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The Worst Episodes of The Invisible Man

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The Invisible Man is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty. Somewhat more successful than previous television series involving invisible secret agents, it aired from June 9, 2000 to February 1, 2002, lasting two seasons. The plot revolves around Darien Fawkes, a thief facing life imprisonment who was recruited by a low-rent spy organization and given the power of invisibility via implantation of a special "Quicksilver gland" in his head. The gland allows Fawkes to secrete a light-bending substance called "Quicksilver" from his pores and follicles. The substance quickly coats his skin, hair, nails and clothes and renders him invisible. He can consciously release the Quicksilver, which then flakes off and disintegrates. However, the Quicksilver gland was sabotaged at its creation by scientist Arnaud DeFehrn to release a neurotoxin that accumulates in the bloodstream and causes intense pain, followed by antisocial behavior and psychosis. The host requires regular doses of "counteragent" to keep him sane and healthy, which is controlled by said government agency. This series lasted for two seasons, before being cancelled due to cost issues and internal bickering between the Sci Fi Channel and its then-parent company, USA Networks. The show's first season ran concurrently in first-run syndication as well as on Sci Fi.

Genres:ComedySci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:Syfy

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "The Invisible Man" is "It's a Small World", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Jay Tobias and written by Steven D. Binder. "It's a Small World" aired on 4/6/2001 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Pilot (2)".

  • It's a Small World
    NaN/10 0 votes

    #1 - It's a Small World

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/6/2001

    Thanks to a leak in Chrysalis, Hobbes and Darien get the goods on a politician that Allianora is trying to bribe. Realizing they have a leak, Chrysalis takes unspecified measures to stop the leak. Allianora visits Darien and tries to force him to give up the name of their contact, but he refuses and the two end having making (invisible) love. The next morning Bobby and Darien meet with the contact, only to have him killed by a Chrysalis ambush. The Keeper soon realizes that Darien was bugged with nanobots during his...encounter with Allianora. They transmit everything he sees and hears. The Official fake-executes Darien while they put an insulated helmet on him to make Chrysalis think he's dead. They then investigate a pharmaceutical firm and discover Chrysalis plans to attach the nanobot bugging devices to students at an elite school. While Hobbes and the Keeper stop them, Darien tries to lure off the Chrysalis strike team to the school pool. Using a pair of goggles, he prevents them

    Director: Jay Tobias

    Writer: Steven D. Binder

  • Pilot (2)
    7.3/10 70 votes

    #2 - Pilot (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/9/2000

    Going to Mexico to investigate Arnaud, Bobby meets his new partner Bobby Hobbes: a veteran spy and near basket-case. They escape an ambush by French-Canadian spies. Meanwhile, Arnaud has had Darien's girlfriend Casey brought down to Mexico, planning on using her as a hostage. Darien goes to rescue her, prepared to kill Arnaud since Darien thinks he'll be going insane shortly. Arnaud plays his trump card: there's a counter-agent that will stave off Quicksilver madness, and he'll give it to Darien if he works for him. Darien refuses, escaping with Casey and blowing up the compound (although Arnaud escapes). Both the counteragent and the formula are destroyed, and Darien goes to visit his brother's grave one more time before going permanently insane. However, the Official meets him there and reveals that his Agency was working with Kevin, and they have the counter-agent as well. As long as Darien works for them, he'll get regular doses of the Counter-Agent. Reluctantly, Darien agrees.

    Director: Breck Eisner

    Writer: N/A

  • Ralph
    7.5/10 60 votes

    #3 - Ralph

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/23/2000

    A young girl is a witness to an assassination by a sniper. Traumatized, she only speaks to her imaginary friend ""Ralph."" Darien, using his powers of invisibility, convinces the girl he is ""Ralph"" and tries to get her to talk about the murder. Eventually the hit man tries to kill the girl, and Darien manages to stop him. With his help, the girl starts to recover from her trauma, and leaves her ""imaginary friend"" behind.

    Director: Adam Nimoy

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

  • Pilot (1)
    7.6/10 480 votes

    #4 - Pilot (1)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/9/2000

    Darien Fawkes is a con-man and thief who is captured for a third time. Rather then face California's three-strike law, he volunteers for an experiment conducted by his brother Kevin. Kevin and another scientist, Arnaud, have created a synthetic gland that secrets ""Quicksilver"", a substance that can bend light. They place the gland in Darien's head. He soon realizes what has happened and is none too pleased. Darien is even less happy when they discover the gland secretes Quicksilver into the recipient's brain, and enough of it drives the person insane. Darien learns to control his abilities, and soon discovers that Arnaud is up to something. Arnaud claims Darien is insane when he accuses the scientists, but then Arnaud's mercenaries break in, steal the information on the gland, and kill everyone except Darien. Darien goes to his ex-girlfriend, a doctor who is furious at him because he didn't reveal his past. She refuses to believe he can turn invisible, and then Darien is taken away by

