The BEST episodes written by Morgan Gendel
#1 - Val the Hard Way
V.I.P. - Season 1 - Episode 22
A man named Prophet hires a group called The Double D Girls for a Las Vegas job. The only problem is The Double D Girls get busted before they can get to Las Vegas. Prophet doesn't know what The Double D Girls look like so detective Grispy decides to use V.I.P. to go undercover as The Double D Girls so he can find out who Prophet is working for. When they get to Las Vegas the limo they're driving in contains a bomb. They have 82 seconds to diffuse but first they have to find it. They find in time and throw it out the sunroof. They find out that Prophet wants them to steal some platinum. They pull off the job but the real Double D Girls show up and steal the platinum. They want to take Quick as a hostage but the rest of V.I.P. come to save him. Together they defeat The Double D Girls.
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#2 - The Last Campaign
Silk Stalkings - Season 3 - Episode 19
A young TV reporter gets clöse to city fraud and is brutally murdered, and Donovan's campaign to become elected District Attorney is heavily hit because the police seems unable to solve the case.
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#3 - K-Val
V.I.P. - Season 1 - Episode 18
When Val hears a caller threatening a radio psychologist and her family she sets up an appointment for her with V.I.P. When Dr. Lonnie thinks the stalker might be a co-worker Val accompanies her to work. While on the air she gets threatened again so Kay tracks the call and Nikki goes after the stalker. Turns out he was only a messenger. Nikki warns him to step out of his car because there's a bomb under it but he doesn't listen and his car blows up with him in it. While on a break Dr. Lonnie hears a threatening message from inside the building. It turns out to be a co-worker who was playing a cruel joke on her. Dr. Lonnie is getting real worried now and asks Val to take over the show for her. Val agrees and does it with Dr. Lonnie right next to her. Back at V.I.P. headquarters Kay is going through a list of people who called the Dr. Lonnie show and got on the air. She finds the name of an ex-marine who might have gone mercenary. So Quick goes to pay him a visit but he attacks Quick. Th
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#4 - Throw Val from the Train
V.I.P. - Season 3 - Episode 5
Val is aboard a train with a reporter because she's going to give her the story on what she talked about with serial killer Thomas Binford Shaklee moments before his execution but she stumbles into the wrong room and discovers that he's still alive.
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#5 - The Perfect Alibi
Silk Stalkings - Season 3 - Episode 2
A perfect murder is being committed, until as a last gasp of desperation, the victim scratches some skin from the killer's back into his fingernails.
#6 - The Inner Light
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5 - Episode 25
Picard is struck by an energy beam from an alien probe, which renders him unconscious and places him in the life of a citizen on the planet Kataan, with his memory of the Enterprise intact. Although he searches for a way to return, he finally decides to live his life with his Kataan wife, have children & grandchildren, learning to play a flute and completely immersing in the Kataan culture...
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#7 - Savages
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 3
McCoy and Kincaid clash over the death penalty as McCoy prosecutes a man who murdered an undercover cop during a drug bust.
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#8 - Will & Grayson
Drop Dead Diva - Season 2 - Episode 10
Jane attends a banquet where she is to be honored for her work with the LAPD; a woman accuses Jane of stealing her husband; Grayson takes on a case that involves Vanessa's ex-fiancé.
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#10 - Promised Land
Nash Bridges - Season 2 - Episode 11
A people-smuggling ring brings Nash and Joe to the aid of a young man searching for his parents.
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Jake and the Fatman - Season 5 - Episode 11
An old girlfriend Derek thought was dead comes back into his life, hoping he can protect her from the gangsters who are after her.
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#12 - Progeny
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 12
The investigation into the killing of an abortion clinic doctor leads to an activist group led by a former priest.
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#13 - White Rabbit
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 5
A routine investigation uncovers evidence that leads Briscoe and Logan to a long-time fugitive, a radical Vietnam War opponent on the run since a 1971 burglary that left a policeman dead.
