the break they need to try and apprehend him.

8.17: “The Gathering”

W: Kim Harrison

D: Michael Lange

Guest stars: Nicholas Brendon, Andrew Bowen

Air date: 20th March 2013

Official summary: he BAU investigates victims who were documenting their personal lives and inner desires on blog posts and social media. Also, Kevin gets jealous when he learns Garcia may have a new love interest.

8.18: “Restoration”

W: Janine Sherman Barrois & Jim Climente

D: Felix Alcala

Character focus: Morgan

Guest stars: Keith Tisdell, Julius Tennon, Skipp Sudduth

Air date: 3 April 2013

Official summary: The BAU goes to Morgan’s old neighborhood in urban Chicago in search of an UnSub targeting middle-aged men, and a clue leads Morgan to believe that they are after someone connected to the man who molested him as a child.

8.19: “Pay It Forward”

W: Bruce Zimmerman

D: John Terlesky

Guest stars: Rob Nagle, Bill Dawes

Air date: 10 April 2013

Official summary: When a time capsule in a small Colorado town is opened 25 years later and contains a gruesome discovery, the BAU investigates that crime and a possible link to the death of a local police officer.

8.20: “Alchemy”

W: Sharon Lee Watson

D: Matthew Gray Gubler

Guest stars: Angela Bettis, John Posey

Air date: 1 May 2013

Official summary: The BAU travel to Rapid City after two male victims are discovered murdered in a ritualistic manner. Also, Reid continues to grieve over Maeve’s death.

8.21: “Nanny Dearest”

W: Virgil Williams

D: Doug Aarniokoski

Guest stars: Josh Stewart, Mekhai Anderson

Air date: 8 May 2013

Official summary: The BAU travels to Los Angeles looking for an UnSub who is kidnapping nannies and the children they care for on the same day each year.

8.22: “#6”

W: Breen Frazier

D: Karen Gaviola

Guest stars: D.W. Moffett, Adam J. Harrington

Air date: 15 May 2013

Official summary: The BAU goes to Detroit to track an UnSub with a rapidly changing MO. Also, Blake’s husband returns from overseas with a life-changing career proposition for her.

8.23: “Brothers Hotchner”

W: Rick Dunkle

D: Rob Bailey

Guest stars: Jayne Atkinson, Bellamy Young, Eric Johnson, Cade Owens

Air date: 22 May 2013

Official summary: The Replicator zeroes in on the BAU when the killer targets one of the team as the next victim. Also, the BAU is called in to investigate a string of deaths in Manhattan tied to apparent ecstasy overdoses, and Hotch discovers that his estranged brother, Sean, is caught in the middle.

8.24: “The Replicator”

W: Erica Messer

D: Glenn Kershaw

Guest stars: Mark Hamill, Nicholas Brendon, Jayne Atkinson

Air date: 22 May 2013

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