The worst episodes of Crossing Jordan
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Everyone's babysitting Jordan in rotation, but when Bug goes missing it further strains the M.E.'s office and a new detective who just wants to prove his case.
- 02
A criminologist is out to get rid of Macy by claiming that the coroner covered up evidence in a 20-year-old case.
- 03
Jordan begins acting strangely after an encounter with an intruder; the discovery of a corpse reopens a 10-year-old case.
- 04
Woody takes a leave and goes home to Wisconsin, but soon finds himself in L.A. trying to solve a murder.
- 05
Jordan helps Nigel after his girlfriend's daughter is kidnapped; Macy tries to identify a John Doe, who gives new meaning to the term walking dead.
- 06
Jordan tries to find out who killed a teen informant; Dr. Winslow discovers a link connecting six corpses of homeless men.
- 07
Jordan and Woody travel to Los Angeles in an attempt to save a prisoner from execution; Bug teams with a detective to try to solve a vagrant's fatal kidnapping.
- 08
Woody believes that a man arrested on a narcotics charge by an undercover policewoman may be a serial killer, but he needs Jordan's help to prove it.
- 09
Is That Plutonium in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
An offbeat episode involves plutonium and the FBI.
- 10
Jordan and Woody suspect that a college fencing star's death may not be a suicide; Macy and Nigel investigate a crime in which a corpse had all organs removed.
- 11
Jordan checks out a death that seems to have resulted from a fall off a motorcycle, while Macy looks into a wealthy young student's murder.
- 12
A widow claims that the consulate representative who removed her husband's corpse from the morgue is responsible for the man's death.
- 13
While Macy deals with a jazz legend's daughter involved in some deadly lovers' quarrels, Jordan investigates the death of a pregnant nun.
- 14
A report that the body of one of three missing boys has been found at the bottom of a well brings Jordan to the crime scene, where she's soon trapped in an abandoned mine with the other two boys, one of whom is badly wounded.
- 15
A reporter asks Jordan if a death was suicide or homicide, and when she answers the deceased's cell phone, it's Woody calling from a crime scene.
- 16
After a long-missing teacher's remains are found, a young man---who would have been 10 at the time---confesses to the murder; a couple who frequently had violent arguments are found dead.
- 17
Jordan and Woody seek help from a jailed serial killer whose techniques are being emulated by a copycat killer, but the woman's psychological games prove to be unnerving.
- 18
Jordan and Woody investigate a double homicide in which one of the victims is a police officer, and Jordan worries that Woody is taking the case too personally, especially after planted evidence is discovered.
- 19
A past trial in which Jordan's testimony set an alleged killer free comes back to haunt her when she investigates the case of a missing woman who was related to the accused.
- 20
Woody and Jordan investigate the murder of a military man who had just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. Meanwhile, Macy has an argument with his daughter after she brings a boyfriend home; and Nigel uncovers new evidence in a decades-old kidnapping case.
- 21
Macy, Jordan, Woody and the rest of the crew are rocked by emotional and physical trauma when a commuter train carrying schoolchildren and their pregnant teacher is destroyed in a terrorist attack.
- 22
When six firemen die in a brush fire, Jordan and the team discover that foul play in the chain of command may have contributed to their deaths. Meanwhile, Bug's snazzy new car is demolished by a falling body; Macy and Maggie try to help Abby stay in rehab; and Woody and Lu's budding romance heats up.
- 23
A case literally hits home for Jordan when one of her upstairs neighbors is murdered and his young daughter becomes the target of an assassin. Meanwhile, Macy struggles to deal with a prominent family whose son was in a drunken-driving accident with an unfamiliar woman.
- 24
Woody and Lu look for a young girl's killer, who may be a schizophrenic living in a neighborhood halfway house. Meanwhile, Jordan grows close to Kayla, who's staying with her while the state looks for a suitable home for the orphaned teen.
- 25
When a pro baseball player is accused of rape, the team investigates his alibi, leading to an unexpected revelation. Meanwhile, Jordan's growing jealousy of Woody and Lu's relationship reaches new heights; and Nigel is determined to find the family of a fighter pilot whose frozen body was discovered.
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