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The Best Episodes of Odyssey 5

Every episode of Odyssey 5 ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Odyssey 5!

Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series that first ran in 2002 on Showtime in the United States and on Space in Canada. Odyssey 5...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:Showtime

Best Episodes Summary

"Rage" is the best rated episode of "Odyssey 5". It scored 8.1/10 based on 76 votes. Directed by Ken Girotti and written by N/A, it aired on 10/15/2004. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pilot (1)".

  • Rage
    8.1/1076 votes
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    #1 - Rage

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 10/15/2004

    Chuck and the rest of Odyssey 5 remember a riot in a Houston suburb, and the date is approaching. People in the town are becoming angry, even to the point of killing loved ones - and afterward, they can't remember why. The rush is on to discover what's causing this rage, and how to avert the riot.

    Director: Ken Girotti

    Writer: N/A

  • Pilot (1)
    8.0/10522 votes
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    #2 - Pilot (1)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/21/2002

    The crew members of the Odyssey 5 space shuttle witness the explosion of Earth from an orbit far above. They are rescued by The Seeker and given the chance to save Earth. The Seeker sends them 5 years into the past to attempt to avert the destruction of the planet.

    Director: David Carson

    Writer: Manny Coto

  • Pilot (2)
    7.9/1097 votes
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    #3 - Pilot (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/21/2002

    The crew attempts to go back to their lives of five years prior to the destruction of the Earth, while also trying to begin their investigation.

    Director: David Carson

    Writer: Manny Coto

  • L.D.U.7
    7.9/1081 votes
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    #4 - L.D.U.7

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/9/2002

    Taggart, Mendel and Sarah visit a privately operated Maximum Security Prison hoping to find a clue to locating a powerful, dangerous Sentient. They ultimately find themselves trapped within a Synthetic and it's a race to the death.

    Director: George Mendeluk

    Writer: Tommy Thompson

  • Flux
    7.9/1084 votes
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    #5 - Flux

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/16/2002

    Marc faces expulsion from the Astronaut Training program. Paul takes Sarah to court because of her apparently irrational obsession that their son will get cancer. Taggart suffers from the effects of a Sentient-designed virus.

    Director: Ken Girotti

    Writer: Edithe Swensen

  • Dark at the End of the Tunnel
    7.9/1086 votes
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    #6 - Dark at the End of the Tunnel

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/30/2002

    The residents of a small town and a select group of scientists (including Mendel) are brainwashed into believing "The Lord" has specially chosen them to construct a passageway designed to bring "Him" to Earth. Taggart and Neil must reach Mendel, before it's too late.

    Director: Peter Weller

    Writer: N/A

  • Astronaut Dreams
    7.8/1098 votes
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    #7 - Astronaut Dreams

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/5/2002

    NASA's Project Bright-Sky is accelerated due to Ed Scriven's death and, knowing that a next-generation version of the Bright Sky satellite is what Odyssey 5 was launching on the day Earth was destroyed, Taggart determines that he must put his career on the line to sabotage the deployment of the current version. Neil realizes he's falling in love again with his old high school girlfriend, Holly. Sarah and Angela use their knowledge of the future to try to stop the kidnapping and murder of a young girl, which was front-page news in the original timeline, only to find that their actions have changed the future unpredictably. Mendel, determining that an organism comprised of the mysterious artificial tissue would be cold-blooded, assembles a thermal imaging system that will distinguish humans from the "Synthetics".

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Manny Coto

  • Rapture
    7.8/1080 votes
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    #8 - Rapture

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/2/2002

    Neil's friends at school are taking a new drug called "Rapture", which appears to boost their intelligence and may even promote telepathy and telekinesis. Neil finds out that his friend Deckard got the formula for the drug from a web site, but in his attempt to get a sample for analysis he is forced to take the drug. Meanwhile, Taggart's new boss Cynthia Hodge suggests that he had something to do with sabotaging the last space mission, but appears to be happy that the mission failure has hastened the day when manned space flights will be replaced by totally robotic ones. A retired astronaut, Leyton Scott, tells Taggart that a group called "the Cadre" have been trying for the last 20 years to get rid of manned space flight. But then Leyton reveals that he is dying from "Moon Sickness", a strange disease that strikes only Apollo astronauts, which may have something to do with their having brought more than just rocks back with them from the Moon. Because of Angela's apparent mental br

    Director: Stephen Williams

    Writer: Edithe Swensen

  • The Trouble with Harry
    7.8/1081 votes
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    #9 - The Trouble with Harry

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/6/2002

    The O-5 team is approached by "Harry Mudd" -- a Sentient in a Synthetic body. He warns them of the imminent destruction of the world by an insane Sentient and reminds them about what's important in life.

