John Doe

Season 1

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A man who seems to know everything but his own name helps police solve crimes as he searches for his identity.

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21 Episodes

  • Pilot
    E1
    PilotA man awakens on an island only to discover that he has no memory of who he is. Without knowing his identity, he travels to Seattle and finds out that not only is he an amnesiac but that he is a savant, that he knows literally everything. The colorblind genius soon becomes a police consultant, aiding in the most inexplicable of crimes, while, at the same time, beginning a journey to find out who he is.
  • Blood Lines
    E2
    Blood LinesKaren is fired from her job at the bar by Digger. She talks John into taking her on as his assistant. Also, John helps the Seattle Police figure out the motive behind a series of attacks against an importers family.
  • Doe Re: Me
    E3
    Doe Re: MeJohn helps Lt. Avery and Det. Hayes solve a series of gruesome murders involving twins who were put up for adoption decades ago. A doctor with unorthodox methods for memory recovery tries to help Doe.
  • Past Imperfect
    E4
    Past ImperfectWhen skeletal remains are found at a construction site, the ownership is traced to a man who is a dead ringer for John.
  • John Deux
    E5
    John DeuxAnother man is found in the Puget Sound. John visits him in the hospital, and the man seems to recognize him before John is thrown out. The man then disappears, and John looks for him. A rogue doctor has illegally harvested the man's organs, and Frank saves John before the same can happen to him. Also, another man who seems to know something of John's past is killed.
  • Low Art
    E6
    Low ArtInvestigating a violent and seemingly impossible crime committed at the Seattle Museum of Art, John discovers that Karen is involved.
  • Mind Games
    E7
    Mind GamesWhen a young boy Wesley and his mother approach John Doe claiming that sperm bank records indicate he is the boy's father, John is pulled into a mystery as he tries to track down the list of donors and finds two of them dead, their brains removed.
  • Idaho
    E8
    IdahoJohn discovers clues that lead to his real life, a trail that takes him to Idaho and raises more questions than answers.
  • Manifest Destiny
    E9
    Manifest DestinyJohn Does decides to go on a trip to London. He's struggling to calm himself down due to the claustrophobia caused by being on a plane when a Reverend dies. John finds out he was murdered (poisoned).He has to find the killer, who is on the plane, with a help of some people and others trying to make his job harder.
  • The Mourner
    E10
    The MournerThe mysterious symbol on Doe's chest is part of the calling card left by a serial killer known as The Mourner who knows a lot about Doe, whom he challenges with cryptic clues as he puts more lives in danger.
  • John D.O.A.
    E11
    John D.O.A.Lenny renews his duel of wits with John, kidnapping Lt. Avery and sending a series of cryptic clues with a fatal deadline. A new captain makes things hard for John and he and Digger go off on their own to hunt down the killer. John meets up with Frank and they figure both that the police are on the wrong trail going into a booby trap and where Lenny really is. But Frank accidentally shoots John, killing him and letting Lenny escape. It's a ruse to draw Lenny out at the cemetery with no one in the way, one that (more or less) works. We do find out that Lenny branded himself with John's mark and didn't have any deep connection to him.
  • Tone Dead
    E12
    Tone DeadRachel visits John in Seattle. New to relationships and dating, John seeks out advice from Frank. A popular deejay dies under peculiar circumstances. John and Rachel work with the police to figure out how it happened.
  • Family Man
    E13
    Family ManIt's all about families. Frank's soon to be ex-wife wants sole custody of their children and she wants to prevent him from seeing them at all. A teenage girl is kidnapped by a deranged man who wants to replace his family.
  • Ashes to Ashes
    E14
    Ashes to AshesThe Phoenix group kidnaps Karen to interrogate her about John and an artifact that they seek. John follows a trail of clues and a series of deaths that lead him back to Horseshoe Island. Will John and the police find Karen in time to save her?
  • Psychic Connection
    E15
    Psychic ConnectionJohn copes with his first nightmare over Karen's death while helping the police in the deaths of several young girls. A psychic, Delphine, helps them locate two of the bodies in a nearby park. John is skeptical of her abilities but begins to believe she has some gift when she sees a presence and a darkness about him. After the third girl turns up dead, Delphine leads them back to the park where they find a skeleton from five years earlier . . . around the time she started blacking out and her gift started manifesting. John determines that Delphine survived the killer's attack and suffered amnesia, thus explaining her "psychic" connection to the killings and the park. John soon determines all the victims worked in food services, and that a butcher, Jeb Crosby, is the killer . . .but not before he captures Delphine. John and the police arrive just in time to save her and John comes to terms with his guilt over Karen's death.
  • Illegal Alien
    E16
    Illegal AlienAn astronaut who falls from the sky is shot by teen aged campers. The autopsy reveals that the astronaut would have died of asphyxiation if he wasn't shot. John, Frank, and Digger investigate the mysterious burned-out circle found near the shooting.
  • Doe or Die
    E17
    Doe or DieKen Rothman, an ex-police officer that Avery got fired for beating a suspect, gets into the police HQ by faking his death and he and his men quickly take the station and most of the staff (except Frank) hostage. Rothman demands his reputation be cleared, but John manages to get free and escape into the building, and soon discovers Rothman has a supply of Russian-made smallpox. John manages to take out a few terrorists before being recaptured and Rothman leaves John and Avery behind with a shattered vial of smallpox. It's fake, but the whole thing is a ploy to get hold of smallpox vaccine to sell as a bio-weapon. Doe figures it out and they capture Rothman just in time.
  • Save As...John Doe
    E18
    Save As...John DoeJohn Doe unravels a mystery involving a super hot woman, a dead computer genius, several hit-men, and an amazing new invention.
  • Shock to the System
    E19
    Shock to the SystemAfter being struck by lightning, everything changes for John Doe. He can see colors, but he no longer has his super intelligence. He makes financial mistakes. He is not as effective for the police. All of this makes him doubt himself.
  • Remote Control
    E20
    Remote ControlThe Seneca Institute has an interesting program involving "fallen geniuses," psychic abilities, and remote visions. John Doe and Digger stumble onto it while investigating an accident involving Digger's blood brother.
  • The Rising
    E21
    The RisingJohn is having visions that cause him to black out. The visions lead him to the dead body of an unidentified man. Several clues on the body of the unidentified man lead Doe to the Phoenix Group. What he learns is mind blowing.

Cast of Season 1

  • Dominic PurcellJohn Doe
  • Jayne BrookJamie Avery
  • John Marshall JonesFrank Hayes
  • William ForsytheDigger
  • John MacCarthyDirector
  • Mimi LederProducer

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