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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,...
Genres:DramaAction & AdventureTalk
Network:USA Network
Episodes
22
Avg. Rating
7.7
S1
S2
S3
S4
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E2
E3
7.5
7.8
8.0

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".

  • Zero
    8.8/10(18)
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    #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

  • Diamonds Aren't Forever
    8.6/10(15)
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    #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

  • Y2K: Total System Failure
    8.3/10(17)
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    #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

  • Lunatic Fringe
    8.1/10(15)
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    #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

  • Transplant
    8.0/10(14)
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    #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

  • Sample
    8.0/10(14)
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    #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

  • Jump Vector
    7.9/10(14)
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    #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

  • Go Like You Know
    7.9/10(13)
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    #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

  • Lucy's Life
    7.9/10(16)
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    #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

  • Pay the Line
    7.9/10(15)
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    #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

  • North by Northwestern
    7.8/10(17)
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    #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

  • Fireball
    7.8/10(13)
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    #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

  • In Dreams
    7.6/10(18)
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    #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

  • Chem Club
    7.6/10(17)
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    #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

  • Deleted
    7.5/10(24)
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    #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

  • Death of an Angel
    7.5/10(18)
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    #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

  • Pandora's Box
    7.5/10(15)
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    #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

  • Harvest
    7.3/10(18)
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    #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

  • Bulls and Bears
    7.1/10(17)
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    #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

  • Kill the Buddha
    7.1/10(14)
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    #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

  • Last Man Standing
    7.0/10(23)
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    #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

  • eye-see-you.com
    6.5/10(15)
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    #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