9.3/10173 votes#1 - Face Off
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 10/9/2011
Walt and Jesse team up to take on Gus. With Saul's help, Walt finds an unexpected ally.
Director: Vince Gilligan
Writer: Vince Gilligan
9.3/10140 votes#2 - Full Measure
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 6/13/2010
With Jesse on the run and Mike in hot pursuit, Walt negotiates a bargain with Gus and concocts a disturbing plan to provide for his and Jesse's safety.
Director: Vince Gilligan
Writer: Vince Gilligan
9.2/10218 votes#3 - Felina
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 9/29/2013
All bad things must come to an end.
Director: Vince Gilligan
Writer: Vince Gilligan
9.0/1055 votes#4 - Waterworks
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 8/8/2022
The stakes are raised when a discovery is made that will send shockwaves far and wide.
Director: Vince Gilligan
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.8/10140 votes#5 - Box Cutter
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/17/2011
Walt and Jesse face the deadly consequences of their actions. Skyler deals with a puzzling disappearance, as Marie struggles to help Hank with his recovery.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.7/10145 votes#6 - ABQ
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 5/31/2009
Skyler confronts Walt about his secrecy; Jesse falls apart; and Jane's grief-stricken father takes action that results in further tragedy.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.6/10155 votes#7 - Live Free or Die
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2012
As Walt deals with the aftermath of the Casa Tranquila explosion, Hank works to wrap up his investigation of Gus' empire.
Director: Michael Slovis
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.6/1039 votes#8 - Bad Blood
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/22/1998
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.5/1083 votes#9 - Klick
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 4/18/2016
Jimmy must make a hard choice. Mike takes control of matters. Hamlin delivers shocking news.
Director: Vince Gilligan
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.4/10142 votes#10 - Peekaboo
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/12/2009
Walt's secret is in jeopardy when Skyler thanks Gretchen for paying for his treatment.
Director: Peter Medak
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.4/10375 votes#11 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/2008
When an unassuming high school chemistry teacher discovers he has a rare form of lung cancer, he decides to team up with a former student and create a top of the line crystal meth in a used RV, to provide for his family once he is gone.
Director: Vince Gilligan
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.4/10185 votes#12 - ...And the Bag's in the River
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/2008
Walter fights with Jesse over his drug use, causing him to leave Walter alone with their captive, Krazy-8. Meanwhile, Hank has a scared straight moment with Walter Jr. after his aunt discovers he has been smoking pot. Also, Skylar is upset when Walter stays away from home.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.4/10136 votes#13 - Madrigal
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2012
Walt and Jesse pursue an unlikely business partner. The DEA filters through various leads in hopes of finding something.
Director: Michelle MacLaren
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.3/1031 votes#14 - Dreamland II (2)
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 12/6/1998
Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.3/10139 votes#15 - Uno
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/8/2015
Jimmy works his magic in the courtroom. Unexpected inspiration leads him to an unconventional pursuit of potential clients.
Director: Vince Gilligan
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.2/10204 votes#16 - Cat's in the Bag...
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/2008
Walt and Jesse attempt to tie up loose ends. The desperate situation gets more complicated with the flip of a coin. Walt's wife, Skyler, becomes suspicious of Walt's strange behavior.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.2/1031 votes#17 - Dreamland (1)
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1998
While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.2/1040 votes#18 - Small Potatoes
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/1997
Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilized eggs. However, Mulder discovers the culprit to be a simple man with a genetic deformity who may have the ability to alter his appearance.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.2/10144 votes#19 - No Más
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/21/2010
Walt faces a new threat, on a new front and deals with an increasingly angry Skyler, who must consider what to do next with her life and the kids. Meanwhile, Jesse comes face-to-face with some startling self-revelations.
Director: Bryan Cranston
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.1/1034 votes#20 - Field Trip
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1999
When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.1/1073 votes#21 - Mabel
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/10/2017
Jimmy and Chuck's relationship deteriorates. Kim feels the pressure of running her own firm. Mike investigates the note left on his car.
Director: Vince Gilligan
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.0/1031 votes#22 - Drive
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 11/15/1998
Mulder is trapped in a car with a man who has developed a serious ear condition which can only be suppressed by driving west at high speeds. As Scully tries to find the cause and a cure for the problem, Mulder and the man get closer and closer to the ocean.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.0/1038 votes#23 - Pusher
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1996
Mulder and Scully are asked to help in a case involving Robert Patrick Modell, a murderer possessing the psychic ability to force his will onto people. Due to a brain tumor that is slowly killing him, he is searching for a "worthy adversary" and forces Mulder into a battle of mind over matter.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.0/1036 votes#24 - Paper Hearts
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1996
Mulder's dreams help him in finding the body of a little girl which reopens one of his old cases in the Violent Crimes Unit. This leads him to believe that the killer he captured had more victims and that Mulder's sister Samantha may have been one of them.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Vince Gilligan
7.9/10177 votes#25 - Cancer Man
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/17/2008
Walter finally tells his family that he has been stricken with cancer. Meanwhile, the DEA believes Albuquerque has a new, big time player to worry about. Meanwhile, a worthy recipient is the target of a depressed Walter's anger, and Jesse makes a surprise visit to his parents home.
Director: Jim McKay
Writer: Vince Gilligan
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"Face Off" is the best rated episode written by Vince Gilligan. It scored 9.324/10 based on 173 votes. It was directed by Vince Gilligan. It aired on 10/9/2011 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Full Measure".