Profiler Episode Guide

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Seasons Three and Four I completed on my own. If I've made mistakes, please let me know. </I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Fourth Season (1999/2000)</b></div> <bR> <div> 18. <I>On Your Marks: {final episode}</I> Several victims in Atlanta have fallen victim to nano-technology and the VCTF must figure out who is responsible for the high-tech killings. In the mean time,  Rachel’s hunt for Joel Marks intensifies when she finds that he played a vital role in her brother’s death and Bailey worries that the VCTF’s funding may be withdrawn. </div> <bR> <div> 17. <I>Tsuris:</I>  Wealthy men are turning up murdered all over Georgia and the VCTF suspects a jealous husband is killing off his wife’s lovers. At the Command Center, Rachel finds herself increasingly distracted by Joel Marks attentions and Grace’s pregnancy goes horribly awry. </div> <bR> <div> 16. <I>Pianissimo:</I> A music prodigy is found murdered and eviscerated, her body placed  in a grand piano. The team suspects the work of a cult but Rachel isn’t so sure. Meanwhile, Jarod shows up to give Rachel a little help with the increasingly violent Joel Marks. </div> <bR> <div> 15. <I>Mea Culpa:</I>  When a group of travelers are abducted from a roadside café,  Rachel and the team figure out that their abductor is building a surrogate family and seeking absolution for a deadly accident during his childhood. Meanwhile, Bailey goes up against a Congressional committee to seek  increased funding for the VCTF and Joel Marks continues to stalk Rachel. </div> <bR> <div> 14. <I>House of Cards:</I>  When a frustrated day trader lays siege to a park in downtown Atlanta, Rachel and Bailey must figure out the best way to negotiate with him before more innocent people lose their lives. At the Command Center, George anxiously waits for the decision from the review-board about his re-instatement and Grace reveals a pregnancy-related health risk. </div> <bR> <div> 13. <I>The Long Way Home:</I>  A case from Rachel’s past resurfaces when she and the team hunt down a kidnapper who is taking young girls and holding them hostage on a soundstage crafted to represent the ballet, The Nutcracker. At the Command Center, Kim Doyle replaces George, who goes in front of the review board, and Rachel discovers Joel Marks has brought a moral turpitude charge against her, alleging she had an improper relationship with Agent Grant.</div> <bR> <div> 12. <I>Paradise Lost:</I>  The murders of vacationing families leads the team to Yosemite National Park where they must try to find a killer deep in the wilds of the national park. Meanwhile, George is declared unfit for duty as his addiction rages out of control, Bailey starts a romantic relationship with Congresswoman Karen Archer, and Rachel’s troubled brother Danny escapes from the drug rehab center where he’s been placed. </div> <bR> <div> 11. <I>Proteus:</I></div> <bR> <div> 10. <I>Besieged:</I>  A series of rapes at Rachel’s old college draws her and Agent Grant to Baltimore where they attempt to trace the killer through phone calls made to the university radio show. But when Rachel and John blow his cover, he’s madder than hell. At the VCTF, George tries to hide his addiction from the rest of the team.</div> <bR> <div> 9. <I>Clean Sweep: </I> Co-starring Michael T. Weiss of the Pretender, Jarod helps the VCTF investigate a series of deaths that seem to be connected to Secret Service Agent Todd Baxter and other political notables. </div> <bR> <div> 8. <I>Random Act:</I>  A random convenience store robbery turns deadly when John’s girlfriend, Kate, is shot to death by one of the robbers.  Grief-stricken and angry, John turns in his badge to pursue his own investigation. Back at the Command Center, Rachel worries over her brother and Grace threatens to blow the whistle on George’s drug habit.  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> 7. <I>Quid Pro Quo:</I> When a crime lord’s daughter is found murdered, OCD agent Joel Marks plants a wire on Rachel during her interviews so that he can finally secure a conviction, causing tensions to rise between Marks and Bailey. At the Command Center, Grace is faced with issues surrounding her pregnancy, and George battles his drug addiction.  </div> <bR> <div> 6. <I>Original Sin:</I> It’s Christmas time and not a very merry one for the VCTF. A series of Saturday night murders of single women has the team looking for an Internet predator. Meanwhile, Rachel’s brother, Danny, comes to town for a visit and Rachel quickly suspects that he’s again using drugs. At the Command Center, George has his own battles to fight when he becomes increasingly hooked to Oxycodone.</div> <bR> <div> 5. <I>Train Man:</I> A series of indigent men are found murdered near the rail road tracks in Arizona.  The team’s investigation leads them to a mulatto suspect with a chilling background of childhood abuse at the hands of a domineering grandfather. </div> <bR> <div> 4. <I>To Serve and Protect:</I> The team is summoned to St. Louis where a series of murders seem to be linked to a militarily trained man. But Bailey discovers that there’s more to the killer than there seems when Grace links chemical testing during Desert Storm to the killer’s homicidal rages. Back at the Command center, George is developing an addiction to painkillers and hiding it from the rest of the team.  </div> <bR> <div> 3. <I>Infidelity:</I>  When a series of men who had all been visited by the same call girl are found dead hours later, the VCTF must figure out who is obsessed enough to kill for her. Back at the Command center, George is injured in a car accident and Grace’s marital problems continue. </div> <bR> <div> 2. <I>Old Ghosts:</I>  A fifteen-year-old serial murder case comes back to haunt Bailey when the killer picks up where he left off.  Bailey pursues the lead suspect from fifteen years ago but Rachel’s profile indicates that he may be tailing the wrong man. Meanwhile, Grace worries over her failing marriage and an unexpected pregnancy. </div> <bR> <div> 1. <I>Blind Eye:</I> The first full episode featuring Jamie Luner as Rachel Burke, the team tries to adjust to Sam’s absence and Rachel’s new method of profiling. Rachel and the team must convinced a battered wife to testify that her overbearing husband has committed a series of vicious murders. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Third Season (1998/99)</b></div> <bR> <div> 16. <I>Reunion II:</I>  Sam, reunited with Chloe, finds that her daughter is increasingly distant. Concerned, Sam sends Chloe to a psychiatrist. What she doesn’t know is that Jack is masquerading as the psychiatrist and attempting to turn Chloe against her mother by bringing her resentment over her father’s death to the surface. After a face off at Tom Water’s grave, Sam kills Jack then resigns  from the team to spend more time with her daughter. Ally Walker’s final episode. </div> <bR> <div> 15. <I>Reunion I:</I>  When Sam is kidnapped by the murderous Jack of All Trades,  the team brings in profiler Rachel Burke to consult on the case. Rachel, who has the same gift of intuition as Sam, suspects that Donald Lucas is not really Jack and turns the VCTF upside down trying to prove it. When she discovers that Lucas was a paid "disciple" of the real Jack of All Trades, the team searches for Jack’s real identity.  Meanwhile, Jack attempts to bring Sam to his side by trying to force her to kill. Rachel’s intuition ultimately saves Sam but Jack manages to escape yet again. </div> <bR> <div> 14. <I>What’s Love To Do With It</I>: The VCTF works with Susan Marshall, an Atlanta PD detective, to build a case against a murder suspect. But Marshall is more than a little obsessed with the case … and more than a little obsessed with Bailey Malone.  </div> <bR> <div> 13. <I>Grand Master:</I> Co-starring Michael T.Weiss from The Pretender, the VCTF teams up with Jarod to protect Bryce Banks, a young genius, after a kidnapping by a cult lead by a man known as Father. When Bryce sets a bomb in his house under the direction of Father and  then disappears, Sam figures that Father is using the young hacker for counterintelligence purposes. </div> <bR> <div> 12. <I>Three Carat Crisis</I>:  Sam and Bailey are held hostage by three desperate teens who attempt to rob a jewelry store. As John tries to negotiate for their safe release, he comes up against an old rival from Atlanta PD who is determined to free the hostages his way-- but may ultimately cost them their lives. </div> <bR> <div> 11. <I>Spree of Love</I>: A housewife and her teenage lover take off on a state-wide killing spree and the VCTF must stop them before they harm themselves. Back at home, Bailey tries to reconcile with his ex-wife even as she plans to marry another man. </div> <bR> <div> 10. <I>Otis, California</I>: The team is summoned to Otis, California when a series of murders there appears to be the work of the imprisoned Jack of All Trades. Sam suspects Jack has a protégé and sets out to find who it is. Meanwhile, George is kidnapped on the job and held captive while the rest of the team races to find their missing friend before the killer strikes again. </div> <bR> <div> 9. <I>All In the Family</I>: </div> <bR> <div> 8. <I>Home for the Homicide</I>:  This Christmas is anything but cheerful as the team works a series of bizarre homicides that point to a killer with a broken family life. Back at the Command center, Sam worries about Chloe and Bailey does his best to cheer her up. </div> <bR> <div> 7. <I>Perfect Helen</I>: George goes into the field with Sam when several Jewish graves in his hometown are robbed of newly buried corpses.  Are the crimes anti-Semitic or is there a more ghoulish undertone to the crimes? </div> <bR> <div> 6. <I>The Monster Within:</I> The team travels to Pennsylvania to help Agent Michael Westmore, an old friend of Sam’s, with a perplexing case involving burn victims. As the team profiles a suspect who inflicted burns on his own brother, Sam follows up her own leads and discovers several dark secrets about Agent Westmore.  </div> <bR> <div> 5. <I>The Sum of her Parts</I>:  A man kills other women until he can work up to killing his overbearing mother. </div> <bR> <div> 4. <I>Double Vision</I>: The team goes south to examine a mass grave where eleven women have been buried. The evidence points to two ex-cons, one with a physical disfigurement, who are killing in tandem. Meanwhile, Sam flirts with the idea of a relationship with her attorney. </div> <bR> <div> 3. <I>Do the Right Thing</I>:  Men throughout Atlanta are found castrated and John suspects hate-crimes against gays, causing tensions to flare between himself, George, and the families of the victims. Meanwhile, the U.S. attorney assigned to prosecute Donald Lucas’s case takes Sam’s deposition and brings her some unwelcome news-- Lucas plans to plead insanity to avoid the death penalty.  </div> <bR> <div> 2. <I>Cravings:</I>  The team investigates a series of kidnap/murders by a man who craves the way his life used to be before he got married. Meanwhile, Sam visits Donald Lucas in prison in an attempt to ferret out his motives for stalking her.  </div> <bR> <div> 1. <I>Coronation</I>: Using clues scattered throughout the prison where Jill had been held, the VCTF discovers Jack’s real identity-- Donald Lucas, a man Sam has known since childhood. Feeling guilty over her shooting of Jill and determined to catch Jack on her own terms, Sam takes it upon herself to face the man who has terrorized her. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Second Season (1997/98)</b></div> <bR> <div> 19.+20. <I>Root of All Evil: [2 hour season finale] </I></div> <div> A vigilante who is fed up with the corruption he sees in the U.S. vows to destroy an unnamed metropolis by igniting the gas pipes under the city, turning it into a raging inferno. Meanwhile, Sam and the VCTF hope to use a jailed Jill as bait to trap the murderous Jack of All Trades. Back at home, Sam tries to reconcile with her busy scientist-father after years of separation - and wonders if her work will also estrange her from her daughter Chloe.</div> <bR> <div> 18. <I>Die Beautiful:</I>  When a teenage beauty queen is murdered Sam and the VCTF first suspect her parents but the investigation points to a voyeuristic serial killer whose peculiar modus operandi matches the murder scene evidence. But their prime suspect was in prison during the crime. On the home front, Bailey's budding romance with Ellen Behar makes his resentful daughter Frances more than a little jealous.