7.5/1061 votes#1 - A Model Killer
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1999
Posing as a fashion photographer, serial killer Christopher Wilder lured young women from shopping malls with promises of fame and fortune. Most ended up dead. national publicity that the FBI created led to the capture of the suspect.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1047 votes
#2 - Hired Gun
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1999
A multiple murder-for-hire plot that was meticulously planned and executed. A mother, her 8-year-old son, and a live-in nurse were brutally murdered by an assassin. the FBI was able to zero in on Larry Horn, the father of the 8-year-old.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1051 votes
#3 - Cat and Mouse
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1999
Young women were being abducted from their own front yards in broad daylight. The FBI was determined to put an end to the serial killer's deadly game of cat and mouse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1035 votes
#4 - Cracking the Cartel
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1999
A young boy and his mother are kidnapped and murdered by a drug cartel.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1049 votes
#5 - A Stranger in Town
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1999
The body of an unidentified young woman turned up on a highway in a small Pennsylvania town. Agents persisted to identity the body and to find the killer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1051 votes
#6 - Hunter's Game
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/23/1999
The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1048 votes
#7 - The Dixie Mafia
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/1999
A Judge and his politician wife were brutally murdered in their home. The FBI uncovered a corrupt local government and a group of violent criminal conspirators.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1044 votes
#8 - Shattered Shield
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/1999
Lured by the easy wealth of the narcotics industry, crooked cops in the New Orleans Police Department began breaking the laws they were sworn to uphold in the early 1990s.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1043 votes
#9 - Blood Brothers
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/28/1999
Two brothers abduct a banker. FBI agents slowly pieced together tiny shreds of evidence.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1041 votes
#10 - Crime Spree
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2000
A couple engaged in a gruesome crime spree that spanned six states and left eight people dead-including children.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1036 votes
#11 - Family Secrets
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/1/2000
A young mother and her infant son mysteriously disappeared from their home. A new DNA technique ended the mystery.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1038 votes
#12 - Master Plan
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/14/2000
The FBI began a massive undercover operation designed to expose the Chicago Mafia's infiltration into the city's surrounding suburbs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1047 votes
#13 - Firefight
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/2000
A series of brutal bank robberies and murders led to an exhaustive eight-month investigation by the FBI. What followed was the bloodiest firefight in FBI history.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1037 votes
#14 - Killer Abroad
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/2/2000
The bodies of several women began turning up in and around the city of Vienna, Austria. Viennese police turned to the FBI for help.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1033 votes
#15 - Moving Target
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/2000
A sniper murdered two young black men as they jogged with two white women. The FBI placed their suspect on their Ten Most Wanted list and began an intense manhunt.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1037 votes
#16 - Deadly Mission
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 5/2/2000
Two brothers gained national attention after a videotaped shoot-out with state and local officers in Wilmington, Ohio. The brothers escaped and fled the state.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1039 votes
#17 - Cop Killer
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/2000
Two officers had been shot and one had been murdered in Washington, D.C.. Each had been sitting in their patrol cars when a man sneaked up and opened fire. The FBI was brought in to help catch the cop killer, and this led to a violent gun battle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1041 votes
#18 - .22 Caliber Killer
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/2000
Six black males had been brutally murdered--two had their hearts cut out. The only thing connecting the victims was their ethnicity and the fact that each had been shot with .22 caliber bullets.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The FBI Files Season 2
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"A Model Killer" is the best rated episode of "The FBI Files" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 61 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/28/1999. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Hired Gun".