The WORST episodes of Ransom
Every episode of Ransom ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Ransom!
Hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont understands criminals better than they do, and uses his insight into human behavior to resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases. Despite the stakes, Eric refuses to resort to violence, even when confronted by some of the most dangerous criminals in the world. While Eric’s considerable powers of manipulation make him the best at what he does professionally, they often complicate his relationships with family, friends and colleagues.
#1 - It's a Ravenzo
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/9/2019
Eric and the team enter the world of Italian fashion royalty when they are hired to negotiate the safe return of a world-famous designer’s kidnapped wife.
#2 - The Fawn
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/2/2018
Eric negotiates with a convicted serial killer in order to get his insight when a teenaged boy is kidnapped by someone copying his methods.
#3 - Hardline
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/9/2018
Eric is given the impossible task of negotiating the release of the daughter of the prime minister of the Netherlands – a woman who takes a public hardline on never paying kidnappers’ ransoms.
#4 - Radio Silence
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/16/2018
While on board a plane with his daughter, Evie, Eric must negotiate with a suicidal co-pilot and find out what triggered him after he locks the captain out of the cockpit and threatens to crash the plane,
#5 - The Client
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/23/2018
When two adolescents enlist Eric to negotiate with a ruthless mob boss who’s holding their parents hostage, the team discovers a family secret that threatens to complicate the proceedings.
#6 - Promised Land
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/30/2018
As Eric negotiates for the release of a couple being held hostage by illegal immigrants in rural Canada, the situation turns dire when the coyotes the immigrants escaped from take the whole group hostage, including Eric.
#7 - Semaphore
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/30/2018
Eric’s archnemesis, Damian Delaine, brainwashes Evie and threatens to turn her into a murderer unless Eric helps him negotiate a high-stakes business deal for a new cryptocurrency that could destabilize the world economy.
#8 - Justice
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/16/2019
Eric and the Crisis Resolution team are brought in to negotiate a blood money payoff when a man is murdered and his wife is threatened to be next.
#9 - Black Dolphin
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/23/2019
The FBI asks Eric to use his negotiating expertise to convince the brainwashed survivor of an internet predator to reveal the identity of the person who incites vulnerable people to harm themselves.
#10 - Indiscretion
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/2/2019
The team’s search for a missing high-end escort leads to evidence that she was caught between a cop with a vendetta and a dangerous drug dealer.
#11 - Anatomy of a Lost Cause
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/26/2018
When a hostage is executed in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation, Eric is charged with aiding and abetting a kidnapper, and he faces self-doubt in the wake of his fatal error.
#12 - Life and Limb
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/16/2019
When a kidnapper from a past case returns and threatens to harm a child, the team is forced to confront the consequences of Eric’s policy of letting perpetrators go free.
#13 - Stay of Execution
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2019
When a death row inmate gets a “ransom” letter offering him exonerating evidence for $500,000, the Crisis Resolution team has 48 hours to verify that the information is real.
#14 - Prima
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/13/2019
When a Russian prima ballerina and her rival are kidnapped, the Crisis Resolution team must use their own brand of fancy footwork in the cutthroat world of ballet to get both women back safely.
#15 - Dark Triad
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/20/2019
The FBI brings in the Crisis Resolution team to negotiate with a formidable sociopath who is targeting diabetics with tainted insulin.
#16 - Broken Record
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/27/2019
When a disgraced negotiator impersonates Eric, the Crisis Resolution team races to recover a kidnapped hotel owner, Jonah Preston, the ransom money, and Eric’s tarnished reputation.
#17 - Unfit
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/4/2019
When a baby is stolen from his crib by a notorious serial kidnapper, the Crisis Resolution team must find out why the baby was targeted and locate him before he is taken out of the country.
#18 - Truth & Reconciliation
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/11/2019
When Eric and his new girlfriend, Kate, head to a gala at the American Embassy in Bogotá, they become embroiled in an assassination attempt, and Kate is the #1 suspect.
#19 - Playing God
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/18/2019
When a bombing at a genetics company causes a woman to lose her memory, the Crisis Resolution team works to put together the pieces of the crime to figure out if she’s a victim or the bomber.
#20 - Story for Another Day
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/25/2019
When Cynthia and her younger brother, Tyler, are abducted by a criminal Tyler’s indebted to, Eric and the Crisis Resolution team are forced to break all the rules in order to find them.
#21 - Secrets and Spies
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2018
Eric and Oliver plunge into a world of espionage when a CIA spy disguised as an American diamond broker traveling with her family is kidnapped in Vienna. Also, Oliver gets an interesting job offer.
#22 - Alters
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2018
As Eric and Zara provide risk assessment services at an investment bank, they are taken hostage by a gunman targeting a low-level accountant, and Eric must negotiate for their release.
#23 - The Artist
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2017
Eric and the team begin negotiating the return of valuable paintings stolen from an art gallery, but the situation gets complicated when the thief then kidnaps a gallery staffer.
#24 - Joe
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2017
When an important engineer at a company that manufactures collision avoidance software in cars is taken hostage, Eric and the team email the kidnapper, Joe, but discover a third party is intercepting their correspondence and purposely sabotaging their negotiation process.
#25 - The Box
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2017
Eric and the team must figure out how to negotiate with bank robbers who are not demanding cash.