The BEST episodes written by Warren Leight
#1 - Criminal Pathology (2)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 2
The SVU is called to a familiar crime scene – the beach where serial killer Gregory Yates buried his many victims. When another body washes ashore, Detective Rollins tries to coax him into confessing, but the surprising information he provides sends shockwaves through the police department. As the case goes to court, Barba faces off against two hotshot defense attorneys in a trial that leads to blackmail, an incriminating confession, a new victim and a fugitive suspect.
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#2 - The Darkest Journey Home
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 21 - Episode 2
Benson works with a young woman to help her remember the details and suspects in her rape. In order to learn a new witness interview technique, Rollins and Fin have to experience it for themselves.
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#3 - Intersecting Lives (1)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 22
A corrections officer is arrested for sexually assaulting female inmates in and out of prison, and the union that supports him targets Barba and the SVU.
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#4 - Unholiest Alliance (2)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 18
When one of their own is implicated in a cover-up, the SVU struggles to unravel a sex trafficking operation deeply-rooted in government offices, the police department, and the Catholic Church.
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#5 - Manhattan Transfer (1)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 17
A sexual exploitation case involving Catholic schoolgirls results in surprising charges against people in esteemed leadership positions, including judges, lawmakers, lawyers and cops.
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#6 - Devil's Dissections (1)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 1
The squad revisit a crime scene where bodies were buried by a serial killer. Rollins tries to get a confession, but the killer reveals shocking new info instead.
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#7 - Community Policing
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 5
An unarmed black man is shot during the pursuit of a suspect, raising racial tensions. Barba must indict the three officers involved – who claim they followed procedure.
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#8 - Down Low in Hell's Kitchen
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 21 - Episode 3
A serial predator targeting men in gay bars proves difficult to catch, until a celebrity comes forward with his story.
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#9 - The Burden of Our Choices
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 21 - Episode 4
Rollins clashes with the parents of a teenaged runaway. The squad comes together for a special event.
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#10 - Melancholy Pursuit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 8
The hunt for a missing teenage girl takes an emotional toll on Sgt. Dodds, and DNA evidence becomes a crucial lead in finding the girl's abductor.
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#11 - Transgender Bridge
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 3
15 year-old Avery Parker walks home from school through Fort Tryon Park when she's surrounded by a group of rowdy boys. Taunts and jokes intensify to pushing and shoving, leaving Avery in the hospital and three assailants under arrest. When the DA's office decides to try one of the culprits, 15 year-old Darius McCrae, as an adult, the SVU squad agonizes over whether the punishment fits the crime, and must deal with the pain of both families involved.
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#12 - I'm Going to Make You a Star
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 21 - Episode 1
When an actress accuses a high-powered media mogul of attempted rape, Benson finds herself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Changes in the squad room put Carisi between a rock and a hard place.
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#13 - Heartfelt Passages (2)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 23
When the investigation of Corrections Officer Gary Munson deepens, he and his union take drastic actions that threaten the lives of ADA Barba and the SVU squad.
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#14 - Girl Dishonored
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 20
As the SVU detectives investigate the alleged rape of a sorority pledge, drunken students, and conflicting accounts complicate matters.
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#15 - Maternal Instincts
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 6
Rollins' mother Beth throws her a baby shower while the SVU reports to a four-star hotel where a famous violinist was raped by her colleague, Anton Krasnikov. With no memory of the crime, Anton claims a hired escort drugged and robbed him, and evidence leads to the shocking return of Rollins' fugitive sister Kim. Meanwhile, Sgt. Mike Dodds arrives for his first day at SVU.
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#16 - Above Suspicion
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 2
Delia continues cleaning house, leaving a wake of accusations, frame-ups, and murders for SVU to work through as they continue their search for evidence to prove Donald Crages is being framed. Tension is high; everyone is on edge and defensive, even paranoid, and wondering who's next?
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 15 - Episode 11
When a suspect is gravely injured and the case becomes a public spectacle, Amaro's badge is on the line; Cragen surprises everyone with an announcement.
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#18 - Padre Sandunguero
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 16 - Episode 12
When his father is arrested, Amaro must choose between his badge and his family’s honor.
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#19 - Chicago Crossover (2)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 16 - Episode 7
Sergeant Hank Voight and Detectives Erin Lindsay and Jay Halstead track a child pornography victim to his last-known whereabouts in New York City, where Sergeant Benson and the SVU squad get a new lead – evidence of a livestreamed pornography “club” that caters to its subscriber’s shocking requests. When Lindsay discovers someone from her past is involved, she hopes it will help lead them to the site’s ringleader, but tensions between Voight and Benson could threaten the case. (Nobody Touches Anything (1) aired on Chicago Fire, season 3, episode 7. They’ll Have to Go Through Me (3) aired on Chicago P.D., season 2, episode 7.)
