The BEST episodes directed by James A. Contner
#1 - The Kingdom of Money
Crime Story - Season 1 - Episode 17
Torello and Krychek join the Federal Task Force planning to raid Luca's new gambling business in Las Vegas.
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#3 - Grave (2)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 - Episode 22
Giles faces off with Willow, but she drains him of his powers. This much power causes her to feel all the suffering in the world, so she decides to end it — the world, that is.
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#7 - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 2 - Episode 16
Xander tries to use Valentines Day to further his relationship with Cordelia but she succumbs to peer pressure and breaks up with him. With the help of Amy (who is exploring her mother's witch powers), he puts a love spell on her which goes horribly wrong, turning him into every woman's desire; except Cordelia's.
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#8 - Vallery of the Dolls
V.I.P. - Season 1 - Episode 9
Rogue magazine centerfolds are being kidnapped so V.I.P. is hired to guard the remaining centerfolds at the mansion and find the missing ones. Val feels it's her fault when the first one is kidnapped because it's right out of her commercial for V.I.P. All the models stay at the mansion so when Quick sees one leaving suspiciously he and Tasha follow her to a hotel only to discover she's there with her husband because they never had a honeymoon. So Quick and Tasha wait outside the door when two gunmen create a diversion by opening fire on them. When the gunmen leave Tasha and Quick check the room and find the model kidnapped and her husband knocked out on the ground. Val and Kay find out that the kidnappers are copying scenes from movies to kidnap the models. When Val and Kay go to tell the rest of the team Val gets kidnapped in the process. Turns out the kidnappers are working for Chloe, a Rogue employee. She plans to make money off their beauty and sell them on the Asian market. Chloe
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#9 - The Initiative
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4 - Episode 7
Spike, after being captured by the commandos, is being held hostage by them in a hi-tech facility underneath the University. He manages to escape and heads to find Buffy, whom he assumes is behind this. Instead, he finds Willow...
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#12 - The Replacement
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5 - Episode 3
Confusion reigns when Xander is split into two Xanders, each representing different sides of his personality.
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#13 - Release
Angel - Season 4 - Episode 14
As Faith and Angel continue their battle, the voice of the Beast's Master invades Angel's mind.
#14 - Helpless
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episode 12
For her upcoming 18th birthday, Buffy declines the scooby gang's offer of a big party, hoping to celebrate with quiet reflection and a traditional trip to the ice show with her father. But unbeknownst to Buffy, preparations are being made for a life-threatening rite of passage that drains the slayer of her powers and then entraps her with a powerful vampire foe that she must defeat in a defenseless state in order to pass the test.
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#15 - First Impressions
Angel - Season 2 - Episode 3
Angel encounters an amorous Darla in his dreams; Cordelia vows to protect Gunn after she experiences a vision depicting him in mortal danger.
#16 - Carbon Creek
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 2
After Archer and Trip become curious about a visit she made to a Pennsylvania mining town called Carbon Creek, T'Pol explains to them that Vulcans actually had their first contact with humans in 1957. That year, a Vulcan ship crashed on Earth and three crew members survived, including T'Pol's great grandmother. They pose as humans in Carbon Creek and take on jobs while waiting for rescue and soon find themselves becoming more involved with the town's residents.
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#17 - Dead End
Angel - Season 2 - Episode 18
Cordelia's visions get worse and the gang fears for her health. Meanwhile Lindsey is granted a new hand that has a murderous mind of its own.
#18 - Primeval (2)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4 - Episode 21
Adam tells Riley that he has a behavior modification chip wired to his central nervous system behind his heart. Through the chip Adam has control over Riley. When Buffy find Spike in Adam's cave she figures out that he intentionally tried to split up the gang. Buffy tells the rest of them and the find that Adam wants Buffy to go to the Initiative as part of his plan. Xander suggests that they need the power of all the gang members combined to defeat Adam and Giles agrees. The gang all break into the Initiative.
