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Season 1

Insight

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1996

Insight

Single Atlanta women are being murdered, but as Sam zeros in on the killer, another serial killer is zeroing in on Sam.

Ring of Fire

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1996

Ring of Fire

An arsonist is at work in St. Louis, Atlanta and Nashville; serial killer Jack finds out where Sam lives.

Unholy Alliance

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1996

Unholy Alliance

The murder of an in-line skater fits the MO of a series of 10-year-old killings, but the man convicted of them is still in prison.

I'll Be Watching You

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1996

I'll Be Watching You

A senator is targeted by a gunman whose trademarks include dolls with their eyes cut out.

Unsoiled Sovereignty

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1996

Unsoiled Sovereignty

While an ecoterrorist fixated on cleanliness is planting bombs around Pittsburgh, Sam fixes an eye on an attractive ATF bomb expert.

Modus Operandi

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1996

Modus Operandi

Jack is back in business: he kills the old man who had fixed Sam's toys when she was a girl.

Night Dreams

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1996

Night Dreams

Three women are missing---and two of them were taken from bloody bedrooms where investigators find evidence of a ritual involving candles and the head of a jaguar.

Cruel and Unusual

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1996

Cruel and Unusual

Murder victims are found in cages with dry-cleaning bags over their heads. They'd been tortured, but each in a different way.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1997

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The unit probes arson and murders on Native American reservations; Jack breaks into Bailey's apartment and steals his ID.

Shattered Silence

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1997

Shattered Silence

A noted Alabama surgeon is abducted upon his return from a consultation in Russia---two years after his best friend, another renowned physician, disappeared.

Doppelganger

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1997

Doppelganger

A psychiatrist at a hospital for the criminally insane is murdered---in the MO of an inmate, a serial killer who had both motive and opportunity. But Sam, who has a history with the man, doesn't think he did it.

Learning from the Masters

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1997

Learning from the Masters

Murder victims turn up in strange "poses," after having been garroted and stabbed. Meanwhile, the VCTF's computer system is acting strangely.

The House That Jack Built

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1997

The House That Jack Built

Jack displays his diabolical handiwork on Grace's husband. But John hits on a way to get to Jack---by hitting on Sam.

Shadow of Angels (1)

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1997

Shadow of Angels (1)

Just when the agents find Jack's lair, they're sent to probe the murders of two men with ties to a tycoon.

Shadow of Angels (2)

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1997

Shadow of Angels (2)

The agents probe the murders of two men with ties to a tycoon. Meanwhile, they have Jack in their sight. Or do they?

Film at Eleven

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1997

Film at Eleven

An avenging angel kills criminals who have beaten the rap. He also tapes his deeds and sends the tapes to TV stations.

Crisis

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1997

Crisis

Terrorists working with a nuclear physicist who's a closet pacifist storm a banquet hall and take the diners hostage.

Blue Highways

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1997

Blue Highways

In the Midwest, a man in a big rig causes head-on collisions involving classic cars, and then "collects" their occupants; in Atlanta, Bailey's daughter starts a new school.

FTX: Field Training Exercise

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1997

FTX: Field Training Exercise

When a "dirty" undercover FBI agent is murdered the Bureau suspects a mole.

Into the Abyss

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1997

Into the Abyss

Sam probes a series of murders in which the victims' faces are covered with lace and their mouths manipulated into ghoulish bloody smiles.

Venom (1)

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: May 10, 1997

Venom (1)

A poisoner who's dispatching rich people with toxic creatures is so clever that Jack is beginning to take notice.

Venom (2)

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: May 10, 1997

Venom (2)

The VCTF discovers the identity of the poisoner (as does Jack, of course); and Bailey considers a drastic step after Frances's latest brush with the law.

Season 2

Ambition in the Blood

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1997

Ambition in the Blood

A man who committed 40 murders in Asia in the 1970s escapes from a Calcutta prison and heads for New York. Meanwhile, Sam's suspected of a murder herself, and Bailey's near death after being shot by his daughter.

Primal Scream

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1997

Primal Scream

A vicious killer, who works only in the rain, beats his victims severely, then picks up their bodies and hurls them. Meanwhile, Jack plays Henry Higgins to a parolee.

It Cuts Both Ways

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1997

It Cuts Both Ways

Jack's back, but with changes to his MO; Bailey's new boss is the ex-husband of a woman he's been seeing; George receives an offer he'll have a hard time refusing.

Second Best

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1997

Second Best

Coop reenters Sam's life when the VCTF requests his services in tracking a bomber; Frances has been caught and the DA is throwing the book at her.

Power Corrupts

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1997

Power Corrupts

Cleanliness isn't next to godliness: one murder victim is found with soap in his mouth and another has been "scrubbed to death."

Old Acquaintance

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1997

Old Acquaintance

Jill kills a boutique clerk to please Jack, while Sam, who's grieving over Coop's murder, is persuaded to go to a college reunion---where a classmate is murdered.

Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1998

Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick

The VCTF corners Jack, but he escapes---despite being shot by Sam. Meanwhile, Frances turns 18.

Victims of Victims

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1998

Victims of Victims

While the VCTF puzzles over a string of North Carolina murders, Jack recuperates at the home of his mother and Sam's in-laws visit her.

Birthright

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1998

Birthright

Two men---one in Ohio, the other in New Jersey---are murdered on their 32nd birthdays. Both were killed by a stalker who had been following them their whole lives. Elsewhere, Sam has a run-in with her mother-in-law.

Dying to Live

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1998

Dying to Live

A mercy killer (of sorts) is harvesting organs for transplantation purposes---then killing the "donors." Meanwhile, Bailey learns from Behar that he's the target of a probe; and Chloe tells Sam that someone has been taking pictures of her in school.

Ties That Bind

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1998

Ties That Bind

While the VCTF is preoccupied with break-ins in which the occupants were murdered, Sam's mother-in-law proceeds with her effort to gain custody of Chloe; and Frances tells Bailey that she's been sleeping with John Grant.

Shoot to Kill

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1998

Shoot to Kill

A sniper targets drivers stuck in traffic jams, and with each shooting positions himself farther away from his victim. He also leaves a "message": a replica of an ancient Greek urn. Meanwhile, John can't figure out why Handleman is out to get him.

Bloodlust

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1998

Bloodlust

The bodies of three young men are discovered; all had been beaten and, it turns out, all had been desperate for money. Sam suspects that they were losers in staged fights to the death.

Every Five Minutes

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1998

Every Five Minutes

While Sam and Bailey track a rapist on the Florida Panhandle, John and Marcus find a guy who can lead them to Sharon Lesher.

Breaking Point

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1998

Breaking Point

A man who's certain that his son was unjustly convicted of murder kidnaps Angel and threatens to kill her unless the VCTF "proves" that his son is innocent.

Lethal Obsession

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1998

Lethal Obsession

A kidnapper kills an Atlanta city councilman even though the ransom was paid. It seems he wants attention, not money---particularly from one TV reporter. Meanwhile, Jack begins his efforts to spring Jill from jail.

Cycle of Violence

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1998

Cycle of Violence

A "new-age ax murderer" targets abusive people, hacks and burns them, and places crystals in their hands---the MO of an avenging comic-book heroine.

Die Beautiful

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: May 2, 1998

Die Beautiful

The VCTF is called in on a year-old murder case. The victim: an 18-year-old beauty-pageant veteran. The prime suspects: her parents. Meanwhile, Jack challenges the VCTF to "a game."

The Root of All Evil (1)

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: May 9, 1998

The Root of All Evil (1)

While Jack schemes to get to the imprisoned Jill, a hooded figure who's obsessed with corruption is setting off explosions around the country. Also: Sam has an unsatisfying meeting---her first in 10 years---with her father.

The Root of All Evil (2)

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: May 9, 1998

The Root of All Evil (2)

While the agents zero in on the hooded bomber, Sam has an unpleasant meeting with her father. Meanwhile, Jack wants to spring Jill.

Season 3

Coronation

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1998

Coronation

The VCTF tracks Jack to his---and Sam's---home town from the prison where Sam had killed Jill. But they're not really tracking Jack---he's luring them.

Cravings

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1998

Cravings

A rapist-killer abducts young women engaged to successful men. Most are found with a single slug in the base of their skulls---and with inner-ear damage.

Do the Right Thing

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1998

Do the Right Thing

The VCTF probes three murders in which the victims had been castrated. Meanwhile, Sam is attracted to Jack's prosecutor.

Double Vision

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1998

Double Vision

Ten women are found dead in Alabama. The killer? "He's a hunter," Sam surmises, but she can't nail her profile and that bugs her.

The Sum of Her Parts

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1998

The Sum of Her Parts

In Newark, N.J., a killer cuts the hands off one victim and decapitates another. Both are women but have nothing else in common.

The Monster Within

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1998

The Monster Within

The VCTF is summoned to Allentown, Pa., where the FBI's man on the scene is spinning his wheels on a serial-murder case in which the killer burns his victims' faces.

Perfect Helen

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1998

Perfect Helen

Someone's digging up Jewish graves in George's home town, but Sam doesn't think it's a hate crime.

Home for the Homicide

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1998

Home for the Homicide

It's Christmas in rural Georgia, where an ax-murderer finishes the jobs by taking swatches of the victims' clothing. In Atlanta, Sam trims the tree with her new beau.

All in the Family

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1999

All in the Family

A prosecutor wants to tie four murders in an Annapolis, Md., bar to a drug kingpin, but Sam thinks otherwise.

Ceremony of Innocence

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1999

Ceremony of Innocence

The day before convicted killer Martin Fizer is scheduled to be executed a murder is committed in the same fashion---and with the same gun---as Fizer's had been.

Where or When

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1999

Where or When

In Los Angeles, three men have been murdered---by hand---and their bodies dumped near the sites of 1940s and '50s Hollywood landmarks. And at VCTF headquarters, George finds something disturbing on Donald Lucas's computer.

