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The Best Episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy

Every episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy!

The Best Episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy

The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.

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  1. Background image for Irish Jug
    7.9/10(30 votes)

    #1 - Irish Jug

    S3:E11

    Kat is on the job when the team is put in charge of cataloging and disbursing the bequeathed estate of Hanney Ellen Keane and Derek makes a grave error. Taking a few drinks from a cursed Irish Jug causes two ne'er-do-wellers escape from the Jug and possess Derek and Milo. Once the boys realize what year they're in and the fortune the one called Derek possesses they soon decide to stay awhile but before they can enjoy the riches they must get rid of the women. Being the only one that sees the two impostors for what they are Kat must think quickly and convince Alex to help her as Rachel is nowhere to be found.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Father to Son
    7.8/10(28 votes)

    #2 - Father to Son

    S3:E5

    Nick witnessed his father's death, but then learns that his father did not die by accident. His father's ghost asks him to help find his murderer and avenge his death. But Nick has trouble solving the case when it comes to light that his father was abusive to him when he was a child.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Fallen Angel
    7.7/10(25 votes)

    #3 - Fallen Angel

    S3:E6

    The Legacy must intervene when a dead woman's spirit returns to earth from Heaven to rescue her lover's soul from Hell, not realizing the danger that he will return with new powers to commit evil.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Debt of Honor
    7.7/10(31 votes)

    #4 - Debt of Honor

    S3:E8

    Nick attends a boyhood friend's military funeral and gets re-acquainted with another. After catching up and returning home Nick is called up a few days later when Joe, the deceased, begins paying John troubling visits. Nick, along with Kristin's help, must find out why his friend is out for revenge against John then its up to Nick to stop Joe before his soul is doomed forever.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Double Cross (2)
    7.7/10(27 votes)

    #5 - Double Cross (2)

    S4:E7

    Franklin Cross begins his takeover of the San Francisco house of the Legacy. The team are not sure what is going on, where Derek is or whether or not to trust Cross. The investigations into Reed Horton continue while the team try to find out what has happened to Derek themselves.

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  6. Background image for Brother's Keeper
    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #6 - Brother's Keeper

    S4:E8

    Nick's brother, Jeremy, who died and was cremated, appears on the road in front of Nicks car. He claims to have 'escaped' and has The Soul Chaser after him trying to take him back. After a brief altercation with The Soul Chaser Nick takes the wounded Jimmy back to the Legacy HQ with him, believing the Soul Chaser to have been killed by his own weapon. The Soul Chaser returns to our world though and tracks down the brothers. He launches an attack on the Legacy house to finally retrieve his quarry.

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    Director:Helen Shaver
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Unholy Congress (1)
    7.7/10(24 votes)

    #7 - Unholy Congress (1)

    S4:E12

    Excavations in boston discover what loks like a tomb buried deep underground. The digging has made an opening and when the builders examine it they release Dr. Mordecai Church from his long imprisonment. He kills them and sets about starting his own 'religion', recruiting young runaways as his congregation. Having no family makes leaves Church free to kill his new disciples whenever he wishes, after all who is there to complain when no one knows where they are anyway? Reed Horton soon comes across Church and recruits him for his own vendetta against The Legacy.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Dream Lover
    7.6/10(31 votes)

    #8 - Dream Lover

    S3:E7

    Derek receives an ancient artifact shattered in pieces. Kristin and Alex take the task to re-assembling the package as Derek receives notice the sender, Samuel Kellig, was killed in an accident. The women discover Samuel's death may not have been an accident as they begin to put the urn back together as well as piece clues to Samuel's last dig. At the same time, Derek grows closer to Samuel's beautifully captivating fiance...a woman whose present character doesn't fit her profile.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Hell Hath No Fury
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #9 - Hell Hath No Fury

    S3:E10

    After a freed cop killer is killed Derek and the team investigate when it becomes obvious it was a ritualistic murder. More importantly, the murder was done using an artifact stolen from a Legacy collection on display by a former member. Though, Det. Carmack is set against allowing the team to help he has no choice as the Legacy is set on solving the case and retrieving their stolen property. Soon the investigation leads Derek to a truth he had secretly hoped wasn't the truth...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Wishful Thinking
    7.6/10(27 votes)

    #10 - Wishful Thinking

    S4:E10

    A mysterious bottle is found by Milos Javitz in an old curio shop. he thinks that it could be an item that he has been searching for for years, a bottle containing Ginelle, a female genie. Before he can complete his three wishes after releasing her he is tricked into closing his eyes. She knocks him out and escapes to gain revenge on her past 'owners' who refused to release her from her cptivity. To help him find her, and to save himself from her anger, Milos calls on his old college roomate... Derek Rayne.

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Vendetta
    7.5/10(23 votes)

    #11 - Vendetta

    S4:E3

    A young man is mysteriously killed while at a well known local spot, a place where a woman was lynched in the 50's. His skull is crushed, but not his head, and his body is covered with what looks like electrical burns. The coroner is an old aquaintence of Dereks and he asks if Derek will come and help. He takes Kristin with him and they find a small town with a deep, dark secret.

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    Director:Jim Kaufman
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Sacrifice (2)
    7.5/10(23 votes)

    #12 - The Sacrifice (2)

    S4:E13

    Horton's plans to split The Legacy apart and destroy Derek begins to work as Kristin walks out and with Mordecai Church at his side he has a powerful ally to help him finish of the rest of the team. With the Boston chapter of The Legacy being almost non-existant now it is left to Derek and Nick to find out what the evil duo are up to and stop them. They try to persuade Father Callaghan, who has been helping them out, to rejoin their fight against Horton and Church and to save The Legacy from destruction.

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    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Light of Day (2)
    7.4/10(31 votes)

    #13 - Light of Day (2)

    S3:E2

    Having been bitten by a vampire, Alex's transition to one will be complete as soon as she succeeds in killing the object of her blood lust -- Nick.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Traitor (1)
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #14 - The Traitor (1)

    S4:E6

    Alex returns after an unexpected sabbatical as the team turns on Derek when an old case is re-opened. The twenty year old evidence begins pointing towards Derek as a cold blooded killer and old witnesses can no longer rely on their own accounts to save him. As he stands firm in his innocence those closest to him, except for one, lose all confidence in their friend, mentor and Precept.

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    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #15 - Initiation

    S4:E9

    Kat is doing magic with her friend Miranda, who has shown her a few small tricks and has taken her to her secret place. Miranda tells Kat that if she touches the amulet she has given her to the heart of three other poeple then the five points of power will increase her magical prowess. Rachel, Nick and Alex are her three targets but they know something is going on. Can they find out what Miranda is up to before it is to late to save Kat?

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    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Darkness Falls (1)
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    #16 - Darkness Falls (1)

    S3:E1

    In New Orleans, Alex encounters an old college friend who is now a vampire. But when she is bitten she begins to transform into a vampire but the process will only be completed when she has taken her first human life.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Light
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    #17 - The Light

    S3:E9

    Members of the Barnard family have been dying, all under mysterious circumstances. When Rachel gets the Legacy involved to protect her old family friends, they soon realise that everything comes back to Todd's romance with Angela Sanchez, and her grandmother's pain.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Prodigy
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    #18 - The Prodigy

    S3:E14

    Kristin is reunited with her first love, world famous concert pianist, Eugene Kadar. The reunion is bittersweet as people that could influence Eugene's career begin mysteriously dying of heart attacks and his agent becomes even more controlling. Kristin chooses to ignore the problem and live her love with Eugene to the fullest until Eugene begins to spin out of control. Derek and Nick are to the rescue but Eugene may already be lost...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Out of Sight
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #19 - Out of Sight

    S3:E19

    Jeffrey Starr returns to San Francisco and his old tricks but when a psychic intervention goes awry the Legacy is called in to help. Reluctant to help Derek gives in when it becomes clear that Jeffery's life is in more danger than they first realized.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Song of the Raven (1)
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #20 - Song of the Raven (1)

    S4:E1

    Rachel performs a psychiatric evaluation on Raymond Corvus as Derek is convinced he is responsible for a series of murders identical to those he was tried and found guilty of committing. As Rachel struggles with the results of her evaluation and the knowledge it will put a man to death the team continues to research who is behind the newest 'harvester' type murders...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for She's Got the Devil in Her Heart
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    #21 - She's Got the Devil in Her Heart

    S4:E14

    A couple of fisherman catch something big and heavy on their anchor. Unknowingly they have released Karen Morgan, a succubus who is in love with Nick. She uses another name and disguises herself to 'fall in love' with Nicks friend and then starts to visit Rachel at her Doctor's office. She uses both of them to make sure that she gets introduced to Nick. Meanwhile, to keep herself alive, she is finding violent men on the streets of San Francisco and sucking the life from them.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Beast Within
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    #22 - The Beast Within

    S4:E22

    Plagued by nightmares and visitations from his father's evil spirit, Derek fears that the portal to hell has been breached. The episode begins with Derek having nightmares of his father and evil spirits, (flashback from the Pilot episode). When he awakens he goes to the library, where all of the books and files are spread all over the room, alot of them are ripped. Derek notices a specific scripture has been destroyed, which leads him to believe that the gate of hell has been breached, which is located under the Legacy House. Derek, Nick and Alex make their under the house to investigate, but everything seems fine. However, Derek is still cautious and takes precautions, he wants Nick to get as much C4 explosives as he can find. Throughout the rest of the day, Derek keeps on having visions about his eveil father.

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    Director:James Head
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Stolen Hearts
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #23 - Stolen Hearts

    S3:E4

    Rachel falls in love with a man who turns out to have achieved his success by making a pact with the Devil. At the same time, Kat comes under attack by dark forces.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Internment
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #24 - The Internment

    S3:E17

    Kristin in her continuing quest to find her father enlists Rachel's help. Together the two visit a Sanatorium that leads them to Sommerville. Unknown to them is the fact Sommerville was once a Japanase American concentration camp and that one of its former prisoners is about to imprison them. Rachel and Kristin must work together to form an escape plan while Nick and Derek quickly work from the outside to save the rest of their team.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Last Good Knight
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #25 - The Last Good Knight

    S3:E20

    Once again on her quest for answers relating to her father's disappearance Kristin is on a mission. After receiving a map of the Holy Land written in archaic French and a cryptic message to meet in Istanbul Kristin is off on her own. The Legacy team must decipher the clues left on the map in order to find her and help her bring to a close a painful chapter in her life.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Irish Jug" is the best rated episode of "Poltergeist: The Legacy". It scored 7.9/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/17/1998. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Father to Son".