9.4/107 votes#1 - Kavanaugh
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/2006
Kavanaugh seeks the help of Antwon Mitchell in his ongoing quest to take down the Strike Team. In the midst of this, Kavanaugh has a lot on his mind as his ex-wife reenters the picture, and he reluctantly agrees to let Vic send Emolia undercover to infiltrate a Salvadoran gang that is stockpiling grenades.
Director: D.J. Caruso
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
9.2/106 votes#2 - Judas Priest
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 6/7/2005
Vic and his crew track down the Russian who was involved with the cop murders, but they lose control during his interrogation and the hit man dies in an explosion before they can get any answers. Meanwhile, Aceveda is blackmailed by the man who assaulted him. Plus, Rawling's seizure is on the verge of being shelved.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
9.2/105 votes#3 - Baptism by Fire
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/2007
Kavanaugh acquires what he needs in order to apprehend Vic who is preoccupied with getting revenge on Guardo. Claudette finds herself under the political microscope as a result of the San Marcos incident, and Danny receives some news about her future at the Barn.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
9.0/106 votes#4 - Exiled
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 5/15/2007
After Vic disowns him, Shane turns to the Armenian mob for help. Vic gets more involved with the San Marcos investigation, while Dutch and Billings are able to track down someone who survived the massacre.
Director: Dean White
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
9.0/106 votes#5 - Spanish Practices
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/2007
Claudette notices Hiatt's mistake when he makes an arrest, and Billings delivers shocking news to the department. Vic forms an alliance with Aceveda, while he waits for his review board hearing. Meanwhile, Shane's life keeps spiraling out of control.
Director: Paris Barclay
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.9/1010 votes#6 - Dragonchasers
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/2002
As Dutch uncovers a lead to the serial killer, a reporter's questions force Aceveda to explain problems he thought were buried fair in the past, while Vic assists Connie as she tries to quit crack cold-turkey in a desperate attempt to keep her son, leaving the other Strike Team members to investigate a strip-club mugging ring on their own.
Director: Nick Gomez
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.9/108 votes#7 - All In
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 6/8/2004
With an Armenian hit-man hot on their trail, the Strike team sweeps the streets of the Armenian community to find him before he finds them. After catching a break, Aceveda's suspicions grow about the Strike Team's involvement with the Money Train robbery. Meanwhile, Dutch and Claudette investigate a case that could repeal hundreds of convictions, which leaves Claudette having to choose between her conscience and her career.
Director: Stephen Kay
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.6/109 votes#8 - Partners
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2003
Still fuming from the murder of Tio and his brawl with Armadillo, Vic takes a day off to reconnect with his old partner, and soon sets out to help him get revenge against the thug whose complaint forced him into retirement. Meanwhile, an amputated arm sends Dutch and Claudette in search of the sadomasochistic criminal behind the torture and mutilation of a woman who may still be alive, and tensions brew between Danny and Julien after Julien fails to back up Danny's side of the shooting to IAD.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.6/109 votes#9 - Barnstormers
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2003
Vic and the Strike Team begin to prepare for the money train takedown, even though Armadillo's greenlight still has them on their toes. After embarrassing the department with the Bob and Marcy case, Dutch is forced to take any action necessary to prove himself in a new homicide, while Vic sets out to stop the abuse of a neighbor by her violent boyfriend, and Danny finally makes a stand against Yassirah.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.6/107 votes#10 - Chuck Versus the First Kill
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/2009
After Chuck's father Steve is kidnapped by Fulcrum, Chuck learns the only chance he has to find him is by putting his trust and life into the hands of the person he trusts the least—his ex-girlfriend Jill Roberts. Meanwhile, the Buy More team tries to sabotage Emmett’s corporate evaluation.
Director: Norman Buckley
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.5/1010 votes#11 - Cherrypoppers
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/16/2002
When the body of a young hooker is found in the district, Dutch's theory about a serial killer preying on prostitutes proves true. Aceveda launches an all-out effort to find the killer before he strikes again, giving Dutch and Claudette the full resources of the Barn for 24 hours and the help of the FBI.
Director: D.J. Caruso
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.5/106 votes#12 - Bang
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 3/29/2005
With Farmington on the brink of a gang war, Monica and Vic race to find the catalyst and stop the bloodshed, enlisting Antwon's help along the way. Still in the doghouse, Dutch decides to take action in thawing the relationship between Claudette and the D.A. Danny and Julien get up close and personal with the Farmington 1-Niners, while Monica looks to Vic for support when the implementation of her property seizure policy challenges her morality.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.4/1014 votes#13 - Chuck Versus the Beard
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/2010
Chuck feels like his life is falling apart when he can't flash and gets left behind for a mission. While Shaw, Sarah and Casey go on without him, Chuck finds himself in a sticky situation back at the base.
