7.1/10272 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2001
Meet Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh of the Boston Medical Examiners office. With a reputation of going way beyond the call of duty…Jordan finds her first case a little close to home.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Tim Kring
7.3/10206 votes#2 - The Dawn of a New Day
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2001
Two seemingly unconnected men turn up dead, but there is more than meets the eye to this case. Elsewhere Mr. Stinky has Bug and Trey stumped at identifying him.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Tim Kring
7.4/10195 votes#3 - The Ties That Bind
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2001
A woman’s torso is found and linked back to the prison system. Jordan is assigned to find out who the victim is and who is responsible for her death.
Director: Andy Wolk
Writer: Ian Biederman
7.4/10189 votes#4 - Born to Run
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2001
With what appears to be a cut and dry murder suicide Jordan gets help from her colleagues to find the truth. Meanwhile Dr. Macy faces the hard truth about his daughter.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Damon Lindelof
7.3/10166 votes#5 - You Can't Go Home Again
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2001
When the body of a firefighter is found Jordan is called to the scene. What she discovers will shock her and set her on a mission.
Director: Donna Deitch
Writer: Samantha Corbin-Miller
7.3/10162 votes#6 - Believers
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2001
Facts are scarce when a Senator’s daughter is found stabbed in the park. Jordan but cut though the political red tap to find the answers. Back at the morgue Bug and Nigel face some had choices.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Todd Ellis Kessler
7.5/10172 votes#7 - Sight Unseen
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2001
Two school children are kidnapped and one of them turns up dead. Jordan must race against the clock to try to find the other child…before time runs out.
Director: Dick Lowry
Writer: Gary Glasberg
7.8/10176 votes#8 - Digger (1)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2001
In this two part episode women are turning up…buried alive. Jordan teams up with a FBI Agent to try to solve this case. What Jordan does not know is that she matched the profile the killer likes.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Diane Ademu-John
7.9/10173 votes#9 - Digger (2)
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/2001
Jordan buries herself into the case and winds up putting her life in danger. Elsewhere Nigel and Lily plan some nuptials?
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel
7.5/10180 votes#10 - Blue Christmas
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2001
When a cop killer dies in police custody Dr. Macy orders a coroners inquest to get answers. Else where, Trey wonders what all Nigel’s invite to the mountains will involve.
Director: Donna Deitch
Writer: N/A
7.7/10158 votes#11 - Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/7/2002
With a botched robbery victims are many and answers are few. Jordan and Dr. Macy set out to prove maybe this was no ordinary bank robbery.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Damon Lindelof
7.3/10159 votes#12 - Blood Relatives
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2002
A mother and her two young sons turn up murdered, the only suspect…the husband. This case will do more than test Jordan’s skills are a pathologist, but also test her mentally as some memories come flooding back.
Director: Arvin Brown
Writer: N/A
7.8/10187 votes#13 - Miracles & Wonders
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/2002
Elvis has entered the building? Dr. Macy attempts to save a deer at his daughters’ request. And Jordan ponders the existence of a higher power.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Tim Kring
7.4/10159 votes#14 - Four Fathers
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/2002
With the morgue pinching pennies the staff wonders who will be “pink slipped”. Elsewhere Jordan works a case involving the son of an old family…friend.
Director: Rachel Talalay
Writer: Diane Ademu-John
7.3/10147 votes#15 - Acts of Mercy
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/2002
What appear to be mercy killings are turning up one after the other in Boston. Both Dr. Macy and Jordan are both tracking a doctor with a deadly needle. Bug and Nigel audition for a network.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Elizabeth Sarnoff
7.3/10144 votes#16 - Lost and Found
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2002
Jordan and Detective Winslow find a young father murdered in an alley, they race to find the baby. Dr. Macy must find out why a student died, as well as help Abby deal with the loss.
Director: Donna Deitch
Writer: Clifton Campbell
7.6/10145 votes#17 - Crime & Punishment
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/2002
A housewife from the suburbs is found dead, and linked to Sado-masochism which leads Jordan to an internet site. Elsewhere Bug sees the shrink to talk about the case of an 8-year-old boy.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Damon Lindelof
7.5/10151 votes#18 - With Honor
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/18/2002
One of America’s finest abandons her post in Afghanistan and is later found dead in Boston. Jordan is paired with an investigator from the Marines, to investigate the case. Elsewhere Dr. Macy is in the middle of a turn war…between pimps.
Director: Donna Deitch
Writer: Gary Glasberg
7.0/10155 votes#19 - For Harry, with Love and Squalor
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/2002
With gangsters on his tail, Dr. Macy’s father makes a surprise visit to Boston. Elsewhere Jordan meets a stranger in her dad’s bar. What repercussions will this latest fling have?
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Tim Kring
7.9/10162 votes#20 - The Gift of Life
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/15/2002
In this episode we go back to 1995 when Jordan wonders if being a heart surgeon is the right of courier for her. But after a patient dies on the table because of Dr. McCaffrey's negligence Jordan realizes that the truth is always best to tell even if it hurts somebody. We also see how Jordan met Garrett and the importance of honesty.
Director: Arvin Brown
Writer: N/A
7.8/10178 votes#21 - Someone to Count On
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/2002
When the mother of a teenage girl is found dead the daughter becomes the prime suspect. Jordan is convinced of the girls’ innocence and seeks advice from an unlikely source to save the girl from prison.
Director: Nick Gomez
Writer: N/A
7.9/10141 votes#22 - Secrets & Lies (1)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/2002
Jordan is called to a local psychiatric hospital to investigate a suicide. While there and unknown source provides her with a clue to her mother’s murder.
Director: Michael Gershman
Writer: Elizabeth Sarnoff
7.9/10142 votes#23 - Secrets & Lies (2)
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/2002
With Jordan still at the psychiatric hospital she agrees to look into a triple homicide. Typical Jordan gets herself in over her head and Woody is there to lend a helping hand…again.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Tim Kring
The Best Episodes of Crossing Jordan Season 1
Every episode of Crossing Jordan Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Crossing Jordan Season 1!
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office...
Genre:Drama
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Crossing Jordan" season 1. It scored 7.1/10 based on 272 votes. Directed by Allan Arkush and written by Tim Kring, it aired on 9/24/2001. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Dawn of a New Day".