8.6/1019 votes#1 - Crossroads (2)
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/25/2007
As Baltar's trial comes to a conclusion, key members of the fleet discover that they may be the Final Five Cylons. Tigh attempts to decipher the strange music he is hearing in his head, while a Cylon fleet approaches.
Director: Michael Rymer
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.5/1082 votes#2 - New York's Finest
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/18/2016
Trapped face-to-face with the Punisher, Daredevil wrestles with the morality of vigilante justice. Meanwhile, Foggy and Karen work to save the firm.
Director: Marc Jobst
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.5/1011 votes#3 - Hereafter
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/2004
Clark discovers that his schoolmate Jordan can foresee the future, but is horrified when Jordan tells him he "sees" Lana dying in a fire in the next few days. Meanwhile, suspicious of his behavior, Chloe investigates Adam's background and discovers some disturbing news.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.4/1018 votes#4 - The Oath
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/2009
Loyalties are made clear when Gaeta orchestrates a coup d'état of the Adama regime. Both prisoners and lives are taken as many of the fed up people work to take over Galactica.
Director: John Dahl
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.4/1018 votes#5 - Lay Down Your Burdens (2)
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/10/2006
When Baltar wins the vote, Roslin considers stealing the election because she believes he is a Cylon collaborator.
Director: Michael Rymer
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.2/1012 votes#6 - The Price of Greatness
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 8/12/2012
The 2nd Mass meets new faces, while Tom comes across his former mentor, but it’s difficult to know whom to trust. Maggie realizes that Pope may not be sticking with the group very long. Tector embraces his military past.
Director: Adam Kane
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.1/1014 votes#7 - Heat
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2002
Clark gains a new power - heat-vision. As he struggles to control it, Lex gets married to the new Smallville High teacher, Desiree Atkins, little does he know that she not only has an alterior motive, but that she's coming on to Clark too.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.1/1012 votes#8 - Suspect
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/2003
Lionel is shot in the manor, and Jonathan is the prime suspect.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.1/1013 votes#9 - Worlds Apart
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/17/2012
Weaver is still in command of the 2nd Mass, while Anne continues to serve as medic. They have seen many battles and are a much leaner unit now. Pope has taken command of the Berserkers, a renegade group within the 2nd Mass that Weaver doesn’t fully trust.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.0/101 votes#10 - Red Storm
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/1999
While waiting at the airport for the arrival of his teacher, Master Reng, from China Sammo gets involved with trying to stop a gang of crazed terrorists.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.0/1012 votes#11 - Perry
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2003
Perry White, a once promising journalist whose career was destroyed by Lionel Luthor, arrives in Smallville in search of alien stories for a tabloid news show. In spite of being constantly inebriated, Perry believes he has witnessed Clark using his extraordinary speed, so he devises a dangerous scheme to expose Clark's superpowers. Meanwhile, Lex learns that Perry has powerful incriminating evidence of Lionel's shady past.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.0/1015 votes#12 - What Hides Beneath
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/31/2011
The 2nd Mass prepares to take the fight to the invaders with an assault on one of their bases. But Weaver’s increasingly strange behavior worries Tom that he might not be fit to command. Hal and Tom encounter a left-behind woman who employed a suspicious means of surviving the invasion, making it unclear whether they can trust her.
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.0/1020 votes#13 - Collaborators
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2006
Tyrol participates in the Circle, a secret tribunal on Galactica that tries and convicts in absentia those accused of collaborating with the Cylons during the Occupation. The death sentences--administered without the knowledge of Roslin or Adama--begin to weigh on Tyrol's conscience. Baltar faces a similar jury among the Cylons, who must decide whether he is allowed to stay with them.
Director: Michael Rymer
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.9/1012 votes#14 - Dichotic
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/2002
A Smallville student, Ian, displays the ability to make clones of himself and uses his power to date both Chloe and Lana. Meanwhile Lex goes to anger management class and meets an attractive local doctor.
