The Worst Episodes of FX: The Series
Every episode of FX: The Series ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of FX: The Series!
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "FX: The Series" is "Script Doctor", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Script Doctor" aired on 5/12/1997 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Unfinished Business".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Script Doctor
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1997
Weary of having his work ruined by others, Rollie jumps at the chance to direct a low-budget ""heist"" movie. But he and Leo discover the film's ""producers"" are actually crooks who are planning to pull-off the fictional robbery for real and steal gold bullion from a United Nation's vault.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#2 - Unfinished Business
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1997
A mob accountant on the run pulls Rollie back into the unfinished investigation of Leo murder. The accountant will finger his boss, Vincent Capricio, for Leo's death if Rollie helps him disappear. Acting on the information, Frank Gatti launches a rogue operation with F/X help from Rollie. But their desire for vengeance exacts a deadly cost when a mob mole inside Midtown South blows Frank's cover. With Frank's life on the line, Rollie must answer an impossible question -- how do you make a man disappear in broad daylight?
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
NaN/10 0 votes#3 - Siege
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1997
A quick bank withdrawal turns into Dog Day Afternoon, when Angie is caught in the middle of a botched mob operation. On location for ""Vindicator II,"" Rollie has all the high-tech gear he needs to make life miserable for the hostage-takers. But the joint Tyler/NYPD operation is turned on its head, when one of the criminals turns out to have a strange hold on Mira. Rollie is challenged to provide the ultimate illusion of escape.
Director: Doug Lefler
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#4 - Shooting Mickey
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1997
When Angie joined up with young, twitchy director Levi Chase and her old school friend Kit Marchado, she figured making a Gonzo film would be a gas. But the premise behind the film -- breaching a high security penthouse to get a photo of reclusive, retired mobster Mickey O'Brien -- is also a blueprint for murder. In a race against death, Rollie reaches Mickey steps ahead of a hitman. Trapped in a penthouse, with no way out but down, Rollie takes Mickey on a free-fall high dive, betting their lives on an untested stunt chute.
Director: Bill Gereghty
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#5 - House of Horrors
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1997
Supermodel Danielle Vandenglas is the star of ""House of Horrors"" but death is her stand-in -- and Rollie Tyler is her only hope for survival. Car wrecks, fires, and fatally misfired F/X make it clear someone wants the film shut down. With Mira's help, Rollie hacks through a web of murder, money, and Hollywood back-stabbing to uncover the plotters. But it might be his last gig when he becomes the final victim of their scheme. Pumped full of snake venom, dying by inches, Rollie fights alone through a maze of terror -- knowing that, this time, death is no illusion.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#6 - High Roller
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1997
When the body of a Scotland Yard Inspector plummets from the sky and lands in the middle of New York City, a messy case lands on Mira's desk. The suspect, Justin Telemark, lives on board his private 747 -- the most exclusive casino in the world -- and he intends to stay well out of NYPD jurisdiction. Boarding the casino flight in Toronto, Rollie, Mira, Angie and supermodel Danielle Vandenglas have an hour and a half to find evidence of Telemark's guilt and divert the aircraft to JFK.
Director: James Head
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#7 - Ritual
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1997
Mangela, an Australian aborigine, tracks a stolen artifact to New York, but needs Rollie's strength and expertise to recover it from a renegade tribesman. Rollie undertakes the quest of a lifetime, to save his friend and face down his own primitive fears in the ultimate one-on-one challenge.
Director: Doug Lefler
Writer: Damian Kindler
- NaN/10 0 votes
#8 - Spanish Harlem
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1997
A frantic phone call from Mira's ex-husband sends Rollie and Mira on a rescue mission into the old 'hood. But things go bad when the van is ripped off and a squad of high-tech killers joins the pursuit.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Robert Hopkins
- NaN/10 0 votes
#9 - Standoff
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/2/1998
Rollie and Angie do Mira a favor by providing cover for a young federal witness. The situation explodes in their faces when a high-tech motorcycle gang tracks them down and beseighes them in an abandoned farm. Result: Total War!
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#10 - Vigilantes
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/1998
It's revenge twice over when Ricky Delacruz escapes justice and goes after the man who almost put him away: Rollie Tyler. But his victim ends up being Angie, and Rollie sets out to even the score...no matter what it takes!
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
- NaN/10 0 votes
#11 - Reaper
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/16/1998
Random deaths in Kansas...the cold-blooded murder of a militia cell in Pennsylvania...the apparent suicide of a government scientist in New York -- threads that lead Rollie and Mira into a shadowy world where nothing is as it seems. When they learn the conspirators intend to wipe out the only people who know the truth about a bio-engineering project gone horribly wrong, Rollie faces the ride of his life, dangling from a helicopter riding a nerve gas weapon, in a race against certain death -- for himself and half of New York City!
