8.7/103 votes#1 - The Kirkoff Case
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1974
Rockford is hired by Larry Kirkoff to find the identity of his parents killer. There are a number of possible suspects including Travis Buckman and Tawnia Baker who were lovers of Mrs. and Mr. Kirkoff respectively. The police actually suspect Larry of the crime, but, lack of evidence prevents them from making a case against him. Rockford's investigation runs him afoul of some pretty bad men who want everyone to go on thinking Larry killed them.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.5/102 votes#2 - Race Ipsa
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 4/25/2006
When Denny shoots his therapist in self-defense, the senior partners, fed up with his rogue behavior, begin to enact plans to remove him from the firm. Meanwhile, Alan enlists the help of Chelina in a racially-charged case involving a black man being arrested for being in a white neighborhood, and Brad asks Denise to teach him to be a better kisser.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: David E. Kelley
8.2/105 votes#3 - Sabotage
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/25/2005
While consulting with the NTSB at the scene of the wreck, Don learns that this tragedy is one of a series of recreated accidents involving railroad negligence. As is the pattern with the previous train wrecks, an undecipherable numerical code is left at the site, which Don recruits Charlie to solve. By breaking the code, Charlie is able to establish that this accident was a recreation of a deadly wreck that left only one survivor several years ago. Don's investigation leads him and his team to a dangerous standoff with their suspect, who has surprising ties to the railway system.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Liz Friedman
8.0/101 votes#4 - Indian Summer
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2001
Nick is duped into representing a young woman who lied to him after they spent the night together. After Nick picks up a young woman named Dina at The Incline, they go back to his place for the night. The woman then reveals herself to be an orphaned, underaged girl whose younger sister is about to be placed in a new home where Dina is not wanted. She gives Nick an ultimatum that he must help her get placed in the same family as her sister or risk her going to the police about his underage encounter. He must uncover her true motives or risk the consequences of their ill-fated night together. Meanwhile, Alvin goes to extreme measures, including soliciting a donation from a wealthy socialite, in an effort to raise money after CLS loses its grant and the money runs out.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: David Hollander
8.0/1010 votes#5 - Friends & Lovers
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2000
Grissom and Warrick take the case of a young man who is found naked in the desert without an obvious cause of death. Sara gets to find out why the body of a woman who was buried last week is in a dumpster. Catherine and Nick investigate the killing of a school's dean by the school's founder.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Andrew Lipsitz
8.0/107 votes#6 - Face Lift
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/8/2001
A body is found in a pottery store in what's apparently a robbery that was interrupted. Fingerprints at the scene seem to match a twenty year old kidnapping case. Sara and Warrick look into a case where a woman burned to death in her home. The woman was burned to an ash but only the chair she was in was burned, the rest of the house is fine. Sara believes they have a case of spontaneous combustion.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/102 votes#7 - Whose God is It Anyway?
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2006
The media spotlight intensifies as Coho's high-profile murder case goes to trial; Alan finds himself defending Jerry Espenson--again--but also sees another familiar face in court; and Denny's feelings for Bethany grow.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: David E. Kelley
8.0/101 votes#8 - The No-Cut Contract
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/1976
A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.8/105 votes#9 - The Drop-In
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/2001
The test of a missile defense program meets 9 of 10 essential criteria. But the 10th is the sticking point: hitting the target. Sam is livid when a speech he wrote is changed without consulting him.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
7.5/109 votes#10 - To Halve and to Hold
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/2001
When a single human bone is discovered in the desert, Grissom and Catherine must cover miles of territory to find the rest of the skeleton. And Warrick and Sarah trace the death of a male stripper to members of a wedding party who may have celebrated a little too hard the night before the nuptials.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.3/103 votes#11 - Roundabout
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1975
An insurance company hires Rockford to locate a missing woman who is due an inheritance. He finds her in Las Vegas where she is an unwitting pawn in a money laundering operation.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.0/101 votes#12 - Green Christmas
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/2007
Alan defends Clarence against a bank in a foreclosure case; a client challenges Denny's claims about the firm's commitment to the environment; concerned parents try to keep a teen from watching porn; Jerry's love life hits a rough patch; Carl weighs in on the fate of Lorraine's employment at Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: David E. Kelley
7.0/101 votes#13 - The Aaron Ironwood School of Success
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1975
Rockford's wealthy foster brother is wanted by the mob and the government.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
6.0/102 votes#14 - The Cancer Man Can
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/2006
Paul recruits Denise to help him defend a cancer patient who used his wealth to guarantee he would not get a placebo during a drug study. Meanwhile, Alan goes too far in trying to convince the senior partners to promote "Hands" to partner, and Denny finds himself falling in love with a woman he meets at a charity event.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Michael Reisz
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"The Kirkoff Case" is the best rated episode directed by Lou Antonio. It scored 8.7/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by Stephen J. Cannell. It aired on 9/13/1974 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Race Ipsa".