The Best Episodes Written By René Balcer
Every TV Episode Written by René Balcer Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
René Balcer Ratings Summary
The best episode written by René Balcer is "Enemy Within", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by John David Coles". "Enemy Within" aired on 12/9/2001 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Dead".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Enemy Within
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2001
The death of an eccentric banker in his nintieth floor apartment leads the detectives to investigate his professional contacts and family members.
Director: John David Coles
Writer: René Balcer
9.0/10 2 votes#2 - Dead
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2002
The murder of a mortician and the discovery of corpses at a crematorium lead the detectives to a family man claiming to have a consulting business but suspected of being a contract killer with a penchant for perfection. Goren attempts to prove this by setting up a scheme that puts his "fear of making a mistake" in jeopardy.
Director: Darnell Martin
Writer: René Balcer
9.0/10 1 votes#3 - But not Forgotten
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2003
When a bookkeeper goes missing, Goren and Eames are led back to the death of her brother, a hitman, two years earlier. An imprisoned mobster seems to be their best bet, but when another body turns up it takes the case to a whole new level.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: René Balcer
9.0/10 1 votes#4 - In the Wee Small Hours (1)
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2005
Detectives Eames, Goren, Barek, and Logan must solve a case that involves a teenage girl missing in New York City. While Barek and Logan search around for another missing girl, Eames and Goren work to uncover a mystery with a judge and his son.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: René Balcer
9.0/10 2 votes#5 - Weeping Willow
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/2006
The kidnapping of a popular video blogger and her boyfriend--which is witnessed live on the Internet--seems suspicious to Logan and Wheeler.
Director: Tom DiCillo
Writer: René Balcer
9.0/10 1 votes#6 - World's Fair
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/2007
The death of a young, pregnant Pakistani woman leads Logan and Wheeler to question the man she was secretly dating, as well as both his and the victim's disapproving relatives.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: René Balcer
9.0/10 1 votes#7 - Amends
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2007
Eames re-opens the case into her husband's murder.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: René Balcer
9.0/10 1 votes#8 - Self-made
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2007
Goren and Eames investigate the death of a writer, and whether her torture has ties to the 'hood she came from.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: René Balcer
8.5/10 2 votes#9 - Suite Sorrow
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2003
After the tyrannical owner of a Manhattan luxury hotel is found submerged in her bathtub, evidence seems increasingly to indicate that the woman's death was the work of her deeply frustrated, long-suffering daughter.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: René Balcer
8.5/10 2 votes#10 - Sound Bodies
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2003
Goren and Bishop pursue a teenage Svengali who convinces three impressionable young girls to commit multiple homicides in the cause of a twisted philosophy.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: René Balcer
8.5/10 2 votes#11 - Untethered
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/2007
Goren investigates when his nephew, a prisoner who's bipolar, claims that inmates are being abused to the point of murder.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 7 votes#12 - Trust
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1992
Stone is determined to see that a teenage boy doesn't get away with murder twice when the young man is brought to trial for the shooting death of one of his friends.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 6 votes#13 - Bad Faith
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/1995
Logan relives unhappy childhood memories when a friend is found dead, a presumed suicide, until the investigation reveals recent contact with a former priest, with a history of pedophilia.
Director: Dann Florek
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 2 votes#14 - The Faithful
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2001
Goren and Eames investigate the death of church sexton Morris Abernathy but soon find their chief suspect, Kevin Donovan, dead in his apartment. After realising that someone performed last rites over Donovan's body, the police realise that a priest was involved in the murder, and are led to a priest who has been desperately trying to keep a twenty-year-old secret hidden. Goren risks the prosecution's case by protecting an innocent third party who could lose everything if their own secret comes out.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 2 votes#15 - The Extra Man
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2001
When a European con man is found beaten to death, the detectives look for the investors he swindled, learning quickly that the man also had relations with their wives.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#16 - Poison
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2001
The detectives investigate a murderer who poisons hospital victims with cyanide. They suspect a nurse whose profile is typical, but when they discover more murders away from the hospital they have to widen their search.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#17 - The Pardoner's Tale
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2001
The deaths of a reporter and his fiancée, gunned down on orders, leads the detectives to investigate political bribery involving the governor's office, which Deakins isn't pleased with.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#18 - Crazy
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2002
A psychiatrist who provides expert testimony at criminal trials lays down an insanity defense to hide his obsession for his younger girlfriend after revealing to her that he hired a corrupt detective to murder her brother-in-law at his son's Bar Mitzvah after alleged reports that her niece had been abused by him.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#19 - The Insider
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2002
When the father of a young woman who has been out all night clubbing is found dead in his boat house, Goren and Eames investigate the mysterious club owner only to realise that he is an undercover FBI agent and that the Bureau will not risk their undercover operation even to stop a killer.
Director: Jan Egleson
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#20 - Semi-Professional
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/2002
The detectives investigate the murder of a judge's clerk, with their attention initially going to the judge himself, who had been having an affair with the young woman.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#21 - Phantom
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/2002
The detectives investigate a slain bank robber and check out his sister, who is involved with a bogus United Nations economist. As the detectives close in on the suspect, Goren learns the suspect wants his children's approval and must stop him before any more murders.
Director: Juan José Campanella
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#22 - Yesterday
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/2002
When the well-preserved body of a woman tortured and murdered twenty years earlier appears on the banks of the Bronx River, chemical residue on the body leads Goren and Eames to the basement of the house in which the body had originally been buried and to the junkie whose parents owned the home. When the junkie ends up murdered as well, their investigation focuses on his college classmate, a man with a history of drugging and sexually assaulting women.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#23 - Anti-Thesis
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2002
As Goren and Eames sift through the likely suspects in the murder of a university president and his assistant, they discover that the culprit is a wily adversary who has more than these crimes to hide.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#24 - Best Defense
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2002
The detectives follow the trail when an assistant district attorney confronts and kills a hired gunman following a series of death threats. They first suspect his wife, a prominent defense attorney, through a convict whose case was being prosecuted by the A.D.A. and the rumors of her romantic affairs. When they realise that there are cracks in their seemingly airtight case, Goren has to keep Carver in the dark about some details to prove his theory.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 1 votes#25 - Chinoiserie
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2002
After a mother of two is shot dead in Chinatown, Goren and Eames first believe that her death may be connected to the Tianamen Square massacre, but then their investigation leads them to a smuggling ring dealing in antiquities.
Director: David Platt
Writer: René Balcer