</div> <bR> <div> 17. <I>Cycle of Violence:</I>  A series of abusive adults are found murdered - reportedly by a vigilante wielding a flaming sword. Sam and the VCTF find a possible link in an old comic book line featuring a mythical, vengeful heroine, the lurid creation from the addled mind of a reclusive writer. Meanwhile, Sam confronts an imprisoned Jill and solicits her help in identifying her murderous mentor, Jack-of-all-Trades, before he finds Jill.</div> <bR> <div> 16. <I>Lethal Obsession:</I>  Sam and the VCTF investigate the "prime-time kidnapper", a madman who has a pathological need for media attention and projects his mania onto an attractive but terrified local TV anchorwoman whom he wants to exclusively cover the prisoner exchanges. Sam worries about what's really behind her daughter Chloe's reluctance to perform in the children's ballet and the murderous Jack-of-all-Trades makes plans for his imprisoned Jill.</div> <bR> <div> 15. <I>Breaking Point:</I>  A distraught Sam blames herself when her best friend, Angel, is kidnapped by a desperate father. The man threatens to kill Angel within 24 hours unless his son, a convicted murder, is freed from prison forcing the VCTF to move fast to find the alleged "real" killers.</div> <bR> <div> 14. <I>Every 5 Minutes:</I>  The VCTF investigates a series of rapes in Florida that share many clues - including the assailant's curious use of a theatrical mask. Meanwhile, the combative team of John and Marcus track a former associate of "Jill" to bait a trap for her that they hope will ultimately lead to her murderous mentor.</div> <bR> <div> 13. <I>Bloodlust:</I>  When a series of battered young men are found dead in Boston, Sam and the VCTF discover that someone is recruiting desperate, unsuspecting athletes to provide fodder for clandestine fights-to-the-death to provide chilling entertainment for a selected audience. However, the team cannot draw close enough to the organizer unless one of its own can infiltrate the operation.</div> <bR> <div> 12. <I>Shoot to Kill:</I>  The VCTF is summoned to Ohio where a proficient sniper has been gunning down citizens and police alike from increasingly greater distances. While Vietnam-veteran Bailey investigates the Army's elite marksmen from the war, Sam discovers similarities between the shooter's intentional clues and Greek mythology. Elsewhere, John learns that a close friend has been responsible for spreading lies which romantically link him with Bailey's daughter, Francis. </div> <bR> <div> 11. <I>Ties that Bind</I>:  Sam's investigation in a series of home invasion murders in which whole families are wiped out seems to point to a gang-related crime - until the VCTF finds new evidence that a sinister cult may be responsible.Elsewhere Sam must fight to keep her daughter, Chloe, when her disapproving former mother-in-law sues for custody, and Bailey recoils when his problem-child daughter, Francis, claims she's been romantically involved with one of his team members.</div> <bR> <div> 10. <I>Dying to Live:</I>  Sam and the VCTF track an "angel of death" who meticulously removes different organs from his victims shortly before they are needed in life-or-death transplant surgery. Meanwhile Bailey's vengeful FBI boss tries to implicate him in a trumped up scandal that could cost him more than his career, and serial killer Jack-of-All-Trades does not approve of his "Jill's" new friend.</div> <bR> <div> 9. <I>Birthright:</I>  Sam and the VCTF race against time to find the last in a series of men who were born within days of each other in the same hospital, all of whom have been targeted by a twisted man who bears a grudge because of an unfortunate accident he suffered earlier. Also, Sam confronts her duplicitous mother-in-law about her parental skills, and a recovering Jack of All Trades has a surprise for his mother.