10.0/101 votes#1 - Shattered
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/2/2010
Valens partners with Rush to locate her abducted, drug-addicted sister, while Jeffries tries to bring justice to the case of a murdered teenaged girl that has haunted him for 17 years.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Greg Plageman
9.4/1032 votes#2 - YHWH
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/2015
Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan. Also, Reese is caught in the middle of the final showdown between rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Greg Plageman
9.2/1024 votes#3 - Firewall
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/2012
As the clock ticks down, Reese winds up trapped with his POI in the most heavily surveilled part of the city, forced to rely on the help of Finch, Carter and Fusco to fend off the FBI, corrupt cops and a slew of old foes.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Greg Plageman
9.2/1030 votes#4 - Deus Ex Machina
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/2014
The team takes desperate action in its race to prevent the malevolent AI program Samaritan from coming online and making them its first targets. Meanwhile, the months-long battle with the anti-surveillance terrorist group Vigilance comes to a shocking conclusion.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Greg Plageman
9.1/1028 votes#5 - B.S.O.D.
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 5/3/2016
Reese and Finch attempt to rescue the Machine’s source code before it deteriorates beyond repair. Also, Root fights for her life against an onslaught of Samaritan’s agents and Fusco is faced with hard questions following the deaths of Dominic and Elias.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.9/1028 votes#6 - .exe
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 6/14/2016
As Reese and Shaw race to catch up with Finch, he infiltrates a maximum-security government facility in a desperate mission which could mean the end for not only Samaritan, but for himself and The Machine as well.
Director: Greg Plageman
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.5/102 votes#7 - Offender
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/25/2007
A father pushes a registered sex offender off of a building and threatens to kill a different sex offender each day until the cold-case unit solves his son's 1987 rape and murder.
Director: David Barrett
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.5/102 votes#8 - Flashover
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 3/21/2010
Realizing that the missing Vera has finally hit rock bottom, his worried team members hope that a new twist to a 2006 arson case, which he was secretly obsessing about in recent weeks, might supply leads to his whereabouts.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.4/1021 votes#9 - In Extremis
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/25/2013
When a person of interest is poisoned, Finch and Reese only have 24 hours to identify the toxin and find the person responsible; Detective Fusco's past catches up to him.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.4/1024 votes#10 - 4C
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/2014
Reese boards an international flight in an attempt to put the team and the past behind him, but is angered when he realizes his travel plans have been manipulated.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.3/1028 votes#11 - Panopticon
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2014
Forced to take on new identities provided by Root, the team members try to adapt to their new lives. However, some find it hard to ignore The Machine's numbers, which puts them all at risk of being detected by Samaritan.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.3/1025 votes#12 - Bad Code
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2012
The Machine delivers the number of a cold case that leads Reese ever closer to catching up with Finch and his kidnapper, Root.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.1/1030 votes#13 - Liberty
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2013
The Machine, now completely self-governed with its whereabouts unknown, resumes giving Finch its "irrelevant" numbers for people in danger, which include a U.S. naval officer in town for Fleet Week. However, with so many sailors flooding the streets of New York City, finding the officer in time presents an even bigger challenge for Reese and Shaw.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.0/102 votes#14 - Sandhogs
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2006
When the remains of a sandhog miner who disappeared in 1947 are found in a subway service tunnel, the team is prompted to re-open the case when they suspect the victim might have been murdered for being a union activist.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.0/102 votes#15 - Knuckle Up
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/2007
Lilly investigates the murder of a 17-year-old prep-school student who disappeared in early 2006 and whose body is found stuffed in an oil drum outside an abandoned warehouse in a drug-infested part of the city. Also, Vera pays a parking ticket for his neighbor and later asks her out on a date.
Director: David Barrett
Writer: Greg Plageman
8.0/1021 votes#16 - Get Carter
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/2011
Reese and Finch’s game of cat and mouse with Detective Carter becomes infinitely more complicated when The Machine declares that she is their newest POI.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Greg Plageman
7.8/1027 votes#17 - Ghosts
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2011
Reese and Finch question the machine's reliability when they are asked to investigate a teenager who was killed years earlier; Finch remembers the origin of the machine.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Greg Plageman
7.7/103 votes#18 - Viceroy
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 6/30/2018
With Hart in grave danger, the team must find their own way to stop Ramsey before his plan to assassinate a senator starts a war with international terrorists.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Greg Plageman
7.7/1025 votes#19 - Blunt
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2015
Reese and Finch must protect Harper, a street-smart grifter, when her plan to steal cash from a medical marijuana dispensary goes up in smoke.
Director: Fred Toye
Writer: Greg Plageman
7.5/102 votes#20 - Sabotage
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/2008
The team re-opens the 1999, 2001, and 2003 pipe bombing incidents that killed two and blinded one victim. The serial bomber is still on the loose and ready to strike again as he missed his latest target.
Director: Nicole Kassell
Writer: Greg Plageman
7.2/1030 votes#21 - Fuck You and Eat Shit
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/2022
Flynne and Wilf discover Aelita’s ties to the Neoprims, who want to destory London as we know it. Inspector Lowbeer makes her appearance in London and demands to meet Flynne, Burton and Conner.
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Writer: Greg Plageman
6.4/105 votes#22 - S.E.R.E.
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2018
Bryan Mills fights for his life inside a secret Mexican prison and plans a series of dangerous deals to put him on track for escape to the United States. But plans change when Mills and a young migrant girl are taken by human traffickers. Meanwhile, Christina Hart leverages her spycraft skills to obtain powerful new software that could locate Mills, and enlists two unlikely allies to aid in her mission to bring Mills home.
Director: Romeo Tirone
Writer: Greg Plageman
3.5/102 votes#23 - Wunderkind
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2007
The team re-opens the 2002 case of a 14-year-old math whiz whose half-brother exploited his unusual talents: card counting and safe cracking.
Director: Kevin Bray
Writer: Greg Plageman
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"Shattered" is the best rated episode written by Greg Plageman. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Jeannot Szwarc. It aired on 5/2/2010 and is rated 0.6 points higher than their second-best episode, "YHWH".