9.0/102 votes#1 - Grounds for Deception
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/13/2009
When Stella discovers that New Yorkers are being murdered over ancient Greek artifacts, she hands over her badge to follow a clue that leads to Greece and, together with Mac, she uncovers one of the greatest mysteries in history.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: N/A
8.9/108 votes#2 - Kai e‘e (Tidal Wave)
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/23/2011
Five-0 struggles to stay a step ahead of a major tsunami that has the island evacuating its shores as they investigate the disappearance of the head of the Tsunami Warning Center.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Melissa Glenn
8.9/109 votes#3 - Ua ʻeha ka ʻili i ka maka o ka ihe (The Skin Has Been Hurt by The Point of The Spear)
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2019
A new ally helps McGarrett and Five-0 when mob bosses on the island are being targeted by an assassin. Also, Five-0 says goodbye to one of their own.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: N/A
8.7/107 votes#4 - Mea Makamae (Treasure)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2011
The Five-0 take to the beautiful waters off Hawaii to investigate the murder of a deep sea diver known for his valuable shipwreck finds.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Alex Kurtzman
8.6/1010 votes#5 - Compulsion
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/2005
A serial killer strikes again, and the CSI team tries new technology using evidence from a prior killing. They find a fingerprint belonging to Jesse Acheson, who becomes the prime suspect. A boy confesses to the killing of his brother, but evidence suggests that he may not have committed the crime.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Josh Berman
- 8.6/105 votes
#6 - Snow Day
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/16/2007
After Flack makes an enormous drug bust, and locks it up at CSI, the drug lords infiltrate the building at gunpoint to get them back. Now the team must resolve the hostage situations, all the while with Mac, Stella, and Hawkes trapped inside.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Pam Veasey
8.6/108 votes#7 - Ho‘opa‘i (Vengeance)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/18/2011
When a crime lord moves against the family of an undercover NYPD detective who infiltrated his organization, it's up to Five-0 to stop the policeman from exacting revenge.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: N/A
8.6/108 votes#8 - Ka 'oia' i' o ma loko (The Truth Within)
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2013
A conspiracy theorist helps Five-0 when a missing artifact is the key to solving a double murder.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Steven Lilien
8.5/104 votes#9 - Bad Beat
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2005
Mac and Stella investigate a murder of a host of a high stakes poker game after a player was caught cheating and kicked out of the game. While Danny and Hawkes follow the clues that'll lead them to solve the death of a weather girl.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: N/A
8.4/108 votes#10 - Ua Lawe Wale (Taken)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/2011
Gov. Denning assigns Officer Lori Weston to Five-0 to make sure McGarrett and team follow the new rules set by him and also apply her excellent profiling skills to the task force. Meanwhile, as Five-0 investigates the kidnapping of a teenage paddleboard champion, Internal Affairs Capt. Vince Fryer continues his interrogation of Kono.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Melissa Glenn
8.4/105 votes#11 - Roulette Wheel + Wire
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2017
Using cuff links and wire, MacGyver and the team go undercover in a high stakes casino to steal diamonds from a vault before a terrorist group gets there first and trades the jewels for a weapon of mass destruction.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Justin Lisson
- 8.3/106 votes
#12 - What You See Is What You See
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/18/2005
While Mac dines at his local breakfast spot, a gunman opens fire, leaving a waitress critically injured and a man dead, and Mac having to choose whether to chase after the suspect or save the life of the young woman. Meanwhile, before the chaos, Mac was approached by a shy patron who awkwardly engaged him in conversation. After feeling that he saved her life during the shoot out, she asks him to join her for a drink and Mac must decide if he is ready to start dating after his wife's tragic death.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Andrew Lipsitz
- 8.3/103 votes
#13 - Lost Son
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2004
After a large yacht slams into a major Miami bridge, the team finds that the man steering the boat was shot and killed before the accident. The victim's wife reveals that their son had been kidnapped and her husband was handing over the ransom – three million dollars worth of jewels. But when the team learns that the jewels were fake, the investigation leads them into a dangerous situation at a jewelry shop that may contain crucial evidence, where Horatio must face the unimaginable when one of the team is killed in the line of duty.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Ann Donahue
8.2/105 votes#14 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2003
