The Best Episodes Written By John Ridley

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Patterns

   S1:E310/3/1999

   Bosco is caught on a security camera having sex in his squad car with the daughter of his Precinct Captain. Meanwhile Doc drags Carlos around the city on a personal mission to find the owner of a watch, found in the ambulance.

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   #2 - Modern Designs for Better Living

   S1:E911/28/1999

   When he goes on his first raid, Davis inadvertently endangers a young boy he is trying to help; Doc begins to think that the overdose his father took may not have been accidental; to get a critically ill woman to the hospital, the firefighters knock down an apartment wall and lower her out a high story window.

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   #3 - 32 Bullets and a Broken Heart

   S1:E142/14/2000

   It's Valentine's Day and Bobby and Kim have spent the night together; Bobby's confession of love leads Kim to realize that they've made a big mistake; after agonizing all day, she finally confesses and breaks Bobby's heart; seeking solace in a bottle, Bobby finds himself at a local bar next to a woman who has also been jilted that day, and they go off to her place; Fred drunkenly totals the car on the way to pick up Emily and Charlie; Faith arrests him and refuses to bail him out; when he finally arrives home, Faith has his things already packed and throws him out; Carlos tends to a girl who runs into a bus and then falls for him; the gay community is targeted by a gunman and a vigilante group forms to find the killer; Ty arrests a girl for auto theft who turns out to be Malcolm's sister; and Faith lets Bosco know that she is fed up with his bigotry.

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   8.0/10(11 votes)

   #4 - Starcrossed (2)

   S2:E255/29/2004

   The League manage to escape and take refuge at Wayne Manor, while the Thanagarians scout the planet for them and realize their master plan for Earth.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - The Self-Importance of Being Carlos

   S2:E173/19/2001

   Doc and Carlos attend a stress debriefing; Carlos meets up with Bosco when he's ordered to attend sensitivity training.

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   7.8/10(11 votes)

   #6 - Soul Train

   S5:E811/7/1994

   At a Soul Train reunion, middle-aged Philip feels like his train has left the station.

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   7.7/10(13 votes)

   #7 - Day Five

   S1:E58/25/2022

   With pressures mounting to abandon the hospital, the staff is forced to make challenging decisions.

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   7.6/10(17 votes)

   #8 - Day One

   S1:E18/11/2022

   Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in New Orleans. At Memorial Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and staff tend to patients and brace for the storm.

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   7.5/10(11 votes)

   #9 - The Client

   S5:E19/19/1994

   Will revels in Ashley's music industry success, but both Will and Ashley are about to have a rude surprise.

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    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #10 - Day Three

    S1:E38/11/2022

    As the city floods, the hospital loses power. Mulderick and the staff attempt to cope with the terrible conditions and prepare for an evacuation.

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    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #11 - Day Four

    S1:E48/18/2022

    Conditions continue to worsen. Mulderick, Pou, and more staff grapple with how to best help their patients—and how that help will be prioritized.

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    7.1/10(16 votes)

    #12 - Day Two

    S1:E28/11/2022

    The staff and patients think they've made it through the worst—except the waters aren't receding. Reports of a new crisis circulate.

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