Criminal Minds Episode 4.06 The Instincts
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Criminal Minds Episode 4.06 The Instincts

Episode Premiere
Nov 5, 2008
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Production Company
Touchstone, CBS, Paramount TV, Mark Gordon Co.
Official Site
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/
Episode Premiere
Nov 5, 2008
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Period
2005 - 2020
Production Co
Touchstone, CBS, Paramount TV, Mark Gordon Co.
Distributor
CBS
Official Site
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/
Director
Rob Spera
Screenwriter
Chris Mundy
Main Cast
Additional Cast
  • Shashawnee Hall
  • Reed Diamond
  • Greg Watanabe
  • Marty Lodge
  • Justin T. Wren
  • Brad Heller
  • Bruce French
  • Sawyer Church
  • Melinda Page Hamilton
  • Jane Lynch as Diana Reid
  • Taylor Nichols

A serial killer abducts a child, keeps him alive for seven days then smothers him to death. The team is called in when another child is abducted. They discover and stop the perpetrator of the crime -- a woman who went insane when her newborn infant was taken from her seven days after giving birth. On a parallel track, Reid is plagued by dreams of a murder from his childhood (finding a murdered child in his basement). At the end of this episode, he "completes" the dream and realizes -- or so he thinks -- that it was his estranged father who killed the child in his dreams.