Episode
Criminal Minds: Empty Planet
Overview
The BAU travels to Seattle to identify and catch a serial bomber who has been terrorizing the city and targeting centers of automated techology. Working with the author of a science fiction novel that has become a guide for the bomber, the team attempts to determine why certain sites have been chosen as targets.
Details
- Series
- Criminal Minds
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2006-11-08
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Empty Planet is Episode 8 in Season 2 of Criminal Minds. It aired on 2006-11-08. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 7: North Mammon
After a man kidnaps three teenaged girls and locks them in a cellar, he tells them only two of them will live and they must choose which one will die. The BAU team takes the case when the mother of one of the girls travels to Quantico to ask JJ to intercede with the FBI on the girls' behalf.
Episode 9: The Last Word
The daughter of high-powered diplomats, Special Agent Emily Prentiss joins the team, and she must convince Gideon and Hotchner she deserves the job based on merit and not on her family connections. The BAU is then called to St. Louis to investigate two serial killers who appear to be competing with each other. By setting a trap based on one killer's profile, the team creates a media event by which to capture the second killer.
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