List of Moonlight episodes

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Moonlight is an American paranormal romance television series, which premiered in the United States on CBS, a terrestrial television network.^[1] Created by Ron Koslow and Trevor Munson,^[2] the series follows private investigator Mick St. John (Alex O'Loughlin), whose bride, Coraline (Shannyn Sossamon), turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years prior. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, Beth Turner (Sophia Myles), his friendship with Josef Kostan (Jason Dohring), and his dealings with other vampires in Los Angeles, California.

Moonlight began its first season on September 28, 2007 and concluded on May 16, 2008,^[1]^[3] ranking eighty-eight out of 214 series in the 2007–08 ratings, with an average of 7.47 million viewers per episode.^[4] Due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, only twelve episodes of the original thirteen-episode order were produced.^[5] Once the strike ended, CBS announced that the series would return April 25, 2008 with four new episodes, to be part of the series' first season.^[6] On December 4, 2007, Les Moonves, President of CBS, stated that Moonlight was likely to return for a second season,^[7] though on May 13, 2008, CBS announced that Moonlight was officially cancelled.^[8] Following the CBS cancellation, Warner Bros., producers of the series in association with Silver Pictures Television,^[9] inquired with other outlets about their interest in the series. One of the outlets approached was Media Rights Capital,^[10] which is responsible for The CW's Sunday night programming, though it decided not to acquire the series.^[11] It was later reported that the Sci Fi Channel was considering picking up the series, with writer and executive producers Harry Werksman saying that "talks" were under way for a second season.^[12]

[edit] Episodes

Ep #	Title	Writer(s)	Director	Original airdate^[13]
1	"No Such Thing as Vampires"	Rod Holcomb	Trevor Munson & Ron Koslow	September 28, 2007
At the crime scene of a murdered college student, vampire P.I. Mick St. John meets Beth Turner, an internet reporter for BuzzWire. Though two puncture wounds to the neck make it appear that the girl was killed by vampires, Mick knows that this was not the case; his vampiric sense of smell does not pick up any scent of vampires. Together, Mick and Beth find the girl's professor, a self-proclaimed vampire who uses his knowledge of vampire lore to seduce female college students. Beth goes undercover to see what else she can find out about the enigmatic professor, but is kidnapped by the professor’s assistant. Mick comes to her rescue, using his vampire strength to overcome the assistant. As the story unfolds, we discover that Mick has met Beth before: he saved her when she was a child. Beth has no idea, but he has been keeping an eye on her, and now that she's in the public eye as a reporter, he is increasingly concerned for her safety.
2	"Out of the Past"	Fred Toye	David Greenwalt	October 5, 2007
Mick becomes furious when convicted killer Lee Jay Spalding is released from prison. Mick knows Spalding is not the reformed man he pretends to be because he was supposed to protect the woman Spalding killed. Spalding knows Mick is a vampire, and has been planning in prison to kill him. Beth's friend Julia writes a book about Spalding, portraying him as a great man. In order to get at Mick, Spalding kidnaps Julia and tells Mick that if he does not turn himself into the police, he will kill Julia. Mick rescues her, but is shot in the process by a silver bullet. Beth arrives and kills Spaulding with a bullet to the throat, but due to his gunshot wound, Mick loses his energy and rushes home to feed on some blood. While feeding, Beth arrives at Mick's house and sees him with his fangs out and blood all over his face.
3	"Dr. Feelgood"	Scott Lautanen	Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman	October 12, 2007
After finding out about Mick being a vampire, Beth finds this new information difficult to cope with. The two team up to find a killer who turns out to be a newly turned vampire, one that has not been taught how to understand or to handle his urges, and is in a killing rage. As they race to find him, they encounter his sire, the vampire who turned him and did not stick around to train him. Finally, Mick reveals to Beth how one becomes a vampire and tells her the story of how he was turned by his ex-wife, Coraline.
4	"Fever"	Fred Toye	Jill Blotevogel	October 19, 2007
Beth's boyfriend Josh is prosecuting powerful arms dealer Amir Fayed for murder, but because of a leak in his department, Josh's star witness, Leni Hayes, is in serious danger. Leni is put into a safe house, but when Fayed's hitman arrives, she is forced to flee to the desert. Mick is called to protect Leni, who finds her just before the hitman can get a hold of her. The pair get stranded in the desert, where the blazing desert sun takes its toll on Mick, who grows progressively weaker. They find shelter in an abandoned motel, and Mick persuades Leni to call Beth. Realizing that Mick has had prolonged exposure to sunlight and is near death, Beth rushes to his side and, overcoming her fear, allows him to feed off her just long enough to restore his life force. Leni returns to testify, and Fayed is convicted.