    Director: Breck Eisner

    Writer: N/A

  • Flowers for Hobbes
    7.6/10 44 votes

    #5 - Flowers for Hobbes

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/2001

    Hobbes and Darien are on the trail of a sperm thief. A college professor is using the sperm to isolate intelligence-causing genes, and put them into a retrovirus. Hobbes is accidentally infected and soon begins to become more and more intelligent. But the partners discover that the gene therapy is lethal. Bobby becomes smart enough to create a cure...but refuses to do so, preferring to die smart then live dumb. Darien infects himself, leaving Hobbes no choice but to come up with a cure to save his friend.

    Director: Jonathan Glassner

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

  • The Choice
    8.0/10 33 votes

    #6 - The Choice

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 8/10/2001

    Alex finally locates her missing son at a Chrysalis baby camp, only to discover that he belongs to Stark, the agency’s sinister leader.

    Director: Michael Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • Liberty & Larceny
    8.1/10 50 votes

    #7 - Liberty & Larceny

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/28/2000

    Darien is contacted by his former mentor and partner, Liz, who wants his help. She wants him to return to his thieving ways and help her steal some FBI files on a mobster who has hired her. Initially reluctant, Darien eventually grows aggravated with the Agency's treatment of him and links up with her. Covertly using his powers of invisibility, Darien manages to get hold of the files, only to realize that the mobster plans to use them to kill a government witness against him. Darien tries to thwart the mobster and keep Liz safe, and manages to do so. The two of them part on relatively friendly terms.

    Director: Bruce Seth Green

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

  • The Value of Secrets
    8.1/10 47 votes

    #8 - The Value of Secrets

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/4/2000

    Darien comes to the aid of a female scientist who may be able to remove the Quicksilver gland.

    Director: David Jackson

    Writer: N/A

  • Separation Anxiety
    8.1/10 46 votes

    #9 - Separation Anxiety

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/11/2000

    Hobbes starts trailing his ex-wife, and gets arrested as a stalker. Hobbes believes his ex-wife Vivian's new fiance is a crook. Darien thinks he's jealous, but it turns out Hobbes is right, and they're assigned to the case. It turns out that the fiance is an undercover agent for Naval Investigations. They all team up to find the culprit in an illegal arms sale. They get captured but Darien manages to escape with his invisibility, and capture the bad guys. Hobbes is impressed with the fiance, Brock, and reconciles with Vivian.

    Director: Joshua Butler

    Writer: Peter Hume

  • The Camp
    8.1/10 36 votes

    #10 - The Camp

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2001

    Darien and Hobbes learn that the Chrysalis Agency is artificially inseminating women all over the country and stealing their babies to create its own unstoppable army.

    Director: Greg Yaitanes

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • Bad Chi
    8.1/10 27 votes

    #11 - Bad Chi

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 7/20/2001

    Darien goes to an acupuncturist who discovers his powers of invisibility and forces him to help her steal a set of ancient needles from a museum to treat her mentor, who is suffering from stomach cancer.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: N/A

  • Mere Mortals
    8.1/10 27 votes

    #12 - Mere Mortals

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/11/2002

    The keeper develops a way to keep Darien's invisibility static.

    Director: Michael Grossman

    Writer: Steven D. Binder

  • Tiresias
    8.2/10 52 votes

    #13 - Tiresias

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/7/2000

    Darien and Hobbes are assigned to help investigate an auditor's relative's suicide, and run into a man who can see the future and use it to his advantage.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Peter Hume

  • Impetus
    8.2/10 45 votes

    #14 - Impetus

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/14/2000

    Darien encounters a bizarrely-aged woman and soon becomes infected with the same disease, causing him to rapidly age.

    Director: Joshua Butler

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • Cat & Mouse
    8.2/10 43 votes

    #15 - Cat & Mouse

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/15/2000

    Unable to craft their own invisiblity gland, the Chinese government sets out to steal the American one. Unfortunately, they have the idea that Bobby Hobbes is the invisible member of the team. Fawkes and Hobbes go into hiding, but Bobby gets nervous. After several chases, Hobbes apparently dies in a car crash. It's a set-up, but he turns up at his own funeral to look on from a distance, and is captured there by the Chinese. The Agency tracks him to the Chinese embassy, and Fawkes goes in to rescue him. It turns out the whole operation is a ploy to lure out the real American Invisible Man. Fawkes manages to escape with Bobby before they can drain the Quicksilver out of the gland, setting the place on fire.

