In the wake of Kate Callahans departure from the BAU, the team interviews a batch of BAU applicants in hopes of finding a new addition to the team, including an impressive forensic anthropologist, Dr. Tara Lewis who is eager to help them on their cases. Meanwhile, the team continues to travel from major cities, to small towns and even to a community inhabited completely by sexual predators, in pursuit of deranged serial killers, homicidal scorned hearts and obsessive stalkers.