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#20 - Perverted Justice
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 16 - Episode 21
A woman who accused her father of raping her when she was six now says the accusations were false. With the help of attorney Bayard Ellis and retired captain Cragen, SVU tries to get to the truth and make sure justice is served.
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#21 - Nationwide Manhunt (1)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 14
Chicago P.D. detectives Lindsay (guest star Sophia Bush) and Dawson (guest star Jon Seda) join the SVU in the hunt for two escaped murderers (returning guest stars Dallas Roberts and Jefferson Mays) they helped to convict. (Part 1 of a 2-part Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Chicago P.D. crossover on 2-10.)
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#22 - War
Lights Out - Season 1 - Episode 13
After all the trials and tribulations that led up to the championship fight, Lights goes to "war" when he finally faces off with "Death Row" Reynolds for the heavyweight title. Before the big fight, Hal Brennan gathers all the former champs that have been burned by Barry Word and starts a war against him by starting a new boxing alliance called United Boxers. But in order for Lights to be a part of it, he suggests a 10 percent cut for a health fund to help all the boxers in need of medical care. Meanwhile, Word has a pre-fight talk with Lights, and it is not very inspiring the night before the fight. Theresa has her own talk with Reynold's wife, Jennifer. As soon as the third round begins, Lights manages to K.O. Reynolds and wins back his title, but suffers a severe concussion. After the fight Theresa makes a shocking discovery about Lights: she goes to his side and watches in horror as he groggily asks her "Who won?".
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#23 - Undercover Mother
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 16 - Episode 15
Working undercover to bust a sex trafficking ring, Det. Carisi stumbles upon Martha Thornhill, a mother who has embedded herself as a Madame in the organization for three years in hopes of finding and saving her daughter, Ariel. Martha joins forces with the SVU and they work together to bust the pimp and his cohorts, but Ariel is still missing. Meanwhile, Sgt. Benson is confronted with a harsh revelation that will change her life forever.
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#24 - Patrimonial Burden
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 7
A reality TV family secrets begin to spill when their young teenage daughter learns she's pregnant.
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#25 - The Comeback
Lights Out - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Learys' financial situation turns more desperate and they are advised to consider bankruptcy. However, Lights decides to make a comeback with a few easy fights, but discovers Johnny's deal with Barry Word. Despite this, Lights tries to find his own fight enlisting Reynolds' old sparring partner Jo Jo Reade for his next opponent. But an unfortunate accident causes him to take on a harder challenger in the dangerous ex-con Javier "El Diablo" Morales and the aftershock threatens Lights' and Theresa's marriage.
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#26 - Cakewalk
Lights Out - Season 1 - Episode 2
When Leary is threatened with criminal charges, he must do the bidding of bookmaker Hal Brennan to make them go away. Lights is also being coy with his suspicious wife Theresa, and Mike Fumosa, a pesky reporter—both having heard rumors that he will return to the ring to fight Reynolds. Meanwhile, his daughter Daniella finds out about her father's diagnosis and confronts him.
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#27 - Endgame
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 6 - Episode 21
Goren and Eames find a scrapbook belonging to a serial killer on death row. It suggests that he may have had more victims than previously known.
#28 - Frame
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 7 - Episode 22
Bobby is visited by the past when he finds a picture at his mother's grave indicating an old nemesis has returned, and the case only gets more complex when his brother and a mentor reappear.
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#29 - Tru Love
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 6 - Episode 2
Logan and Wheeler investigate the death of a womanising doctor, which leads directly to his son's relationship with a teacher.
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#30 - The Number of Rats (2)
Chicago P.D. - Season 2 - Episode 20
After arriving in Chicago to assist Voight and the team with a rape/murder case that has distinct similarities to a decade-old case from New York, Sgt. Benson asks Fin and Amaro to help; the prime suspect asks for a meeting with Lindsay. (We Called Her Jellybean (1) Chicago Fire S03E21) (Daydream Believer (3) Law & Order: SVU S16E20)
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#31 - Senseless
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 7 - Episode 10
Logan and Falacci investigate the execution-style murder of three young college freshmen.
