Copy Cat (30 Oct. 2003)

A suburban mother goes missing in broad daylight, similar to another case from years ago where Jack failed to save the victim. Graham Spalding copycats the case only to taunt Jack and seek revenge.

Director:

Tim Matheson

Writers:

Hank Steinberg (creator), Jennifer Levin

Stars:

Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Anthony LaPaglia	...	Jack Malone
Poppy Montgomery	...	Samantha Spade
Marianne Jean-Baptiste	...	Vivian Johnson
Enrique Murciano	...	Danny Taylor
Eric Close	...	Martin Fitzgerald
Conor O'Farrell	...	Graham Spaulding
Claire Rankin	...	Doris Lovett
Paul Adelstein	...	Dave
Talia Balsam	...	Maria Malone
Scott Allan Campbell	...	John Casey
Sean Marquette	...	Nicholas
Keith Brunsmann	...	Randy Thorton (as Keith Brunsman)
Kyle McCaffrey	...	Ryland
David Lawrence Sawyer	...	Prison Guard
Francis Fallon	...	Officer Rudy Campbell

Storyline

A suburban mother goes missing in broad daylight, similar to another case from years ago where Jack failed to save the victim. Graham Spalding copycats the case only to taunt Jack and seek revenge.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 October 2003 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 7, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Productions, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

References The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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Soundtracks

"Arabian Dance"
Performed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

User Reviews

Change of pace for WAT team

Yay, the WAT guys need a little more excitement so they are given a serial killer to contend with! Or so it seems. As I remember, it was worked out fairly quickly that it was actually somebody imitating a previous, now-incarcerated serial killer, in order to annoy the awesome Supervisory Special Agent Jack Malone. Jack and his group work out who it is pretty quickly (and it's a criminal from a previous episode, who unfortunately was acquitted mainly due to errors made by Jack and the team) - but that was all part of his plan. He has abducted a woman and plans to kill her. The team has a chance to get some nice profiling done, and investigations, and the whole episode was very tense. Jack was really the star in this one, because the whole crime was being performed specifically to be hard on him. I found the ending scenes to be very intense. Anthony LaPaglia was awesome - he is a very good actor. Disturbingly, the whole murderous psychopath thing is getting kind of old in television, but this one played out so nicely that I couldn't help but enjoy watching it.