</div> <bR> <div> 8. <I>Victims of Victims:</I>  An unsolved murder in North Carolina bears an eerie resemblance to a series of ritualistic slayings 40 years ago in the same area. Sam and the VCTF are brought in to investigate - but an undetected bit of evidence from the old case points to a man who committed suicide in prison before the most recent killings. Elsewhere, Jack-of-all-Trades seeks sanctuary with his wealthy mother in her mansion, Sam's disapproving mother-in-law arrives to visit and Grace gives birth to her first child. </div> <bR> <div> 7. <I>Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick</I>:  The VCTF at last has wounded serial killer Jack-of-all-trades on the run, but Sam' attention is divided with the mounting investigation into the murder of her college friends after a convulsive reunion.</div> <div> Malone welcomes a new team member - despite some misgivings by a suspicious Grant - and he tries to reconcile with his rebellious daughter Frances by celebrating her 18th birthday.</div> <bR> <div> 6. <I>Old Acquaintance</I>: Sam reconnects with several college chums at a "Big Chill" like reunion that quickly heats up when one friend is found murdered and Sam and her fellow pals are all under suspicion.</div> <div> Meanwhile, computer wizard George agrees to help in a risky undercover assignment to target financial transfer thieves who are trying to blackmail him. Also serial slayer Jill begins to kill without any prompting from her murderous mentor, Jack-of-All-Trades.</div> <bR> <div> 5. <I>Power Corrupts:</I> Sam and the VCTF must unravel a series of murders in Chicago where the killer obsessively cleans and displays the victims as a signpost of their corruption or immorality.</div> <div> At the same time, the team must wrangle with a contentious local cop who resents their interference. Elsewhere, a recovering Bailey can't rest until he finds his runaway daughter.</div> <bR> <div> 4. <I>Second Best</I>: A devious bomber with a twisted genius for mayhem stymies Sam and the team, forcing the VCTF to call in demolition expert Nick "Coop" Cooper, who matches wits in a deadly game with the madam - and tries to suppress his own romantic feelings for Sam. Not to be left on the sideline, an alert Jack-of-all-Trades monitors the investigation and preps his protégé Jill for a frightening surprise.</div> <bR> <div> 3. <I>It Cuts Both Ways</I>: A frustrated Sam drastically rethinks her theories of Jack-of-all-Trades' mindset when he appears to alter his method of slaying his unlucky victims, but Sam is unaware that Jack has a new protégé. Computer whiz George is blackmailed by his conniving former partner who tries to coerce him to help with a huge financial scam.</div> <bR> <div> 2. <I>Primal Scream:</I> During a series of brutal murders Sam and the task force discover that all the crimes occur during rainstorms that apparently trigger a violent response in the killer. Meanwhile serial killer Jack-of-all-Trades befriends a recently paroled prisoner and vows to remake her - by teaching her his own murderous modus operandi.</div> <bR> <div> 1. <I>Ambition in the Blood:</I> A serial killer escapes from prison and resumes his killing spree when he arrives in New York, but his seemingly random crimes baffle Sam, who struggles to predict his next move while she battles an Atlanta cop who accuses her of murdering a woman. Sam tries to prove to police that her stalker, Jack-of-all-Trades, actually murdered the victim. Meanwhile, the team rallies around Bailey, as he fights for his life after being shot by his wayward daughter.</div> <bR> <div> <B>First season (1996/1997)</b></div> <bR> <div> 21.+22. <I>Venom</I>: Sam and the VCTF team are taunted by a diabolical serial killer who prefers to use a variety of exotic poisonous spiders and animals to kill her victims while providing her pursuers with cryptic clues to her next murder. Bailey is further irritated by a sexy private investigator who tries to aid the VCTF, but it's the unit's chief nemesis - a jealous Jack-of-all-Trades - who ironically can help the most. Elsewhere Bailey asks Coop to replace John on the team, and is later shot by his daughter, Frances.</div> <bR> <div> 20. <I>Into the Abyss</I>: A burned-out Sam takes somber note of a psychic-turned-author whose cooperation in solving murders has taken a heavy toll on his emotional stability - and worst of all, he's targeted by a serial killer intent on putting him out of his misery. Back at the command center, John chafes under Bailey's strict policy and hard nosed code of secrecy. Bailey has more problems at home when he attempts to rein in his trouble prone teenage daughter.