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The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Agency Season 1 Episode 15 - Sleeping Dogs Lie
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    #1 - Sleeping Dogs Lie

    S1:E15

    On his first day as the new Director of the CIA, former Senator Tom Gage is immediately confronted with a high-profile crisis when the Agency is linked to the death of a young Vietnamese man in Washington D.C. As Tom works with Jackson and Carl to learn how the CIA was involved, he discovers that when Robert was acting as the director of the CIA, his secret negotiations with a Middle Eastern prince were directly responsible for the Vietnamese man's murder. Tom must find a way to hide the Agency's involvement without implicating an innocent man for the crime. Meanwhile, Terri runs into a photographer whom she realizes is linked to a radical pro-life group that has bombed abortion clinics.

    Director:Arvin Brown
    Writer:Shaun Cassidy

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  2. The Agency Season 1 Episode 21 - Doublecrossover
    7.1/10(18 votes)

    #2 - Doublecrossover

    S1:E21

    After a CIA agent is murdered, the agency joins with the police department of Washington, D.C. to investigate his murder.

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Shaun Cassidy

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  3. The Agency Season 1 Episode 7 - Closure
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    #3 - Closure

    S1:E7

    In an effort to learn the truth about his brother's mysterious death, Matt begins piecing together clues and finally forces his superiors to tell him the truth. As Matt begins to gather information about his brother Eric's final mission abroad, he poses painful questions about the mysterious death to his parents and finally forces Jackson, Carl and Director Pierce to explain the circumstances so he can get Eric's body back for a proper burial. Meanwhile, Jackson, Terri and Joshua are working to entrap an Indian Intelligence Bureau double-agent working for his own country against the CIA to acquire a submarine capable of launching nuclear weapons.

    Director:Nick Gomez
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Agency Season 1 Episode 14 - The Gauntlet
    7.7/10(22 votes)

    #4 - The Gauntlet

    S1:E14

    Matt and Terri learn about shipment. The CIA gets a new cheif.

    Director:Michael W. Watkins
    Writer:Melissa Rosenberg

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  5. The Agency Season 2 Episode 5 - The Prisoner
    7.7/10(29 votes)

    #5 - The Prisoner

    S2:E5

    When Gage discovers that a potential Iraqi defector has been held prisoner in the U.S. for the last 6 years, he authorizes a mission to take the man back to his homeland to identify a weapons site.

    Director:J. Miller Tobin
    Writer:Daniel Arkin

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  6. The Agency Season 1 Episode 2 - God's Work
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    #6 - God's Work

    S1:E2

    When the CIA misidentifies a missionary plane in Colombian drug-trafficking airspace and the Colombians shoot it down, Director Pierce must try to clean up the mess, while the former CIA director tempts Carl to betray Pierce. Meanwhile, Matt and Lisa must contend with a dead body when a foreign agent dies while attempting to sell the CIA classified information.

    Director:Robert Berlinger
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Agency Season 1 Episode 8 - Nocturne
    7.8/10(36 votes)

    #7 - Nocturne

    S1:E8

    The CIA conducts an internal investigation when it suspects Jackson of leaking sensitive information. In order to test Jackson's loyalty to the CIA, Matt and Carl secretly recruit the Persian cellist with whom he is romantically involved to gain information about a terrorist threat at the Yemeni embassy. Meanwhile, Terri must forge a 50-year-old document implicating the CIA in illegal activity involving the Dalai Lama that would prove calamitous for present-day Tibet should it fall into Chinese possession.

