The BEST episodes written by Greg Plageman

You're Buggin' Me
star
9.03
72 votes

#1 - You're Buggin' Me

NYPD Blue - Season 12 - Episode 5

Sipowicz receives a late night phone call and he goes to the bar where Clark is drinking and tries to convince him that it is time to go home. He takes Clark's keys and leaves with Clark in pursuit. Outside of the bar three shots are fired in their direction, one of them strikes Sipowicz in the shoulder. At the hospital Sipowicz has been stitched up and is going to work. He tells Medavoy that he thinks the shooting was a random act, or related to Clark and had nothing to do with his stalker. Murphy and Ortiz interview the bartender, who admits to making the call to Sipowicz about Clark's drinking. He also tells them that an off-duty cop works his door, but he had left before the shooting occurred; he also tells them that he isn't giving up that cop's name. They convince him it is in his best interest to do otherwise. In the squad's coffee room, members of Sipowicz's AA support group are there to give him some support. Someone called and told them that he had begun drinking agai

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In Goddess We Trussed
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8.94
66 votes

#2 - In Goddess We Trussed

NYPD Blue - Season 11 - Episode 17

Gibson calls Sipowicz into his office; Sipowicz has been transferred to Missing Persons at the morgue. Sipowicz accuses Gibson of not having the spine that he once told him he would need to have when it came time to do something about Hatcher. Sipowicz grabs an empty box out of Gibson's office and uses it to clear off his desk, while he is telling the others about the supposed man-power redeployments that have caused his transfer. Hatcher doesn't seem as surprised by this turn of events as the others. Sipowicz goes to see the Chief of Personnel and lodges his complaint about the Chief's nephew, who he says doesn't belong on the job. He tells him that he has been protecting a bad cop. The chief doesn't want to listen, so Sipowicz leaves and reports to the morgue, where he meets Det. Wally Dorland, a sixteen year veteran of the morgue assignment. Back in the 15th precinct Clark and the others start to work the homicide of a woman who was purported to be a therapist. They find evid

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Bottoms Up
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8.90
69 votes

#3 - Bottoms Up

NYPD Blue - Season 10 - Episode 13

Clark Sr. stops by to see his son. He offers to help, but he is denied his request when his son tells him that it is being taken care of in house. Clark Sr. realizes that Sipowicz is probably on the job. Meanwhile out on the street, Sipowicz is on the job, shaking down a drug dealer named Gordo who he tells that he is looking for any information on any cops that may have been shaking down any dealers. Back at the squad, the detectives are mulling over Clark Jr.'s situation when Jones comes in with information about an arrest that Laughlin made the previous week. The individual he busted for pot had a previous record involving heroin. McDowell and Ortiz begin an interview with a mother and daughter who've come in to report that the daughter had been assaulted the night before. When they get the mother to leave the room Annalise, the daughter girl confesses to them what really happened. She and her boyfriend were attacked. Both she and her boyfriend were knocked out with chlorof

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Chatty Chatty Bang Bang
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8.90
67 votes

#4 - Chatty Chatty Bang Bang

NYPD Blue - Season 11 - Episode 12

Sipowicz and Clark are at the scene of a hit and run, where the driver of an SUV has struck down a guy on a bike and killed the young daughter of a known mobster. They move over to the scene, where the suspect's SUV has been found, but the young black men at the scene, who impeded a group of Italian boys who were looking to hold the driver and the vehicle for the police claim to not know the whereabouts or the identity of the driver. Back at the squad they find out the SUV was reported stolen and the others find out about Jones plans to become qualified as a foster parent for Michael Woodruff. Ortiz and Medavoy go to the hospital to interview a woman who was raped in her own apartment. Jones reports back from the canvas that a plate number was obtained from a vehicle leaving the scene, which gives them a lead to start with. Meanwhile an anonymous caller on the hit and run gives the detectives the name Calvin George. They get George's address and go to the home, only to find a car

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Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way
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8.67
60 votes

#5 - Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way

7th Heaven - Season 2 - Episode 11

Eric's no-nonsense father, John "The Colonel" (guest star Peter Graves) returns when he learns an array of problems in the Camden household. Mary is jealous of a new member of the basketball team who is getting a lot of the attention. Lucy's declining grades are due to her hanging around with a bad crowd, while Ruthie needs to copy Simon in his quest to be a magician. Meanwhile, Eric is oblivious to all of the family troubles around him as he's preoccupied with writing a sermon that is to be covered by a camera crew. Meanwhile, Annie is doing all the chores at home and at church alone while everyone else is doing their own thing.

