The BEST episodes written by Steven S. Deknight

Victory
star
8.68
3652 votes

#1 - Victory

Spartacus - Season 3 - Episode 10

Spartacus and his outnumbered rebels make one last attempt to win freedom in a final battle against the Romans led by Marcus Crassus.

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Kill Them All
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8.63
7391 votes

#2 - Kill Them All

Spartacus - Season 1 - Episode 13

In the season finale, Spartacus enlists the help of an accomplice in order to get his revenge.

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Daredevil
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8.33
5109 votes

#3 - Daredevil

Marvel's Daredevil - Season 1 - Episode 13

A boxed-in Fisk and a desperate Murdock, Foggy and Karen are forced to play their end games.

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Justice
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8.24
886 votes

#4 - Justice

Smallville - Season 6 - Episode 11

When Lex's Level 33.1 project comes to fruition, Oliver Queen must bring together several of Clark's "heroic" super-powered allies together: Arthur Curry, Bart Allen, and Victor Stone.

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Shells
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8.11
696 votes

#5 - Shells

Angel - Season 5 - Episode 16

Mourning Fred's death, Angel and his friends vow to find a way to bring her back, which leads to a confrontation with the ancient god Illyria, who now occupies Fred's body.

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Upon the Sands of Vengeance
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8.00
44 votes

#6 - Upon the Sands of Vengeance

Spartacus: Blood and Sand - The Motion Comic - Season 1 - Episode 1

Arkadios is a once-proud Greek warrior enslaved by the Romans. Now he dreams of only one thing: revenge. He'll cut the head from his captor, even if he has to chop a gory swath through an arena full of gladiators just to get there.

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Awakening
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8.00
532 votes

#7 - Awakening

Angel - Season 4 - Episode 10

Angel agrees to try to bring Angelus back... but after the first attempt fails, he and his friends discover a magic sword that might do a better job of getting rid of the Big Bad beast.

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The Path of the Righteous
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7.99
4914 votes

#8 - The Path of the Righteous

Marvel's Daredevil - Season 1 - Episode 11

Fisk and Murdock wrestle with the consequences of their chosen paths, while Ben and Karen get closer to Fisk's true past.

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Shadows in the Glass
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7.95
4954 votes

#9 - Shadows in the Glass

Marvel's Daredevil - Season 1 - Episode 8

While Murdock, Foggy and Karen's mission becomes clearer, Fisk's world spins further out of control in his battle for Hell's Kitchen.

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Destiny
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7.90
576 votes

#10 - Destiny

Angel - Season 5 - Episode 8

After Spike receives a strange package, Wolfram and Hart employees are possessed by evil... while Angel and Spike are set against each other in a quest that brings their 100-year-old rivalry to a head.

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Calvary
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7.90
660 votes

#11 - Calvary

Angel - Season 4 - Episode 12

After learning the doomsday beast may be working for something bigger and badder than itself, Angel's friends cast a spell to return his soul to Angelus' body.

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Seeing Red
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7.88
938 votes

#12 - Seeing Red

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 - Episode 19

Willow and Tara wallow in their togetherness, but things aren't as happy everywhere else. Buffy has to face both Xander and Spike, whilst tracking Warren and Company to foil their next move.

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Release
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7.88
677 votes

#13 - Release

Angel - Season 4 - Episode 14

As Faith and Angel continue their battle, the voice of the Beast's Master invades Angel's mind.

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Deep Down
star
7.88
632 votes

#14 - Deep Down

Angel - Season 4 - Episode 1

As Fred and Gunn search for Angel, Wesley continues his affair with Lilah and conducts his own, more fruitful, search.

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Enemies of Rome
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7.87
4396 votes

#15 - Enemies of Rome

Spartacus - Season 3 - Episode 1

The rebellion Spartacus has created has turned into thousands and now with Crixus and Gannicus they begin to take on Rome. Unknowingly to them, the powers of the Empire are forced to turn to wealthy, ambitious Marcus Crassus to aid the campaign, along with a young Julius Caesar.

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Blood Ties
star
7.84
946 votes

#16 - Blood Ties

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5 - Episode 13

Dawn's entire world crumbles around her after she learns that she is the Key, and dealing with the truth proves to be even harder than anyone had anticipated.

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Hell Bound
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7.81
718 votes

#17 - Hell Bound

Angel - Season 5 - Episode 4

After being menaced by a series of gruesome ghosts no one else can see, Spike finally comes face to face with the spectral being who's been trying to drag him into hell.

