6.9/10338 votesLoading...#1 - Haven
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/27/2001
Max accompanies Logan to a once-thriving community, now devastated after the pulse, to meet with the town's retired sheriff (his Eyes Only) contact. The locals are hostile toward Max and Logan, believing them to be hold-overs from the pre-pulse days. While Logan is meeting with his contact, Max starts to feel ill and having seizures. She befriends a local teen who Max comes to realize is alienated from the rest of the town. Max sees burn marks on the boy's hands. Then the boy is threatened with his life for talking to her. Max asks Logan to help her dig deeper to uncover what appears to be a conspiracy of silence. Max and Logan find out the boy is the only survivor of an affluent family attacked and killed by an angry mob of townspeople after the pulse. Max becomes debilitated by a seizure. Logan heroically overcomes his disability by using his wits to fend off a mob determined to keep the truth a secret. Logan succeeds in bringing the truth to light and helping the boy discover
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Writer: Jose Molina
6.9/10369 votesLoading...#2 - Boo
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2001
On Halloween night, Max finds her ""normal"" world turned upside down when the creatures she let out of Manticore are able to walk the streets freely without fear of exposure. As she and Joshua, with a crazy band of characters, race against time to find a headless body before it carries out its intended lethal mission, Max is faced with the reality that Asha and Logan are getting closer than ever.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Charles H. Eglee, Moira Kirland
6.9/10343 votesLoading...#3 - Two
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2001
Disturbed by Joshua's unusual behavior, as well as Alec's new job working at Jam Pony, Max's concern for Joshua is heightened when sector police killings are attributed to a ""beast-like"" creature. As Max races to try to figure out the mystery of the killings before more are committed, she makes a surprising discovery about who the culprit actually is.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Jose Molina
7.0/10337 votesLoading...#4 - Love in Vein
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/8/2002
Max must take on a cult of superhuman-blood addicts when she learns they're being led by a Manticore mutant intent on rebuilding an X-5 army. Meanwhile, Joshua falls in with the wrong crowd after Alec tricks him into delivering his packages for Jam Pony.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Michael Angeli
7.1/10339 votesLoading...#5 - Radar Love
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2001
Max and Logan must set aside their complicated and lethal feelings for one another, when they investigate a series of unusual deaths and uncover a genocidal agenda linked to transgenic escapees.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Michael Angeli
7.1/10325 votesLoading...#6 - Exposure
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/22/2002
Max and Logan track Ames' kidnapped son, Ray, to a small town where the breeding cult known as the Familiars, are readying their youngest creation for a mysterious ceremony.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Moira Kirland
7.2/10371 votesLoading...#7 - Flushed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2000
Max's seizures increase. Low on her medication after her friends mistakenly flush it down the toilet, Max breaks into a drug clinic. She is caught and ends up in jail and more openly a target for Lydecker. When her friends find out, Cindy gets herself arrested in order to help Max break out. Meanwhile, Lydecker closes in on Max. With the help of a stranger Cindy and Max manage to breakout. Lydecker's efforts to trap Max are again thwarted by Logan's tactics.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Charles H. Eglee, René Echevarria
7.2/10370 votesLoading...#8 - Gill Girl
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/7/2001
Alec and Max set out to rescue an aquatic transgenic caught at sea from White, but the creature's mate throws a wrench into Max's plans. Meanwhile, Logan has a brush with death after he and Max get a little too close while babysitting his niece.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Marjorie David
7.3/10347 votesLoading...#9 - Blah Blah Woof Woof
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/12/2000
Lydecker gets the local police to post ""Wanted"" posters of Max throughout the city, charging her with Vogelsang's murder. Zack returns to beg Max to leave town. Logan offers Max and Zack shelter in a countryside retreat. While saying good-bye, their attraction to each other comes to the surface and Logan and Max kiss. Zack tries again to convince Max to run away with him. Just as she's ready to do it, she learns Logan is near death. Max heads back to Seattle to give Logan a blood transfusion. Though she puts her own life at risk, she does save Logan's life. Lydecker and the police close in on finding Max; however, the real murder confesses. It's Zack who turns himself in to police in order to spare Max. The helicopter transporting Zack back to Manticore mysteriously explodes. No one knows if Zack was killed. Meanwhile, Logan discovers the feeling has partially returned to his paralyzed leg. And, Sketchy is put in charge at Jam Pony. He seizes the opportunity to make himself look li
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Moira Kirland
7.3/10339 votesLoading...#10 - Some Assembly Required
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2001
Max discovers that Zack is not only alive but apparently benefiting from some cybernetic enhancements to his genetic engineering, however he does have memory problems. Knowing that Zack sacrificed his life for hers, Max puts herself at great risk, attempting to rescue him from his new ""owners,"" a vicious Seattle gang but when an attempt is made on Logan's life, Max is faced with a very painful decision.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: Robert Doherty
7.3/10331 votesLoading...#11 - Medium Is the Message
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/14/2001
Max and Logan find themselves caught up in a spellbinding kidnapping case, that takes surprising turns when they learn the boy is the son of the infamous Mr. White. White, upon learning of Max's quest to find his son, decides to turn the tables and capture her instead and Max must race against time to save the boy, herself and discover the truth behind White's identity.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Michael Angeli
7.3/10346 votesLoading...#12 - Borrowed Time
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/2002
When Max and Logan finally find a cure for their genetically engineered virus, it turns out to be only temporary. Their time together is limited and to make matters worse they have to stop a strange Manticore creation that is on the loose in Seattle and preying on people.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: N/A
7.3/10318 votesLoading...#13 - Harbor Lights
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2002
After Max is shot and hospitalized, Logan must intercept White and a very curious CDC doctor in order to keep Max's transgenic identity undercover.