5	"Arrested Development"	Michael Fields	Chip Johannessen	October 26, 2007
After being forced to feed on Beth's blood, Mick tries to avoids her. To keep busy, Mick takes a case to find a young woman, while Beth works on a story about a possible serial killer who has relocated to Los Angeles. Despite the initial awkwardness, the two agree to work together when they realize that the serial killer's next targeting is the young woman Mick is searching for. The killer turns out to be a 200 years old teenage vampire, trapped forever as a teenager and has channeled his perpetual adolescent rage into killing prostitutes. Beth and Mick are able to save the young woman just before the vampire dispatches her, but the vampire escapes. After a struggle between Mich and the killer, the latter is decapitated by a passing roller coaster car. Later, when Beth encounters Mick as he tries to slip away unnoticed, they kiss.
6	"B.C."	Paul Holahan	Erin Maher & Kathryn Reindl	November 2, 2007
Josef asks Mick to find Lola, a vampire with whom he's had an on-again, off-again relationship for 100 years; meanwhile, Beth is doing a story on a model who died of a drug overdose during a photo shoot. Both investigations lead to the morgue, where Beth and Mick realize that their cases are related: they end up working together as Josef's lover turns out to be the drug dealer, who has been killing other vampires and selling their blood to humans as a drug. The vampire blood makes a human feel almost like a vampire; powerful and sexy, but it can easily lead to fatal overdose. Curious, Beth tries the drug and, under its influence, tries to seduce Mick, but he resists her. Later, when Beth learns that Josh and the police are about to raid the warehouse where Lola's crew cooks up the drug, she tips Mick off and he manages to blow up Lola and her operation before the police arrive.
7	"The Ringer"	Chris Fisher	Josh Pate	November 9, 2007
Beth asks Mick to help her photographer friend Morgan find her stolen cameras. Mick is completely thrown, because Morgan is identical to his ex-wife and sire, Coraline. Things get twisted when Mick's vampiric sense of smell tells him that Morgan is human, and the photographs Morgan took replicate the way in which Mick killed Coraline. As he investigates, Mick tries to figure out whether Morgan is really Coraline, and how she might have "cured" herself. Though Beth is reluctant to admit it, she gets a little jealous over Mick's fascination with Morgan. Mick tries to expose Morgan as Coraline, but finally comes to believe that Morgan is a doppelgänger when he sees that she does not have the fleur de lis tattoo on her shoulder as Coraline did. Later, alone in front of a mirror, Morgan scrubs away the heavy makeup that has been covering her shoulder tattoo: a fleur de lis.
8	"12:04 AM"	Dennis Smith	Jill Blotevogel	November 16, 2007
Beth helps a girl named Audrey whose parents were murdered by a cult leader named Donovan Shepherd. Beth relates to Audrey as she recalls her own posttraumatic stress disorder from her own kidnapping, and realizes that the police never caught the woman who took her. When Shepherd is executed, Audrey gets a threatening phone call from him and catches a glimpse of him through her bedroom window. Mick finds out that the executed killer was turned into a vampire by his priest just before his execution, and manages to kill him before he gets to Audrey. Later, when Beth is snooping through Mick's property, she finds out Mick is the one who protected her as a little girl, when she was kidnapped.
9	"Fleur de Lis"	James Whitmore, Jr.	Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman	November 23, 2007
When Mick works closely on a case with Morgan, Beth grows jealous and decides to research Morgan's background. While working one the case together, Morgan drops constant hints to Mick about her real identity. After Mick saves her life from a speeding car, Morgan goes with Mick to his apartment to clean up. Mick joins her in the shower and finally sees the tattoo on her shoulder, revealing her identity as Coraline. Beth arrives at Mick's apraterment and stabs Coraline through the heart with a wooden stake, not realizing that she has somehow become human.
10	"Sleeping Beauty"	John Kretchmer	Trevor Munson and Ron Koslow	December 14, 2007
A dying wealthy man hires a hitman to kill Josef to avenge his daughter's supposed murder 55 years ago. Mick investigates the attempt on Josef's life and suspects that the hitman knows about Josef being a vampire. Beth does her own investigating for BuzzWire, and helps Mick find the hitman's identity. The twin investigations lead Mick and Beth to New York City, where they discover that the dying man's daughter is still alive but in a comatose state, yet has somehow not aged since the day of her disappearance. Josef reveals that they had fallen in love 55 years ago and his attempt to turn her into a vampire caused her to go into a coma. When the hitman arrives and again attempts to kill Josef, Mick kills grabs the hitman and kills him. Meanwhile, Coraline recovers and leaves the hospital after being revealed to be a vampire again.
