10.0/101 votes#1 - Sex, Lies and Volleyball/Photo Fini
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/1992
Donna is struggling in the French immersion program, and feels left out because Brenda and her classmates can speak fluent French. Donna catches the eye of a photographer, who offers her a modeling job. A man tries to entice Donna into signing a two-year modeling contract, but he's just trying to get her into bed. Steve finds the perfect partner for the mixed doubles volleyball tournament. He is hurt when she rejects his romantic advances and pursues Brandon. Kelly and Dylan team up for the volleyball tournament, and also babysit Erin together. A visiting girl expresses an interest in David and his music. Kelly catches them making out, and tries to talk some sense into David. Kelly finds Dylan waiting in her cabin. Music: ""Hot Little Summer Girl"" by Enuff Z' Nuff; ""Gimme Little Sign"" by Brenton Wood (#9, 1967); ""In the Summertime"" by Mungo Jerry (#3, 1970)
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Chris Brancato
10.0/101 votes#2 - A Song of Myself
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 9/9/1992
Brandon wants to quit the paper so that he can enjoy his senior year. Andrea enlists the help of new advisor and English teacher Gil Meyers to change his mind. Gil decides to have Brandon replace Andrea as editor. She accuses him of sexism and wants to resign. Gil resolves the dispute by making Andrea and Brandon co-editors. A depressed Kelly changes her entire schedule to avoid Brenda and Dylan. Brenda, Steve and Donna sign up to be ""senior buddies"" for freshmen and transfer students. Donna is paired with David's summer fling Nikki, who has moved from San Francisco. David is afraid to confess to Donna, but Nikki inadvertently breaks the news. Donna tests David's love by having Nikki pretend to come on to him. Nikki expresses an interest in Brandon. Steve winds up with geeky freshman Herbert, while Brenda tries to help Scott's troubled sister Sue. Music: ""Live and Learn"" by Joe Public (#4, 1992); ""Wishing on a Star"" by the Cover Girls (#9, 1992)
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Chris Brancato
9.0/102 votes#3 - Our Black Shining Prince
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/26/2023
Bumpy and Chin enlist Morgenthau's help to prevent Colombo and Battle from bringing in a shipment of heroin, guns, and cocaine. Stella must choose between Colombo and her father.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.7/103 votes#4 - All Roads Lead to Malcolm
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/5/2023
When Battle's arrested, Bumpy must find a way to spring him and find the mole. Bumpy discovers that Malcolm X has more enemies than they thought.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.5/102 votes#5 - We Are All Kings
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/19/2023
Chin Gigante is released from prison and seeks to excise Joe Colombo from the Commission.
Director: Rob J. Greenlea
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.4/1053 votes#6 - Despegue
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/28/2015
Pablo's activities in prison provoke the government into taking extreme action. Murphy and Peña face a situation of their own.
Director: Andrés Baiz
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.3/1039 votes#7 - Tome-wan
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 5/16/2014
Bedelia returns and accepts immunity to testify against Hannibal. Mason Verger plots revenge after learning of Hannibal's manipulations.
Director: Michael Rymer
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.3/1091 votes#8 - Descenso
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/28/2015
Chilean drug chemist Cockroach brings his product to Colombian smuggler Pablo Escobar. DEA agent Steve Murphy joins the war on drugs in Bogota.
Director: José Padilha
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.2/1044 votes#9 - Relevés
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/13/2013
Hannibal convinces Jack and Alana that Will could be the copycat killer.
Director: Michael Rymer
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.0/101 votes#10 - The Consoler
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 5/8/2011
Goren and Eames return to the Major Case Squad after a year-long absence and must determine if a banker was murdered or committed suicide. They discover the bank's only client is the Catholic Church and dig into a scandal and cover-up linked to the murder.
Director: Michael Smith
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.0/102 votes#11 - Mecca
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/2023
Jose Battle asks for a favor from his new partner Bumpy Johnson: a political assassination. Malcolm X is detained by Saudi authorities when he travels to Mecca. The district attorney's office targets Mayme for her gangster ties.
Director: Carl Seaton
Writer: Chris Brancato
8.0/1053 votes#12 - La Catedral
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/28/2015
The hunt for Pablo seems to be over after he makes a deal with the government, but Murphy and Peña -- and the Cali Cartel -- have other plans.