</div> <bR> <div> 19. <I>FTX:</I> The task force comes under intense scrutiny when the FBI suspects that an insider is selling covert information, so a reluctant Bailey agrees to a mock field training exercise but learns that one agent has a personal grudge against him. When a senior investigator is found murdered in the command center, Sam tries to profile which one of the teams edgy members might benefit from trading FBI secrets. Meanwhile Grace goes public with some personal news, and Nathan stands at the crossroads of the future of his bumpy marriage.</div> <bR> <div> 18. <I>Blue Highway:</I> Sam and the VCTF team investigate a series of fatal hit-and-run auto accidents on remote highways where the only clues are abandoned car hulks, a pattern which leads Sam to suspect a trucker who is relieving a traumatic accident from his childhood. Elsewhere George is mugged and nearly killed in a video store hold-up. Bailey feels responsible for his wayward teenage daughter when she hangs out with a rough crowd, and Angel is appreciative when John speaks to her high school art class.</div> <bR> <div> 17. <I>Crisis</I>: Sam is taken hostage by a zealous antinuclear scientist and a cadre of steely commandos after they capture a banquet room full of Washington DC brass and vow to kill them unless the President agrees to meet their demands to ban the bomb. When Bailey and the task force attack, the terrorists escape and are cornered in a airplane hanger, where a desperate Sam tries to 'profile' the anguished scientist - hoping to find a common bond that might save both their lives.</div> <bR> <div> 16. <I>Film at Eleven:</I> Sam and the task force probe a series of ghastly murders which are carefully videotaped and sent to TV newsrooms by the vigilante slayer who announces that the crimes are righteous retribution against guilty people who slip through the judicial system. When a young woman is kidnapped and thought to still be alive the accelerated investigation narrows to former law students with strong opinions about crime and punishment.</div> <bR> <div> 14.+15. <I>Shadow of Angels:</I>  Nick Cooper, an explosives and terrorism expert on loan from the ATF helps the VCTF solve their newest case.  In the meantime his romantic interest in Sam Waters causes  friction with some other members of the VCTF team - not to mention Sam's murderous stalker, Jack-of-all-Trades.</div> <bR> <div> 13. <I>The House that Jack Built</I>: When Jack makes serious attempts on the lives of the VCTF team members and their families, Bailey orders everyone into the task forces bunker-like command center as they scramble to devise a trap to ensnare Jack. Since their technology brilliant quarry delights in eavesdropping and seeing them almost everywhere, the frustrated team uses Sam and agent Grant as bait to flush Jack out into the open.</div> <bR> <div> 12. <I>Learning from the Masters</I>: When a series of murder victims are found arranged in elaborately staged tableaux Sam deduces that the cold-blooded killer is replicating famous artworks with their lifeless forms.</div> <div> Her investigation plunges her into the avant-garde art world until she accidentally strays into the killer's lair, where he takes her hostage - and prepares to use her for his latest three-dimensional "masterpiece". Meanwhile Bailey gets chills when he discovers that the serial killer Jack-of-all-Trades has compromised the team's vital computer system.</div> <bR> <div> 11. <I>Doppelganger:</I>  Sam confronts inmate Arthur deRhodes, a former adversary and serial slayer whom she helped put in prison for the criminally insane years before, over a recent murder that bears striking similarities to his modus operandi. However, when another ritualistic murder occurs, Sam wonders whether the culprit could possibly be the clever deRhodes - a copycat killer. All bets are off when deRhodes eventually escapes, and no-one is safe - especially Sam.