While Gideon is sidelined on crutches at BAU headquarters, Hotchner and the BAU go to Harrington, Tennessee, in an attempt to get inside the mind of a psychotic killer whose disorganized and erratic fantasies lead him to murder.
Alan helps his ex-lover who tried to kill him get out of a psychiatric hospital. Brad and Denny take a case where a wife is suing the hospital for causing her emotional distress when her husband died during an angioplasty.
Peg tries everything in the book to renew Al's romantic interest in her -- up to and including promises of five-course meals.
Jessica (Angela Lansbury) returns to Cabot Cove to discover why her accountant is not paying her bills. With Ron Masak, Carrie Snodgrass.
Matlock defends a woman accused of killing the exercise instructor she believed was having an affair with her husband.