Profiler (season 2)
| Profiler Season 2 | |
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| No. of episodes | 20 |
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| Original release | November 1, 1997 – May 9, 1998 |
| Season chronology | |
The second season of Profiler premiered on NBC in the United States on November 1, 1997, and aired the finale on May 9, 1998. The second season ran for 20 episodes.
As of the second season Michael Whaley was no longer part of the cast as Det. Nathan Brubaker.
Cast
Main
- Ally Walker as Dr. Samantha "Sam" Waters
- Robert Davi as Bailey Malone
- Julian McMahon as John Grant
- Peter Frechette as George Fraley
- Roma Maffia as Grace Alvarez
- Erica Gimpel as Angel Brown
- Caitlin Wachs as Chloe Waters
- Shiek Mahmud-Bey as Det. Marcus Payton
- Heather McComb as Frances Malone
- Traci Lords as Sharon Lesher
- Dennis Christopher as Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay (credited as 'Jack')
Episodes
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 23 | 1 | "Ambition in the Blood" | Dan Lerner | George Geiger | November 1, 1997 | |
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As Bailey clings to life in an Atlanta hospital following the shooting, Sam and the team are forced to take on a high profile case involving an international serial killer. The murderer, named Ashok Dupree, has escaped from a prison in Calcutta, India and comes to the U.S. for the purpose of killing a celebrity, so that he too can become world renown. While working to bring the killer to justice, Sam must convince herself and the overzealous Atlanta Police Department Captain Lou Handleman, that she is innocent of the murder that Jack actually committed. Also, John decides to return to the VCTF, and Bailey's daughter, Frances, now on the run as a fugitive, contacts John to check on her father's condition. | ||||||
| 24 | 2 | "Primal Scream" | Ian Sander | Steve Feke | November 8, 1997 | |
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The VCTF is called in to investigate the seemingly random murders of four people beaten to death during a rainstorm. Sam and the team consults with a psychologist who informs them of a syndrome where people become extremely violent in response to certain types of weather. The clues lead to a construction worker afflicted with the seasonal disorder. Meanwhile, Sharon Lesher (Traci Lords), a young felon is released from prison and is met by her pen pal, Jack, whom he takes back to his lair and it becomes clear this is the beginning of an "unholy alliance." Also, Bailey laments the fact that the police plan to charge Frances with attempted murder once they determine her whereabouts. | ||||||
| 25 | 3 | "It Cuts Both Ways" | Jack Bender | George Geiger | November 15, 1997 | |
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The VCTF is summoned to New Orleans when the murder of a research librarian has the markings of a Jack kill. Sam is perplexed by what appears to be inconsistencies with Jack's prior modus operandi. It turns out that Jack-of-All-Trades is wreaking havoc with his new lethal partner-in-crime, Sharon Lesher, who becomes Jill-of-All-Trades. Meanwhile, Bailey meets his new boss, Art Behar, who threatens to shut down the VCTF since he still holds a grudge against Bailey for dating his ex-wife. Also, George is confronted by his past misdeeds when a corrupt attorney asks him to use his computer hacking skills to embezzle funds from a local bank. | ||||||
| 26 | 4 | "Second Best" | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Charles D. Holland | November 22, 1997 | |
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When a hospital is the target of a bombing attack, the VCTF is called in to investigate. They are dealing with a highly skilled explosives expert who obviously has an agenda in mind. Bailey summons Cooper to Atlanta to assist with the case. His return is awkward for he and Sam as they have previously ended their romantic relationship. With Frances finally in custody, Bailey must deal with her legal problems as the prosecutor sees her case as a stepping stone for political office and is determined to see her do jail time for shooting her father and fleeing prosecution. Meanwhile, George also faces difficulties as he continues to be pressured by an old acquaintance to embezzle funds from a local bank. This "pressure" becomes threats of violence when the guy's muscle, the mysterious Marcus Peyton (Shiek Mahmud-Bey), who turns out to be an undercover policeman. Coop manages to capture the bomber, only to be abducted by Jack and killed by his lethal companion, Jill, who are impersonating ambulance workers. | ||||||
| 27 | 5 | "Power Corrupts" | Tucker Gates | Jeremy R. Littman | December 6, 1997 | |
