The Best Episodes of Alcatraz Season 1

Revealing doors are opened and lives hang in the balance as Rebecca will stop at nothing in pursuit of the man who killed her partner.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt

Writer: Jennifer Johnson

Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing the secrets behind all the returning criminals. Meanwhile, Hauser makes a discovery beneath the halls of Alcatraz that brings him ever closer to the truth.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

When Hauser, Madsen, and Soto track former inmate Paxton Petty, a landmine bomber who has returned and is placing bombs throughout populated areas of San Francisco, methods of the past are applied to the present.

Director: N/A

Writer: Jennifer Johnson

Herman and Pinky Ames, who almost escaped in 1963, return to Alcatraz in the present day and find something strangely wrong.

Director: Nick Copus

Writer: N/A

Guy Hastings, an Alcatraz guard, reappears. Although a good man, Hastings is being asked to do bad things and will come face-to-face with an old acquaintance.

Director: Charles Beeson

Writer: Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt

Years ago when the most dangerous prisoners of Alcatraz mysteriously disappeared, they resurface in the present day as part of a larger conspiracy, leaving a police detective, an expert on Alcatraz and an FBI agent to track them down.

Director: Danny Cannon

Writer: Elizabeth Sarnoff, Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt

Sonny Burnett, a man with a dark side, who became extremely violent while at Alcatraz reappears.

Director: N/A

Writer: Toni Graphia

Clarence Montgomery was the only innocent man in Alcatraz, but he's returned and is committing crimes.

Director: Jack Bender

Writer: N/A

Rebecca, Doc, and Hauser set out to capture musically-inclined serial killer Webb Porter, an unknown ’63 that returns more violent than ever.

Director: Jack Bender

Writer: Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt

When a sniper begins targeting young victims, the team is forced to retrace the steps of the past in order to solve this modern day mystery.

Director: Jack Bender

Writer: Alison Balian

When child killer Kit Nelson, a terrifying kidnapper who always returns his victims home - after he's killed them - reappears from the past, the team is in a race against time to catch the man before he kills again.

Director: Jack Bender

Writer: Jennifer Johnson

When a bank robbing criminal returns from the past and things go wrong in the present, Rebecca has to break him out of the hostage-filled bank before people can find out who he is.

Director: Brad Anderson

Writer: N/A

Madsen and Hauser hunt down Johnny McKee, a former Alcatraz inmate and vicious killer with a background in chemistry. It’s a race against time before McKee horrifically poisons more innocent victims. Meanwhile, more details emerge about Madsen’s grandfather.

Director: Brad Turner

Writer: Toni Graphia