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Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Listener Season 1 Episode 5 - Lisa Says
    6.6/10(165 votes)

    S1:E5

    A troubled boy runs away from the hospital after narrowly escaping a gang beating. While trying to find him, Toby encounters a group of runaways and discovers that a young girl is also missing.

    Director:Kari Skogland
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Listener Season 1 Episode 1 - I'm an Adult Now
    7.0/10(263 votes)

    S1:E1

    When Toby rescues a young woman of a terrible car accident, he starts having disturbing visions of the son of the woman, who has gone missing. The woman is traumatized and scared for being kidnapped to gun point. As the worry for the situation of the child increases, Toby realizes that it he is going to have to act fast to find a sense to the mental discords that are tormenting him.

    Director:Clement Virgo
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Listener Season 1 Episode 2 - Emotional Rescue
    7.0/10(173 votes)

    S1:E2

    Toby rescues an old friend from a building fire and begins hunting a serial arsonist.

    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Listener Season 1 Episode 4 - Some Kinda Love
    7.1/10(155 votes)

    S1:E4

    Toby becomes a murder suspect after he leaves a nightclub with a woman who turns up dead the next day.

    Director:Clement Virgo
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Listener Season 1 Episode 6 - Foggy Notion
    7.2/10(137 votes)

    S1:E6

    Toby becomes attached to the sister of a murder victim shot in Chinatown and uses his telepathy to find the killer. He soon uncovers a link between the shooting and a Chinese crime boss.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Listener Season 2 Episode 1 - Lady in the Lake
    7.2/10(132 votes)

    S2:E1

    Toby, still haunted by guilt over the murder of his friend Detective Charlie Marks and the disappearance of his mother – has resolved to stop fighting against his mysterious gift and use his telepathic abilities to help others. When he revives a woman who nearly drowned, her amnesia gives him the perfect opportunity. As he sets out to help her remember her past, she’s also being investigated by Sgt. Michelle McCluskey of the IIB, who has taken a special interest in Toby’s connection to the woman and uncovered his more than coincidental history with a number of major criminal cases in the past.

    Director:Kari Skogland
    Writer:Ben Sokolowski

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  7. The Listener Season 1 Episode 9 - Inside Man
    7.3/10(124 votes)

    S1:E9

    Toby works with a traumatized teen who was left unable to speak after the death of his parents in an attempt to discover what happened during the accident that killed them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Listener Season 3 Episode 4 - The Taking
    7.3/10(95 votes)

    S3:E4

    Toby and Michelle investigate the abduction of an African teenager whose driver/bodyguard, Kwesi, was shot during the altercation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ken Cuperus

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  9. The Listener Season 5 Episode 2 - The Lockup
    7.3/10(81 votes)

    S5:E2

    A former IIB colleague returns and ends up jeopardizing the team's success.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Listener Season 1 Episode 3 - A Voice in the Dark
    7.4/10(156 votes)

    S1:E3

    Visions of a missing girl prompt Toby to pursue a homeless man, who he thinks has information on her location. Soon, Toby begins to suspect that the man may also have psychic abilities.

    Director:Clement Virgo
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Listener Season 1 Episode 10 - Missing
    7.4/10(127 votes)

    S1:E10

    Toby works on a missing-person case in hopes of receiving a $100,000 reward, which he wants to use to save the nearly bankrupt restaurant owned by Oz's family. The case, however, proves more complicated than Toby anticipated.

    Director:T.J. Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Listener Season 2 Episode 3 - In His Sights
    7.4/10(112 votes)

    S2:E3

    Toby investigates an assassination threat against a high-ranking military colonel who may have been involved in the mysterious disappearance of an army private.

    Director:Charles Binamé
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Listener Season 2 Episode 11 - To Die For
    7.4/10(102 votes)

    S2:E11

    Sgt. McCluskey, with the help of Toby, tries to determine if a mob boss is really behind the murder of Will Sterling, the business partner of a celebrated restaurant chef.

    Director:Charles Binamé
    Writer:Jason Sherman

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  14. The Listener Season 3 Episode 6 - She Sells Sanctuary
    7.4/10(101 votes)

    S3:E6

    Toby and Michelle investigate the link between a cult and the disappearance of three young women.

    Director:Kari Skogland
    Writer:Karen Walton

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  15. The Listener Season 4 Episode 2 - The Blue Line
    7.4/10(91 votes)

    S4:E2

    Toby and Michelle track a gang of robbers armed with lethal, high-powered bullets under the additional pressure of a demanding new police superintendent.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Listener Season 5 Episode 5 - Game Over
    7.4/10(76 votes)

    S5:E5

    On the eve of his new video game release, Dev's former friend is murdered.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Listener Season 2 Episode 2 - Crime Seen
    7.5/10(118 votes)

    S2:E2

    Sgt. McCluskey recruits Toby on a case involving smuggled weapons, which takes a turn for the worse when an undercover operative winds up dead.

    Director:Charles Binamé
    Writer:Jason Sherman

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  18. The Listener Season 2 Episode 12 - Eye of the Storm
    7.5/10(103 votes)

    S2:E12

    Toby helps Sgt. McCluskey uncover who is behind the leak of government information and a sex tape featuring the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

    Director:Clement Virgo
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Listener Season 3 Episode 1 - The Bank Job
    7.5/10(116 votes)

    S3:E1

    Despite his decision to stop using his telepathic abilities, Toby is forced to use them when he finds himself hostage in the middle of a bank heist. It will take all of Toby's skills, both as a paramedic and a mind reader, to keep him and his fellow hostages alive.

    Director:Farhad Mann
    Writer:Peter Mohan

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  20. The Listener Season 3 Episode 3 - Curtain Call
    7.5/10(95 votes)

    S3:E3

    After a member of a superstar performer’s crew is electrocuted by a microphone, Toby finds himself amidst the entourage of Jade, one of pop music’s most popular and innovative performers.

    Director:Farhad Mann
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Listener Season 3 Episode 12 - The Bro Code
    7.5/10(84 votes)

    S3:E12

    Oz unwittingly puts his life in danger after he convinces Toby to help a childhood friend who witnessed a murder.

    Director:Rob Lieberman
    Writers:Peter Mohan, Ken Cuperus

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  22. The Listener Season 5 Episode 12 - An Innocent Man
    7.5/10(79 votes)

    S5:E12

    Toby goes under cover when he believes an innocent man is taking the fall for a murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Listener Season 1 Episode 7 - Iris
    7.6/10(142 votes)

    S1:E7

    Toby watches a woman with healing powers tend to an injured baby. When he befriends her, he learns she feels similarly burdened by her gift.

    Director:Stephen Surjik
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Listener Season 2 Episode 4 - The Brothers Volkov
    7.6/10(115 votes)

    S2:E4

    Toby and Michelle investigate a suspicious homicide when a Russian Consul General is found dead and his son, protected by diplomatic immunity, confesses to his murder.

    Director:Kari Skogland
    Writer:Jason Sherman

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  25. The Listener Season 3 Episode 7 - Poisoned Minds
    7.6/10(93 votes)

    S3:E7

    Toby and Michelle investigate the death of a pharmaceutical executive who released a drug with killer results.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Lisa Says" is the worst rated episode of "The Listener". It scored 6.6/10 based on 165 votes. Directed by Kari Skogland and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/2/2009. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "I'm an Adult Now".