The Best Episodes of Rebus Season 1

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.5/10(345 votes)

   #1 - Black and Blue

   S1:E14/26/2000

   Rebus investigates when a number of women are killed with the same modus operandi as 'The Preacher', a prolific serial killer active in Edinburgh during the 1980s. But is a copycat killer at large, or has 'The Preacher' returned to finish what he started?

   Director:Martyn Friend

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Martyn Friend

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.6/10(259 votes)

   #2 - The Hanging Garden

   S1:E29/6/2001

   Rebus investigates when an old friend, DI Jack Morton, is shot during an undercover operation at a pharmaceuticals factory which has become a hub for cocaine dealing and gun-running by a well-known mobster and his latest team of upstart thugs.

   Director:Maurice Phillips

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Maurice Phillips

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.2/10(420 votes)

   #3 - Dead Souls

   S1:E39/13/2001

   Rebus is forced to juggle two complex cases when an old friend approaches him to trace her son, who has disappeared, and a former colleague is killed in a freak accident, which asks the question - did he kill himself or was he murdered?

   Director:Maurice Phillips

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Maurice Phillips

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.5/10(224 votes)

   #4 - Mortal Causes

   S1:E411/1/2004

   The motto of the Scottish kings - Nemo mi impune lacessit ("Don't Mess With Me") sets the tone for this story. It's payback time for DI John Rebus in his pact with the crime underlord Morris Gerald Cafferty for his finding the person who put Rebus' daughter in a life-threatening coma, the result of a hit-and-run accident. This time, it's Cafferty's illegitimate son who was "six-packed" and killed, and Cafferty is calling in his chips from Rebus. Rebus has to cope with a backdrop of gun running, jailbreaks, left- and right-wing extremists, nationalists and other splinter groups who are spouting racist philosophies, and imported white-power fanatics who are perpetrating hate crimes.

   Director:David Moore

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:David Moore

   Writer:Unknown