9.5/102 votes#1 - Isolated
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2007
The team finds themselves suspended from the Grid following what happened involving Ros. Harry learns from an old adversary about a bomb he has planted in London. The team realizes that if they respond their lives will be in danger but if they don't it will be the public who suffers. A shocking discovery is made when they discover who is behind the latest threat.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Neil Cross
9.5/102 votes#2 - The School
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/2007
Hardliners opposed to the peace between Iran and the West have targeted a London school. Jo is captured by Redbacks, the mercenaries who abducted Zaf.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Ben Richards
9.5/102 votes#3 - Uranium
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/2009
Harry is still missing, and there is one question on everyone's mind: is he dead, or alive? Section D discovers that Harry thwarted a clandestine operation to smuggle weapons-grade uranium into Iraq to justify the war. Now the rogue officers who masterminded the operation want their uranium back, and they are prepared to go to any lengths to get it. If Harry isn't dead already, is it too late to save him?
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Ben Richards
9.5/102 votes#4 - Energy
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 11/6/2009
The country reaches crisis point when energy supplies are threatened by an explosion at a gas processing plant. With reserves on the verge of running out, Britain is forced to turn to Tazbekstan for help. But in return for energy, the Tazbek Trade and Industry Secretary, Urazov, wants carte blanche to wipe out his enemies on British soil. Is this a price worth paying or can Section D get rid of Urazov in order to secure the deal?
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Ben Richards
9.5/102 votes#5 - Sudden Death
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/27/2009
Harry is puzzled by the sudden death of CIA boss Samuel Walker. Harry is convinced that he did not commit suicide and when another CIA agent dies he begins to think that the deaths have something to do with the power meeting that is being held in Basel. Ros is surprised when her old mentor, Jack Coleville, contacts her and it soon becomes apparent he is involved in what has been going on.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Richard McBrien
9.5/102 votes#6 - Brink of War
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 12/23/2009
With India and Pakistan on the brink of war, emergency talks are set up in an exclusive London hotel. Section D faces its biggest challenge yet, as the team tries to avert the first nuclear confrontation since the Second World War. When the Indian delegation abandons the talks, it looks like Nightingale's sinister plan will succeed. Lucas and Ros place themselves in grave danger in a final attempt to defeat Nightingale, but will they make it out of the hotel alive?
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Ben Richards
9.5/102 votes#7 - Garden Leave
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2011
The team has been left shocked by Lucas's betrayal, and with Harry Pearce on gardening leave, Section D has a new leader called Erin Watts. She has brought Calum Reed with her into the team. Harry Pearce manages to win his MI5 employment tribunal and is soon back on the Grid in the thick of the action. Secrets end up being discovered after Max Witt, a retired spy and Harry's colleague in Berlin during the Cold War, is discovered to have been murdered.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Jonathan Brackley
9.5/102 votes#8 - Stolen Laptop
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2011
Calum is attacked by a gang of street muggers during a routine intelligence-sharing exercise with MI6. The laptop he was carrying is stolen, and contains highly-classified information on MI5's undercover assets. Their names are soon plastered all over the internet, making MI5 look incompetent and putting those top assets' lives in danger.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Jonathan Brackley
9.3/104 votes#9 - The Suffering of Strangers
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/2004
It's Fiona's birthday, and she's not going to forget it! While inspecting a possible Islamic terrorist safe house, they are kidnapped. With the threat of his son's, his wife's and Danny's life, Adam must choose who won't live to see another day, Fiona or Danny? The prime minister's life is in danger. Will MI5 give into the kidnappers demands? But then to everybody's surprise... Danny makes the ultimate sacrifice.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Ben Richards
9.1/109 votes#10 - A Dash of Sunshine
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2013
There is an unwelcome blast from the past for DI Richard Poole when a former colleague turns up in Saint Marie.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Colin Bytheway
9.0/102 votes#11 - A Redemption
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/3/2018
Bull helps Jim Grayson, a respectable family man who was arrested for changing his identity after being the unwitting getaway driver in a fatal robbery years ago. Bull hopes they can convince the jury that Jim has redeemed himself for his past misdeeds by living an upstanding life for years.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: H. Park
