9.0/101 votes#1 - Proud Flesh
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 3/12/2006
Goren and Eames investigate after Trip Slaughter III, the eldest son of radio magnate Jonas Slaughter, is found dead covered in plastic latex. Initial evidence leads detectives directly to Jonas' Chinese wife Anna, but Goren and Eames realise that the evidence leading her way is a little too pat.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Warren Leight
- 8.5/102 votes
#2 - Sound Bodies
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2003
Goren and Bishop pursue a teenage Svengali who convinces three impressionable young girls to commit multiple homicides in the cause of a twisted philosophy.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 8.0/101 votes
#3 - Legion
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/6/2003
When a father and son have their throats slit, the detectives discovers that a group of adolescent boys have disappeared from the same neighborhood. When the locals don't cooperate with the investigation, the cops think the boys are being used by someone operating a bicycle theft ring. The cops are led to a studio owner who brainwashes the boys to prove their worthiness.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 8.0/103 votes
#4 - D.A.W.
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/16/2004
The investigation into the death of a woman searching for the whereabouts of her late mother's antique ring leads Goren and Eames to a physician serial killer who has cleverly concealed the murder of over two hundred of his patients.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 8.0/102 votes
#5 - Collective
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/2005
A woman con artist who hounded fantasy conventions is found dead, and the reason can only be discovered in the stifling confines of the small literary fandom her latest victim belonged to.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Gerry Conway
- 8.0/101 votes
#6 - Dollhouse
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 1/8/2006
After Joseph Sabo is found lying dead in the street, Barek and Logan investigate who was nearby that night that may have had a motive. They are soon led to Danielle Quinn, who had been blackmailing six different men claiming they fathered her child, asking for money. The detectives realise she was the one who killed Sabo, but when none of her victims will testify against her for fear of their wives finding out what they've done, Barek and Logan hit a dead end.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#7 - Bedfellows
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2006
Goren and Eames must sort through complicated family dynamics when the favorite son of a patronizing father's two grown children is found poisoned to death.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Julie Martin
- 8.0/101 votes
#8 - Albatross
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2007
A judge ends up a real-life casualty when he takes part in a reenactment of a famous historic duel. Goren and Eames question the victim's opponent, whose wife is running for mayor of New York City.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#9 - Cadaver
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 6/12/2011
A millionaire philanthropist is reported missing after announcing the winner of his highly coveted medical research grant. Goren and Eames determine homicide when the investigation reveals the victim's body was switched with a medical cadaver from the very institute he was funding.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Julie Martin
- 7.7/103 votes
#10 - Happy Family
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2003
The bludgeoning of a rich family patriarch has the detectives investigating several suspects, each with their own motives: his estranged wife whom he was about to divorce, a male friend of hers who was a parolee, their childrens' nanny, the victim's brother in law who is a doctor, even the oldest son. Goren and Carver call the family of suspects together to sort it all out... in family court.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.7/103 votes
#11 - Stress Position
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/13/2005
When a prison guard is murdered, Eames and Goren investigate, only to discover they've riled the feathers of Mike Logan, a Staten Island police officer who happens to be dating the nurse at the prison. Logan joins the duo to find out exactly what is happening at the prison.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Warren Leight
- 7.5/102 votes
#12 - Probability
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/16/2003
While probing the seemingly random murders of several homeless men, Goren and Eames uncover a scam involving a crooked insurance agent. However, an unsual twist leads the detectives to an unlikely suspect.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.5/102 votes
#13 - Magnificat
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2004
Goren and Eames are frustrated when the law has no provision for the arrest of a man whose abusive control of his family and neglect of his severely depressed wife led her to several murder-suicide attempts which he did nothing to prevent, and eventually resulted in the deaths of three of his sons.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.3/103 votes
#14 - The Unblinking Eye
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/2005
After a young actress is gunned down after an evening out with her boyfriend, Goren and Eames initially focus their attention on a young man who had showed an unusual interest in the couple, but soon realise that there is more to this case than meets the eye. A jealous and seemingly obsessive ex-girlfriend, a best friend who never made it as an actor, and a grieving boyfriend who seems too good to be true lead Goren and Eames down another path, one where the key to exposing the truth about the present depends on exposing the lies of the past.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Jim Sterling
