Profiler (season 3)
| Profiler Season 3 | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original run | October 17, 1998 – June 5, 1999 |
The third season of Profiler premiered on NBC in the United States on October 17, 1998, and aired the finale on June 6, 1999. The third season ran for 21 episodes.
As of episode 1 Coronation, Caitlin Wachs no longer appeared as Chloe Waters and was replaced with Evan Rachel Wood. Also, Erica Gimpel is no longer featured in the opening credits. Heather McComb, Traci Lords and Shiek Mahmud-Bey are gone from the series due to Frances Malone's departure for college as well as Sharon Lesher's death, both featured in the final episode of Season 2, while no explanation is ever given for Marcus Payton's departure.
Main cast
- Ally Walker as Dr. Samantha "Sam" Waters
- Robert Davi as Bailey Malone
- Julian McMahon as John Grant
- Roma Maffia as Grace Alvarez
- Peter Frechette as George Fraley
Recurring cast
- Erica Gimpel as Angel Brown
- Evan Rachel Wood as Chloe Waters
- Mark Rolston as Donald Lucas
- John Mese as Paul Sterling
- Lawrence Pressman as Walter Anderson
- Dennis Christopher as Sheriff Ed Post/Jack of All Trades
Episodes
| # | # | Episode | Directed by | Written by | U.S. Viewers (in millions) |
Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 1 | "Coronation" | Ian Toynton | Stephen Kronish | October 17, 1998 | |
| The day after Jack's clever escape from the prison, Sam must look into herself in order to find him. Everything seems to point to her childhood which reveals that Jack has apparently stalked her all his life. Then, Jack abducts an infant and tries to lure Sam into finding him. | ||||||
| 43 | 2 | "Cravings" | Jefery Levy | Clifton Campbell | October 24, 1998 | |
| The team investigates a serial rapist-turned-murderer in Illinois, whose sporadic timing of the attacks puzzles Sam as well as the connection between his victims who are left in the woods. Sam figures out that the killer is an angry and frustrated married man taking out his rage and frustration on about-to-be-wed women. Meanwhile, with Donald Lucas, the Jack-of-All-Trades killer finally captured and imprisoned, Sam searches for a new house for her and Chloe. | ||||||
| 44 | 3 | "Do the Right Thing" | Ian Toynton | Linda McGibney | October 31, 1998 | |
| Sam and the team try to track down a new serial killer who castrates his victims and seems to be driven by feelings of public duty and legal responsibility. Meanwhile, John gets into trouble through no fault of his own for something that appears in the news about the case. Also, Sam finds herself attracted to Paul Sterling, the district attorney assigned to prosecute Donald Lucas. | ||||||
| 45 | 4 | "Double Vision" | Lee Bonner | Doris Egan | November 7, 1998 | |
| Twelve women of a small Alabama town have mysteriously disappeared. When one of the missing is found dead, the VCTF begins an investigation which leads to the discovery of the remaining 11 women buried in a shallow mass grave. Once on scene, Sam is confounded when evidence points to a domineering, controlling pathology, other evidence points to a more passive one. When Bailey pressures her to narrow her profile, Sam's anxiety builds and she begins to question her own abilities. But it turns out that there are two killers, working as a team, each with different profiles. Meanwhile, Samantha tries to get a date with Paul Sterling, with less than successful results. | ||||||
| 46 | 5 | "The Sum of Her Parts" | Cliff Bole | Jason Cahill | November 14, 1998 | |
| Years of verbal and physical abuse take a deadly toll when its victim lashes out against his abuser. Unable to kill the actual perpetrator, his mother, the deranged man strikes those who remind him of the wretched woman. The team investigates and Sam accurately assesses the killer's pathology, but mistakenly assumes the man is actin out against his wife, not his mother. When the ages of the victims begins to rise, Sam realizes her error and theorizes that the killer is slowly working up the courage to murder his tormentor. The team then races to find the ill-fated woman before her son can exact his final revenge. B-Story- Sam realizes she and Chloe must begin a new life, and to that end, decides to move into a new home. | ||||||
| 47 | 6 | "The Monster Within" | Kristoffer Tabori | Jeff Pinkner | November 21, 1998 | |
| The VCTF is called in to assist in a stalled investigation which revolves around a series of killings in Allentown, Pennsylvania in which the victims faces have been burned off. Sam is leery to intercede for her former boyfriend, Michael Westmore, who's leading the investigation. Sam and Bailey disagree about Michael's handling of the case. Whereas Sam feels her friend should be given some slack, Bailey feels the man's performance sub-par and should not be excused. Forensic evidence shows that the victims' eyes were the specific target to the killer. Sam uses her intuition and the evidence gathered to theorize the killer did not want to be seen by his victims. | ||||||
| 48 | 7 | "Perfect Helen" | Melinda M. Snodgrass | December 5, 1998 | ||
| Sam and George travel to his Minnesota hometown to investigate when someone is stealing the corpses of young, recently deceased Jewish woman. George and Sam learn that a Neo-Nazi group is active in the town. Though evidence points to the hate group, Sam feels the crimes are motivated by something other than anti-Semitism. This theory take shape when one of the two of the stolen bodies is found undamaged, with minor cosmetic changes made. Sam puts together a profile that characterizes the perpetrator as someone looking to create or re-create his vision of the perfect woman. Eventually, evidence points to a man who is insanely infatuated with a woman who works in his office. When the man kidnaps the object of his affection, Helen Jefferies, Sam fears he will attempt to 'immortalize' his vision of perfect beauty for all eternity. | ||||||
| 49 | 8 | "Home for the Homicide" | Jefery Levy | Jennifer Furlong & Sanford Golden | December 12, 1998 | |
| The youngest member of an orphaned clan kills to keep his dysfunctional family together. The first murder occurs when the young man kills the boyfriend his sister is considering marrying. Her marriage would result in her leaving the family and that would be unacceptable. Sam profiles that the killer is someone who has felt loss and who is desperately trying to hold on to something he values. The VCTF eventually discover this decidedly unconventional family and at first, mistakenly believe the physically abusive eldest brother is the killer. Sam soon realizes, however, that there is another, more emotionally immature force at work. Meanwhile, Bailey realizes his ex-wife, Janet, is seriously involved and considering remarriage. Also, Chloe is upset when Sam invites her new boyfriend, Paul, over for Christmas. | ||||||
| 50 | 9 | "All in the Family" | Chuck Bowman | Jason Cahill | January 2, 1999 | |
| Fueled by the abuse they suffered as children, a brother and sister decide to save another child from the same unfortunate fate. To do this, the warped siblings kill the boy's parents as well as two others to make it look like a mafia hit. The VCTF investigates the mass murder and Sam immediately bonds with the abused boy, Mark. The parent has mob ties, so it is immediately assumed that their murder resulted from their illegal activities. Though skeptical of this scenario, Sam does not dispute it for that would result in Mark being held by the system until the murder is solved. Meanwhile, Sam's estranged father returns and the two try to heal their strained relationship. | ||||||
| 51 | 10 | "Ceremony of Innocence" | Vern Gillum | Doris Egan | January 9, 1999 | |
| One of Sam's first profiles resulted in a man being sentenced to death. Ten years later when the man is about to be executed, murders begin happening that match the m.o. of the prior killings. Ballistics evidence proves the same gun was used for all the crimes. Sam, feeling culpable for what might have been a deadly mistake, reopens the investigation. Evidence leads to a lowly bicycle courier who is mortally wounded when he resists arrest. Once the dying man is in custody, the death row inmate is released from prison. Though a wrong seem to have been righted, Sam still feels something is amiss. | ||||||
| 52 | 11 | "Where or When" | Arthur W. Forney | Linda McGibney | January 16, 1999 | |
