Suicide

2x11 Blank Generation  Directed by David Barrett
 Written by Chris Mundy
 First Air Date : Sunday, 9 January 2005
 Flashback year : 1978 (27 years ago)
   

The team re-opens the case of Matthew Adams, a teen-aged cult member who apparently committed suicide back in 1978, when his sister comes forth with new evidence about the deprogrammer her family hired to rescue her brother.

3x12 Detention  Directed by Jessica Landaw
 Written by Liz Garcia
 First Air Date : Sunday, 15 January 2006
 Flashback year : 1994 (12 years ago)
 Film tribute : The Breakfast Club
 

When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens the 1994 case of a high-school kid who fell from the roof of the school building after having served detention. In 1994 the death was deemed a suicide, but the newly-found note indicates that the victim might have been fearing for his life.

Goodbye forever bloody / but beautiful we three are / falling from heaven

4x06 Static  Directed by Kevin Bray
 Written by Gavin Harris
 First Air Date : Sunday, 29 October 2006
 Flashback year : 1958 (48 years ago)
   

The team re-opens the 1958 case of a local celebrity, a radio DJ nicknamed "The Hawk", when they discover his death was staged to look like a suicide.

4x24 Stalker  Directed by Alex Zakrzewski
 Written by Veena Cabreros Sud Liz Garcia
 First Air Date : Sunday, 6 May 2007
 Flashback year : 2006 (1 years ago)
   

In the fourth season finale, a hostage situation arises when the entire team is held captive while they're investigating the 2006 killings of a family who had just moved into a new house.

5x09 Boy Crazy  Directed by Holly Dale
 Written by Joanna Lovinger
 First Air Date : Sunday, 18 November 2007
 Flashback year : 1963 (44 years ago)
 Film tribute : Boys Don't Cry
 

The team re-opens the 1963 case of teenage girl who was then thought to have committed suicide. Now, new evidence leads them to believe the girl might have been murdered for acting and dressing like a boy.

Always be free, or die trying

5x17 Slipping  Directed by Kevin Bray
 Written by Erica Shelton
 First Air Date : Sunday, 27 April 2008
 Flashback year : 1962 (46 years ago)
   

The team re-opens the case of a woman who allegedly committed suicide in 1962 when the victim's granddaughter comes forth with evidence that the note found on the death scene -- then thought to be the suicide note -- was not written in the victim's handwriting.
She was a beautiful woman. Full of life. Until she started slipping.

Hollow. No escape from the dark. I sit. Alone in empty rooms.

7x01 The Crossing  Directed by Alex Zakrzewski
 Written by Taylor Elmore
 First Air Date : Sunday, 27 September 2009
 Flashback year : 1966 (43 years ago)
   

The team looks into the 1966 shipboard murder of a young woman who, for decades, was believed to have rashly jumped overboard. Meanwhile, the trial against the military academy official who tried to harm Rush in last season's two-part finale begins.

Suicide ship starting to look more like a murder ship

7x09 Forensics  Directed by Holly Dale
 Written by Jerome Schwartz
 First Air Date : Sunday, 6 December 2009
 Flashback year : 1999 (10 years ago)
   

The team searches for the killer of Luke Cronin, a champion debater from humble means who was wrongly believed to have committed suicide after losing his first debate three months into his scholarship-funded schooling at a competitive top private high school.

The only one who can judge you is you. (...) I judged myself today, like you said, and I didn't like what I saw.

I am my own evidence.

7x19 Bullet  Directed by John Showalter
 Written by Christopher Silber
 First Air Date : Sunday, 4 April 2010
 Flashback year : 1978 (32 years ago)
   

After determining the serial killer's identity - and some of his likely future targets - the team and the FBI work together to apprehend him while trying to locate and protect the people he's preparing to kill.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.