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Episode Power Rankings

The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.

#1
S1E13 8.1
Tommy Madsen

Revealing doors are opened and lives hang in the balance as Rebecca will stop at nothing in pursuit of the man who killed her partner.

#2
S1E6 7.7
Paxton Petty

When Hauser, Madsen, and Soto track former inmate Paxton Petty, a landmine bomber who has returned and is placing bombs throughout populated areas of San Francisco, methods of the past are applied to the present.

#3
S1E8 7.7
The Ames Bros.

Herman and Pinky Ames, who almost escaped in 1963, return to Alcatraz in the present day and find something strangely wrong.

#4 Garrett Stillman S1E12 7.7
#5 Guy Hastings S1E5 7.6
#6 Pilot S1E1 7.5
#7 Sonny Burnett S1E9 7.5
#8 Webb Porter S1E11 7.5
#9 Ernest Cobb S1E2 7.4
#10 Clarence Montgomery S1E10 7.4

Lowlights

#13 S1E7 Johnny McKee 7.3

Madsen and Hauser hunt down Johnny McKee, a former Alcatraz inmate and vicious killer with a background in chemistry. It’s a race against time before McKee horrifically poisons more innocent victims. Meanwhile, more details emerge about Madsen’s grandfather.

#12 Cal Sweeney S1E4 7.3
#11 Kit Nelson S1E3 7.3
#10 Clarence Montgomery S1E10 7.4
#9 Ernest Cobb S1E2 7.4

The Quality Arc

Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.

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Episode Engagement

High votes + high rating = beloved classic. High votes + low rating = notorious stinker. Low votes + high rating = hidden gem.

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