9.6/1017 votes#1 - START
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 5/30/2018
In the series finale, the Jennings face a choice that will change their lives forever.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joe Weisberg
9.5/104 votes#2 - Clean Up
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2007
The team considers if a father who cleans crime scenes for a living led to his disappearance with his daughter.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: N/A
9.0/1025 votes#3 - Strawberries and Cream (2)
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/2011
Patrick trades Hightower's secret location to Laroche for the four remaining names on his list. The team then sets up a trap to uncover Red John's real informant, leading to a possible face-to-face showdown between Patrick and Red John.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Bruno Heller
9.0/102 votes#4 - Leaving Normal
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1999
Liz's grandmother is rushed to the hospital after suffering a stroke prompting Liz to reach out to Max for comfort.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Jason Katims
8.6/1016 votes#5 - Intake
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/2022
Dr. Alan Strauss, a therapist mourning the death of his wife, takes on an enigmatic new client. As the two men wrestle with very different, individual problems, their professional relationship is transformed by a choice that binds them deeply together.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joel Fields
8.5/1015 votes#6 - Jennings, Elizabeth
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 5/23/2018
Elizabeth wrestles with competing loyalties, and Philip has an encounter that turns into much more than he had bargained for.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joe Weisberg
8.5/1021 votes#7 - Red Sky in the Morning
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/2010
Patrick Jane and Kristina's first date is interrupted by a report of Red John striking again, which is discovered to be a copycat. But when Kristina reaches out to the real Red John, both she and Jane find themselves in grave danger.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Bruno Heller
8.5/1018 votes#8 - Red Queen
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2011
Evidence in the murder of an antiques dealer found dead in a museum indicates that the suspect may be a member of the CBI team.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Daniel Cerone
8.4/1012 votes#9 - The Soviet Division
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/30/2017
In the season finale, Philip and Elizabeth race against the clock as a life hangs in the balance, while Stan faces an uncertain future.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joe Weisberg
8.4/1019 votes#10 - His Red Right Hand
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2009
The CBI team is faced with a violent and shocking crime in their own office, but must work the case in spite of their alarm of who may be behind it. Meanwhile, Rigsby and Van Pelt are definitely an "item".
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Ashley Gable
8.4/1023 votes#11 - Strawberries and Cream (1)
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/19/2011
A robber with a bomb attached to him is blown up in front of a convenience store, and CBI soon discovers that there may be connections between this case and Red John and agent Hightower.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Ashley Gable
8.4/1018 votes#12 - White Orchids
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/2015
Lisbon accepts Jane's surprise marriage proposal, but a killer's quest for revenge may cost them the happy ending they've worked so hard to achieve.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Bruno Heller
8.4/1027 votes#13 - Detonation
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/2016
Tagomi faces a dilemma: to stay with his family or return to the world he left behind. Desperate to escape the Reich, Juliana strikes a final, dangerous deal with the Resistance. When Ed reveals a secret that puts the Resistance plan in jeopardy, Frank must decide how to deal with his best friend's betrayal.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Wesley Strick
8.3/1021 votes#14 - Red John's Footsteps
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/19/2009
Lisbon fears that the serial killer Red John is drawing Patrick Jane into a trap when the CBI team investigates the murder of a young girl and the abduction of her twin sister.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Bruno Heller
8.2/1013 votes#15 - Dead Hand
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 3/28/2018
It’s autumn, 1987, and as a major arms control summit looms, Elizabeth is pushed to her limits as never before. Philip, meanwhile, has settled into running the newly expanded travel agency – until an unexpected visitor makes a disquieting request.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joe Weisberg
8.2/1012 votes#16 - Hug
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/2002
A guy in charge of a rival fertilizer firm to LuthorCorp's talks an EPA investigator into commiting suicide, then arrives in Metropolis. He is intent on buying up the Kent farm and using the land to build a rival company to Lex's. After shaking hands with the man, Jonathan Kent inexplicably agrees to sell. Lex offers to have his lawyers help. Meanwhile, Clark befriends a local recluse. It turns out that the recluse and Lex's rival were both salesmen who were caught in a car accident and exposed to kryptonite. They both gained the same power of "persuasion" on anyone they touched, as the recluse graphically demonstrates to Clark by having Chloe kiss him! Lex's rival finally manages to shake hands with Lex, and convince him to try and gun down Clark. Clark manages to knock out Lex and the recluse takes out his former partner, "convincing" him to shoot himself. The recluse decides to go back into the world, but not before telling Clark that he shouldn't hide from his powers either.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Doris Egan
8.2/106 votes#17 - Alan Learns to Meditate
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/30/2022
Sam delves more deeply into the reason he entered therapy, but he encounters resistance from Dr. Strauss as he attempts to continue their sessions. A gathering sense of not being alone leads to a revelation about the house.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joel Fields
8.2/1012 votes#18 - Persona Non Grata
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 6/8/2016
Philip and Elizabeth are in a high-stakes race against the FBI to recover a hazardous package. Will they get there in time? And will Paige follow her parents into the family business?
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joe Weisberg
8.1/1023 votes#19 - Red Handed
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2008
While investigating the case of a murdered casino owner, Patrick Jane uses his mentalist skills to ultimately entrap the killer, and win big at the card tables.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Erika Green Swafford
8.1/1021 votes#20 - Bloodshot
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/2009
Patrick Jane must rely on his other senses during the murder investigation of a financial advisor when he loses his sight as a result of an explosion.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Gary Glasberg
8.1/1013 votes#21 - Hourglass
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2001
An old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the same old folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Doris Egan
8.1/1014 votes#22 - Amber Waves
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/2017
The Jennings struggling to contain the risks from Paige's growing relationship with Matthew Beeman. The Centre sends Philip and Elizabeth on an operation unlike any they've ever had before, straining their family and marriage to its limits.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joe Weisberg
8.0/1012 votes#23 - A Roy Rogers in Franconia
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 6/1/2016
As Paige deals with last episode’s trauma, she sees her mother in a new light… and finds she has inherited some of her parents’ skills. Plus, has Oleg reached his breaking point with Stan?
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Joe Weisberg
8.0/1022 votes#24 - The Crimson Hat
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/2012
After another failed attempt to defeat Red John, Patrick Jane hits rock bottom, finds a lover and shoots one of his own.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Bruno Heller
8.0/1021 votes#25 - Red Dawn
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2012
See how Jane met Lisbon and the rest of the CBI team for the first time.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Tom Szentgyorgyi
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"START" is the best rated episode directed by Chris Long. It scored 9.647/10 based on 17 votes. It was written by Joe Weisberg. It aired on 5/30/2018 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Clean Up".