The Best Episodes Written By Moira Kirland

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(36 votes)

   #1 - The Return

   S7:E164/29/2025

   The team has mixed feelings when a familiar face returns hoping to prove himself. Meanwhile, an influencer gets his fans to come after Wesley, and Tim supports Lucy as she prepares for the sergeant's exam.

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   9.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - The Boy Next Door

   S3:E143/7/2007

   Allison has recurring dreams of her past, causing strange and shocking changes to her current life. Her dreams of the past threaten her life in the present as she tries to stop a predator before he strikes.

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   8.8/10(48 votes)

   #3 - The Gala

   S7:E62/11/2025

   It’s Valentine’s Day, and Lieutenant Grey gives Tim and Lucy an unromantic assignment, while John and Celina track down a missing girl. Later, the team sharpens up for a charity gala where multiple relationships come to a head.

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   8.4/10(25 votes)

   #4 - Tick, Tick, Tick... (1)

   S2:E173/22/2010

   Federal Agent Jordan Shaw, an insightful and accomplished Federal investigator teams up with Castle & Beckett to hunt down a cunning and elusive serial killer.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Sweet Dreams

   S2:E510/17/2005

   Allison is having dreams about an old high school friend and decides to find her. Meanwhile a man seeks the district attorney's help in finding his daughter who has been missing for a week.

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   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #6 - Coded

   S1:E92/28/2005

   Allison's daughter Ariel dreams that she is a young girl named Sarah being held captive by an ogre in a castle. While Joe agonizes over the possibility that both of his daughters have inherited their mother's psychic abilities, Allison tries to help Ariel and interpret the dream. However, Allison's advice provokes Ariel to run away from a field trip in order to follow up a clue.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Drowned World

   S4:E165/12/2008

   In the fourth season finale, Allison tries to help a young couple who thinks their house is haunted, but her efforts result in murder. Meanwhile, Meghan Doyle tries to sell her controlling interest in Joe's invention and Joe tries to save his own stake in it. Also, the election between Devalos and Tom Van Dyke takes place.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Ghost in the Machine

   S3:E412/6/2006

   Allison gets Joe a camcorder for his birthday. But soon she starts seeing disturbing images through it that may or may not be connected to a murder.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #9 - Mother's Little Helper

   S3:E61/3/2007

   Allison and Ariel are starting to have dreams about a crime. They are dreaming about it from different perspectives, which reveals two suspects.

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    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Reckoning

    S2:E1011/28/2005

    Allison dreams about hitting a girl with her car and a woman who's house is haunted. She finds out that the woman killed herself. Now Allison is trying to put all the pieces together.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - A Taste of Her Own Medicine

    S5:E53/2/2009

    Allison is asked to help find a missing daughter and her visions seem to incriminate her father, but Allison believes this is wrong after a chat with the woman's mother. Meanwhile, Joe is suffering from sleep deprivation, while Scanlon and Lynn's relationship is severely tested.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Sweet Child O' Mine

    S2:E152/27/2006

    Allison has problems with staying impartial about a case when she develops maternal feelings for a teenage boy who is accused of killing his former boss. Bridget finds a stray dog and want's to keep it.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Penny for Your Thoughts

    S1:E155/9/2005

    Allison encounters a psychopathic doctor who raped and murdered numerous teenage girls years ago. After learning that an evil soul has been possessing people, she sets forth to stop it before a new victim is found. Meanwhile, Ariel's math teacher accuses her of cheating and Joe steps up to her defense.

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    7.7/10(59 votes)

    #14 - An Innocent Man

    S1:E410/31/2012

    Oliver still hasn't figured out how to get back in Laurel's good graces, but a late night bonding session with Thea gives him the inspiration he needs. Looking into a suspicious murder case, Oliver realizes an innocent man, Peter Declan, was framed by one of the targets on his list. As Arrow, he asks Laurel to help prove Declan's innocence. Meanwhile, Walter asks one of his employees, Felicity Smoak, to look into a $2.6 million withdrawal that Moira made without his knowledge.

