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Profiler Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
Coronation
Sat, Oct 17, 1998 60 mins
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 (Mark Rolston)---he's luring them. Police Chief: Tom Knickerbocker. Agnes McMillan: Julianna McCarthy. Warden: Beau Billingslea. Sam: Ally Walker.
Episode 2
Cravings
Sat, Oct 24, 1998 60 mins
A rapist-killer (Keith Brunsmann) 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. Susan Moss: Stephanie Niznik. Caitlin: Nicolette Little. Lt. Baden: Jody Wood. Kristen: Charlotte Ayanna.
Episode 3
Do the Right Thing
Sat, Oct 31, 1998 60 mins
The VCTF probes three murders in which the victims had been castrated. Meanwhile, Sam is attracted to Jack's prosecutor. Paul: John Mese. Andrea: Stacy Haiduk. Gibson: William Lucking. Gelb: Don Swayze. Watkins: Don Moloney. Cole: Jerry Giles. Adrienne Cole: Sara Van Horn.
Episode 4
Double Vision
Sat, Nov 7, 1998 60 mins
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. Kyle: Pat Healy. Bobby: Nick Offerman. Paul: John Mese. Bernadette: Amy Lawrence. Larry Stubbs: Dave Florek. Vinge: William Monaghan.
Episode 5
The Sum of Her Parts
Sat, Nov 14, 1998 60 mins
In Newark, N.J., a killer (W. Earl Brown) cuts the hands off one victim and decapitates another. Both are women but have nothing else in common. Dorothy: Grace Zabriskie. Martin: Victor Brandt. Lisa: Winifred Freedman. Mavis: Jennie Ventriss.
Episode 6
The Monster Within
Sat, Nov 21, 1998 60 mins
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. Felser: David Packer. Lucas: Mark Rolston. Richard Felser: Vince Melocchi.
Episode 7
Perfect Helen
Sat, Dec 5, 1998 60 mins
Someone's digging up Jewish graves in George's home town, but Sam doesn't think it's a hate crime. Clifford: John Billingsley. Rose: Nan Martin. Helen: Cynthia Watros. Radulski: Jennifer Griffin. Jonathan: Cliff Weissman. Brad: Elijha Mahar. George: Peter Frechette.
Episode 8
Home for the Homicide
Sat, Dec 12, 1998 60 mins
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 (Paul Mese). Janet: Patricia Healy. A.J.: James Parks. Will: Tait Smith. Ginny: Hedy Burress. Weller: Wyatt Knight.
Episode 9
All in the Family
Sat, Jan 2, 1999 60 mins
A prosecutor (John Prosky) wants to tie four murders in an Annapolis, Md., bar to a drug kingpin, but Sam thinks otherwise. Peter: Ryan Sparks. Walter: Lawrence Pressman. Laura: Daphne Ashbrook. Mark: Lawrence Monoson. Salinger: Kene Holliday.
Episode 10
Ceremony of Innocence
Sat, Jan 9, 1999 60 mins
The day before convicted killer Martin Fizer (Richard Beymer) is scheduled to be executed a murder is committed in the same fashion---and with the same gun---as Fizer's had been. Seth Eliot: Tegan West. Father Stevens: Gary Anthony Williams. Det. Bettancourt: Mary Beth Fisher.
Episode 11
Where or When
Sat, Jan 16, 1999 60 mins
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. James: Tony Abatemarco. Detective: Darnell Williams. Sterling: John Mese.
Episode 12
Inheritance
Sat, Feb 6, 1999 60 mins
A serial killer (Doug Savant) targets victims in the South who are all roughly the same age and have the same blood disorder; Sam learns her father's secret. Allman: David Carradine. Anderson: Lawrence Pressman. Amber Wiley: Alley Mills. Watson: James Harper. Harper: David Wiater.
Episode 13
Heads, You Lose
Sat, Feb 13, 1999 60 mins
In Miami, models are losing their heads, courtesy of a killer (Brian McNamara) with a chip on his shoulder (and surgical tools). Mantagno: Michael Wiseman. Dulce: Lillian Hurst. Charlotte: Nikita Ager. Gloria Bartis: Beverly Sassoon. Carla: Dawn Stern.
Episode 14
Otis, California
Sat, Feb 20, 1999 60 mins
Having hacked onto the Internet from prison, Lucas (Mark Rolston) has contacted someone in a small northern-California town. "You think he has a disciple?" Bailey asks Sam. Menzies: Alan Toy. Parnell: Michael Monks. Janet Malone: Patricia Healy. Arn: Matthew Kimbrough.
Episode 15
Spree of Love
Sat, Feb 27, 1999 60 mins
A 32-year-old woman (Cristi Conaway) is abducted---or is she?---from her children's soccer field by a 16-year-old boy (Michael Anthony Pena). Meanwhile, Bailey is increasingly tense as his wife's remarriage approaches. Janet: Patricia Healy. Barbara: Anjanette Comer.
Episode 16
Burnt Offerings
Sat, Mar 20, 1999 60 mins
An arsonist who is setting fatal fires in Sam's Atlanta neighborhood has a modus operandi involving dead birds. Farrow: Cyril O'Reilly. Harris: Alex Hyde-White. Claire Putnam: Hilary Salvatore. Mary Culver: Marnie Mosiman. Stan Whitaker: Scott Lawrence. Nurse: Diana Castle.
Episode 17
Three-Carat Crisis
Sat, Apr 3, 1999 60 mins
Sam and Bailey (who's shopping for a present for his ex-wife) are held hostage in a jewelry store after a botched holdup. Overbeck: Michael Bryan French. Kate: Cyia Batten. Steve: James Franco. Randy: David Ripley. Fallon: Henry Polic II. Petra Strauss: Carol Bruce. Jennifer: Deborah Lynn Hinderstein.
Episode 18
Seduction
Sat, Apr 10, 1999 60 mins
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. O'Hara: Joseph Bottoms. Cantrell: Steve Eastin. Harken: Sam Anderson. Miller: James Colby. Lt. Ford: Mary Ostrow.
Episode 19
Grand Master
Sat, May 8, 1999 60 mins
Sam calls in Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) of "The Pretender" to pursue the mastermind behind a series of kidnappings. Bryce: Emile Hersh. Dain: Cliff DeYoung. Banks: Conor O'Farrell. Nora: Elizabeth Morehead. Holbrooke: Christopher L. O'Brien.
Episode 20
Las Brisas
Sat, May 15, 1999 60 mins
Sam (Ally Walker) is at the trial of her husband's killer and on the trail of a murderer in Mexico. Lucas: Mark Rolston. Villalobos: Nestor Serrano. Tallman: Timothy Carhart. Marta: Michelle Bonilla. Lofton: James Read. Sterling: John Mese. Ortiz: Eddie Velez.
Episode 21
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Sat, Jun 5, 1999 60 mins
While Sam tries to find the key to the mind of a serial killer (Steve Barr), an FBI agent working with Bailey insists that she's able to control the ex-boyfriend who's stalking her. Susan: Yvette Nipar. Russell: Cameron Watson. Mario: Michael Wiseman. Janet: Patricia Healy.