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#14 - Sword of Shikata
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 2
Richard Damien has an interest in rare animals and hires the infamous Shikata to capture the next addition to his collection: Spider-Man. But Shikata makes different plans for the webslinger after their first confrontation and plans for a fight to the finish.
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#15 - Hot Pursuit
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 5
When the detectives solve a series of murders committed by a holdup team in ski masks, McCoy must determine whether a young woman found with them is an unwilling hostage, or an active participant in the crimes.
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Pensacola: Wings of Gold - Season 1 - Episode 2
The druglord, Ramon Toledo, captured in the previous episode has a deal. He will receive an operation and a kidney from his brother, Miguel in return for information. This upsets Kelly, whose complaints, in turn, upset Dr. Valerie West. But the druglord has a hidden agenda. He has his brother's wife and children kidnapped so he can force his brother to help him escape. Bobby, who is in the hospital, from a minor volleyball injury, suspects something but has nothing concrete. Kelly goes with the team to a bar, the Tailwind, and discovers Janine is working there and sees that she is dating Bobby who is brawling with a guy who harassed Janine. Bobby learns who Janine's father is. The druglord sends Kelly and his team on a one way mission to rescue two DEA agents while he escapes with his brother and Valerie as hostages. It is up to Kelly and the Sea Dragons to survive and set things right.
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Missing (2003) - Season 2 - Episode 8
An empty police car is found with blood on the dashboard and two police officers have gone missing. Jess and Nicole quickly discover a police department full of corruption. After Jess witnesses a shocking murder, she must find out which of the many suspect or suspects is a cop killer. The police chief suspects an old enemy of his who shows up in Jess' dream about the police officers having a party. Also, Nicole must negotiate with a crazed man holding three people hostage.
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#18 - Purple Heart
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 21
The investigation into a taxi driver's murder involves a loan shark, a forged check, a missing plumber and the victim's wife.
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#19 - The Long Road to Napa
Drop Dead Diva - Season 2 - Episode 3
Jane's next case gets a little complicated when she discovers that the two clients she's representing are married to the same man. Jane has trouble keeping her personal life separate while representing the two clients, while Tony is representing the client that started all the trouble. Kim gets some very good news while dealing with an adoption case. Stacy decides to invent something called an armvvelope but will it be the next must have item?
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#20 - Starship Mine
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 6 - Episode 18
The crew evacuates the Enterprise when the ship needs to be cleaned of particles that have built up over the ship's hull. However, Picard accidentally stumbles over a terrorist group who plan on destroying the ship. He only has a short time to stop their attempts before the ship is swept by a beam of radiation to remove the particles that is lethal to all forms of life.
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#21 - Custody
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 14
Paul Robinette places the system on trial when he defends a young black woman accused of kidnapping her biological baby from his white, adoptive parents.
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#22 - Atonement
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 18
The investigation into the murder of a model with a passion for cocaine and partying focuses on the men in her life -- a nightclub owner, a basketball player, a photographer and a limousine driver.
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#23 - Blue Bamboo
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 3
The killing of a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York leads to the arrest of a singer who once worked for the deceased, and whose lawyer uses the "battered-woman syndrome" as a defense.
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#24 - Armageddon Game
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 2 - Episode 13
Bashir and O'Brien come under attack from the people they are trying to help on a warring planet.
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#25 - The Pursuit of Happiness
Law & Order - Season 4 - Episode 10
A "green-card" bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich, but cold husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in this country.
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#26 - Tight Squeeze
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 5
A high tech group of criminals calling themselves Pterodax attempt to steal a powerful type of diamonds, but Spider-Man stops them. Peter then manages to sell a video of the attempted robbery to the Empire 1 channel with the help of a researcher named Indy. Later, Pterodax take hostages at Empire 1, demanding Spider-Man come within two hours or everyone dies. Unfortunately, Peter is a hostage himself.
