The BEST episodes directed by Charles Haid
#1 - Here Comes the Son
NYPD Blue - Season 9 - Episode 9
The detectives start investigating a massage parlor rip-off. While their rip-off involves a homicide there are similar rip-offs occurring in the Bronx, Sipowicz and Clark Jr. are going to work the case with detectives from the Bronx, including Clark Sr.; leaving the others to look into the case of an elderly woman being robbed in her home by exterminators. And Mrs. Hornby sends her agent, Beacham, to ask Sipowicz to come back to her apartment and work security. The dollar figure for the job is raised and other perks are offered, but Sipowicz rejects them all. McDowell, Ortiz, Jones and Medavoy look into the exterminator case, through the efforts of two Samaritans; one of the exterminators was captured and subdued at the scene. The other has gotten away, but is quickly grabbed up. While waiting to talk to the victim and one of the perps at the hospital; small talk leads to Ortiz telling McDowell that she and her husband are working on their marriage. In the meantime back at the sq
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#2 - Father Goes West
In Plain Sight - Season 3 - Episode 1
A former high line thief from Boston tries to give up crime for the sake of his teenage son, and Mary and Marshall search for the person who nearly killed Mary.
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#3 - Grilled
Breaking Bad - Season 2 - Episode 2
Walt and Jesse find themselves in close quarters with an unhinged Tuco. Marie and Hank comfort Skyler, who is distraught over Walt’s disappearance. Hank pays a visit to Mrs. Pinkman on some not-so-official business.
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#4 - Dear Derwood
Karen Sisco - Season 1 - Episode 6
Derwood Edson breaks out of prison after receiving a letter from his stripper girlfriend Angie. Derwood's best friend, Dwight, has been spending a little too much time with Angie. Karen's attempted romance with Miami Marlins pitcher Tuck Rodriguez (Eduardo Verastegui) appears fated to disappointment, because of their careers. Karen must recapture Derwood. Tuck is starting to lose his ability to pitch, and Karen is becoming a little too famous, after been seen with Tuck. Karen learns of Angie and sticks to her like glue to recapture Derwood. When Karen learns that Angie is mixed up in drugs, she arrests her and puts her in prison. Undeterred, Derwood breaks Angie out of prison.
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#5 - To Hell... (1)
Criminal Minds - Season 4 - Episode 25
The BAU tracks a serial killer who chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border into Canada, and an agent's life is in peril.
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#6 - Tough Guys Don't Teach
Doogie Howser, M.D. - Season 1 - Episode 17
Teaching a safe-sex class in high school isn't intimidating for Dr. Doogie, but one of the students is a beefy bruiser who wants to fight Doogie after class.
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#7 - Think Warm Thoughts
ER - Season 4 - Episode 11
Another elderly rape victim is brought into the ER. Carter picks up an aspiring med student at a seminar he taught and brings her to the ER for a brief lesson. "Wild Willy" Swift returns as a Synergix attending physician. Romano clases with Corday after she goes over his head for Allison Beaumont. Dr. Anspaugh's son comes into the ER with cancer-like symptoms. Carol and Doug argue over marriage.
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#8 - True Confessions
NYPD Blue - Season 1 - Episode 4
Kelly quits his security job and warns the abusive husband to watch out. A man is arrested for a robbery and double-homicide when Det. Walker is convinced he is guilty, though Sipowicz feels differently. Laura quits her job and plans to move into a position with the District Attorney's office, prosecuting narcotics. Kelly winds up at the scene of the abusive husband's murder. "4B" has Kelly come and appear before the tenant's readiness group, later the edgy "4B" is shot on a subway platform trying to save an elderly woman.
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#9 - Family Practice
ER - Season 4 - Episode 14
Mark, with surprise guest Cynthia, returns to San Diego to be with his ailing mother. While trying to diagnose his mother's condition, Mark decides that he and Cynthia have no future together and tries to come to terms with his seemingly distant father.
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#10 - A Boy Falling Out of the Sky
ER - Season 9 - Episode 15
With Eric still missing, Maggie returns to town. Carter tells Abby he wants to marry her. Weaver gives Luka an ultimatum regarding his job. Pratt digs himself into a deeper hole with Chen during his stint with the EMTs. Sean Simmons returns with pneumonia.
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#11 - The L Word
Third Watch - Season 6 - Episode 12
Everyone in the 55th Precinct faces their worst fears when terrorists are discovered to possibly be building a dirty bomb. Carlos and Levine face trouble in their relationship. Captain Finney decides to end his life, rather than surrender himself for the murder of Ty Davis Sr. Brendan and Davis try to cover it up.
