The Best Episodes Directed By Kim Manners

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   8.9/10(50 votes)

   #1 - Mystery Spot

   S3:E112/14/2008

   Dean is killed after looking into a case about the disappearance of a man with Sam. The next morning, Sam is shocked to find Dean alive and is hit with the realization that he is reliving the day before.

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   8.8/10(52 votes)

   #2 - Lazarus Rising

   S4:E19/18/2008

   Dean wakes up in his own coffin. How did he return from the dead? What caused the hand-shaped welt on his shoulder? And what happened in the four months he spent in Hell, time he can't remember?

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   8.8/10(43 votes)

   #3 - No Rest for the Wicked

   S3:E165/15/2008

   Sam, Dean, and Bobby hunt down Lilith and fight her and her demons in a final effort to save Dean's life.

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   8.8/10(49 votes)

   #4 - All Hell Breaks Loose (2)

   S2:E225/17/2007

   After the fight between Jake and Sam, Dean has to make the ultimate sacrifice for his brother. Meanwhile the Yellow-Eyed Demon has his new servant and plans to unleash the hordes of Hell.

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   8.7/10(46 votes)

   #5 - Jus in Bello

   S3:E122/21/2008

   FBI Agent Henricksen finally captures Sam and Dean, but is caught in the middle when a horde of demons descends on the small-town jail to eliminate the brothers.

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   8.6/10(52 votes)

   #6 - In My Time of Dying

   S2:E19/28/2006

   In the aftermath of the car crash, the surviving Winchesters go to the hospital, where one is stalked by a Reaper while another must consider sacrificing himself to save the others.

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   8.5/10(52 votes)

   #7 - Devil's Trap

   S1:E225/4/2006

   When Meg boasts that John is her prisoner, the boys visit a friend of their father's to get information about demonic possessions and ways to trap a demon. It turns out Meg is not what she appears.

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   8.3/10(62 votes)

   #8 - Scarecrow

   S1:E111/10/2006

   Sam and Dean finally make contact with their father, but he tells them to stop looking for him and sends them on another ghost-hunting job. Frustrated with their father's evasiveness, Sam sets out alone to find him while Dean stays back to obey his father. Dean investigates a small town in Indiana where couples have gone missing the same day each year and discovers the farmers are sacrificing them to a Pagan God who takes the form of a scarecrow.

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   8.2/10(53 votes)

   #9 - War of the Coprophages

   S3:E121/5/1996

   Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.

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    8.2/10(47 votes)

    #10 - Dreamland II (2)

    S6:E512/6/1998

    Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.

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    8.2/10(48 votes)

    #11 - Dreamland (1)

    S6:E411/29/1998

    While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.

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    8.2/10(50 votes)

    #12 - Field Trip

    S6:E215/9/1999

    When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.

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13. 

    8.2/10(42 votes)

    #13 - Fresh Blood

    S3:E711/15/2007

    The brothers capture a female vampire named Lucy who has no idea how she became one, which leads them to Dixon, a male vampire who is a little too giving. Gordon returns with a vengeance leaving Sam in danger.

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    8.1/10(44 votes)

    #14 - The Magnificent Seven

    S3:E110/4/2007

    Seven demons, based on the Seven Deadly Sins, are released into the world and the brothers must combat them with the aid of a married Hunter couple.

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    8.1/10(62 votes)

    #15 - Humbug

    S2:E203/31/1995

    Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.

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    8.1/10(60 votes)

    #16 - Home

    S4:E210/11/1996

    A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have a history of inbred children.

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    8.0/10(47 votes)

    #17 - Heart

    S2:E173/22/2007

    Sam and Dean investigate a brutal death and discover that the killer is a lycanthrope: a werewolf.

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    8.0/10(50 votes)

    #18 - Tunguska (1)

    S4:E811/24/1996

    Mulder is given a tip about potentially dangerous paramilitary operations on the U.S. soil but during the sting operation is surprised to find out the identity of his mysterious informant - it turns out to be Alex Krycek. Suspicious about his true motives, Mulder reluctantly follows the information provided by Krycek. However, soon he discovers a much bigger conspiracy which takes him to a gulag in Tunguska, Russia where prisoners are being used for experiments involving a substance of alien origin.

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    8.0/10(54 votes)

    #19 - Shadow

    S1:E162/28/2006

    Sam has a reunion with a girl he once met, Meg, but it turns out that she is using the brothers to lure their father John to his doom.

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    8.0/10(52 votes)

    #20 - Redux II (3)

    S5:E211/9/1997

    The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.

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    8.0/10(51 votes)

    #21 - Apocrypha (2)

    S3:E162/16/1996

    Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of A.D. Skinner uncovers evidence that could lead Scully to her sister's murderer.

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    8.0/10(47 votes)

    #22 - Two Fathers (1)

    S6:E112/7/1999

    While the Cigarette-Smoking Man recites to an unseen listener everything about the work of the Syndicate involving a global conspiracy in cooperation with an alien species, Cassandra Spender reappears and is pursued by the scientists who would rather kill her than keep her alive. Cassandra runs to Mulder's apartment and demands that he shoot her because she is the culmination of 50 years work - a living alien/human hybrid - and colonization will begin if the aliens find out about her.

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    8.0/10(38 votes)

    #23 - Requiem

    S7:E225/21/2000

    Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. The Cigarette-Smoking Man arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding the "Project", while Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.

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    7.9/10(51 votes)

    #24 - Unusual Suspects

    S5:E311/16/1997

    Set in 1989, the story of the founding of The Lone Gunmen is finally told as we see how a straight-laced federal employee, a sex mad AV expert, and a nerdy computer hacker meet Susanne Modeski, a strange woman with evidence of a government conspiracy. When their plan to expose the conspiracy fails and Susanne is captured by a group of men-in-black, led by none other than X, they soon become a paranoid group of government watchdogs.

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    7.9/10(44 votes)

    #25 - Monday

    S6:E142/28/1999

    A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend during a bank robbery attempt. As the events restart again and again, Mulder's sense of Deja-vu grows stronger.

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