A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they supposedly vanished.
The best episode of "Alcatraz" season 1 is "Jack Sylvane", rated 7.5/10 from 1156 user votes. It was directed by Danny Cannon and written by Steven Lilien, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Bryan Wynbrandt. "Jack Sylvane" aired on 1/16/2012 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Ernest Cobb".
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: Steven Lilien, Elizabeth Sarnoff, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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