The WORST episodes of Mysterious Ways
Every episode of Mysterious Ways ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Mysterious Ways!
Declan Dunn has a fascination with mystical phenomena that began when he was buried under an avalanche and given up for dead. After he miraculously survived, he committed his life to investigating miracles and the absolute proof of their existence. Declan is proof that miracles happen. But how do they occur? How could an eleven-year-old child survive drowning in a freezing lake? How could a blind mother locate and rescue her unconscious baby from a flaming inferno? How is it that two seemingly identical twins are not related at all? Now a professor of Anthropology at a leading Oregon university, Declan has the training, support staff and the opportunity to study the uncanny, inexplicable phenomena people call "miracles". With the help of Peggy, a skeptical psychiatrist, and Miranda, a research student, the three embark on a quest to explain what science cannot. Mysterious Ways premiered on NBC on July 24, 2000, then moved to PAX on August 22, 2000 and was show
#1 - Crazy
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/4/2000
Peggy and Declan find themselves at odds when Declan interferes with one of her patients - a schizophrenic who claims to be hearing a voice. Peggy wants to put her on medication, but Declan suspects there may be more to this voice that's trying to communicate with her.
#2 - The Last Dance
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/2001
A man confined to a wheelchair after a terrible car accident miraculously heals, able to walk again after twenty years. But Peggy and Declan learn that the man's disabilities run much deeper, as they uncover the real reason his family was torn apart.
#3 - Amazing Grace
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2000
Declan Dunn, an anthropology professor who also investigates miraculous phenomena that happen to people everyday, meets Peggy Fowler, a psychiatrist at a local hospital and a skeptic. Together they try to explain how an 11-year-old boy was miraculously saved from drowning in a frozen lake.
#4 - Listen
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/2002
A radio talk show host suddenly loses his ability to speak, throwing his life into turmoil. He begins hearing stange whispers and is then forced to stop communicating long enough to pay attention to the message behind the pleading voice.
#5 - A Man of God
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/26/2002
Declan's investigation of a fraudulent televangelist is turned upside down when the televangelist is suddenly able to perform a genuine healing. Instead of setting out to prove the man guilty of fraud, Declan is prompted to help the televangelist discover the true reason behind his new-found power to heal.
#6 - Logan Miller
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/2002
Declan meets a man who claims to have traveled forward in time from 1934. When Peggy tries to treat him for delusion he escapes. Declan's search for the man takes him back in time where his influence on the people he meets has a far greater impact than he expects.
#7 - Love's Divine
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/2001
A man saves Peggy's life only moments after asking for a sign showing him his true soul mate. After several more baffling events direct him towards Peggy, he comes to believe she's the one.
#8 - One of Us
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2001
Dwayne Banbury, one of Declan's students, is shot in a variety store hold up, but miraculously, the bullet seems to have passed right through him, leaving him unharmed. Dwayne's friend Jonathan comes to believe that Dwayne is a real life superhero who can finally help him take revenge on the popular students who have harassed him his whole life. In the end, the true miracle is a lesson in tolerance.
#9 - Wonderful
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/2001
A mother comes to wake her daughter for school but finds her missing; across town, the daughter is found asleep in a park, still in her pajamas, and no one has any clue as to how she got there. The episode leads Peggy and Declan to help the parents re-discover just what is important in their lives -- and show them that it's not too late to put things back the way they once were.
#10 - Condemned
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/3/2001
Declan investigates when a remorseless convicted murderer miraculously survives his execution, while Peggy helps the mother of the killer's victim come to terms with her bitterness and hate.
#11 - Child of Wonder
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/2/2001
A blind man miraculously drives his pregnant wife to the hospital, where she gives birth to a baby with supposed healing powers. Declan investigates while a beautiful, ambitious reporter incites a media frenzy that puts the ""miracle"" child in jeopardy.
#12 - 29
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/9/2001
Following an earthquake, Declan must disprove an end-of-the-world theory when the number 29 continues to appear unexpectedly.
#13 - Face in the Crowd
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/2002
Declan takes on a T.A. and is encouraged by her work until he discovers her involvement in various coincidental deaths. Thinking she's the angel of death Declan fears that he's next in line.
#14 - Free Spirit
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/2002
After surviving a deadly electric shock in her new apartment, the normally somber Miranda develops a vivacious, outgoing personality and enjoys a sudden talent for playing the violin. But when Declan learns that a previous tenant underwent the same transformation and ended up dead, he races against time to explain the changes in Miranda, hoping to save her from the same tragic fate.
#16 - Pure of Heart
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/27/2001
Declan, Peggy and Miranda trek through the Indian wilderness to find a ""Holy Man"" who supposedly possesses remarkable healing power. But an incompetent guide and a series of strange accidents put their lives in jeopardy.
#17 - Something Fishy
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/2002
When a torrent of fish falls from the sky onto the former mining town of Kerwin's Landing, Declan can't resist investigating. What he discovers is a town in decline, facing tough economic times. To everyone's amazement, the falling fish are only the beginning of a strange series of downpours that help pave the way to a brighter future.
#18 - MUTI
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/2002
When Peggy's friend, Johanna, miraculously survives a motorcycle accident in Uganda she is accused of being a witch. Peggy, Declan and Miranda must go to Africa and help prove Johanna's innocence in time to save her from execution.
#19 - Friends in Need
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2002
After repeatedly seeing visions of his old friend Mike, Declan pays him a long over-due visit. When these mysterious apparitions continue, and Mike's past is further revealed, Declan realizes that he must put aside old grudges in order to help his friend at a critical moment in his life.
#20 - Doctor in the House
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/2001
Declan investigates when an uneducated blue-collar worker is suddenly able to perform complicated emergency surgeries. But will the man's new medical skill help him stop his teenage son from making a tragic mistake?
#21 - A Time to Every Purpose
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/13/2001
A woman miraculously awakens from a 17-year coma, confused, but otherwise healthy. But she comes to believe that the dream-like world she remembers is an alternate plane of existence shared by other coma patients.
#22 - The Big Picture
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/6/2001
Declan investigates when an agoraphobic, clairvoyant police sketch artist creates remarkably accurate pictures, leading to a showdown with a serial killer.
#23 - The Greater Good
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/2001
Declan uncovers a cloth in a 17th century tomb that they discover is the veil of Veronica, a religious relic with the power to heal. It is used to heal Cancer patients but soon starts to disintegrate. While looking for a method of preservation, the veil is sealed until Miranda is struck with a deadly virus and Declan is forced to make the decision whether to save his friend or save the veil for the good of mankind.
#24 - Demons
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/2000
Peggy is assigned to the case of an attempted suicide and piques Declan's interest when the girl claims she is haunted by demons. As Peggy struggles to help the tormented girl, Declan uncovers a terrible secret lurking behind the patient's disturbances.
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Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/14/2000
On a white-water rafting trip, Declan is thrown from a raft and ends up miles downstream, badly hurt with a broken leg. Luck is on his side, however, as a kindly old man named Dr. Nader discovers him and takes him to Camp Sanopi, a secluded retreat deep in the woods. But Declan soon discovers that this blissful camp is not what it seems to be and that although all are welcome, none can leave.