A policewoman from the year 2077 who travels back in time to track down convicted terrorists who were able to evade their execution by traveling back to the year 2012.

An elite squad of FBI profilers analyzes the country's most twisted criminal minds and anticipates their next move before they strike again. Each member of the "mind hunter" team brings his own area of expertise as the team pinpoints predators' motivations and identify their emotional triggers in order to stop them.

With very little field experience, rookie F.B.I. Agent Rebecca Locke will become part of a sinister and unsavory world when she is recruited to join the Bureau's Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit as a new profiler.

Sydney Bristow was recruited as an undergrad to work for SD-6, which she thought was a government agency. However, when her fiancé is killed, she finds out that SD-6 is actually a counter-government agency. Sydney approaches the CIA and becomes a double agent.