    Director: Stephen Williams

    Writer: Alan Brennert

  • Symbiosis
    7.7/1088 votes
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    #10 - Symbiosis

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/19/2002

    When a top prosthetics researcher is found dead, Neil receives an anonymous e-mail telling him that the man was murdered by the "Synthetics" whose existence the Odyssey 5 group has discovered, which it says are the physical manifestations of Dr. Chandra's "Sentients". It claims that they are now after the researcher's six-year-old niece Stevie, all because of a ""cybiotic interface"" he was working on which would allow computer technology to control organic systems. Visitng Stevie's teacher, they find out that she is deaf and received a cochlear implant, which her uncle had been tinkering with. Eventually, the team locates Stevie and finds out that her implant allows her brain to control a swarm of insects that have been fitted with cybiotic interface chips. But mysterious figures who may be Synthetics have relentlessly tracked Stevie to Kurt's place.

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: N/A

  • Begotten
    7.7/1077 votes
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    #11 - Begotten

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/1/2004

    With the still-grieving Chuck having taken off on a road trip, the rest of the crew have to deal with the synthetic that Kurt has created.

    Director: Terry Ingram

    Writer: Edithe Swensen

  • Half-Life
    7.7/1066 votes
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    #12 - Half-Life

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 10/8/2004

    Angela is haunted by the apparent ghost of a pilot who disappeared two years ago.

    Director: Stephen Williams

    Writer: Edithe Swensen

  • Skin
    7.6/1079 votes
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    #13 - Skin

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/13/2002

    The Odyssey crew scramble to save the life of Angela's father, Senator Perry, when he's threatened by a terrifying new breed of Synthetic. Paige deals with her emotions after learning the truth about the Odyssey mission.

    Director: Bryan Spicer

    Writer: Edithe Swensen

  • The Shatterer
    7.5/1097 votes
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    #14 - The Shatterer

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/28/2002

    The Odyssey 5 team tries to locate Professor Naran Chandra, an artificial life researcher who in the original timeline will commit suicide at a lecture 8 days from now, right in front of Kurt. Examining the files on Chandra's computer, they find that Chandra discovered a computer lifeform loose on the Internet that apparently evolved on its own from experiments in Chandra's lab and has now become "Sentient". Meanwhile, noting how mature and responsible his behavior has suddenly become, Neil's girlfriend Holly talks about taking their relationship to the next level. Sarah and Angela's investigation of the patients given "gene therapy" by Dr. Barantz leads them to discover some living tissue that appears to have been bio-manufactured in a chemical vat. Then, when they finally meet the frightened Dr. Chandra, the team discovers that one of his students is actually an inhuman creature made from this same nearly-indestructible tissue.

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Manny Coto

  • The Choices We Make
    7.5/1082 votes
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    #15 - The Choices We Make

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/26/2002

    A mysterious being, who is not bound by time, notes that the Odyssey crew have jumped out of their proper time and comes to investigate them. It probes their minds and forces them to re-visit the personal choices they made in the most important moments of their past lives.

    Director: Peter Weller

    Writer: Tommy Thompson

  • Time Out of Mind
    7.4/1090 votes
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    #16 - Time Out of Mind

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/12/2002

    In his continuing unsuccessful quest to make a huge amount of money from his knowledge of the future, Kurt marries a young woman who is destined to be a big star in the music world 5 years hence, but whose music is currently unpopular. Then, one by one, the Odyssey 5 members start losing their future memories. In desperation, Taggart and Mendel consult a theoretical physicist who is lecturing at a local science fiction convention, pretending that they need help with the science in a time-travel novel they are working on. But all they are able to determine is that each victim has the urge to type a bunch of weird symbols on a computer screen just before losing their memories of the next 5 years. Finally, Mendel is the lone survivor. As if stuggling with his new marriage wasn't trouble enough, if his memory goes before he can figure out what is going on, there will be no one left to save the earth from ultimate destruction.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: N/A

  • Kitten
    7.4/1079 votes
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    #17 - Kitten

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/23/2002

    Neil's friendly emails with a mystery woman come back to haunt him when "she" turns out to be a Sentient who is growing increasingly obsessed with him and curious about Odyssey 5. "Kit-10" wants to know the secret of the Odyssey 5 mission -- but just how far will she go to get what she wants?

    Director: Milan Cheylov

    Writer: N/A

  • Follow the Leader
    7.4/1069 votes
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    #18 - Follow the Leader

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 10/8/2004

    The team uncovers a Sentient plot to use elementary school students in the creation of a Doomsday weapon.

    Director: George Mendeluk

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • Vanishing Point
    7.3/1077 votes
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    #19 - Vanishing Point

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/1/2004

    When Taggart wakes up in a hospital with Paige beside him, he begins to believe that the destruction of the world may have been a dream. What he doesn't know is that it is all a ruse by Dr. Bertran, who is trying to stall his activities long enough to download information from his brain.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fossil
    NaN/100 votes
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    #20 - Fossil

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 10/15/2004

    During the surveillance of a suspected Synthetic front, Angela and Kurt engage in a firefight which leaves Kurt in the hospital and Angela abducted by the Synthetics. Following a tip from his old friend and Menthor, Leyton Scott, Chuck learns of a rock, brought back from the moon, that is the link between the Cadre and The Sentients.

    Director: Peter Weller

    Writer: Manny Coto, Jonathan Glassner