The BEST episodes of Due South

Every episode of Due South ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Due South!

Benton Fraser comes to Chicago in an attempt to find out who killed his father. After solving the murder, he decides to stick around and work for the local Canadian consulate. He has made friends with a local detective, Ray Vecchio, whose sister, Francesca, has a major crush on him. Although Vecchio is often confused by Benton's strange way of doing things and Benton is often confused by how things are done south of the border, the two get along famously.

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Call Of The Wild (2)
star
8.78
18 votes

#1 - Call Of The Wild (2)

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/14/1999

Fraser and Kowalski pursue an arms dealer to the Yukon, where they join forces with Buck Frobisher's detachment.

Directors: Steve DiMarco
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The Ladies' Man
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8.42
12 votes

#2 - The Ladies' Man

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1998

Ray has misgivings when Beth Botrelle, a woman he arrested years ago for murdering her police officer husband,is scheduled to be executed. Accompanied by Fraser, he tracks down evidence that proves her innocense.

Writer: John Krizanc
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Easy Money
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8.27
15 votes

#3 - Easy Money

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1998

Fraser's childhood mentor(Tom Quinn)arrives in Chicago with the hope of stopping a U.S. company from constructing a hydro dam that will leave his northern village under water.

Writer: David Shore
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Heaven and Earth
star
8.24
104 votes

#4 - Heaven and Earth

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/24/1995

Fraser takes an interest in a homeless man who accuses him of kidnapping a young girl.

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The Gift of the Wheelman
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8.19
27 votes

#5 - The Gift of the Wheelman

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1994

Fraser and Ray try to help out Del, a witness to a bank robbery, only to learn that he's protecting his father, who they need to convince to show a good front for his impressionable son.

Directors: Gerry Ciccoritti
Writer: Paul Haggis
Seeing Is Believing
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8.17
18 votes

#6 - Seeing Is Believing

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1997

Thatcher, Kowalski, and Welsh all see a murder at a local mall, and the daughter of a wealthy man is implicated in the killing. It takes a lot of fancy footwork on Fraser's part to prove the identity of the real killer.

Directors: Steve DiMarco
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North
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8.15
53 votes

#7 - North

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/9/1995

A plane crash blinds Fraser and strands the pair in the wilderness. Fraser and Ray's vacation to Canada to rebuild his father's cabin doesn't go as planned when it turns out the pilot of their airplane is actually an escaped felon. The felon jumps out of the plane, causing it to crash. Fraser is blinded in the crash, and eventually loses the use of his legs. Ray tries to carry Fraser out of the woods, and the two cops still have to catch the felon, while dealing with the ghosts of their two fathers.

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Hunting Season
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8.14
14 votes

#8 - Hunting Season

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/11/1999

A female Mountie who comes to Chicago after two murder suspects has a strange attraction for Fraser.

Writer: John Krizanc
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Eclipse
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8.13
15 votes

#9 - Eclipse

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1997

Kowalski stakes out a crypt to face his nemesis; Internal Affairs investigates Vecchio.

Directors: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: John Krizanc
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I Coulda Been A Defendant
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8.13
16 votes

#10 - I Coulda Been A Defendant

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1997

Fraser and Kowalski try to reward a reluctant hero but blow his protected-witness cover.

Directors: Jimmy Kaufman
Writer: Jeff F. King
Burning Down The House
star
8.12
17 votes

#11 - Burning Down The House

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1997

Fraser returns from vacation to a blazing apartment and a new partner, Stanley Ray Kowalski. After trashing half of Canada in pursuit of a felonious litterer, Fraser is contacted by Ray, who says he can't pick the Mountie up when he arrives back in Chicago. When Fraser gets home, he finds his apartment building gone: all that remains is a pile of blackened rubble, the result of a 'performance arsonist.' Worse yet, when he arrives at the precinct, he finds a stranger masquerading as Ray Vecchio and, curiously, no one seems to realize this except Fraser. Fraser decides to go along with this ruse, all the while utilizing a variety of detection techniques (fingerprints, dental imprints, etc.) as he tries to unravel who the mysterious person is who now answers to the name Ray Vecchio. Along the way, Ray's house is torched (Fraser rescues both Frannie and her perpetually unemployed brother-in-law, Tony, but the goldfish befalls a foul fate when Diefenbaker eats him). Fraser finds more eviden

Writer: Paul Gross
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Dead Men Don't Throw Rice
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8.07
14 votes

#12 - Dead Men Don't Throw Rice

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1998

A murder-for-hire business has a unique body disposal system...funeral caskets.

Writer: David Cole
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Victoria's Secret (2)
star
8.07
74 votes

#13 - Victoria's Secret (2)

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/1995

Directors: Paul Haggis
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The Wild Bunch
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8.06
82 votes

#14 - The Wild Bunch

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1995

Diefenbaker, straying from the apartment, is impounded.

Directors: Richard J. Lewis
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Good For The Soul
star
8.05
19 votes

#15 - Good For The Soul

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/1998

Ray arrests a mob boss for minor assault, and Fraser is determined to make it stick.

Writer: Peter Mohan
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They Eat Horses, Don't They?
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8.03
68 votes

#16 - They Eat Horses, Don't They?

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1994

When a little boy gets sick from eating meat purchased from a local grocery, Fraser investigates and learns that it's actually horse meat. He begins making the rounds of the auction houses, and not only does he find out who the culprit is, he also finds romance with an attractive horsewoman.

Directors: Timothy Bond
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Letting Go
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8.00
101 votes

#17 - Letting Go

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/1/1995

Hospitalized Fraser takes interest in an apparent crime. In the aftermath of 'Victoria's Secret', Fraser finds himself hospitalized, recovering from Ray's bullet. The two friends try to get past this bump in their friendship. Meanwhile, Fraser and his physical therapist, Jill Kennedy get drawn into a blackmail and murder case, partially witnessed through Fraser's hospital window.

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You Must Remember This
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8.00
114 votes

#18 - You Must Remember This

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1995

Ray finally finds the woman of his dreams only to find out she's an illegal arms dealer.

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The Deal
star
8.00
81 votes

#19 - The Deal

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/30/1995

Fraser and Ray help a shoemaker terrorized by a mobster.

Directors: George Mendeluk
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An Invitation to Romance
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7.98
50 votes

#20 - An Invitation to Romance

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/6/1995

Fraser lands in hot water with a suspicious fiance.

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An Eye for an Eye
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7.96
52 votes

#21 - An Eye for an Eye

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/1995

A mugging victim turns vigilante after Fraser and Ray teach self-defense to senior citizens.

Directors: Steve DiMarco
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Strange Bedfellows
star
7.93
15 votes

#22 - Strange Bedfellows

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1997

The team guards a council candidate courting Kowalski's ex-wife, Stella.

Writer: R.B. Carney
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Dead Guy Running
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7.88
16 votes

#23 - Dead Guy Running

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1998

Ray finds a corpse hidden in the interrogation room wall.

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Witness
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7.87
135 votes

#24 - Witness

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/14/1995

Ray is jailed for contempt of court; Fraser gets arrested to protect him.

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Perfect Strangers
star
7.85
13 votes

#25 - Perfect Strangers

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1997

Fraser must find a flight attendant's killer before her father does.

Writer: David Cole
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