The BEST episodes written by Daniel Pyne

#1 - Return to Nam (1)

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 6

Houston and Roy get information that Roy's son who is an MIA in Vietnam is alive.

#2 - Escape from Nam (2)

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 7

The Cambodian warlord who has imprisoned Matt's cousin might be getting a little help from someone close to Matt.

#3 - Deadly Games

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 11

The most dangerous game is revisited when a sporting goods mogul hunts athletes.

#4 - Blood Ties

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 19

Matt's ailing father becomes the target of psychopath.

#5 - The Crying Clown

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 10

A talented art forger is found murdered, and the clues may rest one of his paintings, which is now missing.

#6 - The Monster

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 13

Attorney F. Lee Bailey decides to defend a man who has confessed to killing four teen-agers, then leaves C.J. to handle the details.

#7 - Book of the Unclaimed Dead

Bosch - Season 4 - Episode 10

Bosch and Sgt. Amy Snyder uncover a key piece of evidence that could compromise the entire Elias investigation. Edgar and Robertson are rocked by personal disappointment. Irving exposes his enemies. Bosch stalks the suspected Elias killer on his own, and comes face to face with his past.

#8 - Creep Signed His Kill

Bosch - Season 5 - Episode 10

Pierce and Vega find more body parts, and tie their murder to an ongoing RHD case. Maddie tells Bosch she sent the memo to Chandler, and doesn't regret it. Edgar knows who killed Gary Wise, but can't prove it. At his retirement party, Barrel springs his own surprise. Bosch commits to solving the murder of Daisy Clayton, Irving makes a big announcement, and Walsh returns for one last dance.

#9 - The Sea King

Bosch - Season 3 - Episode 10

In this final of the third season: Bosch's relentless pursuit in the Meadows case reaches a climax. Bosch and Edgar talk about a startling discovery. An unexpected visitor drops in on Bosch and Maddie. Harry learns that his history is far from settled.

#10 - Waltz of Death

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 14

Matt sets out to prove that a touring classical pianist is responsible for strangling and murdering several women.

#11 - The Nightmare Man

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 13

Matt is convinced that the man who kidnapped and tormented a little boy is the same man that kidnapped and tormented him when he was a boy.

#12 - Tommy Madsen

Alcatraz - Season 1 - Episode 13

Revealing doors are opened and lives hang in the balance as Rebecca will stop at nothing in pursuit of the man who killed her partner.

#13 - The Prodigal Son (1)

Miami Vice - Season 2 - Episode 1

Crockett and Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.

#14 - Ask the Dust

Bosch - Season 4 - Episode 1

Three months after discovering a startling new lead, Det. Harry Bosch is still pursuing the truth behind his mother's cold case. A murder of a high-profile attorney puts the city on edge so Chief Irvin Irving creates a Task Force with Bosch in charge. Bosch must contend with two former adversaries.

#15 - Birdland

Bosch - Season 3 - Episode 6

News explodes that the LAPD is investigating one of its own in a murder case. Bosch homes in on the motive behind a string of homicides. Robertson's doubts about Bosch deepen. Edgar discovers another disturbing link between Harry and a murder victim. Irving assists the investigation of the "Koreatown Killer."

#16 - Good People on Both Sides

Bosch - Season 6 - Episode 2

A detail from Kent's widow Alicia leads Bosch and the FBI to suspect a group of sovereign citizens in connection to the stolen radioactive cesium and Overlook murder, but they clash over tactics, causing a deadly standoff. Maddie finds a puzzling omission in a trial transcript and Detective Verga is uncomfortable to learn she's Billets' 'teacher's pet'.

#17 - The Four Last Things

Bosch - Season 3 - Episode 2

A suspected killer whom Bosch has pursued for several years turns up dead in an apparent suicide. Edgar discovers that Harry has a complicated history with the dead man. When the case is later ruled a homicide, Detective Jimmy Robertson develops troubling theories about the culprit.

#18 - Dreams of Bunker Hill

Bosch - Season 4 - Episode 2

Bosch pulls out all the stops to try and get to the bottom of the Elias murder as quickly as possible while keeping the IA investigators on his Task Force in the dark. Eleanor Wish is back in the game with the Feds, and Det. Jerry Edgar preps for his first day back on the job.

#19 - Two Kinds of Truth

Bosch - Season 5 - Episode 1

Detective Harry Bosch learns the DA's office is examining new evidence which threatens to overturn an old case, potentially jeopardizing all of Bosch's other convictions. Meanwhile, a robbery turned murder at a local pharmacy exposes an opioid ring that drags Bosch down a dangerous path.

#20 - The Prodigal Son (2)

Miami Vice - Season 2 - Episode 2

#21 - Rites of Passage

Miami Vice - Season 1 - Episode 16

Tubbs is reunited with an old flame, an NYPD detective, looking for her missing sister. While he and Crockett are searching for a call girl's killer.

#22 - Needle in a Haystack

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 5

Matt must rescue an insulin-dependent, special-needs boy who has been wrongfully deported to Mexico.

#23 - Yankee Dollar

Miami Vice - Season 2 - Episode 14

Crockett and Tubbs engage a drug dealer in a game of wits and double-crosses to snare bigger game.

#24 - Definitely Miami

Miami Vice - Season 2 - Episode 13

Crockett falls for the wife of a murderous drug dealer and the Feds want the vice cops to give up a protected witness to help bust a major distributor.

#25 - Trust Fund Pirates

Miami Vice - Season 2 - Episode 22

Crockett and Tubbs prevail upon a pilot to stall his retirement from the contraband business long enough to connect them with a band of murderous 20th-century pirates.

#26 - Killing Time

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 20

After suffering his umpteenth concussion, Matt falls head over heals in love with an Irish heiress who is being brainwashed by her Irish-terrorist brother.