The Best Episodes Written By Ken Sanzel
Every TV Episode Written by Ken Sanzel Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Ken Sanzel Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Ken Sanzel is "Trust Metric", rated 8.667/10 from 3 user votes. It was "directed by Tony Scott". "Trust Metric" aired on 9/28/2007 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Angels and Devils".
8.7/10 3 votes#1 - Trust Metric
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2007
After the events of "The Janus List," Colby escapes from custody. Don and the team go after him, but everything may not be as it seems.
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.7/10 3 votes#2 - Angels and Devils
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/2009
When Amita is abducted, Don and the team’s frantic search for her leads them to the delusional head of a cult, but it is up to a distraught Charlie to discover what the suspect’s bizarre plans for her are.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.5/10 4 votes#3 - Rampage
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/2006
When an assailant opens fire in the FBI offices, Don and his team must determine his motive and possible connection to a dangerous arms dealer who is on trial. After nearly getting shot, Charlie is shaken and reluctant to return to the offices, which hinders his contribution to the case.
Director: J. Miller Tobin
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.3/10 3 votes#4 - One Hour
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/2007
Don talks to his therapist again, and while he's gone, the team races to find an eleven year-old boy being held on a $3 million ransom, and time is running out...
Director: J. Miller Tobin
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.3/10 3 votes#5 - The Janus List
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/2007
In the midst of investigating a serious bomb threat, Don and Charlie uncover a secret that could change their lives and the lives of the team forever.
Director: John Behring
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.3/10 3 votes#6 - Black Swan
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/2008
Don and the team bust a meth lab, but when Don has a feeling there's more to the organization than just what's on the surface, his intuition is put to the test.
Director: John Behring
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.3/10 3 votes#7 - The Decoy Effect
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2008
The team investigates an increase in ATM kidnappings when a woman who was abducted and forced to withdraw money is murdered; Charlie meets the investigator who will decide the fate of his FBI security clearance.
Director: Ralph Hemecker
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.3/10 3 votes#8 - Spree (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2006
Don has a problem. Crystal Hoyle and her boyfriend Buck are going on a robbery and killing spree. Their terror is spread over seven states, and Charlie is called in to help. However, problems between Alan and Charlie may hinder Charlie's concentration.
Director: John Behring
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.3/10 3 votes#9 - Two Daughters (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2006
David tries to get information from one of Crystal's old boyfriends, but he isn't helping. Things get personal for the team when Crystal kidnaps one of them.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.3/10 4 votes#10 - Brutus
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/2006
A California State Senator and a psychiatrist--neither have much in common with the other except for one thing...they both turn up dead on Don's watch. While the circumstances of their deaths are different, Don thinks the two murders are related, and tries to prove his hunch right. What he finds may bring to light a deep secret the government has been hiding for years.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.0/10 5 votes#11 - Sniper Zero
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/15/2005
The city is in a panic as a sniper goes on a shooting spree and randomly kills several people, including a postal worker. The investigation reveals that more than one shooter is at work. As Charlie works the case, he's frustrated by a sniper expert Don brings in to help out.
Director: J. Miller Tobin
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.0/10 5 votes#12 - Toxin
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/2005
After four people nearly die from poisoning, Don learns someone is tampering with nonprescription drugs. When the perpetrator publishes a manifesto in a local paper, Don is led to believe the person may be a former employee of the drug company that manufactured the drug.
Director: Jefery Levy
Writer: Ken Sanzel
8.0/10 5 votes#13 - The Running Man
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/2006
When a DNA synthesizer with the capability of customizing diseases is stolen from the campus where Charlie teaches, Don fears the thieves may be terrorists out to start or advance a bio-warfare program and also believes the theft was an inside job.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Ken Sanzel
7.8/10 4 votes#14 - Chinese Box
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/2007
Don and the team are left with little recourse when a former FBI subcontractor takes a team member hostage.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Ken Sanzel
7.7/10 3 votes#15 - Arrow of Time
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/2009
Don turns to his newly found religious beliefs when he is forced to deal with an escaped criminal who is bent on seeking revenge.
Director: Ken Sanzel
Writer: Ken Sanzel
7.6/10 5 votes#16 - Sacrifice
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/29/2005
A senior computer-science researcher working on a classified government project is found murdered in his Hollywood Hills home and data has been stolen from his computer. The investigation reveals the victim was going through a bitter divorce and was trying to keep his wife from getting his money. Charlie also learns the project on which the man was working might have involved baseball.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: Ken Sanzel
7.0/10 5 votes#17 - Samaritan
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2010
A good Samaritan with a police record takes action against a terrorizing subway criminal, forcing the Reagans to weigh the rights and wrongs of vigilantism.
Director: Ralph Hemecker
Writer: Ken Sanzel
7.0/10 1 votes#18 - Welcome to the Jungle
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/17/2019
When the Deputy Governor asks Cat to accompany her to visit an island owned by an old friend of Cat's, Dylan Sawyer, the pair become embroiled in a plot to take over Dylan's pot business and, instead, manufacture Yaba.
Director: Sian Davies
Writer: Ken Sanzel
6.7/10 5 votes#19 - Hangman
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2009
Don and his team are out to protect former radical Benjamin Polk from a determined sniper who wants him dead, and who is leading the FBI on a cat-and-mouse chase as he closes in on his prey.
Director: Ken Sanzel
Writer: Ken Sanzel
6.0/10 2 votes#20 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/2019
Former thief Cat Chambers returns home to the Pacific island paradise known as The Reef as she finds herself in the center of a kidnapping, when the daughter of the island’s most prominent resident goes missing.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Ken Sanzel