The BEST episodes written by William N. Fordes
#1 - Rigged
Drop Dead Diva - Season 4 - Episode 6
A faulty oil rig leads to the death of an engineer; Parker's ex-wife fights for sole custody of their son; Jane battles uncertainty about where Owen is and what it means for their upcoming nuptials.
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#3 - Closure
Drop Dead Diva - Season 3 - Episode 6
Jane works pro bono on a murder case for the DA's office, where she learns that old Jane used to work and had a tryst with the current DA. Elsewhere, Grayson represents Stacy when a mother accuses her of persuading her teen to purchase products via her video blog; and Parker thinks Kim is dating, so he asks Fred to snoop.
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#4 - Acceptable Losses
Proven Innocent - Season 1 - Episode 9
When the Injustice Defense Group is approached to exonerate a former frat boy, Daniel Hernandez, who is charged with rape and murder, a turn in Davon Watkins' case forces Madeline to head back to Ohio, leaving Easy and Bodie to solve this case alone before Easy's mentor, Judge Fry. Meanwhile, Bellows struggles with the values of his campaign, Levi follows up with a high school classmate to find out more about Rosemary's past and Wren is up for parole.
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#5 - Double Blind
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 6
The murder of a janitor in a university laboratory building leads back to a student employee whose participation in a drug study may have prompted the crime.
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#6 - Gunplay
Law & Order - Season 15 - Episode 5
After Green goes undercover to gather evidence on the gun dealers who murdered two detectives during a buy-and-bust, McCoy is able to connect the hit men to the attorney who paid them to avenge the death of his gun-running stepson at the hands of the same detectives during a similar buy-and-bust several years earlier.
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#7 - Over Here
Law & Order - Season 17 - Episode 21
The detectives link the deaths of two homeless men to the war in Iraq.
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#8 - Guardian
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 11
After the body of a young female junkie is identified as the daughter of a wealthy family, Briscoe and Logan try to find out who left her to die in the yard of a day-care center.
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#10 - Knock Off
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 5
A revered sheriff becomes a possible conspirator in a case involving a murdered tourist.
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#11 - Mammon
Law & Order - Season 15 - Episode 12
The investigation into the murder of a wealthy husband leads to the uncovering of a conspiracy involving infidelity and greed and leads to one defendant attempting to evade justice by killing the other.
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#12 - Uncertainty Principle
Chicago Justice - Season 1 - Episode 2
Stone and the State's Attorney team investigates the chain of events following the arrest and death of a young man, ultimately seeking charges against Police, Fire Department and Medical personnel, only to have a recalcitrant Grand Jury indict a single individual: Officer Kevin Atwater. Paul Robinette defends Atwater.
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#14 - Tragedy on Rye
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 4
A struggling actress is murdered in an apparent robbery-homicide where a video tape, made by a couple touring the city sold to a local news station, shows three suspects loading the stolen property into an SUV. They are charged with felony murder, a capital crime, and causes unrest with Southerlyn surrounding the death penalty.
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#15 - Ego
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 17
When the dead body of Karen Hall, an investigator with the State Attorney General's Office Criminal Division, is found in a Manhattan river, Detectives Briscoe and Green find that her boss, Frank Conroy, had written off her disappearance as a random kidnapping from an Albany train station. But as more is learned about Conroy's controlling relationships -- with the dead woman, with his wife and with a long-term girlfriend -- he quickly becomes a suspect.
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#16 - Kasumi (Through the Mists)
The Man in the High Castle - Season 3 - Episode 8
Juliana realizes time might be running out, but recruiting supporters continues to prove challenging. Tagomi finds himself in a dangerous life-or-death struggle. In therapy, Helen Smith crosses a line. Kido pursues his target in the Neutral Zone.
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#17 - Fool Me Twice
Chicago Justice - Season 1 - Episode 12
After a man is shot multiple times and left for dead, and a kilo of diluted heroin is found in his car, Antonio discovers other similar cases where murder victims were found with the same type of adulterated drugs. Ultimately, the narcotics detectives involved in the case-one a decorated hero-appear to be the common thread. Meanwhile, Stone is hesitant to let Nagel be involved in the case, as she has a close connection to the victim.
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#18 - Admissions
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 22
A coed's killing leads to a case involving the deceased's relationship with a professor and two male students who vouch for each other's whereabouts on the night of the murder.
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#19 - Bodies
Law & Order - Season 14 - Episode 1
While investigating the death of a teenaged girl, the detectives stumble on a pattern of crimes that indicate they are after a serial killer. The suspect, however, puts the prosecutors through an ethical ringer when he discloses his attorney's knowledge of the victims and their whereabouts.
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#20 - Darkness
Law & Order - Season 18 - Episode 2
Lupo and Green's first offical case together is a kidnapping that happened during a citywide blackout; a housekeeper is slain and a mother and daughter are kidnapped. The evidence that links all the kidnappers is the father and husband of the kidnap victims. When they search the kidnappers' hideout, they find preparations which implies that the kidnappers knew that the blackout was coming. Cutter must convince the man to testify after he has lied about a search warrant to save the man's daughter, or else the kidnappers will all go free. Issues of a warrantless search arise. Courtroom scenes revolve around questions of Enron-like manipulation of energy.
