The Best Episodes Directed By Rick Rosenthal

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(17 votes)

   #1 - Promise

   S6:E163/15/2007

   Clark has second thoughts about Lana marrying Lex, and Lana has the same concerns. Meanwhile, the doctor involved in the secret behind Lana's pregnancy threatens Lex with his knowledge.

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   8.2/10(19 votes)

   #2 - Normal Again

   S6:E173/12/2002

   After being stung by a demon, Buffy finds herself shifting back and forth between the Sunnydale she knows and a psych ward where she is told the last six years have been an elaborate hallucination. Struggling to make sense of either reality, she must decide which to believe.

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   8.2/10(18 votes)

   #3 - Lexmas

   S5:E912/8/2005

   Lex is given an envelope with damaging information that will destroy Jonathan's life and must decide whether he will use it as it will also bring harm to Clark and Martha. Before he can decide what to do, Lex is shot and falls into a coma. He dreams that his mother visits him and shows him the life he could lead if he walks away from his father and LuthorCorp. In this alternate life, Lex is happily married to Lana with a baby on the way. Meanwhile, Chloe asks Clark to use his powers to deliver Christmas presents to needy kids.

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   8.0/10(20 votes)

   #4 - Visitor

   S2:E184/15/2003

   After a schoolmate claims to be an alien and proves it by using heat vision, Clark investigates and believes the boy is from Krypton. Meanwhile, Helen confronts Lex over the locked room in the mansion that holds his investigation of Clark's secrets.

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   8.0/10(15 votes)

   #5 - Cure

   S7:E410/18/2007

   Dr. Curtis Knox says he can "cure" someone from being a "meteor freak," changing their lives. Chloe takes an interest in this, but Dr. Knox may have another secret.

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   8.0/10(16 votes)

   #6 - Plastique

   S8:E29/25/2008

   Chloe invites an injured 15-year-old to move in with her. Meanwhile, Clark experiences his first day of work with Lois.

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   7.8/10(19 votes)

   #7 - Rush

   S2:E142/4/2003

   Students are engaging in wild, sometimes suicidal stunts, and Chloe and Pete are the next ones to become "infected."..and they use a piece of red meteor rock to get Clark to join them.

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   7.7/10(10 votes)

   #8 - The Quick and the Wed

   S2:E153/22/2006

   Wallace's new girlfriend Jane enlists Veronica's help when her older sister Heidi appears to be a "runaway bride," but the clues suggest something possibly more disturbing happened on the way to the altar. Meanwhile, Keith and Veronica decide that they have no choice but to go to Sheriff Lamb with the evidence they've uncovered about the bus crash. Later, Kendall has a tempting offer for Aaron Echolls.

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9. 

   7.6/10(26 votes)

   #9 - ...Or Just Look Like One

   S1:E310/4/1999

   When a teen model is murdered and another is left for dead at a hospital emergency room, the team uncovers an insidious drug and sex conspiracy in the world of high fashion. Benson and Stabler enter into a modeling underworld of thoughtless parents, drug-dealing doctors and a trendy agency executive.

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10. 

    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #10 - Help

    S7:E410/15/2002

    Buffy begins a new job as school counsellor at Sunnydale High. On her first day she encounters a troubled young girl who is convinced she is about to die.

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11. 

    7.5/10(18 votes)

    #11 - Subterranean

    S6:E912/7/2006

    An illegal immigrant comes to Clark for help, escaping from a nearby farm where he's working... a farm that houses a dark secret.

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12. 

    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #12 - The Hand You're Dealt

    S1:E109/17/2010

    Nathan and Audrey investigate a series of murders, but the prime suspect insists that she's trying to stop the real killer. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Duke's revelation, Audrey continues to investigate the Colorado Kid mystery involving her mother.

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13. 

    6.8/10(19 votes)

    #13 - Russian Love Poem

    S1:E121/21/2000

    When a multi-millionaire is found strangled in his home, Benson and Stabler turn their suspicion to his long list of lovers, which includes both men and women. Detectives discover he was involved with a group of beautiful Russian women that came to the U.S. to take advantage of wealthy Americans.

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