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Spiral
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7.76
960 votes

#18 - Spiral

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5 - Episode 20

When Glory finds out who the real key is, Buffy and company flee. Meanwhile, the Knights of Byzantium have their own plans to deal with Dawn.

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Zod
star
7.76
872 votes

#19 - Zod

Smallville - Season 6 - Episode 1

A powerless Clark is trapped in the "Phantom Zone" surrounded by the criminals his father imprisoned there. However, an unexpected ally comes to his aid. Meanwhile, Zod in Lex's body advances his plan to transform Earth into a new Krypton, while using Lana to produce an heir.

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Great and Unfortunate Things
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7.75
7101 votes

#20 - Great and Unfortunate Things

Spartacus - Season 1 - Episode 7

Overcome by the pressure of Batiatus's control, Spartacus must make a choice: leave his past behind and assume the mantle of a champion gladiator, or die.

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The Target
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7.70
2393 votes

#21 - The Target

Dollhouse - Season 1 - Episode 2

Echo becomes the female counterpart to a handsome young outdoorsman, but it may turn out that neither of the pair is what they seem to be. Meanwhile, Agent Ballard is encouraged when he receives a clue to Echo's true identity.

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Unsafe
star
7.65
844 votes

#22 - Unsafe

Smallville - Season 4 - Episode 11

Alicia (from "Obsession") is supposedly cured and returns to Smallville to start things back up with Clark. When she pushes for more and he turns reluctant, Alicia expoess him to red kryptonite, and the two go off to Las Vegas to get married. Meanwhile, Lana questions whether sex may prove the key to winning Jason back.

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Sacramentum Gladiatorum
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7.64
7663 votes

#23 - Sacramentum Gladiatorum

Spartacus - Season 1 - Episode 2

Enslaved in gladiatorial school, the newly christened Spartacus must try to suppress his desire for vengeance when his new master promises to reunite him with his wife.

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Apocalypse, Nowish
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7.64
592 votes

#24 - Apocalypse, Nowish

Angel - Season 4 - Episode 7

As plagues of various pests descend on Los Angeles, the beast Cordelia saw in her vision returns - and the apocalypse begins.

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Splinter
star
7.60
829 votes

#25 - Splinter

Smallville - Season 5 - Episode 7

Clark gives into paranoid delusions brought on by exposure to new "silver" kryptonite, and Professor Fine is the only one who can save him... before he kills Lana.

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Run
star
7.59
892 votes

#26 - Run

Smallville - Season 4 - Episode 5

Jonathan's wallet is stolen by a super-speed thief, Bart Allen, who is faster then Clark. Bart comes to the farm and becomes friends with Clark, but Bart returns to crime when he sees an ancient manuscript that Lex has. As Clark soon realizes, the manuscript holds a map to one of the kryptonian crystals and he must go up against Bart to recover it.

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Mercy
star
7.59
872 votes

#27 - Mercy

Smallville - Season 5 - Episode 19

Lionel is taken hostage by a masked man who forces him to play elaborate games for the prize of staying alive. Martha goes to confront Lionel after Clark tells her Lionel knows his secret and becomes a part of the game herself, fighting for her life.

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Dead Things
star
7.57
806 votes

#28 - Dead Things

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 - Episode 13

Buffy finds out that she didn't really come back wrong. Warren kills Katrina and frames the Slayer for it. Buffy violently takes out her emotions on Spike.

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The Girl in Question
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7.56
687 votes

#29 - The Girl in Question

Angel - Season 5 - Episode 20

While Angel and Spike go to Italy to retrieve the head of a demon mobster (and save Buffy from a new suitor), Fred's parents arrive at Wolfram and Hart, looking for their daughter.

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Inside Out
star
7.56
623 votes

#30 - Inside Out

Angel - Season 4 - Episode 17

As Cordelia prepares to give birth, Angel and his friends finally learn that she - or an evil presence controlling her - is the Beast's master.

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All the Way
star
7.55
846 votes

#31 - All the Way

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 - Episode 6

Xander finally announces his engagement to Anya. Dawn sneaks out on Halloween and gets into a dangerous situation with a teenage vampire. Willow does a spell on Tara which alters her memory.

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Mortal
star
7.54
951 votes

#32 - Mortal

Smallville - Season 5 - Episode 2

Clark faces off against three Belle Reve prisoners who plan to force him to help break into the sanitarium's mysterious "Level Three."