    Director: Joshua Butler

    Writer: Marc Dube

  • Beholder
    8.2/10 45 votes

    #16 - Beholder

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/22/2000

    A ghoulish hitman uses a laser to blind any witnesses to his killings. Fawkes and Hobbes trace him to a blind model who the killer is romantically involved in, but the assassin escapes, blinding Fawkes in the process. Since he was turning invisible when the laser hit him, the effects are temporary, and he can still see if he covers his eyes with the quicksilver formula. Unfortunately, that aggravates his growing insanity. The blind model helps him to deal with his blindness, and the two become romantically involved. Fawkes figures out that the assassin's most recent victim was merely a lure to get his real victim to the man's funeral. Fawkes, overwhelmed by Quicksilver Madness, throws the assassin to his death.

    Director: Jay Tobias

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

  • Perchance to Dream
    8.2/10 49 votes

    #17 - Perchance to Dream

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/2001

    A series of bizarre killings involve murderers who have no connection to the victims. The Keeper becomes the next unwitting ""murder,"" as she is part of a insomnia-research project. The project's scientists are using the device to program their subjects to become assassins. The Keeper's sanity is threatened if she can't complete her ""assignment."" Fawkes and Hobbes eventually mange to bring in the scientists, and come up with a means to break the Keeper of the programming (by faking the death of her ""victim"") before she goes mad.

    Director: Michael Grossman

    Writer: N/A

  • Insensate
    8.2/10 32 votes

    #18 - Insensate

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 7/6/2001

    A strange old man who has lost the ability to experience normal sensation comes to Darien in the hopes that he can lead him to his late brother, Kevin, whom he blames for doing a horrible thing to him.

    Director: Michael Grossman

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • The Other Invisible Man
    8.3/10 44 votes

    #19 - The Other Invisible Man

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/25/2000

    The Official is assault by an invisible man and Fawkes is suspected - Darien and Hobbes work to clear Darin and find the true assailant.

    Director: Joshua Butler

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

  • Diseased
    8.3/10 42 votes

    #20 - Diseased

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/2001

    Hobbes and Darien meet with one of Hobbes' contacts to set a trap for their arch-enemy, Arnaud. Arnaud manages to escape Darien with the aid of a smoke canister, which turns out to contain a biological weapon. Darien is soon displaying flu-like illness symptoms, and is excreting black, contaminated Quicksilver. The Official and the Keeper send him to a military hospital...which Arnaud has already infiltrated. He plans to remove the Quicksilver Gland from Darien's skull via surgery, but the illness complicates matters. He must kidnap the Keeper to cure Darien so he can gain an uninfected Gland. Darien manages to escape and, overwhelmed by madness, almost kills Arnaud. The Keeper manages to stop him but Arnaud escapes. (Copyright 2002 Steve Crow)

    Director: Michael Grossman

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

  • Legends
    8.3/10 41 votes

    #21 - Legends

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/2001

    The agents find themselves hunting for the legendary Sasquatch on an Indian reservation after two men have been killed there under mysterious circumstances.

    Director: Michael Grossman

    Writer: Craig Silverstein

  • Immaterial Girl
    8.3/10 29 votes

    #22 - Immaterial Girl

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 8/17/2001

    Darien helps a young woman who seems to be haunted by a strange apparition, and she is convinced it is her mother, who had disappeared mysteriously weeks before, trying to communicate with her.

    Director: Michael Grossman

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • Exposed
    8.3/10 32 votes

    #23 - Exposed

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 9/21/2001

    The sinister head of the SWRB discovers that Gaither is still alive and storms the Agency to recapture him, kidnapping Alex and stealing all of the Keeper’s vital computer files in the process.

    Director: Ian Barry

    Writer: Gabrielle Stanton

  • Reunion
    8.4/10 43 votes

    #24 - Reunion

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/8/2000

    Darien gets called to his hometown to investigate the appearance of his dead brother Kevin.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Money for Nothing (2)
    8.4/10 34 votes

    #25 - Money for Nothing (2)

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/30/2001

    Presumably the audience voted yes to Hobbes' decision to join Fawkes. Darien, in end-stage Quicksilver Madness, is now obsessed with finding Arnaud. Hobbes sticks close by trying to keep him from killing random bystanders. They catch up to Arnaud, but Hobbes helps him escape when it appears that the maddened Darien will kill him. Darien abandons Hobbes, who is then approached by Arnaud. Arnaud has a malfunctioning Quicksilver gland of his own, and needs to use Darien's as a baseline to get his own fixed. In return, he'll give Hobbes Stage Five Counteragent to reverse Darien's advanced condition. Hobbes helps capture Darien, and a surgeon, Dr. Reynolds, manages to adjust Arnaud's gland. Darien gets the Counteragent, but before it can take effect he tries to kill Arnaud. Arnaud escapes during the distraction when the counteragent kicks in. Later, Arnaud goes to visit Reynolds when he realizes that the surgery did not go quite right, and he is permanently invisible.

    Director: Greg Yaitanes

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner