The BEST episodes written by John Wirth
#1 - Payback
Nash Bridges - Season 3 - Episode 2
Willie Nelson plays Earl Dobbs, a convict who gets a furlough from San Quentin to help Nash and Joe catch his former crime partner.
#2 - Revelations
Nash Bridges - Season 3 - Episode 8
When a reporter is murdered while covering the new ""French Connection"", Nash comes face-to-face with a startling revelation - his brother, a Vietnam MIA, thought dead for the last 24 years, may be alive and in San Francisco. Meanwhile, Lisa's sister, Lynette, arrives to house-sit at Lisa's indefinitely.
#3 - Danger Zone
Nash Bridges - Season 3 - Episode 20
Nash and Joe are on the trail of a ruthless gang of thieves threatening to release the lethal nerve gas over downtown San Francisco unless the area is evacuated. Once the area is cleared of people, the criminals plan to move in and rob the banks in the area. Racing against time to capture the criminal mastermind behind this scheme, Nash is surprised to discover that the gang leader is Pamela Smith, a beautiful, brilliant chemist who created the deadly gas. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman appears who claims to be Joe's daughter from a college fertility experiment in which he participated years earlier.
#4 - Live Shot
Nash Bridges - Season 3 - Episode 14
Geraldo Rivera comes to the SIU to interview Nash and Joe. Nash arrives at the SIU after having his drink spiked with acid by a biker couple; and there's a ""mole"" in the SIU feeding sensitive information about Nash to Geraldo, which he uses in the interview. Meanwhile, our SIU cops must solve a mystery which begins as a routine shooting at a convenience store.
#5 - Firestorm
Nash Bridges - Season 4 - Episode 9
Nash pursues a deadly arsonist who torches a church and the only witness is Angel. Caitlin investigates Evan on a police brutality charge, probing into his past. Nash's friends and family plan a surprise birthday for him.
#6 - Fair Game
Nash Bridges - Season 6 - Episode 22
A serial killer who picks up passengers in a cab and then murders them stalks the city; Cassidy struggles with whether she wants to continue to be a cop.
#7 - Get Bananas
Nash Bridges - Season 5 - Episode 8
Evan puts himself under suspicion after he takes $40,000 of drug money during a bust; Nash and the SIU take down a drug dealer. Nash and Joe guard a chimpanzee, while Jake Cage goes undercover as an animal extremist.
#8 - Girl Trouble
Nash Bridges - Season 5 - Episode 4
Cassidy finds an apartment, only to be mistaken for the previous renter who has stolen money from drug dealers. Lonely Joe carries on an online romance, but the other ""woman"" turns out to be Pepe. Evan bottoms out in his broken relationship with Cassidy
#9 - Out of Miami
Nash Bridges - Season 6 - Episode 14
Nash and a Federal marshal (Philip Michael Thomas) are taken hostage by a Miami drug lord who wants to exchange them for a witness who's scheduled to testify against him in court; Joe tries to get out of being audited by the IRS.
#10 - Liar's Poker
Nash Bridges - Season 5 - Episode 13
Nash goes undercover as a hitman for a drug cartel. Nick's poker buddies plan a bank heist; Inger returns from Sweden with her mother; Evan gets his engagement ring back from Cassidy.
#11 - Jump Start
Nash Bridges - Season 6 - Episode 2
Nash clashes with his new rival, Deputy Chief Max Pettit, who has assigned Cassidy to a dangerous undercover gig involving synthetic diamond smugglers and a deadly assassin working for the South African diamond cartel. Joe tries to back out of the house purchase; Cassidy and her new partner Rachel McCabe join the S.I.U.