</div> <bR> <div> 10. <I>Shattered Silence</I>: The separate kidnappings of two high profile doctors and the evidence left behind, leads Sam to believe that the prime suspect is a patient with an incurable medical condition who is driven to take desperate measures. Meanwhile Bailey is riddled with guilt when he develops a mutual attraction with the wife of one of the missing men. In addition, serial killer Jack-of-all-Trades continues his quest to isolate Sam by terrorizing Nathan Brubaker.</div> <bR> <div> 9.<I>Sorcerer's Apprentice</I>:  When Native American chiefs are ritually murdered on the reservation, Sam and the team tiptoe around local suspicions and superstitions as the locals blame a 1,000 year old spirit - the Nacazanti - and a perplexed Sam consults a tribal wise man to narrow the list of suspects. Back in the city, serial Killer Jack-of-all-Trades has an extra trump card after stealing Bailey's all-access FBI identification card.</div> <bR> <div> 8. <I>Cruel and Unusual</I>:  Sam and the team investigate a series of bizarre slaying whose victims are all connected to the trial of a charming murderer sentenced to die within days. One of her prime suspects is a love struck protestor who leads a candlelight watch outside the prison while appeals are filed to halt the execution. Elsewhere, the serial killer known as Jack-of-all-Trades assembles a roulette wheel with pictures of the entire Violent Crime Task Force unit - and one spin will determine his next victim.</div> <bR> <div> 7. <I>Night Dreams</I>: Sam and Bailey race the clock to track a serial kidnapper who curiously abducts a wide range of women, from a college coed to a senior citizen - and based on his ritualistic clues, Sam deduces that they have only hours before the victims are executed. While in pursuit, Agent Grant is wounded, and the trail cools off until Sam gets an unlikely break when she finds a stripper who survived an attempted kidnapping.</div> <bR> <div> 6. <I>Modus Operandi</I>:  When Jack murders a kindly neighborhood fix-it man, Sam discovers a pattern - her tormentor is leaving messages to her through his victims, all of whom have had some connection to her. As Sam agonizes over her slain acquaintances, Coop and Bailey try to comfort and protect her, but they can't watch her all the time - unlike Jack.</div> <bR> <div> 5. <I>Unsoiled Sovereignty</I>:  A series of bomb blasts at power plants draw Dr Sam Waters and the task force to Pittsburgh, where Sam meets a charming member of the bomb squad and the flirtatious pair quickly form a romantic bond. Even so, their primary focus remains on finding a deranged man with an obsessive fetish for cleanliness, whose masterwork blast is to poison the city's water supply in just hours.</div> <bR> <div> 4. <I>I'll Be Watching You</I>:  Dr Sam Waters and the Violent Crimes Task Force must find a twisted assassin before he kills a celebrated political candidate, but Sam is distracted by new evidence that could locate her murderous stalker known as Jack-of-all-Trades. Relying on audio clues from a recording the hopeful FBI agents zero in on a Baltimore church, which they believe to be Jack's lair. </div> <bR> <div> 3. <I>Unholy Alliance</I>:  Sam investigates a series of murders which bear striking similarities to the methods of a killer whom Bailey put in prison ten years earlier. Sam suspects that the real culprit is still free, and through her gifted insight, she finds clues in the ancient I Ching art of divination that lead her to a high-ranking military officer who may be protecting the slayer.</div> <bR> <div> 2. <I>Ring of Fire</I>: A serial arsonist is destroying homes all over the South, and Sam has to stop him. Her own home is threatened, along with the lives of her best friend Angel and her daughter Chloe, when Jack finds out where she lives.</div> <bR> <div> 1. <I>Insight: Release Date: Sept 21, 1996</I></div> <div> When an unusual series of killings occurs in Atlanta, the local police call the FBI. They, in turn, call in Samantha Waters, a brilliant and reclusive former FBI agent, now retired. Sam was the best forensic psychologist the FBI ever had, but left the Bureau after being caught in a deadly game with a serial killer nicknamed Jack, who murdered Sam’s husband. 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