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The Best Episodes of Life

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The Best Episodes of Life

Complex, offbeat Detective Charlie Crews returns to the force after serving time in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Crews’ new lease on life...

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  1. Background image for Find Your Happy Place
    9.0/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Find Your Happy Place

    S2:E1

    Crews and Reese race the clock to stop a serial killer who’s locking people in boxes and leaving them to die all over L.A.

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  2. Background image for Hit Me Baby
    8.8/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Hit Me Baby

    S2:E16

    Reese receives and offer to join an FBI organized crime task force, leaving Crews and Stark to partner up. The former partners work on a case of a philandering financial advisor who was murdered and discover a case of corporate and political corruption.

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    Director:Elodie Keene
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    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #3 - One

    S2:E21

    When Roman wants to trade Reese for Rayborn, whom he's convinced is still alive, Crews launches a covert crusade to find his partner, which brings him answers to long-standing questions along the way.

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    Director:Unknown
  4. Background image for Fill It Up
    8.5/10(490 votes)

    #4 - Fill It Up

    S1:E11

    Hoping to take down Jack Reese, Crews finds the Seybolts' murderer, but doesn't succeed in proving who set him up.

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  5. Background image for Jackpot
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #5 - Jackpot

    S2:E7

    Crews and Reese investigate the murder of a multi-million dollar lottery winner whose number was up.

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  6. Background image for Badge Bunny
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #6 - Badge Bunny

    S2:E9

    When the girlfriend of a cop is murdered, Crews and Reese must play a literal game of good cop bad cop to find the killer.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for 5 Quarts
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #7 - 5 Quarts

    S2:E19

    Crews and Seever are under pressure to solve the murder of an assistant coroner; a murder that if left unsolved, could jeopardize all of their closed cases.

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    Director:Paul McCrane
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Initiative 38
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #8 - Initiative 38

    S2:E20

    When the wife of a prominent campaign runner is murdered, Crews and Seever wonder if her death is related to a controversial gun ban initiative that she spearheaded.

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    Director:John Behring
  10. Background image for Farthingale
    8.2/10(438 votes)

    #9 - Farthingale

    S1:E8

    While investigating the murder of a bigomist, Crews is suspected for the murder of policeman Ames.

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    Director:Peter Markle
  11. Background image for The Business of Miracles
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Business of Miracles

    S2:E3

    Charlie and Reese work a case so cold it's frozen.

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    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Not for Nothing
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Not for Nothing

    S2:E4

    Crews must battle his own psychological prison when he and Reese take on a case where worst nightmares become reality.

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    Director:Peter Markle
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Did You Feel That?
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Did You Feel That?

    S2:E6

    In the chaos of an L.A. earthquake, a killer sets a trap for Crews.

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    Director:Tucker Gates
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Black Friday
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #13 - Black Friday

    S2:E8

    Prices aren't the only things falling when Crews and Reese investigate a man's death in a mall the morning of Black Friday.

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    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Trapdoor

    S2:E12

    While investigating a triple execution-style homicide, Reese and Crews go up against an old nemesis, a Russian mob boss who has woven a deadly and wicked web.

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    Director:Elodie Keene
  16. Background image for I Heart Mom
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #15 - I Heart Mom

    S2:E15

    Crews and Reese begin their investigation and discover the victim was running an elaborate construction scam that left his clients without roofs or money.

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  17. Background image for Shelf Life
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Shelf Life

    S2:E17

    Crews and Starks investigate the murder of an Iraq war soldier who despite being killed in broad daylight on a crowded sidewalk, no one witnessed the crime.

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    Director:Adam Arkin
  18. Background image for 3 Women
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #17 - 3 Women

    S2:E18

    With his new overachieving partner, Crews investigates the murder of a woman who was in a relationship with her just-released convict pen pal.

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    Director:Peter Markle
  19. Background image for Pilot
    8.0/10(654 votes)

    #18 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    After serving 12 hard years for a crime he didn't commit, Detective Charlie Crews is back on the LAPD with a new partner and a new zen attitude.

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    Director:David Semel
  20. Background image for Everything... All the Time
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #19 - Everything... All the Time

    S2:E2

    Crews and Reese discover that rich kids, steroids, and murder are a bad mix.

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  21. Background image for Evil...And His Brother Ziggy
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Evil...And His Brother Ziggy

    S2:E10

    Reese and Crews take a trip to an Indian reservation to find out who killed the last sheriff standing.

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    Director:Adam Arkin
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Canyon Flowers
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Canyon Flowers

    S2:E11

    A food bank delivery man is found murdered and buried up to his neck, surrounded by flower petals in a backyard. Crews and Reese believe the incident may be related to a cult from the 1970s. Crews confronts Mickey Rayborn, despite warnings from the FBI.

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    Director:Paul McCrane
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Re-Entry
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Re-Entry

    S2:E13

    After a Space Shuttle pilot is found shot to death after managing to land his private plane, Crews and Reese must determine if it was suicide or murder.

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    Director:John Behring
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Fallen Woman
    7.9/10(462 votes)

    #23 - The Fallen Woman

    S1:E5

    When an angel falls from the sky, Crews and Reese's murder investigation leads to a slippery Russian gangster.

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    Director:Tony Wharmby
  25. Background image for Serious Control Issues
    7.9/10(410 votes)

    #24 - Serious Control Issues

    S1:E9

    While investigating the case of a murdered homeless girl, Reese and Crews stumble across a child who was kidnapped when he was three.

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    Director:Marcos Siega
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Dig a Hole
    7.9/10(424 votes)

    #25 - Dig a Hole

    S1:E10

    Charlie and Dani track the killer of a Zen Master who was buried alive ten years prior.

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    Director:Marcos Siega
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Find Your Happy Place" is the best rated episode of "Life". It scored 9/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Daniel Sackheim and written by Rand Ravich, it aired on 9/29/2008. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hit Me Baby".