Their job is to catch criminals. Their specialty is to think like them. Special Agents Jason Gideon and Aaron Hotchner head up the FBI's most elite profiling team — experts in analyzing criminal minds.
The NYPD are investigating what they believe to be a series of random murders until links are drawn between the crimes and similarities emerge; the police suspect that a copy cat serial killer may be emulating the infamous Son of Sam murders.
S1E17 43 min