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 worst episode of "Alcatraz" is "Kit Nelson", rated 7.3/10 from 755 user votes. It was directed by Jack Bender and written by Jennifer Johnson. "Kit Nelson" aired on 1/23/2012 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Cal Sweeney".
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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