9.7/10 3 votes#1 - Light My Fire
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2016
Dr. Bull confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home, assisting in the arson defense of a young man whose contentious ties to the town mirror Bull's own.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: David Wilcox
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - Skeleton (II)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/15/2005
Kibre prosecutes an elusive career criminal for the murder of a sleazy ex-cop and the shooting of a detective. As Kibre's office works with Detective Fontana, they discover their prime suspect might also be a producer of snuff pornography. When a sting goes bad and a shocking courtroom development cuts the legs from under her case, Kibre's career teeters on finding why the shootings were committed in the first place. This crossover starts on Law & Order S15E20 Tombstone (I).
Director: David Platt
Writer: David Wilcox
8.2/10 5 votes#3 - Criminal Law
Season 16 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2005
The deaths of three women with the same name lead Fontana and Green to the nine-year-old conviction of Leland Barnes, who had shot and killed his wife in an office full of people. With two of the three witnesses against him dead and Jack McCoy on the hit list, the detectives struggle to determine how Barnes, who has been in prison the entire time, got someone on the outside to kill the only people who could keep him in jail. The investigation leads them to Leland's two sons, with surprising results.
Director: Edwin Sherin
Writer: David Wilcox
8.2/10 5 votes#4 - Identity
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/8/2014
Martin finds out that Verax could be plotting an assassination. He is also kidnapped and makes a stunning discovery about his own identity.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: David Wilcox
8.0/10 6 votes#5 - Red Ball
Season 16 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2005
A young girl is abducted in broad daylight, and the only link to the girl is an ex-convict who wants a deal before he's willing to talk.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: David Wilcox
7.9/10 21 votes#6 - The Abducted
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2010
When a serial kidnapper “over there” strikes again, the emotional and familiar case hits home for Colonel Broyles, sending a determined Olivia to uncover additional details about the abductions. In the meantime, Olivia fights on and reunites with Henry to enlist his services on an intense and covert mission to return home.
Director: Chuck Russell
Writer: David Wilcox
7.7/10 23 votes#7 - 6:02 AM EST
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/2011
The beginning of the end is triggered when Walternate finds a way to wreak havoc “over here."
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: David Wilcox
7.6/10 23 votes#8 - Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2010
Newton, concerned about the consequences of a distressing development involving a high-ranking official, is forced to call to action a sleeping shapeshifter. As Walter and the rest of the team gather evidence, they move the investigation to Massive Dynamic, where Olivia goes on high alert and Walter finds himself in a perilous situation.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: David Wilcox
7.6/10 7 votes#9 - Choice of Evils
Season 16 Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/2006
After the body of a teenage boy is found dead in a warehouse, detectives use DNA to connect the boy to a convicted rapist and serial killer, then to the boy's mother, Allison Ashburn, the convict's ex-wife. While trying to solve Danny's murder, Fontana and Green learn that he recently got his girlfriend Tina pregnant, and his mother had seen him recently when she had given him money despite having claimed she hadn't seen him for months. Allison finally admits that she murdered her son after the police arrest her new husband John, but claims she did it to save the world from her son, whom she was convinced would become a monster just like her father. Borgia and McCoy face an uphill battle trying to convict the perfect soccer mom.
Director: Michael Pressman
Writer: David Wilcox
7.5/10 26 votes#10 - Fracture
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/2009
When an American officer who served in Iraq blows up in a Philadelphia train station, the Fringe Division investigates and determines that something turned the man into a living bomb. Peter and Olivia travel to Iraq to determine if Peter's contacts can shed some light on the situation.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David Wilcox
7.5/10 6 votes#11 - Burn Card
Season 18 Episode 14 - Aired 4/23/2008
Internal affairs takes a special interest in Detective Green after a gambler is found dead by his bullet, and the investigation turns up a part of his past he's taken pains to conceal.
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Writer: David Wilcox
7.4/10 10 votes#12 - Chemistry
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/20/2014
Martin, Crystal and Troy Buchannan go undercover when a chemistry teacher and his family are kidnapped. The case takes on urgency when it's feared the kidnappers will use the teacher to manufacture a deadly gas.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: David Wilcox
7.4/10 9 votes#13 - Havenport
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/15/2013
The Havenport Police Department is brought onto the case and Roderick's role as sheriff is called into question, which leads him to make a shocking decision that threatens the safety of Joey. Meanwhile, Ryan goes against the FBI, hoping to gain the trust of one of Joe's followers.
