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The Worst Episodes of In Plain Sight

Every episode of In Plain Sight ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of In Plain Sight!

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...
Genres:DramaAction & AdventureCrime
Network:USA Network

Worst Episodes Summary

"Pilot" is the worst rated episode of "In Plain Sight". It scored 7.2/10 based on 315 votes. Directed by Mark Piznarski and written by David Maples, it aired on 6/1/2008. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "High Priced Spread".

  • Pilot
    7.2/10315 votes
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    #1 - Pilot

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2008

    In the first episode we meet Mary Shannon a US Marshall for the Witness Protection Program. In this episode Mary tries to figure out what went wrong when a mobster's son who was under her protection is killed.

    Director: Mark Piznarski

    Writer: David Maples

  • High Priced Spread
    7.3/10164 votes
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    #2 - High Priced Spread

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/6/2008

    Mary learns that her witness, a NCAA basketball star, has a gambling problem

    Director: Fred Gerber

    Writer: N/A

  • Don of the Dead
    7.3/10157 votes
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    #3 - Don of the Dead

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/20/2008

    A member of the Program under Mary's watch is in a car accident and Mary has to find out if it was an accident or related to his former life.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Crazy Like a Witness
    7.4/10115 votes
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    #4 - Crazy Like a Witness

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 5/8/2011

    Mary's paranoid witness wants to reconnect with his son.

    Director: Matthew Penn

    Writer: N/A

  • Hoosier Daddy
    7.5/10199 votes
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    #5 - Hoosier Daddy

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/8/2008

    Things get complicated when Mary takes on the case of Leo Billups. Leo saw his mother murdered and is going to testify against the people who killed her including his father.

    Director: John Fortenberry

    Writer: David Maples

  • Never the Bride
    7.5/10187 votes
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    #6 - Never the Bride

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/15/2008

    Mary's assignment this week is Treena Morris a con-artist who is married to a diamond smuggler. After she is arrested by the feds, she decides to tell all on her husband and his friends. While Mary is trying to keep her safe, Treena gets engaged and her photo is all over the papers.

    Director: John T. Kretchmer

    Writer: David Maples

  • Who Shot Jay Arnstein?
    7.5/10172 votes
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    #7 - Who Shot Jay Arnstein?

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/29/2008

    Mary works to solve the mystery of who tried to kill her witness, an art dealer. To complicate matters, both his mistress and his wife are in the program…and key suspects.

    Director: Tricia Brock

    Writer: N/A

  • Good Cop, Dead Cop
    7.5/10168 votes
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    #8 - Good Cop, Dead Cop

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/27/2008

    Mary suffers the consequences when an attractive witness, who she slept with, is accused of murder.

    Director: Dan Lerner

    Writer: Bruce Miller

  • Miles To Go
    7.5/10131 votes
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    #9 - Miles To Go

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/28/2009

    Mary briefs a new witness whose visitation rights with his son depend on the man's testimony. When Mary learns the boy is missing, she tries to find him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Stand-Up Triple
    7.6/10148 votes
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    #10 - A Stand-Up Triple

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/2009

    A witness finds herself having difficulty in managing her own brood of children, so Mary offers to babysit the trio of problem kids.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Michael Angeli

  • One Night Stan
    7.6/10148 votes
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    #11 - One Night Stan

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/31/2009

    Mary and Marshall find themselves in a difficult position when Stan's very first witness turns up dead and he is implicated in her murder.

    Director: Dan Lerner

    Writer: John Mankiewicz

  • Jailbait
    7.6/10134 votes
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    #12 - Jailbait

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 7/12/2009

    The barely legal daughter of Mary's witness – a Miami racketeer – finds herself in a dangerous romance, just as Raph's mother visits to prepare an engagement feast for the surprised Mary.

