The BEST episodes directed by Kim Manners

#1 - Apostle of Death

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 4

Whether it's a religious cult or a commune, Matt must rescue a girl who is being bilked out of a $3 million inheritance by the evangelist leader who plans to murder her after he has gained control of the cash.

#2 - Spider in the Tower

M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 20

The Men in Black return to destroy the M.A.N.T.I.S. and the Port Columbia's leaders using their latest weapon.

#3 - Reunion

Harsh Realm - Season 1 - Episode 5

Captured and pressed into a work camp in Harsh Realm, Hobbs and Pinocchio meet a VC of Hobbs' dying mother and try to rescue her and escape without getting rendered by the sadistic warden and his zombie trackers. In the real world, Sophie comforts Hobbs' real mom in her last days.

#4 - The Hunted

Matt Houston - Season 1 - Episode 24

Marquis Duval Sr. kidnaps C.J. and holds her hostage. As ransom, he demands that Houston arrange for his son, whom Houston considers a terrorist, to be released from prison.

#5 - The Woman in White

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 3

A former peace officer is jailed and under arrest for murder, but he might not have committed the crime.

#6 - Death Trap

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 15

Matt must rescue C.J. and Roy from small town oil embezzlers.

#7 - Let Our Angel Live

Charlie's Angels - Season 5 - Episode 17

While tracking an embezzler, Kelly is badly wounded and taken to the hospital. Bosley and the other Angels keep a vigil for Kelly, and reminisce about her adventures with the group.

#8 - All Hell Breaks Loose (2)

Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 22

After the fight between Jake and Sam, Dean has to make the ultimate sacrifice for his brother. Meanwhile the Yellow-Eyed Demon has his new servant and plans to unleash the hordes of Hell.

#9 - Fear for Tomorrow

Matt Houston - Season 1 - Episode 21

Bloodied gunfire victim Eric Brandt lands in a passing car, hands the driver a codebook, and gives her a message for Houston: Fear for Tomorrow. Brant dies when the car blows up. His assailants then go after Houston's buddy Vince Novelli.

#10 - Devil's Trap

Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 22

When Meg boasts that John is her prisoner, the boys visit a friend of their father's to get information about demonic possessions and ways to trap a demon. It turns out Meg is not what she appears.

#11 - Lazarus Rising

Supernatural - Season 4 - Episode 1

Dean wakes up in his own coffin. How did he return from the dead? What caused the hand-shaped welt on his shoulder? And what happened in the four months he spent in Hell, time he can't remember?

#12 - No Rest For the Wicked

Supernatural - Season 3 - Episode 16

Sam, Dean, and Bobby hunt down Lilith and fight her and her demons in a final effort to save Dean's life.

#13 - Existence (2)

The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 21

Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI. Reyes and Scully head to a remote farm to safeguard the birth of Scully's child.

#14 - Jus in Bello

Supernatural - Season 3 - Episode 12

FBI Agent Henricksen finally captures Sam and Dean, but is caught in the middle when a horde of demons descends on the small-town jail to eliminate the brothers.

#15 - Dreamland (1)

The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 4

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.

#16 - Redux II (3)

The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 2

The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.

#17 - Nothing to Fear But ...

The Commish - Season 1 - Episode 4

After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony puts his family under police surveillance without telling them.

#18 - The Nightmare Man

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 13

Matt is convinced that the man who kidnapped and tormented a little boy is the same man that kidnapped and tormented him when he was a boy.

#19 - Family Business (1)

The Commish - Season 2 - Episode 16

The Eastbridge crime rate rises when a retired mobster and his son come to town.

#20 - Soldier of Misfortune

M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 5

The strength of the M.A.N.T.I.S is put to the ultimate test when Hawkins has to stop a combat robot from completing it's mission-killing innocent people.

#21 - Mystery Spot

Supernatural - Season 3 - Episode 11

Dean is killed after looking into a case about the disappearance of a man with Sam. The next morning, Sam is shocked to find Dean alive and is hit with the realization that he is reliving the day before.

#22 - Pilot (2)

21 Jump Street - Season 1 - Episode 2

#23 - In My Time of Dying

Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 1

In the aftermath of the car crash, the surviving Winchesters go to the hospital, where one is stalked by a Reaper while another must consider sacrificing himself to save the others.

#24 - Without (2)

The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 2

As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Kersh informs Doggett that he has been assigned as Mulder's successor on the X-Files.

#25 - Scarecrow

Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 11

Sam and Dean's father sends them to a small town where the citizens sacrifice couples to a pagan god which manifests through a scarecrow.

#26 - Heart

Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 17

Sam and Dean investigate a brutal death and discover that the killer is a lycanthrope: a werewolf.

#27 - Two Fathers (1)

The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 11

While the Cigarette-Smoking Man recites to an unseen listener everything about the work of the Syndicate involving a global conspiracy in cooperation with an alien species, Cassandra Spender reappears and is pursued by the scientists who would rather kill her than keep her alive. Cassandra runs to Mulder's apartment and demands that he shoot her because she is the culmination of 50 years work - a living alien/human hybrid - and colonization will begin if the aliens find out about her.

#28 - Shadow

Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 16

Sam has a reunion with a girl he once met, Meg, but it turns out that she is using the brothers to lure their father John to his doom.

