9.0/108 votes#1 - Pariah
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2005
When a mysterious killer strikes at both Lana and Jason, Alicia is the leading suspect and even Clark comes to doubt her innocence. Feeling betrayed, she secretly tricks Clark into revealing his powers in front of one of his friends. And Genevieve returns to town with an offer for Lex, who in turn has an offer for Jason.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Holly Harold
9.0/102 votes#2 - Independence Day
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2000
After Michael has a violent showdown with his father, Max and Isabel's father helps Michael set up his emancipation; the fourth alien emerges as a shapeshifter who watches over Max, Michael and Isabel.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Toni Graphia
9.0/102 votes#3 - Tess, Lies and Videotape
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/17/2000
Max develops an uncontrollable attraction to Tess that includes intense sexual daydreams, and Sheriff Valenti learns that Topolsky was killed in a suspicious fire. Meanwhile, someone has secretly placed a video camera inside Michael's apartment.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Richard Whitley
9.0/102 votes#4 - Michael, The Guys and The Great Snapple Caper
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/2001
Michael works as a security guard, but when he tries to loosen up his co-workers, he causes more harm than good. Meanwhile, Max and Liz continue to see each other despite her parents' wishes.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
9.0/102 votes#5 - Ch-Ch-Changes
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/5/2002
When Liz begins to undergo some strange, alien-like changes to her body, she decides she needs to get as far from Max as she can. In order to separate from him she must leave Roswell to go to boarding school in Vermont. Meanwhile, Maria gets offered a recording contract in New York, but she isn't sure she likes what the record label people are doing to her music to make it "popular."
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Gretchen J. Berg
9.0/105 votes#6 - False Flag
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/13/2007
Michael is hired to track down a woman's estranged husband, who has disappeared with their son. Michael soon finds himself pitted against somebody just as skilled and dangerous as he is.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Matt Nix
8.7/103 votes#7 - Robbing Hood
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2008
A lawyer for the late Gustav Hoffer suspects his client's death was not part of a robbery gone wrong as was reported, but rather murder. He hires Emerson Cod and Ned to find out who killed Hoffer.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Jim Danger Gray
8.6/1012 votes#8 - Stray
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/16/2002
A young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy's powers and that he's immune to them. But Ryan's stepparents have plans to use the boy's powers for financial gain against...Lex.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Philip Levens
8.6/108 votes#9 - Solitude
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2005
When Martha comes down with a strange disease, Professor Fine convinces Clark that Jor-El is responsible and that the Fortress must be trying to eliminate the father of Kal-El. But Professor Fine has an ulterior motive which comes to fruition when they arrive.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Darren Swimmer
8.5/102 votes#10 - How the Other Half Lives
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/2001
Max tries to stop Alex and Kyle from being buried alive in a cave filled with glowing blue crystals; Isabel is kidnapped by Grant Sorenson possessed by the alien parasite queen; Michael is shot while trying to protect Laurie.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
8.4/108 votes#11 - Sneeze
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2006
In the aftermath of Zod's activities, Clark develops a new power. Lois gets a new job, Lana takes a new step in her relationship with Lex, and Lex has to deal with a new danger. Meanwhile, an old friend of Lex's arrives in Metropolis.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Darren Swimmer
8.3/1020 votes#12 - 10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M.
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/14/2002
Jack delivers a cell phone that is unknowingly rigged to explode to Palmer. Kim manages to escape. The identity of the real mole inside CTU is exposed.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Robert Cochran
8.2/109 votes#13 - Aqua
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2005
At a party at Crater Lake, Lois is saved from drowning by Arthur "A.C." Curry. Arthur has incredible swimming abilities, but also a secret agenda aimed at...Lex. Meanwhile, Professor Fine discussed Lex's weapons-manfucturing operations with Clark.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Darren Swimmer
8.2/104 votes#14 - Brother's Keeper
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/13/2003
When Tru's brother, Harrison, falls in love with a beautiful young woman, only Tru knows that he could be implicated in the death of the woman's estranged husband. Tru must race against time in order to keep her brother from committing murder or being killed himself
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Jon Harmon Feldman
8.1/1019 votes#15 - 9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M.
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/2002
In order to buy himself more time Jack puts Victor and Andre in contact via Mason with a hospitalized Alexis Drazen. Palmer becomes involved with a campaign staffer. Tony and Nina learn that Kim has been recaptured.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Joel Surnow
8.1/1024 votes#16 - Godsend
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/2007
Matt reveals his abilities to his wife. HRG confers with Mohinder. Now that she knows the truth, Claire tries to make sense of her life. Hiro seeks the sword that he is destined to own. Niki must face the consequences of her decision to turn herself in to the police. Simone and Nathan are worried about Peter, who has been in a coma for two weeks. Peter meets a new hero. Micah visits his mother.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Tim Kring
8.0/103 votes#17 - Harvest
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2000
After the death of congresswoman Whitaker, Max and the gang visit her hometown, Copper Summit, Arizona, where they find themselves trapped in enemy territory when they learn the whole town population are Skins.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Fred Golan
7.9/108 votes#18 - Jinx
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2004
Mikail Mxyzptlk, a foreign exchange student and bookie, has the power to control others and uses it to sabotage football games, including the one Clark is quarterbacking. Clark and Chloe figure out his secret, but he threatens to kill Chloe unless Clark throws the next game. Mikail came to Smallville via LuthorCorp, and Lex will do almost anything to learn his secret.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Mark D. Warshaw
7.9/104 votes#19 - Rear Window
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/22/2004
When a male corpse with the same name as a female neighbor of Tru's comes into the morgue, Tru suspects identity theft. When the day restarts, Tru's investigation takes an unexpected turn that makes it difficult to sort out just who is the victim and who is the criminal. Meanwhile, Tru and Davis piece together some information about Jack, who hasn't been forthcoming about everything in his past.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: William Sind
7.8/1030 votes#20 - Hiros
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2006
Confused after losing track of another block of time, Niki finds the police on her doorstep, searching for her fugitive husband D.L. Hawkins. Claire confesses to her father. Hiro and his friend get jumped by some Vegas high-rollers. Peter receives a life-changing message from an unlikely source. Meanwhile, Matt secretly uses his mind-reading ability to anticipate his wife's needs. Dismayed by recent events, Suresh makes plans to return to India to lay both his father's remains and his research to rest.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Michael Green
7.8/1021 votes#21 - Somebody's Watching
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/2006
Reid finds himself in danger when he falls for a starlet whose stalker has turned into a killer.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Edward Napier
7.8/104 votes#22 - Valentine
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/2004
Tru goes on a romantic get-a-way with Luc only to run into Harrison and Lindsey and a serial killer.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Robert Doherty
7.5/106 votes#23 - Skull and Bones
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1998
Frank and Emma investigate a mass grave that may have links to the Millennium Group.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Chip Johannessen
7.5/104 votes#24 - The Crossing
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2006
Molly and Baylock realize the Threshold detainees must be moved immediately to a more secure facility in West Virginia when a prisoner attacks and infects a security guard, then tries to break himself and other infected prisoners out of their cells.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Bragi F. Schut
7.5/1015 votes#25 - Playtime
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/22/2012
When Kiera and Carlos investigate two mysterious murder-suicides, they quickly realize that both may be the result of a lethal computer program turning video game programmers into killers.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Andrea Stevens
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"Pariah" is the best rated episode directed by Paul Shapiro. It scored 9/10 based on 8 votes. It was written by Holly Harold. It aired on 2/2/2005 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Independence Day".