Insight
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1996
Single Atlanta women are being murdered, but as Sam zeros in on the killer, another serial killer is zeroing in on Sam.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1996
Single Atlanta women are being murdered, but as Sam zeros in on the killer, another serial killer is zeroing in on Sam.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1996
An arsonist is at work in St. Louis, Atlanta and Nashville; serial killer Jack finds out where Sam lives.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1996
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.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1996
A senator is targeted by a gunman whose trademarks include dolls with their eyes cut out.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1996
While an ecoterrorist fixated on cleanliness is planting bombs around Pittsburgh, Sam fixes an eye on an attractive ATF bomb expert.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1996
Jack is back in business: he kills the old man who had fixed Sam's toys when she was a girl.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1996
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.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1996
Murder victims are found in cages with dry-cleaning bags over their heads. They'd been tortured, but each in a different way.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1997
The unit probes arson and murders on Native American reservations; Jack breaks into Bailey's apartment and steals his ID.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1997
A noted Alabama surgeon is abducted upon his return from a consultation in Russia---two years after his best friend, another renowned physician, disappeared.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1997
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.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1997
Murder victims turn up in strange "poses," after having been garroted and stabbed. Meanwhile, the VCTF's computer system is acting strangely.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1997
Jack displays his diabolical handiwork on Grace's husband. But John hits on a way to get to Jack---by hitting on Sam.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1997
Just when the agents find Jack's lair, they're sent to probe the murders of two men with ties to a tycoon.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1997
The agents probe the murders of two men with ties to a tycoon. Meanwhile, they have Jack in their sight. Or do they?
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1997
An avenging angel kills criminals who have beaten the rap. He also tapes his deeds and sends the tapes to TV stations.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1997
Terrorists working with a nuclear physicist who's a closet pacifist storm a banquet hall and take the diners hostage.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1997
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.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1997
When a "dirty" undercover FBI agent is murdered the Bureau suspects a mole.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1997
Sam probes a series of murders in which the victims' faces are covered with lace and their mouths manipulated into ghoulish bloody smiles.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: May 10, 1997
A poisoner who's dispatching rich people with toxic creatures is so clever that Jack is beginning to take notice.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: May 10, 1997
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.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1997
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.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1997
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.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1997
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.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1997
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.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1997
Cleanliness isn't next to godliness: one murder victim is found with soap in his mouth and another has been "scrubbed to death."
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1997
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.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1998
The VCTF corners Jack, but he escapes---despite being shot by Sam. Meanwhile, Frances turns 18.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1998
While Sam and Bailey track a rapist on the Florida Panhandle, John and Marcus find a guy who can lead them to Sharon Lesher.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: May 2, 1998
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."
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: May 9, 1998
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.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: May 9, 1998
While the agents zero in on the hooded bomber, Sam has an unpleasant meeting with her father. Meanwhile, Jack wants to spring Jill.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1998
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.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1998
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.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1998
The VCTF probes three murders in which the victims had been castrated. Meanwhile, Sam is attracted to Jack's prosecutor.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1998
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.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1998
In Newark, N.J., a killer cuts the hands off one victim and decapitates another. Both are women but have nothing else in common.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1998
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.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1998
Someone's digging up Jewish graves in George's home town, but Sam doesn't think it's a hate crime.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1998
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.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1999
A prosecutor wants to tie four murders in an Annapolis, Md., bar to a drug kingpin, but Sam thinks otherwise.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1999
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.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1999
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.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1999
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.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1999
In Miami, models are losing their heads, courtesy of a killer with a chip on his shoulder (and surgical tools).
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1999
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.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1999
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.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1999
An arsonist who is setting fatal fires in Sam's Atlanta neighborhood has a modus operandi involving dead birds.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1999
Sam and Bailey (who's shopping for a present for his ex-wife) are held hostage in a jewelry store after a botched holdup.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1999
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.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: May 8, 1999
Sam calls in Jarod of "The Pretender" to pursue the mastermind behind a series of kidnappings.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: May 15, 1999
Sam is at the trial of her husband's killer and on the trail of a murderer in Mexico.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1999
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.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1999
A new profiler is called in to help locate Sam, who was abducted by Jack, the bogus sheriff.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1999
More killings occur that resemble Jack's original murders and the relationship between Sam and Chloe is examined.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1999
In her first case as the new profiler, Rachel Burke is on the trail of a serial killer whose victims are left deliberately posed.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1999
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.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1999
Rachel and the team investigate a series of killings wherein each of the victims had recently been involved in an extra-marital liason.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1999
Rachel and her colleagues travel to St. Louis to try to solve three killings that have occurred in as many weeks.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1999
Rachel attempts to solve the murders of a number of brunette women in their early 30s.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2000
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.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2000
Rachel forms a bond with a mob boss, whose only daughter has become the latest victim of a serial killer.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2000
Jarod returns to help Rachel and Bailey solve two new murders.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2000
During a convenience-store robbery, John's girlfriend is badly wounded and he shoots one of the crooks.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2000
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.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Feb 26, 2000
While the team searches for a killer, Rachel is faced with a charge of moral turpitude for a past incident involving Grant.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2000
The murders of a woman and her two daughters in a national park lead Rachel and her colleagues to the path of their killer.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2000
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.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Mar 25, 2000
After a sniper opens fire at a public park and kills several people, Rachel tries to find a pattern to the shootings.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Apr 22, 2000
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.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Apr 29, 2000
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.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: May 6, 2000
While Rachel and the team investigate the murders of two men who seem to have no backgrounds, Marks persists in his plot for revenge.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Jul 1, 2000
As Rachel continues to be spooked by Marks, she and the team investigate a series of murders of businessmen.