The WORST episodes of F/X: The Series

#1 - Red Storm

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/25/1998

Loubar is back-with a vengeance! His assignment: to kill the Chinese Trade Minister. Using Rollie's identity, and three days stolen from his life, Loubar constructs a perfect frame. Unless Rollie stops the assassination, his life as a free man is over. But there's more to Loubar's bid for revenge, and his dark and twisted act will change the lives of Rollie and Angie forever.

#2 - Reunion

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1997

An innocent meeting with an old school chum becomes a race against death for Angie when she is mistaken for a woman who possesses proof of a prominent law firm's connections to organized crime. When the kidnappers realize their mistake, Angie escapes and is on the run. Rollie comes to her aid and they use their F/X skills to defeat the pursuing killers.

#3 - Deep Cover

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1997

On location in London, the last person Rollie expected to see was FBI agent Elena Serrano. This time she needs Rollie's help in spiriting an undercover agent back to New York with his deadly cargo of bio-toxin. But the undercover agent is long dead, and the man beneath the mask is Rollie's nemesis, Victor Loubar -- international weapons dealer and chameleon master of disguise. By the time his ruse is revealed, Loubar is in deep cover, somewhere in New York ready to transfer the deadly bio-weapon to the highest bidder. Now Rollie has to find Loubar in a city of millions before he can close his deal. Satellite surveillance, identity switches, and a massive FBI investigation lead Rollie to a showdown at Grand Central Station. Someone's going to walk away from the fiery finish - but whose face will he be wearing?

#4 - House of Horrors

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1997

Supermodel Danielle Vandenglas is the star of "House of Horrors" but death is her stand-in -- and Rollie Tyler is her only hope for survival. Car wrecks, fires, and fatally misfired F/X make it clear someone wants the film shut down. With Mira's help, Rollie hacks through a web of murder, money, and Hollywood back-stabbing to uncover the plotters. But it might be his last gig when he becomes the final victim of their scheme. Pumped full of snake venom, dying by inches, Rollie fights alone through a maze of terror -- knowing that, this time, death is no illusion.

#5 - High Roller

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1997

When the body of a Scotland Yard Inspector plummets from the sky and lands in the middle of New York City, a messy case lands on Mira's desk. The suspect, Justin Telemark, lives on board his private 747 -- the most exclusive casino in the world -- and he intends to stay well out of NYPD jurisdiction. Boarding the casino flight in Toronto, Rollie, Mira, Angie and supermodel Danielle Vandenglas have an hour and a half to find evidence of Telemark's guilt and divert the aircraft to JFK.

#6 - Ritual

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1997

Mangela, an Australian aborigine, tracks a stolen artifact to New York, but needs Rollie's strength and expertise to recover it from a renegade tribesman. Rollie undertakes the quest of a lifetime, to save his friend and face down his own primitive fears in the ultimate one-on-one challenge.

#7 - Spanish Harlem

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1997

A frantic phone call from Mira's ex-husband sends Rollie and Mira on a rescue mission into the old 'hood. But things go bad when the van is ripped off and a squad of high-tech killers joins the pursuit.

#8 - Flashback

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1997

With Rollie's help, the assassination of a US Senator is recreated in a movie, and then in real life -- with the original assassin! When it's discovered that Orrin Hill, the assassin, has a brain tumor erasing his memory, a plot is hatched to convince him he's back on that fatal day in 1979. Lost in a time warp, he must do the deed all over again, allowing Rollie and Mira to track him to the source of the conspiracy -- the man who got away, eighteen years ago.

#9 - Standoff

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/2/1998

Rollie and Angie do Mira a favor by providing cover for a young federal witness. The situation explodes in their faces when a high-tech motorcycle gang tracks them down and beseighes them in an abandoned farm. Result: Total War!

#10 - Vigilantes

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/1998

It's revenge twice over when Ricky Delacruz escapes justice and goes after the man who almost put him away: Rollie Tyler. But his victim ends up being Angie, and Rollie sets out to even the score...no matter what it takes!

#11 - Reaper

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/16/1998

Random deaths in Kansas...the cold-blooded murder of a militia cell in Pennsylvania...the apparent suicide of a government scientist in New York -- threads that lead Rollie and Mira into a shadowy world where nothing is as it seems. When they learn the conspirators intend to wipe out the only people who know the truth about a bio-engineering project gone horribly wrong, Rollie faces the ride of his life, dangling from a helicopter riding a nerve gas weapon, in a race against certain death -- for himself and half of New York City!

#12 - Inferno

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/23/1998

To clear his name when he is blamed for a flashover fire on set, Rollie probes the twisted psyche of a high-tech arsonist and, with the help of one of his victims, enters a dark world of betrayal and deceit culminating in a showdown in a blazing inferno where the only object becomes survival.

