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Criminal Minds

Season released 26th Sep, 2012Rated TV-1424 episodes

Where to watch Criminal Minds Season 8

Criminal Minds season 8 is streaming in Australia on Paramount Plus (subscription) and Disney+ (subscription, listed for the whole show). You can also buy it on Apple TV from $24.99. Season 8 was released on 26 September 2012.

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Criminal Minds Season 8 episodes

  1. S08 E01

    The Silencer

    39 mins · Wed, 26 Sep 2012

    The BAU is called to Texas to search for an escaped killer known as The Silencer while the team welcomes its newest member into the fold.

  2. S08 E02

    The Pact

    41 mins · Wed, 10 Oct 2012

    The crack BAU team get inside the head of a murderer who struck in different cities within a matter of hours and find a cryptic connection between the victims.

  3. S08 E03

    Through the Looking Glass

    41 mins · Wed, 17 Oct 2012

    The FBI profilers race against time to save a family trapped in a real life house of horrors and stop the perpetrator before he strikes again.

  4. S08 E04

    God Complex

    40 mins · Wed, 24 Oct 2012

    The BAU head to New Mexico to investigate the chilling case of a killer suspected of selling body parts on the black market.

  5. S08 E05

    The Good Earth

    40 mins · Wed, 31 Oct 2012

    When four men go missing the BAU searches for a link between them in order to track them down. J gets upset when her son Henry doesn't want to celebrate Halloween.

  6. S08 E06

    The Apprenticeship

    40 mins · Wed, 7 Nov 2012

    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.

  7. S08 E07

    The Fallen

    40 mins · Wed, 14 Nov 2012

    The FBI profilers head to Santa Monica, where a string of burnt bodies are found around the landmark pier. Rossi is also reunited with his former marine sergeant.

  8. S08 E08

    The Wheels on the Bus ...

    39 mins · Wed, 21 Nov 2012

    When a school bus full of children goes missing the BAU team is called in to help locate them.

  9. S08 E09

    Magnificent Light

    39 mins · Wed, 28 Nov 2012

    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.

  10. S08 E10

    The Lesson

    41 mins · Wed, 5 Dec 2012

    The time for Reid to meet his mystery woman arrives, but the BAU's current case involving a string of peculiar abductions makes him fearful for her safety.

  11. S08 E11

    Perennials

    39 mins · Wed, 12 Dec 2012

    The FBI profilers race to the Deep South when two people are targeted by a copycat killer imitating the method of a murderer, active three decades ago.

  12. S08 E12

    Zugzwang

    39 mins · Wed, 16 Jan 2013

    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.

  13. S08 E13

    Magnum Opus

    39 mins · Wed, 23 Jan 2013

    While Reid is away coping with a personal loss, the rest of the team travels to San Francisco to investigate victims discovered in the Mission District.

  14. S08 E14

    All That Remains

    42 mins · Wed, 6 Feb 2013

    An author's daughter goes missing on the anniversary of his wife's disappearance, and the team sets out to investigate with the author as a potential suspect.

  15. S08 E15

    Broken

    40 mins · Mon, 18 Feb 2013

    Three seperate murders take place in Austin, Texas. The victims are two young women, and one young man. They were all seen for the last time at different but large social gatherings.

  16. S08 E16

    Carbon Copy

    39 mins · Wed, 27 Feb 2013

    The BAU travel to Philadelphia where the latest victim of the The Replicator has been found murdered.

  17. S08 E17

    The Gathering

    40 mins · Wed, 20 Mar 2013

    Life appears to be imitating art when members of an online writing forum wind up dead. The BAU fear they haven't seen the last of their stalker.

  18. S08 E18

    Restoration

    41 mins · Wed, 3 Apr 2013

    Three murders in Chicago bring back bad memories for Morgan of his abusive childhood, the man who attacked him may be behind the killing.

  19. S08 E19

    Pay It Forward

    39 mins · Wed, 10 Apr 2013

    The BAU fly to Colorado when the locals receive a blast from the past and find a rotting skull inside a time capsule buried 25 years ago.

  20. S08 E20

    Alchemy

    39 mins · Wed, 1 May 2013

    Something's afoot in Rapid City when the BAU find ritualistic marks on bodies dumped on an American Indian reservation and Reid gives the team cause for concern.

  21. S08 E21

    Nanny Dearest

    41 mins · Wed, 8 May 2013

    The BAU team head to Los Angeles in search of an UnSub who is responsible for kidnapping nannies and the children in their charge, at the same time.

  22. S08 E22

    Number Six

    42 mins · Wed, 15 May 2013

    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.

  23. S08 E23

    Brothers Hotchner

    39 mins · Wed, 22 May 2013

    The Replicator returns and targets a member of the team; Hotch's estranged brother gets caught up in the team's investigation.

  24. S08 E24

    The Replicator

    42 mins · Wed, 22 May 2013

    A member of the team becomes the Replicator's next intended victim. The team investigate a series of deaths in Manhattan.

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