8.8/1018 votesLoading...#1 - Zero
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1999
A sinister new drug leads Angela and Jacob to a showdown with the Praetorians. Angela becomes an FBI CIC agent.
Director: N/A
Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber
8.6/1015 votesLoading...#2 - Diamonds Aren't Forever
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1998
Angela and Sorcerer counter a Praetorian plan to bring down the world diamond market.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: N/A
8.3/1017 votesLoading...#3 - Y2K: Total System Failure
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1999
Angela has to try and stop the seemingly unstoppable Millenium Bug after a programmer is killed who was close to finding the solution.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Nan Hagan
8.1/1015 votesLoading...#4 - Lunatic Fringe
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1999
Angela is concerned about Jacob's obsession with an internet cult leader.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1014 votesLoading...#5 - Transplant
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/1998
While in Chicago, Angela gets shot. Sorcerer with a doctor at a Chicago hospital but Angela gets involved in an organ harvest program that the Praetorians are heading up.
Director: George Mendeluk
Writer: N/A
8.0/1014 votesLoading...#6 - Sample
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1998
A friend of Jacob's is murdered for trying to publish a negative review on a music web site. The Praetorians are involved in an elaborate scheme to control the world's music.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1014 votesLoading...#7 - Jump Vector
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/3/1998
Angela poses as a river guide to learn more about a new program about to be released with a back door allowing the Praetorians access to any computer using this new operating system.
Director: Scott Paulin
Writer: N/A
7.9/1013 votesLoading...#8 - Go Like You Know
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/10/1998
Angela joins forces with a streetwise guy to fight a cyber terrorist who is overloading power grids on the east coast.
Director: N/A
Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber
7.9/1016 votesLoading...#9 - Lucy's Life
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1998
The Praetorians set up a camera accessible via the Internet in a student's dorm in an attempt to trap Angela.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber
7.9/1015 votesLoading...#10 - Pay the Line
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1999
Jacob gets involved in on-line gambling scheme and gets in over his head. He needs Angela's help to pay his debts back and they wind up in Las Vegas in some high stakes gambling. Meanwhile, Trelawney is told he has to clean up the mess he left behind with Hearney.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Lawrence Meyers
7.8/1017 votesLoading...#11 - North by Northwestern
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/25/1998
On her way to Chicago in search of her father, Angela gets detained by the police in Ohio who think that her laptop computer is a bomb. She befriends a cellmate who helps her escape the clutches of the Praetorians. The public defender assigned to Angela doubts her story until Trelawney catches up with him.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
7.8/1013 votesLoading...#12 - Fireball
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/29/1998
An old college boyfriend of Angela's is involved in hacking state lotteries. Things get ugly when Daniel hacks with the lotteries under control of the Praetorians. Angela needs to help Daniel while preventing the Praetorians from winning all the lotteries.
Director: Bill Gereghty
Writer: N/A
7.6/1018 votesLoading...#13 - In Dreams
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1999
A 14-year-old girl with a photographic memory holds the key to a Praetorian code.
Director: Helaine Head
Writer: N/A
7.6/1017 votesLoading...#14 - Chem Club
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/20/1999
Angela and Jacob go to high school to find the young creators of a chemical weapon.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: N/A
7.5/1024 votesLoading...#15 - Deleted
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/1998
Computer expert Angela Bennett has her identity stolen by a terrorist group after opening an unexpected email. She must stop them with the help of a stranger known only as the sorcerer but the problem deepens after her new identity is wanted by the FBI.
Director: Bradford May
Writer: N/A
7.5/1018 votesLoading...#16 - Death of an Angel
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/15/1998
Angela stages her death in an attempt to regain her identity and freedom from the Praetorians. She takes residence at the university where her father was a professor. There she meets Kyle, an aspiring law student. When Kyle's uncle, who is a judge, is falsely accused of child pornography over the internet, Angela helps out.
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: Robert Bielak
7.5/1015 votesLoading...#17 - Pandora's Box
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1998
Angela and Sorcerer need to stop a Praetorian plot to dump nuclear waste in the world's oceans.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: N/A
7.3/1018 votesLoading...#18 - Harvest
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/1998
Angela meets Sorcerer! A bizarre cult calling itself Harvest Sun has the interest of the Praetorians. While Angela tries to get through to the cult members, she finally meets Sorcerer and is quite surprised!
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: N/A
7.1/1017 votesLoading...#19 - Bulls and Bears
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/8/1998
The Praetorians are trying to manipulate the stock market to raise $100 million cash to finance a Praetorian needed satellite from the Russians. Angela joins the stock brokerage to prevent the theft. Angela's voice activated computer is destroyed while Trelawney meets up the some really bad boys.
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber
7.1/1014 votesLoading...#20 - Kill the Buddha
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/22/1998
While working as a barmaid, Angela befriends the owner and becomes friends with him and his wife, who are an interracial couple. When Eric is murdered, Angela finds out they were policemen. Wanting not to get involved due to trying to protect herself from discovery by the Praetorians, Angela is torn between helping the widow and protecting herself.
Director: Adam Nimoy
Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber
7.0/1023 votesLoading...#21 - Last Man Standing
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/1999
New CIC agent Angela must put a stop to cybercast wrestling matches fought to the death.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: N/A
6.5/1015 votesLoading...#22 - eye-see-you.com
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/27/1999
Angela and Walter are in hot pursuit of a clever murderer who spies on his victims using the internet.
Director: Scott Paulin
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Net
Every episode of The Net ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Net!
The Net is a 1998 television drama series based on the 1995 film of the same name. The series starred Brooke Langton as Angela Bennett,...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Zero" is the best rated episode of "The Net". It scored 8.8/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Larry Barber, Paul Barber, it aired on 3/6/1999. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Diamonds Aren't Forever".