The Best Episodes Directed By Jud Taylor

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Initiation (1)

   S1:E11/27/1993

   Shaolin priest Kwai Chang Caine reunites with his long-lost son, detective Peter Caine.

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   9.3/10(10 votes)

   #2 - Competence

   S3:E225/10/2002

   A mentally challenged girl with Down's Syndrome is pregnant, and the question is, was she raped or did she consent and is she competent enough to keep her child?

   Director:Jud Taylor

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   9.0/10(7 votes)

   #3 - Lowdown

   S5:E204/6/2004

   Detectives try to decipher a motive for the strangulation of a Bronx assistant DA in an area where hookers stroll. When the death of the prosecutor looks staged using information gleaned from a co-worker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession.

   Director:Jud Taylor

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   8.2/10(12 votes)

   #4 - Legacy

   S2:E411/10/2000

   An abused 7-year-old girl lays comatose as the detectives investigate members of her dysfunctional family to determine the source of the abuse, in a case that hits close to home for Munch.

   Director:Jud Taylor

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   8.0/10(14 votes)

   #5 - The Third Guy

   S1:E162/25/2000

   An elderly woman is found tied up and sexually assaulted in her apartment, and suspicion is initially on the young men that had broken into her home and robbed her, but once the detectives are surprised to learn that the rape was committed after the robbery – by someone else.

   Director:Jud Taylor

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   7.9/10(11 votes)

   #6 - Folly

   S2:E173/23/2001

   Male escorts are assaulted and one is murdered, and the police have a tough time finding the bizarre couple whose sexual fantasy has turned violent. The investigation uncovers a dangerous male escort service where the boss may have reasons for sending her staff on potentially deadly dates.

   Director:Jud Taylor

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   7.4/10(37 votes)

   #7 - Wink of an Eye

   S3:E1111/29/1968

   Invisible "time-accelerated" aliens take over the Enterprise and attempt to abduct the crew for use as "genetic stock".

   Director:Jud Taylor

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   7.4/10(37 votes)

   #8 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

   S3:E151/10/1969

   The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.

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   7.1/10(35 votes)

   #9 - The Cloud Minders

   S3:E212/28/1969

   Captain Kirk races against time to acquire plague-fighting minerals from a world in the midst of a civil uprising against a grievous social class disparity.

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    6.8/10(36 votes)

    #10 - The Mark of Gideon

    S3:E161/17/1969

    A race of overpopulated aliens abduct Captain Kirk to solve their problem.

    Director:Jud Taylor

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    6.6/10(43 votes)

    #11 - The Paradise Syndrome

    S3:E310/4/1968

    An alien device on a primitive planet erases Captain Kirk's memory, and he begins a new life with the planet's indigenous people.

    Director:Jud Taylor

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