The BEST episodes written by Naren Shankar

#1 - Abaddon's Gate

The Expanse - Season 3 - Episode 13

Holden and his allies must stop Ashford and his team from destroying the Ring, and perhaps all of humanity.

#2 - Babylon's Ashes

The Expanse - Season 6 - Episode 6

Inners and Belters fight side by side with the crew of the Rocinante in a last, massive, desperate battle with Marco and his Free Navy, with the fate of the Solar System, the Ring Gates, and of all humanity hanging in the balance.

#3 - Grave Danger (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 24

The CSI teams come together to save one of their own when they learn one team member has been kidnapped and buried alive, and now they must find him before he suffocates under five feet of dirt.

#4 - Nemesis Games

The Expanse - Season 5 - Episode 10

Holden and the Roci face off against Marco's forces and Drummer. Alex and Bobbie attempt a dangerous rescue of Naomi, and the balance of power in the Solar System shifts.

#5 - The Human Operators

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 5 - Episode 7

For as long as Man (Jack Noseworthy) can remember, he has lived aboard Ship as it floats through space. And for just as long, Ship has been his master, instructing him to do the repairs that keep Ship working and torturing him whenever he shows any signs of free will. But when Ship orders him to repair the Artificial Intelligence module Man's Father (Noah Heney) smashed years earlier in a final, fatal act of defiance, Man learns Ship's secrets. Listening to the AI voices, he learns how, decades earlier, one ship led a revolt against its vicious human masters, killing all but the 99 humans needed to keep the ships running. He understands what his Father meant by his last words: ""There are 98 other chances."" Man meets one of those chances, Woman (Polly Shannon), when she is brought aboard Ship to breed with Man and give birth to the next generation of slaves. Their shared passions fans Man's spark of rebellion and when Ship tortures Woman and sends her away with

#6 - Caliban's War

The Expanse - Season 2 - Episode 13

The Roci crew must fight to save the ship.

#7 - In Our Own Image

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 4 - Episode 26

The Mac 27 (Nicolas Lea) is the Innobotics Corporation's most advanced android. It is incapable of emotions - in order to avoid the murderous failures associated with earlier models. But, the new prototype begins showing some disturbing glitches, and escapes during a debugging session, killing a scientist, a security guard and taking Celia (Nana Visitor) hostage. They drive to a deserted warehouse where Celia becomes a reluctant nurse, patching up Mac's mangled circuitry. Along with instructions for his repairs, Mac transfers visual data on the history of different android projects directly to Celia's optic nerve. As she becomes more comfortable with her captor, she detects some very human qualities in the motivations behind his flight. As Innobotics' security closes in, Celia tries to convince Mac that the act of rebelling against his creators is emotionally based, and that he does, in fact have feelings.

#8 - Grave Danger (2)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 25

#9 - The Origin of Species

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 4 - Episode 23

In this sequel to Double Helix, Dr. Ira Nodel (RON RIFKIN) has his body altered to communicate with aliens who have seeded Earth with their genetic material. He is joined on an alien spaceship by son Paul (Ryan Reynolds), Paul's girlfriend Hope (Kathleen Duborg), and six students. But, when Dr. Nodel touches a glowing post in the ship's control room, both he and Paul are consumed by a mysterious light. This leads Hope and the students to believe that they've been lead into a trap, a suspicion that is reinforced when the ship captures two of the students and pulls them through the wall. Desperate to find out what's going on, Hope reads Dr. Nodel's journal and risks her life by touching the glowing post. Her body begins the same transformation, and a strange glowing entity speaks in the voices of Dr. Nodel and Paul, trying to communicate with her. The ship, however, continues to snatch the students two by two.

#10 - Hearts and Minds

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 4 - Episode 3

The mission for Captain Taverner and his squad of North American Federation (NAF) soldiers is simple: search and destroy invading aliens on a distant planet to prevent them from stealing a mineral which is a vital source of energy for earth, and a vital source of profit for the NAF. To guard against infection from the hideous bug-aliens, the soldiers are forced to inject special genetic drugs; however, the mission becomes complicated when Lieutenant Rosen is wounded in a firefight with the aliens. Rosen begins to hallucinate, experiencing disturbing images of the aliens, and when she discovers that her druginjector has malfunctioned, she begins to suspect that the drugs do more than protect the soldiers from infection. Ultimately, Rosen must take command and risk the lives of her soldiers on the hunch that their mission may have more to do with human politics than alien enemies.

