10.0/101 votes#1 - Escape from Party Island
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/1999
Hank takes his mother and her friends to a museum of miniatures in Port Aransas, and they get stuck in the middle of MTV's Spring Break. Meanwhile, Bill tries to put the moves on Peggy while Hank is away.
Director: Gary McCarver
Writer: Jonathan Collier
10.0/102 votes#2 - Arlen City Bomber
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/2005
Peggy follows Luanne onto a roller-derby team, where the tight-fisted owner prompts her to lead a revolt and form a team on borrowed money.
Director: Kyounghee Lim
Writer: Jonathan Collier
9.1/1011 votes#3 - The Conspiracy in the Corpse
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2014
Brennan and the team attempt to absolve Booth and get him released from prison. The remains of a man who has been dead for over sixteen years prove to be significant.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Jonathan Collier
8.3/1013 votes#4 - The Corpse on the Canopy
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2013
After Hodgins and Angela are drugged and wake up to a bloody corpse hanging in the canopy of their bed and flower petals around their son Michael's crib, they are forced to believe that Pelant is back for revenge against Hodgins. Although Hodgins wants to go after Pelant directly, Booth knows it's best to work within the system and not go against protocol. Meanwhile, as the Jeffersonian team investigates the corpse, they discover the victim was a Special Forces agent working for the world's biggest supplier of mercenaries, and Angela and Hodgins decide to start an investigation without the rest of the Jeffersonian team for the sake of their family.
Director: Rob Hardy
Writer: Jonathan Collier
8.3/109 votes#5 - The End in the End
Season 12 Episode 12 - Aired 3/28/2017
With Kovac still at large, the team searches for evidence to track him down. After Brennan experiences a setback, the rest of the team must figure out how to find Kovac without her, putting everything she has ever taught them to the test. When all signs point to Kovac having outside help, as well as a hideout, Booth and Brennan go searching for him.
Director: David Boreanaz
Writer: Jonathan Collier
8.1/1010 votes#6 - The Loyalty in the Lie
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2015
Booth goes missing six months after he and Brennan left their careers behind, but a case with ties to the couple pulls Brennan back into the world of forensic analysis, which brings her into contact with a member of Booth's family and Arastoo Vaziri, who's taken the lead at the Jeffersonian in her absence. Meanwhile, the FBI investigate Booth's disappearance, but one agent's tactics are bad for the team's morale.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Jonathan Collier
8.0/101 votes#7 - Hank and the Great Glass Elevator
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 2/11/2001
Bill and former Texas governor Ann Richards hit it off after a chance meeting resulting from Hank's reluctant prank in an Austin hotel.
Director: Gary McCarver
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.8/1024 votes#8 - 22 Short Films About Springfield
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 4/14/1996
Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a series of interconnected vignettes.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.6/1011 votes#9 - El Carnicero en el Coche
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/2013
The Jeffersonian team investigates the murder of Jamie Delcampo, a member of the Estrellas Locas gang, whose remains were found in a burnt out car. Meanwhile, having taken time off from the FBI in the wake of Pelant's latest assault on the team, Sweets ultimately decides to help with the investigation when he discovers that a young boy from the center where he volunteers is the son of one of the gang members.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.6/108 votes#10 - The Source in the Sludge
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 3/10/2014
When a CIA informant is found murdered, Booth and CIA Agent Danny Beck (guest star Freddie Prinze Jr.) must work together to track down an Afghani terrorist. Meanwhile, Brennan wants to work more closely with Booth in the field, and the duo must confront the implications of what that means to their family.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.6/1031 votes#11 - Lisa the Iconoclast
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1996
While researching into Jebediah Springfield's past for an essay, Lisa discovers that the town founder wasn't the hero that everyone thinks he was.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.5/1031 votes#12 - The Homer They Fall
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1996
When Moe sees that Homer can absorb massive blows to the head, he turns him into a prizefighter and sets up a match with heavyweight champion Drederick Tatum.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.5/1011 votes#13 - The Price for the Past
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/2017
The team investigates the murder of someone from Booth and Brennan's past. Meanwhile, Aubrey faces a moral dilemma of his own when he discovers his dad is back in the picture.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.5/1026 votes#14 - Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/1996
When a fellow veteran dies, Grandpa Simpson and Mr. Burns fight for buried WWII treasure as the only surviving members of their battalion.
Director: Jeffrey Lynch
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.5/104 votes#15 - Why Kill a Busboy?
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/21/2018
Against his better judgment, TJ helps his dad open a restaurant. Cora investigates two shooting victims with a surprising connection.
Director: Rebecca Asher
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.4/109 votes#16 - The Prisoner in the Pipe
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 4/2/2012
The remains of an escaped convict are found in a residential sewer, but an examination of the sewer pipes indicates that the murder occurred within prison walls. Brennan insists on solving the crime despite Booth's pleas for her not to overexert herself and the expectant couple experiences a very untraditional arrival of their baby daughter.
Director: Kate Woods
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.4/1011 votes#17 - The Sense in the Sacrifice
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/2013
The team devises a plan to use a donated cadaver to draw out Pelant; Sweets returns to work and believes Agent Flynn isn't who he seems.
Director: Kate Woods
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.3/1012 votes#18 - The Gunk in the Garage
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/2012
An investigation of human remains found in the aftermath of an explosion in a hotel garage hits a snag when the team learn their assumptions about a man's fate are incorrect. Meanwhile, Sweets gets a temporary partner at the FBI.
Director: Kate Woods
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.2/1026 votes#19 - The Springfield Connection
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/1995
Marge joins the police force after thwarting a criminal, and Homer thinks he now has a free ride as a cop's spouse.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.2/104 votes#20 - Will Big Tony Roll Over?
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/21/2018
Big Tony volunteers to testify at a high-profile trial in order to stay at a swanky hotel with his special lady, all on the government's dime.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.0/101 votes#21 - Pigmalion
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 1/12/2003
A local pork producer is impressed by Luanne, who goes to his home for a job interview but comes away as his girlfriend.
Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.0/1028 votes#22 - Bart's Girlfriend
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1994
Bart learns that the good Reverend Lovejoy's daughter is really bad.
Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.0/101 votes#23 - 12 Seconds
Season 22 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2022
Cosgrove and Shaw piece together the clues of what happened to a murdered law student, uncovering a web of blackmail and lies; Price fights to have a piece of shocking testimony thrown out.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Jonathan Collier
6.8/1012 votes#24 - The Secret in the Siege
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 4/29/2013
When evil tech genius Christopher Pelant returns to toy with the Jeffersonian team in their newest investigation, they discover that the string of murders that have been occurring are tied to FBI agents close to Booth. Meanwhile, as the investigation unfolds, Sweets realizes that the evidence seems all too familiar to him and Brennan starts evaluating her relationship with Booth when signs begin to point to him as a potential target of Pelant's.
Director: David Boreanaz
Writer: Jonathan Collier
6.5/102 votes#25 - Dale Be Not Proud
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 3/14/2004
Dale donates a kidney to Funny Car racer John Force, and makes Hank his representative in all matters while laid up.
Director: Anthony Lioi
Writer: Jonathan Collier
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"Escape from Party Island" is the best rated episode written by Jonathan Collier. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Gary McCarver. It aired on 3/16/1999 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Arlen City Bomber".