Director: Kenneth Biller
Writer: Robert Doherty
7.4/10370 votesLoading...#14 - C.R.E.A.M.
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2000
Max comes to Sketchy's rescue after he loses a mobstar's money filled package. Meanwhile, Logan is approached by a young woman who wants him to locate her missing father but has a hidden agenda.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: David Zabel
7.4/10346 votesLoading...#15 - Out
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/2001
Tired of Logan's ""all business"" approach to their relationship, Max refuses to help with his latest case involving a medical supply smuggler. But when Logan gets double-crossed by his target, Max goes undercover as ""Eyes Only"" to rescue him from a certain death. Meanwhile, Normal is smitten with a woman with a secret.
Director: Sarah Pia Anderson
Writer: David Zabel
7.4/10323 votesLoading...#16 - Rising
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/13/2001
The ""transgenic"" Reds catch up with Max when her lost pager reveals her whereabouts to them. The Reds are former death row convicts seeking to combine their technology with Max's genetic material. Logan and Max, after a deadly fight with a Red, learn that the transgenics' power is controlled by a special implant placed in their bodies. Meanwhile, the Reds take Original Cindy hostage and used to lure Max into their trap. Max risks it all and inserts the Red's implant into her own neck in hopes of gaining extra power. The implant makes her hyper violent and she kills off the Reds in order to free Original Cindy. Max then has a seizure. Logan learns the only way to save Max's life is to get the chip out of her head, but first he has to electrocute the chip in her neck. He is able to save her. Max then has to reveal to Original Cindy her Manticore secret. Also, Logan begins to regain the use of his legs and stands up.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Doris Egan, Moira Kirland
7.4/10326 votesLoading...#17 - The Kidz are Aiight
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/2001
Re-captured by Lydecker after his helicopter crash, Zack is tortured in an effort to get him to reveal the whereabouts of the other X5 escapees. After a failed escape attempt, Lydecker tortures Zack even more and Zack ""dies."" In a ingenious plan, Zack survives his burial and escapes from his coffin. He contacts Max. She meets him in a cave on the Manticore property. Unbeknownst to them, Max is wired and Lydecker and company hear all he is saying. He tells Max he's forgotten everything, but she coaches him to try and remember the whereabouts of the other X5 escapees. He does remember a few details which he tells Max. He reveals Tenga is working in a nearby bakery. This is enough information to get Lydecker on her tail. Max and Zack piece together that Lydecker knows the whereabouts of the X5 escapees. Logan sends a warning out to the X5ers through ""Eyes Only."" All are tipped off, but Tenga alerts Zack that she needs help escaping Lydecker. Zack and Max go to her and help her get awa
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Charles H. Eglee, René Echevarria
7.4/10346 votesLoading...#18 - Female Trouble
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/27/2001
Max discovers Logan is dealing with a back-alley medical clinic doctor who has agreed to perform experimental therapies to keep him out of his wheelchair, who Max realizes is also a former Manticore scientist. Meanwhile,Original Cindy returns to Jam Pony and continues to learn more about Max and her relationship to Logan.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: Patrick Harbinson
7.4/10333 votesLoading...#19 - Pollo Loco
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/24/2001
Logan is tipped off by a friend at the morgue to a murder victim with a bar code tattoo on his neck. He tells Max who then investigates. Max reads the bar code to be that of fellow X5 escapee, Ben. However, the murder victim is not Ben. While she is viewing the body, Lydecker shows up to confiscate the body and close the investigation. Max hides. After another body with the same bar code shows up, Max investigates the crime scene. While at the scene, Max has several flashbacks that make it clear to her that the real Ben is re-enacting a traumatic Manticore training exercise where a prisoner was hunted down and savagely murdered. Max herself participated in the exercise. Max remembers Ben had an obsession with a religious icon after a Manticore janitor gave him a card with her image. It looks to be an image of the Virgin Mary, but the young Manticore soldiers call her the blue lady. Max goes to a local church and a priest befriends her. Later, the priest is abducted by Ben, who tatt
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Doris Egan
7.5/10435 votesLoading...#20 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2000
