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Sat, Sep 21, 1996
  • Crime
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Synopsis

Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force in Atlanta, investigates crimes throughout the country. Together, they solve the toughest of cases while trying to live their lives as best they can.

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Cast

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  • Jamie Luner
    Jamie Luner
    as Rachel Burke
  • Robert Davi
    Robert Davi
    as Bailey Malone
  • Julian McMahon
    Julian McMahon
    as John Grant
  • Roma Maffia
    Roma Maffia
    as Grace Alvarez
  • Peter Frechette
    Peter Frechette
    as George Fraley
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Episodes

4 seasons · 83 episodes

Ended · 83 aired
Season 1
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Insight
    Aired · Sun, Sep 22, 1996 · 60m

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

  • E2
    Ring of Fire
    Aired · Sun, Sep 29, 1996 · 60m

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

  • E3
    Unholy Alliance
    Aired · Sun, Oct 20, 1996 · 60m

    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.

  • E4
    I'll Be Watching You
    Aired · Sun, Oct 27, 1996 · 60m

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

  • E5
    Unsoiled Sovereignty
    Aired · Sun, Nov 3, 1996 · 60m

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

  • E6
    Modus Operandi
    Aired · Sun, Nov 10, 1996 · 60m

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

  • E7
    Night Dreams
    Aired · Sun, Nov 17, 1996 · 60m

    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.

  • E8
    Cruel and Unusual
    Aired · Sun, Dec 15, 1996 · 60m

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

  • E9
    The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    Aired · Sun, Jan 5, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E10
    Shattered Silence
    Aired · Sun, Jan 12, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E11
    Doppelganger
    Aired · Sun, Jan 19, 1997 · 60m

    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.

  • E12
    Learning from the Masters
    Aired · Sun, Feb 2, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E13
    The House That Jack Built
    Aired · Sun, Feb 9, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E14
    Shadow of Angels (1)
    Aired · Sun, Feb 16, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E15
    Shadow of Angels (2)
    Aired · Sun, Feb 16, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E16
    Film at Eleven
    Aired · Sun, Mar 9, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E17
    Crisis
    Aired · Sun, Mar 23, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E18
    Blue Highways
    Aired · Sun, Apr 6, 1997 · 60m

    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.

  • E19
    FTX: Field Training Exercise
    Aired · Sun, Apr 13, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E20
    Into the Abyss
    Aired · Sun, Apr 27, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E21
    Venom (1)
    Aired · Sun, May 11, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E22
    Venom (2)
    Aired · Sun, May 11, 1997 · 60m

    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
20 episodes · 20 aired
▾
  • E1
    Ambition in the Blood
    Aired · Sun, Nov 2, 1997 · 60m

    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.

  • E2
    Primal Scream
    Aired · Sun, Nov 9, 1997 · 60m

    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.

  • E3
    It Cuts Both Ways
    Aired · Sun, Nov 16, 1997 · 60m

    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.

  • E4
    Second Best
    Aired · Sun, Nov 23, 1997 · 60m

    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.

  • E5
    Power Corrupts
    Aired · Sun, Dec 7, 1997 · 60m

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

  • E6
    Old Acquaintance
    Aired · Sat, Dec 13, 1997 · 60m

    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.

  • E7
    Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
    Aired · Sun, Jan 4, 1998 · 60m

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

  • E8
    Victims of Victims
    Aired · Sun, Jan 11, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E9
    Birthright
    Aired · Sun, Jan 18, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E10
    Dying to Live
    Aired · Sun, Feb 1, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E11
    Ties That Bind
    Aired · Sun, Feb 8, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E12
    Shoot to Kill
    Aired · Sun, Mar 8, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E13
    Bloodlust
    Aired · Sun, Mar 15, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E14
    Every Five Minutes
    Aired · Sun, Mar 22, 1998 · 60m

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

  • E15
    Breaking Point
    Aired · Sun, Mar 29, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E16
    Lethal Obsession
    Aired · Sun, Apr 5, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E17
    Cycle of Violence
    Aired · Sun, Apr 12, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E18
    Die Beautiful
    Aired · Sun, May 3, 1998 · 60m

    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."

