The essential episodes of Crossing Jordan
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Crossing Jordan — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Meet Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh of the Boston Medical Examiners office. With a reputation of going way beyond the call of duty…Jordan finds her first case a little close to home.
- 02
Two seemingly unconnected men turn up dead, but there is more than meets the eye to this case. Elsewhere Mr. Stinky has Bug and Trey stumped at identifying him.
- 03
A woman's torso is found and linked back to the prison system. Jordan is assigned to find out who the victim is and who is responsible for her death.
- 04
When the body of a firefighter is found Jordan is called to the scene. What she discovers will shock her and set her on a mission.
- 05
Facts are scarce when a Senator's daughter is found stabbed in the park. Jordan must cut though the political red tape to find the answers. Back at the morgue Bug and Nigel face some hard choices.
- 06
The discovery of a floating corpse forces Jordan into a nationwide manhunt for a serial killer as she teams up with a famed FBI criminal profiler and reunites with an unscrupulous reporter.
- 07
Jordan is called to a local psychiatric hospital to investigate a suicide. While there an unknown source provides her with a clue to her mother's murder.
- 08
With Jordan still at the psychiatric hospital she agrees to look into a triple homicide. Typical Jordan gets herself in over her head and Woody is there to lend a helping hand…again.
- 09
When the wife of a former ATF agent is found dead the husband's grief is overwhelming. He will take drastic measures and put everyone in the morgue in danger. Will they defuse the situation before it is too late?
- 10
Jordan and the team are sent to lead the recovery effort at the site of an explosion. Amongst the rubble is a lone survivor and Jordan must keep him talking till help can get to him. The grim task of identifying the victims falls on Dr. Macy.
- 11
Jordan and a detective investigate the killing of a hiker found along the Appalachian Trail; Woody and Nigel look into a murder that appears to be the work of a vampire.
- 12
A blackout in Boston has Jordan involved in a 12-car pileup in the middle of a tunnel.
- 13
Josh Duhamel and Vanessa Marcil guest star on a crossover episode with Las Vegas that begins with the suicide of a Montecito Casino showgirl in the Boston morgue. Meanwhile, Macy helps make a biker's dying wish come true.
- 14
Violence and mob rule grip Boston after police officers shoot an 8-year-old boy 33 times. As a riot erupts, Jordan and the team investigate the incident---but they may lose one of their own along the way.
- 15
In the sixth-season finale, Jordan and her coworkers are in a plane crash in mountain terrain on their flight home after investigating the deaths of a shipload of people on the Norwegian Sea. As Woody and Bug travel on foot for help, the rest try to stay warm and desperately wait for rescue.
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