The WORST episodes of Dark Angel
Every episode of Dark Angel ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Dark Angel!
Max is a genetically-enhanced human prototype hunted by her former military handlers through the edgy, underground street life of 21st Century America. Max is aided in her quest - both to avoid capture and reunite with her "siblings" scattered in the aftermath of their escape - by Logan Cale, an idealistic cyber-journalist battling repression and corruption in post-apocalypse..
#1 - Boo
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2001
On Halloween night, Max finds her "normal" world turned upside down when the creatures she let out of Manticore are able to walk the streets freely without fear of exposure. As she and Joshua, with a crazy band of characters, race against time to find a headless body before it carries out its intended lethal mission, Max is faced with the reality that Asha and Logan are getting closer than ever.
#2 - Borrowed Time
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/2002
When Max and Logan finally find a cure for their genetically engineered virus, it turns out to be only temporary. Their time together is limited and to make matters worse they have to stop a strange Manticore creation that is on the loose in Seattle and preying on people.
#3 - Two
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2001
Disturbed by Joshua's unusual behavior, as well as Alec's new job working at Jam Pony, Max's concern for Joshua is heightened when sector police killings are attributed to a "beast-like" creature. As Max races to try to figure out the mystery of the killings before more are committed, she makes a surprising discovery about who the culprit actually is.
#4 - Out
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/2001
Tired of Logan's "all business" approach to their relationship, Max refuses to help with his latest case involving a medical supply smuggler. But when Logan gets double-crossed by his target, Max goes undercover as "Eyes Only" to rescue him from a certain death. Meanwhile, Normal is smitten with a woman with a secret.
#5 - Radar Love
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2001
Max and Logan must set aside their complicated and lethal feelings for one another, when they investigate a series of unusual deaths and uncover a genocidal agenda linked to transgenic escapees.
#6 - She Ain't Heavy
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/19/2002
Max's life is placed in more danger than ever before when she is hunted by the one person who knows her better than anyone -- her clone. Though even the existence of this exact replica is news to Max, she quickly realizes the imminent danger from an individual who can get inside her head and infiltrate her life like no one else. Dealing not only with this new threat but also the disintegration of her relationship with Logan and Joshua's disillusionment over not being able to go out in public, Max must race against time to figure out how to stop this deadly enemy before it's too late.
#7 - Hello, Goodbye
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/5/2002
After a near-fatal incident with Logan, Max decides to end their relationship for good. A murder committed by Alec's Manticore twin, Ben, puts him under suspicion and places all of the transgenics in jeopardy... thanks to White and his leakage to the media. Meanwhile, Joshua finds the perfect woman, but can't find the courage to confess his secret.
#8 - Heat
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2000
In a post apocalyptic world genetically enhanced female (transgenic) Max Gueverra tries to stay ahead of the law while looking for links to her past. Max does a job for Logan (the last good man on Earth; and cyber journalist Eyes Only) while trying to keep a handle on her revved up hormones, thanks to Manticore. Logan manages to turn up some information on a friend from Max's past.
#9 - Shortie's in Love
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/17/2001
Original Cindy reunites with her ex-lover, Diamond, who is recently out of prison. Max is suspicious of Diamond which causes her to have a fight with her best friend.
#10 - Medium is the Message
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/14/2001
Logan and Max become involve in a kidnapping of a young boy when his distressed mother came asking for help. During their investigation, they learn that the boy is the son of Max's nemesis, Ames White. He is part of a breeding cult and has placed his only son in a special school without his wife's knowledge or consent. The boy's life is in danger as he must pass series of deadly tests to prove his worthiness to the occult group.
#11 - Proof of Purchase
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2001
Max and Logan look for Joshua, who is wandering Seattle looking for "Father", the man who created him. Meanwhile, Alec fights ordinary people in an underground club but when later caught by White, he must strike a bargain to kill three transgenics to save his life.
#12 - Love in Vein
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/8/2002
Max must take on a cult of superhuman-blood addicts when she learns they're being led by a Manticore mutant intent on rebuilding an X-5 army. Meanwhile, Joshua falls in with the wrong crowd after Alec tricks him into delivering his packages for Jam Pony.
