A wounded Bailey calls upon profiler Rachel Burke (Jamie Luner)to find Sam after Jack of All Trades (guest star Dennis
Christopher) kidnaps her and subjects her to tortuous mind games.
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4.02 : "Reunion :Part 2"
Air date : Oct 2, 1999
Jack of All Trades (Dennis Christopher) convinces Chloe (Evan Rachel Wood) that Sam was responsible for her father's death; Bailey and Rachel(Robert Davi, Jamie Luner) try to locate Jack's hideout.
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4.03 : “Blind Eye”
Air date : Oct 30, 1999
RACHEL’S FIRST SOLO CASE CENTERS ON KILLER OF FEMALE PROFESSIONALS -- Now a member of the VCTF team, newly relocated Agent Rachel Burke sorts through a series of murders where the killer singles out successful career women and subjugates them to humiliating housework and compulsive cleaning before posing them naked in kitchens or bathrooms. While Rachel narrows in on a suspect (guest star Scott Allen Campbell) whose timid, fearful wife (guest star Paula Malcomson) may be the missing link, she must first overcome her combative relationship with an increasingly skeptical John.
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4.04 : "Old Ghosts"
Air date : Nov 6, 1999
NEW SERIES OF FEMALE MURDERS REIGNITES MALONE’S PASSION --An obsessed Malone is haunted by an unsolved case in
Georgia concerning several teenaged girls who were slain with a
knife 15 years ago, and when more older victims are suddenly
found - marked with slashes on their bodies -- his focus zeroes
in on their original prime suspect who has resurfaced in the
area. Once he has the VCTF team on board, he enlists Rachel’s help to connect the two crime sprees but his decision to exhume the earlier victims understandably draws the wrath of their ever-grieving parents.
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4.05 : "Infidelity"
Air date : Nov 13, 1999
RACHEL AND VCTF PROBE MURDERS OF PHILANDERING HUSBANDS
-- When Rachel and Bailey investigate a series of Ohio murders in which the mutilated victims are cheating husbands, they suspect
that the killer is the vengeful boyfriend (guest star
L.L. Ginter) of a woman (guest star Amanda Wyss)
common to all of the dead men -- until she offers an
unconvincing confession. Meanwhile, the VCTF team must
contend with a local sheriff who wants to join their
force, Grace must deal with her crumbling marriage and new pregnancy, and George is left limping after a painful car
accident.
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4.06 : "To Serve & Protect"
Air date : Nov 20, 1999
RACHEL AND FBI TEAM SUSPECT MILITARY VETERAN
RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDERS -- When a series of random
murder victims are found on the streets of St. Louis, Rachel and the VCTF team believe the slayer is a military veteran who uses weapons of opportunity, and their focus shifts to an incoherent, ranting homeless person (guest star Jeremy Roberts)who fits the profile. However, Rachel wonders if she should widen her field of suspects to include any ex-serviceman -- and trained killer -- who is susceptible to an altered state psychosis. Back at
headquarters, computer whiz George ignores his
increasing reliance on prescription pain pills while recovering from a car accident.
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4.07 : "Original Sin"
Air date : Dec 11, 1999
EVEN DURING HOLIDAYS, RACHEL AND THE VCTF PURSUE KILLER WHO FINDS VICTIMS ONLINE -- As Christmas nears, Rachel and the VCTF work into the night in search of a twisted serial killer (guest star Ben Bode) who goes online to select his victims, all of whom are carefully screened, seeking a candidate he can make over into his ideal woman. At the same time, Rachel is surprised when her troubled brother, Danny (guest star Rafael Sbarge), drops in from out of town and displays telltale signs of substance abuse. Also, Rachel confronts George about his own addiction to pain pills and other drugs.
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4.08 : "Train Man"
Air date : Jan 8, 2000
TORTURED SERIAL KILLER SNUFFS OUT LIVES OF ELDERLY HOBOS -- Rachel and Bailey respond to the growing list of isolated elderly men and women who are strangled while riding the rails in the Southwest, and Rachel notes cigarette burns that indicate the young killer (guest star Samuel Bliss Cooper) must have been a victim of abuse as well. While the slayer eyes his next targets, the VCTF theorizes that the dead must be surrogates for an angry drifter who feels rejected by society.
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4.09 : "Quid Pro Quo"
Air date : Jan 15, 2000
KINKY SERIAL SLAYER MAY HAVE PICKED WRONG VICTIM IN MOB BOSS’ DAUGHTER -- Rachel and the VCTF team search for a serial killer (guest star Greg Kean) who strangles women with knots of their own hair, but when the latest victim proves to be the daughter of powerful mob boss James Perrone (guest star Ray Wise), the FBI profiler must gain the grieving father’s confidence to learn more about her habits. Meanwhile, Rachel is under pressure from the Bureau’s Organized Crime Division to take advantage of her access to Perrone and wear a wire to trick him into confessing to a fellow mobster’s murder, thereby ending a lengthy investigation.
