Jack Crawford, calls on profiler Will Graham to help the team catch a serial killer. In the process of tring to get Will on the team one of Grahams students - Taylor Dixon- eves drops on their conversation and ends up on the case herself. The killer has now kidnapped eight women, all similar in appearance and always on a Friday. He is known as the Minnesota Shrike, His most recent victim is Elise Nichols. Graham has been teaching at the FBI academy and isn't too keen on going out into the field. Dixon has been in training for five years and never left the building, untill now.