The Best Episodes of In Plain Sight
Last Updated: Nov 3, 2018
In Plain Sight follows the story of a Federal Marshall with the Witness Protection program who must hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family. To those that know her, Mary Shannon is a glorified meter maid, but her real job is much more dangerous. She must oversee federal witnesses who have been relocated through the Witness Protection program and make sure that they stay safe....
#1 - Something Borrowed, Something Blew Up
Season 4 - Episode 13
Mary must protect her least favorite witnesses on the day of her sister's wedding.
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#2 - Rubble with a Cause
Season 2 - Episode 4
A building collapses on one of Mary's witnesses, leaving him exposed to outside threats, so Mary has to risk her life in order to keep her witness safe.
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#3 - Second Crime Around
Season 4 - Episode 5
Mary works with an unapologetic con artist.
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#4 - All's Well That Ends
Season 5 - Episode 8
Series Finale: Drastic changes take place at the Albuquerque WITSEC office. Mary finds herself caught between a witness and an unexpected family reunion.
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#5 - Sacrificial Lam
Season 5 - Episode 7
Having slipped through the fingers of the FBI, James Shannon is on the run again and heading for the border, but first he must stop to take care of a little unfinished business. Agent O'Connor, convinced that she was somehow involved in James' escape, places Mary under investigation, but when he refuses to listen to her suggestions about the possible whereabouts of her father.
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#6 - Reservations, I've Got a Few
Season 5 - Episode 3
When Marshall's witness escapes from the WITSEC offices and disappears on an Indian Reservation, Mary and Marshall will need the help of a Native American detective to track him down.
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#7 - Something's A-mish
Season 4 - Episode 6
An Amish witness comes into the program and must learn to adapt.
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#8 - The Medal of Mary
Season 5 - Episode 6
Mary is still reeling from the flood of emotions stirred-up after having to arrest her father, James, when he unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep after being AWOL for 30 years. Bad goes to worse when Special Agent Robert O'Connor, Mary's "favorite" FBI agent, demands her assistance to get James to provide critical information regarding his old partner-in-crime, Cormack “Sully” Sullivan, one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted.
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#9 - Aguna Matatala
Season 2 - Episode 5
An Orthodox Jew enters Witness Protection, but his wife refuses to join him. The situation is made more complicated by the fact he is being pursued by a man motivated by a higher authority.
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#10 - The Art of the Steal
Season 4 - Episode 1
Mary uses a thief to catch a thief when she asks a witness to consult on a crime in order to exonerate Brandi of grand theft auto.
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#11 - Duplicate Bridge
Season 2 - Episode 7
An engineer blamed for a bridge collapse enters the program after being targeted by angry family members of the victims who died in the tragedy.
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#12 - Provo-cation
Season 4 - Episode 11
Mary helps protect a guilt-ridden Army veteran; Marshall & Abigail consider the next step.
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#13 - A Stand-Up Triple
Season 2 - Episode 3
A witness finds herself having difficulty in managing her own brood of children, so Mary offers to babysit the trio of problem kids.
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#14 - Drag Me to Hell
Season 5 - Episode 5
Even with Joanna babysitting Norah and Brandi addressing her alcohol problems in rehab, things are still chaotic in Mary's life. Douglas Hampton/Harvey, a drag performer, joins the program after accidentally interrupting a drug deal between a club manager and a member of a dangerous drug cartel. The team tells Douglas that he must leave Kandy and his performance act behind, but the frustration of his new life sends him back onto the stage and into the spotlight.
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#15 - Stan by Me
Season 1 - Episode 11
After watching her mother audition for "Sweet Charity" Mary is kidnapped; in New Jersey, Brandi's boyfriend Chuck is abducted and two FBI agents are killed; when federal agents suspect a connection, a nationwide manhunt ensues.
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#16 - Who's Bugging Mary?
Season 2 - Episode 9
FBI agent O'Connor arrests Brandi on charges of drug trafficking and murder. Insisting her sister is innocent, Mary works to help Brandi while ultimately trying to discover O'Connor's real motive for his actions.
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#17 - When Mary Met Marshall
Season 3 - Episode 2
In 2003 Mary meets Marshall for the first time as they get lovers CLAUDIA TOBIN and HENRY DOER into the WitSec program, and it's a toss-up whose relationship is going to last: Claudia and Henry's, or Mary and Marshall's.
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#18 - The Merry Wives of WITSEC
Season 5 - Episode 4
Mary protects a bigamist not only from his former employer, but also his two wives. In WITSEC, cheating the black market can be dangerous; but cheating on multiple wives is a death sentence.
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#19 - Whistle Stop
Season 3 - Episode 4
Mary and Marshall try to help FBI Agent Mike Faber convince his informant to enter WITSEC. Despite their best efforts, the informant refuses their protection and gets himself into a heap of trouble. After Mary, Marshall and Agent Faber save the informant from certain death, he and his family join Witsec.
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#20 - Training Video
Season 2 - Episode 12
Mary lends her expertise for the U.S. Marshalls by making a training video with a film crew. Elsewhere, Marshall prepares the arrangements so that an elderly mobster in Witsec can go to his son's funeral.
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#21 - Father Goes West
Season 3 - Episode 1
A former high line thief from Boston tries to give up crime for the sake of his teenage son, and Mary and Marshall search for the person who nearly killed Mary.
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#22 - In My Humboldt Opinion
Season 2 - Episode 2
A northern California marijuana mastermind cannot testify without using the drug to neutralize his anxiety disorder.
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#23 - Love in the Time of Colorado
Season 4 - Episode 3
Mary is caught between a witness and a suspect.
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#24 - Girls, Interrupted
Season 4 - Episode 10
Marshall and Stan contend with a rock-star witness and her controlling mother while Mary is away on a WITSEC-mandated road trip.
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#25 - Four Marshals and a Baby
Season 5 - Episode 2
With Jinx out of town and Mark busy with a last minute business trip, Mary has no choice but to head to work with Norah in tow. But when Mary arrives, Delia points out the obvious: Mary can't be with Norah and a witness at the same time. Meanwhile, Marshall and Abigail are trying to determine whether or not Kristi Owens should enter WITSEC and Associate Director Campbell gives Stan some surprising news about the future of the Albuquerque office.
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