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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4x01 Reunion (1)
25 September, 1999 8:00 am
A new profiler is called in to help locate Sam, who was abducted by Jack, the bogus sheriff.
4x02 Reunion (2)
02 October, 1999 8:00 am
More killings occur that resemble Jack's original murders and the relationship between Sam and Chloe is examined.
4x03 Blind Eye
30 October, 1999 8:00 am
In her first case as the new profiler, Rachel Burke is on the trail of a serial killer whose victims are left deliberately posed.
4x04 Old Ghosts
06 November, 1999 8:00 am
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.
4x05 Infidelity
13 November, 1999 8:00 am
Rachel and the team investigate a series of killings wherein each of the victims had recently been involved in an extra-marital liason.
4x06 To Serve & Protect
04 December, 1999 8:00 am
Rachel and her colleagues travel to St. Louis to try to solve three killings that have occurred in as many weeks.
4x07 Original Sin
11 December, 1999 8:00 am
Rachel attempts to solve the murders of a number of brunette women in their early 30s.
4x08 Train Man
08 January, 2000 8:00 am
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.
4x09 Quid Pro Quo
15 January, 2000 8:00 am
Rachel forms a bond with a mob boss, whose only daughter has become the latest victim of a serial killer.
4x10 Clean Sweep (2)
05 February, 2000 8:00 am
Jarod and the FBI's Rachel Burke discover that the two dirty Secret Service agents, who are their most direct link to the killers of a fellow agent, are found slain, forcing them to begin their investigation all over again. However, while romantic sparks fly between the pair, Jarod suddenly disappears and is tortured by the murderer, who is on a crazed mission to eliminate everyone he thinks is involved in the agency's corruption.
4x11 Random Act
12 February, 2000 8:00 am
While shopping in a convenience store with his girlfriend Kate, Agent John Grant intercedes during a robbery, but when Kate is wounded and fights for her life, Rachel and Bailey are concerned that he will mete out his own justice outside the law. Even John's shooting of a suspect comes under review, prompting him to angrily resign and grapple with his overwhelming emotions of guilt for Kate's grave condition
4x12 Besieged
19 February, 2000 8:00 am
When Rachel visits her old college to appear on a radio call-in show to discuss a series of ongoing sexual assaults on campus, the case takes a peculiar personal turn when the rapist repeatedly dials up to mock her on-air, prompting an ongoing mind game of cat-and-mouse between them. On other fronts, Rachel finds herself drawn again to an old flame who is now married to her good friend and later meets the therapist assigned to her brother's drug rehabilitation. Likewise, George slips in his shaky bid to end his own addiction to painkillers.
4x13 Proteus
26 February, 2000 8:00 am
After a police officer and other authority figures are found stabbed in the backs, Rachel centers her investigation on a young woman, Pamela, who is reported to have assumed multiple identities which probably spring from memories of early child abuse. But Rachel faces an even greater personal threat from an FBI honcho who has falsely accused her of forcing a sexual relationship of a subordinate -- a charge that could ruin her career. Elsewhere, Bailey confronts George over his reliance on prescription drugs and orders him to get help.
4x14 Paradise Lost
11 March, 2000 8:00 am
Rachel, Bailey and the team head to Yosemite National Park where a maniac brutally killed a mother and her two daughters, and while circumstantial evidence points to a local outlaw biker, Rachel constructs a different suspect profile -- one who feels remorse and might have sibling issues. Meanwhile, George's lingering substance abuse problem causes a dangerous embarrassment for Bailey and the VCTF just as an attractive Congresswoman begins an investigation of the unit, and she is most impressed by Bailey. Back at home, Rachel's budding romance with her brother's drug counselor hits a snag.
4x15 The Long Way Home
18 March, 2000 8:00 am
A tormented Rachel must push aside her personal nightmares when she realizes that a disturbed child slayer, whom she could not convict as a prosecutor years before, has resumed kidnapping young girls and putting them in gilded cages where he worships them as virginal ""princesses."" At the same time, Rachel is troubled by the sudden disappearance of her drug-addicted brother from a halfway house and her romantic relationship with therapist Tom enters a new stage. Also, George frets about the hot shot computer whiz who's temporarily replaced him while he's on leave due to his own struggle with narcotics.
4x16 House of Cards
25 March, 2000 8:00 am
A desperate Rachel and the VCTF team cast about wildly to quickly form a profile of an anonymous sniper who's perched atop the pump house of a dam with a commanding view of his victims in an adjoining park, but their options are limited out of fear that the shooter may have wired explosives that could inundate downtown Atlanta. While the body count rises, John risks his life to save some trapped patrons and Rachel suspects the murderer might be an enraged husband whose philandering wife is pinned down with her lover.
4x17 Mea Culpa
22 April, 2000 8:00 am
Rachel and the team search for a serial killer who does not seem to follow a pattern following the abduction of a 10-year-old boy from a local diner. Meanwhile, Bailey must testify before a congressional subcommittee to save VCTF funding which is threatened to be cut off by Congresswoman Archer. Also, Rachel find that her apartment was broken into and the audiotape she made of Joel Marks confessing to planting a wire on her has reappeared in the court dockets where Marks is dismissed from the FBI and vows revenge against Rachel.
4x18 Pianissimo
29 April, 2000 8:00 am
When a talented concert pianist is found slain, Rachel suspects the victim's prodding parents until she discovers the young woman was pregnant and that her baby was forcibly delivered and kidnapped. But her biggest surprise comes when Jarod re-surfaces at her door. While the two indulge their mutual romantic passion, Jarod's mission is to help her deal with the threat posed by Marks, a fugitive FBI agent who delights in tormenting her.
4x19 On Your Marks
06 May, 2000 8:00 am
Rachel is emotionally distraught after her brother's death and she's further rattled by the mind games played by wanted ex-Agent Marks, who she believes is responsible for a series of murders, but Marks needs her to accomplish his own agenda. Malone has even more concerns when he is ordered to conduct a performance review of his VCTF members as rumors fly in Congress that the elite unit will be disbanded.
4x20 Tsuris
01 July, 2000 8:00 am
As Rachel continues to be spooked by Marks, she and the team investigate a series of murders of businessmen who were all involved with the same woman.
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