The Best Episodes Directed By Barry Levinson

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.5/10(4 votes)

   #1 - Gone for Goode

   S1:E11/31/1993

   Lewis and Crosetti uncover a woman who's been killing her husbands for insurance money. Howard tries to keep her cases-solved record perfect, but she is reassigned with Felton as her partner. Bolander convinces Munch to help him finish up an unsolved case. A new guy, Tim Bayliss, from the mayor's office gets his first case in homicide, the murder of an 11-year-old girl. His partner Pembleton, we find out, is less than enthusiastic to work with him or anyone else in the unit.

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   7.8/10(30 votes)

   #2 - First Bottle

   S1:E110/13/2021

   Richard Sackler begins to launch a powerful new painkiller, a rural doctor is introduced to the drug, a coal miner plans her future, a DEA Agent learns of blackmarket pills, and federal prosecutors decide to open a case into OxyContin.

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   7.8/10(22 votes)

   #3 - Breakthrough Pain

   S1:E210/13/2021

   OxyContin is on the market but faces a potential threat, Purdue’s vast influence reaches the town of Finch Creek, Bridget steps outside her DEA authority, and the criminal investigation of OxyContin begins.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - The Gas Man

   S3:E205/5/1995

   A convict is released from prison and begins to get his revenge on Frank by frustrating the investigation he is currently working on and also by terrorizing his wife.

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   7.0/10(5 votes)

   #5 - He's Gone

   S1:E111/10/2022

   NYPD detective Avraham “Avi” Avraham searches for a missing boy.

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   6.9/10(9 votes)

   #6 - Original Sin

   S1:E21/14/2016

   Harlee struggles with becoming an FBI informant while Wozniak suspects every member of his crew. Paranoid that Wozniak's search will lead to her, Harlee suggests polygraphng the entire crew, a plan that backfires. An appeals case sends Wozniak to watch tapes from his first encounter with Harlee, revealing a dark secret from their past. Meanwhile, Espada helps Tess deal with her husband's infidelity.

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   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #7 - The Knowing

   S1:E211/10/2022

   Avi questions Vincent’s friends and family to learn more about the tormented and lonely boy.

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   5.8/10(13 votes)

   #8 - Pilot

   S1:E11/7/2016

   Harlee Santos, a detective from a tight-knit group of Brooklyn cops with questionable tactics, is arrested by an FBI agent who wants to make her an informant. Co-stars Ray Liotta.

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   5.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - The Band That Wouldn't Die

   S1:E210/13/2009

   A profile of Baltimore's love affair with football and the Colts, focusing on the Colts Marching Band. After the Colts decamped for Indianapolis in 1984, the band stayed behind to help promote the eventual return of the NFL to the city.

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