9.0/102 votes#12 - I Don't Know You
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/19/2021
Emma in freefall at her growing distrust of Pete. When she learns he owns the cabin she decamps to the storm shelter where she discovers eerie mementoes that make her feel unsafe. A violent encounter drives her to reach out to Esther and discover her death. Grief stricken she lies to Rose and flees the town. John and Mary’s conflict of interest over Esther has devastating consequences.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Erica Lipez
9.0/101 votes#13 - Missions
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/19/2005
The team's plan to con an auction house with a comic book forgery goes awry when corrupt copper, Sam Phillips (played by Fay Ripley), decides she wants in on the play.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Howard Overman
9.0/101 votes#14 - Gold Finger
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2012
The Hustle team is back, and making more money than ever now that the Olympics are in town, but a moment of random kindness from Albert draws them into an altogether darker con. The grifters pose as a renegade army unit to take on Dexter Gold, the greedy, smooth-talking owner of a corrupt gold exchange.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Tony Jordan
9.0/103 votes#15 - Divided They Fall
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/2005
Far-right political party The British Way is threatening democracy so Adam and Fiona go undercover to infiltrate and destroy its campaign.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Ben Richards
9.0/103 votes#16 - Road Trip
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/2005
Adam infiltrates a truck carrying illegal immigrants across Europe in order to stop a would-be terrorist.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Howard Brenton
8.7/106 votes#17 - Bolero
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 7/29/2014
After Pierce witnesses a gallery owner die during a seizure caused by a video installation, he convinces Moretti that it was actually a murder. Their search for the killer puts them in the middle of a brazen art heist. As Pierce works on the case, he is forced to re-examine his relationship with Natalie.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Tawnya Bhattacharya
8.7/107 votes#18 - Prologue
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 8/5/2014
After a missing FBI agent turns up dead, Pierce is forced to face the one case he was never able to solve. When they discover that the killer is still out there, Pierce agrees to help Moretti, against the wishes of his therapist, Dr. Rosenthal, who believes it will only exacerbate Pierce’s condition.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.7/103 votes#19 - Mona Lisa
Season 16 Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/2019
Torres relies on his team's investigative skills after he wakes up on a dilapidated fishing boat and is covered in blood and unable to remember the last 12 hours.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: David J. North
8.5/104 votes#20 - Home Sweet Home
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/23/2016
Chaos reigns down on Camp Stillwater as Deb and the counselors come face to face with evil.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Ian B. Goldberg
8.5/104 votes#21 - Check
Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2015
The NCIS team investigates copy-cat crime scenes while Gibbs navigates two ex-wives relentlessly trying to get his attention.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Steven D. Binder
8.4/1043 votes#22 - A Good Day to Die
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/2017
Lucifer must find the antidote to the Professor's poison before it kills Chloe. He travels to hell to find the Professor's soul and get him to turn over the antidote. While he's there, he is forced to confront his guilt about Uriel's death. Mom heads to hell to get Lucifer back, but Lucifer still feels betrayed by his parents because of something he discovers.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Chris Rafferty
8.4/107 votes#23 - Be the Martyr
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/31/2019
Nate is on a mission to prove he was right about the culprit in his father’s murder, while Bonnie begins to doubt herself; and Annalise turns the tables in the courtroom.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Matthew Cruz
8.3/10112 votes#24 - Twice as Far
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 3/20/2016
Two separate groups leave Alexandria for supplies, and while both worry over the future of the community, they will face immediate danger.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Matthew Negrete
8.3/104 votes#25 - Frequently Asked Questions
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/2004
When known mercenary Robert Morgan is spotted at a top-secret disused Soviet arms dump, he obviously has to be brought in for questioning. Is it all right to blackmail innocent people to get the information you want? Is it acceptable to threaten the lives of a suspect's family?
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Rupert Walters
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"Isolated" is the best rated episode directed by Alrick Riley. It scored 9.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by Neil Cross. It aired on 12/4/2007 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The School".