The BEST episodes written by Nick Thiel
#1 - Distant Relative
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 4
Under protest, Thomas agrees to chaperone Rick's visiting 22-year-old sister Wendy while Rick works at the club, and quickly discovers that she's not the convent school innocent her brother thinks she is; after Wendy gives him the slip, Thomas scours the city searching for her and is devastated when the police find her murdered in an alley; when Rick blames Wendy's death on Thomas, the relationship between the men is dealt a severe blow, and Thomas vows to find her killers, even though Rick is determined to do the job himself with the help of information and an Uzi provided by Ice Pick; Thomas and T.C. follow Rick to Molokai, where the murderers are killed in a fiery crash as they are pursued by the three friends; to spare Rick's feelings and ease his grief, Thomas tells his friend the convincing lie that Wendy was a good kid who was just in the wrong place in the wrong time, instead of the truth that she was a drug mule murdered by the men for whom she worked.
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#2 - Ladies on the Ropes
The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 15
Colt tries to help a couple of pro-wrestling girls win a big championship match by disrupting the plans of their scheming manager and an avaricious team owner who wants their contracts. Colt's plans also involve Howie entering the arena as 'Handsome Howard'.
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#3 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 13
Thomas is forced to forgo his much-anticipated trip to the Army-Navy game and a reunion with his 1967 championship teammates when Rick, T.C., and Higgins guilt him into remaining in Hawaii and helping Carol save her career by nabbing one of the largest drug distributors in the islands.
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#4 - Diamond Exchange
White Collar - Season 5 - Episode 13
Neal and Peter race against a criminal mastermind to unearth an invaluable treasure hidden in New York.
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#5 - On Face Value
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 19
Carol persuades Magnum to do some surveillance work for a case she's working on, but the job leads to a high-speed car chase which ends in near tragedy when Thomas returns gun-fire only for it to accidentally hit another car, causing it to crash and severely injuring the young woman driving it. With the girl, Emily, facing never being able to walk again, Thomas is racked with guilt, and befriends her, determined to help her regain use of her legs. But unbeknown to Magnum, the two thugs that he was pursuing are still tailing him...
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#6 - Barriers of Sound
Voyagers! - Season 1 - Episode 19
The Voyagers appear in 1890 in Texas, and find that Dwight Eisenhower's mother is unable to give birth to him because of the absence of a doctor. They are unable to call for help because the telephone doesn't exist! Travelling to 1875 Boston, they try to find what happened to Alexander Graham Bell. Bogg rescues a young deaf girl, and then they find out that Bell discontinued his experiments due to a lack of funds. Jeff remembers that Bell got his money from his fiancee, who turns out to be the deaf girl Bogg rescued. They must unite the couple, but Bogg falls in love with the girl in the process. Eventually he leaves her so that history can stay on track. After checking a few months down the road to make sure Bell does indeed invent the telephone, they return to 1890, where things work out and Dwight Eisenhower is born, setting history back on track.
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LAX - Season 1 - Episode 12
An incoming airliner ""accidentally"" squawks (jargon for transponder code) a Hijack warning. This leads to a full emergency, SWAT, the lot.. Which also leads to a crime of monumental cunning.. Meanwhile, Eddie engages in some crime of his own, Roger's life takes an unexpected complicaturn and Harley moves house.
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#8 - Quantico Closure
White Collar - Season 5 - Episode 7
While Neal delves further into the mystery of the Codex, Peter takes on a classified espionage case with a fellow FBI agent: his ex-girlfriend.
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#9 - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harold
The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 12
Harold had a run-in with his brother and now faces life as Ozzie, a homeless man. He witnesses a murder and becomes a target.
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#10 - Unpaid Debts
Shades of Blue - Season 2 - Episode 8
Wozniak goes after Bianchi for breaking their agreement. Harlee seizes the opportunity to unite the team around an illegal mission to repay Tufo's brother's debt to a local drug dealer. Stahl heightens the stakes making good on his threat to go after the crew. Wozniak faces the impossible decision to pick between his team and Ayres just as his son, Nate, makes an effort to reunite.
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#12 - Eye of the Hurricane
Shades of Blue - Season 2 - Episode 2
Following Wozniak's discovery that Stahl's target is his close friend and Mayoral Candidate, Julia Ayers, Wozniak launches an all-out war with Stahl. Meanwhile, Harlee dives into an investigation that takes an unexpected turn into her own past - and ultimately throws her in the cross-hairs of Wozniak and the FBI. At the precinct, a new, unwelcome presence threatens to uncover the crew's deepest secrets.
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#14 - Whack-a-Mole
White Collar - Season 6 - Episode 5
The FBI knows that the Panthers are going after the Federal Reserve – specifically, a shipment of international funds that can contain up to $500 million. But there’s trouble afoot, as Woodford has discovered that there’s a mole in the operation. Surprisingly, he doesn’t suspect Neal, but rather tasks him with revealing their identity. Peter needs to convince Luc to pull Keller or risk the Panthers going underground again. And when the Panthers decide to use firepower on the Federal Reserve job, it’s up to Neal to convince them he has a better plan.
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#15 - Fragments
Magnum, P.I. - Season 5 - Episode 6
While Higgins is arranging a television variety show to raise money to save an endangered species of worms no less, Magnum is hired by a woman who claims to have psychic abilities and believes to have foreseen her own murder. Thomas must find who, if anyone, the will-be murderer is, but the woman's visions of fate spell great danger for Thomas too. Meanwhile, Thomas is trying to get his payment from a used car salesman who hired him to find out if his was cheating on him, but events turn much more dangerous than he expects...
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#16 - The Human Torch
The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 6
Colt is sent to a country town to pick up an arson suspect. The townspeople of Federalsburg, and the suspect's mother, insist he is dead and buried.
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#17 - Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
Elementary - Season 4 - Episode 21
When Holmes and Watson are pulled into a double-homicide investigation, they discover the victims were staging a fake murder right at the moment they were killed. Also, Watson’s inside man at Morland’s office encounters a problem that threatens to expose her spying to Holmes and his father.
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#18 - The Genuine Article
Pan Am - Season 1 - Episode 6
Maggie is perilously close to losing her job for insubordination, but still manages to maneuver her way onto the flight down to Rio de Janeiro. She reflects back on the rocky path she took to land her dream job, but it's her decision to do whatever it takes to keep it that surprises even her. Meanwhile, Kate has earned her stripes as a courier, but when she is given a difficult mission involving Niko, a Yugoslavian diplomat, she's unsure how to manage the task, as she tries to juggle their deepening personal relationship with her assignment. Finally, Ginny and Dean continue to play with fire in Rio, but Ginny's game playing with both Dean and her boss and lover, a Pan Am executive, is a source of contention with Dean.
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#19 - A Burden of Blood
Elementary - Season 4 - Episode 8
Holmes and Watson investigate a homicide in which the victim was murdered in a manner reminiscent of the crimes of an infamous, and already incarcerated, serial killer. Also, Sherlock and Joan tutor Detective Bell for a police sergeant’s exam that would lead to a promotion and a post at another precinct.
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#20 - Leaving The Tribe
Army Wives - Season 2 - Episode 4
Denise continues to assert independence by trying new things, including learning to ride a motorcycle. Joan finally speaks openly about her pregnancy
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#21 - Child's Play
The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 18
Colt is sent to bring in a gambler who is to testify against the mob, only to find he is on the run from mobsters out to silence him, and ends up looking after his fiesty, young daughter, Libby.
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#22 - Unpaid Debts
Burn Notice - Season 1 - Episode 6
Michael discovers a surprise aboard a boat he has retrieved from Jamaican gangsters. Meanwhile, a CSS agent urges Michael to stop his investigation into who burned him.
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#23 - The Rich Get Richer
The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 3
The bounty keeps them on the run as he tries many places to sell the bonds he stole. Kay Faulkner is a recurring character as the insurance agent trying to recover the bonds.
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#24 - Departures, Arrivals
Army Wives - Season 2 - Episode 18
Joan and Roland face new challenges when Joan returns to work; Denise and Frank both continue to explore their separation.
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LAX - Season 1 - Episode 10
As Christmas approaches, events at LAX heat up when the police show up looking for a robber dressed as Santa Claus. Meanwhile, Eddie, seeking a new job as Harley's assistant, meets an attractive barmaid. Roger also deals with being kicked out of his house after he has resumed his gambling addiction and squandered most of his wife's money, while Harley herself flashes back to a previous Christmas during a runway party where she and Roger had a brief fling which almost ended his marriage.
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LAX - Season 1 - Episode 11
An African political activist who was wrongly convicted of murder arrives at LAX to board a flight which will return him home for execution. As protesters try to prevent his departure, the airport becomes the sight of political unrest forcing Harley and Roger to keep the peace. However, when Roger's city council aspiration prompt him to make a bold move, the two airport chiefs stand on opposite sides of this political powder keg. Meanwhile, Nick must confront a past decision when a former passenger returns begging for his help.
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#27 - Created Equal
Voyagers! - Season 1 - Episode 2
Arriving in Italy in 73 B.C., the pair discover that Spartacus is being sent to die in the arena in Rome, altering history and preventing him for leading the slave revolt in Capra. They are bought as slaves but when their escape attempt fails, they have to Omni out. That puts them in Hannibal Missouri in the 19th century, where they encountered Harriet Tubman. She is still a slave, having never formed the Underground Railroad. While Jeff and a young Sam Clemens try to free her, Bogg manages to ""purchase"" her in a poker game. With history back on track, it's back to Rome, where Bogg ends up fighting Spartacus in the arena. Jeff and his newfound friend Calpernia manage to steal a chariot belonging to her father Cicero, break out Bogg and Spartacus, and get history back on track.
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LAX - Season 1 - Episode 2
When a coffin arriving as baggage on an in-bound flight is discovered to contain a living person, Harley and Roger with the help of Henry, Betty, and Nick locate the missing corpse/stow-away. Elsewhere, Tony tries to secure twelve seats to Albany for a little league team trying to make their first national championship, while the airport staff tests out new tactics to deal with the airports bird problem
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LAX - Season 1 - Episode 1
The overall director of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) commits suicide... now his two underlings spar amongst themselves for his former position and title, by attempting to prove they can handle the pressures of operating one of the world's largest and busiest aviation gateways.
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