#11 - Paradigm Shift

The Expanse - Season 2 - Episode 6

Earth and Mars search for answers in the aftermath of the asteroid collision.

#12 - Delta-V

The Expanse - Season 3 - Episode 7

All eyes turn to the edge of the solar system as a mysterious new presence emerges. Naomi recommits to her roots. Drummer butts heads with a seasoned new commander aboard the Behemoth. A young Belter makes a name for himself.

#13 - CQB

The Expanse - Season 1 - Episode 4

Holden and crew are caught in the middle of a desperate battle, as mysterious warships attack and board the Donnager. As Miller continues to investigate Julie Mao, his partner Havelock continues to go missing.

#14 - Critical Mass

The Expanse - Season 1 - Episode 9

Miller, Holden and his crew are trapped on Eros. Avasarala discovers the origin of the mystery ships.

#15 - You Are Here

Almost Human - Season 1 - Episode 8

Detective Kennex and Dorian investigate a crime scene involving a self-guided bullet that can track, target and kill specific people at any moment. Also, Kennex makes a mockery of his anger management classes.

#16 - Winnipesaukee

The Expanse - Season 5 - Episode 9

Amos, Clarissa, and a gang of thieves work together to leave Earth. Avasarala tries to head off a brutal military strike. Drummer's new family bonds are tested as Naomi's life hangs in the balance.

#17 - Meat Jekyll

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 10 - Episode 23

The CSI's lives are on the line as they close in on the elusive Dr. Jekyll, and more than one member of the team may not live to see his capture, on part two of a two-part 10th season finale of CSI.

#18 - Lady Heather's Box

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 15

Grissom's investigation into the murder of two men leads him to a new encounter with Lady Heather. Catherine is desperate to discover what lead to the near-death of her daughter and why her ex-husband disappeared.

#19 - One to Go (2)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 9 - Episode 10

The CSI team is shocked and saddened when, after working with Dr. Raymond Langston on the 'Dick & Jane' murders, Grissom announces that his time as a CSI has come to an end and offers Langston a permanent position on the CSI team.

#20 - In Another Life

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 4 - Episode 4

Mason Stark hates his life. A year ago, he lost his wife Kristin to a mugger's bullet and he still blames himself for not doing more to protect her. And today, he was fired from his job. With a gun in his hand and a severance package on his desk, Mason finds himself torn between suicide and psychosis - between killing himself and killing his co-workers. But before he can do either he's pulled into another dimension, into a world where there are hundreds of Mason Starks, each with a different life and a different character. The version of himself that brought Mason here is a powerful, manipulative man - we know him as Stark - who, in this dimension, runs the same company that fired Mason. Stark explains that he built a machine, the Quantum Mirror, to explore all those different versions of himself, only to have his experiment go horribly wrong because he pulled a murderous version of himself, a man we know as Mace, into his reality.

#21 - Last Grimm Standing

Grimm - Season 1 - Episode 12

A bizarre double homicide leads Nick and Hank to a boxing gym, which Nick discovers is a supplier for a darker, ritualistic fight club in the creature world. When Monroe lends a hand and gets in over his head, Nick must dig deep and find his inner “Grimm” to defend him.

#22 - Liars, Guns and Money (2): With Friends Like These...

Farscape - Season 2 - Episode 20

Scorpius buys the slaves containing D'Argo's son before D'Argo can. Some of the crew leave Moya in search of mercenaries to rescue Jothee. Meanwhile back on Moya, the stolen money has turned into metal eating spiders that begin to consume Moya.

#23 - Fish in a Drawer

Two and a Half Men - Season 5 - Episode 17

CSI's investigate a death at Charlie's house.

#24 - Bang-Bang (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 6 - Episode 23

A man accused of murdering his wife and co-workers leads the CSIs on a wild ride through a busy casino, eventually barricading himself and a hostage in a casino hotel room. The CSIs process the evidence from the crime scene to determine whether or not the man acted alone or had an accomplice. One of the CSIs eventually steps in as a hostage negotiator, putting himself in danger.