Director: Craig Zisk
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.9/1014 votes#15 - Eight Hours
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/7/2011
With Weaver leading several squads of fighters against the aliens, Tom remains behind to help protect the civilians as they evacuate. But a major breach in security endangers both the soldiers and the civilians. Tom is confronted with a decision that may lead him to discovering what the aliens want with the captured teenagers, humankind and the planet.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.8/1017 votes#16 - The Art of Deception
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/2010
H.R.G. enacts his plan to take down the Carnival with the help of Lauren and Suresh. Sylar visits Matt looking to understand his desire to make a human connection, but Matt has a plan of his own. Meanwhile, Peter warns Emma of Samuel's intentions after his grim vision of the future.
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.7/1016 votes#17 - Trust and Blood
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/2009
Following a chain of unexpected events, our Heroes are on the run from their latest adversary and one of their own, Nathan Petrelli. After Matt paints a series of prophetic images, the tragic fate of someone close to him is revealed. Elsewhere, Sylar continues his search for his father and encounters a young outcast with information and an ability of his own.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.7/1016 votes#18 - Turn and Face the Strange
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/6/2009
As Danko spearheads the government operation, someone close to him is put in the line of fire. HRG’s life continues to spiral out of control and his marriage is dangerously close to the breaking point. Meanwhile, Hiro and Ando continue their road trip with a special delivery for Matt Parkman. Elsewhere, Angela Petrelli unearths the demons of her past.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.7/1068 votes#19 - .380
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2016
The Punisher's war continues, and so does the body count in Hell's Kitchen. Murdock tries to finish what the DA started.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.7/1033 votes#20 - Family
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/25/2018
After being the hero of Elk Grove by defeating evil and saving humanity, Ash settles in and opens a hardware store; his peace is short lived when evil returns with a target close to his heart.
Director: Mark Beesley
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.6/1017 votes#21 - Brother's Keeper
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/2009
Samuel learns just how powerful he can become and takes dangerous measures to reach his full potential. Meanwhile, as Tracy begins to lose control of her ability, one of her own comes in harms way. Elsewhere, Sylar continues his battle with Matt.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.6/1011 votes#22 - Rogue
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/15/2002
Clark visits Metropolis in this episode, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it. He contacts Lex and reminds Lex that he knows about his past in order to get him to talk. The detective, Phelan, discovers that Clark had been around many "accident scenes" in recent months, and he decides to look into it. Phelan begins blackmailing Clark to help protect him from an IA investigation. When Clark balks Phelan frames Jonathan. Clark manages to set up Phelan for the theft of a rare piece at a museum and Phelan is killed in the shootout before he can tell anyone about Clark's secret. Lex is left to wonder at the superspeed image captured on a museum camera.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.5/1013 votes#23 - X-Ray
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2001
Clark begins experiencing "vision problems" as his x-ray vision begins manifesting. Meanwhile a mysterious shapeshifter is going about town using his or her abilities to steal and get others in trouble.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.5/1031 votes#24 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/31/2019
Something unnatural is happening in the swamps outside Marais, Louisiana. When a mysterious illness strikes the town, CDC investigator (and former Marais native) Abby Arcane is sent to investigate.
Director: Len Wiseman
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.5/1021 votes#25 - The Eye of Jupiter
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2006
Tyrol discovers the Temple of Five on the algae planet. The temple may hold the Eye of Jupiter, which is believed to show the way to Earth. The Cylons take a keen interest in the discovery. Athena learns that her baby, Hera, may still be alive. Lee relies on Anders to help build civilian support for the protection of the Eye. His relationship with Kara complicates matters.
Director: Michael Rymer
Writer: Mark Verheiden
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"Crossroads (2)" is the best rated episode written by Mark Verheiden. It scored 8.553/10 based on 19 votes. It was directed by Michael Rymer. It aired on 3/25/2007 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "New York's Finest".