#29 - This is Not Happening (1)

The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 14

When Teresa Hoese (who Scully and Mulder met just before Mulder's abduction) is found in a desert after enduring alien testing, Doggett alerts Scully that this could have something to do with Mulder and his whereabouts. Skinner joins them and they travel to the hospital where Teresa is clinging to life by a thread—and Scully soon realizes this is exactly what's going on with Mulder.

#30 - Requiem

The X-Files - Season 7 - Episode 22

Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. The Cigarette-Smoking Man arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding 'The Project'. Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.

#31 - Apocrypha (2)

The X-Files - Season 3 - Episode 16

Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of A.D. Skinner uncovers evidence that could lead Scully to her sister's murderer.

#32 - Field Trip

The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 21

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.

#33 - Essence (1)

The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 20

Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with alien impregnation is killed.

#34 - The Truth (2)

The X-Files - Season 9 - Episode 20

When an unexpected person comes to Mulder's rescue, Mulder refuses to slip north over the border to safety. Instead, he heads southwest to the Anasazi ruins of New Mexico seeking a mysterious wise man who the Indians call "The Keeper of the Truth".

#35 - Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 15

Hardcase's two aunts help out during a nursing home jewelry heist.

#36 - Monday

The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 14

A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend during a bank robbery attempt. As the events restart again and again, Mulder's sense of Deja-vu grows stronger.

#37 - If You Could See What I See

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 13

Not wanting to continue cleaning up the estate, Mark hires Millie Denton, his former prison cellmate's widow, as a maid. Meanwhile, Hardcastle begins looking into the suspicious death of a lawyer named Charlie Clarkson. Taking over Charlie's practice, Hardcastle interviews Loni Summers, a model that had previously hired Charlie to handle her divorce. Discovering the divorce is now off, Hardcastle checks into the background of actor Dex Falcon, Loni's husband. Investigating, the judge discovers that Falcon had secretly been receiving millions of dollars from an attorney named Wendell Price. In the meantime, Millie, who claims to be a psychic, has a vision of Mark's murder. Ignoring Millie's warning, Mark proceeds with the case. To Mark's regret, he is captured by Price, shot and left for dead. Thanks to Millie, Hardcastle locates Mark in time to save his life. Next, based on the evidence Mark had gathered, Hardcastle and the police, having already taken Falcon into custody, movie in and arrest Price. As the episode ends, Millie, shaken up by her visions, decides to quit and move in with her sister.

#38 - Situation Normal

Over There - Season 1 - Episode 8

The squad is assigned to protect workers installing a pipeline. Meanwhile, Mrs. B is AWOL in Hollywood mixing with some questionable characters and Bo tries to run on his prosthetic leg.

#39 - The Sixth Extinction (2)

The X-Files - Season 7 - Episode 1

While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity. He manages to get a message to Skinner who finds Kritschgau, and together they try to understand what is happening to Mulder before it is too late.

#40 - Folie à Deux

The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 19

Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.

#41 - Die Hand Die Verletzt

The X-Files - Season 2 - Episode 14

The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.

#42 - The Magnificent Seven

Supernatural - Season 3 - Episode 1

Seven demons, based on the Seven Deadly Sins, are released into the world and the brothers must combat them with the aid of a married Hunter couple.

#43 - Zero-Sum

The X-Files - Season 4 - Episode 21

Skinner destroys evidence to cover up a woman's death and poses as Agent Mulder to complete the task. Mulder finds out about Skinner's deception and confronts him, and Skinner reveals that he is working for the Cigarette-Smoking Man in order to obtain a possible cure for Scully's cancer.

#44 - Patient X (1)

The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 13

Mulder and Scully meet Cassandra Spender, a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about the aliens. Mulder's new found disbelief in extraterrestrial activity is enhanced while Scully forms a special bond with the woman. A series of group attacks against abductees take place and the shadowy Syndicate believes that a rebel alien resistance is attempting to destroy all their work.

#45 - War of the Coprophages

The X-Files - Season 3 - Episode 12

Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.

#46 - No Exit

Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 6

Sam and Dean investigate the slayings of blonde women and find that the ghost of the first known serial killer in US history is responsible. Jo disobeys Ellen's wishes and follows them along, and is captured by the ghost.

#47 - The Beginning

The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 1

Mulder is less than thrilled when an Office of Professional Conduct board refuses to reassign him and Scully to The X-Files and even more so when he learns that Agent Spender and Agent Fowley have become their successors. When Gibson Praise reappears and comes to them for help, Mulder and Scully attempt to continue their quest undercover despite having fewer friends and less access and protection than ever before.

#48 - Max (2)

The X-Files - Season 4 - Episode 18

Mulder is arrested for investigating the plane crash and interfering with a military operation, while Scully is caught in an attempted assassination of Corporal Frish which claims the life of Agent Pendrell. Scully bails Mulder out of prison, and they go to Max Fenig's trailer to find out why he was on the plane. Mulder finds evidence of alien technology and boards a plane with it, but the plane is intercepted mid-flight and it disappears. Mulder is again left with nothing.

#49 - Release

The X-Files - Season 9 - Episode 17

When an FBI cadet with amazing profiling skills approaches Doggett, Reyes, and Scully with a lead on a suspect in a series of recent murders, he claims the same killer is responsible for the death of Doggett's son. The agents find themselves wondering if his knowledge of the deaths is because of his obsession with the cases he has studied at Quantico, or if he is in some way involved in the murders.

#50 - Home

The X-Files - Season 4 - Episode 2

A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have a history of inbred children.