The Worst Episodes of Sleeper Cell
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A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an African-American Muslim who joins an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States while working undercover for the FBI.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Sleeper Cell" is "Home", rated 7.4/10 from 115 user votes. It was directed by Charles S. Dutton and written by N/A. "Home" aired on 12/14/2006 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Al-Fatiha".
7.4/10 115 votes#1 - Home
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2006-12-14
The future of Darwyn's cell is altered when he urges the FBI to intercept a shipment of nuclear material arriving at the Port of Los Angeles - sent by none other than Farik; Ilija faces his past when he arrives home in Sarajevo.
Director: Charles S. Dutton
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 203 votes#2 - Al-Fatiha
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2005-12-04
Darwyn Al-Hakim is a Muslim ex-con who has just been released from prison and finds his way to an Islamic extremist named Farik, who recruits him to join a terrorist sleeper cell planning an attack in Los Angeles.
Director: Clark Johnson
Writer: Cyrus Voris, Ethan Reiff
7.5/10 136 votes#3 - Family
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2005-12-12
Darwyn befriends a pesticide plant worker in order to buy some of his company's product under the table for the cell, while each of the jihadis cope with personal troubles of their own.
Director: Leslie Libman
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 123 votes#4 - School
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2006-12-15
The cell's new leader, Karrar, pushes Darwyn aside as plans progress for the nuclear attack on Los Angeles; Farik teaches a lesson about the terrorist way of doing business to an American philanthropist at a school in Yemen.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 155 votes#5 - Target
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2005-12-05
Farik and Ilija receive a deadly biological anthrax shipment and prepare for an attack inside a Los Angeles shopping mall. Darwyn's supervisor Ray Fuller become suspicious about the disappearance of a cell member.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: Cyrus Voris, Ethan Reiff
7.6/10 143 votes#6 - Money
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2005-12-06
Farik, Darwyn and Christian cross the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana to find out why the cell's pipeline of mob funds has suddenly gone dry.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 111 votes#7 - Faith
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2006-12-13
Darwyn risks blowing his cover to stop one of his cell's operative from taking revenge against a progressive Islamic televangelist; Farik escapes from prison in Saudi Arabia and finds an al-Qaeda safe house.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 133 votes#8 - Soldier
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2005-12-11
The cell members pose as Iraqi insurgents-in-training in order to infiltrate and take over a secure warehouse as a new base of operations for Youmud Din ("Judgment Day").
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 145 votes#9 - Al-Baqara
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2006-12-10
several months after foiling a terrorist attack on Dodger Stadium, FBI agent Darwyn Al-Sayeed is about to start a new life as a teacher at Quantico when he is asked to investigate a new terror suspect. Former cell leader Farik is interrogated by the CIA.
Director: Clark Johnson
Writer: Cyrus Voris, Ethan Reiff
7.8/10 114 votes#10 - Salesman
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2006-12-11
Darwyn struggles to maintain his cover as he assumes command of a new Los Angeles sleeper cell and questions the experience and skill of his new FBI case agent. Farik's interrogators use new techniques to get him to talk.
Director: Charles S. Dutton
Writer: Alexander Woo
7.8/10 121 votes#11 - Torture
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2006-12-12
Ordered by the terrorist network to acquire a powerful weapon, Darwyn finds the FBI unwilling to cooperate. Ilija faces a heartbreaking decision as he prepares to flee for Europe. Farik is expatriated to Saudi Arabia, where he can be tortured.
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 154 votes#12 - Scholar
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2005-12-07
Farik dispatches a biochemical student on a flight to Vancouver, Canada, to drive a shipment of real anthrax across the Canadian border and down to Los Angeles.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 131 votes#13 - Reunion
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2006-12-17
Darwyn blames himself for the tragedies that occurred on the Fourth of July and embarks on a suicide mission to Yemen, where he plans to find and confront Farik using his former cell leader's wife as bait.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 141 votes#14 - Hijack
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2005-12-18
The cell hijacks a chemical truck in preparation for Judgment Day, as Farik spends a last night with and bids farewell to his wife, and the FBI prepares to stop the attack.
Director: Rick Wallace
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 122 votes#15 - Fitna
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2006-12-16
The FBI and Darwyn move to intercept the cell's plans to detonate a pair of nuclear dirty bombs in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, but their victory is overshadowed by a pair of tragedies for Darwyn.
Director: Nick Gomez
Writer: Alexander Woo
8.1/10 127 votes#16 - Intramural
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2005-12-14
The cell buys explosives from a white supremacist militia while Darwyn's new handler, Patrice Serxner, tries to prevent the LAPD from blowing his cover in a conflicting investigation.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alexander Woo
8.2/10 153 votes#17 - Immigrant
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2005-12-13
When an Afghan boy arrives at the warehouse looking for training as a jihadi, Darwyn introduces him to a more moderate brand of Islam in hopes of steering him away from terrorism.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alexander Woo
8.6/10 154 votes#18 - Youmud Din
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2005-12-18
Judgement Day has arrived and Fariq isn't yet out of surprises. A surprise diversion proves effective in allowing the cell to escape their surveilance. A quick thinking Darwyn leaves a clue that will hopefully lead the FBI to the target location in time.
Director: Nick Gomez
Writer: Cyrus Voris, Ethan Reiff