The Best Episodes Written By John Shiban
Every TV Episode Written by John Shiban Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
John Shiban Ratings Summary
The best episode written by John Shiban is "Memory Lane", rated 9.5/10 from 4 user votes. It was "directed by Jon Cassar". "Memory Lane" aired on 1/18/2024 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Last Supper".
9.5/10 4 votes#1 - Memory Lane
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/2024
Stabler must deal with rapid changes at work and home after returning from a dangerous undercover assignment. Bell hires an advisor whose AI technology program could revolutionize police investigation. Jet and Reyes struggle with Whelan's absence.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: John Shiban
9.2/10 5 votes#2 - The Last Supper
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2024
Bell and the team must keep a witness and her family safe from Los Santos before she testifies. Carisi asks Stabler to back off the case to preserve the integrity of his undercover work. Stabler hosts a chaotic family dinner.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: John Shiban
9.0/10 4 votes#3 - Beyond the Sea
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/29/2024
When several bodies are found in a seaside town, Stabler navigates the politics and secrets of the community to find a potential serial killer. Jet brings a witness under her protection.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: John Shiban
9.0/10 3 votes#4 - Semper Fi
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 4/11/2024
Stabler leans into his military network to search for the source of a Middle Eastern heroin pipeline making its way to the U.S. Reyes returns to the squad.
Director: Carlos Bernard
Writer: John Shiban
9.0/10 2 votes#5 - Stabler's Lament
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 5/16/2024
When the ATF Bureau plans a raid of Redcoat's warehouse, Trisha promises to help Stabler keep Joe Jr. safe. Bell comes face to face with the man who killed Sam. Another Stabler family dinner causes tensions to run high.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: John Shiban
8.9/10 7 votes#6 - Blood Moon Rising
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 10/7/2012
Cullen fights to save Hell on Wheels.
Director: John Shiban
Writer: John Shiban
8.8/10 140 votes#7 - Phoenix
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 5/24/2009
As Walt explores money laundering options, he and Jesse spar over the profits from their latest deal. Jesse and Jane clash with her father. Walt makes a fatal decision.
Director: Colin Bucksey
Writer: John Shiban
8.8/10 143 votes#8 - Sunset
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/25/2010
Walt settles into his new surroundings; Walt, Jr. wants answers about his parents' relationship; Hank's investigation causes problems for Walt and Jesse.
Director: John Shiban
Writer: John Shiban
8.4/10 34 votes#9 - Boss Fight
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/27/2020
As Wendy, Helen and Ruth strive to keep the business humming, Navarro plays mind games with Marty, who worries he'll never see his family again.
Director: Cherien Dabis
Writer: John Shiban
8.3/10 28 votes#10 - Tall Tales
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/2007
The Winchester brothers seek the help of their family friend Bobby while investigating a series of unexplained happenings on a local college campus.
Director: Bradford May
Writer: John Shiban
8.3/10 31 votes#11 - Dreamland II (2)
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 12/6/1998
Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: John Shiban
8.2/10 31 votes#12 - Dreamland (1)
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1998
While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: John Shiban
8.2/10 135 votes#13 - Negro y Azul
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/19/2009
Jesse and Walt discuss expanding into new territories; Hank struggles to fit in; Skyler pursues a new job opportunity; Jesse gets to know his landlord.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: John Shiban
8.1/10 35 votes#14 - BFF
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/27/2020
Ruth isn't happy about Marty and Wendy's plan to bury the hatchet with Frank Jr. The Byrdes make a difficult decision about Ben. Maya is reprimanded.
Director: Alik Sakharov
Writer: John Shiban
8.1/10 34 votes#15 - Field Trip
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1999
When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: John Shiban
8.1/10 128 votes#16 - Abiquiu
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 5/30/2010
Skyler gets involved with Walt's business. Hank struggles with his recovery. Jesse makes a startling discovery after meeting a girl at group therapy.
Director: Michelle MacLaren
Writer: John Shiban
8.1/10 15 votes#17 - You're the Boss
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 4/29/2022
Marty travels to the Navarro estate, Ruth asks Frank Jr. for a favor, a new acting sheriff makes waves, and Wendy tries to bring Jim back into the fold.
Director: Melissa Hickey
Writer: John Shiban
8.0/10 29 votes#18 - Folsom Prison Blues
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/2007
Sam and Dean allow themselves to be arrested in order to investigate a series of murders inside a penitentiary. However things get complicated when FBI agent Henricksen shows up to take over their case.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: John Shiban
7.9/10 33 votes#19 - Skin
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2005
Sam and Dean come to the aid of Sam's old college buddy after he is accused of a murder he swears he didn't commit. The brothers discover a shapeshifter is adopting the likenesses of others and murdering people. The brothers' race to stop the shapeshifter takes a terrifying turn when he shifts into the likeness of Dean.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: John Shiban
7.9/10 17 votes#20 - Ace Deuce
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/2022
Wendy's claims about Ben anger Ruth. Mel the P.I. tracks down Wendy's father. Ruth's trip to the Missouri Belle with Kerry doesn't go as planned.
Director: Alik Sakharov
Writer: John Shiban
7.8/10 39 votes#21 - Leonard Betts
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/1997
After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the man has the ability to regrow parts of his body, including his head. The agents soon discover that Betts' body is riddled with cancer and he is able to live in that condition but needs to feed on cancerous tumors to keep up his strength.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: John Shiban
7.8/10 4 votes#22 - Durant, Nebraska
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 8/19/2012
Durant confronts a formidable threat to the rolling city, while a horrific crime leads Lily and Elam to join forces in order to attain justice.
Director: Adam Davidson
Writer: John Shiban
7.8/10 34 votes#23 - Memento Mori
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1997
Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be an inoperable cancer in her skull, which appears to be common among abductees and she attempts to come to terms with her condition. Meanwhile, Mulder and the Lone Gunmen break into a high-security research lab to find the cure that could save her life.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: John Shiban
7.7/10 32 votes#24 - The Benders
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/2006
Sam and Dean head to Minnesota where a young boy witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to search frantically for his brother. However, both are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human, and using the captives as human prey for a twisted hunting expedition.
Director: Peter Ellis
Writer: John Shiban
7.7/10 31 votes#25 - The Pine Bluff Variant
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 5/3/1998
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: John Shiban