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#12 - Inferno
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/23/1998
To clear his name when he is blamed for a flashover fire on set, Rollie probes the twisted psyche of a high-tech arsonist and, with the help of one of his victims, enters a dark world of betrayal and deceit culminating in a showdown in a blazing inferno where the only object becomes survival.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Jim Henshaw
- NaN/10 0 votes
#13 - Evil Eye
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/7/1998
When a young girl is kidnapped from Rollie's set and sealed into an airtight chamber, Rollie and Mira must race the clock to rescue her. The young victim of an extortion plot has twenty-four hours to live, unless Rollie can use his F/X wizardry to convince the kidnappers that their crime will have profound consequences, both in the real world and in the realm of the supernatural.
Director: James Head
Writer: J. Larry Carroll, David Bennett Carren
- NaN/10 0 votes
#14 - Thief
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 5/18/1998
Rollie and Angie get to put on the Ritz as they become cat burglars to the rich and famous to lure the reclusive super-thief Sebastian from his high-tech lair. In the process, they move from simulated robberies to the real things, putting their reputations -- and their lives -- on the line.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Robert Hopkins
6.9/10 12 votes#15 - The Ring
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1996
A murderous boss of a stolen car ring slips through Leo's fingers yet again. With the help of Angie and Lucinda they get into the ""hot"" car business and stage an elaborate ruse to find the kingpin's secret ""chop shop"" and shut down the operation for good.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 12 votes#16 - High Risk
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1996
A group of desperate ex-cons attempt to rob a gold exchange on the top floor of a downtown high rise. The robbery goes sour and the crooks take a group of hostages, including Leo's friend, Coleen O'Malley. Leo calls on movie Rollie, to help launch a rescue attempt by staging a phony helicopter crash on the building's roof.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 16 votes
#17 - Supernote
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/25/1996
When a fellow cop is killed in a drug bust by a mid-eastern dignitary who claims diplomatic immunity, Leo gets Rollie to help expose the diplomat's ties to a Russian gangster before they can launch a diabolical counterfeiting operation.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 9 votes
#18 - Get Fast
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/21/1997
When a drug dealer and hopped-up movie star get Rollie fired from his movie job, he teams up with Detective Francis Gatti and an embittered Narcotics Detective in a personal war against two of the city's biggest drug gangs. Using F/X illusions, they engineer a war between the two gangs to stop tons of heroin from hitting the streets.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 9 votes
#19 - Quicksilver
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1997
When Rollie discovers a sinister international arms smuggler named Victor Loubar has stolen his identity, he teams up with FBI agent Elena Serrano to hunt for the impostor. Together they enter the dark, sinister world of Loubar, where nothing is what it seems, and no one can be trusted, racing to stop the mysterious criminal mastermind from stealing a top secret experimental ""smart grenade"" from a military contractor.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 9 votes
#20 - Bad Influence
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1997
Rollie is helping students make a video for a class project when a band of armed men invades the high school and takes over. Trapped and badly wounded, Rollie joins forces with a juvenile delinquent-in-the-making as they discover the crooks are using the school to stage a multi-million dollar armored van robbery. Using materials from around the school, Rollie and the student fashion makeshift movie F/X illusions to defeat the invaders and rescue the student's girlfriend who is being held captive by the thieves.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 10 votes
#21 - Target
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1996
After a protected witness is murdered, Leo enlists Rollie to help him trap a mysterious sniper who can hit a target from more than a mile away. But the plan fails and the sniper embarks on a campaign of revenge against Leo and his friends.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 15 votes#22 - White Light
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1996
When her friend, a UFO buff, is murdered, Angie gets Rollie to enlist Leo to find the killer. With the help of Lucinda, their search leads them to a top-secret military base rumored to contain a crashed UFO and alien bodies. The danger becomes more down-to-earth when they uncover a plot by crooked officers to smuggle deadly plutonium and sell it to the highest bidder.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 15 votes#23 - The Brotherhood
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1996
Rollie and Leo discover a deadly group of Irish Terrorists hatching a plot to steal the Crown Jewels of England from a New York museum where they are on display. Rollie and Leo stage a break-in at the museum to replace the real jewels with fake ones, but are betrayed and forced to steal the genuine article!
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 16 votes#24 - The Illusion (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1996
When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie turns to his pal, NYPD Detective Leo McCarthy, to help catch the real culprits. They uncover, and bring down a secret auction being held in New York, where the world's richest collectors are bidding for millions of dollars in smuggled gems.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 10 votes
#25 - Shivaree
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1997
Five years ago, three men staged a daring armored car robbery in which a young man was crippled for life. They then hid the money in a place that requires all three men to find. Now, the statute of limitations is almost up, and Leo is determined to see that justice is done before it's too late. After one of the men is arrested, Rollie , Angie, and Leo stage a ruse to make it appear as if he is dead. Rollie then poses as a friend and confidante of the captured man and joins the other two thieves in their hunt for the money. But a double cross by one of the men puts the lives of both Rollie and Angie on the line.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A