Criminal Minds: Evolution: The Eyes Have It In Exclusive Season 18 Character Portraits

The BAU's eyes are all on you in TVLine's exclusive first look at Criminal Minds: Evolution's moody new character portraits, shared below.

Premiering Thursday, May 8 on Paramount+, with new episodes dropping weekly, Season 18 of the crime drama picks up six months after inmates attacked the notorious Sicarius Killer, Elias Voit (played by Zach Gilford). That incident incited Voit's followers on the dark web to begin wreaking havoc all over the country. In order to stop the nefarious group from killing more innocents, the BAU is forced to work alongside an increasingly unpredictable Voit, who of course has his own agenda.

The BAU's elite team of profilers is again comprised of Emily Prentiss (played by Paget Brewster), David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (A.J. Cook), Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness), Dr. Tara Lewis (Aisha Tyler) and Luke Alvez (Adam Rodriguez).

Also back for another go-round is Ryan-James Hatanaka as onetime person of interest Tyler Green, who last season was veritably deputized as an unofficial BAU helper.

As TVLine reported in mid-December, franchise vet Matthew Gray Gubler will return as Dr. Spencer Reid for part of one Season 18 episode, while Lucifer alum Aimee Garcia has a multi-episode arc as Dr. Julia Ochoa, a leading neuropsychiatrist who is "assigned to help a high-profile patient recover from his injury-induced brain trauma."

Check out the cool new character posters below, and as always email InsideLine@tvline.com with any burning questions/scoop requests for Season 18!

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