Director: Andrés Baiz
Writer: Chris Brancato
7.9/1066 votes#13 - Eve
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1993
When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are inexplicably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. When they discover that the two fathers' eight-year-old daughters are identical twins, they realize that something even stranger is going on.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Chris Brancato
7.9/1048 votes#14 - Buffet Froid
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/30/2013
Will tracks a killer with mental instability similar to his own.
Director: John Dahl
Writer: Chris Brancato
7.9/1058 votes#15 - The Palace in Flames
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/28/2015
Despite a new extradition treaty, the U.S. puts more money into fighting communism, creating new challenges for Murphy and Peña in the hunt for Pablo.
Director: Guillermo Navarro
Writer: Chris Brancato
7.5/104 votes#16 - I Am The Greatest
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2019
Cassius Clay battles local boxing hero Doug Jones in the ring. Mayme insists Bumpy back Jones, an advocate for her Harlem Youth organization, but Malcolm urges Bumpy to back Clay. Meanwhile, Chin engages in a turf war for Harlem with Bonnano.
Director: Guillermo Navarro
Writer: Chris Brancato
7.5/102 votes#17 - Angel of Death
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/19/2023
Bumpy and Colombo face off for control of the heroin trade when Monsieur 98 returns to bring in the next shipment. Omar makes a romantic appeal to Elise. Pettigrew discovers cocaine through his love affair with a Cuban woman.
Director: Lily Mariye
Writer: Chris Brancato
7.5/1069 votes#18 - The Sword of Simón Bolívar
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/28/2015
Communist radical group M-19 makes a move against the narcos, while Murphy gets an education in Colombian law enforcement from his new partner Peña.
Director: José Padilha
Writer: Chris Brancato
6.8/104 votes#19 - The Negro in White America
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/2023
To repay a drug debt owed to the Italians after the Harlem riots, Bumpy Johnson robs from his own community. Omar seeks to return to Elise and Malcolm's good graces. Someone close to Stella orders a hit on her life.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Chris Brancato
6.3/103 votes#20 - Alzado
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/2023
When Joe Colombo carries out a gentleman's kidnapping of Mayme, Bumpy angrily prepares for a coming war.
Director: Jack Donnelly
Writer: Chris Brancato
6.1/104 votes#21 - Branded
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/2010
Two men have been branded and sodomised by someone. Is there a connection between these men, and what nut case is on the loose?
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Chris Brancato
6.0/102 votes#22 - Wild Horses
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 11/18/1992
Dylan's Porsche breaks down near a secluded ranch. The wealthy owner takes him in and wants him to stay permanently (as her boy toy). Dylan is disappointed when she sells her favorite horse, and decides not to live in an environment where everything is for sale. Brenda and Kelly make up. David fires Steve as manager after he is humiliated at a showcase because he had to go on without a sound check. Nikki is stunned when her ex-boyfriend Diesel's band performs a song he had written for her. Brandon cannot understand why Nikki is so taken with an abusive, boozing jerk. Nikki tries to leave when Diesel brings home another woman, so he hits her. Brandon punches out Diesel and takes Nikki home. The janitor warns Steve that he may have to turn him in to save himself. Music: ""Switch It Up,"" performed by Brian Austin Gr
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Chris Brancato
- 6.0/101 votes
#23 - To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 6/26/2011
The launch of a heated lawsuit over the potential theft of a multi-million dollar website leaves two bodies in the company's office. Goren and Eames enter the world of "Kizmate" – a site devoted to connecting people who share fleeting romantic encounters – and investigate its key members to determine if the killings were coincidence or something more...
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: Chris Brancato
6.0/104 votes#24 - By Whatever Means Necessary
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2019
After returning from Alcatraz, Bumpy Johnson seeks to regain control of Harlem. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy must take on the Genovese crime family, led by Vincent “Chin” Gigante.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Brancato
5.7/106 votes#25 - Spectacle
Season 12 Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/2011
After the sexual assault of a young woman is videotaped and featured on a campus-wide intranet feed, detectives Elliot Stabler and Odafin "Fin" Tutuola go in search of the victim and her attacker. As they delve into the investigation, it becomes clear that the perpetrator created a spectacle to draw attention to his own issues.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Chris Brancato
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"Sex, Lies and Volleyball/Photo Fini" is the best rated episode written by Chris Brancato. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Jeff Melman. It aired on 8/5/1992 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "A Song of Myself".