Criminal Minds season 5

Criminal Minds
Season 5
Season 5 U.S. DVD cover
Starring	Joe Mantegna Paget Brewster Shemar Moore Matthew Gray Gubler A.J. Cook Kirsten Vangsness Thomas Gibson
No. of episodes	23
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 23, 2009 (2009-09-23) – May 26, 2010 (2010-05-26)
Season chronology
← Previous Season 4 Next → Season 6
List of episodes

The fifth season of Criminal Minds premiered on CBS on September 23, 2009 and ended May 26, 2010. Episode 18 was a pilot episode for the spin-off series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.