The Best Episodes Written By Paul Barber

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   #1 - La Bizca

   S4:E192/26/1990

   Penhall ends up taking his nephew back to America after he and Hanson travel to El Salvador in order to find Penhall's wife, whom they learn was killed in the fighting.

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   #2 - The Pit and the Pendulum

   S2:E243/19/1992

   Brandon participates in a teen review committee that provides input to one of Jim's clients, who is building a gigantic new mall. Marcie, the developer's college-age daughter, aggressively pursues Brandon. Brandon is incensed to learn that the project would require the demolition of the Peach Pit. He squares off with Jim, who promises to stand up for Nat's interests. Brandon takes Marcie to the Peach Pit in the hopes of gaining her support, but realizes that she only cares about her father and his business. The gang (except Brenda) tries to stage a rally, but Nat has already agreed to sell. Brandon becomes jaded, and refuses to listen when Jim explains the financial realities associated with adulthood. The deal eventually falls through, allowing Nat to keep the Peach Pit.

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   #3 - Come from the Shadows

   S4:E410/9/1989

   Penhall finds himself falling for an illegal immigrant from El Salvador when the Jump Street unit is sent in to investigate a priest suspected of selling babies.

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   #4 - Blackout

   S4:E266/18/1990

   Hoffs, Hanson and Penhall find themselves at the mercy of a defiant gang when all of them become trapped inside a school with out power.

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   #5 - Gender Bender

   S1:E141/21/1994

   A series of sexually-oriented murders, which are identical except that the killer appears to be both male and female, draws Scully and Mulder to an Amish-type community of people called the Kindred.

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   #6 - Shirts and Skins

   S4:E224/30/1990

   When the leader of a neo-Nazi group is murdered, Hoffs & Ioki go undercover in the liberal group suspected of the killing. While Penhall joins the Nazis to learn if they plan a violent reprisal.

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   #7 - Lost in a Space that Isn't There

   S4:E164/5/2004

   After being repeatedly attacked by bounty hunters after several evasive slipstream jumps, Dylan determines that there must be a mole on board. After analyzing data recordings, he discovers that Beka has been infected by The Abyss and has unknowingly been giving away Andromeda's position. Dylan and the crew have to come up with a way to rid Beka of The Abyss -- without killing her.

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   6.8/10(4 votes)

   #8 - The Dissonant Interval (1)

   S4:E215/10/2004

   The Andromeda encounters the Arkology, a society that they believe is the closest to perfection humanity will ever achieve. But the Magog are close, and Dylan and the crew must convince the utopia that peace is not the answer. Conflict arises in the core crew when the leaders of Arkology do not wish to leave. Dylan wants to defend them, and Beka warns him that she's not going to stay and die defending an idea of peace.

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   #9 - The Heart of the Journey (1)

   S5:E215/6/2005

   With the help of the avatars of the nebula, the Andromeda goes through the Route of Ages, back to the Known Worlds, and the Commonwealth.

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    #10 - Waking the Tyrant's Device

    S4:E310/13/2003

    Dylan and an old friend try to prevent the maker of the Magog Worldship from deploying an army of androids.

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    #11 - Soon the Nearing Vortex (1)

    S4:E611/3/2003

    The reappearance of Tyr Anasazi and Telemachus Rhade leads to a race to obtain the Route of Ages, which will direct the owner to the location of the Abyss itself. Dylan and the crew plan to use it as a weapon, while Tyr plans on bargaining with the Abyss in hopes of it sparing his empire.

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    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #12 - The World Turns All Around Her (2)

    S4:E711/10/2003

    In a race against Tyr to control the Route of Ages, the crew find themselves in another universe. To save them, Trance finally reveals who and what she really is.

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    #13 - Trusting the Gordian Maze

    S4:E184/19/2004

    While the Andromeda is confronted by the Commonwealth fleet and Tri-Jema, Dylan must decide whether or not he can entrust the Route of Ages to them.

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    #14 - Phear Phactor Phenom

    S5:E310/8/2004

    When a valuable painting gets stolen after Beka, Rhade, and everyone else in the bar inhales a mysterious mist, Dylan jumps at the opportunity to win the reward for reclaiming it so the Andromeda can be repaired. After tracing the nanobots in the mist, they encounter Harper who is accompanied by a beautiful woman named Doyle. But Harper is caught up in the plans of Marika, who wants him to genetically engineer Vedrans, as well as to take over the Seefra system.

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    #15 - Quantum Tractate Delirium

    S5:E184/15/2005

    As Trance's sun closes on Seefra-9, Rommie is rebuilt by Doyle to help evacuate the planet.

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    6.2/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Pieces of Eight

    S4:E210/6/2003

    A power-hungry citizen seeks to manipulate the Commonwealth for his own gain. Dylan receives an unsettling view of his future from a prophetic alien.

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    6.2/10(4 votes)

    #17 - The Eschatology of Our Present

    S5:E510/22/2004

    Beka learns she has existed in more than one place at one time when she meets a man who she knows is her father.

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    #18 - Past Is Prolix

    S5:E142/4/2005

    The arrival of Trance's sun threatens to destroy all the planets except Seefra-1 unless the system problem is fixed.

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    #19 - Attempting Screed

    S5:E711/5/2004

    The unexpected return of Flavin takes Dylan on a journey through time, revealing mysteries surrounding Tarn Vedra, the Paradine, the battle with the Worldship, and Trance.

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