The Best Episodes Written By Jack Bernstein

#1 - My Other Left Foot

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/2004

The NCIS team is called in when a severed leg bearing a marine tattoo is found in a trash bin, leading them to a small town where a murder scheme is afoot.

Director: Jeff Woolnough

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#2 - Bad Blood

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/2007

After a failed hit on her life, Bianca, Chicago's most powerful vampire, calls upon Harry Dresden. In debt to her for saving his life years before, he agrees to help her find the mastermind behind the plan to take her down.

Director: Rick Rosenthal

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#3 - Doppelgänger

Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/2005

The team takes upon another strange case when a telemarketer reports a possible murder of a petty officer who appeared to be dying over the phone. However, with the help of Virginia officials, the team finds out that officer's call was just a big joke using the computer skills, until he is actually found dead...

Director: Terrence O'Hara

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#4 - It Happened Last Night

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2014

It's revealed that a chief warrant officers' wife has been abducted, when his death is investigated. Fornell assists with the case.

Director: Arvin Brown

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#5 - The Truth Is Out There

Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/2004

When the body of a sailor is found after a party in an illegal night club, the team investigates a number of possible leads - including blackmail and accidental death.

Director: Dennis Smith

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#6 - The Good Samaritan

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2004

A navy dentist stops near the parked car to help a stranded motorist who pulls out a gun. The team investigates a murder with the help from a local sheriff, Charley, when they find out about a the similar murder of the Navy civilian employee in the was going through the nasty divorce,the wife is suspected but her alibi is perfect.

Director: Alan J. Levi

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#7 - A Weak Link

Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2004

Gibbs' team investigates the death of a SEAL during a training exercise, and come to suspect that it wasn't an accident, but a murder.

Director: Alan J. Levi

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#8 - Deception

Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2006

When a Commander in charge of a shipment of fuel rods for nuclear power stations disappears, the NCIS team is called in. The team must solve the case in time, before the person who kidnapped the Commander finds out the secret location of the fuel rods or harms the Lt. Commander.

Director: Leslie Libman

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#9 - Mr. Monk Is Underwater

Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 8/15/2008

A friend of Natalie's ex-husband seemingly commits suicide aboard a locked cabin on a submarine. Monk agrees to investigate, despite his phobia about being on--and beneath--the water.

Director: Paris Barclay

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#10 - Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage

Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/2006

During the investigation of a murder in a junkyard, Captain Stottlemeyer punches a cop named Ryan Sharkey, who claims to be having an affair with the captain's wife, Karen. The only witness to the murder, a homeless man named Gerald or Jerry, has disappeared, but Stottlemeyer suspects businessman Michael Karpov, who is facing charges for money laundering and had a motive for killing the victim, who was scheduled to testify against him. Removed from the case and ordered to take anger management classes, Stottlemeyer asks Monk and Natalie to follow his wife, whom he suspects of lying about her whereabouts. They discover Karen having lunch with a man but are only able to photograph him from the back before being interrupted. Meanwhile, the homeless witness has been stunned and thrown from the third floor of a building but survives the fall, thanks to a corrugated refrigerator carton. Disher places Karpov in a line-up otherwise composed of police officers, including Sharkey, but Stottlemeyer, still enraged at Sharkey, disrupts the line-up before the procedure has been completed. An apple provides the clue that Monk needs to solve the murder case, and Karen reveals the identity of the mystery man she had lunch with. Unfortunately for the captain, it isn't Sharkey.

Director: Philip Casnoff

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#11 - Mr. Monk and the Big Game

Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 7/21/2006

Julie and her friends hire Monk to look into the suspicious death of their basketball coach.

Director: Chris Long

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#12 - Keeping the Faith

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 6/17/2010

A actor from a popular film francises collapeses on the ground and Hank is there to save the day again. But this time he uncovers the secret past involved and the condition that he is suffering from is what caused the collapse. Eddie R. wants to make it up to his boys and lets it slip that he is going to be staying in the Hamptons for a longer time then anticipated.

Director: Dennis Smith

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#13 - Divorce, Palm Beach Style

Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1996

Director: Peter DeLuise

Writer: Jack Bernstein

#14 - An Apple a Day

Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/3/2011

Hank treats a wound that will not heal; Paige shares the condition for agreeing to marry Evan.

Director: Don Scardino

Writer: Jack Bernstein