9.0/103 votes#1 - What You See Isn't Always What You Get
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/22/2023
Halstead and Cuevas struggle to diagnose a patient with a rare disorder. CFD and Med staff work to free a paranoid father trapped in the MRI suite. Tanaka-Reed gets an ego check.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Eli Talbert
9.0/102 votes#2 - The Winds of Change Are Starting to Blow
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 5/10/2023
Maggie clashes with Charles over a distrustful patient. Marcel and Halstead fight against Med's new policies. Asher and Archer pull surprising things out of their unsuspecting patients.
Director: Nikki Taylor Roberts
Writer: Eli Talbert
9.0/102 votes#3 - You Just Might Find You Get What You Need
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 5/1/2024
Maggie's budding romance takes flight. After a woman's shocking suicide attempt, Charles searches for answers. Asher works to diagnose a patient who is new to the city and appears with mysterious symptoms.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.5/109 votes#4 - High and Low
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/2002
Grissom, Warrick, and Nick investigate the case of man who apparently was murdered and pushed off a six story building. Grissom's involvement is cut short by renewed hearing problems. Catherine looks into the murder of man outside of his regular bar.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.5/102 votes#5 - Status Quo, aka the Mess We're In
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2021
Charles helps Dylan with a longtime patient who was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. Stevie, Maggie and Vanessa investigate the legitimacy of a patient’s cancer diagnosis. Crockett is caught off-guard. Will pitches a new medical technology.
Director: Milena Govich
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.4/109 votes#6 - Bad to the Bone
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/1/2004
A violent murder in a casino parking garage and another episode in the police interview room lead the CSIs to one shocking discovery after another. The case involves a missing woman, a long dead body and a missing child.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.3/108 votes#7 - Feeling the Heat
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2003
During Vegas's latest Heat wave of triple digit temperatures, Gil and Catherine investigate a baby locked in a car. Warrick investigates a man dead of an apparent heat stroke in his house. Nick and Sarah investigate a woman's body found floating in the lake with a blow to the head.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.3/109 votes#8 - Lucky Strike
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/2003
A man driving with a wooden stake in his head dies in front of a casino. Grissom and Nick work to discover the 'vampire' killer. Warrick and Catherine hunt for the killer of a NBA star's 5 year old son.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.3/103 votes#9 - Stuck On You
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/2006
Stella is invited to an art gallery where she sees several paintings done by an artist named James Golden. Stella thought she was going to Frankie's place and not to an art gallery. Outside the exhibit two people are kissing and one of them is shot in the back with an arrow.
Director: Jonathan Glassner
Writer: Eli Talbert
- 8.0/104 votes
#10 - Dancing With The Fishes
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2005
Mac, Stella and Flack investigate the death of a young dancer who recently won the lottery, and it isn't long before they realise that her death is connected to Lindsay's investigation concerning the death of a tram driver. Danny and Hawkes look into the murder of a local fish merchant, and soon find their way to a jealous friend who was angry that their child didn't get into a prestigious school.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.0/102 votes#11 - We Hold These Truths
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/20/2019
Natalie and Maggie witness a pickup truck plow through a street fair and must make tough decisions on the fly. At the hospital, doctors and nurses are on high alert with the influx of patients. Dr. Charles' ex-wife comes to town with news.
Director: Nicole Cummins-Rubio
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.0/102 votes#12 - Pain Is for the Living
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/2020
Two brothers in critical condition are rushed into the hospital by their parents, leaving Dr. Choi, April and Dr. Charles to tend to their care and left to piece together what actually transpired. Dr. Manning becomes suspicious of a new mother entering the E.D. Dr. Halstead’s tireless activities at the safe injection site start to take a toll on his work.
Director: Vincent Misiano
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.0/102 votes#13 - Letting Go Only to Come Together
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 4/7/2021
Ethan teams up with an unexpected person to treat a famous tennis player who is afraid his career might be over. Goodwin's new protocols cause a stir.
Director: SJ Main Muñoz
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.0/102 votes#14 - End of the Day, Anything Can Happen
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 5/11/2022
Scott helps the daughter of a mob boss. A grandmother comes to Med desperate to save her grandson. Choi struggles with some shocking news about his father.