Lucas asks Keith to play with him in the annual "Father and Son" basketball game, and realizes he got the better father figure after Dan publicly humiliates Nathan on the court. Also, Peyton has a hard time dealing with the anniversary of her mother's death and finds a comforting ally in Whitey.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: N/A
8.2/104 votes#15 - Spirit In the Night
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/6/2004
The gang hits the road to Charlotte where Brooke is determined to win first place at the annual cheerleading competition, but when one of her squad falls ill, Peyton begs Haley to step into the cheerleader's shoes for a day. Meanwhile, after Whitey assigns Lucas and Nathan to the same room, tempers flare and Haley is caught in the middle.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Terrence Coli
8.2/1010 votes#16 - Early Rollout
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2004
The whole team must investigate a crime where a husband and his porn star wife were murdered execution style. Things get personal for Catherine when Grissom talks to her about her evaluation. Brass believes that Sara may have some type of problem.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/105 votes
#17 - The Closer
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/2005
The team examines the murder of an avid Boston Red Sox fan found dead with a ruptured spleen following a tough loss against New York. Danny must put his baseball skills to the test to piece together the evidence as the CSIs try to find out how and why he was murdered. Meanwhile, after testifying in a murder trial, Mac is confronted by the defendant, Quinn Sullivan, who questions the validity of the evidence. Mac is torn between trusting science or his desire to help a man facing jail time who swears he's innocent. Also, when a truck kills a barely clad woman early one morning, the team investigates why she was running through the streets and from whom.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Pam Veasey
8.2/105 votes#18 - 2.0
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/25/2017
Determined to prevent a murder, Laura teams up with Nico, a former cop, and they search for the serial killer’s next victim. Can they save her, catch the killer and alter fate?
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Stephen Tolkin
8.2/106 votes#19 - Bravo Lead + Loyalty + Friendship
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2018
When Jack receives an emergency distress signal from one of his old Delta buddies who is falsely accused of terrorism in a foreign country, MacGyver and Jack quickly recruit the rest of Jack’s old Delta team and stage an unsanctioned rescue op.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Brian Durkin
8.1/109 votes#20 - Dog Eat Dog
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2005
Catherine and Brass investigate the case in which a man is found dead in a dumpster. It soon turns out the man had a serious food problem. The trail of his death soon leads to a hotdog-eating contest.Meanwhile, Nick and Sara investigate a not-so-amicable divorce with a bizarre twist. So bizarre it eventually lead to murder when both are found dead and it looks like the dog killed one of them.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Dustin Lee Abraham
8.0/102 votes#21 - Federal Response
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2006
The children of Jericho start to return back to school. A power line that has fallen causes an accident on the playground when the power returns. Jake has an argument with his mother regarding a secret that Jake hasn't disclosed to his dad.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Mike Ostrowski
- 8.0/105 votes
#22 - Not What It Looks Like
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2006
Three women who are dressed as Holly Golightly rob a jewelry store and injure other shoppers in the process. The CSI’s must work through the confusing investigation to hunt them down. Meanwhile Mac has to identify a mummified body discovered in an apartment building that was being torn down.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Pam Veasey
- 8.0/103 votes
#23 - Blacklist
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2009
The case of a cyber killer, who appears to be targeting medical healthcare workers, turns personal when the suspect invokes the name of Mac's father who had died nearly two decades earlier.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: N/A
8.0/104 votes#24 - Witness To Murder
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2004
A diamond broker carrying two million dollars in merchandise is murdered after his car is hit by another vehicle and he gets out to confront the driver. The only witness to the crime is a developmentally challenged man who says the killer is someone named Colton. Meanwhile, outside of town, Speedle and Delko investigate the death of a teenage girl discovered at a rest stop with a broken neck. Shortly after the victim is taken from the scene, her body disappears during transport to Miami.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Mike Ostrowski
8.0/101 votes#25 - Houston, We Have A Problem
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/24/2015
A battle between the Messengers and the Four Horsemen takes place as the Horsemen try to break the fifth seal in the series finale.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Trey Callaway
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"Grounds for Deception" is the best rated episode directed by Duane Clark. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 5/13/2009 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Kai e‘e (Tidal Wave)".