- 01
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.
- 02
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.
- 03
The VCTF probes three murders in which the victims had been castrated. Meanwhile, Sam is attracted to Jack's prosecutor.
- 04
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.
- 05
In Newark, N.J., a killer cuts the hands off one victim and decapitates another. Both are women but have nothing else in common.
- 06
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.
- 07
Someone's digging up Jewish graves in George's home town, but Sam doesn't think it's a hate crime.
- 08
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.
- 09
A prosecutor wants to tie four murders in an Annapolis, Md., bar to a drug kingpin, but Sam thinks otherwise.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
In Miami, models are losing their heads, courtesy of a killer with a chip on his shoulder (and surgical tools).
- 14
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.
- 15
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.
- 16
An arsonist who is setting fatal fires in Sam's Atlanta neighborhood has a modus operandi involving dead birds.
- 17
Sam and Bailey (who's shopping for a present for his ex-wife) are held hostage in a jewelry store after a botched holdup.
- 18
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.
- 19
Sam calls in Jarod of "The Pretender" to pursue the mastermind behind a series of kidnappings.
- 20
Sam is at the trial of her husband's killer and on the trail of a murderer in Mexico.
- 21
What's Love Got to Do with It?
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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