The BEST episodes of Flashpoint

Every episode of Flashpoint ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Flashpoint!

Flashpoint is an emotional journey following the lives of members of the Strategic Response Unit as they solve hostage situations, bust gangs, and defuse bombs. They work by utilizing their training to get inside the heads of these people in order to make them reach their breaking point (aka their flashpoint).

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Keep the Peace (2)
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8.73
508 votes

#1 - Keep the Peace (2)

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/2012

The second of the two-part series finale, and Team One faces a serial bomber who takes an entire city hostage. They are put to the ultimate test in this shocking conclusion, changing Team One forever.

Directors: David Frazee
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One Wrong Move
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8.60
362 votes

#2 - One Wrong Move

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/25/2009

A wave of terrorist bombs shuts down the city, pushing Team One to the limit and putting one of their own on the line.

Directors: David Frazee
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Blue on Blue
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8.48
628 votes

#3 - Blue on Blue

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/22/2011

Spike responds to a distress call from Sam's sister and finds himself in a hostile situation. The rest of Team One races to a call at the ultra-secure Metro Evidence Depot and finds a deadly connection between the two cases - one that puts Spike's life on the line.

Writer: Adam Barken
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Keep the Peace (1)
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8.45
510 votes

#4 - Keep the Peace (1)

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/2012

In part one of the series finale, Team One faces it’s most chilling adversary yet: a brilliant serial bomber who takes an entire city hostage. They are put to the ultimate test in this shocking conclusion, changing Team One forever.

Directors: Kelly Makin
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The Better Man
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8.44
711 votes

#5 - The Better Man

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/5/2011

As a city-wide drug bust takes place, Team One struggles with a team member’s secret that could compromise their assignment and end Wordy’s career, on FLASHPOINT.

Directors: David Frazee
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Last Dance
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8.40
569 votes

#6 - Last Dance

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/8/2009

The team must track down a young woman dying of a brain disease when she and her finacé go on a crime spree.

Directors: Charles Binamé
Writer: Mark Ellis
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The Farm
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8.39
373 votes

#7 - The Farm

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/30/2009

The SRU are called in to resolve a gas station robbery but discover it’s connected to a deadly crisis on a cult compound.

Directors: Erik Canuel
Watch Now:Amazon
Jumping at Shadows
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8.38
630 votes

#8 - Jumping at Shadows

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/10/2010

A girl calls a 911 dispatcher to say an intruder in trying to break in, the dispatcher doesn't believe that an actual intruder is breaking into the house until gunshots are heard. When SRU arrives on scene there is no sign of the girl. Greg's son comes for a visit.

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You Think You Know Someone
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8.37
352 votes

#9 - You Think You Know Someone

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/6/2009

Parker is lured into a trap and confronted with a deadly choice: reveal a dark secret from his past or lose his life.

Directors: David Frazee
Writer: Adam Barken
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Shockwave
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8.36
771 votes

#10 - Shockwave

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/19/2011

Torn from his dying father’s bedside, Spike joins Team One to face their largest bomb threat yet, but realizes the only way to diffuse the bomb is to get inside the dangerous mind of its creator.

Directors: David Frazee
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Fit for Duty
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8.30
521 votes

#11 - Fit for Duty

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/2012

A tragic shooting on a city ferry forces Ed to confront his deepest fears – and threatens to tear Team One apart.

Directors: David Frazee
Writer: Adam Barken
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Slow Burn
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8.28
679 votes

#12 - Slow Burn

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/13/2011

During the season four finale, Team One races to a hospital when Fire Captain Simon Griggs interrupts the attempted murder of a badly burned firefighter. When they corner the suspect, the team learns he’s behind a series of deadly fires in the neighbourhood. Meanwhile Fire Captain Simon Griggs is forced to make a horrific choice – one that pushes him to the edge of revenge and suicide. Parker, wrestling with his own decision about his future on Team One, must convince this broken man to live.

Directors: Kelly Makin
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Grounded
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8.20
742 votes

#13 - Grounded

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/19/2011

Hijackers commandeer a passenger jet to bargain for a prisoner release. The lives of forty passengers and crew hang in the balance of negotiations over the prisoner, a relative of the terrorists. An ambitious passenger irks the hijackers, when she starts to text the police. Team One eventually storms the jet at the city airport. Stressed, Parker agonizes over shooting the hijackers.

Directors: David Frazee
Writer: Karen Walton
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Haunting The Barn
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8.20
528 votes

#14 - Haunting The Barn

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2009

A former SRU veteran turns up at headquarters and holes himself up in a safe room where he intends to commit suicide. He diverts the team with a false bomb threat and gets them to abandon the station. Ed gets wind of the suicide attempt and having trained under this veteran for many years, he is able to talk him down and out of the room.

Directors: David Frazee
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Day Game
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8.19
677 votes

#15 - Day Game

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/15/2011

Team One races to Fletcher Stadium, where a knife-wielding robber has taken a hostage. When a security guard tries to be a hero, the situation turns bloody.

Directors: Kelly Makin
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Thicker Than Blood
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8.18
678 votes

#16 - Thicker Than Blood

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/2011

Team One arrives on the scene of a bank robbery where a man claiming to be Roger Finch has turned to desperate measures after trying to withdraw $40,000 from his account. But the case is not so simple: the Team discovers the bank robber is actually Garth Scarrow (J.D. Nicholsen), and the real Roger Finch (Hamish McEwan) has gone missing. Finch has been kidnapped by the bank robber’s daughter, Ava (Erin Karpluk) and her husband Mark (Warren Christie). But it's not his money they're after. As Finch's secret past comes to light, the couple leads the Team to a hospital showdown. Roger Finch holds the key to a child's life... and Ava and Mark will stop at nothing to save their son.

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Team Player
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8.17
676 votes

#17 - Team Player

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/28/2011

Team One is called to a high-security psychiatric hospital where a violent patient has taken a guard hostage and injured a fellow patient.

Directors: Kelly Makin
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Remote Control
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8.16
675 votes

#18 - Remote Control

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/24/2009

The SRU is called in when a bank employee whose wife is being held captive hacks into the computer system to steal money to pay off her captors.

Directors: Charles Biname
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Between Heartbeats
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8.16
615 votes

#19 - Between Heartbeats

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/2009

SRU has to deal with a sniper that has taken over City Hall, who just happens to be the son of a man Ed killed during a mission. Meanwhile, a team member's health is in question after being caught in the line of fire.

Directors: David Frazee
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Behind The Blue Line
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8.13
435 votes

#20 - Behind The Blue Line

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/20/2009

The team tries to capture a gunman who's shooting inside a historic arena. The investigation causes Sam to question his place on the team.

Directors: David Frazee
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A World of Their Own
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8.12
548 votes

#21 - A World of Their Own

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/2012

Team One confronts a man desperate to keep the promise he made to his deaf nephew... by protecting the only place the boy has ever felt safe.

Writer: Alex Levine
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Acceptable Risk
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8.12
676 votes

#22 - Acceptable Risk

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/17/2010

In the wake of a museum gala shooting spree, the SRU's actions and judgments are called into question; however, the investigator seems to be focusing on Sgt. Parker in particular.

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Forget Oblivion
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8.10
547 votes

#23 - Forget Oblivion

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/2012

A young man with a brilliant memory is abducted and forced to remember the specifications for a new "smart gun" in a high tech research facility.

Directors: Kelly Makin
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Eyes In
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8.10
562 votes

#24 - Eyes In

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2012

Team One is stunned when someone hacks into their ultra-secure computer system -- to show the team the video of a crime in progress. The team speeds after the thieves, who've stolen an eighteen-wheeler full of volatile chemicals. Ed is forced to take a risky sniper shot as Spike tracks down the hacker who set Team One on the case. Untangling the hacker’s motives, Spike finds a young man who's put his life at risk to rescue the girl he loves.

Directors: David Frazee
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Cost of Doing Business
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8.09
643 votes

#25 - Cost of Doing Business

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/4/2011

When a ransom drop goes wrong, Team One is drawn into the dangerous world of “express kidnapping” and the nightmare of a woman haunted by the brutal experience of captivity. Meanwhile, Greg finds out about Sam and Jules' secretly renewed relationship.

Directors: David Frazee
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