The Best Episodes Directed By Sanford Bookstaver

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   8.9/10(47 votes)

   #1 - End of the Tunnel

   S1:E1311/28/2005

   With Lincoln's execution scheduled for the following day, Veronica comes out of hiding to contact him and gains an ally. Kellerman makes the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the conspiracy. Michael looks for a way to get Lincoln out of solitary confinement in time for the escape that evening. The inmates risk everything as they attempt their escape.

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   8.2/10(19 votes)

   #2 - The Graft in the Girl

   S1:E204/26/2006

   The team helps Deputy Director Sam Cullen's daughter, Amy, when she contracts a rare form of lung cancer after receiving a bone graft. Booth and Brennan learn she is not the only victim with this rare form of cancer.

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   8.1/10(45 votes)

   #3 - Out of the Chute

   S7:E163/14/2011

   The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind the patients disappearing symptoms and seizures while taking House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient.

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   8.1/10(19 votes)

   #4 - The Boy in the Shroud

   S2:E39/13/2006

   When the body of a young man, who's been missing for nearly three weeks, is discovered, the investigation leads them to his girlfriend, who is a foster child. Bones becomes emotionally involved in the case since, she too, became a foster child after her parents disappeared.

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   7.9/10(37 votes)

   #5 - Office Politics

   S7:E611/8/2010

   It’s election season, and in the midst of a tight campaign, an incumbent New Jersey senator’s campaign manager falls ill with liver failure and temporary paralysis. Cuddy pushes House to add a female doctor to his team by hiring brilliant third-year medical student Martha Masters in Thirteen’s absence.

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   7.9/10(11 votes)

   #6 - It Isn’t the Fall That Kills You

   S3:E310/10/2016

   When Walter is accidentally launched into space in a rocket, he hallucinates about Paige as his oxygen runs low, and Team Scorpion works feverishly to find a way to bring him home before he suffocates.

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   7.7/10(37 votes)

   #7 - Risky Business

   S8:E410/31/2011

   A CEO falls mysteriously ill just days before he signs a contract that would relocate his company's entire labor force to China. House attempts to make an underhanded business transaction with his wealthy patient, but when the patient's condition worsens, the team must work around the clock to save his life. Meanwhile, Park prepares for her hearing with the Princeton Plainsboro Disciplinary Committee chaired by Foreman, and Adams' outlook on her patient's business venture reveals her deeper feelings about loyalty.

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   7.7/10(20 votes)

   #8 - The Woman in the Garden

   S1:E132/15/2006

   Booth and Brennan investigate when a dug up corpse is found in the back of a gang member's car. While being questioned, a drive-by shooting allows him to escape. Booth and Brennan follow the clues, which lead them to an empty grave and another body in a grave at a wealthy senator's house, where the gang member used to work.

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   7.5/10(22 votes)

   #9 - The Girl in the Fridge

   S1:E811/29/2005

   Brennan is about to go out for dinner with her old professor and ex-lover when Booth asks her and her team to help identify the remains of a young woman found in a refrigerator.

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    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #10 - Dumbster Fire

    S4:E172/26/2018

    The geniuses of Team Scorpion turn into knuckleheads and Paige must simplify the science for them, when their mental faculties are impaired during a job to prevent the creation of a black hole. Also, Florence and Sylvester grow closer when she helps him with a special project.

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    7.3/10(39 votes)

    #11 - Private Lives

    S6:E143/8/2010

    House and the team take on the case of an avid blogger admitted with sudden bruising and bleeding. From her hospital bed, the patient blogs about her symptoms, doctors and prospective diagnoses to her dedicated band of followers and solicits their advice on a course of treatment. Such openness leads the team to contemplate the value of privacy, especially after House and Wilson uncover secrets from one another 's past. Meanwhile, Chase is coaxed into testing out the dating scene.

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    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Faire Is Foul

    S4:E811/13/2017

    For Sylvester’s birthday, Team Scorpion visits a renaissance festival, but the revelry is cut short when a group tries to rob a nearby police evidence locker. Also, Paige grows weary of Walter’s play-by-play of all the historical inaccuracies at the festival

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    7.0/10(41 votes)

    #13 - Runaways

    S8:E101/30/2012

    When a runaway teen requires hospitalization, Adams butts heads with House when she insists they contact Social Services. Meanwhile, Taub has trouble forming a personal connection with his baby daughters and Foreman's relationship with a married woman comes out.

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    6.8/10(54 votes)

    #14 - War Without End

    S2:E99/7/2018

    Facing a life-changing decision, Danny and Colleen debate their next move. Meanwhile, Davos's contempt for mercy grows stronger.

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