The Worst Episodes of The Invisible Man

#1 Worst Episode
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7.3/10(77 votes)
#1 - Pilot (2)
S1:E26/9/2000
Going to Mexico to investigate Arnaud, Bobby meets his new partner Bobby Hobbes: a veteran spy and near basket-case. They escape an ambush by French-Canadian spies. Meanwhile, Arnaud has had Darien's girlfriend Casey brought down to Mexico, planning on using her as a hostage. Darien goes to rescue her, prepared to kill Arnaud since Darien thinks he'll be going insane shortly. Arnaud plays his trump card: there's a counter-agent that will stave off Quicksilver madness, and he'll give it to Darien if he works for him. Darien refuses, escaping with Casey and blowing up the compound (although Arnaud escapes). Both the counteragent and the formula are destroyed, and Darien goes to visit his brother's grave one more time before going permanently insane. However, the Official meets him there and reveals that his Agency was working with Kevin, and they have the counter-agent as well. As long as Darien works for them, he'll get regular doses of the Counter-Agent. Reluctantly, Darien agrees.
Director:Breck Eisner
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Breck Eisner
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(489 votes)
#2 - Pilot (1)
S1:E16/9/2000
Darien Fawkes is a con-man and thief who is captured for a third time. Rather then face California's three-strike law, he volunteers for an experiment conducted by his brother Kevin. Kevin and another scientist, Arnaud, have created a synthetic gland that secrets ""Quicksilver"", a substance that can bend light. They place the gland in Darien's head. He soon realizes what has happened and is none too pleased. Darien is even less happy when they discover the gland secretes Quicksilver into the recipient's brain, and enough of it drives the person insane. Darien learns to control his abilities, and soon discovers that Arnaud is up to something. Arnaud claims Darien is insane when he accuses the scientists, but then Arnaud's mercenaries break in, steal the information on the gland, and kill everyone except Darien. Darien goes to his ex-girlfriend, a doctor who is furious at him because he didn't reveal his past. She refuses to believe he can turn invisible, and then Darien is taken away by
Director:Breck Eisner
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Breck Eisner
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(67 votes)
#3 - Ralph
S1:E46/23/2000
A young girl is a witness to an assassination by a sniper. Traumatized, she only speaks to her imaginary friend ""Ralph."" Darien, using his powers of invisibility, convinces the girl he is ""Ralph"" and tries to get her to talk about the murder. Eventually the hit man tries to kill the girl, and Darien manages to stop him. With his help, the girl starts to recover from her trauma, and leaves her ""imaginary friend"" behind.
Director:Adam Nimoy
Writer:Craig Silverstein
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Director:Adam Nimoy
Writer:Craig Silverstein
7.6/10(53 votes)
#4 - Flowers for Hobbes
S1:E171/15/2001
Hobbes and Darien are on the trail of a sperm thief. A college professor is using the sperm to isolate intelligence-causing genes, and put them into a retrovirus. Hobbes is accidentally infected and soon begins to become more and more intelligent. But the partners discover that the gene therapy is lethal. Bobby becomes smart enough to create a cure...but refuses to do so, preferring to die smart then live dumb. Darien infects himself, leaving Hobbes no choice but to come up with a cure to save his friend.
Director:Jonathan Glassner
Writer:Craig Silverstein
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Director:Jonathan Glassner
Writer:Craig Silverstein
7.8/10(38 votes)
#5 - The Choice
S2:E128/10/2001
Alex finally locates her missing son at a Chrysalis baby camp, only to discover that he belongs to Stark, the agency’s sinister leader.
Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(54 votes)
#6 - Beholder
S1:E159/22/2000
A ghoulish hitman uses a laser to blind any witnesses to his killings. Fawkes and Hobbes trace him to a blind model who the killer is romantically involved in, but the assassin escapes, blinding Fawkes in the process. Since he was turning invisible when the laser hit him, the effects are temporary, and he can still see if he covers his eyes with the quicksilver formula. Unfortunately, that aggravates his growing insanity. The blind model helps him to deal with his blindness, and the two become romantically involved. Fawkes figures out that the assassin's most recent victim was merely a lure to get his real victim to the man's funeral. Fawkes, overwhelmed by Quicksilver Madness, throws the assassin to his death.