Director: Daniel Willis
Writer: Eli Talbert
8.0/102 votes#15 - These Are Not the Droids You Are Looking For
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2024
Goodwin is worried after an accident lands two people close to her in the E.D. Archer returns to Med and treats a man concerned about a family curse. Maggie and Ahmad help a patient on a cross-country road trip.
Director: Sharon Lewis
Writer: Eli Talbert
7.9/109 votes#16 - Anonymous
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2000
Royce Harmon was murdered 3 months ago in a scene staged to look like a suicide. Now another murder has taken place. Whoever the killer is he has a thorough knowledge of forensics, he purposefully has left evidence, and has baffled Grissom and his team. Warrick and Nick investigate the case of a man who went over a cliff in his car and is now unconscious.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Eli Talbert
- 7.9/109 votes
#17 - Chasing The Bus
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/28/2002
A bus carrying 23 passengers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas crashes less than 40 miles from its destination, killing nine people. Tthe CSIs soon discover that a recent parolee was on the bus, but is now unaccounted for.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Eli Talbert
7.5/102 votes#18 - Got a Friend in Me
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2019
Dr. Choi and Dr. Marcel don't see eye-to-eye over the treatment of a patient's chronic pain and rumors start to circulate about Maggie. Dr. Manning works to help a young boy, but her treatment suggestions are challenged by the parents who believe in only using holistic remedies.
Director: John Polson
Writer: Eli Talbert
7.5/102 votes#19 - In Search of Forgiveness, Not Permission
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2021
Dr. Marcel and Dr. Manning lay everything on the line to assist a sick woman. Dr. Halstead faces an uphill battle in getting participants involved in his clinical trial. Dr. Choi clashes with a patient who demands absolute perfection of himself.
Director: Milena Govich
Writer: Eli Talbert
7.5/102 votes#20 - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished... in Chicago
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2022
In the aftermath of the Vas-COM scandal, Goodwin clashes with the hospital’s new compliance officer. Crockett and Blake try to save a patient who has a son with severe autism. A patient’s son lies to his father about his diagnosis.
Director: Michael Pressman
Writer: Eli Talbert
7.3/106 votes#21 - American Dreamers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2004
After a skeleton is found on a tour bus and turns out to be over a decade old, Mac and the team use the backpack they have found to track the belongings to a young man named Aaron Moreland, only to learn that the body they have cannot possibly belong to him. By tracing the victim's shirt, detectives are led to a youth center worker who claims not to remember the boy, but is hiding an old secret of his own.
Director: Rob Bailey
Writer: Eli Talbert
7.2/1010 votes#22 - Win Loss
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2016
Dr. Manning and Dr. Rhodes separately treat complicated cases involving sick babies, only to uncover that the two cases could actually be intertwined. Elsewhere, Dr. Halstead and Dr. Charles treat a homeless man with an upbeat disposition who sheds some valuable insight that prompts one of the doctors to learn a thing or two along the way. Dr. Choi has a Navy corpsman follow him for the day as they deal with the toll of gang violence in the city, while Dr. Reese tries to understand the delicate balance required in her new position.
Director: David Rodriguez
Writer: Eli Talbert
7.1/109 votes#23 - Mistaken
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/8/2015
The doctors treat victims of a movie-theater shooting as Sharon Goodwin tries to keep the press at bay. A teen with an eating disorder is treated, but Dr. Charles' methods rub others the wrong way. The staffers deal with a racist patient.
Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Eli Talbert
7.1/109 votes#24 - Disorder
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/3/2016
Dr. Rhodes and Dr. Downey clash over how to treat a patient with various health and heart issues. Meanwhile, excessive hoarding at a home comes into play when trying to help a man with a leg injury; a patient is bitten by her own dog; and a commission pays a surprise visit to evaluate the hospital.
Director: Ami Canaan Mann
Writer: Eli Talbert
- 7.0/106 votes
#25 - Night, Mother
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2004
Mac and Stella investigate the murder of a woman who was stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake. The police arrest a woman who was kneeling over the body with blood on her, but Mac isn't convinced that she committed the crime.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Eli Talbert
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"What You See Isn't Always What You Get" is the best rated episode written by Eli Talbert. It scored 9/10 based on 3 votes. It was directed by Timothy Busfield. It aired on 3/22/2023 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Winds of Change Are Starting to Blow".