Doctor Sam Waters comes out of retirement to help her old friend and mentor Bailey Malone to solve the murders of
six wealthy women in Atlanta, Georgia. Unfortunately for Sam her old nemesis Jack of All Trades has also resurfaced and begins stalking her.
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1.02 : "Ring of Fire"
Air date : September 28, 1996
Sam uses her profiling techniques to help the VCTF team track down a serial arsonist who is destroying homes in the
South. Meanwhile, Jack visits Sam's home and threatens her daughter Chloe and her best friend Angel.
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1.03 : "Unholy Alliance"
Air date : October 5, 1996
Sam investigates a series of murders which bear striking similarities to the methods of a killer whom Bailey put in prison ten years earlier. Sam suspects that the real culprit is still free, and through her gifted insight, she finds clues in the ancient I Ching art of divination that lead her to a high-ranking military officer who may be protecting the slayer.
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1.04 : "I'll Be Watching You"
Air date : October 26, 1996
Dr. Sam Waters and the Violent Crimes Task Force (VCTF) must find a twisted assassin before he kills a celebrated political candidate, but Sam is distracted by new evidence that could locate her murderous stalker known as Jack of all Trades. Relying on audio clues form a recording the hopeful FBI agents zero in on a Baltimore church which they believe to be Jack's lair.
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1.05 : "Unsoiled Sovereighty"
Air date : November 2, 1996
A power plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is threatened by a mad bomber with an obsessive/compulsive fear of germs and anything that is unclean.
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1.06 : "Modus Operandi"
Air date : November 9, 1996
Jack is murdering anyone connected with Sam's past or present and Nick Cooper is next on his list.
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1.07 : "Night Dreams"
Air date : November 16, 1996
Women are being kidnapped for no apparent reason and when someone close to Sam is hurt she vows to find the person responsible no matter what the cost.
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1.08 : "Cruel and Unusual"
Air date : November 23, 1996
Sam and the team investigate a series of bizarre slayings whose victims were connected to the trial of a charming murderer
sentenced to death within days. One of her prime suspects is a love struck protester who leads a candlelight watch outside the
prison while appeals are filed to halt the execution. Elsewhere, serial killer Jack of all Trades assembles a roulette wheel with
pictures of the entire Violent Crimes Task Force unit - and one spin will determine his next victims.
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1.09 : "Sorcere's Apprentice"
Air date : December 21, 1996
When native American chiefs are ritually murdered on the reservation, Sam and the team tiptoe around local suspicions and
superstitions as the local blame a 1000 year old spirit - the Nacazanti - and a perplexed Sam consults a tribal wise man to
narrow the list of suspects. Back in the city, serial killer Jack of all Trades has an extra trump card after stealing Bailey's
all-access FBI identification card.
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1.10 : "Shattered Silence"
Air date : January 11, 1997
The separate kidnappings of two high profiler doctors and the evidence left behind, leads Sam to believe that the prime suspect is a patient with and incurable medical condition who is driven to take desperate measures. Meanwhile, Bailey is riddled with guilt when he develops a mutual attraction with the wife of one of the missing men. in addition, serial killer Jack of all Trades continues his quest to isolate Sam by terrorizing Nathan Brubaker.
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1.11 : "Doppelganger"
Air date : January 18, 1997
Sam confronts inmate Arthur de Rhodes (guest star Edward Albert), a former adversary and serial slayer whom
she helped put in a prison for the criminally insane years before, over a recent murder that bears striking similarities to his modus operandi. However, when another ritualistic murder occurs, Sam wonders whether the culprit cloud possibly be the clever de Rhodes - or a copycat killer. All bets are off when de Rhodes eventually escapes, and no-one is safe especially Sam.
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1.12 : "Learning From The Masters"
Air date: February 1, 1997
When a series of murder victims are found arranged in elaborately staged tableaux, Sam deduces that the cold-blooded killer is
replicating famous artworks with their lifeless forms. Her investigation plunges her into the avant-garde art world until she
accidentally strays into the killer's lair, where he takes her hostage - and prepares to use her for his latest three-dimensional "masterpiece". Meanwhile, Bailey gets chills when he discovers that serial killer Jack of all Trades has compromised the team's vital computer system.
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1.13 : "The House That Jack Built"
Air date: February 8, 1997
When cornered, the team strikes back at murderous Jack. When Jack makes serious attempts on the lives of the VCTF team
members and their families, Bailey orders everyone into the task force's bunker-like command center as they scramble to
devise a trap to ensnare Jack. Since their technology brilliant quarry delights in eavesdropping and seeing then almost
everywhere, the frustrated team uses Sam and Agent Grant as bait to flush Jack out into the open.
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1.14/1.15 : "Shadow of Angels"("Nolesse Oblige" and "Gestault")
Air date : February 15, 1997
Billionaire Charles Vanderhorn and his aristocratic family are implicated in a series of murders where the victims are either crushed or strangled with silver coins.
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1.16 : "Film At Eleven"
Air date : March 8, 1997
Sam and the task force probe a series of ghostly murders which are carefully videotaped and sent to TV newsroom by the
vigilante slayer (Ron Kuhlman), who announces that the crimes are righteous retributions against guilty people who slip through
the judicial system. When a young woman (Sherri Howard) is kidnapped and thought to still be alive the accelerated
investigation narrows to former law students with strong opinions about crime and punishment.
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1.17 : "Crisis"
Air date : March 15, 1997
Sam is taken hostage by a zealous anti-nuclear scientist and a cadre of steely commandos after they capture a banquet room
full of Washington DC brass and vow to kill them unless the President agrees to meet their demands to ban the bomb. When
Bailey and the task force attack, the terrorists escape and cornered in an airplane hanger, where a desperate Sam tries to
"profile" the anguished scientist - hoping to find a common bond that might save both their lives.
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1.18 : "Blue Highway"
Air date : April 5, 1997
In the Midwest, a man in a big-rig causes head on collisions involving classic cars, and then "collects their occupants. In Atlanta, meanwhile, Bailey's daughter starts in a new school and George walks into a video
store at the wrong time.
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1.19 : "FTX: Field Training Exercise"
Air date : April 12, 1997
Bailey Malone becomes the prime suspect when the Bureau suspects that a mole is passing on classified information to
an outside source.
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1.20 : "Into The Abyss"
Air date : April 19 or 26, 1997
A distracted Sam probes a series of murders in which the victims' faces are covered with lace and their mouths manipulated into bloody smiles. The trail leads to a reclusive psychic (Leland Crooke). Meanwhile, Bailey's losing patience with his daughter's behavior.
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1.21/1.22 : "Venom" (SEASON FINALE)
Air date : May 3, 1997
An inventive poisoner who's using toxic creatures to dispatch rich people (then taunting the VCTF with clues)
is so clever that even Jack is beginning to take notice. Meanwhile, Bailey's difficulties with Frances are becoming more serious, and Coop (A Martinez) joins the unit as John's replacement.
