7.0/10281 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/3/2013
As Savannah and her husband are faced with fertility issues, Savannah finds herself attracted to a flirtatious colleague; recent widow April becomes convinced that her husband is actually still alive; Karen deals with the ramifications of an affair.
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Writer: K.J. Steinberg
7.0/10231 votes#2 - The Morning After
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/2013
While Karen counsels Savi to hold a beat before confessing to husband Harry about her night with Dominic, Savi gets an entirely different reaction from April. Meanwhile, April investigates a woman's shocking claims that her late husband, Paul, had another life; Joss finds a friend in new client Alex, and Karen warily agrees to meet with Sam Grey.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Rina Mimoun
7.4/10214 votes#3 - Breaking and Entering
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/17/2013
Tensions escalate at work between Savi and Dom; Joss's new boss Olivier -- very French and very unimpressed with her -- gives her an impossible assignment; and Karen continues to be drawn into the dysfunctional Grey family orbit.
Director: Ron Lagomarsino
Writer: K.J. Steinberg
7.5/10213 votes#4 - A Kiss Is Just a Kiss?
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/24/2013
Savi finds out she's pregnant and knows there's a good chance the baby is indeed Harry's and not a result of the one-time affair she had with Dom. Joss finds herself befriending her gay real estate client, Alex, who has a controlling significant other. April is pressured by the woman who claims she had a child by April's dead husband. Also, despite Savi's advice to the contrary, Karen continues to find herself drawn to the company of Sam Grey, the college-aged son of her dead lover.
Director: David Paymer
Writer: Dara Resnik, Chad Gomez Creasey
7.5/10209 votes#5 - Decisions, Decisions
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/1/2013
Savi is anxious to find out her paternity test results, while trying to hide her pregnancy from Harry. Meanwhile the friendship between Joss and her gay client, Alex, takes an interesting turn when Alex breaks up with her girlfriend; April and Richard are brought closer together when their 10-year-old daughters don't show up for school; and after Karen receives a visit from a private investigator seeking answers surrounding her lover's death, she meets with his widow, Elizabeth Grey.
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Writer: Jordan Budde
7.6/10191 votes#6 - Payback
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/8/2013
Savi desperately tries to make things right with Harry, but he continues to avoid her and discussion of their future; Karen is frightened when, on the heels of the insurance investigation, someone breaks into her office and may have accessed her patient files; April and Richard's romance heats up; and Olivier continues to make Joss's life miserable at the office.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Josh Reims
7.7/10190 votes#7 - All In
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/15/2013
Joss, terribly hurt that Savi hid her pregnancy and her illicit affair from her, moves in with April; Harry and Dominic angrily face off at a social event; Karen meets up again with Detective Newsome, but this time it's personal; and April struggles to put memories of her dead husband behind her so she can move on with a relationship with Richard.
Director: John Scott
Writer: Jenna Richman
7.8/10200 votes#8 - Ultimatum
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/22/2013
Savi wants to fight for her relationship with Harry, even if the baby is Dom's; April is still reeling from the revelation that her supposedly dead husband, Paul, is actually alive; Karen is surprised when Sam hires her business partner as his therapist and seeks out his mother, Elizabeth, to express her concern; and after an uncomfortable run-in with Alex's ex, Joss wants to redefine her relationship with Alex.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: Justin W. Lo
7.8/10188 votes#9 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/29/2013
When Savi and Joss’s free-spirited, open-minded and often absent mother, Janet, comes for an unexpected visit, she brings big news but also stirs up some long-simmering family tensions. Now that Karen realizes that Elizabeth Grey knew all along about her affair with Tom, she wonders if Elizabeth might have actually killed Tom because of her; and April questions whether she should tell her daughter she’s dating Richard, although she has yet to tell Richard about the return of her supposedly-dead husband.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: David Folwell
7.8/10179 votes#10 - Indecent Proposals
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/19/2013
As single mom-to-be Savi begins to grasp that Harry may never be coming back, Dom offers her a shoulder to lean on. April is furious when Paul shows up at Lucy's school and shares her frustration with Richard, who decides to take matters into his own hands. Karen and Sam reconnect after she realizes Savi won't give her information about Elizabeth's lawsuit against her; and at work Joss tries to win over Olivier by helping him impress new real estate clients.
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Dara Resnik, Chad Gomez Creasey
7.7/10175 votes#11 - Full Disclosure
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/26/2013
Karen begins her deposition into her possible role in the death and cover-up of her lover, Thomas Grey, where his son, Sam, has promised to be her alibi. Dominic surprises Karen when he brings in private detective Anthony Newsome to testify. After Joss tells Harry that Savi has yet to open up her paternity results, he decides to go to the clinic to find out for himself. And April and Richard, who have broken up, remember they made an amusement park date with their kids they have to keep. Meanwhile, Joss's feelings for Olivier are stirred up when Alex asks her if she misses sleeping with a man.
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Writer: Josh Reims
7.7/10188 votes#12 - When One Door Closes...
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/2/2013
The judge delivers a shocking ruling in Grey Vs Kim. While the case is closed, there is even more trouble on the horizon for Karen; Paul helps a frantic April search for Lucy after the school reports that she's gone missing; Joss tries to salvage her relationship with Alex after she learns Joss slept with Olivier; and Savi is receptive to Dom's advances, and accepts the fact that Harry is no longer part of her life... until she learns some disturbing news about the state of Harry's restaurant.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: Rina Mimoun
8.1/10223 votes#13 - I Choose You
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/9/2013
The ladies plan a lavish birthday getaway to Palm Springs for Savi, but the fates conspire against them, as Joss realizes Harry has stolen the test results that would reveal whether he or Dom fathered Savi's baby; April makes a choice on which man to keep in her life; and Elizabeth Grey decides to settle the score, once and for all, with Karen.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: K.J. Steinberg
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Mistresses" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 281 votes. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by K.J. Steinberg, it aired on 6/3/2013. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Morning After".