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The VCTF team is on the trail of a serial killer in Chicago who seems to be taking aim at people he deems corrupt. Jim Henegar, the Chicago detective investigating the murders, is reluctant to relinquish control of the case, and he becomes a hindrance to Sam and the team. The evidence leads to a judge, MacGruder, whose son was corrupted in one way or another by the three victims. At the same time, Bailey, who is still healing from the shotgun wound inflicted by his daughter, receives an unexpected phone call from Francis who is still on the run and whom he tries to persuade her to return home, but to no avail. Also, the still unseen Jack angrily rips down his wanted sketch posters from post offices and sends the VCTF a package that includes his own artistic self portrait made from the hair and teeth of his past victims. (Note: This episode was the second one produced and filmed of the season, but was broadcast out of sequence. Thus, the episode appears to contain various discrepancies, including Frances still being a fugitive and Jack not having yet met Sharon.) | ||||||
| 28 | 6 | "Old Acquaintance" | Jack Bender | Dee Johnson | December 13, 1997 | |
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At Christmas time, still recuperating from Coop's death at the hands of the serial killing couple Jack-and-Jill-of-All-Trades, Sam decides to attend a college reunion. There, Sam and Angel reunite with friends Colleen, Drew, Greg, Monica, Tracy, and Roy. An enjoyable holiday gathering quickly becomes a nightmare when Colleen is murdered and all the evidence points to Colleen's husband Drew, whom Sam never liked. Soon another friend, Roy, is murdered, and then Drew himself. Back in Atlanta, Sharon (a.k.a. Jill-of-All-Trades) strikes out on her own and murders a lingerie shop clerk. The team investigates and starts to make headway. When Sharon learns of Jack's obsession with Sam, she sets out to kill her. | ||||||
| 29 | 7 | "Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick" | Jefery Levy | George Geiger & Charles D. Holland | January 3, 1998 | |
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Still investigating the reunion killer, Sam determines that one of her friends, Greg or Monica, is the likely killer. With the VCTF hot on his trail, a wounded Jack escapes to his lair to recuperate from being shot. In attempting to pursue Jack, as well as the killer of her friends, Sam begins to wonder if it's all becoming a bit too overwhelming. Meanwhile, Frances attempts to give herself an 18th birthday 'present' by seducing John. The plan fails and John calls Sam to help him take the ever rebellious teen home to her father. Bailey asks Marcus Peyton to join the VCTF team and he accepts, to John's dismay. The team finally corners Jack at a convalescent home where he has gone to get painkilling drugs for his gunshot wound. But Jack hides in a body bag of one of the deceased residents and makes another clever escape. | ||||||
| 30 | 8 | "Victims of Victims" | John Patterson | Elaine Loeser | January 10, 1998 | |
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When a North Carolina murder occurs that bears all the markings of an unsolved serial case from 1957, Sam and the VCTF team investigate and discover a fingerprint not previously detected. This enables the team to I.D. the killer, who turns out to have committed suicide prior to the most recent murder. Sam talks to a writer who researched the original case and learns of a young boy who claimed to have witnessed one of the crimes. Meanwhile, Jack (whose real name is finally revealed as Albert Newquay) recuperates from his gunshot wound at the home of his wealthy, but equally deranged mother, Miriam in Maryland. With Jack gone, Sharon redecorates his lair by eliminating all traces of Sam. Also, Sam's in-laws come to town to see Chloe perform in a school play and are angered when Sam is unable to attend. Her absence results from Grace going into labor while the team investigates a crime scene. Sam helps Grace deliver her baby boy and the team later celebrates the newest 'member' of the VCTF. | ||||||
| 31 | 9 | "Birthright" | Bobby Roth | Natalie Chaidez | January 17, 1998 | |
