Killer Instinct

Episode 1

Pilot

Fri, Sep 23, 2005 55 mins

After taking a leave of absence following the death of his partner, Detective Jack Hale returns to duty to investigate the deaths of young women, paralyzed by spider bites before being killed in their beds.

Episode 2

Five Easy Pieces

Fri, Sep 30, 2005 55 mins

After discovering his partner was not an actual detective but a Justice agent sent to examine if he's psychologically up to his task, SFPD Detective Jack Hale is understandably suspicious about her again female successor. Danielle Carter asked for a transfer from forensics, but Jack soon finds her useful, focused and knowledgeable. Their first case starts with a former artist whose eyes were cut out after a successful transplant cured her blindness. Her ex-boyfriend still has a shrine of pictures devoted to her, but isn't the violent type. After the next victim is found missing a kidney, also recently transplanted, it turns out there are nine others recipients of organs from the same donor. They may all be at risk as the killer either targets the organs or symbolical revenge on the donor, who indeed has a long rep sheet, but Jack concentrates on his non-conviction-charges.

Episode 3

13 Going on 30

Fri, Oct 7, 2005 55 mins

After a little girl is picked up by a sex offender, Hale and Danielle are called to investigate his murder. As they hunt for the missing girl, more known sex offenders show up dead.

Episode 4

O Brother, Where Art Thou

Fri, Oct 21, 2005

Twin sisters are strangled in their beds, in different apartments, in exactly the same way and their sister describes a man she saw near one of the apartments. The trouble is that the suspect she fingers, a convicted felon, is a patient in a state mental hospital. Meanwhile, Cavanaugh's 18-year-old daughter has her own trouble with the law, and Cavanaugh must decide whether he should use his influence to fix it.

Episode 5

Die Like an Egyptian

Fri, Oct 28, 2005

As Detective Danielle Carter learns more about the definition of a deviant crime, she and Hale continue to forge their relationship as partners, and despite Hale's best efforts, he is beginning to warm to her. Meanwhile, Hale and Carter are thrust into the dark underworld of Egyptian mythology as bizarre crimes involving ancient hieroglyphs and rituals have the D.C.U. on a hunt for one person's quest for the impossible.

Episode 6

Who's Your Daddy

Fri, Nov 4, 2005

On his birthday, twenty years after his serial killer father's arrest, Hale is called to a crime scene with a body that echoes his father's work. To solve the case he must come face to face with the man he has avoided for so long.

Episode 7

Game Over

Fri, Nov 11, 2005

Ray races to get his family out of the house when a man shows up and pulls a gun on him. 36 hours earlier, Hale and Carter investigate the case of a woman killed in a processed crime scene, which may be connected to a violent video game.

Episode 8

Forget Me Not

Fri, Nov 18, 2005

Hale and Carter catch a break in a serial killer case when one of the victims survives his attack, trouble is, he can't remember anything, and the woman he was attacked with, isn't who she's supposed to be.

Episode 9

Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Fri, Dec 2, 2005

The detectives investigate the case of men apparently being willingly sacrificed at the epicenter of small earthquakes across the city.

Episode 10

She's the Bomb

Thu, Feb 9, 2006

A bride explodes on her wedding day right in front of Carter, causing Hale to have to grudgingly work with the bomb squad to find the bomber before he strikes again.

Episode 11

While You Were Sleeping

Hale and Carter investigate a series of bizarre deaths in and around a college sleep clinic.

Episode 12

Love Hurts

Sun, Jan 1, 2006 55 mins

The detectives investigate the case of a man who was shot with a crossbow, before crashing his car and having his head chopped off.

Episode 13

Fifteen Minutes of Flame

Wed, Sep 9, 2026

Carter gets on the wrong side of a psychopath who gives his victims 15 minutes to get the key to the vest they're wearing before they burst into flames.