The BEST episodes written by John Shiban
#1 - Phoenix
Breaking Bad - Season 2 - Episode 12
The Whites welcome a new addition. Walter, Jr. launches a website to aid his struggling family. Jesse's addiction spirals out of control.
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#2 - Sunset
Breaking Bad - Season 3 - Episode 6
As Walt settles into his new surroundings, Walter, Jr. demands answers about his parents' relationship. Hank's investigation creates an immediate problem for Walt and Jesse.
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#3 - Dreamland (1)
The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 4
While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.
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#4 - Blood Moon Rising
Hell on Wheels - Season 2 - Episode 10
Cullen fights to save Hell on Wheels.
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#5 - Ira Deorum
Da Vinci's Demons - Season 3 - Episode 10
Leo must put his faith in his friends and in himself to have a chance to defeat the Turks.
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#6 - Timshel
Hell on Wheels - Season 1 - Episode 9
A looming railroad deadline throws Cullen and Lily together; Joseph and Elam deal with what their violent mission has wrought.
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#8 - Dreamland (2)
The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 5
Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.
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#9 - Scarecrow
Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 11
Sam and Dean's father sends them to a small town where the citizens sacrifice couples to a pagan god which manifests through a scarecrow.
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#11 - Folsom Prison Blues
Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 19
Sam and Dean allow themselves to be arrested in order to investigate a series of murders inside a penitentiary. However things get complicated when FBI agent Henricksen shows up to take over their case.
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#12 - The Benders
Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 15
Dean searches for Sam when he is kidnapped by a backwoods family who likes to hunt humans and use their body parts as trophies.
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#13 - Manus Domini
Harsh Realm - Season 1 - Episode 7
Florence takes off to warn her people - The Sisters, a religious order of healers - that Santiago's Republican Guard is approaching. Hobbs and Pinocchio follow, fall victim to a mine field and meet The Sisters. Surviving their ordeal requires faith, even in Harsh Realm.
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#14 - Field Trip
The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 21
When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.
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#15 - Negro y Azul
Breaking Bad - Season 2 - Episode 7
Rumors fly about Jesse's recent actions as he and Walt discuss expanding their business into new territories. Hank struggles in El Paso. Skyler pursues a new job opportunity. Jesse gets to know his landlord, Jane.
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#16 - Abiquiu
Breaking Bad - Season 3 - Episode 11
Skyler gets more involved in Walt's business. Hank struggles with his recovery. Jesse takes an active role in his new enterprise, leading him to a startling discovery.
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#17 - Memento Mori
The X-Files - Season 4 - Episode 14
Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be inoperable brain cancer, which is common among abductees. She meets with other abductees with the same condition and forms a special bond with a dying woman, while Mulder tries to save her from a doctor who may be connected with the abductions.
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#18 - Tall Tales
Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 15
The Winchester brothers seek the help of their family friend Bobby while investigating a series of unexplained happenings on a local college campus.
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#19 - Monday
The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 14
A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend during a bank robbery attempt. As the events restart again and again, Mulder's sense of Deja-vu grows stronger.
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#20 - Croatoan
Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 9
Sam has a vision of Dean shooting a defenseless man, and they go to the town of River Grove, where they find the townspeople have been possessed by a virus that makes them violent.
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#21 - Durant, Nebraska
Hell on Wheels - Season 2 - Episode 2
Durant confronts a formidable threat to the rolling city, while a horrific crime leads Lily and Elam to join forces in order to attain justice.
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#22 - Skin
Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 6
Sam’s friend, Zach, is accused of murder. Sam offers to help out by checking up on his sister, Rebecca. Rebecca claims her brother could not have committed the murder because he was with her at the time of the murder. But all the physical evidence points to Zach being at the scene of the crime. Could Zach have been at two places at the same time?
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#23 - Dead Man's Blood
Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 20
To obtain a mystic gun capable of destroying the demon that killed their mother, Sam and Dean must team up with their father John and face off against vampires.
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#24 - Part One
Masters of the Air - Season 1 - Episode 1
Led by Majors Cleven and Egan, the 100th Bomb Group arrives in England and joins the 8th Air Force’s campaign against Nazi Germany.
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#25 - A New Birth of Freedom
Hell on Wheels - Season 1 - Episode 3
When Lily goes missing, Durant organizes a search party. A subsidiary request prevents Cullen from his continued search for the sergeant involved in the murder of his wife.
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#26 - First Flight
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 24
Archer tells T'Pol the story of when he and a rival named A.G. Robinson were in competition for breaking the Warp 2 barrier.
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#28 - Leonard Betts
The X-Files - Season 4 - Episode 12
After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the man has the ability to regrow parts of his body, including his head. The agents soon discover that Betts' body is riddled with cancer and he is able to live in that condition but needs to feed on cancerous tumors to keep up his strength.
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#29 - Hook Man
Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 7
Sam and Dean help a girl whose date became a victim of the "Hook Man," a famous urban legend that turns out to be real, in a small college town somewhere in Iowa. In order to save her and her father, the local minister, the brothers have to find the ghost's bones so they can destroy them. One tiny problem... they're in an unmarked grave.
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#30 - The Amazing Maleeni
The X-Files - Season 7 - Episode 8
When a small-time magician performs a trick where it appears that he turns his head all the way around but is then found in his van dead with his head neatly sawed off, Mulder and Scully suspect he was murdered and get caught up in an intricate scheme planned by two magicians trying to rob a bank.
