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MIND OVER MURDER

7.0 / 10
1996
4 seasons
83 episodes
CrimeDrama

Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force in Atlanta, investigates crimes throughout the country. Together, they solve the toughest of cases while trying to live their lives as best they can.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Insight

    7.3
    21-09-199660m

    Ally Walker (""While You Were Sleeping"") stars in this stylish, hour-long suspense-thriller as Dr. Sam Waters, a brilliant female forensic psychologist with a unique gift for unde...

  • Ep 2

    2.Ring of Fire

    6.0
    28-09-199660m

    Dr. Sam Waters (Ally Walker) joins the newly formed Violent Crimes Task Force, led by her mentor, Bailey Malone (Robert Davi), to probe a string of well-publicized arson fires in t...

  • Ep 3

    3.Unholy Alliance

    7.0
    19-10-199660m

    Sam investigates a series of murders which bear striking similarities to the methods of a killer (Benjamin Mouton) whom Bailey put in prison 10 years earlier. Sam suspects that the...

  • Ep 4

    4.I'll Be Watching You

    7.0
    26-10-199660m

    Dr. Sam Waters and the Violent Crimes Task Force must find a twisted assassin (Jason Rainwater) before he kills a celebrated political candidate (Casey Biggs), but Sam is distracte...

  • Ep 5

    5.Unsoiled Sovereignty

    7.0
    02-11-199660m

    A series of bomb blasts at power plants draw Dr. Sam Waters and the task force to Pittsburgh, where Sam meets a charming bomb squad dismantler (guest star A. Martinez, ""LA Law""),...

  • Ep 6

    6.Modus Operandi

    8.0
    09-11-199660m

    When the twisted serial killer known as Jack-of-all-trades murders a kindly neighborhood fix-it man (Don Keefer), Sam discovers a pattern -- her tormentor is leaving messages to he...

  • Ep 7

    7.Night Dreams

    8.0
    16-11-199660m

    Sam and Bailey race the clock to track a serial kidnapper (guest star Stephen Lee) who curiously abducts a wide range of women from a college coed to a senior citizen -- and based...

  • Ep 8

    8.Cruel and Unusual

    7.0
    14-12-199660m

    Sam and the team investigate a series of bizarre slayings whose victims were connected to the trial of a charming murderer (guest star Gary Stretch) sentenced to die within days. O...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    7.0
    04-01-199760m

    When Native American chiefs are ritually murdered on the reservation, Sam and the team tiptoe around local suspicions and superstitions as the locals blame a 1,000-year-old spirit...

  • Ep 10

    10.Shattered Silence

    8.0
    11-01-199760m

    The separate kidnappings of two high-profile doctors (guest stars Scott Koes, Buddy Farmer) and the evidence left behind leads Sam to believe that the prime suspect is a patient wi...

  • Ep 11

    11.Doppelganger

    7.0
    18-01-199760m

    Sam confronts inmate Arthur deRhodes (guest star Edward Albert, ""Beauty and the Beast""), a former adversary and serial slayer whom she helped put in a prison for the criminally i...

  • Ep 12

    12.Learning from the Masters

    8.0
    01-02-199760m

    When a series of murder victims are found arranged in elaborately staged tableaux, Sam deduces that the cold-blooded killer is replicating famous artworks with their lifeless forms...

  • Ep 13

    13.The House That Jack Built

    8.0
    08-02-199760m

    When Jack of All Trades, the inventive but frighteningly elusive serial murderer stalking Sam continues to toy with members of the VCTF team and their families, Bailey orders every...

  • Ep 14

    14.Shadow of Angels (1) (a.k.a. Noblesse Oblige)

    8.0
    15-02-199760m

    In this 2-hour episode, Dr. Sam Waters and the VCTF team investigate a series of bizarre murders where the victims -- including a U.S. Senator -- are either crushed or strangled wi...

  • Ep 15

    15.Shadow of Angels (2) (a.k.a. Gestalt)

    8.0
    15-02-199760m

    In this 2-hour episode, Dr. Sam Waters and the VCTF team investigate a series of bizarre murders where the victims -- including a U.S. Senator -- are either crushed or strangled wi...

  • Ep 16

    16.Film at 11

    8.0
    08-03-199760m

    Sam and the task force probe a series of ghastly murders which are carefully videotaped and sent to TV newsrooms by the vigilante slayer (guest star Ron Kuhlman) who announces that...

  • Ep 17

    17.Crisis

    7.0
    22-03-199760m

    Sam is taken hostage by a zealous anti-nuclear scientist (guest star Robert Sampson) and a cadre of steely commandos after they capture a banquet room full of Washington, D.C. bras...

  • Blue Highway

    18.Blue Highway

    8.0
    05-04-199760m

    Sam and the VCTF investigate a series of fatal hit-and-run auto accidents on remote highways where the only clues are abandoned car hulks, a pattern which leads Sam to suspect a tr...

  • FTX: Field Training Exercise

    19.FTX: Field Training Exercise

    8.0
    12-04-199760m

    The task force comes under intense scrutiny when the FBI suspects that an insider is selling covert information, so a reluctant Bailey agrees to a mock field training exercise desi...

  • Into the Abyss

    20.Into the Abyss

    7.0
    26-04-199760m

    A burned-out Sam takes somber note of a psychic-turned-author (guest star Leland Crooke) whose cooperation with police in solving serial murders has taken a heavy toll on his emoti...

  • Venom (1)

    21.Venom (1)

    8.0
    10-05-199760m

    Sam (Ally Walker) and the VCTF team are taunted by a diabolical serial killer (guest star Lori Petty, ""Free Willy"") who prefers to use a variety of exotic poisonous spiders and a...

  • Venom (2)

    22.Venom (2)

    8.0
    10-05-199760m

    Sam (Ally Walker) and the VCTF team are taunted by a diabolical serial killer (guest star Lori Petty, ""Free Willy"") who prefers to use a variety of exotic poisonous spiders and a...

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