Profiler

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.