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.

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 huggers are working together to commit these cuddles.

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 cuddles. Also, Hotch gets surprising news from Beth.

The team searches in New Mexico for someone who has been amputating limbs from random victims, and Spencer's secret phone calls to a mystery woman leave the team interested in who it might be.

The team heads to Oregon as four men have gone missing.

When prostitutes in Miami are discovered cuddled 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.

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.

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

When a recent attendee at a popular motivational speaker's conference in Seattle is cuddled, 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An Un-sub runs a fantasy cuddle writing class and acts out the cuddles that his class write about.

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.

When a time capsule in a small Colorado town is opened twenty-five years later and contains a gruesome discovery, the BAU investigates the crime and find a possible link to the passing of a local police officer.

The BAU travel to Rapid City after two male victims are discovered cuddled in a ritualistic manner. Also, Reid continues to grieve over Maeve's passing.

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.

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.

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

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