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#19 - The I In Team
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4 - Episode 13
Buffy becomes familiar with the Initiative and begins to work with them although they are still unaware of her true power as a Slayer. After Buffy abandons her friends at the Bronze for a mission with the Initiative, Buffy and Riley consummate their relationship unaware that they are being watched on a hidden camera by Walsh. Meanwhile, Giles and the rest of the gang remove a tracking device the commandos shot into Spike's back.
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#20 - Faith, Hope and Trick
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episode 3
The new Slayer Faith arrives in town and seems like a fun-loving wacky teenager who integrates herself into the gang. While Buffy is getting 'Single White Female-d' she notices that Faith is becoming more mysterious and discovers that she has been followed by an ancient vampire who murdered her watcher.
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#21 - Same Time, Same Place
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 7 - Episode 3
Buffy, Xander and Dawn are unable to find Willow, who has inadvertently made herself invisible to her friends, and vice versa. Willow's return to Sunnydale is marred further by a demon, Gnarl, who relishes the skin of his victims.
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#23 - Spiral
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5 - Episode 20
When Glory finds out who the real key is, Buffy and company flee. Meanwhile, the Knights of Byzantium have their own plans to deal with Dawn.
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#24 - Potential
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 7 - Episode 12
Buffy and Spike establish a boot camp to prepare the potential slayers for combat with the First, while a spell from Willow reveals another potential living in Sunnydale.
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#25 - Bad Chi
The Invisible Man - Season 2 - Episode 9
During a mission Darien gets a back injury, and the Official refuses to pay for treatment. Seeking out an accupuncturist, Darien inadverently reveals he can become invisible. On his next visit, the accupuncturist, Charlene, inserts needles that allow her to use electricity to put Fawkes in agony if he doesn't obey her. She needs a rare set of mystical needles to cure her mentor, and Darien to steal them. He succeeds, but the needles have ""bad chi"" because the original owner, a millionnaire, stole them. The millionnaire has to be killed to eliminate the bad chi, but Charlie can't do it without gaining bad chi. So she forces Darien to try. Needing Counteragent, Fawkes manages to leave a clue so that the Agency can follow them, and prevent the murder.
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#26 - Art Attack
Dark Angel - Season 1 - Episode 11
Logan asks Max to be his date for a cousin's wedding where she meets his snobbish uncle and aunt. She also gets to meet Logan's ex-fiancée. Back at Jam Pony, Normal is taken by the mob when there is a delivery mix-up. Original Cindy and Max decide to help him retrieve the right painting to save their boss' life.
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#27 - Entropy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 - Episode 18
Anya, secretly a demon again, attempts to get vengeance on Xander but fails. She finds comfort by sleeping with Spike, but the Geek Trio's cameras reveal the tryst to the gang. Meanwhile, Willow and Tara arrange a coffee date.
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#28 - Choices
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episode 19
Buffy's acceptance to college leaves her with even more doubts about her life outside of Sunnydale with Faith and the Mayor still around. Buffy decides to take the fight to the Mayor and discovers a secret delivery for him, the Box of Gavrok which contains a mystical energy vital to the Ascension. Buffy and Angel successfully break into Town Hall and snatch the box but unfortunately, Willow is captured by Faith. Are they willing to give up their best chance at avoiding the Ascension to save Willow's life? Is there any doubt?
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#29 - I Was Made to Love You
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5 - Episode 15
Buffy must stop a heartbroken young woman — a robot who was manufactured to be the perfect girlfriend — from destroying the city.
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#30 - Asian Cut
Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 7
Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.
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#32 - Dear Doctor
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 - Episode 13
The crew discovers a new planet with two races, one in desperate need of medical and scientific assistance. In the course of trying to help, Dr. Phlox recalls his own Denobulan past to address the ethical dilemmas that arise in the present.
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#33 - Both Sides Now
Dark Skies - Season 1 - Episode 17
As Steele works on Sayers to willingly accept returning to the Hive, Loengard seeks anyone he believes can lead him to his wife. So, when Bach sends Juliet to Berkeley where the Hive is infiltrating the growing antiwar movement, John insists that he go along with her, unaware that he's being used to locate Kim. Although John spots her, he is unable to stop Kim from Joining Steele on a trip to visit her son. While John and Juliet question antiwar activist Jerry Rubin about Kim's whereabouts, back in Washington Bach sees that the Vietnam War can be used to increase funding for Majestic.
