8.0/1041 votesLoading...#1 - I Thought I Knew You
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/23/2003
In the team's most perplexing case so far, a teenage girl's parents suddenly vanish from their car while the vacationing family is stopped at a gas station on the highway.
Director: David Wu
Writer: Phil Bedard, Larry Lalonde
7.9/1041 votesLoading...#2 - Thin Air
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/6/2003
Brooke and Jess must discover how a woman disappeared from an airplane in mid-flight. Meanwhile, Brooke finally learns the identity of the secret admirer who has been sending her gifts.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1040 votesLoading...#3 - This Is Your Life
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/20/2003
The team is called upon to locate the missing husband of a woman in the Witness Protection Program, without leading the bad guys to her location.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1040 votesLoading...#4 - So Shall Ye Reap
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/2006
The team searches for his serial killer named Carol Eisenberg who along with her husband killed five girls. Now she has escaped from prison. Also Jess warns Antonio that someone may harm him. Her vision turns out to be correct when Antonio realizes he's being stalked by a dead man.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: N/A
7.8/1038 votesLoading...#5 - M.I.A.
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/11/2003
When Rebecca Crowley insists that she spotted her brother Richard, who has been MIA for years, Brooke and Jess are called in to investigate the claim. Despite the Army's official story that Richard died during a special ops mission in Bolivia, Brooke and Jess learn that he became involved in the drug trade, causing them to wonder whether Richard's disappearance was intentional. The more they discover, the more Brooke and Jess realize that he may not be the person they should be looking for.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1035 votesLoading...#6 - Deliverance from Evil
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/1/2003
Brooke and Jess investigate the disappearance of a wealthy couple who were on a nature trip. Things get complicated when Jess and Brooke find themselves on their own in the woods with a killer on the loose.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1031 votesLoading...#7 - Last Night
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 8/7/2005
The agents search for a young boy who goes missing while his grandmother babysits him. Their investigation leads them to his family, who have hired an aggressive lawyer. The shocking results of the grandmother's polygraph test leads to an even more surprising conclusion. In the end, the agents face off with a psycho and must outwit him to find the boy alive. Meanwhile, Jess tells Colin that she's psychic and is disappointed by his reaction while Nicole and Antonio worry that Pollack will transfer one of them now that they suspect he knows that they're in a relationship.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: Charles Holland
7.7/1026 votesLoading...#8 - Fugitive
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 8/14/2005
A convict about to go to trial for murder kills two police officers and escapes. He then steals a woman's car and kidnaps her. Jess, Nicole, Antonio, and Janey are assigned to the case and Jess and Nicole barely make it out alive of a burning building they enter to rescue the kidnapping victim. However, once the woman is found, the mystery has just begun. Nicole urges Jess to get to know Janey better and the three women urge Antonio to keep his job. In a jaw-dropping ending, somebody doesn't make it out alive of a drugstore shootout.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1042 votesLoading...#9 - Never Go Against the Family
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/13/2003
Brooke and Jess are ordred to help another FBI agent locate a dead mobster's wife, although they're not sure whether she was abducted or simply decided to run off with a bunch of her husband's money.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1039 votesLoading...#10 - Ties That Bind
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/27/2003
Brooke is attending a wedding with Eric Reynard and the bride doesn't show up for the vows. When the groom goes to talk to her there is a crash and Brooke finds him unconscious. The team starts searching. Later a ransom note (or e-mail) arrives.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1036 votesLoading...#11 - 72 Hours to Kill
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/18/2003
Brooke takes on the authorities after a death-row inmate makes a final plea. As time runs out, Brooke and Jess risk it all to try to save the innocent man.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1026 votesLoading...#12 - Spring Break
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/2006
Nicole and Jess are on the search for a woman named Caroline Dunn who went missing during spring break. The team believes she went missing with her boyfriend Luke. meanwhile Nicole is still ready to go back into the field while dealing with a concussion. As the search for Carolyn continues the team discovers a surprising result that they didn't expect.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1055 votesLoading...#13 - They Come as They Go
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/9/2003
The new team's first official case is a missing FBI cadet whose disappearance puts them on the trail of a serial killer.
Director: David Wu
Writer: Glenn Davis, William Laurin
7.5/1028 votesLoading...#14 - Patient X
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 9/18/2005
When the teenage perpetrator of a high school hostage crisis disappears, the agents solicit some unusual help from their suspended boss, Pollock, to investigate the school psychiatrist's records. Then, when another student goes missing, suspicion falls on the mysterious Patient X.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lawrence Hertzog
7.4/1065 votesLoading...#15 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/2/2003
Hotshot FBI agent Brooke Haslett's search for a missing woman brings her to Indianapolis, where she follows a hunch about a U.S. senator's involvement in the disappearance of a young woman. The investigation takes an unexpected turn when Jess Mastriani, a young local woman, begins having dreams about a missing girl after getting struck by lightning. She is shocked to learn that the dreams are giving her metaphorical clues to the girl's location but an impulsive decision ruins the situation for all involved. When the FBI finds out about her dreams they ask her to work for them as a special consultant & Brooke is made her partner. She also dreams about the missing woman Brooke is searching for. But Brooke finds it difficult to take these clairvoyant dreams seriously as each one points toward events in the past.
Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: Glenn Davis, William Laurin
7.4/1035 votesLoading...#16 - These Dreams Before Me (a.k.a. The Fisher Queen)
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/2004
After a mother and son of an attorney go missing, Brooke and Jess must work with a legendary FBI agent to solve the case. Jess believes she is being stalked by a homeless person but it turns out she is a former psychic for the FBI, a living warning of the cost of working for the FBI. Brooke is offered a promotion that would move her to San Francisco and end the her and Jess' partnership.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1025 votesLoading...#17 - Off the Grid
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/10/2005
A mother and her young children witness a middle-aged woman being kidnapped in a parking lot. Jess has a vision while trying to corner a suspect that nearly lets him get away. The agents discover that the woman was trying to be as anonymous and invisible as possible and they learn a horrifying secret that hits too close to home for Nicole, who reveals a deadly secret about her childhood. Meanwhile, Antonio encourages Nicole to share what's bothering her and Jess is asked out by Colin, the undercover agent she worked with in "Unnatural Disaster".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1025 votesLoading...#18 - Death in the Family
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 10/2/2005
In what may be the most bizarre case yet for the FBI squad, the team must find missing twin girls in order to figure out who killed their parents and why! Jess' visions suggest that the girls are separated but both lost in the wilderness.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1047 votesLoading...#19 - Insomnia
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/16/2003
A nightmare has so rattled Jess that she is unable to fall asleep, increasing the pressure on her to locate a missing woman threatened by a killer as having only a few hours left to live.
Director: Kristoffer Tabori
Writer: Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin
7.3/1036 votesLoading...#20 - Basic Training
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/6/2003
When a young cadet goes missing from a military academy, Jess goes undercover to find out whether she went AWOL or if there was another reason for her disappearance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1037 votesLoading...#21 - Father Figure
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/13/2003
When a research scientist who holds the key to a potentially highly profitable drug is kidnapped, Brooke and Jess must contend with several suspects: drug smugglers, the scientist's wife, Brooke's father and his co-workers.
Director: T.J. Scott
Writer: N/A
7.3/1031 votesLoading...#22 - One Night Stand
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2004
A woman fearing for her life makes a panicked 911 call. The next day blood is found in the hotel room she shared with a fraternity boy on a one night stand. Nicole and Jess expect that they are searching for a body but find out that they have been misled. Nicole and Jess could be in danger from a serial killer on the loose.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: N/A
7.3/1036 votesLoading...#23 - Judgement Day
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2004
A judge who must decide whether or not an elusive criminal should face a trial has her daughter kidnapped. Nicole & Jess later find out that the kidnappers got the daughter's best friend instead of her. The judge must face the terrible decision of letting an evil criminal go free or letting a teenaged girl die unless Nicole & Jess find her in time.
Director: N/A
Writer: Diane Ademu-John
7.3/1029 votesLoading...#24 - Last Stop
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/7/2004
A public bus that was traveling from Boston to Atlantic City, New Jersey is found in rural New Jersey with the twenty passengers (including an 8-month pregnant woman) and the driver mysteriously absent. Nicole and Jess find out that a man traveling from Boston to Miami on a bus from the same company that left at the same time was beat up and had his luggage stolen. Jess has no idea what her dreams involving a man eating garbage and screaming coming from behind a red door mean. Jess and Antonio discourage Nicole from re-starting her smoking habit which she gave up five years earlier.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1025 votesLoading...#25 - And the Walls Come Tumbling Down
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 7/17/2005
Jess has a vision that leads her and Nicole to discover a 10-year-old skeleton. When the body is identified, Pollack orders them off the case. Jess and Nicole continue to work on the case while trying to keep their work away from Pollack and trying to figure out why he's so insistent that they can't work on it. Meanwhile, Pollack's wife kicks him out.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Missing
Every episode of Missing ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Missing!
Jess Mastriani was a normal person who only wanted to take over her parents' restaurant in Indiana. But that changed when she was hit by...
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Best Episodes Summary
"I Thought I Knew You" is the best rated episode of "Missing". It scored 8/10 based on 41 votes. Directed by David Wu and written by Phil Bedard, Larry Lalonde, it aired on 8/23/2003. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Thin Air".