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The Best Episodes of Millennium

Every episode of Millennium ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Millennium!

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A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Millennium Season 1 Episode 18 - Lamentation (1)
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #1 - Lamentation (1)

    S1:E18

    Frank and Bob Bletcher hike across a remote snow-covered mountaintop in the spectacular North Cascades region of Washington State. Their trip is cut short when Frank receives an important page from the FBI.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  2. Millennium Season 1 Episode 19 - Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions (2)
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #2 - Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions (2)

    S1:E19

    Attorney Al Pepper walks through a supermarket parking lot carrying a bag of groceries. A teenager, Sam, addresses Pepper and extends an open palm. Frank exits the supermarket and sees the two men. Suddenly, a bolt of light emanates from Sam's palm, knocking Pepper to the ground. Frank runs towards the scene, passing through panicking shoppers. When he arrives at Pepper's side, he discovers a handgun lying at Sam's feet.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writers:Ted Mann, Harold Rosenthal

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  3. Millennium Season 1 Episode 22 - Paper Dove (1)
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #3 - Paper Dove (1)

    S1:E22

    Frank is asked by Catherine's father to investigate a case involving a friend whose son has been convicted of murder, and is soon convinced that the murder is linked to a serial killer called The Woodsman. Having claimed his latest victim, the Woodsman takes the body to a secluded campsite, covers the body in plastic, buries her under a pile of leaves and strikes up a conversation. Later, he is given photos by a mysterious stranger and asked to use them as 'targets' for future killings - one of which includes Catherine Black...

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:Walon Green

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  4. Millennium Season 2 Episode 9 - Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #4 - Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense

    S2:E9

    Novelist Jose Chung authors a short story critical of a millennial self-help movement... and performs some profiling of his own when a college professor is found murdered.

    Director:Darin Morgan
    Writer:Darin Morgan

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  5. Millennium Season 1 Episode 14 - The Thin White Line
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #5 - The Thin White Line

    S1:E14

    Frank enters a hospital emergency room looking for Catherine, who is working the night shift in child counseling. Suddenly, paramedics rush in with a bloodied woman on a gurney. Frank is inexplicably drawn to the stranger, and as he moves closer, notices a curved slash on her palm. He raises his own right hand, revealing a thin white scar which matches exactly the slash on the victim's hand. The woman dies from her injuries.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writers:Glen Morgan, James Wong

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  6. Millennium Season 1 Episode 16 - Covenant
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #6 - Covenant

    S1:E16

    Frank travels to Weber County, Utah, where he meets with Prosecutor Calvin Smith. The District Attorney's office convicted Sheriff William Garry of murdering his wife and three children. Garry had confessed to the crime, and his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon, a tool used for carving wood. Now all that remains is for the jury to decide if Garry should receive the death penalty. Smith hopes Frank can develop a psychological profile that will leave no doubt in the jury's mind that Garry is a cold, calculating murderer.

    Director:Rod Pridy
    Writer:Bobby Moresco

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  7. Millennium Season 2 Episode 6 - The Curse of Frank Black
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #7 - The Curse of Frank Black

    S2:E6

    On Halloween, Frank experiences eerie visions and strange events that spark flashbacks to his youth—and a telling encounter with a troubled World War II veteran.

    Director:Ralph Hemecker
    Writers:Glen Morgan, James Wong

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  8. Millennium Season 3 Episode 6 - Skull and Bones
    7.5/10(7 votes)

    #8 - Skull and Bones

    S3:E6

    Frank and Emma investigate a mass grave that may have links to the Millennium Group.

    Director:Paul Shapiro
    Writers:Ken Horton, Chip Johannessen

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  9. Millennium Season 2 Episode 2 - Beware of the Dog
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #9 - Beware of the Dog

    S2:E2

    As Frank's marriage begins to crumble, a pack of vicious dogs terrorises a small town, and as Frank investigates he discovers several truths about the Millennium Group.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writers:Patrick Harbinson, Bobby Moresco

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  10. Millennium Season 1 Episode 2 - Gehenna
    7.3/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Gehenna

    S1:E2

    Offender profiler Frank Black, a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, is sent to San Francisco to track down a doomsday cult which murders its brainwashed members when they disobey it.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  11. Millennium Season 1 Episode 13 - Force Majeure
    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #11 - Force Majeure

    S1:E13

    A sudden hail storm sends students at Washington Polytech scrambling for cover. But one of the students, Lauren, wades through the downpour as the hail changes to rain. She approaches a teaching assistant who has taken cover in a breezeway. Lauren reaches for the woman's cigarette-and suddenly bursts into flames.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Chip Johannessen

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  12. Millennium Season 2 Episode 1 - The Beginning and the End (2)
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #12 - The Beginning and the End (2)

    S2:E1

    After Catherine Black goes missing in the Seattle Airport in the previous episode, Frank Black desperately searches for his wife, who has been abducted by a cunning stalker who is luring him into a trap.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writers:Glen Morgan, James Wong

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  13. Millennium Season 2 Episode 10 - Midnight of the Century
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Midnight of the Century

    S2:E10

    As Christmas approaches... Frank experiences visions from his childhood when Jordan claims to have been visited by the spirit of her dead grandmother.