Director: Nicole Kassell
Writer: David Wilcox
7.2/10 5 votes#14 - Profiteer
Season 17 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/2006
The shooting of a local businessman is linked to a killing in Iraq, and McCoy and Rubirosa refuse to allow the killer to plead out.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: David Wilcox
7.2/10 9 votes#15 - The Woman in 8D
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2016
Dr. Bull and his Trial Analysis Corporation (TAC) team must formulate a new defense strategy when they discover the jury has a subconscious gender bias toward their client, a female pilot accused of negligence after one of her flights crashes.
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski
Writer: David Wilcox
7.1/10 23 votes#16 - Immortality
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/11/2011
As the story shifts back to life “over there,” the absence of Colonel Broyles changes the dynamic of the Fringe Team as they investigate a bioterrorist armed with an insect that has a taste for human flesh. Meanwhile, alternate Olivia is reunited with her beau, and Walternate remains determined to save his world but discovers there are certain lines he will not cross.
Director: Brad Anderson
Writer: David Wilcox
7.1/10 7 votes#17 - In Vino Veritas
Season 17 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2006
A has-been actor wearing blood-stained clothing arrested for drunken driving reveals religious prejudices during his rantings.
Director: Tim Hunter
Writer: David Wilcox
7.0/10 23 votes#18 - Snakehead
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2009
A Chinese Triad is using illegal aliens to breed parasitic worms that eventually kill their hosts. When a ship runs aground, Fringe Division learns of the operation and tries to locate a second ship before the passengers on it suffer a slow, agonizing death.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: David Wilcox
7.0/10 6 votes#19 - Angelgrove
Season 18 Episode 13 - Aired 3/19/2008
A terrorist organization seems to be tied in with the violent death of an art dealer, until the victim's troubled son with ties to a fanatic religious group is investigated.
Director: Darnell Martin
Writer: David Wilcox
7.0/10 1 votes#20 - Murmurations
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2012
Jane makes a terrifying discovery behind the walls of the Drake as she renovates Mr. Barlow's apartment; Henry decides whether to give Gavin inside information he has on one of his projects; lonely Danielle has a romantic tryst.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: David Wilcox
6.8/10 6 votes#21 - Remains of the Day
Season 17 Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/2007
After Michael Jones dies in his mother's hospital room with no immediate explanation, his mother Ashley accuses her former husband's adult children, Miles and Hillary Foster, who are fighting her for control of their father's substantial fortune. The autopsy rules out the Fosters, and points Green and Cassady in the direction of illegally harvested donor bones, which Jones had received in a transplant eighteen months prior. McCoy and Rubirosa struggle to prosecute the case after it becomes clear the only way they will get the evidence they need is to test another young man who received bone grafts from the same woman who had given Michael Jones his legs.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: David Wilcox
6.6/10 5 votes#22 - Murder Book
Season 17 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/2007
After publisher Serena Darby is found murdered in her apartment, suspicion turns to J.P. Lange, a former professional baseball player acquitted of his wife's murder who had written a book hypothesising how he would have committed the murder. Green and Cassady follow the trail of evidence from Lange to Gerald Stockwell, a former ghostwriter on the book, but Stockwell tries to clear himself by offering McCoy and Rubirosa proof that one of the jurors in Lange's trial was paid off to force an acquittal.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: David Wilcox
6.2/10 20 votes#23 - Marauders
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2002
In need of fuel, the Enterprise arrives at a Quonset mining colony for deuterium supplies. They discover that Klingons are forcing the colonists to give up all their deuterium. Archer and the rest of the crew work to train the colonists so they can fight back against the Klingons.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: David Wilcox
6.0/10 1 votes#24 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2012
Jane and Henry are offered a chance to manage a premier apartment building in New York; while the couple is seduced by the intoxicating lifestyle of the Upper East Side, supernatural forces in the building make Henry and Jane question their decision.
Director: Alex Graves
Writer: David Wilcox
5.7/10 6 votes#25 - Misbegotten
Season 18 Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/2008
The explosion of a package including scientific research injures a pregnant security guard, leading to the investigation of the scientist's experiments.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: David Wilcox
The Best Episodes Written By David Wilcox
Every TV Episode Written by David Wilcox Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
David Wilcox Ratings Summary
The best episode written by David Wilcox is "Light My Fire", rated 9.7/10 from 3 user votes. It was "directed by Dennis Smith". "Light My Fire" aired on 12/13/2016 and is rated 0.7 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Skeleton (II)".