| A serial killer who kills with his bare hands leaves the bodies of his male victims at the Brown Derby, the Trocadero, and other Hollywood landmarks. Sam profiles the killer as someone trying to rectify some trauma he experienced in his past. The team follows a trail of clues that eventually leads them to a rather ordinary cab driver who does not seem to have the strength necessary to commit the crimes. A search of the man's apartment yields evidence however, that matches Sam's profile to the letter. Sam soon realizes the man suffers from multiple personality disorder. Meanwhile, the imprisoned Donald Lucas continues to taunt Sam while George meets with Bailey where they discover that Sam's father, a scientist, participated in experiments that had deadly consequences. | ||||||
| 53 | 12 | "Inheritance" | Jason Cahill, Doris Egan & Jeff Pinkner | February 6, 1999 | ||
| People who seem to have nothing in common are being killed in the Southeast USA. Grace's autopsy yields that all the victims has the same rare blood type. The team uncovers evidence that confirms all the victims were the children of Chris James Allmon, a Charles Manson-like cult leader currently incarcerated in a Georgia psychiatric facility. Sam interviews the adoptive parent of one of the remaining children and quickly surmises their son, Toby Watson, is the killer. She theorizes that he is killing his siblings to 'cleanse' himself of his deadly lineage. Meanwhile, Sam confronts her father, Walter Anderson, about his unethical experiments during the 1960s involving viral experiments that led to the mental breakdown of 34 people. | ||||||
| 54 | 13 | "Heads, You Lose" | February 13, 1999 | |||
| Someone is killing the young and beautiful in Florida's trendy South Beach by decapitating the victims and leaving their heads on public display. Sam profiles that the killer is striking against beautiful people as a result of his low self-esteem. Evidence eventually points to a young shipping magnate, named Thomas King, who has squandered his multi-million dollar inheritance on South Beach's cosmopolitan lifestyle. Instead of blaming himself, he is now striking out at those who helped him spend his fortune. Meanwhile, Grace attempts to reconcile the strained relationship she has with her Cuban-American mother. Also, the detective on the case, Mario Monagno, falls for Sam and tries everything he can to land a date with her. | ||||||
| 55 | 14 | "Otis, California" | Richard Compton | Joseph Appelbaum & Andre Nemec | February 20, 1999 | |
| When Donald Lucas, the imprisoned Jack-of-All Trades killer, manages to hack onto the Internet, Bailey fears that he is communicating with a disciple. The investigation leads the VCTF to a small and very strange northern California town, named Otis, which is plagued by a series of Jack-of-All-Trade murders. With the assistance of the crackpot Sheriff Ed Post, Sam, Bailey and the team try to find the suspect. But George gets abducted by the suspect, who is connected to a reclusive, wheelchair-bound professor, named Philip Mendez, who is found murdered. The search leads to an underground lab where Sam discovers her father once worked there for his government-sponsored mind-control experiments that Lucas was one of the test subjects involved in. | ||||||
| 56 | 15 | "Spree of Love" | Jefery Levy | Clifton Campbell | February 27, 1999 | |
| A series of murders across the Southwest leads Sam and the VCTF team to an unlikely couple: a 32-year-old woman, Josie Wells, and a 16-year-old boy, Alex Lopez, who apparently abducted her from her child's soccer field in Boulder, Colorado. Sam figures out that the woman was apparently the victim of physical abuse as a child and has abandoned her unhappy and lonely married life and reliving her glory days with the boy she met on a help phone line. Meanwhile, Bailey tries to reason with his ex-wife, Janet, not to remarry for he feels she's throwing her own life away. | ||||||
| 57 | 16 | "Burnt Offerings" | Kristoffer Tabori | Melinda M. Snodgrass | March 20, 1999 | |
| Sam and the team try to catch a mystic arsonist on the loose in Atlanta. Sam profiles that he apparently risks his own life by setting the fires himself on the spot. After a red herring lead involving a photographer always on the scene of the fires, Sam and the team find graffiti messages on walls of the burned out buildings in Persian meaning 'fire god.' The man is apparently seeking a 'chosen one' immune to fire in order take him to the afterlife to meet his deceased wife. Meanwhile, Sam is worried about Chloe when she becomes emotionally withdrawn when one of her classmates becomes a victim in one of the fires. | ||||||