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A killer's belief he was switched at birth leads him to kill those he feels stole his identity. Two men, born at the same time and in the same hospital as the killer, are brutally murdered. Sam and the team is called in once the link between the two victims is established. Evidence leads the team to an insane woman who believes her baby was switched at birth. The woman swears the badly deformed baby she was given in the hospital, was actually the child of someone else. She was never able to prove that charge, and unfortunately for the baby given to her, she was a cruel and abusive parent. Meanwhile, Jack reverts back to his old murderous form when he kills his mother's butler when he learns the man has been following him at his mother's behest. Also, Sam is concerned about Chloe when she feigns being sick in order to miss school. The problem is revealed to be that Chloe has to write an essay on her parent's occupation and she's afraid to talk about her mom's secret job. | ||||||
| 32 | 10 | "Dying to Live" | Jefery Levy | Bob Lowry | January 31, 1998 | |
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Two men are killed, and in both instances, their organs are delivered to hospitals minutes before they are needed for transplant surgery. Sam and the team profile the murders and determine their suspect is someone who was probably an organ recipient in the past. Now, he is returning the favor by providing organs for people with his same rare blood type. Meanwhile, Art Behar, Bailey's boss, sets him up to take a fall in a witness tampering scandal. But John, Marcus and George find evidence that clears Bailey and nails Behar once and for all. Elsewhere, Jack becomes displeased when he learns Sharon has struck up a friendship with the friendly proprietor of a local news stand. Jack kills the man, and angrily asserts Sharon that "he" is her one and only friend. Also, Chloe is followed by a man who is revealed to be a private investigator hired by Sam's in-laws. | ||||||
| 33 | 11 | "Ties that Bind" | Ian Sander | Kim Moses & Ian Sander | February 7, 1998 | |
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Ritualized murders are occurring in Atlanta and in neighboring states. The victims are stabbed and their homes are vandalized with gang-like graffiti. The VCTF is called in and focuses on the son of two of the victims. Further investigation reveals that the son is under the influence of a "Heaven's Gate"-like cult. Sam goes undercover to infiltrate the cult. Meanwhile, Frances continues to cause discord between John and Bailey by claiming that John seduced her. Sam's former mother-in-law continues to object to her raising Chloe and resorts to legal matters to gain permanent guardianship of her. Also, Jack sends Jill out to kill Sam's former mother and father-in-law. But she backs out at the last second and flees Jack's custody which proves damaging when Sam and the VCTF finally learns Jill's true identity. | ||||||
| 34 | 12 | "Shoot to Kill" | Jefery Levy | George Geiger | March 7, 1998 | |
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Ohio's cities are being terrorized by a seemingly random sniper. On the scene, Sam, Bailey and the rest of the team are perplexed by the sniper's ability to shoot from increasingly long distances. This ability reminds Bailey of an elite task force he encountered while serving in Vietnam. Bailey obtains from Casper, his secret intelligence source, the names of the task force members. Sam uses clues left at the crime scenes to put together a profile that suggests the sniper is trying to create his own mythology, much like the Archer in Greek literature. Meanwhile, John and Bailey look into Lou Handleman who has tried to discredit John by using Frances. But when they attempt to arrest him, Handleman resists and accidentally shoots himself. Also, Jack travels to Aurora, Illinois to find the runaway Sharon in her home town to bring her back... or kill her. | ||||||
| 35 | 13 | "Bloodlust" | James Whitmore Jr. | Sybil Gardner | March 14, 1998 | |
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The dead bodies of badly beaten men are being found in the Boston metropolitan area. Sam and the team quickly surmise these men were involved in some sort of deadly, ultimate, bare-knuckle fighting match. Searching local hospitals, they find a participant in one of the fights. Sam is able to put together from talking to him and researching the backgrounds of the victims, that all were desperate men in need of money. All the men have a bookie in common and the team eventually gets this man to confess his role in the murders. To catch the fight's mastermind in the act, John goes undercover as one of the fighters. | ||||||
| 36 | 14 | "Every Five Minutes" | Kim Moses | Steve Feke | March 21, 1998 | |
