Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is an American police procedural that debuted on CBS on March 16, 2016. The series is a spin-off of another series Criminal Minds aired on the same network, and is the third show in the Criminal Minds franchise. Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders follows an elite team of profilers and agents from the FBI's International Response Team (IRT). This team solves cases that involve American citizens in trouble on international soil. [1] CBS aired a backdoor pilot on an episode of Criminal Minds on April 8, 2015, introducing the characters with a crossover episode eponymously titled "Beyond Borders". [1] [2] The series follows special agents Jack Garrett, Clara Seger, Matthew Simmons, Russ Montgomery and Mae Jarvis. On May 16, 2016, CBS renewed the series for a second and final season, which premiered on March 8, 2017. [3]
A total of 26 episodes of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders aired over two seasons.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| Backdoor pilot | April 8, 2015 | |||
| 1 | 13 | March 16, 2016 | May 25, 2016 | |
| 2 | 13 | March 8, 2017 | May 17, 2017 | |
Episodes
Backdoor pilot (2015)
The program and its characters are introduced during the tenth season of Criminal Minds. The Criminal Minds episode, " Beyond Borders", served as a backdoor pilot episode for the show.
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No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 229 | 19 | "Beyond Borders" | Glenn Kershaw | Erica Messer | April 8, 2015 | 1019 | 10.39 [4] |
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When a family of four is abducted while vacationing in Barbados, the BAU works with SSA Jack Garrett (
Gary Sinise) and the International Response Team, a unit tasked with solving cases that involve Americans who are traveling abroad, to profile a family annihilator who forces his victims to reenact moments from his childhood. | |||||||
Season 1 (2016)
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No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Harmful One" | Colin Bucksey | Erica Messer | March 16, 2016 | 101 | 8.88 [5] |
| 2 | 2 | "Harvested" | Rob Bailey | Erica Meredith | March 23, 2016 | 104 | 7.78 [6] |
| 3 | 3 | "Denial" | Rod Holcomb | Adam Glass | March 30, 2016 | 107 | 7.07 [7] |
| 4 | 4 | "Whispering Death" | Larry Teng | Adam Glass | April 6, 2016 | 110 | 7.44 [8] |
| 5 | 5 | "The Lonely Heart" | Constantine Makris | Ticona S. Joy | April 6, 2016 | 108 | 6.98 [8] |
| 6 | 6 | "Love Interrupted" | Paul A. Kaufman | Adam Glass | April 13, 2016 | 102 | 7.91 [9] |
| 7 | 7 | "Citizens of the World" | Alec Smight | Matthew Lau | April 20, 2016 | 106 | 7.55 [10] |
| 8 | 8 | "De Los Inocentes" | Jeannot Szwarc | Christopher Barbour | April 27, 2016 | 103 | 6.58 [11] |
| 9 | 9 | "The Matchmaker" | Matt Earl Beesley | Tim Clemente | May 4, 2016 | 109 | 6.82 [12] |
| 10 | 10 | "Iqiniso" | Laura Belsey | Christopher Barbour | May 11, 2016 | 111 | 6.05 [13] |
| 11 | 11 | "The Ballad of Nick and Nat" | Jeremiah Chechik | Daniele Nathanson | May 11, 2016 | 105 | 5.94 [13] |
| 12 | 12 | "El Toro Bravo" | Tawnia McKiernan | Erica Meredith | May 25, 2016 | 112 | 5.74 [14] |
| 13 | 13 | "Paper Orphans" | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Erica Messer | May 25, 2016 | 113 | 5.19 [14] |
Season 2 (2017)
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No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "Lost Souls" | Alec Smight | Erica Messer | March 8, 2017 | 201 | 5.35 [15] |
| 15 | 2 | "Il Mostro" | Leon Ichaso | Christopher Barbour | March 15, 2017 | 204 | 5.37 [16] |
| 16 | 3 | "The Devil's Breath" | Oz Scott | Adam Glass | March 22, 2017 | 202 | 4.78 [17] |
| 17 | 4 | "Pretty Like Me" | Greg Prange | Daniele Nathanson | March 29, 2017 | 206 | 4.97 [18] |
| 18 | 5 | "Made In..." | Jeannot Szwarc | Erica Meredith | April 5, 2017 | 205 | 4.61 [19] |
| 19 | 6 | "Cinderella and the Dragon" | Diana C. Valentine | Matthew Lau | April 12, 2017 | 203 | 5.74 [20] |
| 20 | 7 | "La Huesuda" | Rod Holcomb | Adam Glass | April 12, 2017 | 207 | 4.72 [20] |
| 21 | 8 | "Pankration" | Laura Belsey | Ticona S. Joy | April 19, 2017 | 208 | 4.74 [21] |
| 22 | 9 | "Blowback" | Nina Lopez-Corrado | Christopher Barbour | April 26, 2017 | 209 | 4.56 [22] |
| 23 | 10 | "Type A" | Christoph Schrewe | Tim Clemente | May 3, 2017 | 210 | 5.00 [23] |
| 24 | 11 | "Obey" | Constantine Makris | Daniele Nathanson | May 10, 2017 | 211 | 4.85 [24] |
| 25 | 12 | "Abominable" | Jennifer Lynch | Matthew Lau | May 17, 2017 | 212 | 4.87 [25] |
| 26 | 13 | "The Ripper of Riga" | Mikael Salomon | Adam Glass | May 17, 2017 | 213 | 4.16 [25] |
Home releases
| Season | Episodes | DVD release dates | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | Discs | ||
| Pilot | 1 | August 25, 2015 [26] | December 7, 2015 [27] | December 2, 2015 [28] | 6 |
| 1 | 13 | September 20, 2016 [29] | TBA | TBA | 4 |
| 2 | 13 | November 23, 2018 [30] | TBA | TBA | 3 |
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