The BEST episodes of FBI True
Every episode of FBI True ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of FBI True!
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#1 - Operation Oxy Alley
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2024
Agents uncover the largest oxycodone trafficking operation in American history. But building a case is easier said than done, when the drugs are legal. The FBI zeroes in on twin brother pain clinic owners, suspecting they're running a pill mill...
#2 - Versace: Murder in Miami
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/14/2025
A trail of bodies leads to a manhunt for a suspected serial killer; when fashion designer Gianni Versace is murdered outside of his home, law enforcement connects it to their elusive killer.
#3 - A Genius Disappears: The Annie Le Story
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/2025
Annie Le, a brilliant Yale PhD student, vanishes days before her wedding; CCTV cameras catch Le entering her research lab but there's no trace of her leaving; the FBI uncovers a dark secret that exposes the shocking truth behind her disappearance.
#4 - Pizza Bomber Part 2
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2025
Three weeks after the bombing death of Pennsylvania pizza delivery driver Brian Wells, a man tells investigators that there's a dead body in his freezer, right next to the location where Brian delivered pizzas just before he robbed the bank.
#5 - Pizza Bomber Part 1
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/2025
A Pennsylvania pizza delivery driver claims he was delivering an order when a group of men attacked him, put a bomb on him and forced him to rob a bank.
#6 - Sea of Thieves
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/15/2024
The FBI uncovers a state-sanctioned plot to steal technology that makes U.S. submarines nearly undetectable to enemy sonar - and deploy it in Chinese subs...
#7 - Officer Pulido
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/15/2024
A small-time crook hoping for a break alerts the FBI to a cadre of corrupt cops within the Boston Police. But taking down three SWAT-trained members of a police force comes with unavoidable risks...
#8 - Bernie Madoff - Financial Serial Killer
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/2024
After Bernie Madoff confesses to the FBI that he's responsible for a $64 billion Ponzi scheme he is quickly arrested, but the FBI's job is just beginning. They have the long task of recovering stolen assets to help those whose lives he had shattered...
#9 - McDonald's Monopoly Scam - Part Two
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/2024
The FBI has one shot to catch the McDonald's Monopoly scammers in the act. Agents deploy some very creative undercover techniques to gather evidence. Days away from the takedown, a fax sent to the wrong organization could derail the entire case...
#10 - McDonald's Monopoly Scam - Part One
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/2024
The FBI gets a tip that the McDonald's Monopoly promo games are rigged, and a mysterious figure dubbed "Uncle Jerry" is behind this scam. There's a race against the clock, as McDonald's agrees to run one more game, hoping to catch him in the act...
#11 - Who Bombed Pan Am 103?
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/2024
Days before Christmas, a Pan Am plane crashes in the remote Scottish village of Lockerbie. 290 people are killed, including 190 Americans. The investigation leads the FBI across the world in a quest to find out what caused the unspeakable tragedy...
#12 - Who's Killing Our Heroes Part 1
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/2025
Eight veterans die mysteriously at a VA hospital; after conducting hundreds of interviews, poring over medical charts and electronic records and exhuming the victims' bodies, the FBI discovers the killer comes from inside the hospital itself.
#13 - Love and Murder in Old San Juan
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2024
The stabbing death of a wealthy young husband of a beauty queen in Old San Juan leads to a full blown murder-for-fire conspiracy investigation and an international manhunt by the FBI...
#14 - Showdown in the West - Part Two
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/2024
The FBI faces down a group of anti-government ranchers and heavily-armed militias who've taken over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon. A car chase through the mountains ensues, and when one rancher refuses to surrender, the showdown turns deadly...
#15 - Showdown in the West - Part One
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/2024
When federal authorities seize a renegade rancher's family cattle in 2014, heavily armed anti-government militias come to his aid and a dangerous showdown ensues...
#16 - The Birmingham Church Bombing: The Long Arc of Justice (2)
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/2024
FBI agents uncover new evidence from the Birmingham Church Bombing that could finally bring justice to the young girls killed in this act of racial hatred.
#17 - The Birmingham Church Bombing: The Long Arc of Justice (1)
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/2024
After the 1963 bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham takes the lives of four young girls, the FBI embarks on a four-decades-long quest for justice.
#18 - Finding Aldrich Ames: The Hunt for a Mole
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/2024
When the CIA's most valuable Russian assets start disappearing one by one, the Agency starts hunting for the mole who's been betraying them since 1985. As the mole hunters zero in on a trusted colleague, the FBI takes over the investigation in hopes of catching the culprit before more damage is done. Former FBI Special Agent Barry Colvert, former CIA officer Sandy Grimes and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dell Spry recount to fellow agent Cindy Coppola the agonizing search for the deadliest traitor in American history.
#19 - Seattle Sex Trafficker: 'You're Gonna Be Rich'
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2024
In 2014, a suburban police detective learns of a Seattle filmmaker who convinces teenage girls to engage in prostitution with fraudulent promises that they'll cash in when he makes a movie on the subject. After the suspect goes on the run, the detective and an FBI special agent team up to uncover a multi-state sex-trafficking operation. Special Agent Ingrid Arbuthnot-Stohl and Natalie D'Amico speak with agent Kristy Kottis about how they collaborated to take down a conman who victimized and exploited unsuspecting young women.
#20 - Stopping a Sniper
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/2024
After a family doctor well-known for performing abortions is gunned down in his suburban Buffalo home in 1998, all clues point to an anti-abortion extremist as the sniper. But he's nowhere to be found. Soon, the FBI turns to a rookie agent and a confidential informant in hopes they can ply a convicted clinic bomber and his wife for the intel that will bring this top 10 fugitive to justice. Former Assistant Special Agents in Charge Harold Brantley and Michael Osborn along with former unit chief Cynthia Deitle sit down with fellow agent Kristy Kottis about their work launching this international manhunt.
#21 - Hunting a Terrorist Mastermind
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/2024
When a massive bomb planted in a van explodes below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1993, the FBI sets out to find the bomber
#22 - Kidnapped in Pleasantville
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/20/2025
A woman withdraws $350,000 from a small-town bank, then passes a note saying she and her husband are being held at gunpoint. The clock is ticking as the FBI and local authorities race to rescue the couple before the kidnappers kill them.
#23 - Operation Mean Streets Part 2
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/20/2025
The FBI and their partners are developing a RICO case against the violent MS-13 gang network in Greater Boston. But the investigation comes to a crossroads when it's revealed that their informant has been committing unauthorized illegal activities.
#24 - Operation Mean Streets Part 1
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/20/2025
The FBI teams up with Massachusetts State Police to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle the extremely violent MS-13 gang network in Greater Boston. They get a break in their case when a recently deported Salvadoran man agrees to become their informant.
#25 - Operation Shattered Shield
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/20/2025
When a drug dealer reports extortion by a New Orleans police officer, the FBI launches a full-scale investigation into dirty cops. But the sting turns deadly when wiretaps pick up threats to an undercover agent and a cop ordering a hit.