10.0/101 votes#1 - The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 11/9/1996
Jodie loves visiting her grandparents' farm, listening to Grandpa Kurt's spooky stories and devouring Grandma Miriam's chocolate chip pancakes. But she and her brother Mark haven't been to the farm in a year, and it appears to have changed. The cornfields are sparse, their grandparents look terrible, and the single scarecrow has been replaced by 12 towering, dark, evil-looking ones that seem to have a life of their own.
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Scott Peters
8.3/1013 votes#2 - Mother's Day
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/15/2011
Anna is focused on having Lisa breed with Tyler to ensure the evolution of the Visitors, while Erica and Diana enlist Lisa to stage a coup against Anna and remove her from power before humanity is destroyed. Erica and the Fifth Column join Lisa in the attempted coup, which has devastating results. Also in the episode, Marc Singer, who played freedom fighter Mike Donovan on the original "V" series, guest stars as Lars Tremont, a member of a top secret organization of high-ranking military and government leaders from around the globe who have long suspected that the Visitors are very much not here in peace.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Scott Peters
7.8/105 votes#3 - White Light
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/8/2004
Diana helps Tom break Kyle out of NTAC quarantine, eventually leading them to discover the truth behind the 4400.
Director: Tim Hunter
Writer: Scott Peters
7.8/1013 votes#4 - Uneasy Lies the Head
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/1/2011
Erica, now officially in charge of the global Fifth Column, leads them in a high risk attack against Anna. Anna meanwhile, growing closer in her plan to destroy humanity, finds a major obstacle in a certain Live Aboard candidate; and Ryan sneaks back onto the Mothership to try and rescue his daughter.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Scott Peters
7.5/104 votes#5 - Weight of the World
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/2005
Tom and Diana investigate a 4400 whose ability to increase the human bodies' metabolism just may be this weight-conscious world's answer to the ultimate fat-burner.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: Scott Peters
7.5/1022 votes#6 - There is No Normal Anymore
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/2009
Chad Decker hosts a debate about the Vs. Suspicion arises from FBI investigator Erica who believes that the Vs have different intentions to what they claim. Erica and Father Jack find themselves being tracked down by a seeker.
Director: Yves Simoneau
Writer: Scott Peters
7.2/1024 votes#7 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/3/2009
Dozens of UFOs suddenly appear on Earth, hovering over major cities around the world and claim that their objective is to help the Human race, providing vastly superior intelligence and technology in exchange for water and minerals only found on Earth. The leader of the Vs, Anna, uses popular TV anchor Chad Decker to deliver her messages to the Humans, but suspicion arises from FBI investigator Erica who believes that the Vs have different intentions to what they claim.
Director: Yves Simoneau
Writer: Scott Peters
7.1/107 votes#8 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2004
4400 people, assumed to be dead or missing over the past fifty years, reappear in a ball of light. None have any memory of where they've been, and some are manifesting paranormal abilities.
Director: Yves Simoneau
Writer: Scott Peters
7.0/101 votes#9 - The Tale of Apartment 214
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/1994
After moving into a new apartment complex with her mother, Stacy finds herself without any friends. She befriends an older woman named Madeline that lives nearby and they soon start to spend quite a bit of time together. But when Stacy breaks a promise to visit Madeline on one specific afternoon, Madeline is enraged and comes after Stacy.
Director: Scott Peters
Writer: Scott Peters
6.0/101 votes#10 - Summit
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/21/1999
Deep space. A small planetoid. The sight of an intergalactic summit between two warring worlds. Diplomats from both Earth and Dregocia, a distant planet, are dispatched to the neutral ground to work out a peace accord.
Director: James Head
Writer: Scott Peters
- 6.0/101 votes
#11 - Skin Deep
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 2/4/2000
Sid Camden, a rather unremarkable, socially inept sort of guy, works in an accounting department of a high-tech company known as Veil-Tech. Hal, one of the project managers, secretly loans Sid a prototype of one of the company's latest developments - a device known as an image enhancer. With the help of his friend Deb, Sid is able to acquire the image of good looking co-worker Chad Warner and soon Sid is stepping out on the town with his new and improved look.
Director: N/A
Writer: Scott Peters
- 5.0/101 votes
#12 - The Shroud
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 4/30/1999
When Marie Wells (Samantha Mathis) and her husband Justin (Robert Wisden) can't have a child on their own, they turn to the fertility clinic at the Tilford Institute for help. There, Dr. Gail Cowlings (Sara Botsford) uses in-vitro fertilization to implant an embryo in Marie's uterus. What Marie doesn't know, but Justin does, is that the embryo was actually created from DNA lifted from the Shroud of Turin...
Director: Stuart Gillard
Writer: Scott Peters
- 5.0/101 votes
#13 - Essence of Life
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 7/23/1999
Eleven years after a viral epidemic wiped out most of the world's people, the population is beginning to rebound. The world is ruled by The Code, which bans outward displays of emotion, particularly the mourning of lost loved ones.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Scott Peters
- 5.0/101 votes
#14 - Simon Says
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/2000
Gideon Banks lost his wife Liz and son Simon in a horrific car accident some twenty years ago. At the time of the accident he was involved in something called the Neural Archiving Project - NAP for short. The technology was developed to create smart computers - transferring human engrams to computers. The company eventually gave up on the technology, but Gideon didn't. After years of quietly perfecting it, he built a small robot, from parts he stole from Concorde Robotics, where he now works. Zoe, Gideon's niece, discovers Gideon's secret, the robot contains actual neural engrams from the real Simon. She becomes worried not only about Gideon but also about the robot that sounds and acts a lot like her little cousin used to.
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: Scott Peters
- 4.7/103 votes
#15 - Nest
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 8/18/2000
William Grimes, the leader of an exploration team from an Arctic research facility, goes crazy while exploring an ice cave and kills two colleagues before dying himself. Psychologist Jack Burrell is sent up to counsel the staff at the facility. Among his patients is the head of the facility, Robby Archer, a friend from his boyhood. It is not a happy reunion because of a traumatic childhood incident they shared but now they must work together. Grimes has infected the facility with polar mites, a strange ant-like species who take up residence in the warm tissue of the human body and create sort of psychosis.
Director: Scott Peters
Writer: Scott Peters
3.3/103 votes#16 - The Tale of Old Man Corcoran
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 10/2/1993
Two boys befriend a group of hide 'n' seekers who play their game in a graveyard that's rumored to be haunted by a caretakers's ghost. They soon find out that it might not be just a rumor.
Director: Ron Oliver
Writer: Scott Peters
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"The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight" is the best rated episode written by Scott Peters. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Randy Bradshaw. It aired on 11/9/1996 and is rated 1.7 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mother's Day".