The BEST episodes written by Steven S. Deknight
#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#14 - 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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#15 - 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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#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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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#29 - 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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#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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#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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#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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#35 - 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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#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.
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#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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#39 - 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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#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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#41 - 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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#42 - 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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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