    Director:Kenneth Fink
    Writer:Melissa Rosenberg

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  8. The Agency Season 2 Episode 20 - Mi Cena con Andrei
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    #8 - Mi Cena con Andrei

    S2:E20

    The agency is trying to find out the if the creator of the super virus is guilty because several people have died to the virus having thought to been sold. Stiles travels to Mexico City to see if the scientist is guilty. Stiles needs to find out where the virus is made, Stiles who came to Mexico begins to believe the scientist is innocent. Stiles enters the lab and finds a lot of empty vials. Gage finds out that scientist's records list 75 vials as well as 73 in the lab that don't contain the virus. They believe one of the scientist family members has the vial with the virus. Haisley learns that Stiles and Teri may have the wrong man. Stiles learns the scientist may have been making a vaccine for the virus.

    Director:Ian Toynton
    Writer:Doris Egan

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  9. The Agency Season 1 Episode 13 - The Golden Hour
    8.2/10(30 votes)

    #9 - The Golden Hour

    S1:E13

    An assassination attempt on Lisa strikes Matt instead and leaves him hospitalized and fighting for his life. While Robert tries to hide the events from the press, Jackson is forced to work with the chief of counterintelligence to determine who ordered the attack on Lisa and how her position at the CIA was uncovered. Eventually, Lex admits to indirectly blowing Lisa's cover to the assassin and, in the process, unknowingly giving him access to information on Lisa. However, Lex soon redeems himself by leading Robert and Jackson to the terrorist organization behind the shooting. As Matt hangs on to his life by a thread, Lisa contemplates a leave of absence from the CIA.

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Shaun Cassidy

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  10. The Agency Season 2 Episode 6 - Home Grown
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #10 - Home Grown

    S2:E6

    The Agency discovers that a suicide bomber responsible for the death of 14 people in an amusment park is an American citizen belonging to a terrorist ring.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:James Kahn

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  11. The Agency Season 1 Episode 1 - Viva Fidel!
    8.3/10(28 votes)

    #11 - Viva Fidel!

    S1:E1

    After unearthing a secret plot by Castro's own men to assassinate him, the agents rush to thwart the plan in order to prevent the U.S. from being framed for his murder.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Agency Season 1 Episode 11 - Son Set
    8.3/10(17 votes)

    #12 - Son Set

    S1:E11

    After the young son of a British Intelligence officer is kidnapped and the man fails to report him missing, the CIA and British Intelligence's investigation takes an unusual turn. They learn that the man didn't report his child missing because the kidnappers are Iraqis and he has arranged to trade plans for an Allied invasion of Iraq in exchange for his son's return. Matt and Carl join the investigators in London to ensure that the officer's plan is derailed without losing the boy in the process. Meanwhile, Robert Quinn, who is temporarily replacing Director Pierce, starts implementing changes. Daniel Benzali (""Murder One"") guest stars.

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Agency Season 2 Episode 10 - Trust
    8.3/10(27 votes)

    #13 - Trust

    S2:E10

    Is Gage wanted by the FBI? The agents think so,there about to find what he is really up to.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Daniel Arkin

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  14. The Agency Season 2 Episode 18 - Spy Finance
    8.3/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Spy Finance

    S2:E18

    Stiles tries to stop a drug dealer from helping terrorists, Can Stiles get the drug dealer to help capture the terrorists?

    Director:Rod Hardy
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Agency Season 1 Episode 22 - Finale
    8.4/10(19 votes)

    #15 - Finale

    S1:E22

    A CIA Agent is taken Hostage.

    Director:Michael Nankin
    Writer:Melissa Rosenberg

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  16. The Agency Season 2 Episode 1 - French Kiss
    8.5/10(18 votes)

    #16 - French Kiss

    S2:E1

    Agents of the CIA go to France to find Matt's killer. When the Secret Service, CIA, FBI, and INS fail to inform each other, Robert Quinn forms an Incident Response Team to work with the CIA, FBI, Secret Service and INS.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writer:Shaun Cassidy

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  17. The Agency Season 1 Episode 12 - The Enemy Within
    8.6/10(29 votes)

