7.0/10331 votesLoading...#1 - Ectogenesis
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/13/2015
Alan, Kyle and Winger search the woods for the tree with red sap that might be a cure for the pathogen.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Timothy J. Lea
7.0/10338 votesLoading...#2 - Mother
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/20/2015
The Abbey becomes a house of horrors as Kyle struggles with his infection and Anne begins to shape a successor to Michael.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Tiffany Greshler
7.0/10338 votesLoading...#3 - Plan B
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/27/2015
The Navy prepare to implement Plan B, a final solution to ensure that the virus and everyone infected with it never make it off the island.
Director: Jeff Renfroe
Writer: Leigh Dana Jackson
7.1/10365 votesLoading...#4 - Densho
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2015
As Michael struggles to keep the abbey under control, the CDC team moves closer toward tracking the source of the pathogen. Alan fights the urge to rejoin his team and confronts the reality about Peter’s allegiances. In the future, Walker makes a desperate attempt to escape from her delusional father, with potentially deadly consequences.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Tiffany Greshler
7.1/10348 votesLoading...#5 - M. Domestica
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/2015
Amy creates an outbreak of the disease. Michael torments Peter in the pit. Alan, Jordan and Kyle discover the truth about the Abbey's food chain. An uprising at the Abbey threatens the safety of the uninfected. In present-day Paris, Balleseros meet an unlikely immortal.
Director: Grant Harvey
Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
7.1/10323 votesLoading...#6 - The Ascendant
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 4/3/2015
The uninfected are hiding in a secret bunker on the base as the CDC attempt to retrieve the canisters with the virus and the cure while the Ilaria assassins capture Hatake and force him to chose between which one of his children they will kill first.
Director: Jeff Renfroe
Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
7.2/10522 votesLoading...#7 - Aniqatiga
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/2014
After Daniel leaves Balleseros to die, the mystery surrounding his connection to Hatake is revealed. As he works to save Peter, Alan struggles with his feelings for both Walker and Jordan.
Director: Mike Rohl, Duane Clark
Writer: Adam Lash
7.2/10383 votesLoading...#8 - Scion
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2015
Peter and Jordan leave the safety of the Abbey to retrieve some specimens and discover just what’s living in the woods, meanwhile Sister Amy plots to make them leave forever.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Allison Miller
7.2/10351 votesLoading...#9 - Oubliette
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2015
Michael locks Peter and Alan in a pit. Alan escapes and discovers that Kyle has a secret of his own. Agnes reveals a shocking truth to Michael, who drastically turns on her for doubting him. In the future, Caleb uncovers Walker's deception and takes matters into his own hands.
Director: Grant Harvey
Writer: Leigh Dana Jackson
7.2/10366 votesLoading...#10 - O Brave New World
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/10/2015
Kyle rescues Dr. Sarah Jordan as Alan Farragut fights his own brother, Peter Farragut.
Director: Steven A. Adelson
Writer: Steven Maeda
7.3/10785 votesLoading...#11 - Vector
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2014
As Dr. Alan Farragut accelerates the hunt for his infected brother Peter, the quarantine of three scientists threatens to create panic at the lab. Doreen finds evidence that Dr. Hatake is lying about his research.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Keith Huff
7.3/10667 votesLoading...#12 - 274
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/2014
As Alan sets up an isolation unit to quarantine the infected lab workers, Walker and Jordan each face the possibility that they have the deadly virus, too.
Director: Steven A. Adelson
Writer: Misha Green
7.3/10431 votesLoading...#13 - Reunion
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2015
The CDC team continue to investigate the island; at the same time, they discover Peter's brother, Alan, is a member of Brother Michael's cult, and his warnings for them to leave the abbey fall on deaf ears.
Director: Steven A. Adelson
Writer: Timothy J. Lea
7.4/10926 votesLoading...#14 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2014
A Center for Disease Control medical team's investigation of a disease outbreak at a high tech arctic research lab uncovers the truth about a secretive research project that could threaten the future of humankind.
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Writer: Cameron Porsandeh
7.4/10599 votesLoading...#15 - The White Room
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/2014
As Alan's controversial cure leaves Peter clinging to life, the unchecked virus forces Jordan to make a devastating decision. Walker discovers the surprising truth about her new ally, while Daniel squares off against Balleseros.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Misha Green
7.4/10486 votesLoading...#16 - Fushigi
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2014
In a last ditch effort to find help and a cure, Alan and Julia go to an abandoned satellite station discover a shocking secret that reveals Hatake's ultimate goal and the reason why he has developed the deadly virus.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Misha Green
7.4/10480 votesLoading...#17 - Black Rain
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/2014
The Vectors start working together to hunt down the uninfected as the CDC develops a risky cure and a band of assassins from Ilaria secretly infiltrate the base.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Tiffany Greshler
7.4/10491 votesLoading...#18 - The Reaping
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/2014
The uninfected are hiding in a secret bunker on the base as the CDC attempt to retrieve the canisters with the virus and the cure while the Ilaria assassins capture Hatake and force him to chose between which one of his children they will kill first.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Adam Lash
7.4/10343 votesLoading...#19 - Vade in Pace
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/6/2015
The Coast Guard arrives on the island to take the CDC team to another island to deal with another outbreak of the pathogen. Meanwhile, Sister Amy has to contend with Brother Michael and his plans.
Director: Steven A. Adelson
Writer: Bobak Esfarjani
7.5/10616 votesLoading...#20 - Single Strand
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/2014
As Alan risks killing Peter in a desperate effort to cure him, Walker teams with a mysterious young researcher to survive their quarantine. Jordan discovers her Rapid Response test is flawed.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: N/A
7.5/10543 votesLoading...#21 - Survivor Zero
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/2014
As Ilaria CEO Constance Sutton arrives to collect the virus and its cure, Alan finds Walker seemingly symptom-free. Daniel learns the truth about his "adoption" by Hatake.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Sean Crouch
7.5/10490 votesLoading...#22 - Dans L'Ombre
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/28/2014
Alan and Peter capture the assassin Scythe and demand to know the whereabouts of Julia's mother. Balleseros confronts Hatake about the missing Inuit children, while Anana and her brother learn of Daniel's fate. Concerns that the virus is in Ilaria's possession again forces Alan and the team off the base to search the world in order to retrieve it.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Steven Maeda
7.5/10557 votesLoading...#23 - San Jose
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2015
15 months after the events at Arctic Biosystems, new CDC team with the addition of biotoxicologist Kyle Sommer respond to a potential outbreak on a Windjammer in the Northern Pacific. Their search leads them to an island occupied by a mysterious cult led by the charismatic Michael. Meanwhile, 30 years in the future, Walker arrives at the same island searching for Alan Farragut.
Director: Steven A. Adelson
Writer: Steven Maeda
7.6/10508 votesLoading...#24 - Bloodline
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/2014
Alan risks his life to save his brother Peter from Ilaria CEO Constance Sutton, only to see him re-captured by Vectors. Julia Walker deals with the mystery of her "cure" while her half- brother Daniel confronts their father, Dr. Hatake, about being abducted as a child.
Director: Bradley Walsh
Writer: Mark Haslett
7.6/10362 votesLoading...#25 - Cross-Pollination
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/27/2015
As Peter gains a new cellmate, Michael takes extreme action when his followers begin to mutiny.
Director: Steven A. Adelson
Writer: Adria Lang
The Worst Episodes of Helix
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Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the...
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Syfy
Worst Episodes Summary
"Ectogenesis" is the worst rated episode of "Helix". It scored 7/10 based on 331 votes. Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and written by Timothy J. Lea, it aired on 3/13/2015. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Mother".