As a child, Max was part of a highly classified genetic enhancement project. She and several other children were trained in a deeply secluded compound to use their superhuman powers. At a young age, Max and several others escaped the compound and made their way in the world. Now a beautiful young bike messenger and thief, Max is trying to find her lost ""siblings"" from the project, but at the same time, Max is trying to dodge capture from her former handlers led by Lydecker, and is aided in her quest by Logan Cale, an idealistic cyber-journalist.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Charles H. Eglee, James Cameron
7.5/10395 votesLoading...#21 - Heat
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2000
Max is lured further into Logan's realm when he promises her more information about her past. He tells her about the woman who picked her up roadside as a child - a woman named Hannah. Max heads out to find Hannah, and ultimately gets more clues about her biological mother. But Hannah is forced to reveal Max's whereabouts to Lydecker. Max manages yet another daring escape from Lydecker. Also, Max's feline DNA puts her in heat and she relentlessly pursues a man, Eric. They never really hook up, but Eric is left with a huge crush on Max and gets unsuspectingly sucked into her adventure. Elsewhere, the private eye, Vogelsang, double-crosses Max and sells information about her to Lydecker.
Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: Patrick Harbinson
7.5/10359 votesLoading...#22 - Cold Comfort
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/28/2000
Zack reappears and tells Max Lydecker has captured Brin, one of their Manticore sisters, and plans to do her harm. Max decides they must kidnap Lydecker and force him to reveal Brin's whereabouts. When Max and Zack discover that Lydecker was not behind Brin's disappearance, they have no choice but to team up with Lydecker to find their lost sister.
Director: Jefery Levy
Writer: Jose Molina
7.5/10339 votesLoading...#23 - Red
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/2001
Max takes on an army of superhuman soldiers in an episode amped up on action sequences. The trouble starts when Logan recruits his favorite biker chick to protect a Federal witness with vital info on local corruption. But the operation hits a snag after Max realizes that the guy she's guarding is a face from the not-so-distant---and very painful---past, and that those who want him dead may have plans for her as well.
Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: David Zabel
7.5/10328 votesLoading...#24 - I and I Am a Camera
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/1/2001
Investigating a string of murders of recently paroled convicts, Max and Logan meet a ""Fisher King""-like super hero who at first appears harmless and slightly crazy, but ultimately has a profound effect on both their personal lives. Discovering this post-pulse crusade as he follows her around Seattle, Max's original opinion of the ""super hero"" changes after she sees him actually perform super-human feats. Bringing Logan into the mix, they discover the ""super hero"" is a former NASA janitor who managed to abscond post-pulse with a highly advanced exoskeleton that attached to one's nervous system and provides super-human abilities. Though fascinated by the device, Logan's interest is piqued when the man's ramblings about conspiracy theories and ""death from the sky"" bear a striking resemblance to Logan's murder investigation. Digging further Logan discovers a secret police plot to equip special hover-drones with weapons that can track and kill any target, especially ex-cons.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: David Simkins
7.5/104 votesLoading...#25 - And Jesus Brought a Casserole
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/22/2001
Max escapes Manticore and Madame X's clutches with the help of Lydecker. Lydecker and two of his accomplices, knock Max out and chain her to a hotel bed. Lydecker gets drunk while Max sleeps. Max wakes up just as Lydecker is pointing a gun at her and Madam X's people are closing in on them. Lydecker tells her he'll shoot her and then himself and end it all. Max kicks the gun our off his hand, grabs him, and they escape in his Humvee. Meanwhile, the other X5s have gathered with Logan and are trying to come up with a plan to find Max. All are shocked when Max shows up with Lydecker and tells them all she wants them to help her take down Manticore. Though they all mistrust him, eventually, they include Lydecker on the plan -- seeing as he knows the ins and outs of Manticore. Lydecker proves useful when he gouges the eye out of a man who has access to the Manticore labs. Max and Zack use the eye to gain access to the lab. The X5s plant bombs throughout Manticore. Max and Zack plant bo
Director: Joe Ann Fogle
Writer: Charles H. Eglee, René Echevarria
The Worst Episodes of Dark Angel
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Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she...
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:FOX
Worst Episodes Summary
"Haven" is the worst rated episode of "Dark Angel". It scored 6.9/10 based on 338 votes. Directed by Michael Ray Rhodes and written by Jose Molina, it aired on 3/27/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Boo".