- 7.3/102 votes
#15 - Grow
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2005
When city health inspector Larry Chapel is found dead in an elevator, a quick look into Chapel's home life introduces them to Chapel's recently widowed brother, Evan, and little girl Gwen. Goren isn't very surprised to learn that Nicole Wallace is Evan's fiancée and the future mother to his little girl, but Major Case soon realizes they're off the mark in who they believe the suspect is, and Goren's only hope is to get Nicole to help him trap the killer. Logan joins the Major Case squad, but isn't pleased with being relegated to the background while the other detectives solve the cases, and Deakins tries to find a partner for him.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.3/103 votes
#16 - Acts of Contrition
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2005
After the murder of a nun in the Church, Goren and Eames investigate and realise that someone has tried to cover up part of the crime. Their investigation leads them to a young man named Eddie Roberts, who in turn inadvertently leads them to his older half-brother, Jimmy Jones, who was assaulted in a baseball field seventeen years earlier and left with debilitating injuries. Goren and Eames soon realise that the key to the nun's murder is the young woman who watched Jimmy's attack, and the only way they can get Eddie to take responsibility for his crime is to find this missing witness.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Warren Leight
7.0/101 votes#17 - Sleeping With the Enemy
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1993
Maurice's son comes to ask for his permission on his choice of a bride. There is a little hitch, Ron thinks that the new bride maybe the daughter of North Korean Colonel Pak Soon Ye, the butcher of Yang Dok. To help in the preservation of his native tongue, Ed decides to dub The Prisoner of Zenda. Holling's "needs" (an average of 4 times a day) are being held back and he seeks a way to relieve them. Ed runs into trouble with the star of his movie, a man with experience working in Hollywood and no time for Ed's inexperience. Maurice runs into mixed emotions on his feelings about his own personal feelings and the feelings of his son.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Mitchell Burgess
- 7.0/101 votes
#18 - Bright Boy
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2002
The double murder of a social services worker and a deputy mayor lead the detectives to suspect a couple who may have a grudge against the social worker for taking away their children. When they learn that the social worker had taken special interest in a child prodigy being considered for admission to a prestigious, accelerated school, they examine both the boy and his obsessive father.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.0/101 votes
#19 - Malignant
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2002
A robbery that involved two fatalities leads to the discovery of a long-running case of tampering with drugs. Goren and Eames have to figure out a way of catching a pharmacist who has been diluting cancer medication without using the exhumated bodies of patients who had been given the medicine.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.0/101 votes
#20 - Cherry Red
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/2003
The detectives try to figure out a mystery after an old woman dies in a fire. The mystery gets deeper when a young woman who is left some of the old woman estate is killed. The case takes them to a state public administrator who has invented a form of grave-robbing. The detective suspects the administrator has a weakness for valuable cars, but to make his case work, he has to exploit his quarry's personal relationships.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.0/102 votes
#21 - Pas de Deux
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/15/2004
A terminally ill bank robber angered by the ravages of his illness exerts what little control he has left in life by manipulating the unwitting accomplices he enlists to assist him with committing his final robberies, forcing Goren and Eames into a race against time to foil his plan for a suicide-by-cop that will take both his life and that of his latest accomplice.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Warren Leight
- 7.0/103 votes
#22 - The Saint
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/14/2004
A man commits fraud, forgery, and murder to discredit the organization that took advantage of his mentally ill mother, impoverished his family, and ruined his childhood.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.0/102 votes
#23 - Semi-Detached
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2004
The investigation into the deaths of a shock jock and the housekeeper who supplied the pain killers to which he was once addicted leads Goren and Eames to a detox clinic staff member whose mental illness hits Goren close to home.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
- 7.0/101 votes
#24 - Siren Call
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2006
Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a teen with a party-girl reputation.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Julie Martin
- 6.0/101 votes
#25 - Maledictus
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/21/2002
Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a Russian mob princess, initially believing she may have been slain in a revenge act against her father, but their attention later turns to a classmate who could be destroyed by the woman's upcoming tell-all book.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
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"Proud Flesh" is the best rated episode directed by Frank Prinzi. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Warren Leight. It aired on 3/12/2006 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Sound Bodies".