The WORST episodes of Due South

Every episode of Due South ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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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Manhunt
star
7.08
163 votes

#1 - Manhunt

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1994

When Buck Frobisher (an old friend of Fraser's father) goes missing a week before his retirement, his daughter Julie asks Fraser to find her father before something happens to him.

Directors: Paul Lynch
Writer: Paul Haggis
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One Good Man
star
7.09
74 votes

#2 - One Good Man

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/8/1996

Fraser rallies the tenants to do something about the current situation, but when they get the landlord's attention, he evicts them all. In order to fix what he did, Fraser then goes in front of city council.

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Some Like It Red
star
7.12
42 votes

#3 - Some Like It Red

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/28/1996

Fraser goes undercover as a woman at a girls' school after Ray's ex-girlfriend comes to him for help. Ray, meanwhile, worries that he turned his ex into a nun.

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Bird in the Hand
star
7.13
103 votes

#4 - Bird in the Hand

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/21/1995

Fraser must see that a federal witness comes safely to trial.

Directors: Paul Haggis
Writer: Paul Haggis
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White Men Can't Jump To Conclusions
star
7.13
45 votes

#5 - White Men Can't Jump To Conclusions

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/1996

A teen takes the rap for a drug dealer but Fraser and Ray are determined to prove his innocence.

Directors: Steve DiMarco
Writer: David Shore
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Starman
star
7.18
44 votes

#6 - Starman

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/22/1996

Ian MacDonald claims aliens kidnapped his girlfriend Audrey as he was about to propose. Ray and Fraser reluctantly investigate, and learn that Audrey is involved in a shady government organization.

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Chicago Holiday (1)
star
7.19
113 votes

#7 - Chicago Holiday (1)

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1994

Fraser is hired to protect Christina Nichols, the daughter of a visiting Canadian diplomat. Christina is determined to get rid of the latest in a long line of chaperones, but she runs into Janice DeLuca in a bathroom, and ends up with something that Eddie Beets wants desperately...and will kill to get.

Directors: Jeffrey Lynch
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Body Language
star
7.21
42 votes

#8 - Body Language

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/25/1996

An exotic dancer tells about mobsters taking over strip joints.

Directors: Jon Cassar
Writer: James Kramer
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We are the Eggmen
star
7.23
44 votes

#9 - We are the Eggmen

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/29/1996

Ray and Francesca fight over a winning lottery ticket...she wants half the winnings because she put in half the money, and he says it's all his money because he purchased the winning ticket solely with his own money. After accidentally creating an accident with a local farmer, Fraser is sued by him, and later learns he's created a special brand of egg that everyone wants.

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Red, White or Blue
star
7.23
43 votes

#10 - Red, White or Blue

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/23/1996

Terrorists strap Fraser and Ray to a bomb.

Writer: Paul Gross
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The Duel
star
7.27
44 votes

#11 - The Duel

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/2/1996

A paroled killer leaves clues about his next victims for Ray.

Directors: Gil Shilton
Writer: Seth Freeman
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Flashback
star
7.31
13 votes

#12 - Flashback

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/1996

Fraser has amnesia after being thrown from a speeding van driven by diamond thieves and forgets everything -- his name, his identity, and the license plate of the speeding van. Ray tries to prod Fraser's memory by recounting some of their times together.

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Say Amen
star
7.31
16 votes

#13 - Say Amen

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/4/1999

A teen-age miracle worker's boyfriend is accused of murdering a church aide.

Writer: John Krizanc
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A Cop, a Mountie and a Baby
star
7.33
57 votes

#14 - A Cop, a Mountie and a Baby

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1994

The guys think a baby found in Ray's car was destined for black-market adoption.

Directors: Steve DiMarco
Writer: Kathy Slevin
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Mountie Sings The Blues
star
7.36
14 votes

#15 - Mountie Sings The Blues

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1998

A Canadian country-western singer gets death threats.

Directors: Larry McLean
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The Edge
star
7.38
47 votes

#16 - The Edge

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/15/1996

Ray and Fraser team up with Anita Cortez to protect their countries diplomats at a NAFTA convention, and a series of mishaps land Fraser with envelope duty, until he and Cortez can put aside their mutual enmity to work together.

Directors: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Seth Freeman
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Mask
star
7.40
103 votes

#17 - Mask

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/18/1996

When valuable aboriginal masks are stolen from a museum, Fraser and Ray have to find the culprits.

Writer: Jeff F. King
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All the Queen's Horses
star
7.40
47 votes

#18 - All the Queen's Horses

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/11/1996

Terrorists take a train carrying a group of singing mounties.

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The Promise
star
7.42
106 votes

#19 - The Promise

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/1996

A teenage thief's life is put in danger when she steal an appointment book which could destroy a powerful senator's career, and Fraser and Ray have to save her.

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Odds
star
7.43
14 votes

#20 - Odds

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1998

When a beautiful poker player (Denny Scarpa) is arrested, she cuts a deal with the Feds. Fraser is planted in a high stakes game of cards and Ray must come to his rescue when the poker game gets rough.

Directors: Steve DiMarco
Writer: Rob Forsyth
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Mountie on the Bounty (2)
star
7.46
13 votes

#21 - Mountie on the Bounty (2)

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/22/1998

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Vault
star
7.52
110 votes

#22 - Vault

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/7/1995

During a bank robbery, Fraser and Ray are trapped in a time-locked, water-filled vault. After Ray is declared dead due to a mix-up with the insurance company, Fraser and Ray go to Ray's bank, where the end up in the middle of a robbery, running into someone they've met before...Morgan. Fraser and Ray lock themselves in the vault and Fraser sets off the sprinkler system, hoping to hit the criminals with a tidal wave of water. Meanwhile, Frannie is waiting in Ray's car outside, and enters the building, thereby becoming a hostage.

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Free Willie
star
7.53
213 votes

#23 - Free Willie

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1994

After a young purse snatcher named Willie sees an armed robbery, Fraser is determined to prove the boy wasn't involved. Ray reluctantly agrees to help Fraser prove the boy's innocence as well as find the true criminals, even though he's risking his own job to do so.

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Diefenbaker's Day Off
star
7.56
163 votes

#24 - Diefenbaker's Day Off

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1994

Lucy Pike asks Fraser to help her father, who seems to be having a lot of accidents lately. Ray and Fraser realise that Charlie injures himself as part of a scam involving personal injury lawsuits. With the help of reporter Mackenzie King, Fraser investigates the world of personal injury lawsuits and boxing, and tries to get a wolf license for Diefenbaker.

Directors: Joe Scanlon
Writer: Kathy Slevin
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Chinatown
star
7.60
91 votes

#25 - Chinatown

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1994

Fraser and Ray need to protect David Lee, the son of a local Chinese restauranteur, first from a gang of local extortionists, then from two well-meaning yet over-bearing FBI agents.

Directors: Lyndon Chubbuck
Writer: David Cole
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