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#32 - Infight
Lights Out - Season 1 - Episode 9
Lights alliance to Ed Romeo, his new boxing mentor comes between him and his family. Although, Romeo likes Teresa and the girls, he wants Lights to cut his father and brother out because he thinks they are weighting him down. This does not sit well with Lights, who in return, tells Romeo he doess not feel free of them, but feels controlled by him and decides to free himself of his eccentric trainer. Meanwhile, at the gym, Johnny and Romeo get into a fight, which ends up in an unfortunate accident for Lights.
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#33 - Zoonotic
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 2 - Episode 22
The investigation into the murder of a crooked cop leads to a preening veterinarian and his friend, an obsessive doctor whose ex-girlfriends who have all been infected with a rare disease.
#34 - Deadly Ambitions
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 15
The SVU squad tries to keep Detective Rollins' sister safe from her abusive boyfriend when she turns up beaten and pregnant; when Rollins is forced to take drastic action, an internal affairs investigation begins.
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#35 - Her Negotiation
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 24
The detectives uncover a shocking theory as they work to learn the identity of a man Rollins arrested for exposing himself in the park; Detective Benson finds herself in mortal danger.
#36 - Beast's Obsession
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 15 - Episode 20
Benson is assigned a 24/7 security detail when William Lewis escapes from prison and starts killing again; Benson must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to save a child's life.
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#37 - Poisoned Motive
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 22
When two sniper attacks on the NYPD link to Detective Tutuola's past as a narcotics officer, he reconnects with his former partner in hope of finding a motive; Lt. Alexandra Eames helps SVU investigate.
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#38 - Holden's Manifesto
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 16 - Episode 4
The team tries to find a bike messenger – who has kept a video diary of his troubles with women – before he can commit another violent act; the new deputy chief calls Benson’s leadership into question.
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#39 - Forgiving Rollins
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 16 - Episode 10
Atlanta's Deputy Chief Charles Patton and his newest detective, Reese Taymor visit New York for a law enforcement conference. When Reese is found unconscious in her hotel bathroom, she cries rape at the scene but changes her story when Sgt. Benson arrives. When Rollins uncovers a personal connection to the suspect, ADA Barba seeks her help in the courtroom and she’s forced to confront the demons of her past to stop a dangerous predator.
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#40 - Imprisoned Lives
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 15 - Episode 2
When a young boy is abandoned, the squad discovers more victims waiting to be rescued.
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#41 - Hunting Ground
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 13 - Episode 15
Detectives Benson and Amaro lead the search for a serial killer who is targeting young prostitutes.
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#42 - Cruise to Nowhere
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 5 - Episode 19
Goren and Eames investigate when a respected professional is found murdered in the East River, his death presumably connected to a series of gambling losses.
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#43 - Spiraling Down
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 13 - Episode 10
A military colleague of Detective Amaro’s wife reports his 14-year-old daughter missing. The detectives find the girl working as a prostitute under a possessive pimp. They quickly set up a sting operation to entrap Johns on rape charges with a minor, and arrest aging pro quarterback Jake Stanton. Detective Benson and ADA Cabot seek to make an example out of the football legend, but the case is thrown into chaos with the return of defense attorney Bayard Ellis, who questions Stanton’s mental capacity after years of injuries on the field.
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#44 - Walter: Week Four
In Treatment - Season 2 - Episode 19
Having to deal with the aftermath of his company's crisis, Walter looks back at the loyalty towards the family who owns it and the media's perception of him. Paul probes Walter's deeply rooted sense of guilt.
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#45 - Blood Brothers
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 13 - Episode 3
A 13-year-old girl won't reveal who got her pregnant, leading police to suspect she was raped. The suspects include the son of a noteworthy political couple, as well as the son of their housekeeper.
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#46 - Trophy Wine
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 10 - Episode 5
A wine importer's death on the heels of an exclusive wine tasting is investigated. The detectives focus on the workings of a high-end auction house, while the man's wife and a grifter couple also become suspects.
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#47 - Monster's Legacy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 13
When a janitor violently attacks a coach, the SVU team connects the janitor's behavior to a history of sexual abuse; the detectives find more victims of the same predator -- including a prisoner (Mike Tyson) on death row.
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#48 - Valentine's Day
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 13 - Episode 18
A man witnesses his wife's rape and kidnapping while video chatting with her on his way home from a business trip. The abductors seek a ransom, and the case grows more complex as detectives probe deeper.
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#49 - Born Psychopath
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 19
The SVU detectives investigate after a school nurse notices multiple injuries on a young girl; Detective Amaro tries to bond with his recently discovered son.
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#50 - Downloaded Child
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 15 - Episode 19
After a single mom is arrested for leaving her young daughter alone for days, Sgt. Benson suspects the woman may have been abused in her own childhood.
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