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 own personal life.

Genres:DramaAction & AdventureCrime

Network:USA Network

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "In Plain Sight" is "Pilot", rated 7.2/10 from 311 user votes. It was directed by Mark Piznarski and written by David Maples. "Pilot" aired on 6/1/2008 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "High Priced Spread".

7.2/10 311 votes
#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
7.3/10 163 votes
#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
7.3/10 156 votes
#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
7.4/10 114 votes
#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

7.5/10 198 votes
#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
7.5/10 186 votes
#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
7.5/10 171 votes
#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
7.5/10 167 votes
#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

7.5/10 130 votes
#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
7.6/10 147 votes
#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
7.6/10 146 votes
#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
7.6/10 133 votes
#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

7.6/10 122 votes
#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
7.6/10 116 votes
#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
7.6/10 98 votes
#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
7.7/10 171 votes
#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

7.7/10 158 votes
#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
7.7/10 113 votes
#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
7.7/10 128 votes
#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
7.8/10 138 votes
#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

7.8/10 148 votes
#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
7.8/10 133 votes
#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
7.8/10 116 votes
#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
7.8/10 102 votes
#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

7.8/10 168 votes
#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