Inheritance

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1999

Inheritance

A serial killer targets victims in the South who are all roughly the same age and have the same blood disorder; Sam learns her father's secret.

Heads, You Lose

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1999

Heads, You Lose

In Miami, models are losing their heads, courtesy of a killer with a chip on his shoulder (and surgical tools).

Otis, California

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1999

Otis, California

Having hacked onto the Internet from prison, Lucas has contacted someone in a small northern-California town. "You think he has a disciple?" Bailey asks Sam.

Spree of Love

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1999

Spree of Love

A 32-year-old woman is abducted---or is she?---from her children's soccer field by a 16-year-old boy. Meanwhile, Bailey is increasingly tense as his wife's remarriage approaches.

Burnt Offerings

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1999

Burnt Offerings

An arsonist who is setting fatal fires in Sam's Atlanta neighborhood has a modus operandi involving dead birds.

Three Carat Crisis

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1999

Three Carat Crisis

Sam and Bailey (who's shopping for a present for his ex-wife) are held hostage in a jewelry store after a botched holdup.

Seduction

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1999

Seduction

The bodies of rich people are washing ashore in Palm Beach, Fla., with a finger missing. The only other thing they have in common: the same investment firm.

Grand Master (2)

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: May 8, 1999

Grand Master (2)

Sam calls in Jarod of "The Pretender" to pursue the mastermind behind a series of kidnappings.

Las Brisas

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: May 15, 1999

Las Brisas

Sam is at the trial of her husband's killer and on the trail of a murderer in Mexico.

What's Love Got to Do with It?

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1999

What's Love Got to Do with It?

While Sam tries to find the key to the mind of a serial killer, an FBI agent working with Bailey insists that she's able to control the ex-boyfriend who's stalking her.

Season 4

Reunion (1)

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1999

Reunion (1)

A new profiler is called in to help locate Sam, who was abducted by Jack, the bogus sheriff.

Reunion (2)

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1999

Reunion (2)

More killings occur that resemble Jack's original murders and the relationship between Sam and Chloe is examined.

Blind Eye

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1999

Blind Eye

In her first case as the new profiler, Rachel Burke is on the trail of a serial killer whose victims are left deliberately posed.

Old Ghosts

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1999

Old Ghosts

Bailey revisits a 15-year-old serial-murder case, from which the bodies have just been found. Soon after he and Rachel arrive in town, another murder occurs and an abduction takes place.

Infidelity

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1999

Infidelity

Rachel and the team investigate a series of killings wherein each of the victims had recently been involved in an extra-marital liason.

To Serve & Protect

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1999

To Serve & Protect

Rachel and her colleagues travel to St. Louis to try to solve three killings that have occurred in as many weeks.

Original Sin

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1999

Original Sin

Rachel attempts to solve the murders of a number of brunette women in their early 30s.

Train Man

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2000

Train Man

After an eighth victim is claimed by a killer who travels in boxcars, Rachel and the team go to Arizona, the scene of the latest murder.

Quid Pro Quo

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2000

Quid Pro Quo

Rachel forms a bond with a mob boss, whose only daughter has become the latest victim of a serial killer.

Clean Sweep (2)

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2000

Clean Sweep (2)

Jarod returns to help Rachel and Bailey solve two new murders.

Random Act

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2000

Random Act

During a convenience-store robbery, John's girlfriend is badly wounded and he shoots one of the crooks.

Besieged

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2000

Besieged

While speaking on a campus radio at her alma mater, Rachel receives a telephone call from a rapist, whom she then tries to track down.

Proteus

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Feb 26, 2000

Proteus

While the team searches for a killer, Rachel is faced with a charge of moral turpitude for a past incident involving Grant.

Paradise Lost

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2000

Paradise Lost

The murders of a woman and her two daughters in a national park lead Rachel and her colleagues to the path of their killer.

The Long Way Home

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2000

The Long Way Home

While Rachel is on the trail of a serial kidnapper she once prosecuted, she's also concerned about her brother, who's run away from rehab.

House of Cards

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Mar 25, 2000

House of Cards

After a sniper opens fire at a public park and kills several people, Rachel tries to find a pattern to the shootings.

Mea Culpa

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Apr 22, 2000

Mea Culpa

The team investigates the abduction of a 12-year-old from a diner and links it to three recent murders; at the same time, someone ransacks Rachel's home.

Pianissimo

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Apr 29, 2000

Pianissimo

As the team tries to determine the facts regarding a pianist's death, "The Pretender" returns to help Rachel, who's being harassed by a missing FBI agent.

On Your Marks

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: May 6, 2000

On Your Marks

While Rachel and the team investigate the murders of two men who seem to have no backgrounds, Marks persists in his plot for revenge.

Tsuris

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Jul 1, 2000

Tsuris

As Rachel continues to be spooked by Marks, she and the team investigate a series of murders of businessmen.

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