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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 lightning. After that she began seeing visions of missing people.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Missing Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
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    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    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
    Writers:William Laurin, Glenn Davis

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  2. Missing Season 1 Episode 2 - They Come as They Go
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    #2 - They Come as They Go

    S1:E2

    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
    Writers:William Laurin, Glenn Davis

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  3. Missing Season 1 Episode 3 - Insomnia
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    #3 - Insomnia

    S1:E3

    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
    Writers:William Rabkin, Lee Goldberg

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  4. Missing Season 1 Episode 4 - I Thought I Knew You
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    #4 - I Thought I Knew You

    S1:E4

    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
    Writers:Phil Bedard, Larry Lalonde

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  5. Missing Season 1 Episode 5 - Thin Air
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    #5 - Thin Air

    S1:E5

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Missing Season 1 Episode 6 - Never Go Against the Family
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    #6 - Never Go Against the Family

    S1:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Missing Season 1 Episode 7 - This Is Your Life
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    #7 - This Is Your Life

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Missing Season 1 Episode 8 - Ties That Bind
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    #8 - Ties That Bind

    S1:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Missing Season 1 Episode 9 - M.I.A.
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    #9 - M.I.A.

    S1:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Missing Season 1 Episode 10 - 72 Hours to Kill
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    #10 - 72 Hours to Kill

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Missing Season 1 Episode 11 - Deliverance from Evil
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    #11 - Deliverance from Evil

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Missing Season 1 Episode 12 - Victoria
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    #12 - Victoria

    S1:E12

    Jess' dreams lead to the disappearance of a psychotic and potentially dangerous patient from an asylum

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Missing Season 1 Episode 13 - White Whale
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    #13 - White Whale

    S1:E13

    Brooke's past rears its ugly head when a brilliant serial killer whom she was never able to prove guilty is on the loose again. The cat-and-mouse game becomes especially dangerous when someone close to Brooke goes missing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Missing Season 1 Episode 14 - Basic Training
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    #14 - Basic Training

    S1:E14

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Missing Season 1 Episode 15 - Father Figure
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    #15 - Father Figure

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. Missing Season 1 Episode 16 - Lost Sister
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    #16 - Lost Sister

    S1:E16

    Brooke searches for a missing journalist who was about to publish a book containing proof of FBI corruption. Although Jess' dreams indicate that someone within the bureau may be responsible for the disappearance, Brooke can't believe it. Also, Jess goes undercover with obnoxious agent Jack Burgess to bust a drug ring.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Missing Season 1 Episode 17 - Delusional
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    #17 - Delusional

    S1:E17

    Under heightened stress as the frequency of her waking visions increases, Jess meets an FBI inspector who tells her about a secret investigation of Brooke. Jess can't discern whether this is a dream or reality and begins to believe she is going crazy. What's really happening: Jess' visions are helping the bureau track down a female serial killer, and the killer's dark paranoia is entering Jess' mind.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Missing Season 1 Episode 18 - These Dreams Before Me (a.k.a. The Fisher Queen)
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    #18 - These Dreams Before Me (a.k.a. The Fisher Queen)

    S1:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Missing Season 2 Episode 1 - Sea of Love
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    #19 - Sea of Love

    S2:E1

    Jess goes to Quantico to train to be an FBI agent after Brooke transfers to San Francisco. Jess is passed from the training school by powerful John Pollock to work with her new partner, rule-breaking hip Nicole Scott as well as evidence expert Antonio Cortez. In the team's first case, a teenaged girl is caught on a survelliance camera stepping on an elevator with a stranger at a shopping mall. The elevator goes down a floor and opens to reveal an empty car. The girl is not seen for days after this incident. Nicole and Jess must work together to use Jess' visions and Nicole's experience and street smarts to solve this case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Missing Season 2 Episode 2 - One Night Stand
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    #20 - One Night Stand

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown

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  21. Missing Season 2 Episode 3 - Judgement Day
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    #21 - Judgement Day

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Diane Ademu-John

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  22. Missing Season 2 Episode 4 - Resurrection
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    #22 - Resurrection

    S2:E4

    A woman sees her son, whom she believed died ten years earlier in a car accident along with his father, on television at a football game. The boy's father's body was found and the boy was assumed to be dead in the horrific car accident. Nicole and Jess must find both the boy and his father's murderer. Also, Nicole believes Jess' dreams are about her and doesn't feel flattered.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Morgan Gendel

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  23. Missing Season 2 Episode 5 - Last Stop
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    #23 - Last Stop

    S2:E5

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Missing Season 2 Episode 6 - In the Midnight Hour
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    #24 - In the Midnight Hour

    S2:E6

    A woman is found murdered in New York City's Central Park but before police arrive at the scene the medical examiner, the hearse, and the driver disappear along with the body. Eventually the body along with the boides of the medical examiner and the driver are found cut open. Assistant Director Pollock identifies the body as that of an unprofessional undercover woman he had been using to get information about a gang of bank robbers. Jess has dreams about the snitch getting the electric chair and of Pollock kissing the woman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Missing Season 2 Episode 7 - Domestic Bliss
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    #25 - Domestic Bliss

    S2:E7

    A rebellious teenager has an argument with her parents, storms out of their suburban home and drives away. When she returns hours later her parents and younger brother have disappeared. The teenager and her boyfriend are the top suspects until a body is found that breaks the case wide open. Also, an infamous red light camera sheds some new light on the case (and on their feasibility). Nicole and Jess have to deal with a rude Drug Agency officer who won't let them investigate a murder Jess dreams about because of its drug relations.

    Director:Michael Robinson
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Missing". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Michael Fresco and written by William Laurin, Glenn Davis, it aired on 8/2/2003. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "They Come as They Go".