The BEST episodes of Alcatraz
Every episode of Alcatraz ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Alcatraz!
In 1963, all the prisoners and guards mysteriously disappear from Alcatraz. In the present day, they resurface and a secret agency are tasked with re-capturing them.
#1 - Tommy Madsen
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/2012
Revealing doors are opened and lives hang in the balance as Rebecca will stop at nothing in pursuit of the man who killed her partner.
#2 - Guy Hastings
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/2012
Guy Hastings, an Alcatraz guard, reappears. Although a good man, Hastings is being asked to do bad things and will come face-to-face with an old acquaintance.
#3 - Paxton Petty
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/2012
When Hauser, Madsen, and Soto track former inmate Paxton Petty, a landmine bomber who has returned and is placing bombs throughout populated areas of San Francisco, methods of the past are applied to the present.
#4 - Webb Porter
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2012
Rebecca, Doc, and Hauser set out to capture musically-inclined serial killer Webb Porter, an unknown ’63 that returns more violent than ever.
#5 - Garrett Stillman
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/26/2012
Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing the secrets behind all the returning criminals. Meanwhile, Hauser makes a discovery beneath the halls of Alcatraz that brings him ever closer to the truth.
#6 - Clarence Montgomery
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/2012
Clarence Montgomery was the only innocent man in Alcatraz, but he's returned and is committing crimes.
#7 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2012
Years ago when the most dangerous prisoners of Alcatraz mysteriously disappeared, they resurface in the present day as part of a larger conspiracy, leaving a police detective, an expert on Alcatraz and an FBI agent to track them down.
#8 - Cal Sweeney
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/2012
When a bank robbing criminal returns from the past and things go wrong in the present, Rebecca has to break him out of the hostage-filled bank before people can find out who he is.
#9 - The Ames Brothers
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/5/2012
Herman and Pinky Ames, who almost escaped in 1963, return to Alcatraz in the present day and find something strangely wrong.
#10 - Sonny Burnett
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/5/2012
Sonny Burnett, a man with a dark side, who became extremely violent while at Alcatraz reappears.
#11 - Kit Nelson
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2012
When child killer Kit Nelson, a terrifying kidnapper who always returns his victims home - after he's killed them - reappears from the past, the team is in a race against time to catch the man before he kills again.
#12 - Ernest Cobb
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/2012
When a sniper begins targeting young victims, the team is forced to retrace the steps of the past in order to solve this modern day mystery.
#13 - Johnny McKee
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/2012
Madsen and Hauser hunt down Johnny McKee, a former Alcatraz inmate and vicious killer with a background in chemistry. It’s a race against time before McKee horrifically poisons more innocent victims. Meanwhile, more details emerge about Madsen’s grandfather.