8.0/102 votes#1 - Scars
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2003
After learning Stillson's congressional rival, a long-time incumbent is a war veteran with a dark secret. Johnny ponders whether the truth is more important than Stillson's defeat.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Craig Silverstein
7.0/101 votes#2 - Better Off Dead
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1989
A doctor is trying to develop a cure for a childhood syndrome lending towards hyperviolence. Due to his mistake, his daughter was inadvertently infected with the disease from a contaminated needle. Now, the doctor uses a cursed silver syringe to suck out the essence of a small gland that controls violent behavior from unwilling prostitutes, and inject it into his daughter to give her a temporary cure. Unfortunately, the process renders the donor hyperviolent as well. A friend of Micki's is grabbed by the doctor and submitted to the treatment. Trying to locate her friend, Micki herself is kidnapped and subjected to the process.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#3 - Mesmer's Bauble
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/1989
A homely record-store clerk is obsessed with pop diva Angelica, and happens to stumble upon a jewelry robbery where the thieves drop one of the items: a cursed pendant that first belonged to Dr. Mesmer. The curse lets the clerk fulfill his every wish by mesmerizing a victim into doing whatever he wants them to. He wishes first for attractiveness, and then for the diva's love and the chance to be close to her. Ultimately, however, none of this is good enough for him, and his final wish is to _be_ Angelica. The wish is successful, but Micki and Ryan, close on his trail, manage to intercept him/her at a concert and grab the necklace, undoing all the benefits it bestowed.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Joe Gannon
7.0/101 votes#4 - The Prisoner
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 6/10/1989
A crook names Railsback gets hold of a World War II kamikazi jacket. When smeared with the blood of a murderered victim, it lets the wearer become invisible. Railsback is in prison, but uses the jacket to escape and try to recover the stolen loot. He has to kill his former gang members to get it, a task made easier by the jacket. Railsback ends up killing Johnny Ventura's father, a security guard at a storage depot where some of the money is hid. Johnny is arrested for the crime, and put into the same prison as Railsback. He finds out about the jacket and tries to recover it, while Micki, Ryan and Jack try to clear his name from the outside. Ultimiately, Johnny manages to douse the invisible Railsback with gasoline and set him on fire, killing him and leaving the indestructible antique intact to be put into the Vault. Johnny is cleared of the charges.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Jim Henshaw
7.0/101 votes#5 - Demon Hunter
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1989
A close-knit family, the Cassidys, had a daughter who was kidnapped by a cult of demon worshippers. They used her to summon a demon. The daughter escaped, and now the family huts the demon. The cult was connected with Lewis Vendredi, and used a secret cavern beneath Curious Goods for their rituals. The paths of the Cassidys and our intrepid trio cross when they track the demon to the store. The demon must be killed by midnight on a particular day, or it will remain on Earth forever. Ultimately, the demon is destroyed and the trio use the expanded space from the cavern to store more antiques, as the Vault was filling up.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Jim Henshaw
7.0/101 votes#6 - Night Prey
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1989
20 years ago, a man's fiancee is stolen by vampires and transformed into one. Obsessed, he hunts vampires until the modern day, when he stumbles upon a cursed antique cross that lets him not only repel vampires, but incinerate them. Of course, he must kill someone to get the cross to work. Jack's friend, a priest, is the first one killed by the cross and Jack becomes involved as a result. Ultimiately we find out that the man's fiancee is now a willing vampire. Ultimately, everyone is killed, including the vampire hunter and his fiancee.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Peter Mohan
7.0/101 votes#7 - Mightier Than the Sword
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/20/1990
A famous author of real-life biographies of serial killers, famed for his insights, owes his success to an antique pen. He writes out his story of a serial killer's murders, then uses the pen to ""inject"" them with the story. The curse then turns the victim into a serial killer controlled by the story and forced to go out and kill. Eventually they are captured and then the author extracts the evil just as they are executed, leaving them confused and then dead. Micki becomes the author's next victim. Fortunately, Jack and Johnny stop her before she can kill anyone other than the author himself.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: N/A
6.4/105 votes#8 - Pain Killer
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1984
Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It's not until later that Harvey finds the price he must pay...
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Haskell Barkin
4.0/101 votes#9 - The Impressionist
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1985
An impressionist, "Mr. Personalities," is brought in by the government to try to help them communicate with an alien. Mr. Personalities is at first stumped but finally makes "contact." The alien departs and Mr. Personalities is depressed...until the alien returns for him.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: N/A
4.0/102 votes#10 - The Charnel Pit
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/26/1990
Micki is sent through a two-way time portal contained within a painting and finds herself at the mercy of the Marquis de Sade.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Jim Henshaw
3.5/102 votes#11 - The Social Climber
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/8/1987
A shoemaker's apprentice discovers a strange power when he finds he can step into other peoples' lives simply by putting on their shoes.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Ellen Sandhaus
3.0/101 votes#12 - If the Shoes Fit...
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/12/1985
Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby hotel.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: David Gerrold
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"Scars" is the best rated episode directed by Armand Mastroianni. It scored 8/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by Craig Silverstein. It aired on 2/16/2003 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Better Off Dead".