Criminal Minds Season4

The season 4 of the criminal series Criminal Minds premiered on 24th September 2008. In the first episode an SUV carrying some BAU members explodes and the team tries to save their colleagues injured in the explosion while trying to ascertain the identity and catch the terrorist behind the bombing. A series of murders taking place in Lower Canaan, Ohio are linked to a serial killer who was executed a year ago and the BAU has to find the link between the dead criminal and the current crimes. Reid and Prentiss who are in disguise while investigating possible child abuse at an underground cult, are taken hostages when a raid by federal agencies turns out bad. The BAU goes to Sherwood, Nevada where they pursue a serial killer who covers up his kills by faking car accidents. BAU investigates a serial killer who is on the loose in Modesto, California, and he appears to jump trains and select his victims based on their proximity to the Railways. While investigating the case of a young boy kidnapped from Las Vegas, Dr. Reid starts to have dreams that force him relive the forgotten memories long buried in his childhood.

As he continues to investigate the murder of the young boy in Las Vegas he finds that the links to the crime might be hidden in his own past. An egotistical serial killer who turns himself in after killing seven people challenges the team to find his next five victims before it is too late. The team is faced with the task of finding a brutal serial killer in Atlanta, who disembowels women and makes them clean it up before finally ending their lives. Emily Prentiss and Jordan Todd go undercover to catch this maniac who eludes the BAU thanks to his social charm and simple, yet clever, disguises. When a serial killer chooses his victims from the amongst the members of the police force in Phoenix, Arizona, Morgan being a former cop takes it too personally. BAU has new case that is a bit complicated due to the fact that the serial killer named Road Warrior by the media focuses on randomly shooting only blonde women driving along freeways in Orange County, California. While the team contemplates on how to catch this normal looking criminal, JJ brings in her newborn son to the meet the team.

Eleven episodes of the series have been aired in the current season as on 17th December 2008 before the series went for a mid season break. The next episode Soul Mates is supposed to be telecast on 14th January 2009 in which the disappearance of a young and affluent woman in Atlanta leads BAU to believe that it is the handiwork of a partner of a pair of serial killers. The next episode to be aired on 21st January 2009 is titled Bloodline in which BAU investigates the abduction of young women by the members of a single family. Further information about future episodes is still awaited.