The Worst Episodes of Flashpoint
Every episode of Flashpoint ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Flashpoint!
The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Flashpoint" is "Sons of The Father", rated 7.1/10 from 132 user votes. It was directed by Stefan Pleszczynski and written by N/A. "Sons of The Father" aired on 11/13/2012 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Custody".
7.1/10 132 votes#1 - Sons of The Father
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2012
On the trail of a serial killer, Team One must convince a haunted, frightened man to reveal his darkest secret to save the life of an innocent woman.
Director: Stefan Pleszczynski
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 186 votes#2 - Custody
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 10/16/2009
The SRU respond when a distraught man takes a lawyer at gunpoint.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 159 votes#3 - Coming To You Live
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 10/23/2009
After hearing on the radio that a talk show host is holding a prominent politician hostage, seeking revenge for a murder he thinks the man committed years ago, the SRU team races to the station to talk the host out of killing him on the air.
Director: Charles Binamé
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 167 votes#4 - The Good Citizen
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 11/13/2009
The SRU team attempts to stop a vigilante who is out for blood.
Director: Tim Southam
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 166 votes#5 - Severed Ties
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 8/6/2010
Maggie Perrello was the perfect mother until an addiction to prescription meds spiraled out of control. It cost Maggie a stint in jail, and the loss of her beloved daughters Becky and Riley into foster care. Now she’s out of jail, clean and sober, and yearns to bring her children home. When Maggie discovers that she can’t have her kids back, she turns desperate and kidnaps Becky and Riley. Team One answers the call. But when an unexpected complication threatens Becky’s safety, will Parker (Enrico Colantoni) be able to convince Maggie to make the ultimate sacrifice?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 181 votes#6 - The Farm
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 10/30/2009
The SRU are called in to resolve a gas station robbery but discover it’s connected to a deadly crisis on a cult compound.
Director: Erik Canuel
Writer: Melissa R. Byer, Treena Hancock
7.3/10 152 votes#7 - Whatever it Takes
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/20/2010
A high school athlete threatens suicide after being kidnapped and beaten.
Director: N/A
Writer: Graeme Manson
7.3/10 143 votes#8 - Terror
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/18/2011
The Team receives an urgent call from Jules (Amy Jo Johnson) on her day off – she and her date Steve are trapped in a restaurant with a gunman (Aaron Poole) who’s shot a waiter and is now holding hostages and making incoherent demands. Team One works with Jules on the inside, fighting to calm the gunman down before the waiter dies, but its clear there’s more to this simple hostage-taking. Team One discovers that this delusional man is merely a pawn in a much more horrific act of terror, targeting a local mosque.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 168 votes#9 - The War Within
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 9/27/2011
Team One tracks a masked gunman terrorizing a group of teenagers – and discovers troubling connections between an outspoken gay student, a manipulative therapist, and a young man desperate to win back his parents.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 140 votes#10 - Cost of Doing Business
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 10/4/2011
When a ransom drop goes wrong, Team One is drawn into the dangerous world of “express kidnapping” and the nightmare of a woman haunted by the brutal experience of captivity. Meanwhile, Greg finds out about Sam and Jules' secretly renewed relationship.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 151 votes#11 - Wild Card
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 10/11/2011
An armed robbery exposes a mother’s double life, while Ed gambles with his own safety and a promise he made to his family.
Director: N/A
Writer: Karen Walton
7.4/10 426 votes#12 - Scorpio
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2008
The team has to deal with a disturbed man who has just murdered his estranged wife and who has now taken a woman hostage outside of an office building. However, the situation only gets worse when his son arrives on the scene.
Director: David Frazee
Writer: Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern
7.4/10 183 votes#13 - Business as Usual
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/27/2009
When three men take the CEO of a mortgage company hostage, the SRU team is called to the scene to diffuse the situation. Jules recovers from being shot and the team reluctantly looks at recruits to fill her spot
Director: David Frazee
Writer: Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern
7.4/10 198 votes#14 - The Perfect Family
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 4/10/2009
A couple kidnaps the baby they gave up for adoption.
Director: Erik Canuel
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 158 votes#15 - Follow the Leader
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/13/2010
Two Brothers become involved with a white supremacy group planning a terrorist attack.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 141 votes#16 - No Promises
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/25/2011
Spike (Sergio Di Zio) discovers his former mentor may be implicated in a tangled case involving corruption, drug dealers and an attempted gang execution.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 151 votes#17 - I'd Do Anything
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/2011
Complications arise in a high-risk SRU raid when an informant gets caught in a dangerous game of love, murder and betrayal.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 136 votes#18 - A Call To Arms
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 11/8/2011
Team One investigates a violent kidnapping in Chinatown where a store owner and his daughter have disappeared. They discover that a ruthless street gang is behind the crime and, in the process, uncover a tragic family secret.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alex Levine
7.4/10 128 votes#19 - A World Of Their Own
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2012
Team One confronts a man desperate to keep the promise he made to his deaf nephew by protecting the only place the boy has ever felt safe.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 120 votes#20 - Fit For Duty
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/2012
A tragic shooting on a city ferry forces Ed to confront his deepest fears and threatens to tear Team One apart.
Director: Stefan Pleszczynski
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 223 votes#21 - Eagle Two
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/2009
The team have to protect some VIPs, only to find they have a kidnapping on their hands and limited time to rescue the victim.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Tassie Cameron
7.5/10 219 votes#22 - Backwards Day
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/2009
"Backwards Day " is the eleventh episode in the first season of the Canadian police drama television series Flashpoint. The episode first aired on January 16, 2009. In international markets, this episode is billed as episode 11 of season 1, while in North America, the episode aired as the second episode of season 2.
Director: Erik Canuel
Writer: Esta Spalding
7.5/10 187 votes#23 - Never Let You Down
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/2/2009
The SRU unit must rescue a woman from a delusional man who insists she is his missing daughter.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Shelley Scarrow
7.5/10 159 votes#24 - A New Life
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/1/2011
Ed walks his friend Donna Sabine down the aisle. It should be the happiest day of her life, but the peaceful wedding is shattered by gunfire. Then Donna and Ed make a shocking discovery.
Director: Kelly Makin
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 185 votes#25 - The Fortress
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/6/2009
When the SRU is called to the scene of an upper class household where four hostages are being held, they discover that the hostage taker is actually the boyfriend of the family's nanny.
Director: David Frazee, Erik Canuel
Writer: N/A