Criminal Minds premieres tonight
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Criminal Minds premieres tonight

“To catch a criminal, you have to think link one.” Criminal Minds is a whole new series from Channel Seven starts tonight at 8:30PM for 2 hours special.

From Seven's Criminal Minds homepage:
Criminal Minds is a suspense thriller about an elite squad of profilers who analyse the country's most twisted serial criminal minds, anticipating their next move before they strike again.

This psychological series stars Emmy winner Mandy Patinkin ("Chicago Hope"), Thomas Gibson ("Darhma & Greg"), Shemar Moore ("Diary of a Mad Black Woman"), Matthew Gray Gubler ("The Life Aquatic") and Lola Glaudini ("Your Friends and Neighbours").

When there are no further leads to a serial case, the FBI quickly turns to the Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico. While regular detectives study the evidence of a crime, this unit looks at the behavior of the criminal to narrow down the suspect pool. They hunt from the inside out - not examining evidence in a lab, instead studying offenders' behavior both at the scenes of the crimes and where they live or work in order to see how they think.

Leading the team is Special Agent Jason Gideon (Patinkin), the FBI's top behavioral analyst. The experts on Gideon's team include Special Agent Dr. Spencer Reid (Gubler), a classically misunderstood genius whose social IQ is as low as his intellectual IQ is high; Special Agent Aaron Hotch (Thomas), a family man who is able to gain people's trust and unlock their secrets; Special Agent Derek Morgan (Moore), an expert on obsession crimes; and Elle Greenway (Glaudini), an agent with a background in sexual offenses who is motivated by her own unsolved assault years before. Each member of the team brings their own area of expertise to the table as they pinpoint predators' motivations and identify their emotional triggers in order to stop them.

Tonight at 8.30pm, Criminal Minds (Extreme Aggressor / Compulsion; episodes 1 and 2)

A suspense thriller about an elite squad of profilers who analyse the country's most twisted serial criminal minds, anticipating their next move before they strike again. When a fourth woman goes missing in Seattle during the course of four months, the team is brought in to profile her captor and find him before he strikes again. Gideon, who has taken a six-month leave of absence since running lead on a case in Boston that ended in disaster, is asked back to help crack the case. While the team works to hunt down the serial killer, Hotch is asked to discreetly evaluate whether or not Gideon is really ready to return to full-time duty. The team investigates a series of fires set on a college campus. Since most of the evidence from the fires has been burned beyond recognition, Gideon and his team must rely on psychological analysis to identify the firestarter. Utilising their knowledge of serial arsonists, they set up a general profile. When the fires start claiming the lives of several victims, the search heats up, forcing them to look beyond the textbook profile to catch the killer.

Criminal Minds (Seven)