Copycat

Plots: A criminal psychologist who turned agoraphobic after a murder attempt agrees to help two San Francisco detectives hunt for a copycat serial killer who intends on making her his next victim. In San Francisco, the criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is specialized in serial-killers. During a trial, the accused Daryll Lee Cullum kills a police officer and tries to kill her and she becomes agoraphobic. Now Helen lives a reclusive life with her gay friend Andy that helps her. Sometime later, there is a wave of crimes and Detectives M.J. Monahan and Reuben Goetz are investigating the murder cases. Helen identifies that the murderer is copycatting notorious serial-killers and she anonymously contacts the Police Department. After fourteen phone calls, she is identified by the police. Detectives M.J. and Reuben visit her and Helen teams up with them and prepares the profile of the killer that wants to be famous. But soon the copycat killer Peter Foley contacts and stalks Helen and M.J. and Reuben give protection to her. Will they be capable to stop Foley before the next murder? After giving a lecture at a university in her area of expertise, serial killers, Dr. Helen Hudson, a criminal psychologist, is attacked in the ladies room by escaped serial killer Daryll Lee Cullum, who is apprehended before he is able to kill her. The experience has left her with a severe case of agoraphobia, she not having left her luxurious and high tech San Francisco apartment since. Just over a year later, SFPD Inspectors, partners MJ Monahan and Ruben Goetz, who are methodical and reactive, respectively, in they way they work, are leading the investigation into what appears to be a serial murder case, they who have no expertise in the psychology of such crimes. Despite being ostensibly retired because of what happened at the university, Helen feels oddly compelled yet repulsed by the thought to lend her services to the pair, that service which proves to be invaluable. What proves to be confusing is that while the killer is mimicking the modus operandi of past serial killers, it is the fact that he is changing from killer to killer. They not only have to figure out why he is constantly changing, not typical to serial killers, but which killer he will copy next. What they have some suspicion about is that Helen is integral to his plan, as she knows that he has had access to her apartment, which if he is able to corner her in such which would be problematic for her in not being able emotionally to escape to the outside world.