    Director:Dwight H. Little
    Writers:Kay Reindl, Erin Maher

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  14. Millennium Season 2 Episode 13 - The Mikado
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #14 - The Mikado

    S2:E13

    A serial killer uses the internet as a medium for broadcasting his victims' murders.

    Director:Roderick J. Pridy
    Writer:Michael R. Perry

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  15. Millennium Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #15 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Offender profiler Frank Black, a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, retires to Seattle with his family after a breakdown caused him to quit working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Using his incredible profiling skills, Black helps in an effort to catch a vicious murderer who believes he is fulfilling apocalyptic prophecies.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writer:Chris Carter

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  16. Millennium Season 1 Episode 11 - Weeds
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Weeds

    S1:E11

    An unidentified man in a van follows a teenage boy, Josh Comstock, as he rides his new motorcycle through Vista Verde Estates, a gated, upper middle-class neighborhood in Washington State. As night falls, Josh rides his bike across the dirt of an undeveloped cul-de-sac. The driver parks his van and approaches the boy, suddenly, jabbing a cattle prod into Josh's chest and sending him flying backwards into the dirt. When Mr. and Mrs. Comstock awaken the next morning, they find the corpse of another teenage boy in Josh's bed--and their son missing.

    Director:Michael Pattinson
    Writer:Frank Spotnitz

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  17. Millennium Season 1 Episode 15 - Sacrament
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Sacrament

    S1:E15

    Frank's brother, Tom, and his wife, Helen, travel to Seattle where they hold their newborn son's baptism. After the ceremony, Frank checks up on Jordan, who is off playing with a friend inside the church. He finds his daughter huddled in a ball on the pew, clutching herself. She speaks of a man she saw hurting her Aunt Helen. Frank rushes outside the church. He finds his baby nephew unharmed in the back seat of Tom's rental car, but notes a blood droplet on the infant's face. Frank and Tom realize Helen was abducted.

    Director:Michael W. Watkins
    Writer:Frank Spotnitz

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  18. Millennium Season 2 Episode 12 - Luminary
    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #18 - Luminary

    S2:E12

    Frank searches for a young man who disappeared in the Alaskan wilderness. In the Alaskan wilderness, the body of a young adult male, its face crushed beyond recognition, drifts down a river.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:Chip Johannessen

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  19. Millennium Season 2 Episode 15 - Owls (1)
    7.1/10(8 votes)

    #19 - Owls (1)

    S2:E15

    The discovery of the remains of the Crucifixion Cross threatens to divide the Millennium Group.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writers:Glen Morgan, James Wong

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  20. Millennium Season 2 Episode 23 - The Time is Now (2)
    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #20 - The Time is Now (2)

    S2:E23

    In this continuation of the previous episode... Jordan, Frank and Catherine bury the dead parakeet, prompting more questions from Jordan regarding God and the hereafter. Later, a Millennium team clad in bioharzard suits sweeps into the Davis home, where earlier an entire family was wiped out by the mysterious virus. Outside the house, in the backyard, are a dozen dead birds of various species.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writers:Glen Morgan, James Wong

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  21. Millennium Season 1 Episode 17 - Walkabout
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Walkabout

    S1:E17

    Peter Watts tells Catherine that Frank missed a routine homicide review with Yakima police that morning. Fearing the worst, Peter and Catherine access Frank's computer, looking for clues that would shed light on his disappearance. The pair uncover email correspondence between Frank (using the pseudonym "David Marx") and a Doctor Daniel Miller. Catherine tells Peter that five years ago, just before Frank collapsed, he would sometimes vanish for days at a time and check into hotels using the same pseudonym.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Tim Tankosic, Chip Johannessen

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  22. Millennium Season 1 Episode 20 - Broken World
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #22 - Broken World

    S1:E20

    In North Dakota, a woman named Sally Dumont rides a horse to her farm. As Sally guides the animal to a stall in the stable, she discovers another horse, its coat stained with blood, lying on the ground inside its pen. As she kneels down next to it to investigate, Sally notices someone wearing a pair of rubber boots standing in the adjoining stall. Terrified, she makes her way to a phone and calls for help. Suddenly, the intruder looms up from behind and knocks Sally unconscious.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writers:Patrick Harbinson, Bobby Moresco

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  23. Millennium Season 2 Episode 4 - Monster
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #23 - Monster

    S2:E4

    In rural Arkansas, Frank investigates the owner of a daycare center accused of child abuse, only to be accused himself.

    Director:Perry Lang
    Writers:Glen Morgan, James Wong

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  24. Millennium Season 2 Episode 22 - The Fourth Horseman (1)
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #24 - The Fourth Horseman (1)

    S2:E22

    In Wisconsin, in 1986, a farmer discovers thousands of dead birds inside his chicken coup warehouse, pools of blood encircling each cage. The farmer races for a phone, but collapses on his hands and knees, black papules having grown over his lymph nodes.

    Director:Dwight H. Little
    Writers:Glen Morgan, James Wong

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  25. Millennium Season 1 Episode 4 - The Judge
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #25 - The Judge

    S1:E4

    Forensic profiler Frank Black, a member of the private investigative organization Millennium Group, is asked to investigate a vigilante who uses newly released convicts to execute those he deems guilty.

    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Ted Mann

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Best Episodes Summary

"Lamentation (1)" is the best rated episode of "Millennium". It scored 8.3/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Winrich Kolbe and written by Chris Carter, it aired on 4/18/1997. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions (2)".