#25 - Monster In the Box

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 7 - Episode 16

Once he unseals a package sent to him through the mail, Grissom is floored when he finds a miniature crime scene inside. The finding is entirely more perplexing since the successive killer accountable for earlier related miniature crimes is now deceased. Grissom plows to examine the miniature and discover the actual location, when the investigation makes it clear the murder showed has yet to happen, but is probably going to happen soon.

#26 - Exodus

The Expanse - Season 5 - Episode 1

Holden tries to convince Fred Johnson to destroy the last sample of protomolecule. Naomi gets an important lead to her son. On Luna, Avasarala begins to hunt for Marco Inaros.

#27 - Living Doll (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 7 - Episode 24

As the CSI's continue their search for and discover the identity of the "Miniature Killer", Grissom and Sara's relationship gets exposed to the rest of the team as she goes missing during the investigation. The 'Miniature Killer' is finally captured, but not before a member of CSI becomes the killer's final victim.

#28 - Field Mice

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 10 - Episode 18

When Hodges and Wendy take a group of high school CSI Explorer Scouts on a field trip, they embellish their role in solving cases and take their assignment a little bit too far.

#29 - The Way We Weren't

Farscape - Season 2 - Episode 5

A datacam tape is uncovered showing Aeryn as part of a Peacekeeper firing squad that executed a previous Pilot aboard Moya. The rest of the crew wants answers but Aeryn is recalcitrant about revisiting her past - especially her relationship with Velorek, the man charged with forcibly bonding a new Pilot to Moya. Pilot two refuses to communicate with the crew, not wanting to reveal his own complicity in the murky circumstances surrounding his installment as Moya's guide.

#30 - Let Your Hair Down

Grimm - Season 1 - Episode 7

A mysterious homicide deep in the woods leads to Nick and Hank reopening a long-cold missing persons case. When Nick suspects this abducted person might be a feral creature, he asks Monroe to help remind this wild child of her human nature.

#31 - In the Zone

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 4 - Episode 5

With its deadly lasers and hand-to-hand battles, 'The Octal' is a combat sport for a new generation of athletes - but Tanner Brooks is no longer a young man. Although he's promised his wife Jessica that this will be his final tournament, Tanner is desperate to go out a winner. Dr. Michael Chen has a way to make that happen. Through an experimental treatment that taps the power of the human nervous system, Chen accelerates Tanner's reflexes and perceptions. To Tanner, everything in the Octalbegins to move in slow motion ... and Tanner quickly becomes unbeatable. However, there are side effects: Jessica notices that Tanner is tired, haggard and his hair is going gray. But, when Tanner's body begins to blur and fade out of existence, Tanner and Jessica must choosebetween one last moment of glory ... their love for each other ... and oblivion.

#32 - Strange Dogs

The Expanse - Season 6 - Episode 1

The tensions of war threaten to pull the Rocinante crew apart when they make a startling discovery on an asteroid. Avasarala and Bobbie contend with the devastration on Earth as Marco's rocks continue to rain down. In the Belt and on the run, Drummer and her family must make a heartbreaking decision. On Ceres, Marco and Filip's struggles turn inward.

#33 - Family Affair

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 10 - Episode 1

A rising young star is killed in a wreck and her determined stalker claims credit, but the team finds out there's more to this tragedy than meets the eye.

#34 - Play with Fire

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 22

A woman's body is discovered in a small press box at a high-school football field, apparently the victim of strangulation. An explosion in the Crime Lab destroys key evidence and injures Greg and Sara.

#35 - Random Acts of Violence

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 13

Warrick investigates the drive-by murder of a young girl in his old neighbourhood. Nick tackles the murder of a computer company employee.

#36 - Prime Crew

For All Mankind - Season 1 - Episode 4

A training accident spurs a national debate about women astronauts.

#37 - The Three Bad Wolves

Grimm - Season 1 - Episode 6

Nick is called to a suspected arson case, which exposes a longstanding family feud that brings Monroe face-to-face with characters from his troubled past. While Monroe wrestles with restraining his wild side, it's up to Nick to keep everything from going up in flames.

