9.2/106 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2002
Maggie Cartwright appears to have simply walked away from every thing in her life, having left everything of hers behind. Later a ransom note appears on her mother's email list demanding a million dollars for her safe return.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Hank Steinberg
9.0/101 votes#2 - Promises
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/18/2020
Tensions rise between Aaron and his crew when he provides counsel to a white supremacist in order to repay his debt to inmate Wild Bill. District Attorney Maskins ups his game when Aaron sues the NYPD in an attempt to gain access to his case file. Meanwhile, his daughter’s boyfriend, Ronnie, braces for confrontation as he visits the prison to meet Aaron for the first time.
Director: Russell Lee Fine
Writer: Hank Steinberg
9.0/101 votes#3 - Do Us Part
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/2020
Aaron struggles to balance the demands of his own case with the needs of an inmate who's fighting for the right to marry his dying girlfriend. Safiya defies the prison board, effectively jeopardizing Anya's campaign as well as their marriage.
Director: Russell Lee Fine
Writer: Hank Steinberg
9.0/101 votes#4 - Fathers
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/2020
When Maskins and Cyrus Hunt try to thwart Aaron's attempt at a retrial, Aaron is forced to attempt a desperate move, risking the wrath of a powerful new adversary. The election comes to a head as Safiya tries to warn Aaron that he is now a marked man on the season finale
Director: Hank Steinberg
Writer: Hank Steinberg
9.0/102 votes#5 - Never Stop Fighting
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/18/2020
After nine years of fighting to win his freedom, it’s do or die for Aaron Wallace. As dangerous enemies lurk at Bellmore and Marie faces criminal charges for assisting Aaron in prior cases, Aaron must find a way to gain the upper hand on Maskins.
Director: Russell Lee Fine
Writer: Hank Steinberg
9.0/103 votes#6 - Underground Railroad
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/16/2003
Jack and the team search for a pregnant woman, Kathy Dobson, who disappeared from a hospital before being told that she has serious complications. As the detectives race against time to find Kathy, their investigation gradually reveals that Kathy's seemingly happy life actually hasn't been going very well. She is eight-and-a-half months pregnant and, under the tight control of her husband Paul, has withdrawn from her family and friends. Paul's brother Ritchie, who has been following Kathy and providing Paul with addresses she visits, lists a woman who may be affiliated with an ""underground railroad"" that helps battered women. When the team members find the woman, they learn that she has been assaulted by Paul—but she still refuses to lead them to Kathy.
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.5/1011 votes#7 - Rising Sun
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 6/19/2016
Chandler must find a way to return to his old crew and investigate a dangerous new foe.
Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: Hank Steinberg
- 8.5/104 votes
#8 - Fall Out (2)
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/2003
When the team tries to plot a strategy after they find out that Samantha has been shot and that she might be critically injured in the hostage crisis situation. Jack makes a deal with Berry so that Sam can get help and Jack goes in there and takes Sam's place.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.3/1012 votes#9 - Fight the Ship
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 6/21/2015
After the horrifying revelations and reversals of fortune in Baltimore, Chandler and his fractured team join forces with an underground resistance in an attempt to defeat Amy Granderson. With doses of the cure running low, Rachel tries to do some good for the sick while remaining a prisoner at Avocet. Meanwhile, Slattery and the crew of Nathan James are in a race against time to save an injured Dr. Tophet and regain control of their ship.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Hank Steinberg
- 8.2/104 votes
#10 - The Bus
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2003
A school bus is abducted by kidnappers who demand more and more for ransom.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.1/1013 votes#11 - Unreal City
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/21/2015
After the horrifying revelations and reversals of fortune in Baltimore, Chandler and his fractured team join forces with an underground resistance in an attempt to defeat Amy Granderson. With doses of the cure running low, Rachel tries to do some good for the sick while remaining a prisoner at Avocet. Meanwhile, Slattery and the crew of Nathan James are in a race against time to save an injured Dr. Tophet and regain control of their ship.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.0/101 votes#12 - Brother's Keeper
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/25/2020
Determined to gain access to his police file, Aaron decides to represent an inmate from Safiya’s drug rehabilitation program whose brother is a cop. District Attorney Maskins and Assistant District Attorney O’Reilly close in on proof of Aaron’s malfeasance during Jose Rodriguez’s trial, targeting Marie as a way to get to Aaron.