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#27 - ThunderVal
V.I.P. - Season 1 - Episode 16
When we last saw Dr. Tina Stokes (""Scents And Sensibility"") she apparently died in a car crash. But she's back and very alive. This time she hires V.I.P. and they head off to the Carribean. It seems as though she has turned her life around but she only hired V.I.P. as a decoy for the feds while her and her partner Angel(also from ""Scents And Sensibility"") plan to steal a toxin. While making their escape with the toxin on a sea-doo Val notices them grabs a sea-doo and follows them. She pulls ahead of them and shoots a harpoon into a lifeboat sending Tina and Angel into the water and the toxin into the air which Val manages to catch just in the nick of time.
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#28 - Mind Games (1)
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 12
Spider-Man thwarts the escape of two twins with mind control powers who are freed during a transfer. Shortly afterward, other Spider-Man foes -- Pterodax, Kraven and Sable -- break out and go after Spider-Man. Peter reveals his identity to MJ just before Kraven kills her. Then a man offers Peter the chance for revenge ... and it turns out the whole thing is a mind game being played by the twins to control Spider-Man and get revenge on Kraven.
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#29 - Spider-Man Dis-Sabled
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 8
After filming a press conference, Spider-Man saves the mayor and a European Union guest from an attempted assassination. Peter also unknowingly filmed the assassin, Silver Sable, and she knows it. She wants the tape since it's evidence against her and goes as far as holding Peter's friends hostage to get it. But Peter learns things aren't exactly what they seem after he discovers her true mission.
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#30 - Scents and Sensibility
V.I.P. - Season 1 - Episode 5
V.I.P. must protect a scientist who's creating an aphrodisiac. He tests it on himself at first and it seems to attract every woman he meets except Val and Julie, a co-worker that he's in love with. There is a side effect however, the people who are affected by it go crazy and want to kill the user.
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#32 - New Val'd Order
V.I.P. - Season 2 - Episode 14
V.I.P. go undercover as models in a Hawaiian Tropic contest to discover why some models go missing. What they discover is that the best models are being trained to being fighters like seen in the movie ""Fight Club"". Johnny becomes a member of V.I.P.
#33 - Val Point Blank
V.I.P. - Season 2 - Episode 19
Val's high school reunion is taken over by terrorists and the only who can help is Johnny since Val took him as her date because Quick, Tasha and Nikki are off on Navy Seals training. Luckily Kay sees a special report on television about the whole thing and gets a hold of V.I.P. in time and they rush off to help Val and the rest of the hostages.
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#35 - Val's Big Bang
V.I.P. - Season 3 - Episode 22
Val, Nikki and Johnny help an archeologist recover an ancient relic but they discover that she may be working with an evil Ukrainian general. Kay accidently locks herself, Tasha, Quick and ""Weird Al"" Yankovic in V.I.P. headquarters.
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#36 - This Ain't No Summer Camp
21 Jump Street - Season 5 - Episode 7
Doug and Joey enroll in a wilderness camp for troubled teams to investigate a murder that happened there and find themselves constantly in trouble with the ex-marine who runs the place.
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Pensacola: Wings of Gold - Season 1 - Episode 3
When a pilot and his plane disappear with an experimental stealth device, he is suspected of being involved with a militia group.
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#38 - The Passenger
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 1 - Episode 9
Stardate: Unknown - Bashir is posessed by an alien criminal in an attempt to hijack a Gamma quadrant freighter.
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#39 - The Party
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 1
An old friend of Peter's, Max Dillon, is trying to get into a fraternity, but the members don't plan on letting him in. When they reject and embarrass him at a party, he runs out into a storm and gets struck by lightning, transforming him into Electro. Now Spider-Man will have to stop him from exacting revenge.
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#40 - When Sparks Fly
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 7
Long after his last battle with Spider-Man, Max Dillon/Electro resurfaces and makes contact with Sally, a girl he fell in love with before his transformation. He wants to be with Sally and decides the only way to do that is to make her undergo a similar transformation.