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Sam, Bailey, Grace and the VCTF are called in to investigate a serial rapist terrorizing the Florida panhandle. The victims are able to provide the team with a number of clues which Sam uses to form her profile of the assailant. In the midst of the investigation, Sam butts heads with a local female sheriff, Anita Pessoa, who continuously criticizes the VCTF's handling of the case. Sam confronts Pessoa and eventually learns the woman was once a rape victim herself. Back in Atlanta, John and Marcus get a hot tip on the fugitive Sharon Lesher. Desperate for cash, she has made it known on the street that she is looking for Jimmy Coniglio, one of her old partners in crime who betrayed her in which she was sent to prison four years ago for an armed robbery that Jimmy actually committed. John and Marcus plan to use Jimmy to capture Sharon in a sting operation. | ||||||
| 37 | 15 | "Breaking Point" | Ian Toynton | Dee Johnson & Sybil Gardner | March 28, 1998 | |
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Bill Porter, a desperate father, kidnaps Sam's roommate, Angel, in a last-ditch effort to save his son from the electric chair. Porter's son, Scott, has recently been convicted of murder committed during a robbery. The father believes his son to be an innocent bystander and wants Sam and the VCTF to prove it by interrogating the two suspects who were suspected in the robbery. Also, Jack plots to break Sharon out of prison first by tapping into the prison's blueprints to know the building. | ||||||
| 38 | 16 | "Lethal Obsession" | Kees van Oostrum | Charles D. Holland | April 4, 1998 | |
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Sam and the VCTF investigate the "prime time kidnapper", a madman who has a pathological need for media attention and projects his mania onto an attractive but terrified local TV anchorwoman, Nikki Ware, whom he wants to exclusively cover the prisoner exchanges. Meanwhile, Sam worries about what's really behind her daughter Chloe's reluctance to perform in the children's ballet. Also, the murderous Jack-of-All-Trades makes plans for the release of his imprisoned Jill/Sharon, by killing a prison guard and planning to impersonate him. | ||||||
| 39 | 17 | "Cycle of Violence" | Jack Bender | Deidre Strohm & Stacy Codikow | April 11, 1998 | |
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A series of vigilante ax murders of abusive husbands leads the Sam, Bailey and the rest of the VCTF team to an eccentric and reclusive cartoonist, named Evie Long, whose work has apparently influenced the killer. Meanwhile, Sam finally confronts the imprisoned Sharon Lesher (Jill of All Trades) and tries to solicit her help in finding and identifying Jack. But Sharon is very hostile and refuses to cooperate, knowing Jack will eventually try to break her out of the prison, while Sam tries to convince Sharon that Jack intents to kill her to prevent her from talking. Also, Sam becomes nervous when she plans to receive an award from the American Association of Women in Law Enforcement. | ||||||
| 40 | 18 | "Die Beautiful" | Ian Toynton | Bob Lowry | May 2, 1998 | |
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Sam and the VCTF are invited to an ongoing investigation on the murder of a teen beauty who was killed a year ago, and no arrests have been made. Bailey and the team first think the parents of the first victim did it. But they find a killer on death row with matching breaking and entering technique, but Sam thinks the convict didn't kill his victims. Meanwhile, Bailey's budding romance with Ellen Behar makes his ever resentful daughter, Frances, more than a little jealous. Sam tries to give more confidence in Chloe who resents her school friends being better looking than she. Also, the still unseen Jack of All Trades escalates his harassment of Sam by mailing her a ghoulish board game detailing his next move. | ||||||
| 41 42 | 19 20 | "The Root of All Evil: Parts 1 & 2" | Ian Sander | Steve Feke & George Geiger | May 9, 1998 | |
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In the two-part season finale, the team tries to catch a diabolical killer determined to take revenge on people who are so blinded by their love of money that they can't see the repercussions their actions have on the other side of the world, starting with the setting off of incendiary car bombs outside a wealthy business office. The game between Jack and VCTF begins with Sharon as bait to lure Jack to the prison so they can catch him. But Jack has other plans. Meanwhile, Sam pays a visit to her long estranged father for the first time in 10 years. As she struggles to both deal with her father and the elusive avenging killer still committing bombings across the country, she soon makes the final connection to the killer in order to catch him. Also, Bailey goes to extremes for Frances's future when she's accepted into a prestigious college in Boston, but is forbidden to leave Atlanta as a condition of her parole. | ||||||