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The FBI Files: Season 2

18 episodes Premiered Sep 28, 1999 Updated Oct 1, 2026
Previously on The FBI Files

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The FBI Files Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (7): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (11): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

A Model Killer

Sep 28, 1999 · 60 min

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 t

S2·E2 Mytharc

Hired Gun

Oct 12, 1999 · 60 min

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 abl

S2·E3 Core

Cat and Mouse

Oct 12, 1999 · 60 min

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.

S2·E4 Mytharc

Cracking the Cartel

Oct 19, 1999 · 60 min

A young boy and his mother are kidnapped and murdered by a drug cartel.

S2·E5 Core

A Stranger in Town

Nov 2, 1999 · 60 min

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.

S2·E6 Core

Hunter's Game

Nov 23, 1999 · 60 min

The bodies of several young women began turning up in shallow graves in the Alaskan wilderness. FBI profilers mapped the criminal's mind.

S2·E7 Mytharc

The Dixie Mafia

Dec 7, 1999 · 60 min

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.

S2·E8 Core

Shattered Shield

Dec 14, 1999 · 60 min

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.

S2·E9 Core

Blood Brothers

Dec 28, 1999 · 60 min

Two brothers abduct a banker. FBI agents slowly pieced together tiny shreds of evidence.

S2·E10 Core

Crime Spree

Jan 11, 2000 · 60 min

A couple engaged in a gruesome crime spree that spanned six states and left eight people dead-including children.

S2·E11 Core

Family Secrets

Feb 1, 2000 · 60 min

A young mother and her infant son mysteriously disappeared from their home. A new DNA technique ended the mystery.

S2·E12 Core

Master Plan

Mar 14, 2000 · 60 min

The FBI began a massive undercover operation designed to expose the Chicago Mafia's infiltration into the city's surrounding suburbs.

S2·E13 Core

Firefight

Mar 26, 2000 · 60 min

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.

S2·E14 Core

Killer Abroad

Apr 2, 2000 · 60 min

The bodies of several women began turning up in and around the city of Vienna, Austria. Viennese police turned to the FBI for help.

S2·E15 Mytharc

Moving Target

Apr 9, 2000 · 60 min

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.

S2·E16 Core

Deadly Mission

May 2, 2000 · 60 min

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.

S2·E17 Mytharc

Cop Killer

May 9, 2000 · 60 min

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 t

S2·E18 Mytharc

.22 Caliber Killer

May 30, 2000 · 60 min

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 ca

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