#13 - Chiller

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/11/1998

Rollie, Angie, and Mira enter the world of life after death to solve the murder of a hapless drifter. The frozen body of a nameless drifter is discovered on the set of Rollie's latest flick and leads Rollie, Angie and Mira to Bio-Dorm, a cryonics laboratory owned and operated by David Craymore. Craymore's experiments on human victims have convinced him that he too can reap the benefits of suspended death and be reunited with his departed wife. But he needs an organ donor to take the icy ride into the future with them. And Angie Ramirez is the perfect candidate. Rollie and Mira discover the chilling truth almost too late and together pull Angie back from beyond the brink of frozen death.

#14 - Thief

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/18/1998

Rollie and Angie get to put on the Ritz as they become cat burglars to the rich and famous to lure the reclusive super-thief Sebastian from his high-tech lair. In the process, they move from simulated robberies to the real things, putting their reputations -- and their lives -- on the line.

#15 - Evil Eye

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/7/1998

When a young girl is kidnapped from Rollie's set and sealed into an airtight chamber, Rollie and Mira must race the clock to rescue her. The young victim of an extortion plot has twenty-four hours to live, unless Rollie can use his F/X wizardry to convince the kidnappers that their crime will have profound consequences, both in the real world and in the realm of the supernatural.

#16 - The Illusion (2)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1996

#17 - The Illusion (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1996

When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie turns to his pal, NYPD Detective Leo McCarthy, to help catch the real culprits. They uncover, and bring down a secret auction being held in New York, where the world's richest collectors are bidding for millions of dollars in smuggled gems.

#18 - Unfinished Business

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1997

A mob accountant on the run pulls Rollie back into the unfinished investigation of Leo murder. The accountant will finger his boss, Vincent Capricio, for Leo's death if Rollie helps him disappear. Acting on the information, Frank Gatti launches a rogue operation with F/X help from Rollie. But their desire for vengeance exacts a deadly cost when a mob mole inside Midtown South blows Frank's cover. With Frank's life on the line, Rollie must answer an impossible question -- how do you make a man disappear in broad daylight?

#19 - Shooting Mickey

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1997

When Angie joined up with young, twitchy director Levi Chase and her old school friend Kit Marchado, she figured making a Gonzo film would be a gas. But the premise behind the film -- breaching a high security penthouse to get a photo of reclusive, retired mobster Mickey O'Brien -- is also a blueprint for murder. In a race against death, Rollie reaches Mickey steps ahead of a hitman. Trapped in a penthouse, with no way out but down, Rollie takes Mickey on a free-fall high dive, betting their lives on an untested stunt chute.

#20 - Siege

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1997

A quick bank withdrawal turns into Dog Day Afternoon, when Angie is caught in the middle of a botched mob operation. On location for "Vindicator II," Rollie has all the high-tech gear he needs to make life miserable for the hostage-takers. But the joint Tyler/NYPD operation is turned on its head, when one of the criminals turns out to have a strange hold on Mira. Rollie is challenged to provide the ultimate illusion of escape.

#21 - Target

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1996

After a protected witness is murdered, Leo enlists Rollie to help him trap a mysterious sniper who can hit a target from more than a mile away. But the plan fails and the sniper embarks on a campaign of revenge against Leo and his friends.

#22 - Zero Hour

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1996

While a huge bomb ticks away somewhere in the city of New York, the right-wing terrorist leader, who is in police custody, refuses to divulge it's location. Leo turns to Rollie to trick the terrorist into talking by making it appear that the bomb has already gone off. Things go awry when the terrorist discovers their plan and escapes, taking Rollie hostage and ordering a second bomb to be detonated.

#23 - High Risk

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1996

A group of desperate ex-cons attempt to rob a gold exchange on the top floor of a downtown high rise. The robbery goes sour and the crooks take a group of hostages, including Leo's friend, Coleen O'Malley. Leo calls on movie Rollie, to help launch a rescue attempt by staging a phony helicopter crash on the building's roof.

#24 - Payback

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1996

Tensions are high when Rollie decides to work on a gangster flick being directed by a director whom Angie believes was responsible for the on-set accident that killed her father years earlier. When the director himself is killed in a suspicious accident, all evidence points to Angie. Leo joins Rollie to unmask the real killer... a mobster who is attempting to take over one of the largest criminal families in New York.

#25 - The Ring

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1996

A murderous boss of a stolen car ring slips through Leo's fingers yet again. With the help of Angie and Lucinda they get into the "hot" car business and stage an elaborate ruse to find the kingpin's secret "chop shop" and shut down the operation for good.