Profiler (1996)
Profiler is an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the FBI's fictional Violent Crimes Task Force based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ally Walker starred as profiler Dr. Samantha Waters during the first three seasons, and was later replaced by Jamie Luner as profiler Dr. Rachel Burke during the show's final season. Robert Davi, Roma Maffia, Peter Frechette, Erica Gimpel and Julian McMahon co-starred throughout the show's run. Caitlin Wachs played Dr. Waters daughter for the first two seasons, a role taken over by Evan Rachel Wood in 1998.
Profiler shares a similar lead character and premise with the Fox Network series Millennium, created by Chris Carter. Both shows premiered at the beginning of the 1996–97 television season.
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3x01 Coronation
17 October, 1998 8:00 am
The day after Jack's clever escape from the prison after Samantha unsuccessfully tried to bait him and she killed Sharon instead, Samantha must look into herself in order to find him. Everything seems to point to her childhood which reveals that Jack has apparently stalked her all his life. Then, Jack abducts an infant, and tries to lure Sam into finding him in which the VCTF learns Jack's real identity (so it seems).
3x02 Cravings
24 October, 1998 8:00 am
The team investigates a serial rapist-turned-murderer in Illinois, whose sporadic timing of the attacks puzzles Sam as well as the connection between his victims whom are left in the woods. Sam figures out that the killer is an angry and frustrated married man taking out his rage and frustration on about-to-be-wed women. Meanwhile, with Jack-of-All-Trades finally captured and imprisoned, Sam begins searching for a new house for her and Chloe.
3x03 Do the Right Thing
31 October, 1998 8:00 am
A killer who castrates the victims seems to be driven by feelings of public duty and legal responsibility. John gets into trouble through no fault of his own for something that appears in the press about the case.
3x04 Double Vision
07 November, 1998 8:00 am
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.
3x05 The Sum of Her Parts
14 November, 1998 8:00 am
In Newark, N.J., a killer cuts the hands off one victim and decapitates another. Both are women but have nothing else in common.
3x06 The Monster Within
21 November, 1998 8:00 am
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.
3x07 Perfect Helen
05 December, 1998 8:00 am
Someone's digging up Jewish graves in George's home town, but Sam doesn't think it's a hate crime.
3x08 Home for the Homicide
12 December, 1998 8:00 am
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.
3x09 All in the Family
02 January, 1999 8:00 am
A prosecutor wants to tie four murders in an Annapolis, Md., bar to a drug kingpin, but Sam thinks otherwise.
3x10 Ceremony of Innocence
09 January, 1999 8:00 am
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.
3x11 Where or When
16 January, 1999 8:00 am
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.
3x12 Inheritance
06 February, 1999 8:00 am
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.
3x13 Heads, You Lose
13 February, 1999 8:00 am
In Miami, models are losing their heads, courtesy of a killer with a chip on his shoulder (and surgical tools).
3x14 Otis, California
20 February, 1999 8:00 am
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.
3x15 Spree of Love
27 February, 1999 8:00 am
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.
3x16 Burnt Offerings
20 March, 1999 8:00 am
An arsonist who is setting fatal fires in Sam's Atlanta neighborhood has a modus operandi involving dead birds.
3x17 Three Carat Crisis
03 April, 1999 9:00 am
Sam and Bailey are held hostage in a jewelry store after a botched holdup.
3x18 Seduction
10 April, 1999 8:00 am
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.
3x19 Grand Master (2)
08 May, 1999 8:00 am
Sam calls in Jarod of "The Pretender" to pursue the mastermind behind a series of kidnappings.
3x20 Las Brisas
15 May, 1999 8:00 am
Sam is at the trial of her husband's killer and on the trail of a murderer in Mexico.
3x21 What's Love Got to Do with It?
05 June, 1999 8:00 am
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.
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