Special agents Ford and Tench are part of the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. It's the late 70s, and concepts like criminal psychology and profiling are met with either confusion or mocking from their colleagues in the intelligence community. However, with the support of psychologist Wendy Carr, Ford and Tench are determined to delve into the minds of criminals in order to streamline the process of apprehending them in the future. They are MINDHUNTERs.