Director:Jay Tobias
Writer:Craig Silverstein
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Director:Jay Tobias
Writer:Craig Silverstein

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8.0/10(41 votes)
#7 - The Camp
S2:E24/20/2001
Darien and Hobbes learn that the Chrysalis Agency is artificially inseminating women all over the country and stealing their babies to create its own unstoppable army.
Director:Greg Yaitanes
Writer:Jonathan Glassner
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Director:Greg Yaitanes
Writer:Jonathan Glassner
8.0/10(33 votes)
#8 - Mere Mortals
S2:E191/11/2002
The keeper develops a way to keep Darien's invisibility static.
Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Steven D. Binder
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Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Steven D. Binder
8.1/10(57 votes)
#9 - Liberty & Larceny
S1:E87/28/2000
Darien is contacted by his former mentor and partner, Liz, who wants his help. She wants him to return to his thieving ways and help her steal some FBI files on a mobster who has hired her. Initially reluctant, Darien eventually grows aggravated with the Agency's treatment of him and links up with her. Covertly using his powers of invisibility, Darien manages to get hold of the files, only to realize that the mobster plans to use them to kill a government witness against him. Darien tries to thwart the mobster and keep Liz safe, and manages to do so. The two of them part on relatively friendly terms.
Director:Bruce Seth Green
Writer:Craig Silverstein
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Director:Bruce Seth Green
Writer:Craig Silverstein
8.1/10(54 votes)
#10 - The Value of Secrets
S1:E98/4/2000
Darien comes to the aid of a female scientist who may be able to remove the Quicksilver gland.
Director:David Jackson
Writer:Unknown
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Director:David Jackson
Writer:Unknown
8.1/10(53 votes)
#11 - Separation Anxiety
S1:E108/11/2000
Hobbes starts trailing his ex-wife, and gets arrested as a stalker. Hobbes believes his ex-wife Vivian's new fiance is a crook. Darien thinks he's jealous, but it turns out Hobbes is right, and they're assigned to the case. It turns out that the fiance is an undercover agent for Naval Investigations. They all team up to find the culprit in an illegal arms sale. They get captured but Darien manages to escape with his invisibility, and capture the bad guys. Hobbes is impressed with the fiance, Brock, and reconciles with Vivian.
Director:Joshua Butler
Writer:Peter Hume
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Director:Joshua Butler
Writer:Peter Hume
8.1/10(49 votes)
#12 - Cat & Mouse
S1:E149/15/2000
Unable to craft their own invisiblity gland, the Chinese government sets out to steal the American one. Unfortunately, they have the idea that Bobby Hobbes is the invisible member of the team. Fawkes and Hobbes go into hiding, but Bobby gets nervous. After several chases, Hobbes apparently dies in a car crash. It's a set-up, but he turns up at his own funeral to look on from a distance, and is captured there by the Chinese. The Agency tracks him to the Chinese embassy, and Fawkes goes in to rescue him. It turns out the whole operation is a ploy to lure out the real American Invisible Man. Fawkes manages to escape with Bobby before they can drain the Quicksilver out of the gland, setting the place on fire.
Director:Joshua Butler
Writer:Marc Dube
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Director:Joshua Butler
Writer:Marc Dube
8.1/10(33 votes)
#13 - Bad Chi
S2:E97/20/2001
Darien goes to an acupuncturist who discovers his powers of invisibility and forces him to help her steal a set of ancient needles from a museum to treat her mentor, who is suffering from stomach cancer.
Director:James A. Contner
Writer:Unknown
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Director:James A. Contner
Writer:Unknown
8.2/10(60 votes)
#14 - Tiresias
S1:E57/7/2000
Darien and Hobbes are assigned to help investigate an auditor's relative's suicide, and run into a man who can see the future and use it to his advantage.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Peter Hume
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Peter Hume
8.2/10(55 votes)
#15 - Perchance to Dream
S1:E181/22/2001
A series of bizarre killings involve murderers who have no connection to the victims. The Keeper becomes the next unwitting ""murder,"" as she is part of a insomnia-research project. The project's scientists are using the device to program their subjects to become assassins. The Keeper's sanity is threatened if she can't complete her ""assignment."" Fawkes and Hobbes eventually mange to bring in the scientists, and come up with a means to break the Keeper of the programming (by faking the death of her ""victim"") before she goes mad.
Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Unknown
8.2/10(51 votes)
#16 - Impetus
S1:E67/14/2000
Darien encounters a bizarrely-aged woman and soon becomes infected with the same disease, causing him to rapidly age.
Director:Joshua Butler
Writer:Jonathan Glassner
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Director:Joshua Butler
Writer:Jonathan Glassner
8.2/10(38 votes)
#17 - Insensate
S2:E77/6/2001
A strange old man who has lost the ability to experience normal sensation comes to Darien in the hopes that he can lead him to his late brother, Kevin, whom he blames for doing a horrible thing to him.
Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Jonathan Glassner
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Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Jonathan Glassner
8.2/10(38 votes)
#18 - Exposed
S2:E179/21/2001
The sinister head of the SWRB discovers that Gaither is still alive and storms the Agency to recapture him, kidnapping Alex and stealing all of the Keeper’s vital computer files in the process.
Director:Ian Barry
Writer:Gabrielle Stanton
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Director:Ian Barry
Writer:Gabrielle Stanton
8.2/10(34 votes)
#19 - Immaterial Girl
S2:E138/17/2001
Darien helps a young woman who seems to be haunted by a strange apparition, and she is convinced it is her mother, who had disappeared mysteriously weeks before, trying to communicate with her.
Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Jonathan Glassner
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Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Jonathan Glassner
8.3/10(51 votes)
#20 - The Other Invisible Man
S1:E128/25/2000
The Official is assault by an invisible man and Fawkes is suspected - Darien and Hobbes work to clear Darin and find the true assailant.
Director:Joshua Butler
Writer:Craig Silverstein
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Director:Joshua Butler
Writer:Craig Silverstein
8.3/10(47 votes)
#21 - Diseased
S1:E202/5/2001
Hobbes and Darien meet with one of Hobbes' contacts to set a trap for their arch-enemy, Arnaud. Arnaud manages to escape Darien with the aid of a smoke canister, which turns out to contain a biological weapon. Darien is soon displaying flu-like illness symptoms, and is excreting black, contaminated Quicksilver. The Official and the Keeper send him to a military hospital...which Arnaud has already infiltrated. He plans to remove the Quicksilver Gland from Darien's skull via surgery, but the illness complicates matters. He must kidnap the Keeper to cure Darien so he can gain an uninfected Gland. Darien manages to escape and, overwhelmed by madness, almost kills Arnaud. The Keeper manages to stop him but Arnaud escapes. (Copyright 2002 Steve Crow)
Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Craig Silverstein
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Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Craig Silverstein
8.3/10(46 votes)
#22 - Legends
S2:E14/13/2001
The agents find themselves hunting for the legendary Sasquatch on an Indian reservation after two men have been killed there under mysterious circumstances.
Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Craig Silverstein
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Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Craig Silverstein
8.3/10(40 votes)
#23 - Going Postal
S2:E56/22/2001
Hobbes becomes irrationally violent and shoots up a post office, and his co-workers are afraid he’s lost his mind again.
Director:Bill L. Norton
Writer:Gabrielle Stanton
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Director:Bill L. Norton
Writer:Gabrielle Stanton
8.3/10(36 votes)
#24 - Father Figure
S2:E148/24/2001
The agents are sent to capture a dangerous government assassin who is said to have switched allegiances, and Darien is stunned to discover that the man may be his own father, who has been missing for decades.
Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Grossman
Writer:Unknown
8.4/10(35 votes)
#25 - Flash To Bang
S2:E107/27/2001
Darien loses his memory after being struck by lightning, and Arnaud convinces him that he is his own brother and that his Agency friends are really trying to kill him.
Director:Bill L. Norton
Writer:Craig Silverstein
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Director:Bill L. Norton
Writer:Craig Silverstein