The thirteenth season of Criminal Minds premiered on CBS on September 27, 2017 and ended on April 18, 2018. The season contained 22 episodes. 

CRIMINAL MINDS - SEASON 13

STARRING
JOE MANTEGNA as DAVID ROSSI      
MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER as Dr. SPENCER REID   
A.J. COOK as JENNIFER "JJ" JAREAU         
​KIRSTEN VANGSNESS as PENELOPE GARCIA
​​​AISHA TYLER as Dr. TARA LEWIS
​​​​​DANIEL HENNEY as MATTHEW "MATT" SIMMONS
with ADAM RODGRIGUEZ as LUKE ALVEZ
and PAGET BREWSTER as EMILY PRENTISS ​​                       

SPECIAL GUESTS
​SHEMAR MOORE as DEREK MORGAN

RECURRING
​​BODHI ELFMAN as PETER LEWIS a.k.a MR. SCRATCH
JOSH STEWART  as WILLIAM "WILL" LaMONTAGNE Jr.
MEKHAI ANDERSEN  as HENRY LaMONTAGNE
TRACIE THOMS as MONICA WALKER
KELLY FRYE as KRISTY SIMMONS
EZRA DEWEY as JAKE SIMMONS
​DECLAN WHALEY as DAVID SIMMONS
​​JAMIE KENNEDY as FLOYD FEYLINN FERELL
KIM RHODES as LINDA BARNES

EPISODES: 22
RELEASE: SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 - APRIL 18, 2018

NO. IN SEASON	EPISODE TITLE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	AIR DATE
1	"Wheels Up (Part III)"	Glenn Kershaw	Breen Frazier	September 27, 2017
2	"To A Better Place"	Diana C. Valentine	Bruce Zimmerman	October 4, 2017
3	"Blue Angel"	Sharat Raju	Christopher Barbour	October 11, 2017
4	"Killer App"	Alec Smight	Stephanie SenGupta	October 18, 2017
5	"Lucky Strikes"	​Tawnia McKiernan	Jim Clemente	October 25, 2017
6	"The Bunker"	Aisha Tyler	Karen Maser	November 8, 2017
7	"Dust and Bones"	Marcus Stokes	Erica Meredith	November 15, 2017
8	"Neon Terror"	Bethany Rooney	Erik Stiller	November 22, 2017
9	"False Flag"	Joe Mantegna	Breen Frazier	December 6, 2017
10	"Submerged"	Rob Bailey	Bruce Zimmerman	January 3, 2018
11	"Full-Tilt Boogie"	Simon Mirren	Kirsten Vangsness & Erica Messer	January 10, 2018
12	"Bad Moon on the Rise"	Christoph Schrewe	Karen Maser	January 17, 2018
13	"Cure"	Glenn Kershaw	Christopher Barbour	January 24, 2018
14	"Miasma"	Leon Ichaso	Erica Meredith	January 31, 2018
15	"Annihilator"	Rob Bailey	Erik Stiller	March 7, 2018
16	"Last Gasp"	Adam Rodriguez	Stephanie SenGupta	March 14, 2018
17	"The Capilano's"	Matthew Gray Gubler	Erica Messer	March 21, 2018
18	"The Dance of Love"	Joe Mantegna	Bruce Zimmerman	March 28, 2018
19	Ex Parte	Lily Mariye	Christopher Barbour	April 4, 2018
20	"All You Can Eat"	Diana C. Valentine	Karen Maser	April 11, 2018
21	"Mixed Signals"	Alec Smight	Erica Meredith & Erik Stiller	April 18, 2018
22	"Believer (Part I)"	Glenn Kershaw	Breen Frazier	April 18, 2018