Crossing Jordan: Season 1

2001 · 23 episodes · ★ 9.0

What Season 1 of Crossing Jordan

Jordan Cavanaugh is a brilliant, impatient medical examiner who works at the Boston Medical Examiner's Office. She returns to the job after a season away from the city and once again relies on Garret Macy, the chief medical examiner, who has to put up with her eccentricities. Since she has no authorization to investigate police cases, she draws on the fame of her father, Max, a former cop, and on her charm to coax information out of the people around her. Max remains obsessed with the unsolved murder of his wife, a memory that weighs on Jordan and leads her to empathize with the victims she examines. Created by Tim Kring and aired on NBC, the series stars Jill Hennessy.

23episodes

Sep 24, 2001premiered

May 13, 2002latest episode

16.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot
Sep 24, 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.
Directed by Allan Arkush · Written by Tim Kring · Starring: Galyn Görg, Mia Korf, Tom McCleister, Kyle Secor
1x02 The Dawn of a New Day
Oct 1, 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.
Directed by Allan Arkush · Written by Tim Kring · Starring: Mackenzie Phillips, Nan Martin, Yvette Nipar, Edward Conna
1x03 The Ties That Bind
Oct 8, 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.
Directed by: Andy Wolk · Written by: Ian Biederman · Starring: Brian Howe, Christopher Cousins, Susan Walters, Leon Russom
1x04 Born to Run
Oct 15, 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.
Directed by Allan Arkush · Written by Damon Lindelof · Starring: Barry Shabaka Henley, Ed Quinn, Emy Coligado, Judith Scott
1x05 You Can't Go Home Again
Oct 22, 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.
Directed by: Donna Deitch · Written by: Samantha Corbin-Miller · Starring: Stanley Anderson, Aaron D. Spears, Kelly Cole, Tom Bresnahan
1x06 Believers
Oct 29, 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.
Directed by: Ian Toynton · Written by: Todd Ellis Kessler · Starring: Sara Botsford, Seamus Dever, Shawn Christian, Richard Fancy
1x07 Sight Unseen
Nov 12, 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.
Directed by: Dick Lowry · Written by: Gary Glasberg · Starring: Elizabeth Rice, Wallace Shawn, Howard Hesseman, Meta Golding
1x08 Digger (1)
Nov 19, 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.
Directed by Ian Toynton · Written by Diane Ademu-John · Starring: Chris Noth, Shawn Christian, Tamlyn Tomita, Amy Aquino
1x09 Digger (2)
Nov 26, 2001 · 42 min
Jordan buries herself into the case and winds up putting her life in danger. Elsewhere Nigel and Lily plan some nuptials?
Directed by Allan Arkush · Written by Jill E. Blotevogel · Starring: Chris Noth, Barbara Tarbuck, Emy Coligado, Shailene Woodley
1x10 Blue Christmas
Dec 10, 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.
Directed by Donna Deitch · Starring: Kristen Wilson, Scott Michael Campbell, Lindsay Frost, Cathryn de Prume
1x11 Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Jan 7, 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.
Directed by: Rick Rosenthal · Written by: Damon Lindelof · Starring: Jerry O'Connell, John Towey, K Callan, Ed Quinn
1x12 Blood Relatives
Jan 14, 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.
Directed by Arvin Brown · Starring: Robert Joy, Emy Coligado, Shailene Woodley, Kristen Wilson
1x13 Miracles & Wonders
Jan 21, 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.
Directed by: Allan Arkush · Written by: Tim Kring · Starring: Kavi Raz, Emy Coligado, Andrea Martin, Robert Picardo
1x14 Four Fathers
Jan 28, 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.
Directed by: Rachel Talalay · Written by: Diane Ademu-John · Starring: Ken Kercheval, Kimberly McCullough, Steven Culp, Rodney Scott
1x15 Acts of Mercy
Feb 4, 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.
Directed by Alex Zakrzewski · Written by Elizabeth Sarnoff · Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Lynne Marta, Ian Abercrombie, Lindsay Frost
1x16 Lost and Found
Feb 25, 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.
Directed by: Donna Deitch · Written by: Clifton Campbell · Starring: Van Epperson, Tony Todd, Mary Mara, Mark Pellegrino
1x17 Crime & Punishment
Mar 4, 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.
Directed by Allan Arkush · Written by Damon Lindelof · Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Wallace Shawn, Jihmi Kennedy, Jeff Kober
1x18 With Honor
Mar 18, 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.
Directed by: Donna Deitch · Written by: Gary Glasberg · Starring: David Andrews, Judson Mills, Hilary Shepard, Kim Miyori
1x19 For Harry, with Love and Squalor
Apr 8, 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?
Directed by Ian Toynton · Written by Tim Kring · Starring: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Emy Coligado, Kristen Wilson, Carl Reiner
1x20 The Gift of Life
Apr 15, 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.
Directed by Arvin Brown · Starring: Dan Butler, Emy Coligado, Randy Oglesby, Željko Ivanek
1x21 Someone to Count On
Apr 29, 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.
Directed by: Nick Gomez · Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Reginald VelJohnson, Indigo
1x22 Secrets & Lies (1)
May 6, 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.
Directed by: Michael Gershman · Written by: Elizabeth Sarnoff · Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Kate Norby, Emy Coligado, Lindsay Frost
1x23 Secrets & Lies (2) Season Finale
May 13, 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.
Directed by: Allan Arkush · Written by: Tim Kring · Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Wallace Shawn, Emy Coligado, Robert LuPone