Season 8 opens with Goren and Eames investigating a case involving a councilman’s step-daughter and her boyfriend being shot. The pair of drug-addicted kids were caught up in blackmail schemes…

A 6-year-old boy wounded in a shooting is brought to the hospital ER but abandonded by the brother who reported it and their mother. The case leads the detectives to…

After a judge is found murdered in his car, the detectives begin looking into his background and learn that he often delivered special verdicts for women in return for sexual…

Barry enlists Michael’s help in tracking down his money-laundering client list, which has been stolen by a vicious thief. Michael goes after the thief, only to find that there’s a…

Michael convinces an abusive stepfather of a young boy to leave town by telling him he is the target of an assassination plot. Elsewhere, Strickler makes a promise to Michael…

A paranoid mathematician enlists Michael’s help to stop the vice president of a defense firm from selling company secrets; Michael tracks down a new contact in the intelligence community.

Gideon is pitted against the scariest and most evil murderer in his entire career. When the BAU confronts the sadistic killer in a remote diner in the Nevada desert, the…