The Best Episodes Written By David Wilcox

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.7/10(3 votes)

   #1 - Light My Fire

   S1:E912/13/2016

   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.

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   8.2/10(5 votes)

   #2 - Criminal Law

   S16:E911/23/2005

   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.

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   8.0/10(25 votes)

   #3 - The Abducted

   S3:E711/18/2010

   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.

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   8.0/10(6 votes)

   #4 - Red Ball

   S16:E19/21/2005

   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.

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   7.9/10(28 votes)

   #5 - 6:02 AM EST

   S3:E204/22/2011

   The beginning of the end is triggered when Walternate finds a way to wreak havoc “over here."

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   7.7/10(27 votes)

   #6 - Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?

   S3:E410/14/2010

   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.

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   7.6/10(30 votes)

   #7 - Fracture

   S2:E310/1/2009

   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.

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   7.6/10(7 votes)

   #8 - Choice of Evils

   S16:E153/1/2006

   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.

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   7.5/10(6 votes)

   #9 - Profiteer

   S17:E610/27/2006

   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.

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    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #10 - Burn Card

    S18:E144/23/2008

    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.

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    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #11 - In Vino Veritas

    S17:E711/3/2006

    A has-been actor wearing blood-stained clothing arrested for drunken driving reveals religious prejudices during his rantings.

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    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #12 - Remains of the Day

    S17:E111/5/2007

    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.

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    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #13 - The Woman in 8D

    S1:E29/27/2016

    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.

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    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #14 - Immortality

    S3:E132/11/2011

    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.

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    7.2/10(6 votes)

    #15 - Murder Book

    S17:E162/23/2007

    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.

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    7.1/10(28 votes)

    #16 - Snakehead

    S2:E912/3/2009

    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.

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    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #17 - Havenport

    S1:E134/15/2013

    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.

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    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Angelgrove

    S18:E133/19/2008

    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.

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    6.4/10(24 votes)

    #19 - Marauders

    S2:E610/30/2002

    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.

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    5.0/10(7 votes)

    #20 - Misbegotten

    S18:E31/9/2008

    The explosion of a package including scientific research injures a pregnant security guard, leading to the investigation of the scientist's experiments.

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