7.2/10316 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10164 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10157 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10116 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10200 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10187 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10172 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10168 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10131 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10148 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10148 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10134 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10122 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10117 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1098 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10172 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10159 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10114 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10128 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10139 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10148 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10134 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10117 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10171 votesLoading...#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
The Worst 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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Pilot" is the worst rated episode of "In Plain Sight". It scored 7.2/10 based on 316 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".