#12 - Jackpot (1)
Nash Bridges - Season 5 - Episode 21
Nash and Joe get a tip from Tony B that there is a hit out on Chief of Police Frank Girard. But it's already too late, as the Chief's car is shot up - the Chief and his driver are killed. Nash and Joe arrive to find the carnage. The Chief was a close friend of Nash's. There was one driver, one triggerman, using a bright red Impala. The Impala crashed into a taxi, leaving behind a paint sample. Thanks to Caitlin's suggestion, the SIU and the Embarcadero station are sharing office space in the barge. There is total chaos, as Joe is forced to share a desk with Jake Cage. Tony B is interrogated. Tony B has a new business - Bay Area Switches. The trucking business is really a front to ship money to Las Vegas to be laundered. Tony B's contact is Ellen Holiday. Holiday is in contact with the assassin of the Chief and with Jimmy Z, head of the money-laundering operation. Holiday is arrested and questioned, but she reveals nothing. The red Impala is found, tracked to a Melvin from a wrecking ya
#13 - Breath of Steele
Remington Steele - Season 3 - Episode 10
Laura and Steele try to protect two singing-telegram girls who witnessed a murder while they also hunt for the killers.
#14 - Change Up
Nash Bridges - Season 6 - Episode 20
Cassidy is suspended following her involvement in the fatal shooting of a bystander during a bank robbery and becomes the target of department cronies who want to use her to get rid of Nash.
#15 - Steele Alive and Kicking
Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 21
A man who framed himself so his wife could collect the reward learns he isn't terminally ill and wants Laura and Steele to clear him.
#16 - Now You Steele It, Now You Don't
Remington Steele - Season 3 - Episode 18
Laura feels used when she discovers an importer has killed himself after she delivers a message to him.
#17 - Holy Mojo
Hap and Leonard - Season 2 - Episode 3
Hap begins to build a map of clues at the garage, while Leonard teaches Ivan some survival skills. Grisly new evidence leads the guys on a wild goose chase across town. Hap and Leonard's passions flare, threatening to derail the investigation.
#18 - Cop Out
Nash Bridges - Season 5 - Episode 16
Wearing his brother's uniform as a motorcycle cop and impersonating a police officer, a deranged man imagines and talks to his dead brother. Nash adjusts to his break-up with Caitlin; Nick fails his driving test; Cassidy asks Evan for help to move back into a Berkeley apartment.
#19 - Blowout
Nash Bridges - Season 6 - Episode 8
Nash must track down Rick Bettina, who escapes custody during his parole hearing, and recover the $2.5 million dollars in pension money he stole. Joe plays a modern-day Cyrano when the love affair between Dov and Amy abruptly ends, jeopardizing his remodel.
#20 - Maltese Steele
Remington Steele - Season 3 - Episode 3
Laura and Steele search for a missing body on the island of Malta, but find an insignificant piece of brass that could get them killed.
#21 - Steele Blushing
Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 3
Laura protects a photographer and his files from angry clients and the FBI even after her doctored photo appears in a porno magazine.
#22 - Crash & Burn
Nash Bridges - Season 4 - Episode 22
Four robbers storm into a check-cashing outlet. They release tear gas grenades and rob the place. Nash, Joe, Harvey, and Evan respond to the silent alarm. Three robbers (who all turn out to be women) dump the cash into a getaway car (driven by another woman) and leave on foot. Harvey and Evan run into the getaway car, but let it go, not knowing that the robbers are women. Nash and Joe confront the fourth robber. Nash shoots him dead through the eye hole in his gas mask. The dead robber is Adrian Beltran; stolen is 100,000 dollars. The MO (modus operandi) is similar to a North Beach robbery crew from four years ago, who are now all in prison. Nash suspects Anthony Warrick, who ratted out the original crew. But Warrick retains heavy-duty lawyer Denise, and Warrick is clean with no connection to the dead man. While Harvey and Evan surveil Warrick, another robbery goes off. A trace of the tear gas grenades leads to Bunker Bob, but he only identifies the dead Adrian Beltran. A study of the
#23 - Eminent Domain
Hell on Wheels - Season 3 - Episode 2
An unexpected roadblock forces Cullen to make a difficult choice as a reporter arrives in Hell on Wheels. Elam struggles with his new boss.
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#24 - Bye-Bye, Bey-Bey
Picket Fences - Season 4 - Episode 17
It's the christening of Mayor Bey's baby, Michael, but the Rome residents are flabbergasted when Laurie announces that she had the baby for her brother Jerry and his lover Gordy, who plan to raise the baby in the town. The Beys' estranged mother Christine, who turned her back on her children because she was deaf and he was gay, turns up and announces she is taking them all to court to get custody of her grandson. Tension brews in Rome as the people take sides on the issue and a campaign begins to have Laurie removed as Mayor, resulting in Jerry and Gordy being attacked at the supermarket by a vicious homophobic gang. Despite attempts by the prosecution to discredit the men and prove their lifestyle is unsuitable to raise a child in, Judge Bone ultimately rules in their favour and allows them to keep baby Michael, saying he doesn't feel they pose a threat to the boy. The court case over, Mrs Bey leaves Rome again under a cloud, and Laurie is emotional as she leaves the baby in the care
#25 - Railroad Men
Hell on Wheels - Season 5 - Episode 13
The race to finish the railroad comes down to inches, forcing all parties to contemplate the end of the line, and what the future holds for them.
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#26 - Fathers and Sins
Hell on Wheels - Season 3 - Episode 9
With General Grant's deadline only two days away, a gang of riders attacks Cheyenne while Cullen and Elam pay Durant a visit.
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#27 - One Less Mule
Hell on Wheels - Season 3 - Episode 6
Durant files an injunction against Union Pacific, threatening Cullen's position; Elam deals with a dangerous newcomer.
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#28 - Be Silent and Come Out
Falling Skies - Season 3 - Episode 6
Hal finally reveals his internal struggle to everyone, and it doesn’t bode well for the Masons. Lourdes experiments with a risky new medical procedure. And Charleston’s government sees a massive shift in leadership when a group breaks away on a search and rescue mission.
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#29 - Land Pirates
Nash Bridges - Season 6 - Episode 4
Nash and Joe are on the trail of a high profile robbery ring that targets San Francisco socialites. Nash runs into Angel when Belinda Cruz hires B&D to prove her sister's pregnancy (she's a nun) is not a virgin birth. Joe enlists Nick to build a speed bump in front of is house.
#30 - Badlands
Falling Skies - Season 3 - Episode 3
The two-year anniversary of the alien invasion is fast approaching as the people of Charleston prepare for another potentially devastating offensive. A sniper attack by an unlikely gunman creates questions and doubts within the new government. Hal believes he knows the identity of the mole. And Anne’s concern for her baby continues to grow.
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#31 - Bloodlines
Picket Fences - Season 4 - Episode 11
Matthew's classmate shoots himself. A bear is loose in Rome and Kenny assumes the role of Mayor Bey's Lamaze partner.
#32 - Bloodbrothers
Picket Fences - Season 4 - Episode 4
Two escaped convicts show up in Rome looking for one's half-brother, Littleton. Kenny is shot by one of the fugitives.
#33 - Springtime for Steele
Remington Steele - Season 3 - Episode 15
The unexpected success of singer Rocky Sullivan threatens a little scheme cooked up by her managers and might get her killed.
#34 - Chicken Hill
Hell on Wheels - Season 4 - Episode 3
Cullen goes back to work on the railroad and butts heads with his new boss. Durant and Campbell battle over a valuable piece of real estate.
#35 - Blue Blooded Steele
Remington Steele - Season 3 - Episode 5
Daniel Chalmers enters Steele's life again when it appears that he is about to inherit an English title, its fortune and some enemies.
#36 - Mei Mei
Hell on Wheels - Season 5 - Episode 2
Cullen and Fong find themselves in peril as they transport a locomotive over the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Swede gains Phineas' trust.
