The Best Episodes Directed By Matthew Penn
Every TV Episode Directed by Matthew Penn Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Matthew Penn Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Matthew Penn is "Crazy Like a Witness", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by N/A". "Crazy Like a Witness" aired on 5/8/2011 and is rated 1.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Born to Run".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Crazy Like a Witness
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 5/8/2011
Mary's paranoid witness wants to reconnect with his son.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
8.7/10 3 votes#2 - Born to Run
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/23/2010
The Boston Marathon turns into a crime scene when a shooter begins targeting runners. Racing to catch the killer before another shooting, Jane and Maura must conduct their investigation in secret so as not to cause a mass panic.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: David Gould
8.6/10 5 votes#3 - Double Blind
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/2009
Brenda and Fritz's attention is diverted by problems on the job even though their wedding day has finally arrived, and bad blood between the members of the Priority Homicide Division threatens to cause one of the officers to leave the department.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Ken Martin
8.5/10 2 votes#4 - And the Truth Will (Sometimes) Set You Free
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/6/2008
Both Lindsay and Jill question their ethics over a rape suspect who is found murdered. Meanwhile, Lindsay considers taking her relationship with Pete to a new level.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Melinda Hsu Taylor
8.0/10 5 votes#5 - Cruel and Unusual
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/19/1995
The death of an autistic youth in custody reveals a multitude of unusual and possibly illegal therapies being used, but also parents reluctant to pursue a prosecution.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 6 votes#6 - Blood Money
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1999
A taxi driver finds that his passenger is dead, leading the detectives to a case involving an insurance scam and Holocaust victims.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 6 votes#7 - C.O.D.
Season 14 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/2004
Briscoe bids farewell to the 27 as the prosecution of two women for killing each other's husbands comes to a successful conclusion.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Marc Guggenheim
8.0/10 6 votes#8 - Red Ball
Season 16 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2005
A young girl is abducted in broad daylight, and the only link to the girl is an ex-convict who wants a deal before he's willing to talk.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Dick Wolf
8.0/10 6 votes#9 - Invaders
Season 16 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2006
The family of a man who once turned his customers into the police is slain, and the ensuing fracas pits McCoy against a corrupt D.E.A. agent.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 5 votes#10 - Look What He Dug Up This Time
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2009
Ellen convinces the FBI to radically change their approach in the investigation. Meanwhile, Daniel Purcell reenters Patty's life and becomes critical to her case against UNR.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Daniel Zelman
7.8/10 6 votes#11 - Justice
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/1999
Jamie Ross returns as a defense attorney to represent a previous client who has key evidence concerning a prisoner on death row.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Gerry Conway
7.8/10 6 votes#12 - Fluency
Season 15 Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/2005
Fontana and Green are baffled by a series of flu-related deaths until they discover that the victims were given fake vaccine. McCoy goes after the con man who distributed the vaccine for murder.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Nick Santora
7.8/10 5 votes#13 - Encore
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 2/28/1996
A jogger killed in Central Park turns out to be the second wife of a former comedy club owner, who was acquitted of killing his first wife. And convicting him this time may hinge on tracing the path of a Columbian coin used as a subway token slug.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 5 votes#14 - Punk
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1998
The murder of a corrections officer leads detectives to a women's prison where a guard was linked to an inmate Carmichael put away on drug charges and a confrontation with defense attorney Danielle Melnick.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Matt Witten
7.7/10 31 votes#15 - Blood Donut
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/11/2013
Piper wants the prison's outdoor running track reopened, but in order to get it, she'll have to give her corrections officer something he wants.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 6 votes#16 - Ramparts
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 1/13/1999
Briscoe and Curtis reopen a case that was closed in the '60s when a vehicle is dredged from the Hudson River containing the remains of a murdered man.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Kathy McCormick
7.7/10 6 votes#17 - Open Season
Season 13 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/2002
A defense attorney who had just acquitted a cop killer is gunned down outside a Manhattan restaurant. The detectives start with police officers in the precinct of the injured officer, then to his brother, before they are led to a white supremacist who is part of a national network. McCoy is faced with the unlikely prospect that the defendant's attorney, his friend of 20 years and a friend of the slain lawyer, played a part in the murder of a Florida district attorney following the defendant's arrest. McCoy is able to make a deal that perserves the integrity of his adversary, but not without a cost.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 5 votes#18 - Homesick
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/1996
After an infant is found dead in his crib, it's determined he was poisoned, and all evidence points to the child's au pair.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 5 votes#19 - Corruption
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1996
Curtis, angered by the attitude of an old colleague of Briscoe's, looks beyond the findings of an IAB investigation and turns up evidence of police corruption that puts the DA's office into competition with an ambitious judge and Briscoe under investigation for stealing evidence from a police lockup.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 7 votes#20 - Harvest
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1997
A discrepancy concerning the time of death of a drive-by shooting victim leads McCoy and Ross to initiate prosecutions against both the shooter and the doctor who harvested her organs as transplant donations.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 7 votes#21 - Shadow
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1997
The murder of a bail bondsman looks fairly routine until the chance words of the chief suspect uncovers possible case-fixing between a shady lawyer and an unknown contact within the judicial system.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 6 votes
#22 - Amends
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/2000
Under pressure from the department's top brass, a 20-year-old murder case, initally investigated by Briscoe's now retired boss, is reopened involving the slaying of a teen-age girl with the spoiled son of a politically connected family as the prime suspect.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 4 votes#23 - Model Behavior
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/2011
Danny and Jackie investigate the cut-throat world of fashion after Linda's runway model niece and a reporter are poisoned at a fashion show.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Brian Burns
7.5/10 4 votes#24 - The Genuine Article
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2011
Maggie is perilously close to losing her job for insubordination, but still manages to maneuver her way onto the flight down to Rio de Janeiro. She reflects back on the rocky path she took to land her dream job, but it's her decision to do whatever it takes to keep it that surprises even her. Meanwhile, Kate has earned her stripes as a courier, but when she is given a difficult mission involving Niko, a Yugoslavian diplomat, she's unsure how to manage the task, as she tries to juggle their deepening personal relationship with her assignment. Finally, Ginny and Dean continue to play with fire in Rio, but Ginny's game playing with both Dean and her boss and lover, a Pan Am executive, is a source of contention with Dean.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Todd Ellis Kessler
7.4/10 25 votes#25 - Saviors
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/2009
Cameron postpones her vacation with Chase in order to ask House to accept the case of an environmental radical who collapsed at a protest with unexplainable symptoms. Although suspicious of her motives, House agrees. Since she pushed him to take the case so emphatically, House forces Cameron to take the lead and run many of the tests on the patient. Meanwhile, House is unsure of Wilson’s new healthy diet.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Eli Attie