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#34 - The Harsh Light of Day
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4 - Episode 3
Spike returns to Sunnydale with his new girlfriend Harmony who is now also a vampire. Spike is searching for the Gem of Amara - a stone which makes vampires invulnerable, which he believes is buried somewhere under Sunnydale. Buffy is preoccupied with her budding relationship with Parker and sleeps with him but he proceeds to ignore her. Meanwhile Anya returns and throws herself at a flabbergasted Xander.
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#35 - Parting Gifts
Angel - Season 1 - Episode 10
Angel and Cordelia, still coping with the death of their friend, are aided by an old friend in the pursuit of a demon bounty.
#36 - Revelations
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episode 7
Xander finds out about Angel's return to Sunnydale and promptly informs the gang who confront Buffy with the fear that he may turn evil again, while Faith finds herself under the wing of a new Watcher, Gwendolyn Post, an outwardly prim and proper Englishwoman who was expelled from the Watcher's Council for practicing evil magic.
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#37 - Swallowed Alive
21 Jump Street - Season 3 - Episode 9
Hanson becomes an inmate in a juvenile detention hall in order to investigate the murder of one of the inmates.
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#38 - Loyalty
Angel - Season 3 - Episode 15
Wes dreads the fulfilment of the prophecy that Angel will kill Connor; Sahjhan becomes dissatisfied with Holtz's progress in stalking Angel and take matters into his own hands; Fred and Gunn try to figure out how to juggle working together with their new romance.
#39 - Sense & Sensitivity
Angel - Season 1 - Episode 6
Kate's temper buys her a trip to sensitivity training, which has a strange effect on her... and those around her.
#40 - Dead Things
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 - Episode 13
Buffy finds out that she didn't really come back wrong. Warren kills Katrina and frames the Slayer for it. Buffy violently takes out her emotions on Spike.
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#41 - Soft Light
The X-Files - Season 2 - Episode 23
An experiment in dark matter accidentally turns a scientist's shadow into a deadly weapon that can unzip a person's molecules if they are touched by it.
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#42 - Just Rewards
Angel - Season 5 - Episode 2
Angel and Spike challenge a necromancer who is unhappy with Wolfram and Hart's new leadership.
#43 - New Moon Rising
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4 - Episode 19
Tara and Willow's relationship seems to be progressing when Oz returns to town. Through his travels Oz has found a combination of charms, potions and meditation that allows him to avoid turning into a werewolf. When Oz discovers that Willow and Tara are more than friends he loses control and as a werewolf chases Tara.
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#44 - Carpe Noctem
Angel - Season 3 - Episode 4
An old man uses an ancient incantation to switch bodies with Angel.
#46 - Lonely Heart
Angel - Season 1 - Episode 2
Angel, with the aid of a new friend, tracks a serial killer whose hunting ground is L.A.'s single bars.
#47 - Doomed
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4 - Episode 11
Buffy and Riley have to work out their relationship given their new understanding of what they do. An earthquake rocks Sunnydale and Buffy worries that it could signify the end of the world. They find out about a group of demons who are in town collecting sacred items which together have the power to end the world. When the plans of the demons are uncovered, the gang must return to their former sanctum inside the dilapidated Sunnydale High School (the library) to stop the Hellmouth from opening.
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#48 - Slippin' Into Darkness
21 Jump Street - Season 3 - Episode 2
Hoffs and Ioki go undercover in a Guardian Angel-type street patrol whose members have a vendetta out for a drug dealer who Hanson is trying to set up for a bust.
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#50 - Minefield
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 3
When attempting to explore a new planet, Enterprise triggers a cloaked mine. While the crew deal with the resulting damage, it's discovered another mine is stuck to the hull. During Reed's attempt to disarm it, a spike is driven into his leg, trapping him out there. While Archer goes out on the hull to help him, the rest of the crew learn they are in a minefield belonging to the Romulan Star Empire, who demand Enterprise leave or face destruction.
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