Director: Zachary Levi
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.3/1010 votes#14 - Two Days of Blood (1)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/28/2002
Aceveda turns to Claudette after a double homicide raises ire and fear within an ignored community. Vic is forced to help Gilroy avoid being implicated in a hit-and-run, while Shane and Lem follow the trail of a gunrunner with a penchant for cockfights.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.3/106 votes#15 - Hurt
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/2005
Just as Monica and Vic get close to a big break in the Garage Sting, Chief Phillips unexpectedly hands over the bust to the Organized Crime Unit. He blames the decision on an emerging PR scandal involving a videotape of Vic at the church bust that was leaked to the Assistant Chief through Aceveda's office. Vic uses his leverage with the Byz Lats to find a Russian mob leader before the mobster flees the country. Monica threatens two foster care social workers with jail after a young girl is found close to death in her foster home, then tells Julien if he doesn't put in for a transfer, she'll request one for him herself.
Director: Nick Gomez
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.3/1013 votes#16 - 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 Rosenbaum
8.3/108 votes#17 - Chuck Versus Santa Claus
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2008
Christmas Eve does not go as planned when an amateur criminal on the run from the police crashes into the Buy More and takes Chuck, Ellie, Awesome and the rest of the Buy More gang hostage. In order to protect Chuck’s cover and the safety of the other hostages, Sarah and Casey secretly go in to the store to remove Chuck, but the mission quickly falls apart when Chuck refuses to leave his friends and family behind.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.3/1010 votes#18 - Chuck Versus the Three Words
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2010
Chuck gets a new mission when Sarah's best friend Carina comes through town with her fiancé Karl. Things get complicated when Chuck wants to hash out his and Sarah's relationship problems while they're on the mission. Meanwhile, Morgan finds himself in trouble when he lies to Jeff and Lester.
Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.2/1015 votes#19 - Red Sky
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/18/2010
A V soldier is still on the hunt for Val when her water breaks and her baby will soon be born. Meanwhile, Erica, tired of being on the defensive, decides to go on the offensive and gets herself and Tyler invited up to the Mothership for a get-to-know-everyone-better dinner. But she has more than food on her mind; she's really there to find Anna's soldiers and destroy them. Meanwhile, after Father Jack asks Chad to help get a message to Joshua, he discovers that Anna's been using him.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.1/109 votes#20 - Chuck Versus the Break-Up
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2008
Bryce Larkin returns to town with news about Fulcrum. They have hired a wealthy software magnate named Von Hayes to decrypt information on a stolen chip containing a refresh to the Intersect with highly classified information. Bryce and Sarah have to pose as a married couple at Von Hayes' dining party to steal back the chip, while Chuck has to pose as a waiter. Meanwhile, Morgan has an encounter with the Mighty Jocks at the Buy More.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.0/1010 votes#21 - Chuck Versus the Imported Hard Salami
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/2007
Not all of Sarah's feelings for Chuck may have been a cover, as she finds out, when Chuck begins to date Lou, a sandwich maker. When things couldn't get even more complicated, Lou turns out to be part of a smuggling ring.
Director: Jason Ensler
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.0/109 votes#22 - Bottom Bitch
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/23/2004
A prostitute and friend to the late Connie named Farrah seeks the help of Vic in an effort to bring down her pimp. After failing to convince Vic to help her, Farrah goes to Claudette, who assigns Vic to the case against his wishes. Meanwhile, Dutch investigates the rape of an elderly woman.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
8.0/108 votes#23 - Riceburner
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 5/25/2004
When Aceveda assigns The Strike Team to serve a high risk warrant against a mob killer to service his political agenda, they find themselves embroiled in a hostile struggle with the Korean community. Now the Team must find out how to put an end to the situation before they end up casualties of a racial fued. Meanwhile, one of Vic's informants works with Danny on finding stolen chairs, while having eyes for her.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
7.8/1011 votes#24 - Chuck Versus the Sizzling Shrimp
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2007
After his intuition is wrong while working on a stakeout, Chuck feels morally obligated to make things right, even when both Sarah and Casey refuse to help with Chuck's new mission. Meanwhile, Morgan has to participate in a sales competition that could decide his fate at Buy More.
Director: David Solomon
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
7.8/1020 votes#25 - Welcome to the War
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/30/2010
Erica finds her life in danger when she's attacked at home. A dangerous new member is recruited for the Resistance as the Visitors shore up their defenses. Anna wonders why Chad hasn't followed up on his diagnosed aneurysm and Ryan's concern grows over Val's "abnormal" pregnancy.
Director: Yves Simoneau
Writer: Scott Rosenbaum
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"Kavanaugh" is the best rated episode written by Scott Rosenbaum. It scored 9.4/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by D.J. Caruso. It aired on 2/28/2006 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Judas Priest".