8.8/1032 votesLoading...#1 - The Things We Didn't Plan
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/28/2009
It's a busy week for the team, involving a risky grab of an armed client, and alcoholic father traveling with his daughter, cleaning up a policeman's son and a homeless woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1039 votesLoading...#2 - Five Little Words
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/7/2008
William rescues a team member, while the others go undercover at a sorority house to get information about a drug dealer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1038 votesLoading...#3 - Lie With Me
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/14/2008
William devises an extreme intervention when a couple's alcoholism endangers their daughter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1043 votesLoading...#4 - Back to One
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/30/2008
The brother of an striving actress discovers his sister cocaine addiction and tries to get William's crew to help. Akani races to find Sweton after he mysteriously goes missing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Last American Casualty
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 6/30/2009
A weekend with Ben turns into a busman's holiday when William must deal with two alcoholics.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1028 votesLoading...
#6 - Crossing the Threshold
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 9/8/2009
William and the team take a complex case involving a drug dealer's daughter, endangering both the team and William's family.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1024 votesLoading...
#7 - An Ordinary Man
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/4/2009
A hospital administrator seeks William's help after receiving an anonymous letter accusing a doctor and some nurses of using drugs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1030 votesLoading...#8 - The 11th Hour
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/16/2008
The original interventionist brings William in after his intervention with a woman goes wrong and she ends up on the streets. The original interventionist considers William a "Thug" making William question his own motivation for finding the woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1038 votesLoading...#9 - House of Pain
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/2/2008
William's friend needs help with a student who is abusing heroin and prescription drugs. The boy's father causes problems for the crew. William thinks the boy might be attempting suicide.
Director: Leon Ichaso
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1044 votesLoading...
#10 - Hello America
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/23/2009
A friend who's also a program member asks for Banks' help to get her husband to rehab, but the case is complicated by the fact he's not only a newscaster, but a national spokesman for sobriety, and in the midst of a rescue that must be completely confidential Banks finds he's dealing with personal issues that affect both him and his client.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1029 votesLoading...
#11 - The Path of Least Resistance
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 8/18/2009
William finds a very personal trigger when a new age guru, cashing in on the self-help craze, turns to William for help with her addict son.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1043 votesLoading...#12 - Here Comes the Boom
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/19/2008
A teenage boy needs William's help with his father, who once went to prison because of William's past efforts. The man is back on the streets and using meth again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1032 votesLoading...#13 - To Catch a Fed
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2008
William is determined into searching for the former partner of an FBI agent; the missing man is found in a tent city of meth manufacturers, William then realizes that he's has been told lies about the real reason why the FBI agent is looking for her old partner.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
7.9/1035 votesLoading...#14 - Let It Ride
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/9/2008
The gambler notices his favourite jockey is using a lot of drugs to meet weight and asks William to step in.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1029 votesLoading...
#15 - The Turtle and the Butterfly
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 8/11/2009
William is asked by a woman to get her drug addicted son out of an Inland Empire jail, and he does, but the trip back is not as easy when the young man refuses to change his life, and a chance encounter with a 13-year old drug runner for a powerful dealer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1029 votesLoading...
#16 - Cinderella
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 8/25/2009
William weighs protecting Lula and their relationship or putting her face-to-face with the downfall of one of her idols when he decides whether to take the case of a ballerina.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1031 votesLoading...
#17 - Trick Candles
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 9/15/2009
An old friend turns to Banks for help as William closes in on his seven-year birthday. Meanwhile, PK's planned celebration of the event may not go as she'd like.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1066 votesLoading...#18 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2008
William tries to help Zach, a once-promising high school athlete who has fallen victim to meth addiction.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Robert Munic
7.5/1053 votesLoading...#19 - Rag Dolls
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2008
A mother thinks her teen daughter is involved with drugs though her drug test comes back negative. The mother enlists the help of William to prove this theory one way or another.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: N/A
7.5/1042 votesLoading...#20 - Chaos Theory
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/2008
A mathematics professor uses cocaine to help him publish his research in time. His girlfriend and colleague requests William's help. William tries to stop the professor before he loses everything--his career, personal life, and even his immigrant parents' diner. Meanwhile, William's son discovers a used needle in their house after a dinner party. William realizes that the needle belongs to his former sponsor and must decide whether to cut his sponsor out of his life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1035 votesLoading...#21 - Rebecca
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/23/2008
A teenager pianist turns to meth in order to cope with the pressure, the father of the teenage girl asks William's crew for help, but they are stonewalled by the girl's mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1026 votesLoading...
#22 - The Projectionist
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/7/2009
Still reeling from his separation, William decides to detox a pregnant woman at his safe house, rather than utilizing a hospital, a decision he may come to regret.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1023 votesLoading...
#23 - Does Everybody have A Drink?
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/14/2009
William tries to help a celebrity beat her addiction to drugs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1027 votesLoading...
#24 - Standing Eight
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 9/1/2009
Although the job is to clean up a boxer before his next match, William finds that the biggest risk to the man's sobriety is close to home.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1050 votesLoading...#25 - Meet the Joneses
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/29/2008
You never know where drug rings may show up. In this ongoing episode a wife, from the suburbs, involves herself with a drug ring. Her husband enlists the help of William to crack the ring.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Cleaner
Every episode of The Cleaner ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Cleaner!
After hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions during the birth of his twins, William Banks strikes a tentative deal with God. In exchange for a second...
Genre:Drama
Network:A&E
Best Episodes Summary
"The Things We Didn't Plan" is the best rated episode of "The Cleaner". It scored 8.8/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/28/2009. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Five Little Words".