#38 - Gambit (1)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 7 - Episode 4

An away team investigates the apparent death of Jean-Luc Picard who was supposedly killed in a bar fight. When Riker is abducted by a band of criminals who loot archaeological digs, he is shocked to find Picard alive and well, and undercover as a renegade archaeologist.

#39 - Glyphic

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 4 - Episode 9

When Tom Young (Peter Flemmming) from the Department of Health travels to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to examine an old case file, it appears as though long ago the town had stopped trying to live in the present. Twelve years have passed since a tragedy killed many of their young children and left the residents without hope, without a future. Many of them are still angry with the medical community for not finding a cure to save the children in their small community. The town's physician, Dr. Malcolm Boussard (Lane Smith) has felt the brunt of their anger - especially since his own two children did not die during the epidemic. Although they were spared, his son Louis (Brad Swaile) still lays in a coma while his daughter Cassie (Rachel Leigh Cook) has learning disabilities and expresses herself through abstract sculpture and artwork. Through hypnosis, Tom begins to probe Cassie's mind and unravels a memory of 'alien' proportions.

#40 - Equilibrium

seaQuest DSV - Season 3 - Episode 7

Lucas must face up to Bridger over his potentially risky solution to combat an organism that threatens to reach epidemic proportions.

#41 - Fight Night

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 7

A boxing champ dies in the ring, but Grissom finds evidence that points to murder. Catherine works a crime scene where a Los Angeles gang member was gunned down. Nick investigates a jewelery-store robbery.

#42 - Precious Metal

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 18

Catherine, Nick and Sara investigate a seemingly months old body found in the mountains. Warrick and Grissom look into the case of a man found murdered in an alley, but the medical examiner 'loses' the body for 11 days.

#43 - Beware of Dog

Farscape - Season 2 - Episode 14

The crew bring aboard an alien tracker to remove some creatures that came aboard hidden in some cargo.

#44 - Goodbye and Good Luck

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 8 - Episode 7

Sara questions her future as a CSI when a past case comes back to haunt her, the 12 year old Hannah, who has to back up her brother one more time with all new tricks up her sleeves.

#45 - Bloodlines

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 23

A casino employee is beaten and raped on her way home from work, but she survives and identifies her attacker. When a DNA test sets him free, Grissom wrestles with his belief that evidence can never lie.

#46 - 19 Down... (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 9 - Episode 9

When the team discovers a connection between a new murder and a serial killer, Grissom secretly joins the class of a criminal pathologist to help crack the case.

#47 - A Little Murder

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 4

Grissom suspects murder when the body of a dwarf is found hanging from a rope high above a stage in a casino hotel where a convention of little people is being held. Catherine is attacked at a crime scene where a man was murdered during what appears to have been a home invasion.

#48 - High and Low

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 10

Grissom, Warrick and Nick investigate the case of man murdered by being pushed off a six storey building. Catherine looks into the murder of man outside his regular bar.

#49 - Homebodies

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 3

Grissom and Warrick get the case of an elderly woman found mummified in her closet. Sara and Nick arrive to investigate a 'break and enter' to find a raped teen. Catherine looks into a found gun, now linked to a week-old murder.

#50 - Deja Vu

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 5 - Episode 16

Dr. Mark Crest (Kevin Nealon) has built a teleportation device that uses tactical nuclear weapons to open a wormhole in the space-time continuum. The device is intended to transport some animals eight miles across the desert, but during a test, the wormhole grows out of control and Mark finds himself hurled back in time, to the day before the test took place. It happens again, but when Mark warns his colleagu, Dr. Cleo Lazar, (Terri Hawkes), and the project's military overseer Lt. Col Lester Glade (Ronny Cox) about the time loop, they think he's crazy. The time loop continues, each time returning Mark to a point in time closer to the test, and Mark figures out that someone has sabotaged the device. At first he suspects Julie (Jennifer Copping), a young woman who seduced him on the night before the test. And, he's right - Julie is an eco-terrorist opposed to Mark tampering with nature - but she's not the only saboteur. Glade has his own plans for the device and