    #17 - The Enemy Within

    S1:E12

    After the daughter of the United States Ambassador to Greece is kidnapped by terrorists, Matt and Jackson attempt to track her down. Following the abduction, the CIA reveals to the ambassador that the young woman has actually been working undercover for them for several years. Matt and Jackson think they have successfully rescued her, but then realize they have an imposter and must save the real girl before she is murdered. Meanwhile, Robert uses Lisa to get important information from Patrice, which he turns against her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Agency Season 1 Episode 17 - Moo
    8.6/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Moo

    S1:E17

    Tom and Carl learn that a story about a war crime Tom allegedly committed during his service in Vietnam is about to be revealed in the press and that the source of the story has been found dead. Meanwhile, Matt and Jackson receive word that a visiting Eastern European dictator is near death and they enlist a hooker to help determine how ill he really is. At the same time, Joshua must deal with a museum curator when he accidentally destroys a cow costume that's part of an upcoming exhibit.

    Director:Robert Berlinger
    Writer:Shaun Cassidy

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  19. The Agency Season 2 Episode 3 - The Great Game
    8.6/10(25 votes)

    #19 - The Great Game

    S2:E3

    Terri, Stiles and Lex oversee the formation of a new Afghan Ministry of Intelligence in Kabul, Afghanistan, where Terri and Stiles' lives are threatened. Meanwhile, Gage deals with a new Afghan Intelligence Minister with a shaky past

    Director:Peter Markle
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Agency Season 1 Episode 10 - Deadline
    8.8/10(23 votes)

    #20 - Deadline

    S1:E10

    A ambitious journalist plans to run a career-making story about one of the Agency's great Cold War successes, which will expose and therefore cost the life of a now retired Russian general who risked his life to help Director Pierce and the CIA. The journalist refuses to kill the story, and Director Pierce and his team must do everything they can to protect the Russian, even if it means putting another life in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Terri's estranged husband begins divorce proceedings, and Matt pushes Jackson for answers about his brother's mysterious death.

    Director:Mikael Salomon
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Agency Season 2 Episode 2 - Air Lex
    8.8/10(23 votes)

    #21 - Air Lex

    S2:E2

    Gage must decide whether a hijacked plane carrying Stiles and Lex should be shot down

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Doris Egan

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  22. The Agency Season 2 Episode 12 - An Isolated Incident
    8.8/10(32 votes)

    #22 - An Isolated Incident

    S2:E12

    Stiles and Terri head to the Gaza Strip in search of a U.S. citizen who left America with his wife due to a killing spree at a travel agency.

    Director:Peter Markle
    Writer:Larry Moskowitz

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  23. The Agency Season 2 Episode 22 - Our Man In Washington (2)
    8.8/10(34 votes)

    #23 - Our Man In Washington (2)

    S2:E22

    Terri is thought to be alive after Stiles & Agent Shelton discover her car and watch. Terri is kidnapped to find who Terri told about the double life of Joshua and how Terri found out. Terri still won't let her captors know who she told she then has a bomb hooked to her. Meanwhile Terri learns that Joshua was told to kidnap her and that she should trust him. Haisely then tells Quinn that Joshua may have taken Terri, Quinn finds the information hard to believe and wonders why Mr. Holland didn't say anything. Quinn tells Haisley that 12 years ago (when Quinn was director) He had Joshua feed information to Germany. Gage asks Holland to feed German information to the CIA while still trying to free Terri.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Agency Season 1 Episode 3 - The Year Of Lying Dangerously
    8.9/10(18 votes)

    #24 - The Year Of Lying Dangerously

    S1:E3

    The local governor plans a political coup after some American miners are taken hostage in Indonesia.

    Director:Nick Gomez
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Agency Season 1 Episode 5 - Pilot
    8.9/10(18 votes)

    #25 - Pilot

    S1:E5

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    Director:Mikael Salomon
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Sleeping Dogs Lie" is the worst rated episode of "The Agency". It scored 6.6/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by Arvin Brown and written by Shaun Cassidy, it aired on 2/28/2002. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Doublecrossover".