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#12 - Insurrection
ER - Season 9 - Episode 3
Lewis treats an end-stage Huntington's patient, whose mother has already watched her husband wither from the disease. Abby's brother Eric, an Air Force traffic controller, visits on his way to a new post in Nebraska. Carter tends to a 12-year-old drug-addicted prostitute with a serious STD, until her pimp shows up and whisks her away. Pratt aggravates a drug-seeking man who comes back brandishing a gun at Chen and Abby and demanding Demerol. Abby gives him his shot but purposefully ODs him. In the aftermath, Carter flips his lid, demanding better security and the installation of metal detectors. When Weaver refuses, Carter leads a walkout. Weaver eventually caves, albeit before telling Carter that he must fire three senior nurses by tomorrow to make up the budget. Abby, Lewis and Chen go to a concert to decompress.
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#13 - Jimmy's Mountain
Third Watch - Season 2 - Episode 4
Jimmy's recovery complicates his return to the firehouse as he tries to take on too much, causing discord amongst his fellow firefighters over his all-consuming need to prove his abilities have not been lost. Meanwhile, Alex Taylor joins the firehouse and arrives with some baggage of her own.
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#14 - Merrill Bobolit
Nip/Tuck - Season 4 - Episode 10
Dr. Merrill Bobolit, who's out of jail, needs Sean's and Christian's professional services. Escobar Gallardo wants them to perform surgery on his face. And Matt tells his family that he's married and that he and his wife are expecting a baby.
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#15 - Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Criminal Minds - Season 7 - Episode 9
The BAU team looks into the real reasons behind an apparent mass suicide of a small group of youths at a military academy. Also, Hotch and Morgan butt heads when a team member could be in jeopardy.
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#16 - The Slave of Duty
Criminal Minds - Season 5 - Episode 10
The team needs to reunite in order to solve a home invasion case, while Agent Hotchner may have to leave the team.
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#17 - Diana Lubey
Nip/Tuck - Season 4 - Episode 12
Even though he doubts his ability to maintain a long term relationship Christian proposes to Michelle and a lonely Sean takes a pathological case for rationalities that have as much to do with himself as with the patient, and James requires to use McNamara/Troy for her own operations.
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#18 - Into That Good Night
ER - Season 1 - Episode 5
Greene mulls a decision to move to Milwaukee so his wife, Jennifer, can pursue her law career. He and the rest of the ER staff tend to a dying heart transplant candidate. Ross counsels a woman who cannot afford medication for her asthmatic daughter. Carter may have made a mistake with a former patient. Lewis has to juggle dealing with an alcohol-poisoned fraternity brother and calls from her mother to get her prodigal sister, Chloe, a job.
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#19 - Lolita?
The Guardian - Season 1 - Episode 4
Nick is taken off of the Hunter Reed case and assigned a case about a fifteen-year-old girl, April Santos, who claims to have been raped by her stepfather, a cop. Nick arranges for her maternal aunt to have guardianship, but Nick soon finds out that all is not what it appears to be and he must go to CLS and admit that he may have placed April in an even more dangerous environment than her home. And at Fallin & Assoc., John Clayton seeks the firm to reorganize his assets at his steel plant. Burton refuses, claiming that there is no money to be made, but Simon discovers that his father has a personal reason for refusing the business - Clayton Steel is the same plant that he worked at as a teenager alongside his father.
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#20 - Nameless
Grimm - Season 2 - Episode 16
When a gruesome homicide brings an office party to a screeching halt, Nick and Hank find themselves battling a Wesen on a completely new platform - online. Meanwhile, Juliette's mysterious hallucinations finally start to take shape, giving them a whole new meaning.
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#22 - Wild Life
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 11 - Episode 9
The sky is falling or at least people are. The CSI's try to figure out if it was murder or sucide after a man is dead after falling from a hotel. Across town, a elderly woman falls through her table and her husband dead in the shower. The only two witnesses to the crime are an incooperative cat and a parrot who pleads the fifth.
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#24 - Carly Summers
Nip/Tuck - Season 5 - Episode 1
Sean and Christian have relocated their practice from Miami to Los Angeles. Being new to the city they find themselves having to start from scratch business wise. What they thought would naturally fall into place turns out to require some foot work. So Christian and Sean hit the town and begin discovering a whole new world.
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#25 - Compulsion
Criminal Minds - Season 1 - Episode 2
The team of investigators tries to capture a serial arsonist who has been terrorizing a college campus.
