The WORST episodes of In Plain Sight

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

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....

Last Updated: 11/8/2024Network: USA NetworkStatus: Ended
Gilted Lily
star
6.73
369 votes

#1 - Gilted Lily

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/19/2009

A dead witness causes Mary to take leave of her administrative duties to solve a "Ten Little Indians" story, until her plan gets changed by her own brand of Post-Traumatic Stress disorder.

Directors: Stephen Hopkins
Writer: David Maples
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To Serge with Love
star
6.81
278 votes

#2 - To Serge with Love

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/3/2008

Natasha, the mild mannered Ukrainian accountant, has gotten her new breasts, but her life becomes more complicated when she discovers that her new boyfriend is also in WITSEC.

Directors: Rod Hardy
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Good Cop, Dead Cop
star
6.85
289 votes

#3 - Good Cop, Dead Cop

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/27/2008

Mary suffers the consequences when an attractive witness, who she slept with, is accused of murder.

Directors: Dan Lerner
Writer: Bruce Miller
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Pilot
star
6.87
761 votes

#4 - Pilot

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2008

In the first episode we meet Mary Shannon a US Marshall for the Witness Protection Program. In this episode Mary tries to figure out what went wrong when a mobster's son who was under her protection is killed.

Directors: Mark Piznarski
Writer: David Maples
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Iris Doesn't Live Here Anymore
star
6.92
314 votes

#5 - Iris Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/2008

The closeness of a family is tested when they enter the program after the daughter witnesses a shooting.

Directors: Sam Weisman
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Never the Bride
star
7.04
448 votes

#6 - Never the Bride

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/15/2008

Mary's assignment this week is Treena Morris a con-artist who is married to a diamond smuggler. After she is arrested by the feds, she decides to tell all on her husband and his friends. While Mary is trying to keep her safe, Treena gets engaged and her photo is all over the papers.

Writer: David Maples
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Don of the Dead
star
7.07
373 votes

#7 - Don of the Dead

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/20/2008

A member of the Program under Mary's watch is in a car accident and Mary has to find out if it was an accident or related to his former life.

Writer: Brynn Malone
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Trojan Horst
star
7.09
413 votes

#8 - Trojan Horst

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/22/2008

Mary and Marshall take on a case involving Horst Vanderhoff, an agent for Lola, who's an assassin for hire. While trying to line up her next job, Horst is busted and agrees to testify against her to become a part of the Witness Protection Program.

Directors: Bryan Spicer
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Who Shot Jay Arnstein?
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7.14
347 votes

#9 - Who Shot Jay Arnstein?

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/29/2008

Mary works to solve the mystery of who tried to kill her witness, an art dealer. To complicate matters, both his mistress and his wife are in the program…and key suspects.

Directors: Tricia Brock
Writer: Matt Ward
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Hoosier Daddy
star
7.16
625 votes

#10 - Hoosier Daddy

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/8/2008

Things get complicated when Mary takes on the case of Leo Billups. Leo saw his mother murdered and is going to testify against the people who killed her including his father.

Directors: John Fortenberry
Writer: David Maples
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High Priced Spread
star
7.29
372 votes

#11 - High Priced Spread

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/6/2008

Mary learns that her witness, a NCAA basketball star, has a gambling problem

Directors: Fred Gerber
Writer: Matt Ward
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Miles to Go
star
7.35
319 votes

#12 - Miles to Go

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/28/2009

Mary briefs a new witness whose visitation rights with his son depend on the man's testimony. When Mary learns the boy is missing, she tries to find him.

Directors: Sam Weisman
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Jailbait
star
7.37
375 votes

#13 - Jailbait

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/12/2009

The barely legal daughter of Mary's witness – a Miami racketeer – finds herself in a dangerous romance, just as Raph's mother visits to prepare an engagement feast for the surprised Mary.

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Fish Or Cut Betta
star
7.45
424 votes

#14 - Fish Or Cut Betta

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/2010

Mary’s new witness falls in love for the first time; Mary must stop her witness from taking out his pain in the form of an explosive device.

Directors: Dan Lerner
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One Night Stan
star
7.49
294 votes

#15 - One Night Stan

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/31/2009

Mary and Marshall find themselves in a difficult position when Stan's very first witness turns up dead and he is implicated in her murder.

Directors: Dan Lerner
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A Frond in Need
star
7.52
345 votes

#16 - A Frond in Need

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/14/2009

When a series of murders seem to follow a new ex-con witness, including stabbing Mary's friend, she and Marshall have to figure out if he's the killer in time to save his next victim.

Writer: Brynn Malone
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Once a Ponzi Time
star
7.52
367 votes

#17 - Once a Ponzi Time

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/2/2009

When a Wall Street blue blood rats on his boss' investment fraud and hides out in WITSEC, something from his past life comes calling.

Directors: Dan Lerner
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Whistle Stop
star
7.60
347 votes

#18 - Whistle Stop

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2010

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.

Directors: Michael Zinberg
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In My Humboldt Opinion
star
7.60
334 votes

#19 - In My Humboldt Opinion

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/2009

A northern California marijuana mastermind cannot testify without using the drug to neutralize his anxiety disorder.

Directors: Dan Lerner
Writer: David Maples
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Love's Faber Lost
star
7.62
476 votes

#20 - Love's Faber Lost

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/2010

Mary's new witness is part of a mortgage fraud ring and is an important link in the case of FBI Agent Faber.

Directors: Deran Sarafian
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No Clemency for Old Men
star
7.65
421 votes

#21 - No Clemency for Old Men

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/2010

Mary tries to help a parolee acclimate to life outside of prison after having spent 38 years behind bars while Marshall helps out when one of Mary's witnesses no longer wants to work with her.

Directors: Jerry Levine
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Her Days Are Numbered
star
7.65
374 votes

#22 - Her Days Are Numbered

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2010

A witness with Aspergers who has no social filter and can't lie stymies Mary, particularly when the witness refuses to testify against her only friend – the key conspirator in a numbers case. Meanwhile, Marshall and Stan race to figure out why an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is holding up the visa of a key witness before she is deported. Plus, Brandi reveals her plan for the money she made by investing with Scott.

Directors: Dan Lerner
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Let's Get it Ahn
star
7.66
373 votes

#23 - Let's Get it Ahn

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/26/2009

A world-class counterfeiter witness is suspected in a murder; Mary and Marshall realize they may be hiding a witness from the government.

Writer: David Maples
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A Priest Walks Into A Bar
star
7.67
292 votes

#24 - A Priest Walks Into A Bar

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/30/2010

After a priest witnesses the murder of a parishioner, he will have to give up his special vocation in order to enter WITSEC.

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Training Video
star
7.73
400 votes

#25 - Training Video

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/19/2009

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.

Directors: Dan Lerner
Writer: Brynn Malone
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