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4.10 : "Spin Doctor"
Air date : Feb 5, 2000 (part 1)
“THE PRETENDER” PROBES FRIEND’S DEATH AND
BEFRIENDS FBI “PROFILER” RACHEL BURKE IN PART 1 OF TWO-HOUR
CROSSOVER EPISODE -- Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) poses as a Secret Service agent to find out who killed a good friend (guest star Max Martini) who helped him escape years before from the diabolical Centre, but since the victim was also a Secret Service agent, the FBI’s Rachel Burke investigates the
possibility of homicide -- and her working relationship with the pretender generates unexpected romantic heat. Burke’s Violent
Crimes Task Force, headed by lead Agent Bailey Malone, seems to be o>
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4.11 : "Clean Sweep"
Air date : Feb 5, 2000 (part 2)
JAROD AND RACHEL BURKE SEARCH FOR KILLER IN PART 2
OF “THE PRETENDER”/ “PROFILER” CROSSOVER -- The action continues
in Part 2 when “The Pretender’s” Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) 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 (as Baxter, guest star TBA), who is on a crazed
mission to eliminate everyone he thinks is involved in the
agency’s corruption.
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4.12 : "Random Act"
Air date : Feb 12, 2000
AGENT GRANT AGONIZES OVER GIRLFRIEND’S SHOOTING -- While
shopping in a convenience store with his girlfriend Kate (guest
star Samantha Smith), 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.
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4.13 : "Besieged"
Air date : Feb 19, 2000
RACHEL IS MOCKED AND CHALLENGED BY SEXUAL ATTACKER OF COLLEGE COEDS -- 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 (guest star Mark Dobies) who is now married to her good friend and later meets the therapist (guest star Joe Flanigan) assigned to her brother’s drug rehabilitation. Likewise, George slips in his shaky bid to end his own addiction to painkillers.
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4.14 : "Proteus"
Air date : Feb 26, 2000
TWO FORMER “MELROSE PLACE” STARS, JAMIE LUNER AND MARCIA CROSS, FACE OFF AS RACHEL TRACKS DOWN A FEMALE SERIAL SLAYER -- After a police officer and other authority figures are found stabbed in the backs, Rachel centers her investigation on a young woman, Pamela (guest star Marcia Cross), 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 (guest star Gregory Itzin) 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.
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4.15 : "Paradise Lost"
Air date : March 11, 2000
RACHEL AND FBI TEAM PROBE GRISLY MURDERS IN
NATIONAL PARK -- 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 (guest star Douglas Bennett), 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 (guest star Erin Gray, “Silver Spoons”) begins an investigation of the unit, and she is most impressed by Bailey. Back at home, Rachel’s budding romance with her brother’s (guest star Raphael Sbarge, “Message In A Bottle”) drug counselor (guest star Joe Flanigan, “Providence”) hits a snag.
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Air date : March 18, 2000
"The Long Way Home"
RACHEL RECOILS WHEN CHILD MURDERER REAPPEARS
AND KIDNAPS YOUNG
GIRLS -- A tormented Rachel must push aside her
personal nightmares when she realizes that a disturbed child
slayer (guest star Harry Groener, “Buffy The Vampire 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 (guest star Raphael Sbarge) from a halfway
house and her romantic relationship with therapist Tom (guest
star Joe Flanigan, NBC’s “Providence”) enters a new stage. Also,
George frets about the hot shot computer whiz
(guest star Judith Moreland) who’s temporarily replaced him
while he’s on leave due to his own struggle with narcotics.
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Air date : March 25, 2000
"House Of Cards"
RACHEL MUST MOVE FAST WHEN MYSTERIOUS SNIPER
TAKES AIM ON PARK
VISITORS -- 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 (guest star Saxon
Trainor) is pinned down with her lover.
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Air date : April 22, 2000
"Mea Culpa"
RACHEL STRUGGLES TO FIND MISSING LINK WHEN SERIAL
MURDERER
LEAVES MANY BODIES BUT FEW CLUES -- A mysterious serial
killer
who abandons a cross-section of victims leaves few patterns for
Rachel and the VCTF team to ponder until she
theorizes that the slayer sees his quarry -- including a
recently abducted young boy (guest star Andrew Sandler) -- as
representatives of various people in his life who might have
suffered painful deaths. While working the case, Bailey must testify before a congressional subcommittee in an
effort to save funding for the VCTF and gets no help from his
new lover (guest star Erin Gray). In addition, Rachel’s
attention is diverted by the ransacking of her apartment, which
she suspects is linked to old enemies in federal law
enforcement.