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#41 - Sellout
TekWar - Season 1 - Episode 1
Beth Kittridge is hired by Marty Dollar to find a way to make TEK non-addictive. Beth soon discovers that he is planning on lacing the music players with the main ingredient in TEK so he can sell these players to customers. This would create millions of new addicts and he would be the only supplier.
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#42 - Ride of the Valkyries
V.I.P. - Season 2 - Episode 22
Val's father returns and he's being targeted by a group of high tech terrorists. Val discovers that he's her father and she brings him to her penthouse where they discover that the terrorists are outside so they leave posing as decoys. Two of the terrorists enter the penthouse thinking that Val and her dad are still in there but are treated to a bomb; the bomb blows up destroying the penthouse. Tasha discovers that Val's dad is and ex-CIA operative who was involved in a top-secret project called OMEGA. Val's father is then busted and kept in an extremely well secured building. Tasha has to go through a set of lasers, like Catherine Zeta-Jones in the movie Entrapment, but before she can Val accidentally shoots her with a goo that has a similar effect as Novocain so Val has to take her place. She makes it through all right but gets excited and her breasts accidentally touch the last laser and set off the alarm. They escape with Val's dad and the CIA kills the remaining terrorist.
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#43 - One Wedding and Val's Funeral
V.I.P. - Season 1 - Episode 4
Vallery is hired by King Soltan of Ardina to be the royal matchmaker for his son the prince. But when the prince orders some pizzas and the pizza girl just happens to speak Ardineese Tasha becomes suspicious. And she has a right to be, it turns out she's actually a stone cold killer. When Val tries to tell the prince he has his servant try to kill her but she escapes and saves the king from Alex, the stone cold killer. The prince planned to overthrow the king to take his place.
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#45 - Resurrection
Missing (2003) - Season 2 - Episode 4
A woman sees her son, whom she believed died ten years earlier in a car accident along with his father, on television at a football game. The boy's father's body was found and the boy was assumed to be dead in the horrific car accident. Nicole and Jess must find both the boy and his father's murderer. Also, Nicole believes Jess' dreams are about her and doesn't feel flattered.
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Pensacola: Wings of Gold - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Sea Dragons are sent to Korea to try and help get a defector across the border. Kelly's budding romance with Dr. West is interupted by the reassignment. Kelly decides to help Tomlin, a former navy man whose daughter is missing (she is being held prisoner by a nightclub.) McCray tries to romance a translator teaching him Korean. Robert finds out the woman running the nightclub is being tipped off by a pilot, Fingers, whom they thought was helping them. After they finish their mission the Sea Dragons rescue the girl too.
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Pensacola: Wings of Gold - Season 1 - Episode 22
After Seaton Palmer, an Irish terrorist with the R.F.I. is captured with nerve gas, Kelly and the Sea Dragons investigate. Annalisa Lindstrom and A.J. Conaway try going on a date. At the end of the episode Kelly is trying to decide which member of the team to let go due to budget cutbacks.
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#49 - To Die in Bettendorf
Wiseguy - Season 3 - Episode 14
Steelgrave's former accountant, Sid Royce, is suffering in the Witness Protection life Frank assigned him. When his wife leaves, he snaps and decides to get revenge against Frank for destroying his life. Jenny agrees to have dinner with Frank, then invites him back home. Their romantic evening is destroyed when Sid pulls a gun on them. Jenny talks Sid into letting Frank go by convincing him she's his missing wife. Frank kills Sid in front of Jenny, ending whatever chance they might have had at reconciling.
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#50 - Heroes and Villains
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 10
Protests break out at ESU after it's announced Villeroy Towers will be torn down, leaving the residents homeless. However, the residents begin getting a lot of money to support their cause. Someone called Turbo Jet is responsible for this and is seen as a hero by the residents and protesters for what he's doing. The only problem is that Turbo Jet is accomplishing all this by committing crimes and he refuses to let anyone stop him, even Spider-Man.
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