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#1
S3E14 8.6
Otis, California

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, whom is connected to a reclusive, wheelchair-bound professor, named Philip Menzies, who is later 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.

#2
S1E6 8.4
Modus Operandi

When the twisted, serial killer, Jack-of-All-Trades, murders a kindly neighborhood fix-it man, Sam discovers a pattern: her unseen tormentor is leaving messages to her through his victims, all of whom had some connection to her. As Sam agonizes over her slain acquaintances, her new beau Cooper and Bailey try to comfort and protect her. But they can't watch her all the time: unlike Jack who sets out to antagonize her more when he targets Cooper.

#3
S1E12 8.3
Learning from the Masters

When a series of murder victims are found arranged in elaborately staged tableaux, Sam, Bailey and the team deduces that the killer is replicating famous artworks with their lifeless forms. Her investigation plunges her into the avant-guard art world until she accidentally strays into the killer's lair, where he takes her hostage and prepares to use her for his latest three-dimensional "masterpiece." Meanwhile, the unseen, clever serial killer Jack of All Trades has compromised the team's vital computer system by hacking in and planting various viruses to offset Sam even more. Also, Sam tries to spend more quality time with Chloe when work takes her away.

#4 The House That Jack Built S1E13 8.3
#5 Every Five Minutes S2E14 8.3
#6 The Root of All Evil S2E19 8.3
#7 The Sorcerer's Apprentice S1E9 8.2
#8 Shattered Silence S1E10 8.2
#9 Venom: Part 2 S1E22 8.2
#10 Grand Master S3E19 8.2

Lowlights

#82 S4E17 Mea Culpa 6.4

Rachel searches for a serial killer who does not seem to follow a pattern following the abduction of a 10-year-old boy from a local diner. Meanwhile, Bailey must testify before a congressional subcommittee to save VCTF funding which is threatened to be cut off by Congresswoman Archer. Also, Rachel finds that her apartment was broken into and an incriminating audiotape she made of Joel Marks bragging about setting up criminal suspects has reappeared in the court dockets where Marks vows revenge.

#81 Blind Eye S4E3 6.5
#80 Perfect Helen S3E7 6.7
#79 House of Cards S4E16 6.8
#78 Quid Pro Quo S4E9 6.8

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