Director: Russell Lee Fine
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.0/101 votes#13 - Witness
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/17/2020
While litigating on behalf of an inmate locked up on a robbery charge, Aaron is torn between doing what's right and what's best for his case. Heartened by Aaron's new lead, Marie recommits to his case, researching witnesses on Aaron's behalf. Plus, Safiya closes in on Foster's drug smuggling scheme.
Director: Guillermo Navarro
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.0/101 votes#14 - Homecoming
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/25/2020
A newly liberated man, Aaron acclimates to family life outside of prison. As he attempts to help Jamal with his case, Aaron encounters Jamal’s sister who needs legal help of her own. Former nemesis Spencer Richardson proposes an intriguing work opportunity to Aaron and Roswell.
Director: Russell Lee Fine
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.0/101 votes#15 - The Necessity Defense
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 12/2/2020
At the urging of Spencer Richardson, Aaron defends a woman charged with holding hospital workers at gunpoint to secure lifesaving treatment for her son. Aaron and Marie navigate their newly intimate relationship, and a young social justice warrior joins Aaron and Roswell’s firm.
Director: Marisol Adler
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.0/101 votes#16 - Andy Josiah
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/24/2021
Aaron and his legal team face their toughest trial yet as they prosecute the police officer responsible for the killing of an innocent, unarmed Black man.
Director: Russell Lee Fine
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.0/103 votes#17 - Birthday Boy
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2002
Eleven-year-old Gabe Freedman is separated from his father on the subway to Yankee Stadium.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Hank Steinberg
- 8.0/102 votes
#18 - Midnight Sun
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/2002
When a man leaves his home in the morning with his daughter to take her to school and then to open his dry-cleaning store, but they both of they never make it there .
Director: Michelle MacLaren
Writer: Hank Steinberg
- 8.0/102 votes
#19 - The Friendly Skies
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/2003
The team investigate a disappearance of a flight attendant who may have been having a relationship with one of the pilot's.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: Hank Steinberg
8.0/103 votes#20 - Fall Out (1)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/2003
With the aftershocks of Sept. 11 and man named Barry , who lost his wife that day and then his job soon after. The man lashes out at her former boss an employment-agency owner. Blaming her for his wife's death and his own failure to find a job, Barry kidnaps the woman for ransom.Then he demands the money be exchanged at a bookstore, but when the cash is delivers Berry is provoked and takes the store's patrons hostage. Among them is Samantha,and given Jack's affection for her complicates the negotiations.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Hank Steinberg
7.8/1015 votes#21 - Safe Zone
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 8/2/2015
Still trying to piece together Dr. Hunter's lost formula, Rachel grapples with her sworn enemy's presence on board the Nathan James.
Director: Hank Steinberg
Writer: Hank Steinberg
7.5/1021 votes#22 - El Toro
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/20/2014
With Rachel close to a breakthrough on her vaccine, she, Chandler and XO Slattery lead a small team into the jungles of Nicaragua on a mission to find monkeys for her vaccine trials. While there, they find much more than they bargained for when they run across a former drug kingpin who will stop at nothing to maintain his stranglehold on his oppressed society. Chandler and his men find themselves in a huge moral dilemma over whether to eliminate this menace or take what they need and continue on with their mission.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: Hank Steinberg
7.2/1019 votes#23 - Lockdown
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/27/2014
After returning from the horrors of Nicaragua, panic begins to spread throughout the ship when Lt. Danny Green comes down with a mysterious illness that could be the virus. Losing faith in Rachel and her failing vaccine trials, Chandler now has to deal with a restive crew. If he fails to keep the crew together, the whole mission is in jeopardy.
Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Writer: Hank Steinberg
7.2/104 votes#24 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/11/2020
Prisoner Aaron Wallace becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own wrongful conviction.
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Writer: Hank Steinberg
7.1/1013 votes#25 - It's Not a Rumor
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 6/28/2015
Nathan James returns home to Norfolk on a mission. With his family now safely aboard the James, Chandler sends his crew in search of their friends and loved ones.
Director: Tim Matheson
Writer: Hank Steinberg
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"Pilot" is the best rated episode written by Hank Steinberg. It scored 9.167/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by David Nutter. It aired on 9/26/2002 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Promises".