    Director: Michael W. Watkins

    Writer: Lynne E. Litt

  • Once A Ponzi Time
    7.6/10122 votes
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    #13 - Once A Ponzi Time

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 8/2/2009

    When a Wall Street blue blood rats on his boss' investment fraud and hides out in WITSEC, something from his past life comes calling.

    Director: Dan Lerner

    Writer: John Mankiewicz

  • Whistle Stop
    7.6/10117 votes
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    #14 - Whistle Stop

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2010

    Mary and Marshall try to help FBI Agent Mike Faber convince his informant to enter WITSEC. Despite their best efforts, the informant refuses their protection and gets himself into a heap of trouble. After Mary, Marshall and Agent Faber save the informant from certain death, he and his family join Witsec.

    Director: Michael Zinberg

    Writer: N/A

  • I'm a Liver Not a Fighter
    7.6/1098 votes
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    #15 - I'm a Liver Not a Fighter

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 6/19/2011

    A terminally ill father wants to reconcile with his children.

    Director: Michael W. Watkins

    Writer: Michael Reisz

  • Iris Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    7.7/10172 votes
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    #16 - Iris Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/2008

    The closeness of a family is tested when they enter the program after the daughter witnesses a shooting.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • To Serge with Love
    7.7/10159 votes
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    #17 - To Serge with Love

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/3/2008

    Natasha, the mild mannered Ukrainian accountant, has gotten her new breasts, but her life becomes more complicated when she discovers that her new boyfriend is also in WITSEC.

    Director: Rod Hardy

    Writer: Katherine Butler

  • Fish Or Cut Betta
    7.7/10114 votes
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    #18 - Fish Or Cut Betta

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/2010

    Mary’s new witness falls in love for the first time; Mary must stop her witness from taking out his pain in the form of an explosive device.

    Director: Dan Lerner

    Writer: N/A

  • Meet the Shannons
    7.7/10128 votes
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    #19 - Meet the Shannons

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 5/22/2011

    A beauty pageant queen finds out that she's spent most of her life in witness protection

    Director: Jan Eliasberg

    Writer: N/A

  • A Frond in Need
    7.8/10139 votes
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    #20 - A Frond in Need

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/14/2009

    When a series of murders seem to follow a new ex-con witness, including stabbing Mary's friend, she and Marshall have to figure out if he's the killer in time to save his next victim.

    Director: Ernest R. Dickerson

    Writer: N/A

  • Let's Get It Ahn
    7.8/10148 votes
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    #21 - Let's Get It Ahn

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/26/2009

    A world-class counterfeiter witness is suspected in a murder; Mary and Marshall realize they may be hiding a witness from the government.

    Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

    Writer: David Maples

  • Coma Chameleon
    7.8/10134 votes
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    #22 - Coma Chameleon

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/14/2010

    ATF agent Wade Guthrie is shot and left for dead by gun trader Jasper Malone. After three years in a coma, he wakes to find the world he left behind has drastically changed.

    Director: Michael W. Watkins

    Writer: Kim Newton

  • Love's Faber Lost
    7.8/10117 votes
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    #23 - Love's Faber Lost

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/2010

    Mary's new witness is part of a mortgage fraud ring and is an important link in the case of FBI Agent Faber.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: Lynne E. Litt

  • Second Crime Around
    7.8/10102 votes
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    #24 - Second Crime Around

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 6/5/2011

    Mary works with an unapologetic con artist.

    Director: Andy Wolk

    Writer: N/A

  • Four Marshals and a Baby
    7.8/10170 votes
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    #25 - Four Marshals and a Baby

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 3/23/2012

    With Jinx out of town and Mark busy with a last minute business trip, Mary has no choice but to head to work with Norah in tow. But when Mary arrives, Delia points out the obvious: Mary can't be with Norah and a witness at the same time. Meanwhile, Marshall and Abigail are trying to determine whether or not Kristi Owens should enter WITSEC and Associate Director Campbell gives Stan some surprising news about the future of the Albuquerque office.

    Director: Andy Wolk

    Writer: N/A