The BEST episodes written by Alex Gansa
#1 - Prisoners of War
Homeland - Season 8 - Episode 12
Events surrounding Saul and Carrie's final mission come to a conclusion.
#2 - False Friends
Homeland - Season 8 - Episode 3
Carrie arranges a meeting. Haqqani finds trouble at home. Saul cuts a deal.
#3 - In Full Flight
Homeland - Season 8 - Episode 9
Hayes has ideas. Carrie goes shopping. Tasneem has problems.
#4 - Deception Indicated
Homeland - Season 8 - Episode 1
Carrie recovers in Germany. Saul negotiates. Max has a new mission.
#6 - The Choice
Homeland - Season 2 - Episode 12
Carrie is faced with a pivotal decision, while Brody meets with Faber to contemplate the future of the family. Meanwhile, Saul undertakes a secret assignment; and Quinn has a decision to make that may prove to be a game-changer.
#7 - Marine One
Homeland - Season 1 - Episode 12
While Carrie is near catatonic and confined to bed, Saul investigates the unsettling implications of her timeline; Walker secures a perch for his mission; Brody makes his final preparations for the Vice President's policy summit at the State Department.
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#8 - Enemy of the State
Homeland - Season 7 - Episode 1
Carrie and Franny are living with Maggie's family in DC. Saul and the federal employees detained after the attempt on the President-elect's life are in prison. President Keane's administration comes under scrutiny. Season premiere.
#9 - The Star
Homeland - Season 3 - Episode 12
Security forces close in on Carrie and Brody. As Saul plans a last ditch rescue operation, Brody struggles to find redemption.
#10 - Paean to the People
Homeland - Season 7 - Episode 12
Carrie and Saul's mission doesn't go as planned. Elizabeth Keane fights for her presidency. Season finale.
#11 - 13 Hours in Islamabad
Homeland - Season 4 - Episode 10
The security breach at the Embassy has far reaching consequences.
#14 - Game On
Homeland - Season 3 - Episode 4
Carrie learns that even in its crippled state, the CIA can still exercise power when needed. Dana Brody goes AWOL, forcing Jessica to go to the police. Saul and Fara follow the money trail to an unexpected location, and Carrie has breakfast with a new client.
#18 - Pilot
Homeland - Season 1 - Episode 1
After missing and presumed dead for eight years, Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody is rescued in Iraq, and returns home to his family. But CIA agent Carrie Mathison suspects he might have been turned by his terrorist captors, and believes he could be part of a plan to attack America.
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#19 - A Red Wheelbarrow
Homeland - Season 3 - Episode 8
After new information comes to light, Carrie and Quinn pursue a key suspect in the Langley bombing. Saul deals with political backlash while Fara discovers the toll an intelligence job can take. Meanwhile, the Brody family gets startling news.
#20 - Day 7: 3:00 A.M. - 4:00 A.M.
24 - Season 7 - Episode 20
The nation remains vulnerable as Starkwood mastermind Jonas Hodges (guest star Jon Voight) remains at the epicenter of the mounting terrorist threat. Meanwhile, the FBI and the administration scramble to provide security and justice, and Jack Bauer questions a key suspect
#21 - Day 8: 8:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
24 - Season 8 - Episode 5
The Russians mistrust Renee, U.S.-Kamistan negotiations hit a snag, and the past of CTU analyst Dana Walsh becomes her nightmare.
#22 - Day 7: 6:00 A.M. - 7:00 A.M.
24 - Season 7 - Episode 23
Jack Bauer is forced to help Tony escape from custody, only to find Tony plans to use Jack to reconstitute the pathogen. Aaron Pierce and Ethan Kanin work together and discover Olivia's role in Hodges' murder. Kim Bauer takes down her captors, and works with Renee Walker to find her father.
#24 - Tin Man Is Down
Homeland - Season 3 - Episode 1
Alleged Langley bomber Nick Brody remains at large. Saul plots a risky counterstrike on the terrorists connected to the bombing. Carrie becomes the focus of a hostile Senate investigation. Humiliated and abandoned by the Marine Corps, the Brody family struggles to cope with Dana's destructive behavior.
#25 - The Drone Queen
Homeland - Season 4 - Episode 1
As CIA Chief of Station in Kabul, Carrie makes a critical decision when her counterpart in Islamabad delivers urgent intelligence on a high value target. Saul struggles to adjust to his new role in the private sector.
#26 - The Smile
Homeland - Season 2 - Episode 1
Months after undergoing Electroconvulsive Therapy, former CIA case officer Carrie Mathison has found a modicum of peace in her family's suburban embrace. But the strides she's made towards mental health are threatened when an asset from her former life comes in from the cold. Meanwhile, freshman Congressman Nick Brody discovers that Abu Nazir may not be content with his nonviolent approach to affecting change in American foreign policy. Brody's daughter Dana lets a vital secret slip.
#27 - Grace
Homeland - Season 1 - Episode 2
Carrie continues to surveil Brody but is unable to follow his actions into his garage which is a blind spot, where Brody begins to perform an Islamic prayer. Meanwhile, Carrie receives visual confirmation from an undercover agent that shows Al-Qaeda member Abu Nazir on video meeting with the Royal Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
#28 - Fair Game
Homeland - Season 6 - Episode 1
Carrie returns home to the US with Franny to work as an advocate for Muslim Americans. Dar and Saul brief President-elect Keane. Quinn struggles with his new circumstances.