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#31 - Semper Infidelis
Da Vinci's Demons - Season 3 - Episode 1
Leonardo and his allies are forced to retreat when the Ottoman Empire storms the city of Otranto.
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#32 - Everybody Loves a Clown
Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 2
After the events at the hospital, the brothers have no idea where the demon that killed their mother is hiding. While biding their time trying to come up with an idea, they investigate murders committed by a killer clown.
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#33 - All About Yves
The Lone Gunmen - Season 1 - Episode 13
The Gunmen team up with Morris Fletcher to uncover information about "Romeo 61," a secret government terrorist organisation responsible for decades of major crimes.
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#34 - Christmas Carol (1)
The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 6
On her Christmas vacation with her brother's family, Scully receives a mysterious phone call from a familiar voice who says, "She needs your help. Go to her." The phone call leads Scully to a murder case where the victim's 3-year-old adopted daughter bears an uncanny likeness to her sister, Melissa, at that age. The emotional roller coaster that follows has Scully believing that her sister had a baby during a period when she traveled the country and she tries to adopt the child, knowing that caring for the little girl would change her life.
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#35 - There's No Place Like Home
Shut Eye - Season 2 - Episode 10
Charlie and Linda continue to navigate their troubled marriage as Charlie steps into Paz's shoes at the retreat and Linda makes a series of devastating and unwelcome discoveries. Fonso puts a plan in motion to save his family, but things do not go as intended leaving the Haverfords and the Marks in jeopardy.
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#36 - Diagnosis: Jimmy
The Lone Gunmen - Season 1 - Episode 9
As Frohike, Langly and Byers try to catch a poacher dealing in grizzly bear gallbladders, a hospitalized Jimmy begins to suspect his surgeon is a wanted killer.
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#38 - The Pine Bluff Variant
The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 18
Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.
#39 - S.R. 819
The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 9
Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save A.D. Skinner from being killed by a biologically engineered disease. The disease appears to be created by a shadowy government organization, but in order to save Skinner's life they must determine who wants him dead and why. With Skinner's condition worsening, Mulder seeks assistance from Senator Matheson, who he hopes can provide some answers and help him to find a cure.
#40 - The Breach
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 21
When militants take over a world, the Enterprise crew move to evacuate Denobulan geologists that are deep underground. Meanwhile, Phlox has to save a dying Antaran that refuses treatment due to the history of their races.
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#41 - Jump the Shark
The X-Files - Season 9 - Episode 15
The agents ask the Lone Gunmen to help find their friendly foe Yves Adele Harlow after former Area 51 Man-In-Black Morris Fletcher claims she is one of the super-soldiers.
#42 - Dawn
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 13
During a solo test mission on Shuttlepod One, Trip is attacked by a territorial alien and forced to land on the night side of a moon. As he tries contacting Enterprise, he discovers his alien foe has made an emergency landing nearby. The two contend with each other as an extremely hot sun rises and threatens both their lives.
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#43 - Minefield
Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 - Episode 3
When attempting to explore a new planet, Enterprise triggers a cloaked mine. While the crew deal with the resulting damage, it's discovered another mine is stuck to the hull. During Reed's attempt to disarm it, a spike is driven into his leg, trapping him out there. While Archer goes out on the hull to help him, the rest of the crew learn they are in a minefield belonging to the Romulan Star Empire, who demand Enterprise leave or face destruction.
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#44 - Elegy
The X-Files - Season 4 - Episode 22
After a man sees a woman trapped inside a bowling alley pin setter, he goes for help and finds police standing next to a body of the same woman. Mulder and Scully join the investigation and follow up this lead which the police won't bother with, and they are led to a mentally challenged man who works at the bowling alley.
#45 - Theef
The X-Files - Season 7 - Episode 14
Mulder and Scully suspect that hexcraft is the source of threats against a doctor's family.
#46 - Emily (2)
The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 7
DNA testing on Emily reveals that she is actually Scully's daughter and Mulder comes to assist her and to find out where and how the girl was born while Scully tries to help Emily with her own serious illness, a rare form of anemia.
#47 - We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Shut Eye - Season 2 - Episode 1
Charlie and Linda consider their options in the aftermath of the disastrous wedding between Drina and Li’l Tony and how to handle their precarious windfall. Fonso is called to a special meeting of the Roma Council while Simza copes with White Tony’s untimely death. Rita is given an unexpected opportunity.
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#48 - Three of a Kind
The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 20
While on a stakeout of a Government Defense Convention in Las Vegas, The Lone Gunmen are reunited with Susanne Modeski, the mysterious woman who disappeared ten years earlier when they first met Agent Mulder.
#49 - Karma Chameleon
Shut Eye - Season 2 - Episode 8
Charlie’s newfound success with Maggie brings unexpected complications while Linda’s connection to Nora deepens. Fonso tries to negotiate a way back to his family while he and Eduardo indulge their criminal instincts. The Feds turn up the heat on Rita.
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#50 - Bond, Jimmy Bond
The Lone Gunmen - Season 1 - Episode 2
A million-dollar check from a possible drug deal leads the Gunmen to a charity organisation run by a CEO named James Bond.
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