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The Best Episodes of The Big O

Every episode of The Big O ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Big O!

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Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Big O Season 1 Episode 1 - Roger the Negotiator
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Roger the Negotiator

    S1:E1

    In the pilot episode, Roger Smith is introduced as Paradigm City's top negotiator. As the episode begins, he is delivering the ransom for a girl named Dorothy, who had been kidnapped from her father, a rich industrialist named Saldano. After the exchange, Saldano arrives and reveals that the Dorothy Roger they had obtained was actually an android fake. When Roger realizes Beck isn't playing fair, he activates the briefcase carrying the ransom and it flies out of Beck's car.

    Director:Ikuro Sato
    Writer:Chiaki J. Konaka

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  2. The Big O Season 1 Episode 2 - Dorothy, Dorothy
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Dorothy, Dorothy

    S1:E2

    In the previous episode, Major Dastun and Dorothy looked like they were going to be crushed by Dorothy One as it fell. However, when the dust cleared, Dastun was fine and Dorothy had disappeared. Roger took Big O back into the subway to escape Dastun's rage over the destruction of the fight. Then, he began to search for Dorothy. He received a tip about a nightingale in the city, which led him to a club called Nightingale. There Roger found Dorothy along with a man named Waynewright who said he was her grandfather. Dorothy sang in the club after which Beck arrived, shot Waynewright, knocked out Roger and kidnapped Dorothy.

    Director:Ikuro Sato
    Writer:Chiaki J. Konaka

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  3. The Big O Season 1 Episode 3 - Electric City
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Electric City

    S1:E3

    Recently, there's been a number of power outages in Paradigm. Roger is hired by Paradigm Power Management to go to the Electric City and negotiate with the locals the reactivation of the hydroelectric power plant. They say a god lives in the water.

    Director:Tooru Kitahata
    Writer:Chiaki J. Konaka

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  4. The Big O Season 1 Episode 4 - Underground Terror
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Underground Terror

    S1:E4

    A woman named Patricia Lovejoy (the same woman called Angel in Electric City) approaches Roger Smith about a job with Paradigm. He is supposed to convince a reporter named Michael Seebach to hand over his manuscript, but as it turns out, Seebach had disappeared months earlier. Using his connections with Major Dastun, Roger tracks down an apartment Seebach is renting. There he discovers a typewriter and a large stack of papers, which he begins to read when gasoline pours in under the door and lights. Roger jumps out the window to escape and is confronted by Seebach, now calling himself Schwartzvald and wrapped in bandages. Seebach tells Roger to report to Paradigm that they will never see him in the city again, then disappears.

    Director:Tetsuya Watanabe
    Writer:Chiaki J. Konaka

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  5. The Big O Season 1 Episode 5 - Bring Back My Ghost
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Bring Back My Ghost

    S1:E5

    A military police vehicle crashes after seeing an apparition while crossing a certain bridge and it is apparently only the latest in a string of such accidents involving high ups in the military police. Roger is retained to work for a billionaire named Melissa Frazier who wants Roger to find her son Bonny. Bonny worked for the military police and was killed during a riot on the haunted bridge a year earlier, after which time the ghost sightings began. His body fell into the water and disappeared. Roger is tipped that Bonny may have been killed because he was going to reveal corruption in the MPs. He goes to track down one of the few remaining conspirators, a Colonel Gaust, but he has been taken to the bridge by Bonny Frazier and pushed into the water. Both Big O and Dastun attempt to attack the apparition, but their attacks appear to go through it, while it's missiles assault Big O from all directions. In a last ditch attempt, Roger tracks the origin of the missiles and shoots

    Director:Hideki Okamoto
    Writer:Keiichi Hasegawa

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  6. The Big O Season 1 Episode 6 - A Legacy of Amadeus
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - A Legacy of Amadeus

    S1:E6

    After waking Roger up with her piano playing, Roger decides to take Dorothy to see a friend who can help her learn to add feeling to her playing. His friend is a robot named Instro, who was built by a scientist named Amadeus and thought of Instro as a son. Instro remembers how happy Amadeus was when Instro would play the piano for him. While Instro is giving Dorothy a lesson, a mysterious stranger arrives and reminds Instro that he needs to fulfill his creator's legacy.

    Director:Ikuro Sato
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Big O Season 1 Episode 7 - The Call from the Past
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - The Call from the Past

    S1:E7

    Episode begins, Roger and Angel are trapped in a building buried under the sea, one of a string apparently created by the Event. Three days earlier, Roger is trying to negotiate to bring down the price of fish for the people outside the domes. He learns that the reason fish is so expensive is because the fishermen won't go out to fish because they are scared of a sea titan in the water.

    Director:Masakazu Obara
    Writer:Chiaki J. Konaka

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  8. The Big O Season 1 Episode 8 - Missing Cat
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Missing Cat

    S1:E8

    Dorothy befriends a stray cat and takes it in. Roger thinks it's cute until the owners of the cat show up. But what's more, the cat is more than what he seems to be.

    Director:Tetsuya Watanabe
    Writer:Keiichi Hasegawa

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  9. The Big O Season 1 Episode 9 - Beck Comes Back
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Beck Comes Back

    S1:E9

    Episode begins with Beck being broken out of prison by a Megadeus. Then, Roger is hired by Mr. Wise, a rich industrialist, to negotiate for the return of his kidnapped son, Francis. After hanging up on the kidnappers, Roger is fired by Wise, only to be rehired when the ransom is paid and his son is not returned. The kidnappers call back, recognize Roger's voice and agree to return the son if Roger brings the ransom. Roger finds Francis at the cabin he was directed to, but the police arrive believing that Roger was the kidnapper. This was a setup by the real kidnapper, Beck, to get revenge on Roger (see Roger The Negotiator and Dorothy Dorothy).

    Director:Ikuro Sato
    Writer:Shin Yoshida

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  10. The Big O Season 1 Episode 10 - Winter Night Phantom
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Winter Night Phantom

    S1:E10

    Major Dastun has been having a recurring dream about a woman in white who is shot on a pier with her final words being ""Vous êtes si gentil."" The language has been long forgotten in Paradigm City, but it still seems familiar. At the same time, a toy robot crawls into a packed church and explodes. It is the latest in attacks by terrorists who are targeting retired city officials.

    Director:Sumio Watanabe
    Writer:Keiichi Hasegawa

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  11. The Big O Season 1 Episode 11 - Daemonseed