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    7.7/10(22 votes)

    #15 - Kick the Ballistics

    S4:E410/10/2011

    While investigating the mysterious shooting death of a young woman, Castle and Beckett face a cop's worst nightmare when they discover that the gun used in the killing is Det. Ryan's old service weapon - the one that was stolen by the serial killer, 3XK. Now with the clock ticking, the team must work to solve the murder, track down 3XK and retrieve Ryan's gun before the killer strikes again.

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    7.7/10(21 votes)

    #16 - He's Dead, She's Dead

    S3:E29/27/2010

    Beckett and Castle search for a psychic's killer while debating the existence of extrasensory abilities.

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    7.6/10(54 votes)

    #17 - Legacies

    S1:E611/14/2012

    A gang of bank robbers, dubbed The Royal Flush Gang, hits a local bank and seriously wounds an off-duty police officer during a heist. Diggle tells Oliver he needs to deviate from his father's list and start helping the citizens of Starling City. Meanwhile, Tommy asks Thea for relationship advice, but things get awkward when she realizes he was asking about Laurel. Moira confronts Oliver about all of his recent disappearances in the middle of family functions.

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    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #18 - Ka Hana Malū (Inside Job)

    S5:E811/21/2014

    While the team investigates a couple's murder in which their sons are the prime suspects, McGarrett is shocked when Aunt Deb returns to the island with her new fiancé.

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    7.5/10(24 votes)

    #19 - Ghosts

    S1:E84/27/2009

    Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a woman found drowned in motor oil in a motel bathtub. They seek the help of a true crime journalist who might have a connection to the victim.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble

    S4:E52/25/2008

    Larry Watt, a defense attorney who has caused trouble in Allison's past, asks Allison to be a consultant for him. Low on money, Allison accepts his offer. She later has a dream that his client murdered his wife.

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    7.4/10(49 votes)

    #21 - Burned

    S1:E101/16/2013

    Oliver’s confidence is shaken after being beaten by the Dark Archer and he takes a break from being Arrow. However, when Laurel calls Arrow for help investigating a firefighter’s suspicious death, he reluctantly agrees but his hesitance while fighting almost costs him his life. Meanwhile, Tommy throws a benefit for the firefighters and Thea tries to lift Moira out of her depressive state.

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    7.3/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Coming Soon

    S1:E62/7/2005

    Allison runs into the man who kidnapped her daughter in one of her dreams at the District Attorney's office. She learns that he is a "Good Samaritan" who witnessed a robbery and is fully cooperating. After learning that he has kidnapped multiple young women, Allison reaches a roadblock in her investigation that leads her to yet another unbelievable breakthrough in the case. Meanwhile, Joe tutors Ariel in math, which in turn brings Allison to another shocking discovery.

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    7.1/10(21 votes)

    #23 - Inventing the Girl

    S2:E310/5/2009

    Castle and Beckett get an inside look at the cutthroat world of the New York fashion industry when they investigate the brutal murder of a young model during Fashion Week.

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    7.0/10(22 votes)

    #24 - The Final Nail

    S3:E152/14/2011

    Castle and Beckett find themselves on opposite sides of the case when Castle's old school friend emerges as the prime suspect in his own wife's murder. As they work to solve the crime, Castle comes to realize that one of two terrible things must be true... Either Detective Beckett is about to arrest an innocent man for murder, or his old friend is a cold-blooded killer.

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    6.6/10(19 votes)

    #25 - A Dance with Death

    S4:E183/19/2012

    When Odette Morton, a contestant on the hit competition show “A Night Of Dance,” is found murdered in her dressing room, Castle and Beckett must navigate the case’s many twists and twirls without stepping on each other’s toes. But as they delve into Odette’s past, they discover that this reality starlet was harboring a shocking secret that may have led to her death

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