The BEST episodes of Dark Matters season 2

Every episode of Dark Matters season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dark Matters season 2!

Delves into the most unusual research ever conducted, including attempts to crossbreed humans and apes, actual zombie investigations and head transplantation studies. Cutting-edge CGI recreations enable viewers to witness the pivotal moments when brilliant minds face controversy or ethical crossroads on the fringes of science.

Last Updated: 10/15/2024Network: Science ChannelStatus: Ended
Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation
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7.68
70 votes

#1 - Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/4/2012

Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.

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Dr. Lobotomy, Killed by Kindness, Voodoo Rx
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7.61
72 votes

#2 - Dr. Lobotomy, Killed by Kindness, Voodoo Rx

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/28/2012

Egas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide. Can words kill? A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient.

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Unabomber, Salvation by Starvation, Get the Lead Out
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7.51
41 votes

#3 - Unabomber, Salvation by Starvation, Get the Lead Out

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2012

Examining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II; leaded-gasoline poisonings.

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Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains
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7.36
92 votes

#4 - Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/11/2012

Fritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress forsees cell-phones and wi-fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.

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Human Puppets, Cadavers for Cash, Einstein's Revenge
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7.36
39 votes

#5 - Human Puppets, Cadavers for Cash, Einstein's Revenge

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2012

Jose Delgado begins to discover how to electronically control the mind. A doctor at Edinburgh University doesn't ask any questions when two men begin supplying him with fresh human cadavers. Scientist Phillip Lenard leads a vendetta against Einstein.

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Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case
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7.26
146 votes

#6 - Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/25/2012

US government experiments illegally on black men with syphilis for 40 years. N-Rays will transform physics in France, if they actually exist. 9 skiers found dead with strange injuries. Was it a quarrel, a secret Soviet weapon, or a yeti?

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Pavlov's Children, Alien Rain, Glow Girls
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7.25
69 votes

#7 - Pavlov's Children, Alien Rain, Glow Girls

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2012

Pavlovian experiments are performed on orphans; red rain that appears to contain biological cells falls in India; a glow-in-the-dark paint used during World War I contains a deadly ingredient.

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Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette
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7.23
75 votes

#8 - Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/21/2012

Robert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free.The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing at an awful price for his patients. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.

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Magickal Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary
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7.18
65 votes

#9 - Magickal Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/2012

One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.

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Instrument of Espionage, Stutter Study, 'Roid Rage
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7.16
63 votes

#10 - Instrument of Espionage, Stutter Study, 'Roid Rage

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/2012

A musical genius is forced to create the most brilliant piece of spy technology ever. Wendell Johnson turns his own stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist in when he experiments on orphans. Dr John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.

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Agent Orange, Benjamin Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty
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7.14
69 votes

#11 - Agent Orange, Benjamin Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2012

A chemical that speeds up the flowering process of soybeans and was used as a weapon during the Vietnam War is examined. Also: the origins of hypnotism; a deadly beauty treatment.

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Lindbergh: American Nazi?, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor
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7.14
101 votes

#12 - Lindbergh: American Nazi?, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/14/2012

Charles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive.

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Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb
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7.06
90 votes

#13 - Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/18/2012

The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.

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