6.3/10280 votesLoading...#1 - Human Essence
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/1998
Emma tries to help her drug addicted sister and learns that local addicts are exhibiting strange mutations linked to tainted heroin.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Michael Duggan
6.5/10350 votesLoading...#2 - A Single Blade of Grass
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1997
In Manhattan, Frank Black and an anthropologist link a bizarre, ritualistic slaying to a lost tribe of Native Americans who follow apocalyptic prophecies.
Director: Rodman Flender
Writer: Erin Maher, Kay Reindl
6.5/10267 votesLoading...#3 - Forcing the End
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 3/19/1999
A fundamentalist Jewish sect abducts a pregnant woman hoping to raise a pure child for the priesthood and force the coming of the Messiah.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Marjorie David
6.5/10258 votesLoading...#4 - Bardo Thodol
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/23/1999
Emma and Frank investigate the mysterious biological research conducted by a former Millennium Group member who is dying from a mysterious disease.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Chip Johannessen, Virginia Stock
6.6/10336 votesLoading...#5 - Anamnesis
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/17/1998
Catherine and Lara investigate when five girls claim they saw a vision of the Virgin Mary.
Director: Peter John Kousakis
Writer: Erin Maher, Kay Reindl
6.8/10347 votesLoading...#6 - Sense and Antisense
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1997
Frank aids in the search for a man who is supposedly carrying a highly contagious virus and discovers the secret behind the Human Genome Project.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Chip Johannessen
6.8/10338 votesLoading...#7 - ...Thirteen Years Later
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1998
Frank and Emma investigate murders on the set of a movie based on one of Frank's former cases.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Michael R. Perry
6.9/10324 votesLoading...#8 - Siren
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/20/1998
A mysterious Asian woman is linked to several strange deaths aboard a ship.
Director: Allen Coulter
Writer: Glen Morgan, James Wong
6.9/10312 votesLoading...#9 - The Innocents (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1998
The Marburg virus has apparently run its course. Several months after the death of his wife and a nervous breakdown, Frank rejoins the FBI and investigates a plane crash with a new partner.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Michael Duggan
6.9/10297 votesLoading...#10 - Exegesis (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1998
Frank and Emma investigate a family of identical women who are apparently being killed off.
Director: Ralph Hemecker
Writer: Chip Johannessen
6.9/10292 votesLoading...#11 - TEOTWAWKI
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1998
Frank and Emma investigate a survivalist group worried about the Y2K bug.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
6.9/10275 votesLoading...#12 - Matryoshka
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/1999
Frank and Emma investigate the suicide of a former FBI agent and discover links between the FBI, the Millennium Group, and the Los Alamos nuclear research center.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: Erin Maher, Kay Reindl
7.0/10394 votesLoading...#13 - Loin Like a Hunting Flame
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/31/1997
Near the University of Colorado at Boulder, a group of college-age students gather at a warehouse/techno night club. Art Nesbitt, a pharmacist, approaches a couple, Mel and Leslie. He opens his palm, revealing two capsules. Under the influence of the powerful drugs, the couple accompany Nesbitt to a small room. Nesbitt captures their lovemaking on videotape, then injects them with a lethal poison.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Ted Mann
7.0/10367 votesLoading...#14 - Maranatha
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1997
In the Brighton Beach area of New York City, a man named Yaponchik kills a Russian Elder by shooting him in the face with a 12 gauge pistol. It becomes the third such killing in which the perpetrator mutilated the body to prevent positive identification. Frank assists N.Y.P.D. Lieutenant McCormick, Yura Surova, from the Moscow Police Department, and undercover officer Andrei Medikov with the investigation. While inspecting the Elder's corpse, Frank notices an odd mark in the shape of a inverted "V." But he is unable, at first, to determine its meaning.
Director: Peter Markle
Writer: Chip Johannessen
7.0/10323 votesLoading...#15 - In Arcadia Ego
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/3/1998
Frank searches for a female serial killer and her lover after the pair escape from prison.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Chip Johannessen
7.0/10287 votesLoading...#16 - Closure
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1998
Emma is haunted by memories of the death of her sister while she and Frank hunt a spree killer.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Laurence Andries
7.1/10451 votesLoading...#17 - Kingdom Come
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/29/1996
A desperate man sets out on a killing spree taking revenge on the holy men that he believes have led him to stray. Frank can see the man's sense of faith and the lack his faith could be the key to stopping this killer. Frank then puts himself in danger when he walks into a hostage situation at a small town church.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Jorge Zamacona
7.1/10314 votesLoading...#18 - Omerta
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/18/1998
On Christmas, Frank and Jordan go one vacation in Vermont. Unexpectedly, they get involved with a supposedly dead Mafia hit man who appears to be living in the woods with a number of mysterious women.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Michael R. Perry
7.2/10395 votesLoading...#19 - Wide Open
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/3/1997
A man, Cutter, parks his automobile near a home with a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn. After speaking briefly with a realtor, Cutter signs his name in a guest book and makes his way through the house, where he takes particular interest in a little girl's bedroom. Later that evening, the owners return home and tuck their young daughter, Patricia, into bed. Later that night, Patricia suddenly begins screaming.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Charles Holland
7.2/10427 votesLoading...#20 - The Wild and the Innocent
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/1997
Maddie Haskel, twenty-years-old and heartland pretty, attends her mother's funeral in Joplan, Missouri. After the service, Maddie returns to her family's home, where she is approached by a vicious-looking man named Jim Gilroy. Gilroy's attempt to rape Maddie comes to a sudden halt when Maddie's boyfriend, Bobby Webber, emerges from the shadows wielding a length of iron pipe. After Gilroy is knocked unconscious, Bobby and Maddie drive off into the night with their prisoner safely tucked away in the trunk of their automobile. A Missouri State Trooper notices the vehicle has a burned-out tail light and orders Bobby to pull over. When the trooper hears noises emanating from the trunk, Bobby grabs a .357 and shoots and kills the trooper.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Jorge Zamacona
7.2/10370 votesLoading...#21 - Walkabout
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/1997
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
Writer: Tim Tankosic, Chip Johannessen
7.2/10360 votesLoading...#22 - Broken World
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1997
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
Writer: Bobby Moresco, Patrick Harbinson
7.2/10382 votesLoading...#23 - Beware of the Dog
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1997
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
Writer: Bobby Moresco, Patrick Harbinson
7.2/10296 votesLoading...#24 - Borrowed Time
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/15/1999
Frank and Emma investigate a number of apparent drownings that occurred on dry land.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chip Johannessen
7.3/10502 votesLoading...#25 - Dead Letters
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/8/1996
Against the initial resistance of the Group, Frank travels to Portland, Oregon, to investigate a murder at an animal shelter. He meets with Jim Horn, a profiler and candidate for the Millennium Group. But Horn is distracted by his imminent divorce, and there is tension between him and Frank. When the killer strikes again, Horn is losing control, and Frank not only has to catch the killer who leaves grisly messages on his victims, but he has to contend with Horn as well who is more than ready to stop the murderer with terminal prejudice.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Glen Morgan, James Wong
The Worst 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...
Genres:CrimeDramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:FOX
Worst Episodes Summary
"Human Essence" is the worst rated episode of "Millennium". It scored 6.3/10 based on 280 votes. Directed by Thomas J. Wright and written by Michael Duggan, it aired on 12/11/1998. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Single Blade of Grass".