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Profiler Season 2 Episode 12

Shoot to Kill

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AIRED: 3/7/98

AKA Textbook Ohio's cities are being terrorized by a seemingly random sniper. Everyday citizens as well as police officers are being attacked. The state's governor summons the VCTF. Once on the scene, Sam, Bailey and the rest of the team are perplexed by the sniper's ability to shoot from increasingly longer distances. This ability reminds Bailey of an elite task force he encountered while serving in Vietnam. Bailey obtains from Casper, his intelligence source, the names of the task force members. Meanwhile, 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. George comes up with a suspect once he merges Casper's list and Sam's profile. Bailey, haunted by memories of the atrocities committed by the sniper task force, sets out to take down the killer and does so in the episode's exciting climax. John, George and Bailey look into Lou Handleman who has tried to discredit John by using Frances.moreless

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A shoot and a miss . . . (bad joke I know)

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By glendenb, Aug 07, 2010

I think it was Carl Jung who observed that the primitive psyche doesn't invent myth, it experiences myth. In this episode we get a sniper who is inventing a myth of himself. There's nothing wrong, per se, with this episode but it remains a frustrating episode and even at the end the killer remains a cipher.

The Lou Handleman subplot was - obviously - going nowhere but it's unfortunate to see it resolved so shoddily and suddenly. Shoot to Kill aims high and misses; the structure of the episode is fine, the pacing is fine, even the process of unraveling the myth is fine. It's a bit to much of a mcguffin though - overly elaborate and complex. If anything, the episode's weakness is the rapid denouement of both key stories - Bailey shoots the sniper, Lou Handleman shoots himself. Its unsatisfying.moreless
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Ally Walker	Dr. Samantha "Sam" Waters
Dennis Christopher	Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay
Heather McComb	Frances Malone
Julian McMahon	Det. John Grant
Peter Frechette	George Fraley
Robert Davi	Agent Bailey Malone

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Dave Jensen	Getz	Guest Star
Andy Umberger	Solomon	Guest Star
Daniel Hagen	Buchanan	Guest Star

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- International Episode Titles:
  Czech Republic: Střílej, abys zabil (Shoot to Kill)
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