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| episode title | season | air-date | synopsis | writer/director |
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| Pilot | 101 | 9/20/02 | A man awakens, stranded on a island off the coast of Seattle. Suffering from amnesia about his personal identity, he possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the world. Call him: "John Doe" | W: Brandon Camp & Mike Thompson// D: Mimi Leder |
| Blood Lines | 102 | 9/27/02 | Doe investigates a gory murder case, which begins when a swimmer dives into a pool filled with human blood// Karen talks Doe into hiring her as his personal assistant | W: Brandon Camp & Mike Thompson// D: Mimi Leder |
| Do Re: Me | 103 | 10/04/02 | Bodies are showing up, cut in half// Doe suspects that a twin (separated from twin by adoption) is doing the killing// the other twin is in a mental ward and says he did it | W: Gardner Stern// D: Henry Bronchtein |
| Past Imperfect | 104 | 10/18/02 | Doe is filled with foreboding when a stranger recognizes him as a suspect in a 40-year-old murder// the guy looks just like him--but the pic is 40 years old-- could it be his father? So was the murdered woman his mother? | W: Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner// D: Bill Norton |
| John Deux | 105 | 10/25/02 | When another man washes up on a beach, the circumstances remind John of his own…he tracks the man to find his origins, but stumbles across organ harvesters instead | W: Geoffrey Neigher// D: Felix Alcala |
| Low Art | 106 | 11/01/02 | A puzzling art theft at the local museum, where a guard was killed in a locked room, might be blamed on Doe's assistant, but he helps clear her and solve the crime. | W: Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts// D: Dwight Little |
| Mind Games | 107 | 11/08/02 | Sperm donors are turning up dead// they are all on a list, and one of them is a local boy's dad// the boy thinks John may be his dad, so John tracks the list to see if one of them is HIM | W: Adele Lim and Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner// D: Fred Keller |
| Idaho | 108 | 11/15/02 | A private eye with loads of surveillance photos of John is found dead// the police think the person who hired him may have done it--which puts John also at risk, if true// John takes a trip to Idaho to find his(?) roots. | W: Brandon Camp & Mike Thompson// D: Henry Bronchtein |
| Manifest Destiny | 109 | 12/06/02 | John is taking a plane trip, although claustrophobic// a man dies onboard, and John helps solve the case enroute// Gabrielle Anwar guests as a doctor, also onboard the plane | W: Timothy J. Lea// D: Leslie Libman |
| The Mourner | 110 | 12/13/02 | A serial killer leaves bizarre clues and a condolence card with his victims// John figures one out in time to save a sewer-worker from a drowning death, but the guy keeps after him…John's "birthmark" symbol is on one of the cards | W: Matt Pyken & Michael Berns// D: Mimi Leder |
| John DOA | 111 | 01/10/03 | part 2 of "the Mourner"// John is determined to stop the killer--then Lieutenant Avery is kidnapped, and John himself is detained by the brass at the PD// thank goodness for friends…… | W: Matt Pyken & Michael Berns// D: Michelle Maclaren |
| Tone Dead | 112 | 01/17/03 | When an up-and-coming music star drops dead on stage, apparently of a heart attack, John notices that the kid had an implant (for controlling his epilepsy), which malfunctioned--Murder by sound! | W: Brandon Camp & Mike Thompson and Gretchn J. Berg & Aaron Harberts |
| Family Man | 113 | 01/31/03 | When a teenaged girl is kidnapped from a park while walking with her little sister, she becomes the fourth person snatched by a man trying to replace his dead family. | Story: Adele Lim// W: Geoffrey Neigher |
| Ashes to Ashes | 114 | 02/14/03 | John and Karen return to his home after her art competition, only to find the place ransacked and a trap set// John is able to keep the bomb from detonating, but Karen is kidnapped while he's doing it// 2 groups are watching John, it seems. | W: Brandon Camp & Mike Thompson// D: Mimi Leder |
| Psychic Connection | 115 | 03/07/03 | A skeptical John Doe works with a psychic to solve a case// she tells him she started getting visions of a serial killer's work after she herself was attacked 2 years before// John thinks she actually may have been an intended victim | Story: Adele Lim// W: Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts// D: Ian Sander |
| Illegal Alien | 116 | 03/14/03 | When a man in an astronaut suit is shot by drunken, frightened teens in the forest, the police ask Doe for a consult// Then a govt agency shows up, grabs the body, and says- forget it!! | |
| Doe or Die | 117 | 03/21/03 | An ex-police officer takes hostages at a Seattle precinct. | |
| Save As ... John Doe | 118 | 03/28/03 | A beautiful woman finds Doe at Diggers and asks for help retrieving a mysterious briefcase left to her by a dead cyber-wizard// it was taken from her by a mugger, and they stole her dog, Elmo! | |
| Shock to the System | 119 | 04/04/03 | Being struck by lightning strips John of his genius, while he is expected to help the police find a copycat killer, calling himself JTR (Jack the Ripper) in notes to the police, and to John. | |
| Remote Control | 120 | 04/18/03 | Trying to find out what happened to Digger's old Army buddy, Doe visits a sanitarium where patients participate in remote-viewing experiments, in a secret wing of the hospital. | |
| The Rising | 121 | 04/25/03 | season finale…John starts receiving "visions" from the captive remote viewers held by the Phoenix group, and is able to hone in on their where-abouts// the NSA guy helps. |