#37 - Strange Brew
Falling Skies - Season 3 - Episode 8
Things seem much too calm for Tom, making him suspicious of his surroundings. On his way back to Charleston, he makes a number of discoveries, some incredibly surprising and others utterly horrifying. Meanwhile, Weaver and Pope butt heads over how to handle the suspected mole.
#38 - Mystery Dance
Nash Bridges - Season 4 - Episode 11
Nash finds himself defending Caitlin when she's the main suspect for a murdered CIA agent connected to her mysterious past. Joe begins working out with the trainer from hell. Cassidy and Nick enter a tango dance contest.
#39 - Something Borrowed
Nash Bridges - Season 6 - Episode 13
Nash's former lover Tamara Van Zant forges his name on a marriage license and claims to be married to him in order to protect herself from a thug out to kill her; Nick pretends to be romantically involved with a lesbian friend to deflect suspicion from the woman's son, a high-profile gangster from Philadelphia.
#40 - Complications
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 2 - Episode 9
Sarah finds that the strange dreams she's been having while she sleeps are slowly beginning to creep into her waking life, but she has no idea what the dreams mean for her and John. Derek and Jesse investigate a possible Skynet conspirator.
#41 - Fruition
V (2009) - Season 1 - Episode 11
After a violent attack on someone very close to Anna, she delivers a message that the Vs don't feel safe and will be leaving while she also gives a list of possible Fifth Column members to Chad hoping he'll investigate to help in finding them. Meanwhile, Erica and the team try to track down a scientist who may have created a weapon that the Visitors are afraid of.
#42 - Two Soldiers
Hell on Wheels - Season 5 - Episode 8
The Swede's murderous rampage on the Hatch homestead results in a long overdue showdown with Cullen.
#43 - The Turk
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 1 - Episode 3
Sarah visits Miles Dyson's widow to find the creator of Skynet. She leads her to a man named Andy Goode who used to work with Dyson and is building a chess-playing computer named "The Turk." John and Cameron try their best to fit in on their first day at a new high school.
#44 - Steele Spawning
Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 12
Laura and Steele are hired by the spoiled son of a caviar importer to find a missing shipment before daddy returns home.
#45 - The Mousetrap
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 2 - Episode 3
Derek and Sarah must outwit Cromartie after he kidnaps Charley's wife, and they must weigh the consequences in rescuing her. Meanwhile, John finds himself unable to choose between Cameron and Riley.
#46 - Heretic's Fork
V (2009) - Season 1 - Episode 9
Erica, Father Jack and Hobbes realize that the V's know names and addresses of The Fifth Column members and must take drastic measures to protect them while, Ryan finally reveals to Val that he's a Visitor. And Chad, with the camera rolling for "Prime Focus", begins the process aboard the Mothership's Medical Bay to have his aneurysm removed.
#47 - Sacraments
Nash Bridges - Season 3 - Episode 23
When the ruthless high school dropouts go on the crime spree, Nash's search for the couple leads him into an underworld of heavy metal rock and satanic worship. As the intensity of the crimes increases, Nash must race against time to stop the desperate duo before they murder all the enemies on their ""grudge list."" ; Stacy and Nash meet Nick's long-lost love from the war years; Joe finds Evan and Cassidy in a compromising situation.
#48 - Hide and Seek
Nash Bridges - Season 4 - Episode 17
The Governor is missing, and Nash and Joe lead the ""off-the-record"" investigation into his disappearance. Caitlin, shut out, is determined to find out what he's up to. Joe and Inger attend a charity auction as a man's proxy to get on his good side, but overpay and get stuck with the art project.
#49 - Desert Cantos
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 2 - Episode 15
The Connors visit a town connected to the destroyed factory; Weaver sends a man into town in search of a survivor.
#50 - Shake, Rattle and Roll
Nash Bridges - Season 3 - Episode 3
Nash and Joe track down a former mob underboss who's murdering San Francisco criminals. Meanwhile, Inger has to go out of town, leaving Nash and Joe with the baby.