10.0/10 2 votes#1 - Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/23/2011
It is now November 1956 and The Hour is about to broadcast live and tensions increase for everyone. Bel wants to see the BBC's commitment to impartiality meaning that they cover both the arguments for and against the war in Egypt. Both McCain and Douglas have other ideas though. Freddie has lined up a mystery guest for the show but there is a chance he might not show up. Hector has been sleeping in the office and there is lots of tension between him and Bel following Marnie's visit. Freddie ends up in Clarence's office and is unsure what to do with the information he is given. After when Lix reveals the full scope of Peter and Tom's Egyptian mission, and the real reason for Ruth's death, Freddie is shocked.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Abi Morgan
9.0/10 2 votes#2 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/16/2011
Public anger against the Suez crisis leads to violence in the streets. Marnie Madden reveals that she has found out about Bel's affair with Hector. And Freddie Lyons finally begins to get to the heart of the Ruth Elms murder case.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Abi Morgan
8.6/10 5 votes#3 - Underwater Menace
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2008
When a boy's disappearance down a drain coincides with an underwater Anomaly, Stephen and the ARC search the local canal for the aquatic predator behind the disappearance, while Cutter is convinced the creature is somewhere else. Cutter turns out to be right in the worst possible way when Abby is taken by Mer Creatures from the future and held captive in a flooded warehouse cellar. Meanwhile, Cutter and Connor learn that there is a conspiracy within the ARC.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Cameron McAllister
8.5/10 8 votes#4 - Never My Love
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 5/10/2020
Claire struggles to survive brutal treatment from her captors, as Jamie gathers a group of loyal men to help him rescue his wife. Meanwhile, Roger and Brianna's journey takes a surprising turn.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Toni Graphia
8.4/10 5 votes#5 - Jurassic Mall
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2008
As Cutter struggles with losing Claudia Brown and with the other consequences of the failed mission into the past and tries to get the team to see that history has been altered, the team are sent to a shopping mall to contain an infestation of deadly, ruthless Raptors. Arguments among the team intensify when Cutter wants all the Raptors tranquilised and sent back through the Anomaly alive.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Adrian Hodges
8.4/10 5 votes#6 - Catfight
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2008
Connor builds the team a new device designed to detect and locate new Anomalies, but the team become doubtful that the device works when it detects no Anomaly when a paintballer is torn to shreds in the luxurious Blue Sky Park resort. The team soon learn that the mysterious predator stalking the Park is a powerful and deadly sabre-toothed cat, and the race is on to find who is harbouring and protecting the sabretooth before it kills again.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Bev Doyle
8.3/10 16 votes#7 - Episode 1
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2019
A new spate of nightmarish murders brings DCI John Luther to once again face the depths of human depravity on the streets of London. As the body count rises, and gangster George Cornelius applies his own pressure, can Luther catch the killer and save his own neck?
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Neil Cross
8.3/10 16 votes#8 - Episode 3
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/3/2019
With his friend in peril and a young woman kidnapped by the relentless serial killer, can Luther protect the innocent while preventing Cornelius's violent revenge from consuming him? Who is Luther willing to save, and who can't he bear to lose?
