7.0/10155 votesLoading...#1 - 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
7.1/10273 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.2/10163 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.3/10208 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.3/10190 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.3/10167 votesLoading...#6 - 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
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7.3/10158 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.3/10146 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.3/10143 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.4/10196 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.4/10158 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.5/10173 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.5/10179 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.5/10151 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.5/10122 votesLoading...#15 - Bombs Away
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2002
When the wife of a former ATF agent is found dead the husband’s grief is overwhelming. He will take drastic measures and put everyone in the morgue in danger…will they defuse the situation before it is too late?
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Ian Biederman
7.5/10114 votesLoading...#16 - It Happened One Night
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/20/2005
Jordan’s father returns to help stop a vendetta…that he is all too familiar with. Meanwhile, Nigel and Bug are shooting for top honors, but a computer crash will leave them scrambling.
Director: Miguel Ferrer
Writer: Tim Kring
7.6/10144 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10118 votesLoading...#18 - Family Ties
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/13/2003
A woman is shot in an apparent car jacking; Jordan and Elaine make an unlikely team investigating this one. When a baby is found clinging to life under the mother, her husband claims the child is not his.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Kathy McCormick
7.6/10117 votesLoading...#19 - Wild Card
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/2003
A witness for an up coming case is found murdered. Jordan is sure there is a dirty cop involved in the permanent silencing of this witness. Meanwhile Dr. Macy and Dr. Winslow head an investigation of their own.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: Diane Ademu-John
7.6/10147 votesLoading...#20 - Sunset Division
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/21/2003
Woody decides to take some time off and goes home to Wisconsin, while there the Sheriff, his mentor is killed. The trail leads him to Los Angeles where he crosses paths with a special LAPD unit.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Tim Kring, Damon Lindelof
7.6/10134 votesLoading...#21 - He Said, She Said
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 5/16/2004
A woman shots and kills her attacker...Woody and Devan are convinced there is more to the story. Elsewhere a woman tries to convince Bug that an invasive autopsy is not needed for her husband…which sparks Bugs suspicions.
Director: Michael Gershman
Writer: Andi Bushell, Jim Praytor
7.7/10157 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.7/10148 votesLoading...#23 - There's No Place Like Home
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2002
Special 90 Minute Episode Jordan and Woody are 3000 miles from Boston on the trail of the man that may hold the answer to Jordan’s questions about her mothers' death. Dr. Macy is struggling with the disappearance of Jordan and trying to solve a case of his own.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Tim Kring
7.7/10139 votesLoading...#24 - Scared Straight
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2002
When the lover of a controversial lesbian talk show host is found dead, Jordan and Woody lead the investigation. Garret and Lily go head to head when a cancer patient dies.
Director: Arvin Brown
Writer: Elizabeth Sarnoff
7.7/10143 votesLoading...#25 - Is That Plutonium in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/2004
It is the first day at the office for new resident Devan Maguire. With nothing to do she takes it upon herself to notify next of kin of a man found dead. When traces of a highly volatile chemical are found on the dead man…this case takes an even stranger turn.
Director: Michael Gershman
Writer: Tim Kring, Bob Melisso
The Worst Episodes of Crossing Jordan
Every episode of Crossing Jordan ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Crossing Jordan!
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
Episodes
117
Avg. Rating
7.9
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Worst Episodes Summary
"For Harry, with Love and Squalor" is the worst rated episode of "Crossing Jordan". It scored 7/10 based on 155 votes. Directed by Ian Toynton and written by Tim Kring, it aired on 4/8/2002. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Pilot".