11	"Love Lasts Forever"	Paul Holahan	Josh Pate	January 11, 2008
Mick is enlisted by Josh to protect Beth when she is threatened by the MS-13 gang, a dangerous gang situated in Los Angeles. Josh, who has been working on convicting a member of the gang, refuses to drop the case, and hires several bodyguards to protect him. When Josh leaves his house unguarded, he is kidnapped by the gang and driven away. Mick and Beth witness the event and drive after him. When they finally catch up, Mick attacks the kidnappers, though one manages to shoot Josh. Beth realizes that Josh is dying, and begs Mick to turn him into a vampire. Mick refuses, and Josh dies. Beth becomes engulfed in grief and storms off, leaving Mick behind.
12	"The Mortal Cure"	Eric Laneuville	Chip Johannessen	January 18, 2008
While putting Josh's affairs in order, Beth discovers evidence leading her to believe Josh was cheating on her. When she investigates, however, Beth learns that Josh was about to propose to her and that the woman she thought he was cheating with was actually a ring designer. Meanwhile, Mick encounters two vampires at his house, who ask him to help them find Coraline. When Coraline disappears from the hospital, Mick finds her at a storage facility working with a scientist. He hears them discussing the compound for the cure and Mick discovers that Coraline is a vampire again. Coraline finally explains that during the French Revolution there were seven siblings of royal blood who were vampires, two of which were Lance and Coraline. She then uses the compound to cure Mick's vampirism, though Lance arrives, paralyzes Coraline, and takes her away.
13	"Fated To Pretend"	David Barrett	Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman	April 25, 2008
Mick is enjoying life as a human, though he reveals the cure is only temporary. When Beth's boss, Maureen is killed after telling Beth she had a hot story to pursue, a new assistant district attorney named Benjamin Talbot investigates the murder. Beth and Mick launch their own investigation, which Talbot warns could taint any evidence and let Maureen's killer walk free. During an interview, Maureen's murderer, a vampire surgeon, kidnaps Beth and Talbot. Mick, realising he is helpless as a human, asks Josef to turn him back. Mick and Josef go after the vampire surgeon, and manage to save Beth and Talbot without the latter realising what really happened. Later, Mick and Beth discuss the problems of having a romantic relationship, and though they end up kissing, Mick tells her he needs time to figure things out.
14	"Click"	Scott Lautanen	Erin Maher & Kathryn Reindl	May 2, 2008
Mick is hired as part of a security detail for Tierney Taylor, a famous actress who feels her life is threatened by aggressive paparazzi. Due to the death of Maureen, BuzzWire has a new boss, Grant Lewis, who tells the staff that he wants a scoop, no matter how unsourced it is. When Taylor is killed, Mick and Beth team up to find the killer, suspecting Dean Foster, a photographer who was obsessed with Taylor. When Mick is hit by a vehicle, Beth receives an email from Foster, containing photos from the incident. Beth goes to Josef for help, and though he manages to kill Foster before the photos are leaked, they find their way into the hands of Benjamin Talbot.
15	"What's Left Behind"	Chris Fisher	Jill Blotevogel	May 9, 2008
Mick and Beth investigate the kidnapping of a young boy named Jacob. When Mick learns that the boy was the grandson of his World War II buddy, the wife of whom he had an affair with, Mick realises that he may be the boy's biological grandfather. Meanwhile, the man responsible for the kidnapping, Ken Verdolino, stalks Beth and attempts to attack her, but Mick comes to the rescue. Mick goes to Verdolino's house and saves Jacob, but Verdolino committs suicide in the process. After quitting BuzzWire and becoming unemployed, Talbot offers Beth a job as a civilian investigator. While investigating the case, Mick contemplates the possibility of having a family and gathers DNA to test whether he is Jacob's grandfather, but the results are negative.
16	"Sonata"	Fred Toye	Ethan Erwin	May 16, 2008
Beth meets with Emma Monaghan, a vampire who had sired the man she fell in love with so they could be together forever. Beth is suprised when she learns that Emma and her husband Jackson are still together after 150 years. When Emma kills Vince, a basketball player with ties to Josef and several other vampires, and is thrown into prison, she threatens to name all vampires in Los Angeles unless Mick breaks her out. Mick and the other vampires team up and break Emma out, but are forced to kill her and Jackson due to treason, as she had threatened to expose her fellow vampires. Meanwhile, Talbot receives a list of names of all the vampires in the area, including Mick, from an unknown source. Beth tells Mick that she cannot continue to date Mick because of their vampire-human situation, but Mick says that he loves her and they kiss.