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It Happened One Night
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8.55
54 votes

#6 - It Happened One Night

7th Heaven - Season 3 - Episode 15

Samuel and David are home and won't stop crying. Matt gets a new job at the Dairy Shack as a delivery guy. Mary sneaks to the pool hall to meet Wilson while Lucy covers for her at home. Lucy ends up doing all the cleaning by herself. Mary hangs out with Jordan as Wilson arrives. Wilson is thinking of moving back to Glen Oak, but Mary realizes she doesn't have feelings for him anymore. Ruthie wants to run away from home because she doesn't get much attention as she used to. Annie gives Ruthie her baby book. Simon orders food from the Dairy Shack to check out Matt's new job. Matt is fired from his job and meets an old girlfriend, Shana.

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Deus Ex Machina
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8.51
4238 votes

#7 - Deus Ex Machina

Person of Interest - Season 3 - Episode 23

The team work to stop Samaritan from coming online and targeting them; the battle against Vigilance reaches a conclusion.

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Firewall
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8.40
6420 votes

#8 - Firewall

Person of Interest - Season 1 - Episode 23

Reese becomes trapped with his POI in a heavily surveilled part of the city and must rely on Finch, Carter and Fusco's help.

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YHWH
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8.40
3129 votes

#9 - YHWH

Person of Interest - Season 4 - Episode 22

Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan. Also, Reese is caught in the middle of the final showdown between rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic.

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.exe
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8.19
3604 votes

#10 - .exe

Person of Interest - Season 5 - Episode 12

As Reese and Shaw race to catch up with Finch, he infiltrates a maximum-security government facility in a desperate mission which could mean the end for not only Samaritan, but for himself and The Machine as well.

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4C
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8.09
4278 votes

#11 - 4C

Person of Interest - Season 3 - Episode 13

Reese gets on an international flight -- intending to leave the team and the past behind -- but realizes his travel plans were manipulated.

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B.S.O.D.
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8.05
4013 votes

#12 - B.S.O.D.

Person of Interest - Season 5 - Episode 1

Reese and Finch attempt to rescue the Machine’s source code before it deteriorates beyond repair. Also, Root fights for her life against an onslaught of Samaritan’s agents and Fusco is faced with hard questions following the deaths of Dominic and Elias.

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Panopticon
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8.03
4004 votes

#13 - Panopticon

Person of Interest - Season 4 - Episode 1

In the fourth season premiere, the team must devise new ways to continue their work without being detected by Samaritan after they're forced to take on new identities created by Root. Some, however, find it hard to ignore the Machine's numbers, putting them all at risk of being seen by the rival machine.

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Das Boots
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8.03
69 votes

#14 - Das Boots

NYPD Blue - Season 10 - Episode 7

Theo tells his father that he misses having Connie around. Andy tells him that Connie has other responsibilities with the new baby but they will get to see her again, eventually. At the squad McDowell is on the phone checking on the baby (again) when they are called out to the scene of homicide in a vacant lot. The victim is a woman that Sipowicz believes is a hooker, based on her wardrobe; but her ID indicates she was a fashion student. Meanwhile, Jones and Medavoy are on the scene of another homicide where a woman was killed in her apartment building's laundry room. Sipowicz and Clark Jr. interview a friend of their student victim, who is offended when they imply her friend may have been prostituting herself. Rodriguez meets his ex-wife for lunch; she is interested in making amends with him for her past indiscretions with drug use that led to their breakup. Rodriguez is wary of their meeting, feeling that she just wants something from him; he's not ready to go through it all a

Bad Code
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7.98
5755 votes

#15 - Bad Code

Person of Interest - Season 2 - Episode 2

As Reese investigates a cold case, he gets closer to Finch and his kidnapper, Root.

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Offender
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7.96
546 votes

#16 - Offender

Cold Case - Season 4 - Episode 19

A father pushes a registered sex offender off of a building and threatens to kill a different sex offender each day until the cold-case unit solves his son's 1987 rape and murder.

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Liberty
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7.95
5133 votes

#17 - Liberty

Person of Interest - Season 3 - Episode 1

Reese and Shaw struggle to find a naval officer among all those in town for Fleet Week; Carter puts a plan in motion to get rid of those who set her up; Root tests her new surroundings.

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In Extremis
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7.94
5213 votes

#18 - In Extremis

Person of Interest - Season 2 - Episode 20

When a person of interest is poisoned, Finch and Reese only have 24 hours to identify the toxin and find the person responsible; Detective Fusco's past catches up to him.

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Meet the Grandparents
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7.93
71 votes

#19 - Meet the Grandparents

NYPD Blue - Season 10 - Episode 19

Connie prepares for the hearing that will let her obtain custodial rights to Michelle. She mentions the fact that the question of home status came, that is "not being married." Andy wonders if that is something they should talk about, but thinks again and changes the subject. The detectives respond to scene of the death of an African man (the third in 6 months). One of the other residents of the building exchanges a few words with Sipowicz. No one at the scene is cooperative, except a uniform at the scene who tries to help out to much. They get into the victim's apartment, where they find his wife screaming and bleeding from her arm. At the hospital the detectives find out the status of the victim, she will be able to leave the hospital and come down to the squad for questioning. Clark is caught flirting with the attractive doctor who is caring for victim's wife. Both Ortiz and Sipowicz are witness to this event. Clark seems oblivious to the fact that anything happened. Jones

La Bomba
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7.91
70 votes

#20 - La Bomba

NYPD Blue - Season 12 - Episode 15

Sipowicz and Clark arrive on the scene of a car bombing. The victim's daughter, Elizabeth Keenan, is on the scene and she addresses the detectives in a very cool businesslike manner when answering their questions and giving them information about her father. Back at the squad they run the case by Bale and Munson; the Feds, the DA and the Chief of Detectives is interested because of a possible terrorist implication of the bomb. The other detectives break up the list of past and present employees of Brett Keenan's company to checkout; meanwhile Murphy and Ortiz are sent off to a homicide in an alley. Their victim is Garrett Tinsley, a 17-year-old boy from a private school. The man who found the body tells them that the victim was a real asshole. Medavoy and Jones interview Phil Beckett, one of the former employees of Brett Keenan's company. He appears successful and indicates that he left the company on good terms. He tells them about Keenan's trouble with a bodyguard on a trip to

My Kinda Guy
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7.91
81 votes

#21 - My Kinda Guy

7th Heaven - Season 2 - Episode 18

After Eric agrees to take in a French exchange student (Guy) as a temporary border, no one but Ruthie suspects the young man is actually a con artist. Suave and romantic, the border attracts both Mary and Lucy after he flirts with them. Simon and Ruthie get sick when they try to smoke Guy's cigarettes. Also, Guy steals Matt's date. Lastly, Eric and Annie discover e-mail and chat-rooms on Guy's laptop computer and begin a romance with each other over the internet.

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The Long Blue Line (1)
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7.90
464 votes

#22 - The Long Blue Line (1)

Cold Case - Season 6 - Episode 22

The team re-opens the case of the first ever female cadet in a local military school who was murdered in 2005.

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Porn Free
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7.88
69 votes

#23 - Porn Free

NYPD Blue - Season 11 - Episode 4

The detectives are on the scene of a dump job, as always Medavoy wants to talk about the trial, whose outcome is as yet unknown, because it is only 8:00 AM. While Medavoy and Jones examine the body, Sipowicz and Clark talk to the swimmer (in a Speedo) who found the body. Sipowicz tries to get the swimmer covered up, but cries "Uncle" when the swimmer bends over. Back at the squad another dump job comes in, while the detectives run their case by Rodriguez. Though he tries to hide it, Rodriguez is distracted by fact that the jury is still out. McDowell and Ortiz get to the scene of the other dump job, meanwhile the male detectives go to the first victim's apartment and find themselves distracted by their victim's neighbor, who is wearing thong underwear during their interview. In the midst of all that distraction, she tells them they should look for the victim's son, Michael Woodruff, which Sipowicz send Medavoy and Jones off to do. McDowell and Ortiz interview their victim's husba

Wunderkind
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7.87
512 votes

#24 - Wunderkind

Cold Case - Season 5 - Episode 6

The team re-opens the 2002 case of a 14-year-old math whiz whose half-brother exploited his unusual talents: card counting and safe cracking.

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Get Carter
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7.86
6939 votes

#25 - Get Carter

Person of Interest - Season 1 - Episode 9

Reese and Finch’s game of cat and mouse with Detective Carter becomes infinitely more complicated when The Machine declares that she is their newest POI.

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Viceroy
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7.86
621 votes

#26 - Viceroy

Taken (2017) - Season 2 - Episode 16

With Hart in grave danger, the team must find their own way to stop Ramsey before his plan to assassinate a senator starts a war with international terrorists. Series Finale.

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Into the Blue (2)
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7.84
353 votes

#27 - Into the Blue (2)

Cold Case - Season 6 - Episode 23

The investigation into the female cadet's murder continues. As the team finds more and more clues, the killer tries to stop the investigation to remain hidden.

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Sabotage
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7.81
446 votes

#28 - Sabotage

Cold Case - Season 5 - Episode 12

The team re-opens the 1999, 2001, and 2003 pipe bombing incidents that killed two and blinded one victim. The serial bomber is still on the loose and ready to strike again as he missed his latest target.

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S.E.R.E.
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7.74
1095 votes

#29 - S.E.R.E.

Taken (2017) - Season 2 - Episode 1

Bryan Mills fights for his life inside a secret Mexican prison and plans a series of dangerous deals to put him on track for escape to the United States. But plans change when Mills and a young migrant girl are taken by human traffickers. Meanwhile, Christina Hart leverages her spycraft skills to obtain powerful new software that could locate Mills, and enlists two unlikely allies to aid in her mission to bring Mills home.

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Sandhogs
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7.70
506 votes

#30 - Sandhogs

Cold Case - Season 4 - Episode 3

The 1948 death of a miner is investigated after transit workers find his body in a service tunnel five stories below a river while expanding the subway system. The deceased was also a married white man in love with a widowed black woman. Also, Lilly feels uncomfortable when Joseph tells her that he loves her.

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Knuckle Up
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7.69
447 votes

#31 - Knuckle Up

Cold Case - Season 4 - Episode 12

Lilly investigates the murder of a 17-year-old prep-school student who disappeared in early 2006 and whose body is found stuffed in an oil drum outside an abandoned warehouse in a drug-infested part of the city. Also, Vera pays a parking ticket for his neighbor and later asks her out on a date.

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Lifeline
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7.67
146 votes

#32 - Lifeline

Law & Order - Season 16 - Episode 5

Police turn their attention to the murder of an undercover reporter, but realise that the killer isn't as guilty as he appears.

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Who Knew?
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7.67
87 votes

#33 - Who Knew?

7th Heaven - Season 2 - Episode 4

Eric accuses Matt of doing drugs after finding marijuana in the house and after Matt's friend Mitch askes him to hold his marijuana. Meanwhile, at the same time Eric finds the marijuana in the house, it leads Annie to a confession of own her about her experimentation. Also, Simon teaches Ruthie about the fine art of doing laundry, eventhough Ruthie is little too young. Lastly, Lucy introduces her new clothing of all black and her new boyfriend Rod to the family.

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Ghosts
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7.66
8300 votes

#34 - Ghosts

Person of Interest - Season 1 - Episode 2

Reese and Finch question the machine's reliability when it prompts the investigation of a teenager who was killed years earlier; Finch recalls the origin of the machine.

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Blunt
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7.66
2746 votes

#35 - Blunt

Person of Interest - Season 4 - Episode 16

Reese and Finch must protect Harper, a street-smart grifter, when her plan to steal cash from a medical marijuana dispensary goes up in smoke.

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Repo
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7.61
999 votes

#36 - Repo

Chase (2010) - Season 1 - Episode 2

When a state trooper's son is murdered, Annie's team must track down a fugitive, who is determined to reclaim what he thinks is rightfully his.

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Fuck You and Eat Shit
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7.59
1577 votes

#37 - Fuck You and Eat Shit

The Peripheral - Season 1 - Episode 6

Flynne and Wilf discover Aelita’s ties to the Neoprims, who want to destory London as we know it. Inspector Lowbeer makes her appearance in London and demands to meet Flynne, Burton and Conner.

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Flashover
star
7.56
491 votes

#38 - Flashover

Cold Case - Season 7 - Episode 17

The team searches for Vera when he goes missing, and they reinvestigate a 2006 arson-homicide case that Vera obsessed over in recent weeks.

The Creation of a Thousand Forests
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7.54
1505 votes

#39 - The Creation of a Thousand Forests

The Peripheral - Season 1 - Episode 8

Lev sabotages Flynne’s treatment. Ash finds an unlikely ally. Wilf discovers some unsettling truths about Aelita. Flynne tries to save her world from Cherise.

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The Dealer
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7.51
492 votes

#40 - The Dealer

Cold Case - Season 6 - Episode 6

When a body is discovered in the trunk of a car, the team re-opens the 1981 case of a missing single mother who used to work at a car dealership.

Breakup
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7.46
67 votes

#41 - Breakup

Conviction - Season 1 - Episode 3

Finn has to investigate why a mother said her daughter was dying of cancer because the autopsy done after she supposedly commited suicide proves otherwise. Potter's friend is arrested for cocaine possession, but when his friend comes to him for help, Potter sends him to Desmond. Meanwhile, Cabot begins an anti-drug campaign.

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... And a Nice Chianti
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7.22
81 votes

#42 - ... And a Nice Chianti

7th Heaven - Season 3 - Episode 5

Eric is trying to cheer up a woman whose son died three years ago. She wants to meet the people who received her son's organs after he died. Mary got her driver's permit, but not everyone is enthusiastic to ride with her. Meanwhile, Lucy and Simon decide to take the bus. A freshman has a crush on Lucy and sits beside her, which makes his girlfriend jealous and angry with Lucy. Simon gets into some trouble with this tough guy who wants help with his homework. Also, a pregnant girl steals Matt's car and leaves Matt with her broken car, which happens to be stolen. She is running away from home because her parent's don't forgive her for getting pregnant.

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