7.6/106 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2003
An FBI agent trains and handles agents who go under cover to solve crimes; Joe mourns the loss of one of his own as the dangers of the job become all too real.
Director: Mick Jackson
Writer: Chris Haddock
- 8.8/107 votes
#2 - It's Only Rock and Roll
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2003
Darnell and Heather go undercover to infiltrate a band of bank robbers making its way across the U.S.; Lily poses as a waitress to get the goods on a dirty judge in a case that gets personal for Joe.
Director: Mick Jackson
Writer: Chris Haddock
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Bruno Comes Back
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2003
Artie, Joe's friend, comes back into town, and offers Joe a business proposition. His plan is to dig a tunnel from a bookstore to the bank across the street right into the vault. Lily goes undercover as the bookstore owner to keep the customers distracted from what's going on in the basement with Joe and Bruno. Also, things get complicated when Joe's old flame shows up and wants to move in with him.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: Chris Haddock
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Body of Evidence
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2003
Joe and Lola use a dead body to weave a net for a known killer in order to find where he's buried the bodies; Darnell and Lily act as a couple on the rocks in order to create a diversion while the FBI plants a bug in a suspect's car.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Chris Haddock
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Under Color of Law
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2003
Joe handles a ""black op"" for his FBI boss investigating the death of an FBI agent working undercover with the LAPD, investigating them for brutality under cover of the law. Darnell poses as a reporter, Lily as a medical student in the autopsy, and even Marcy returns to UC work as a funeral director.
Director: J. Miller Tobin
Writer: Chris Haddock, Frank Military
- 8.8/106 votes
#6 - Dirty White Collar
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2003
When Joe and Heather work a sting operation involving an accused corporate raider they find out that he hired them to take a hit out on one of his fugitive co-workers. Meanwhile, Lily and Darnell pose as a book dealer's and a supplier in order to take down a forger who has been trying to pass off fake manuscripts as the real thing.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Chris Haddock
- 9.1/109 votes
#7 - Jar of Spiders
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2003
Joe must investigate Andy, a fellow FBI handler who's also one of his best friends, after a city councilwoman is murdered and the chief suspect is an informant under Andy's direction.
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Writer: Jim Kouf
- 8.3/107 votes
#8 - Hardcore
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2003
Joe and his crew pose as filmmakers involved in the adult-entertainment industry to lure a porn-obsessed man suspected of murdering his wife for insurance money. Also, an acquaintance asks Joe to help find her missing 14-year-old sister.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Chris Haddock
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Big Stones
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2003
Joe and his team infiltrate a gang of thieves who plan to rob multiple jewelry exchanges across the United States.
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Writer: Chris Haddock
- 8.0/1026 votes
#10 - Homewrecker's Ball
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2003
Elena enters a rehab clinic in order to find out where $5 million in missing DEA money is located; Darnell poses as a hit man to thwart a murder attempt, in a case involving a nationwide drug ring.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: Chris Haddock, Laurie McCarthy
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Off the Edge
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2003
Joe enlists the help of his former handler when two of his agents disappear during a dangerous mission. Also, Heather looks after a witness who thinks someone is following her.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Jim Kouf
- 8.6/106 votes
#12 - Bleak House
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/2004
Lily goes undercover as an Irish nanny in order to determine the whereabouts of another Irish nanny who has gone missing and is possibly dead. Joe tries to set Darnell up as a collector/enforcer for a high-powered bookie they want to bring down.
Director: Stuart Margolin
Writer: Frank Military, Gwendolyn M. Parker
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Acts of Congress
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/2004
Agents go under cover to investigate the murder of a college intern who was romantically linked to a U.S. congressman. They learn they have the wrong suspect in mind.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Chris Haddock
- 7.9/1013 votes
#14 - Give Daddy Some Sugar
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/30/2004
Joe and his agents go undercover into the world of thoroughbred horse racing to take down a trainer suspected of murdering his horses.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Chris Haddock
- 8.2/1010 votes
#15 - The Wedding Party
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired Unknown
Lily is undercover as the girlfriend of a young Irish mobster. She ends up agreeing to marry him in order to draw his mob boss father into a position to be arrested. Joe orchestrates the wedding as bait but it turns out Lily has to go through with it and marry the guy in order for them to get their man.
Director: Rob Bailey
Writer: Jim Kouf
- 7.7/107 votes
#16 - The Big Fall
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired Unknown
Joe and his agents infiltrate a dating service in order to catch a woman who is suspected of killing several of her past dates. Caroline Glenwood is a lethal temptress, suspected of murdering more than one of the wealthy men she has met through dating services. Joe, posing as a potential suitor, puts his crew in place posing as dating service employees in order to stop Glenwood before she kills again.
Director: Leon Ichaso
Writer: Jim Kouf
The Best Episodes of The Handler Season 1
Every episode of The Handler Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Handler Season 1!
The Handler is a crime series created by Canadian writer-producer Chris Haddock, airing in the United States on CBS in the 2003-04 season. The show...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "The Handler" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Mick Jackson and written by Chris Haddock, it aired on 9/26/2003. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "It's Only Rock and Roll".