| 58 | 17 | "Three Carat Crisis" | April 3, 1999 | |||
| Sam and Bailey get caught up in a jewel heist by a trio of mentally unbalanced crooks, named Randy, Kate and Stevie, that quickly turns into a hostage situation within the jewelry store. Sam and Bailey struggle to profile the perpetrators and their relationships with one another before any lives are lost. Sam tries to reason with the ringleader, Randy, to give up. Meanwhile on the outside the building, John quarrels with the pompous and overzealous police commander who wants to catch or kill all the perpetrators, even if it means that all of the hostages will be killed. | ||||||
| 59 | 18 | "Seduction" | Ian Toynton | Steve Feke | April 10, 1999 | |
| George and Sam go undercover as IRS agents at Borden & Associates, a management office in Palm Beach, Florida, because five of the clientele have been murdered with one finger from their left hand missing. As Sam profiles the most likely suspect, Bobby O'Hara, who shows a strong interest in her, the firms shadowy security chief, Leo Cantrell, becomes suspicious of Sam's true identity. Meanwhile, Kevin Miller, an arrogant FBI agent working the case, complicates the investigation much to Bailey's worry for Sam's safety and Miller's indifference to otherwise, while John works with the local police detective, Lt. Cynthia Ford, in discovering the bodies. | ||||||
| 60 | 19 | "Grand Master" | Vern Gillum | Jason Cahill | May 8, 1999 | |
| In this cross-over from the 'Pretender' series episode, 'End Game', Sam continues to study the case of Bryce Banks, a 13-year-old chess prodigy, whose life might still be in danger and deals with 'Pretender' Jarod (impersonating a police detective named Doyle) who is looking after Bryce. Her fears are proven right when Bryce disappears. Sam and Jarod suspect the enigmatic Father (aka: Ronald Dain) is using the boy in his revenge plans by killing all the members of a top-secret project 20 years before involving brainwashing. | ||||||
| 61 | 20 | "Las Brisas" | Lee Bonner | Clifton Campbell & Stephen Kronish | May 15, 1999 | |
| In the two-part season finale, the Donald Lucas trial begins as the team heads out to Mexico where in the small town of Las Brisas, women have been vanishing without a trace for the past year, and some corpses have been discovered. But their investigation is hampered on both sides of the border by the corrupt police chief, Miguel Villalobos, who is under the thumb of a U.S sheriff, J.D. Tollman, who try to derail the VCTF's investigation when the murders lead to a powerful U.S. businessman, named James Lofton, running a textile factory in Las Brisas and has been in the company of local prostitutes, some of whom ended up as victims. While assisting Marta Fernandez, a loyal policewoman with the investigation, Sam and the group commute back and forth to Atlanta for Lucas' trial with testimony from her, Bailey, George, against Lucas. Also testifying on Sam's behalf is Sheriff Ed Post from Otis, California who, unknown to everyone, is actually the real Jack-of-All-Trades who has been in hiding all this time and is using Lucas, his disciple, to get close to Sam. | ||||||
| 62 | 21 | "What's Love Got To Do With It" | Richard Compton | Barry M. Schkolnick | June 5, 1999 | |
| Sam and Bailey work with FBI field agent Susan Marsh who is tracking Robert Lee Gregg, a conservative civic leader in Atlanta who is suspected in the killing of six gay men. But their investigation is happened by Susan's former boyfriend, Richard Russell, who is stalking her. Susan insists she's in control of the situation, but Bailey thinks otherwise when her boyfriend is found murdered and Russell is a suspect. Things get worse when Russell targets Bailey and his ex-wife Janet who are now back together. Meanwhile, Sam leaves the investigation and travels to Miami to investigate the disappearance of a local man who may be connected to the Gregg killings, and she finds herself being perused by Detective Mario Monagno who still wants to date her. | ||||||
External links
- Profiler at the Internet Movie Database
- Profiler at TV.com