The Best Episodes Written By John Shiban

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.8/10(175 votes)

   #1 - Sunset

   S3:E64/25/2010

   Walt settles into his new surroundings; Walt, Jr. wants answers about his parents' relationship; Hank's investigation causes problems for Walt and Jesse.

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   8.8/10(171 votes)

   #2 - Phoenix

   S2:E125/24/2009

   As Walt explores money laundering options, he and Jesse spar over the profits from their latest deal. Jesse and Jane clash with her father. Walt makes a fatal decision.

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   8.5/10(40 votes)

   #3 - Tall Tales

   S2:E152/15/2007

   The Winchester brothers seek the help of their family friend Bobby while investigating a series of unexplained happenings on a local college campus.

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   8.3/10(46 votes)

   #4 - Boss Fight

   S3:E43/27/2020

   As Wendy, Helen and Ruth strive to keep the business humming, Navarro plays mind games with Marty, who worries he'll never see his family again.

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   8.3/10(52 votes)

   #5 - Scarecrow

   S1:E111/10/2006

   Sam and Dean finally make contact with their father, but he tells them to stop looking for him and sends them on another ghost-hunting job. Frustrated with their father's evasiveness, Sam sets out alone to find him while Dean stays back to obey his father. Dean investigates a small town in Indiana where couples have gone missing the same day each year and discovers the farmers are sacrificing them to a Pagan God who takes the form of a scarecrow.

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   8.3/10(169 votes)

   #6 - Negro y Azul

   S2:E74/19/2009

   Jesse and Walt discuss expanding into new territories; Hank struggles to fit in; Skyler pursues a new job opportunity; Jesse gets to know his landlord.

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   8.2/10(41 votes)

   #7 - Folsom Prison Blues

   S2:E194/26/2007

   Sam and Dean allow themselves to be arrested in order to investigate a series of murders inside a penitentiary. However things get complicated when FBI agent Henricksen shows up to take over their case.

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   8.2/10(40 votes)

   #8 - Dreamland (1)

   S6:E411/29/1998

   While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.

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   8.2/10(40 votes)

   #9 - Dreamland II (2)

   S6:E512/6/1998

   Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.

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    8.1/10(43 votes)

    #10 - Field Trip

    S6:E215/9/1999

    When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.

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    8.1/10(159 votes)

    #11 - Abiquiu

    S3:E115/30/2010

    Skyler gets involved with Walt's business. Hank struggles with his recovery. Jesse makes a startling discovery after meeting a girl at group therapy.

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12. 

    8.1/10(48 votes)

    #12 - BFF

    S3:E83/27/2020

    Ruth isn't happy about Marty and Wendy's plan to bury the hatchet with Frank Jr. The Byrdes make a difficult decision about Ben. Maya is reprimanded.

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13. 

    8.0/10(50 votes)

    #13 - Skin

    S1:E610/18/2005

    Sam and Dean come to the aid of Sam's old college buddy after he is accused of a murder he swears he didn't commit. The brothers discover a shapeshifter is adopting the likenesses of others and murdering people. The brothers' race to stop the shapeshifter takes a terrifying turn when he shifts into the likeness of Dean.

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    8.0/10(41 votes)

    #14 - Croatoan

    S2:E912/7/2006

    Sam has a vision of Dean shooting a defenseless man, and they go to the town of River Grove, where they find the townspeople have been possessed by a virus that makes them violent.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Inside the X-Files

    S0:E42/1/1998

    A short documentary about the first 5 seasons of the X-Files. Behind the scences and story ideas including interviews of the cast.

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    7.9/10(48 votes)

    #16 - Leonard Betts

    S4:E121/26/1997

    After the body of a decapitated EMT disappears from the morgue and an identical man starts work at the same hospital, Mulder believes that the man has the ability to regrow parts of his body, including his head. The agents soon discover that Betts' body is riddled with cancer and he is able to live in that condition but needs to feed on cancerous tumors to keep up his strength.

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    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #17 - Monday

    S6:E142/28/1999

    A woman is forced to relive the same day over and over as she tries to prevent Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend during a bank robbery attempt. As the events restart again and again, Mulder's sense of Deja-vu grows stronger.

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    7.8/10(45 votes)

    #18 - The Benders

    S1:E152/14/2006

    Sam and Dean head to Minnesota where a young boy witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to search frantically for his brother. However, both are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human, and using the captives as human prey for a twisted hunting expedition.

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    7.8/10(44 votes)

    #19 - Memento Mori

    S4:E142/9/1997

    Scully's recent failing health is revealed to be an inoperable cancer in her skull, which appears to be common among abductees and she attempts to come to terms with her condition. Meanwhile, Mulder and the Lone Gunmen break into a high-security research lab to find the cure that could save her life.

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    7.7/10(39 votes)

    #20 - Everybody Loves a Clown

    S2:E210/5/2006

    After the events at the hospital, the brothers have no idea where the demon that killed their mother is hiding. While biding their time trying to come up with an idea, they investigate murders committed by a killer clown.

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    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #21 - You're the Boss

    S4:E104/29/2022

    Marty travels to the Navarro estate, Ruth asks Frank Jr. for a favor, a new acting sheriff makes waves, and Wendy tries to bring Jim back into the fold.

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    7.7/10(34 votes)

    #22 - Ace Deuce

    S4:E41/21/2022

    Wendy's claims about Ben anger Ruth. Mel the P.I. tracks down Wendy's father. Ruth's trip to the Missouri Belle with Kerry doesn't go as planned.

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    7.6/10(35 votes)

    #23 - The Amazing Maleeni

    S7:E81/16/2000

    When a small-time magician performs a trick where it appears that he turns his head all the way around but is then found in his van dead with his head neatly sawed off, Mulder and Scully suspect he was murdered and get caught up in an intricate scheme planned by two magicians trying to rob a bank.

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    7.6/10(43 votes)

    #24 - Dead Man's Blood

    S1:E204/20/2006

    To obtain a mystic gun capable of destroying the demon that killed their mother, Sam and Dean must team up with their father John and face off against vampires.

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    7.6/10(41 votes)

    #25 - The Pine Bluff Variant

    S5:E185/3/1998

    Scully fears that Mulder has gone to the other side when she sees him assisting a federal suspect escape custody. In truth he has infiltrated a terrorist group testing a deadly biological weapon that can eat through a person's flesh.

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