8.5/10107 votesLoading...#1 - Sacrificial Lam
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2012
Having slipped through the fingers of the FBI, James Shannon is on the run again and heading for the border, but first he must stop to take care of a little unfinished business. Agent O'Connor, convinced that she was somehow involved in James' escape, places Mary under investigation, but when he refuses to listen to her suggestions about the possible whereabouts of her father, the manhunt ends in tragedy.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: N/A
8.5/10156 votesLoading...#2 - All's Well That Ends
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 5/4/2012
Series Finale: Drastic changes take place at the Albuquerque WITSEC office. Mary finds herself caught between a witness and an unexpected family reunion.
Director: Dan Lerner
Writer: N/A
8.4/10170 votesLoading...#3 - Stan By Me
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/10/2008
After watching her mother audition for "Sweet Charity" Mary is kidnapped; in New Jersey, Brandi's boyfriend Chuck is abducted and two FBI agents are killed; when federal agents suspect a connection, a nationwide manhunt ensues.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: Constance M. Burge
8.4/10145 votesLoading...#4 - Death Becomes Her
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 6/2/2010
A woman wants to escape from her family, who are heavily involved in organized crime, but a secret from her past puts her eligibility for the Witness Protection program in jeopardy.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: David Maples, Kim Newton
8.3/10201 votesLoading...#5 - A Fine Meth
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/17/2008
The family regroups after Mary's ordeal; Stan and Marshall search for a way to force Spanky to tell the truth about Chuck's drug trafficking; the FBI corners Mary in her driveway with Brandi's suitcase full of meth in the back of her car. Season 1 Finale
Director: John Badham
Writer: David Maples
8.3/10143 votesLoading...#6 - When Mary Met Marshall
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/2010
In 2003 Mary meets Marshall for the first time as they get lovers CLAUDIA TOBIN and HENRY DOER into the WitSec program, and it's a toss-up whose relationship is going to last: Claudia and Henry's, or Mary and Marshall's.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: N/A
8.3/10124 votesLoading...#7 - The Born Identity
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 6/16/2010
Mary helps her latest witness, a homeless man who's struggling with the program, find his birth parents. But the search could cause more problems than she anticipated. Elsewhere, Scott asks to borrow more money, raising a red flag for Brandi.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: N/A
8.3/10125 votesLoading...#8 - A Priest Walks Into a Bar
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 6/30/2010
After a priest witnesses the murder of a parishioner, he will have to give up his special vocation in order to enter WITSEC.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10154 votesLoading...#9 - Rubble With A Cause
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/2009
A building collapses on one of Mary's witnesses, leaving him exposed to outside threats, so Mary has to risk her life in order to keep her witness safe.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: N/A
8.2/10167 votesLoading...#10 - Aguna Matatala
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/17/2009
An Orthodox Jew enters Witness Protection, but his wife refuses to join him. The situation is made more complicated by the fact he is being pursued by a man motivated by a higher authority.
Director: Leslie Libman
Writer: David Slack
8.2/10152 votesLoading...#11 - Duplicate Bridge
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 6/7/2009
An engineer blamed for a bridge collapse enters the program after being targeted by angry family members of the victims who died in the tragedy.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Lynne E. Litt
8.2/10113 votesLoading...#12 - Son Of Mann
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/19/2010
Marshall is being evaluated in the field by his father (Geoff Pierson) during a joint fugitive operation. Mary meets Brandi's secret friend.
Director: Anton Cropper
Writer: N/A
8.2/10127 votesLoading...#13 - Provo-cation
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 7/24/2011
Mary helps protect a guilt-ridden Army veteran; Marshall & Abigail consider the next step.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Barbara Nance
8.2/10107 votesLoading...#14 - The Merry Wives of WITSEC
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/6/2012
Mary protects a bigamist not only from his former employer, but also his two wives. In WITSEC, cheating the black market can be dangerous; but cheating on multiple wives is a death sentence.
Director: Michael Fields
Writer: Natalie Chaidez
8.1/10158 votesLoading...#15 - Gilted Lily
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/19/2009
A dead witness causes Mary to take leave of her administrative duties to solve a "Ten Little Indians" story, until her plan gets changed by her own brand of Post-Traumatic Stress disorder.
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writer: David Maples
8.1/10143 votesLoading...#16 - Who's Bugging Mary?
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/21/2009
FBI agent O'Connor arrests Brandi on charges of drug trafficking and murder. Insisting her sister is innocent, Mary works to help Brandi while ultimately trying to discover O'Connor's real motive for his actions.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: N/A
8.1/10133 votesLoading...#17 - Training Video
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/19/2009
Mary lends her expertise for the U.S. Marshalls by making a training video with a film crew. Elsewhere, Marshall prepares the arrangements so that an elderly mobster in Witsec can go to his son's funeral.
Director: Dan Lerner
Writer: N/A
8.1/10139 votesLoading...#18 - Don't Cry for Me, Albuquerque
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 8/9/2009
The US government helps a Latina political activist hide in Witsec, but the arrangement sours after she moves into her new home.
Director: Michael Morris
Writer: Jessica Butler
8.1/10129 votesLoading...#19 - Love in the Time of Colorado
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/15/2011
Mary is caught between a witness and a suspect.
Director: Michael Schultz
Writer: N/A
8.1/10120 votesLoading...#20 - Something Borrowed, Something Blew Up
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 8/7/2011
Mary must protect her least favorite witnesses on the day of her sister's wedding.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10116 votesLoading...#21 - The Medal of Mary
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2012
Mary is still reeling from the flood of emotions stirred-up after having to arrest her father, James, when he unexpectedly showed up on her doorstep after being AWOL for 30 years. Bad goes to worse when Special Agent Robert O'Connor, Mary's "favorite" FBI agent, demands her assistance to get James to provide critical information regarding his old partner-in-crime, Cormack “Sully” Sullivan, one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted.
Director: Dan Lerner
Writer: N/A
8.0/10229 votesLoading...#22 - Trojan Horst
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/22/2008
Mary and Marshall take on a case involving Horst Vanderhoff, an agent for Lola, who's an assassin for hire. While trying to line up her next job, Horst is busted and agrees to testify against her to become a part of the Witness Protection Program.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Constance M. Burge
8.0/10142 votesLoading...#23 - Father Goes West
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/31/2010
A former high line thief from Boston tries to give up crime for the sake of his teenage son, and Mary and Marshall search for the person who nearly killed Mary.
Director: Charles Haid
Writer: N/A
8.0/10119 votesLoading...#24 - No Clemency for Old Men
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/2010
Mary tries to help a parolee acclimate to life outside of prison after having spent 38 years behind bars while Marshall helps out when one of Mary's witnesses no longer wants to work with her.
Director: Jerry Levine
Writer: N/A
8.0/10114 votesLoading...#25 - Her Days Are Numbered
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2010
A witness with Aspergers who has no social filter and can't lie stymies Mary, particularly when the witness refuses to testify against her only friend – the key conspirator in a numbers case. Meanwhile, Marshall and Stan race to figure out why an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is holding up the visa of a key witness before she is deported. Plus, Brandi reveals her plan for the money she made by investing with Scott.
Director: Dan Lerner
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of In Plain Sight
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U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon must hunt down witnesses for federal cases in the witness protection program while also managing a rather dysfunctional family and her...
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Network:USA Network
Best Episodes Summary
"Sacrificial Lam" is the best rated episode of "In Plain Sight". It scored 8.5/10 based on 107 votes. Directed by Michael W. Watkins and written by N/A, it aired on 4/27/2012. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "All's Well That Ends".