Episode 17 of "Profiler"
s01e17 Crisis
Title: Crisis
Original Air Date: 03/22/1997 on NBC
Director: Matt Penn
Writer: Bob Lowry
Guest Stars: Jason Behr (Waiter)
Plot Outline:
Sam is taken hostage by a zealous anti-nuclear scientist (guest star Robert Sampson) and a cadre of steely commandos after they capture a banquet room full of Washington, D.C. brass, and vow to kill them unless the President agrees to meet their demands to ban the bomb. When Bailey and the task force attack, the terrorists escape and are cornered in an airplane hanger, where a desperate Sam tries to "profile" the anguished scientist -- hoping to find a common bond that might save both their lives. A Martinez, Julian McMahon co-star