  • E19
    The Root of All Evil (1)
    Aired · Sun, May 10, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E20
    The Root of All Evil (2)
    Aired · Sun, May 10, 1998 · 60m

    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
21 episodes · 21 aired
▾
  • E1
    Coronation
    Aired · Sun, Oct 18, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E2
    Cravings
    Aired · Sun, Oct 25, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E3
    Do the Right Thing
    Aired · Sun, Nov 1, 1998 · 60m

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

  • E4
    Double Vision
    Aired · Sun, Nov 8, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E5
    The Sum of Her Parts
    Aired · Sun, Nov 15, 1998 · 60m

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

  • E6
    The Monster Within
    Aired · Sun, Nov 22, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E7
    Perfect Helen
    Aired · Sun, Dec 6, 1998 · 60m

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

  • E8
    Home for the Homicide
    Aired · Sun, Dec 13, 1998 · 60m

    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.

  • E9
    All in the Family
    Aired · Sun, Jan 3, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E10
    Ceremony of Innocence
    Aired · Sun, Jan 10, 1999 · 60m

    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.

  • E11
    Where or When
    Aired · Sun, Jan 17, 1999 · 60m

    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.

  • E12
    Inheritance
    Aired · Sun, Feb 7, 1999 · 60m

    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.

  • E13
    Heads, You Lose
    Aired · Sun, Feb 14, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E14
    Otis, California
    Aired · Sun, Feb 21, 1999 · 60m

    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.

  • E15
    Spree of Love
    Aired · Sun, Feb 28, 1999 · 60m

    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.

  • E16
    Burnt Offerings
    Aired · Sun, Mar 21, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E17
    Three Carat Crisis
    Aired · Sun, Apr 4, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E18
    Seduction
    Aired · Sun, Apr 11, 1999 · 60m

    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.

  • E19
    Grand Master (2)
    Aired · Sun, May 9, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E20
    Las Brisas
    Aired · Sun, May 16, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E21
    What's Love Got to Do with It?
    Aired · Sun, Jun 6, 1999 · 60m

    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
20 episodes · 20 aired
▾
  • E1
    Reunion (1)
    Aired · Sun, Sep 26, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E2
    Reunion (2)
    Aired · Sun, Oct 3, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E3
    Blind Eye
    Aired · Sun, Oct 31, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E4
    Old Ghosts
    Aired · Sun, Nov 7, 1999 · 60m

    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.

  • E5
    Infidelity
    Aired · Sun, Nov 14, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E6
    To Serve & Protect
    Aired · Sun, Dec 5, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E7
    Original Sin
    Aired · Sun, Dec 12, 1999 · 60m

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

  • E8
    Train Man
    Aired · Sun, Jan 9, 2000 · 60m

    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.

  • E9
    Quid Pro Quo
    Aired · Sun, Jan 16, 2000 · 60m

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

  • E10
    Clean Sweep (2)
    Aired · Sun, Feb 6, 2000 · 60m

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

  • E11
    Random Act
    Aired · Sun, Feb 13, 2000 · 60m

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

  • E12
    Besieged
    Aired · Sun, Feb 20, 2000 · 60m

    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.

  • E13
    Proteus
    Aired · Sun, Feb 27, 2000 · 60m

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

  • E14
    Paradise Lost
    Aired · Sun, Mar 12, 2000 · 60m

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

  • E15
    The Long Way Home
    Aired · Sun, Mar 19, 2000 · 60m

    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.

  • E16
    House of Cards
    Aired · Sun, Mar 26, 2000 · 60m

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

  • E17
    Mea Culpa
    Aired · Sun, Apr 23, 2000 · 60m

    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.

  • E18
    Pianissimo
    Aired · Sun, Apr 30, 2000 · 60m

    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.

  • E19
    On Your Marks
    Aired · Sun, May 7, 2000 · 60m

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

  • E20
    Tsuris
    Aired · Sun, Jul 2, 2000 · 60m

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