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Neil Cross
8.3/10 7 votes#9 - Free Will
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 3/1/2020
The growing Regulator threat forces Jamie, Claire and Roger to embark on a mission to raise a militia.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Luke Schelhaas
8.2/10 5 votes#10 - Ptera-ble News
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/10/2007
The team investigate the brutal death of a golfer at a golf course, and discover an aerial Anomaly and a Pteranodon in the skies above. Claudia is convinced that the Pteranodon is responsible for the golfer's death and wants deadly force used against it, but Cutter and Stephen are convinced otherwise. Cutter's suspicions are confirmed correct when Claudia is trapped in the golf course's clubhouse by a deadly, flesh-eating swarm of Anurognathus. Meanwhile, Connor accidentally frees Rex from Abby's flat, forcing Abby and Connor to chase Rex across the golf course.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Chris Lang
8.2/10 6 votes#11 - Dodo Madness
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2007
Helen Cutter directs the team to an Anomaly at a football stadium and escapes through, leaving behind a flock of Dodos. The team soon discover that the Dodos are host to a deadly parasite, and struggle to stop a pandemic when Tom is infected and - convinced that the government are incubating a mind-controlling biological weapon inside him - goes on the run from the team.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Bev Doyle
8.1/10 8 votes#12 - Sanctuary
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/9/2019
As the doctors continue to weather the storm without power, Max relies on an unlikely source to get the lights back on. Reynolds must get creative as he continues to work to save Hugh with very few resources.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Shaun Cassidy
8.1/10 10 votes#13 - Three Dots
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2018
A patient's treatment plan takes an unexpected turn when Max gets overly invested. Meanwhile, Reynolds celebrates his birthday with some help from the hospital and Kapoor grapples with a case that hits close to home.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Cami Delavigne
8.0/10 1 votes#14 - 1984
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/2004
The UCOS team investigate the murder of a young peace protestor, killed at the outskirts of a nuclear base in 1984, and realise that they may be in danger of exposing a Special Branch cover up.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#15 - Episode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2011
Cass's past smashes into his present when he finds a note threatening to expose his real identity. Stella and Tate must now face the prospect of another, superior, hostile life force on Carpathia and discover a way to communicate with it.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: David Farr
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#16 - Episode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/2011
A new virus - C24 - hits Forthaven. Berger seizes his opportunity, blaming the virus on the ACs, and exposing Fleur's true origins in an attempt to undermine confidence in President Tate.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Ben Richards
8.0/10 16 votes#17 - Episode 2
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/2/2019
Luther must confront a demon from his past, as both the police and Cornelius converge on his home. With Halliday convinced that the body in the morgue isn't their killer, can Luther put his own troubles to one side and find the true murderer before he strikes again?
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Neil Cross
8.0/10 15 votes#18 - Episode 4
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/4/2019
Reeling from the death of his friend, Luther races to save the others from Cornelius's terrible retribution. With Luther's increasing absence from the case, Halliday heads the hunt for a killer on the loose - a killer determined to complete his final macabre masterpiece.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Neil Cross
7.9/10 7 votes#19 - The Company We Keep
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/8/2020
Roger leads Jamie's militia to the trading post of Brownsville and finds himself embroiled in a bitter feud. Jamie and Claire arrive to find that Roger's unusual strategy may have cost them the loyalty of the militia.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Barbara Stepansky
7.9/10 15 votes#20 - Requiem
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/19/2018
Kreizler mourns the loss of a friend. Sara pushes the team to forge ahead. Moore warns his friend the killer will strike again. Cyrus seeks revenge.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 5 votes#21 - Future Foe
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/17/2007
When the original Anomaly in the Forest of Dean reopens and a string of disappearances plague the area, Helen Cutter returns with a warning for Nick Cutter and the team about the deadly, elusive new predator the team are struggling to track: it is not a creature from the past, but from the future. Nick and Helen both want to go on an Anomaly containment mission into the past to stop the future from altering it, which ends in terrible consequences.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Adrian Hodges
7.8/10 6 votes#22 - Journeycake
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 5/3/2020
A revelation about Jemmy forces Roger and Brianna to choose between staying in the eighteenth century and returning to the safety of the future. Jamie finds that unrest in the backcountry has given rise to a new power.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Diana Gabaldon
7.7/10 3 votes#23 - The Legend of Dmitry Petrovich
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2015
Season 2 kicks off with Martin Odum hiding out in present-day London and searching for clues about his identity with help from a CIA agent (Kelly Overton). Elsewhere, an investigation is launched into a Russian gangster.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Kenneth Biller
7.7/10 6 votes#24 - Replacement
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2019
Max takes a chance on a new assistant and goes toe-to-toe with the board on a new plan; Iggy struggles to figure out what is causing a unit-wide illness; Kapoor receives some shocking news.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Aaron Ginsburg
7.5/10 7 votes#25 - Hearts and Minds
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/2017
King Henry VII sets out on Royal Progress, in an attempt to establish himself as the new sovereign, but finds a dangerous, deeply divided kingdom. Lizzie's loyalties are further complicated by the child she is expecting.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: Emma Frost
The Best Episodes Directed By Jamie Payne
Every TV Episode Directed by Jamie Payne Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Jamie Payne Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Jamie Payne is "Episode 6", rated 10/10 from 2 user votes. It was "written by Abi Morgan". "Episode 6" aired on 8/23/2011 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Episode 5".