9.6/10 37 votes#1 - return 0
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 6/21/2016
Finch, Reese, Fusco and Shaw embark on one last mission to prevent Samaritan from destroying The Machine and cementing its hold over mankind.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Denise Thé
9.4/10 31 votes#2 - YHWH
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/2015
Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan. Also, Reese is caught in the middle of the final showdown between rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Dan Dietz
9.2/10 30 votes#3 - Deus Ex Machina
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/2014
The team takes desperate action in its race to prevent the malevolent AI program Samaritan from coming online and making them its first targets. Meanwhile, the months-long battle with the anti-surveillance terrorist group Vigilance comes to a shocking conclusion.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: David Slack
9.2/10 35 votes#4 - The Devil's Share
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/2013
As the POI team seeks justice for Carter’s murder, Finch realizes one of his team members may go one step too far in order to end the war with HR. Also, The Machine gives out the number for NYPD Officer Patrick Simmons, one of the crime organization’s key players.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Amanda Segel
9.1/10 9 votes#5 - Hana ‘a‘a Makehewa (Desperate Measures)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/2010
It's Christmas in Hawaii, but instead of celebrating, Five-0 is negotiating a hostage situation when the man who killed McGarrett's father resurfaces. The murderer, Victor Hesse, threatens to detonate an explosive that he's strapped to Chin Ho's chest.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Carol Barbee
9.1/10 27 votes#6 - B.S.O.D.
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 5/3/2016
Reese and Finch attempt to rescue the Machine’s source code before it deteriorates beyond repair. Also, Root fights for her life against an onslaught of Samaritan’s agents and Fusco is faced with hard questions following the deaths of Dominic and Elias.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Tony Camerino
9.0/10 48 votes#7 - If-Then-Else
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2015
Samaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, forcing the team to risk their lives in a desperate mission to stop a global economic catastrophe.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Denise Thé
8.7/10 23 votes#8 - SNAFU
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 5/9/2016
The Machine experiences a glitch during rebooting, supplying Reese and Fusco with the numbers of dozens of people not actually involved in crimes, while also locking Finch and Root out after identifying them as threats based on past violent behavior.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Lucas O'Connor
8.6/10 25 votes#9 - A House Divided
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/2014
When an unknown entity prevents The Machine from seeing the full picture of an impending catastrophic event, it sends the team five separate numbers to help them piece together the bigger picture. Meanwhile, Root’s team of hackers arrives in New York.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Amanda Segel
8.6/10 9 votes#10 - The Ex-Files
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 8/27/2010
Eureka's citizens face the return of people from the past; Global Dynamics tests a new device.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Amy Berg
8.6/10 28 votes#11 - 6,741
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 5/16/2016
Shaw escapes her captors, but the team is unsure of her mental state when she begins to act paranoid and reckless.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Lucas O'Connor
8.4/10 26 votes#12 - Prisoner's Dilemma
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/2013
Carter tries to help Reese by engaging in mental warfare with the FBI; Reese has encounters with old and new enemies; Detective Fusco must protect supermodel Karolina Kurkova, the latest person of interest.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: David Slack
8.4/10 5 votes#13 - A Dollar, A Dream
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/18/2007
The 1999 murder of a homeless woman, whose body is found at the bottom of a river in a station wagon, is investigated.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Erica Shelton Kodish
8.4/10 20 votes#14 - One Percent
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2013
Finch and Reese meet their match: a tech billionaire whose curiosity and endless resources could expose their identities and ruin their efforts to save his life.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love
8.4/10 21 votes#15 - In Extremis
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/25/2013
When a person of interest is poisoned, Finch and Reese only have 24 hours to identify the toxin and find the person responsible; Detective Fusco's past catches up to him.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Tony Camerino
8.4/10 31 votes#16 - A Quality of Mercy
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/7/2022
Just as Captain Pike thinks he's figured out how to escape his fate, he's visited by his future self, who shows him the consequences of his actions.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Henry Alonso Myers
8.4/10 26 votes#17 - Nautilus
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2014
Despite not wanting to help with the new numbers, Finch's interest is piqued when the newest person of interest turns out to be a brilliant college student involved with a mysterious scavenger hunt.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love
8.2/10 10 votes#18 - Ship Happens
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 8/14/2009
Henry's ship returns causing Carter to fear it maybe linked to the town's deadly electrical anomalies.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Charles Grant Craig
8.2/10 6 votes#19 - A New Hope
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/23/2012
In the aftermath of the warehouse's destruction, the Warehouse team races against the clock to find a way to undo time itself and put right what went wrong. However, Artie finds himself facing a difficult decision when he is warned that saving the warehouse will unleash an even greater evil.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Jack Kenny
8.2/10 6 votes#20 - We All Fall Down
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 10/1/2012
The team have no time to mourn a fallen comrade as they go after the person responsible, the nemesis that has been stalking Artie since he used Magellan's Astrolabe to save the world.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Holly Harold
8.2/10 8 votes#21 - He Kane Hewa ‘Ole (An Innocent Man)
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/2011
After a high-speed chase, the team makes a gruesome discovery; Chin Ho and his ex-fiancee are awkwardly reunited.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Paul Zbyszewski
8.2/10 8 votes#22 - Will You Play with Me?
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/2018
The group finds what they’re looking for and attempt once and for all to get magic back.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Sera Gamble
8.2/10 18 votes#23 - Wolf and Cub
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2012
The Machine identifies Darren, a teenager whose brother was just murdered, as the next POI. Meanwhile, Finch is growing concerned that the son of his former business partner is dangerously close to finding out about the Machine.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Michael Sopczynski
8.1/10 8 votes#24 - All the Time in the World
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 7/1/2013
Pete, Myka, and Charlotte must track down Sutton, the only man who knows where they can find Paracelsus and exchange the Philosopher's Stone for the stele that will free Claudia from her bronze imprisonment... before she disintegrates.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Holly Harold
8.1/10 30 votes#25 - Liberty
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2013
The Machine, now completely self-governed with its whereabouts unknown, resumes giving Finch its "irrelevant" numbers for people in danger, which include a U.S. naval officer in town for Fleet Week. However, with so many sailors flooding the streets of New York City, finding the officer in time presents an even bigger challenge for Reese and Shaw.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Greg Plageman
The Best Episodes Directed By Chris Fisher
Every TV Episode Directed by Chris Fisher Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Chris Fisher Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Chris Fisher is "return 0", rated 9.649/10 from 37 user votes. It was "written by Denise Thé". "return 0" aired on 6/21/2016 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "YHWH".