The BEST episodes of The Enemy Within season 1

Every episode of The Enemy Within season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Enemy Within season 1!

Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history, serving a life sentence in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. For Keaton, it's not easy to trust the woman who cost him so much. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy... they must think like one.

Last Updated: 11/2/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
The Embassy
star
7.73
715 votes

#1 - The Embassy

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/6/2019

When a highly sophisticated Tal operative evades FBI custody and flees to the Swiss embassy, the Cointel team must go undercover. What begins as a smooth counterintelligence operation quickly devolves into a tense hostage situation.

Directors: Marisol Adler
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Sequestered
star
7.72
701 votes

#2 - Sequestered

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/13/2019

Keaton and his team are able to intervene and stop the assassination of a high-profile congresswoman. Shepherd interrogates the congresswoman, who had previously used Shepherd’s treason conviction as a launching pad for her political career.

Directors: Andrew McCarthy
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Sierra Maestra
star
7.71
704 votes

#3 - Sierra Maestra

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/20/2019

Tal’s war on the CIA expands to two fronts. Keaton and the CoIntel team must locate the domestic target before Chigorin launches an all-out assault on the unsuspecting innocents. Shepherd convinces Keaton to let her go to Cuba to thwart Tal’s attack.

Directors: Steve Shill
Writer: Ken Woodruff
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Havana
star
7.67
877 votes

#4 - Havana

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/25/2019

Once Shepherd convinces Keaton that Anna Cruz is a mole inside the FBI working for Tal, Keaton decides to keep his enemies close. With a fox in their henhouse, Keaton and the team spy on one of their own, hoping Cruz will lead them to Tal.

Directors: Martha Mitchell
Writer: Andi Bushell
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Confessions
star
7.67
917 votes

#5 - Confessions

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/18/2019

When intelligence obtained by Shepherd during her stint at the notorious ADMAX prison is linked to a pending attack on U.S. soil, Keaton and the Cointel team embark on a manhunt to find and stop a deadly international operative. Keaton confronts questions of loyalty and betrayal when it comes to Anna Cruz and his late fiancée’s father, Thomas Heffron.

Directors: Steve Shill
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Pilot
star
7.62
1133 votes

#6 - Pilot

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/25/2019

Former CIA agent Erica Shepherd, now known as one of the most notorious traitors in recent American history. Shepherd is brought out of a federal Supermax prison by FBI Agent Will Keaton to help stop some of the most dangerous acts of espionage threatening the United States today.

Directors: Mark Pellington
Writer: Ken Woodruff
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Homecoming
star
7.61
770 votes

#7 - Homecoming

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/22/2019

After a major Tal operative escapes CIA custody, Shepherd returns to Langley to help track the fugitive down. Shepherd and Keaton discover the CIA is withholding vital information on Tal, so they spy on the CIA to find out what the agency knows.

Directors: Lily Mariye
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Decoded
star
7.60
820 votes

#8 - Decoded

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/8/2019

When the FBI intercepts stolen NSA software intended for Tal, Keaton uses the technology as an opportunity to go on the offensive and sends Shepherd undercover to pass the technology to the intended recipient, a 19-year-old computer genius. Keaton must choose between catching Tal or saving the life of an innocent teenager.

Directors: Melanie Mayron
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Eye of Horus
star
7.59
824 votes

#9 - Eye of Horus

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/1/2019

After a bomb explodes in Jersey City, the Cointel team captures a key planner, Sam Fathi, who can lead them to Tal, the mastermind behind the bombing. When Sam proves difficult to break, Shepherd convinces Keaton to detain a former Egyptian intelligence officer to help, leading to an urgent mission to stop another bomb from going off.

Directors: Ben Bray
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Chigorin
star
7.59
733 votes

#10 - Chigorin

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/29/2019

When contractors working for the CIA are murdered, Keaton and the team discover the CIA is keeping secrets from the FBI regarding Tal. Shepherd’s ex-husband finds out that Hannah has been lying and visiting Shepherd.

Directors: David S. Tuttman
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Ambassador's Wife
star
7.56
913 votes

#11 - The Ambassador's Wife

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/2019

Following the discovery that a U.S. ambassador is selling classified intelligence to a Colombian cartel, Shepherd devises a plan to catch him that will push Keaton’s moral code to the brink. Keaton brings a new member on to the team.

Directors: Richard J. Lewis
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Black Bear
star
7.54
999 votes

#12 - Black Bear

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/2019

When a former CIA operative is murdered, Keaton enlists Shepherd to help recover valuable intel that could take down Tal once and for all. But the question remains, can Shepherd be trusted?

Directors: Charles Beeson
Writer: Ken Woodruff
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
An Offer
star
7.54
747 votes

#13 - An Offer

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/15/2019

Flashbacks to the past reveal the fateful events that led CIA Deputy Director Erica Shepherd to betray her country and the ensuing investigation that put her on a collision course with Will Keaton.

Directors: Jono Oliver
Writer: Ken Woodruff
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV