The BEST episodes written by Robert Crais

The Second Oldest Profession
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8.02
40 votes

#1 - The Second Oldest Profession

Hill Street Blues - Season 2 - Episode 4

Bates loses a junkie prostitute through an error in judgement; Hudson beats up his lawyer after his release on bail; Furillo and Joyce reconsider their separation; and Esterhaus ends his friendship with Mac.

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Murder by S.O.P.
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7.88
41 votes

#2 - Murder by S.O.P.

Quincy, M.E. - Season 5 - Episode 11

On his way to a Forensic Pathologist convention in Sacramento, the Sheriff of a small town stops Quincy on the road. He was trying to stay awake by sticking his head out of the window. The Sheriff decides to put Quincy in jail for his own good. That night a fire starts in the cells and four men die. The towns' authorities call all the deaths accidental but Quincy, doing some of the autopsies to help the local Dr. is convinced that one of the victims was murdered.

The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue
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7.86
70 votes

#3 - The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue

Hill Street Blues - Season 2 - Episode 3

Hill and Renko handle a domestic call involving an old man threatening his neighbors with a shotgun; Hudson looks for the informer in his gang; and Joyce asks Furillo for advice about the Downey case.

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Cranky Streets
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7.75
67 votes

#4 - Cranky Streets

Hill Street Blues - Season 2 - Episode 6

Hill covers for an old friend with personal problems who uses excessive force on an arrest; Coffey arrests an old family friend during a visit to his old neighborhood; Fay introduces her fiance; and negotiations breakdown between the police union and the city.

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Borrasca
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7.65
103 votes

#5 - Borrasca

Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 5

Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.

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Desert Son
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7.62
522 votes

#6 - Desert Son

JAG - Season 1 - Episode 4

During a maneuver, transposed digits lead to a fatal bombing of a unit's own men. This causes several seriously wounded and eventually one dead soldier. Lt. Rabb and Lt. Austin are assigned to investigate this case because the responsible man is none other than Jay Williams, the son of Gen. Williams. But it seems the case is clear since Jay confesses that this mistake was his fault. Locations: MCB Twenty-Nine Palms

Payback
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7.60
106 votes

#7 - Payback

Miami Vice - Season 2 - Episode 20

A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.

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All About Eve
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7.53
200 votes

#8 - All About Eve

Earth 2 - Season 1 - Episode 20

The colonists come upon a crashed Earth re-entry research module. The open the hatch of the 100-year-old craft and find there is still nuclear power.

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Monsters!
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7.51
71 votes

#9 - Monsters!

The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 36

A boy who loves monster movies has a strange neighbor move in.

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Hot Ice
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7.41
46 votes

#10 - Hot Ice

Quincy, M.E. - Season 5 - Episode 5

Two customs officers want Quincy's help in catching arresting a diamond smuggling ring. A courier they were following was killed when a bus at the airport and, as Quincy is going to a Las Vegas to judge a Miss Coroner Contest; they want him to take the couriers place. He has to deliver the diamonds to a known mobster, something he really, really does not want to do!

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Love in Bloom
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7.25
3 votes

#11 - Love in Bloom

L.A. Law - Season 6 - Episode 18

A multimillionaire tries to buy his way out of a murder charge; parental concerns compound for the Brackmans and Benny when Alexander and Sam end up in juvenile court; and an INS review interrupts Bloom's marital bliss.

Dark Angel
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7.24
45 votes

#12 - Dark Angel

Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 17

Monaghan asks Quincy to push the autopsy of a young car thief to the top of his priority list. The boys' friend is claiming that a police officer chased him down and killed him after they were stopped in their stolen car. When the autopsy is completed it can only confirm that the boy, Billy Harris, died to a bone broken in his neck, and not how it could have occurred. This information is enough to get the press printing stories of police brutality and a Californians for Constitutional Rights lawyer rushing in to defend Billy's friend Steve.

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The Depth of Beauty
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7.24
41 votes

#13 - The Depth of Beauty

Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 13

Quincy delves into the world of cosmetic surgery after he autopsies a woman who killed herself because she hated the scars a botched operation caused. He discovers that the plastic surgeon isn't in fact a qualified plastic surgeon, only a qualified MD. The law allows anyone who has qualified as a doctor to call himself any kind of specialist he likes.

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The Eye of the Needle
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7.23
39 votes

#14 - The Eye of the Needle

Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 23

An ailing woman's accidental death outrages Quincy when he discovers that she had been seeing a holistic doctor and had been treated with natural medicines rather than scientific ones. His opinion about the doctor responsible though is affected by his liking for her and it gives him something to think about.

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No Way to Treat a Body
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7.15
73 votes

#15 - No Way to Treat a Body

Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 8

Quincy's latest ladyfriend moves into a new apartment and accidentally discovers two mummified bodies. He finds himself up against a group of oddball residents when he tries to find out what is going on, who the bodies belong to and where they came from.

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Last Call
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7.13
14 votes

#16 - Last Call

The Equalizer - Season 3 - Episode 19

A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.

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Regrets Only
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6.70
10 votes

#17 - Regrets Only

The Equalizer - Season 3 - Episode 20

A young woman trying to start her life over faces continuing harassment from her upscale, professional husband who won't let her go but who is smart enough to conceal his activities.

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By the Death of a Child
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6.62
40 votes

#18 - By the Death of a Child

Quincy, M.E. - Season 5 - Episode 3

The small nation of San Christos has a new progressive, America friendly, president. His hold on power is fragile and he could be toppled if the rumor of an American supplied Diphtheria vaccine is killing the children it is supposed to be saving. Quincy and Sam are sent to the country to find out the truth and save the children, if they can.

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A Question of Death
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6.62
45 votes

#19 - A Question of Death

Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 10

The M.E.'s office is helping a hospital with their organ donation program. Quincy goes there to help declare a young man dead and he was told that his kidney would go to a man whose constantly having dialysis. Quincy and the doctor talk to the boy's parents and convince them to donate his organs for transplant. Later a lawyer upon learning of this sues the hospital for coercing the parents for gain. Quincy's in awe cause the man he was told who would receive the organ is not a man of means. He learns that the hospital director overruled the doctor and had the organ given to a wealthy man. Now the whole program is in jeopardy unless Quincy can prove to the parents that their son was brain dead at the time.

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Death by Good Intentions
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6.48
42 votes

#20 - Death by Good Intentions

Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 4

A patient dies just hours after having had a successful surgical operation. An ‘Affirmative Action' doctor is suspended because of his ‘mistake' and a friend of Quincy's decides that he will take the blame to save him, and the ‘Affirmative Action' program. Quincy soon gets involved to try and save his friends job.

An Ounce of Prevention
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6.46
39 votes

#21 - An Ounce of Prevention

Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 21

While completing the autopsy of a construction worker who fell to his death Quincy spots some unusual abnormalities. He gets Sam to run some further tests to see if there was anything that could have made the man fall. The results show that he was killed by a large amount of pesticides, pesticides that were covering the tomatoes he had for lunch. Follow up investigations show that a dumpsite near the town of Rosewood is leaking. The chemicals are infecting the ground in and around the dumpsite and town.

Semper-Fidelis
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6.44
39 votes

#22 - Semper-Fidelis

Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 20

Quincy is asked to do an autopsy on the body of a marine who died in an accident during his training. Harry Collier, a friend of Quincy's wants him to give a second opinion, to stop the press from calling the death a cover up. What Quincy finds though is what he thinks is evidence of a murder and he goes to the base to find out what did happen to cause the young soldiers death, and if necessary who caused it.

Who Can Make the Sun Shine?
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#23 - Who Can Make the Sun Shine?

Baretta - Season 4 - Episode 8

His concern for an elderly amnesiac interferes with Baretta's investigation of a schoolyard drug pusher who is responsible for several overdose deaths.

It Goes with the Job
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#24 - It Goes with the Job

Baretta - Season 4 - Episode 10

Baretta does a lot of soul-searching after wounding a boy while trying to stop a holdup. Then he himself is targeted for revenge by one of the robbers who escaped.

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Woman Trouble
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#25 - Woman Trouble

Baretta - Season 4 - Episode 19

Baretta tries to help a 12-year-old girl who has run away from the orphanage find her recently paroled father before he takes part in a jewel robbery.

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