#13 - Haven
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/27/2001
Max and Logan are out for a holiday. Unbeknownst to Max, Logan is also planning to investigate an old crime. Once there, Max befriends a small boy with a secret. Stirring his past brings troubles from the town's gangster to Logan and Max. Meanwhile, a powerful seizure takes over Max.
#14 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2000
12 genetically enhanced childern escape from a military base that created them. 10 years later, after The Pulse, a magnetic bomb that destroyed every computer in USA, has struck, Max Guevara, one of the 12 escapees, is a bike messenger in (what's left of) Seattle and with cyberjournalist, Logan Cale, she tries to rid the world of crime and corruption, avoid her creators and uncover her past.
#15 - Cold Comfort
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/28/2000
Brin contacts Zack before she is captured. Max and Zach has no choice but to force Lydecker to tell her whereabouts. They teamed up and follow Brin to a military facility where Brin is to be sold to the highest bidder. Once there, Lydecker double crosses the two X-5s and decides to be in on the sale. Max and Zack manage to escape from captivity with Brin who is suffering from a condition that speeds up aging. She has no choice but to receive help from Lydecker. Max and Zack accept Brin's decision and leave her to be picked up by the man who made them.
#16 - Flushed
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2000
Max needs her pills to keep her seizures at bay but her friends believe that she's an addict. Max is feeling the serious side effects from the alterations to her biochemistry. After her friends flush her pills she tries to steal some from the local hospital but get's caught and lands up in jail.
#17 - Hit a Sista Back
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/8/2001
Tinga, who escaped to Canada in #1.12 with other X5's, when Eyes Only warned them their locations were compromised, comes back in town to save her husband and son. With Max and Zack's help, the family is reunited, but not before the son is given a deadly pathogen. Lydecker agrees to cure the boy in exchange for Tinga. Unbeknownst to him, Madame X has already arranged for Brin to double cross Lydecker. She captures Tinga, who is able to pass her special traits to her children, to study her.
#18 - Female Trouble
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/27/2001
Max discovers Logan is dealing with a back-alley medical clinic doctor who has agreed to perform experimental therapies to keep him out of his wheelchair, who Max realizes is also a former Manticore scientist. Meanwhile, Original Cindy returns to Jam Pony and continues to learn more about Max and her relationship to Logan.
#19 - C.R.E.A.M.
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2000
Alina Herrero contacts Eyes Only and asks him to help her find out the truth about her father's disappearance years ago. Max breaks in to the police department to steal information about her father, who also happens to be Logan's mentor. At the same time, Sketchy loses the mob's money and has to return the full amount in 36 hours. Max uses her super skills to win the money through poker.
#20 - Red
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/2001
Max takes on an army of superhuman soldiers in an episode amped up on action sequences. The trouble starts when Logan recruits his favorite biker chick to protect a Federal witness with vital info on local corruption. But the operation hits a snag after Max realizes that the guy she's guarding is a face from the not-so-distant---and very painful---past, and that those who want him dead may have plans for her as well.
#21 - The Berrisford Agenda
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/18/2002
While being haunted by music from the past, Alec must revisit one of his Manticore missions that went bad and resulted in the loss of his one true love. Max attempts to put the pieces of Alec's past together and upon discovery of the truth sets out to help him as best she can.
#22 - Harbor Lights
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2002
After Max is shot and hospitalized, Logan must intercept White and a very curious CDC doctor in order to keep Max's transgenic identity undercover.
#23 - Prodigy
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/2000
Max and Donald Lydecker are taken hostages at a convention. Logan decides to trade himself as a hostage for all the women. Max decides to stay and ends up helping Logan when the terrorists push him off the roof of the building. She also does the unexpected when she saves Lydecker from being shot in the head.
#24 - I and I am a Camera
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/1/2001
A suspicious-looking man takes pictures of Max. She follows him and is surprised that he seems to possess super-natural strength. Finding out that he is actually a good guy, the two team up with Logan and investigate the deaths of recently released prisoners. This leads to shocking discoveries about Logan's family business. Logan is left with a dilemma. If Eyes Only goes public about this finding, he would lose his source of income.
#25 - 411 on the DL
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/2000
Max hires a private detective to help her track down a fellow X-5 called Zack. She is about to receive vital information when the detective is found dead. Back at Logan's place, his ex-wife Valerie shows up unexpectedly with an obvious hidden agenda. Max decides to find out the truth about her.