Crossing Jordan — Season 1
Every body tells a story.
About this season
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Episodes (23)
1. Pilot
10.0Aired 24 September 2001 • 42 min
Meet Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh of the Boston Medical Examiners office. With a reputation of going way beyond the call of duty…Jordan finds her first case a little close to home.
2. The Dawn of a New Day
10.0Aired 1 October 2001 • 42 min
Two seemingly unconnected men turn up dead, but there is more than meets the eye to this case. Elsewhere Mr. Stinky has Bug and Trey stumped at identifying him.
3. The Ties That Bind
10.0Aired 8 October 2001 • 42 min
A woman’s torso is found and linked back to the prison system. Jordan is assigned to find out who the victim is and who is responsible for her death.
4. Born to Run
10.0Aired 15 October 2001 • 42 min
With what appears to be a cut and dry murder suicide Jordan gets help from her colleagues to find the truth. Meanwhile Dr. Macy faces the hard truth about his daughter.
5. You Can't Go Home Again
10.0Aired 22 October 2001 • 42 min
When the body of a firefighter is found Jordan is called to the scene. What she discovers will shock her and set her on a mission.
6. Believers
10.0Aired 29 October 2001 • 42 min
Facts are scarce when a Senator’s daughter is found stabbed in the park. Jordan but cut though the political red tap to find the answers. Back at the morgue Bug and Nigel face some had choices.
7. Sight Unseen
10.0Aired 12 November 2001 • 42 min
Two school children are kidnapped and one of them turns up dead. Jordan must race against the clock to try to find the other child…before time runs out.
8. Digger (1)
10.0Aired 19 November 2001 • 42 min
In this two part episode women are turning up…buried alive. Jordan teams up with a FBI Agent to try to solve this case. What Jordan does not know is that she matched the profile the killer likes.
9. Digger (2)
8.0Aired 26 November 2001 • 42 min
Jordan buries herself into the case and winds up putting her life in danger. Elsewhere Nigel and Lily plan some nuptials?
10. Blue Christmas
7.5Aired 10 December 2001 • 42 min
When a cop killer dies in police custody Dr. Macy orders a coroners inquest to get answers. Else where, Trey wonders what all Nigel’s invite to the mountains will involve.
11. Wrong Place, Wrong Time
9.0Aired 7 January 2002 • 42 min
With a botched robbery victims are many and answers are few. Jordan and Dr. Macy set out to prove maybe this was no ordinary bank robbery.
12. Blood Relatives
7.5Aired 14 January 2002 • 42 min
A mother and her two young sons turn up murdered, the only suspect…the husband. This case will do more than test Jordan’s skills are a pathologist, but also test her mentally as some memories come flooding back.
13. Miracles & Wonders
7.5Aired 21 January 2002 • 42 min
Elvis has entered the building? Dr. Macy attempts to save a deer at his daughters’ request. And Jordan ponders the existence of a higher power.
14. Four Fathers
9.0Aired 28 January 2002 • 42 min
With the morgue pinching pennies the staff wonders who will be “pink slipped”. Elsewhere Jordan works a case involving the son of an old family…friend.
15. Acts of Mercy
9.0Aired 4 February 2002 • 42 min
What appear to be mercy killings are turning up one after the other in Boston. Both Dr. Macy and Jordan are both tracking a doctor with a deadly needle. Bug and Nigel audition for a network.
16. Lost and Found
9.0Aired 25 February 2002 • 42 min
Jordan and Detective Winslow find a young father murdered in an alley, they race to find the baby. Dr. Macy must find out why a student died, as well as help Abby deal with the loss.
17. Crime & Punishment
9.0Aired 4 March 2002 • 42 min
A housewife from the suburbs is found dead, and linked to Sado-masochism which leads Jordan to an internet site. Elsewhere Bug sees the shrink to talk about the case of an 8-year-old boy.
18. With Honor
9.0Aired 18 March 2002 • 42 min
One of America’s finest abandons her post in Afghanistan and is later found dead in Boston. Jordan is paired with an investigator from the Marines, to investigate the case. Elsewhere Dr. Macy is in the middle of a turn war…between pimps.
19. For Harry, with Love and Squalor
8.0Aired 8 April 2002 • 42 min
With gangsters on his tail, Dr. Macy’s father makes a surprise visit to Boston. Elsewhere Jordan meets a stranger in her dad’s bar. What repercussions will this latest fling have?
20. The Gift of Life
9.0Aired 15 April 2002 • 42 min
In this episode we go back to 1995 when Jordan wonders if being a heart surgeon is the right of courier for her. But after a patient dies on the table because of Dr. McCaffrey's negligence Jordan realizes that the truth is always best to tell even if it hurts somebody. We also see how Jordan met Garrett and the importance of honesty.
21. Someone to Count On
9.0Aired 29 April 2002 • 42 min
When the mother of a teenage girl is found dead the daughter becomes the prime suspect. Jordan is convinced of the girls’ innocence and seeks advice from an unlikely source to save the girl from prison.
22. Secrets & Lies (1)
9.0Aired 6 May 2002 • 42 min
Jordan is called to a local psychiatric hospital to investigate a suicide. While there and unknown source provides her with a clue to her mother’s murder.
23. Secrets & Lies (2)
8.0Aired 13 May 2002 • 42 min
With Jordan still at the psychiatric hospital she agrees to look into a triple homicide. Typical Jordan gets herself in over her head and Woody is there to lend a helping hand…again.