The worst episodes of Helix
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
Michael struggles to keep the abbey under control as the CDC team move closer toward tracking the source of the pathogen; at the same time, Alan fights the urge to rejoin his former colleagues and comes to terms with the reality about Peter's allegiances. In the future, Walker takes a risk attempting to escape her delusional father.
- 02
Jordan and Peter travel outside the safety of the abbey to retrieve some specimens and discover just what's living in the woods; at the same time, Sister Amy plots to make the CDC team leave forever.
- 03
Peter reveals is brother's secret and gets them both in trouble; at the same time, Kyle has his hands full trying to quarantine the orchard and the infected hive.
- 04
Alan, Kyle and Winger search the woods for the tree with red sap that might be a cure for the pathogen.
- 05
In the Season 2 finale, Alan's relationship with Walker reaches a bloody climax, while his sibling feud with Peter erupts in flames. Elsewhere, Kyle does his best to protect a possible cure for the mycosis.
- 06
The CDC team are forced to work together when another outbreak threatens to overwhelm the Abbey.
- 07
At the abbey, Sister Amy makes a bargain for immortality; and in the woods, the race to find the Bleeding Tree intensifies now that Kyle is infected.
- 08
The Navy prepare to implement Plan B, a final solution to ensure that the virus and everyone infected with it never make it off the island.
- 09
Kyle and Jordan attempt to flee the island, but their escape is made more difficult by the followers who are hunting them down; Walker and Alan plan to halt ILARIA's deadly plan as soon as they find the Mother Tree.
- 10
The CDC team continue to investigate the island; at the same time, they discover Peter's brother, Alan, is a member of Brother Michael's cult, and his warnings for them to leave the abbey fall on deaf ears.
- 11
Things go from bad to worse on the island. Elsewhere, Walker decides to go to St. Germain after learning about Brother Michael.
- 12
Sister Amy makes a power play for control of the Abbey as Alan and Kyle discover a possible cure for the virus.
- 13
In the second-season premiere, Drs. Peter Farragut and Sarah Jordan are joined by Kyle Sommer when they battle a new deadly virus on a mysterious wooded island.
- 14
In the Season 1 finale, Alan and Walker battle the Scythe to save the world from disaster.
- 15
Alan, Walker, Hatake and Daniel set a trap for an assassin who has been sent by Ilaria to retrieve both the virus and the cure.
- 16
Alan and the team deal with secrets and suspicion as the crisis heightens and deadly consequences follow. Meanwhile, Walker tries to survive on Level R.
- 17
A team of scientists are thrust into a potentially life-or-death situation after being deployed to the Arctic to secretly investigate what could be a disease outbreak.
- 18
The team have every hope that the virus is contained, but unfortunately it continues to spread at an alarming rate; at the same time, some of the secrets the docs are keeping prove to be deadly.
- 19
The vectors attack and take Peter's body; Walker is held prisoner by Sutton after the true nature of Sutton's relationship with Hatake is revealed.
- 20
Daniel makes a discovery; Hatake protects Walker from Sutton's mercenaries.
- 21
Members of the CDC team come to the realization that nobody is who they seem to be at the base.
- 22
Alan and Julia travel to an abandoned satellite station in a last-ditch effort to call for help. Once there, they come across the truth behind Hatake's plan and Julia's condition. Meanwhile, Dr. Jordan makes a startling discovery of her own, which could mean a cure for cancer.
- 23
Peter leads the Vectors in a desperate final attempt to spread the virus, while the CDC scientists work together and successfully create a cure just as their lives come under threat from Ilaria Corporation's deadly mercenaries.
- 24
Dr. Alan Farragut and his team work to treat the outbreak patients and contain the virus, while at the same time a rebellion erupts at the Arctic Biosystems base.
- 25
Alan and Jordan make progress in decoding the virus; Hatake secretly "cures" Walker before the corporation's black helicopters land on the base.
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