#29 - Day 7: 10:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.
24 - Season 7 - Episode 15
Olivia Taylor, the President’s daughter, becomes increasingly involved in the day’s events, and the administration reels when a high-ranking official delivers devastating news.
#30 - Fallen Angel
The X-Files - Season 1 - Episode 10
Mulder puts the future of the X-Files in jeopardy when he heads to a UFO crash site being rapidly covered up by the military. He is arrested, and while in jail he meets Max Fenig, a UFO nut whose NICAP group has followed Mulder's work on the X-Files. When Mulder is released, Scully urges him to return to Washington to face his superiors and try to save his job, but Mulder finds out that Max is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try and save him instead.
#32 - Day 7: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
24 - Season 7 - Episode 4
Buchanan takes Jack to "CTU", a secret hideout where he and Chloe had been working with Tony to uncover the conspiracy within the US government. Tony had been undercover with the terrorists aiding Juma to discover the moles. Jack agrees to help get Tony back in play by joining Emerson's crew himself. Taylor is forced to meet with Matobo to inform him that she may be required to withdraw her forces from Sangala to protect American lives. Her Chief of Staff Ethan Kanin agrees with this decision, but Taylor is not yet convinced. Henry meets with Samantha, Roger's former girlfriend, who tells him that Roger was indeed murdered and provides him with proof.
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#33 - Semper I
Homeland - Season 1 - Episode 4
The political powers that be make big plans for national hero Brody, but his increasingly erratic behavior threatens his media darling status; Carrie grows desperate for evidence linking Brody with Abu Nazir, as Saul directs her to focus on Nazir's money trail.
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#34 - Crime and Punishment
Dawson's Creek - Season 3 - Episode 15
Pacey seeks revenge after a vandalism attack on the mural Joey made at school; Andie's guilt for being unfaithful intensifies after learning the results of her college entrance exam.
#35 - Day 7: 6:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
24 - Season 7 - Episode 11
Not even at the halfway point of this hellacious day, two planes have collided outside of D.C., there has been an attempt on a chemical plant in Ohio, the President’s husband’s life has been threatened and the nation remains at risk. When Dubaku’s evil plan escalates to his boss, General Juma (guest star Tony Todd), the stakes are raised and steadfast President Taylor faces a deepening foreign policy dilemma.
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#36 - Oriole
Homeland - Season 5 - Episode 7
Carrie reconnects with friends while Saul confides in Allison.
#37 - Død Kalm
The X-Files - Season 2 - Episode 19
When half the crew of a Navy ship abandon their boat in a life raft and are rescued 18 hours later looking about 60 years older than they should be, Mulder suggests that the ship is caught in a time field which is speeding up their aging.
#38 - Lazarus
The X-Files - Season 1 - Episode 15
When FBI Agent Jack Willis and bank robber Warren Dupre are both shot at the same time during a robbery attempt, Dupre dies when Willis is brought back to life. When Willis rushes out of the hospital and begins acting strangely, Mulder concludes that Dupre has come back to life in Willis' body.
#39 - Better Call Saul
Homeland - Season 5 - Episode 5
The hacktivists rise up; Quinn covers for Carrie; Dar and Allison assess the damage.
#40 - Secrets and Lies
Dawson's Creek - Season 3 - Episode 6
Jen hosts a tea for the former Capeside Prom Queens; Andie tries to get Pacey back.
#41 - Conduit
The X-Files - Season 1 - Episode 4
As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an encounter he experienced as a child - the abduction of his kid sister, Samantha.
#42 - Super Powers
Homeland - Season 5 - Episode 3
Jonas and Carrie revisit her past. Quinn stalks his prey.
#43 - Born Again
The X-Files - Season 1 - Episode 22
After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths. Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnation of a policeman murdered by his colleagues.
#44 - Ghost in the Machine
The X-Files - Season 1 - Episode 7
A computer with highly advanced Artificial Intelligence begins to kill in order to preserve its existence when it is deemed inefficient to continue controlling the workings of an office building.
#45 - Nor Iron Bars a Cage
Beauty and the Beast - Season 1 - Episode 7
Vincent is captured and held hostages by two scientists who stick him in a cage. Catherine considers a new job in Providence.
#46 - Song of Orpheus
Beauty and the Beast - Season 1 - Episode 8
Father's past is revealed when he goes above for the first time in over thirty years to see a friend. When he gets to his friends office he finds his friend is dead. Father is then charged with murder.
#47 - An Impossible Silence
Beauty and the Beast - Season 1 - Episode 11
Laura, a deaf-mute tunnel dweller, witnesses the murder of a police officer, for which another man is framed. She goes above with Catherine, but is kidnapped by the real murderers, who are also police officers. Cuffed to a pipe in the basement of the murderer's house, Laura taps out an SOS, which is heard by Pascal and Vincent rescues her. She decides to return Above to live.
#48 - The Alchemist
Beauty and the Beast - Season 1 - Episode 14
Paracelsus, a former friend of Father's, sells an hallucinatory drug in the world above.
#49 - To Reign in Hell
Beauty and the Beast - Season 1 - Episode 20
Paracelsus kidnaps Catherine, which causes Vincent to begin a quest to rescue her.
#50 - Sticks and Stones
Beauty and the Beast - Season 2 - Episode 6
Laura, a deaf ex-tunnel dweller, falls in with a deaf street gang.