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#26 - Still Crazy After All These Years
Boston Legal - Season 1 - Episode 2
Alan helps his ex-lover who tried to kill him get out of a psychiatric hospital. Brad and Denny take a case where a wife is suing the hospital for causing her emotional distress when her husband died during an angioplasty. Denny learns this new case will help the other partners decide if he is a liability to the firm. Lori tries to steer Sally away from Alan.
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#27 - Crime and Punishment (1)
Third Watch - Season 4 - Episode 9
Monty and Joy hook up. Miguel witnesses one drug dealer murder another, and becomes the dealer's next target. On his first day back at work, Sully rides with Faith, who is put off by his short fuse and bad attitude. When he leaves a prisoner unguarded and uncuffed, Faith tells him to go home because he's not ready to be back on the job. Sully gets drunk and goes to his mother's nursing home. Sobbing about Tatiana, he tries to batter down the door when the receptionist won't let him in and calls the police. After Hancock arrives on the scene, Sully mouths off to him about Nancy in front of the other officers who are there to take him home.
#28 - No Good Deed
The Closer - Season 2 - Episode 12
Once again, the PHD finds themselves wading through suspects in the murder of the star witness in a capital punishment case. When Estelle, Pope's angry ex-wife, spills the beans about Brenda to her team, Fritz begins to wonder how she really feels.
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#29 - Devil's Night
Criminal Minds - Season 6 - Episode 6
The team searches for a killer who has struck the past three years during Detroit's raucous pre-Halloween celebrations.
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#30 - Rachel Ben Natan
Nip/Tuck - Season 5 - Episode 9
As Julia's health worsens, Christian falls back into old habits. Sean hires Gina as the new receptionist at McNamara/Troy in order to get back at Christian. Dawn Budge returns to McNamara/Troy after another unfortunate incident which requires cosmetic surgery.
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#31 - Catching Out
Criminal Minds - Season 4 - Episode 5
The BAU investigates a series of murders that appear to be connected to a killer who jumps trains and chooses his victims based on their proximity to the railway.
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#33 - Pacific Rimshot
L.A. Law - Season 8 - Episode 7
Becker's car accident with his Bentley prompts a spate of anti-Asian sentiments, which in turn inspires the minority members of the firm who include Morales and Rollins. Meanwhile, the Glassman case reaches its conclusion as Rollins and Markowitz try to turn the jury against the US government. Eli handles the divorce of the wife of a marriage counseling guru reluctant to give up on the marriage or his wife's money. Also, Jinx helps Eli with his case while showing him the wonders of Los Angeles.
#34 - Large Mouth Bass
NYPD Blue - Season 2 - Episode 12
Simone & Sipowicz investigate the brutal murder of the daughter of woman whose ex-husband has made threats against her. Lesniak and Martinez's case involves a con artist who sells a black box to homely women, promising them beautiful skin. The new Borough Commander checks in and lets Fancy know his overtime policy; that doesn't sit well with Sipowicz when it compounds their investigation. Bobby's childhood friend is involved with a nightclub that is frequented by wiseguys.
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#37 - Chapter One
Murder One - Season 1 - Episode 1
Ted Hoffman appears in court representing Neil Avedon, an actor with a drug problem and a propensity for violence. After Ted argues successfully for his client, he takes him aside and fires him, telling him that he will never represent him again. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is buzzing with the news of the murder of fifteen-year-old Jessica Costello. Arthur Polson, the detective who is assigned to the case, wants to speak to Richard Cross, the wealthy and powerful man who owns the building in which her body was found. Richard asks Ted to accompany him to headquarters, and reveals that he has been having an affair with Jessica's older sister, Julie Costello, for about two years. When Polson questions him, Richard claims that he has not been in the building for several days and that he spoke to Jessica only briefly on a few occasions. Jessica's sister Julie returns from her modeling assignment in Costa Rica, identifies her sister's body and is interviewed by Polson with Ted at her side. Richar
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#38 - Pilot
Threat Matrix - Season 1 - Episode 1
When a prisoner requesting asylum informs the U.S. government that a shipping container with a cell of terrorists has set sail for U.S. soil, Frankie is sent in search of the truth. Back at the "Vault" in Fort Meade, Kilmer's team is at work on the mission, but after it goes awry and Frankie goes on the run in Jakarta, Kilmer is torn between his concern for his ex-wife and the protocol he's sworn to keep.
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#39 - In Lieu of Johnson
Third Watch - Season 5 - Episode 4
Sasha, Bosco, Sully and Ty get on the case of a malicious rapper. Ty considers returning to law school with the help of Sully. Jimmy struggles with his new position and his relationship with his co-workers when he makes a big mistake during a fire drill. Faith gets a physical therapist.