8.1/109 votes#1 - Lois vs. Evil
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/19/2000
Lois's firing prompts household economizing. Meanwhile, Francis delights in his honor-guard duty—at a teenage beauty pageant.
Director: Todd Holland
Writer: Jack Amiel
7.6/1012 votes#2 - Where's the Dignity?
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/5/2014
During surgery, Thackery's hand is forced by Algernon, which irks Gallinger. A recovering Abigail regrets her involvement with Thackery and Sister Harriet and Cleary make a couple of deals. Meanwhile, Bertie receives a scolding from his physician father who is unhappy with his son's career path and Lucy becomes privy to Thackery's secrets.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jack Amiel
7.4/105 votes#3 - Chapter Eleven
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/20/2023
As Rafael and Mateo face discrimination from their fellow inmates and the court, Perry continues his push for justice, while Della engages the help of wealthy socialite Camilla Nygaard. Later, Paul chases leads in the Hooverville, and Perry goes head-to-head with tycoon Lydell McCutcheon.
Director: Jessica Lowrey
Writer: Jack Amiel
7.4/1011 votes#4 - Crutchfield
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/2014
Refusing to collaborate with Dr. Zinberg on blood-transfusion research, an increasingly paranoid Thackery pushes himself to the limit, and beyond, in an effort to “solve the riddle” and beat his rival. Cornelia and Edwards arrive at a crossroads; Barrow trades one creditor for another; Lucy requests Bertie’s help. With the Knick in the midst of yet another crisis, Robertson calls for a vote.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jack Amiel
7.1/1018 votes#5 - Method and Madness
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/8/2014
In the series premiere of this medical drama set in a 1900s New York City hospital, accomplished Dr. John W. Thackery is named chief surgeon and is pressured by a major benefactor to hire a black doctor as his top assistant.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jack Amiel
7.1/1013 votes#6 - The Busy Flea
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/22/2014
Thackery weighs performing surgery on a former flame, and orders Gallinger and Chickering to experiment on pigs. Barrow goes the extra yard to square a debt. After a bad day at work, Edwards takes out his frustrations at a local bar. Robertson is relieved when her pleas about treating a patient with typhoid fever are finally heard.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jack Amiel
7.1/1012 votes#7 - Start Calling Me Dad
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/19/2014
After testing out a new procedure, Thackery and Bertie vow to reverse a series of failures in the operating theatre. Euphoric after helping Speight, Cornelia finds herself less than enthusiastic about her status as the future Mrs. Phillip Showalter. Thackery entertains a salesman’s pitch; Everett considers how to help Eleanor with her grief; Barrow haggles over used merchandise. Edwards finds his clinic, and his career, in jeopardy after a surprise encounter.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jack Amiel
7.0/109 votes#8 - Chapter Nine
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/6/2023
1933. In the months following the Dodson trial, an aimless Perry leans on Della to keep the law firm afloat. While Paul accepts a job from an unlikely source, corrupt oil scion Brooks McCutcheon recruits Detective Holcomb in his quest to reshape the future of Los Angeles.
Director: Fernando Coimbra
Writer: Jack Amiel
6.9/1011 votes#9 - Get the Rope
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/26/2014
The stabbing of a cop by a black man stirs up racial tension on the street and in the Knick, forcing Thackery and Edwards to take action. Everett returns to work and a changed OR. Barrow fears for Junia’s safety. Cornelia is impressed with Edwards’ ingenuity and Lucy is escorted home.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jack Amiel
6.8/106 votes#10 - Chapter Ten
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/13/2023
After a manhunt pegs brothers Rafael and Mateo Gallardo for the McCutcheon murder, Perry initially resists taking the case… until a hunch reels him in. Later, Della goes on a date with a new flame while Paul wrestles with a shocking truth.
Director: Fernando Coimbra
Writer: Jack Amiel
6.8/105 votes#11 - Chapter Twelve
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/27/2023
When Paul’s explosive discovery blows a massive hole in Rafael and Mateo’s story, Perry begins to question his clients’ innocence, while Della doubles-down on the case.
Director: Jessica Lowrey
Writer: Jack Amiel
6.8/1013 votes#12 - Mr. Paris Shoes
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/15/2014
Already fuming over the hospital's faulty new electrical system, Thackery tasks Herman Barrow, the Knick's crooked superintendent, to deliver more cadavers so that he and his team can test out novel surgical procedures. With more patients dying, Edwards offers to share a procedure he learned in France, but is rebuffed by Thackery and Gallinger. Robertson addresses a typhoid-fever outbreak, Elkins is taken into Thackery's confidence and Sister Harriet breaks a taboo. Edwards finds an alternative way to perform his duties.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jack Amiel
6.5/1011 votes#13 - Working Late a Lot
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/3/2014
Already on edge due to a city-wide run on cocaine, Thackery worries that Dr. Levi Zinberg, a Jewish surgeon and inventor, will steal his spotlight at the next New York Surgical Society presentation. Bertie continues his courtship of Lucy while staving off his father’s persistent demands that he leave the Knick. Cornelia, Speight and Bertie go to court in an attempt to keep “Typhoid Mary” Mallon quarantined. Gallinger tries to get Eleanor to move past her grief.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jack Amiel
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"Lois vs. Evil" is the best rated episode written by Jack Amiel. It scored 8.1/10 based on 9 votes. It was directed by Todd Holland. It aired on 3/19/2000 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Where's the Dignity?".