The Best Episodes Written By Eli Talbert

Every TV Episode Written by Eli Talbert Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Eli Talbert Ratings Summary

The best episode written by Eli Talbert is "What You See Isn't Always What You Get", rated 9/10 from 3 user votes. It was "directed by Timothy Busfield". "What You See Isn't Always What You Get" aired on 3/22/2023 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Winds of Change Are Starting to Blow".

  • What You See Isn't Always What You Get
    9.0/10 3 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

  • The Winds of Change Are Starting to Blow
    9.0/10 2 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

  • You Just Might Find You Get What You Need
    9.0/10 2 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

  • High and Low
    8.5/10 9 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

  • Status Quo, aka the Mess We're In
    8.5/10 2 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

  • Bad to the Bone
    8.4/10 9 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

  • Lucky Strike
    8.3/10 9 votes

    #7 - 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

  • Feeling the Heat
    8.3/10 8 votes

    #8 - 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

  • Stuck On You
    8.3/10 3 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

  • Dancing With The Fishes
    8.0/10 4 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

  • We Hold These Truths
    8.0/10 2 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 Rubio

    Writer: Eli Talbert

  • Pain Is for the Living
    8.0/10 2 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

  • Letting Go Only to Come Together
    8.0/10 2 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

  • End of the Day, Anything Can Happen
    8.0/10 2 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

  • These Are Not the Droids You Are Looking For
    8.0/10 2 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

  • Anonymous
    7.9/10 9 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

  • Chasing The Bus
    7.9/10 9 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

  • Got a Friend in Me
    7.5/10 2 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

  • In Search of Forgiveness, Not Permission
    7.5/10 2 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

  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished... in Chicago
    7.5/10 2 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

  • iNO
    7.4/10 10 votes

    #21 - iNO

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/24/2015

    Dr. Choi treats a teen mother who abandoned her newborn baby in an alley, as the staffers must make difficult decisions about the teen's future. Also, a hypochondriac with chest pains is treated, as is a patient suffering from possible dementia.

    Director: David Rodriguez

    Writer: Eli Talbert

  • American Dreamers
    7.3/10 6 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Win Loss
    7.2/10 10 votes

    #23 - 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

  • Mistaken
    7.1/10 9 votes

    #24 - 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

  • Disorder
    7.1/10 9 votes

    #25 - 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