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The Red Serpent
star
7.52
9662 votes

#33 - The Red Serpent

Spartacus - Season 1 - Episode 1

The Romans, in an effort to protect their homeland, seek the help of Thracian warrior Spartacus and his team of fighters. After a violent incident, Spartacus must enter the gladiator ring to face his punishment from the Romans.

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Damage
star
7.50
604 votes

#34 - Damage

Angel - Season 5 - Episode 11

A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.

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Why We Fight
star
7.35
576 votes

#35 - Why We Fight

Angel - Season 5 - Episode 13

A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.

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How It All Ends
star
7.35
738 votes

#36 - How It All Ends

Jupiter's Legacy - Season 1 - Episode 8

As Walter's situation grows dire, Sheldon and Brandon join forces in a do-or-die showdown with a supervillain. Hutch runs into trouble during a heist.

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Onyx
star
7.33
766 votes

#37 - Onyx

Smallville - Season 4 - Episode 17

A black kryptonite explosion splits Lex in two and his evil side - Alexander - is released. Alexander imprisons Lex in the mansion then gives full vent to his evil side - he threatens to evict Lana from the Talon unless she becomes his mate, jousts with Lionel, and tries to kill Clark and Chloe when they figure out his secret.

Reunion
star
7.31
799 votes

#38 - Reunion

Smallville - Season 6 - Episode 5

Lex and Oliver Queen return to their old prep school for a reunion, but Oliver's old friends (and Lex's old enemies) start dying in mysterious accidents. Meanwhile, Clark learns that someone... or something may have left the Phantom Zone with him.

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Nemesis
star
7.30
923 votes

#39 - Nemesis

Smallville - Season 6 - Episode 19

Lex and Clark get a chance to hash out their differences... when they're both trapped in a cave after an explosion, and Clark is unable to get them out without revealing his powers.

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Prototype
star
7.30
852 votes

#40 - Prototype

Smallville - Season 6 - Episode 21

Lex tries to turn a soldier that supposedly died in Afghanistan into a "super-soldier." A senator threatens to tell the world about Lex's labs, prompting Lex to send the "soldier" to kill the senator. Lois sees the attack and becomes the soldier's next victim.

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Spell
star
7.30
757 votes

#41 - Spell

Smallville - Season 4 - Episode 8

Lana reads a spell book belonging to her 17th century ancestor, the witch Isabelle, and becomes possessed by her spirit. Isabelle resurrects her other two witches and together they seek out the kryptonian crystals, using their magic to render Clark powerless.

By Dawn's Early Light
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7.30
1005 votes

#42 - By Dawn's Early Light

Jupiter's Legacy - Season 1 - Episode 1

Brandon's attempt to live up to his father's high expectations suffers a blow. Sheldon's carefree life as the boss's son comes crashing down in 1929.

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Lockdown
star
7.23
787 votes

#43 - Lockdown

Smallville - Season 5 - Episode 11

Lex and Lana are at the mercy of a deranged Smallville deputy who plans to keep them captive until Lex reveals the location of the Kryptonian spaceship. Meanwhile, the Kents can't see eye-to-eye on campaign financing.

Ageless
star
7.15
722 votes

#44 - Ageless

Smallville - Season 4 - Episode 20

Checking out a crater in a cornfield, Clark and Lana discover a baby with no parents and take him back to the Kent farm. However, when the baby, Evan, ages from a newborn to a 7-year-old in less than a day, it becomes clear he is aging at a rapid rate and they turn to Lex for help. Meanwhile, Genevieve suspects Lex has the Chinese Kryptonian artifact and orders Lionel to either recover it...or risk putting Lex in danger of his life.

Tomb
star
7.08
780 votes

#45 - Tomb

Smallville - Season 5 - Episode 14

Chloe is possessed by the spirit of a young girl whose body is sealed in the Talon's walls, and goes searching for the girl's killer while Clark and Lois try to track her down.

Thirst
star
6.95
974 votes

#46 - Thirst

Smallville - Season 5 - Episode 5

Lana joins a sorority to get housing for her last-minute college registration, but the sisters have a deadly agenda which involves turning Lana into a vampire like themselves and sending her against Clark. Meanwhile, Chloe applies to become an intern at the Daily Planet and runs up against the editor-in-chief, Pauline Kahn.