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#21 - Amends
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 7
Under pressure from the department's top brass, a 20-year-old murder case, initally investigated by Briscoe's now retired boss, is reopened involving the slaying of a teen-age girl with the spoiled son of a politically connected family as the prime suspect.
#22 - All in the Family
Law & Order - Season 15 - Episode 9
When the investigation into the contract killing of a jeweler uncovers his plan to roll over on his Russian mob connections to a federal prosecutor, as well as an unhappy wife whom he refused to divorce, McCoy must determine who financed the hit.
#23 - Deep Vote
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 24
A woman's murder leads the police to discover the actual target was a reporter who did a story about improprieties in a recent senatorial election. Carmichael can't get the reporter to reveal her sources for a story that contains allegations that the vote was fixed and ballots tampered with, even though the reporter's life is at risk. Without the source, McCoy and Carmichael have a difficult time making a case against the Senator, who they believe has ties to the mob and ordered the hit on the reporter. The case hinges on 2000 missing ballots from the vote that were stolen by the mob. Once the ballots are found, there is a big court battle about whether or not the ballots should be counted. McCoy believes that the ballots will show Benton's motive for ordering the hit, but an appellate court won't allow it, so their case is virtually dead. In the end, McCoy is able to convince the reporter to reveal her source and have him testify against the senator.
#24 - Nowhere Man
Law & Order - Season 14 - Episode 19
The District Attorney's Office is set on its ear when the investigation into the death of an A.D.A. uncovers a scandal that could imperil hundreds of cases.
#26 - Strike
Law & Order - Season 18 - Episode 16
A legal aid strike ends in the death of a lawyer, and the investigation leads to a golf greenskeeper who proclaims his innocence, again. Then the case takes an even stranger twist when Rubirosa is pitted against Cutter because of the strike that started it all.
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#27 - Genius
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 17
Investigating the murder of a cab driver, the detectives come to suspect a famous author and his protege, a former child prodigy.
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#28 - Censure
Law & Order - Season 4 - Episode 14
A phone call threatening a woman's young daughter leads to a case that causes Kincaid to resign from Schiff's office because of an affair in her past.
#29 - Quit Claim
Law & Order - Season 18 - Episode 7
A hit-and-run investigation leads back to a title company, and Green and Lupo must go undercover to crack the case.
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#30 - Prince of Darkness
Law & Order - Season 3 - Episode 8
Cerreta poses as a weapons dealer to help Stone build a case against a Columbian hit man, but the deal takes an unexpected turn, resulting in bloodshed.
#31 - All New
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 19
Firefighter Thomas Cooper and his wife Linda are tortured and murdered in their new townhouse. The murders are thought to be linked to an old unsolved drug case, but then the detectives learn about a firefighter named Nick Spence, who had just joined Cooper's company and was being severely hazed. The investigation suffers a setback when Spence dies in a fire under suspicious circumstances.
#32 - Family Matters
Drop Dead Diva - Season 4 - Episode 11
Jane represents the mother of a teenage girl who is on life support; Teri and Luke pretend to be Jane and Owen at a wedding menu tasting with a celebrity caterer; Grayson and Kim take a case involving a sperm donor.
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#33 - Disappeared
Law & Order - Season 8 - Episode 19
A defendant refuses to allow his lawyer to raise the issue of insanity, this complicating matters for the brother who turned him in with hopes of securing medical treatment for him.
#34 - Chattel
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 8
While investigating the murder of two divorce lawyers, detectives Lupo and Bernard uncover a child slave trade ring.
#35 - Hunters
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 13
Briscoe and Curtis race against time to find the killer of a parolee before two bounty hunters find the suspected murderer.
#36 - Purple Heart
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 21
The investigation into a taxi driver's murder involves a loan shark, a forged check, a missing plumber and the victim's wife.
#37 - Patriot
Law & Order - Season 12 - Episode 24
A tenement building explodes and the lone victim is Joseph Haden. The building was rent controlled and there had been a tenant strike, so the police initially suspect arson. But the landlord doesn't have insurance, ruling out their arson theory, and the medical examiner discovers that Haden's neck was broken and he was tied up before the explosion happened. Trying to figure out Haden is even more difficult. He didn't appear to have a family or a girlfriend and never got any substantial mail. He worked at the Jiffy Job service station making minimum wage, yet had $90,000 in the bank. Briscoe and Green do some more digging and find out that Haden was using an alias, and his real name was Yusuf Haddad.
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#38 - Bride-a-Palooza
Drop Dead Diva - Season 3 - Episode 12
Jane takes a case of a law student who had his fiancé trampled by other brides on a off the rails bridal gown super-sales.
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#39 - Mega
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 18
The investigation into a helicopter bombing points to a victim's wife and her unconventional financial advisers.
#40 - Tabula Rasa
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 19
After a philosophy professor is pushed in front of a subway and killed, the investigation leads to a suspect who, following a divorce, changed his identity and disappeared with his daughters.
#41 - Flight
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 4
After a child in a day-care center dies of a virus, Briscoe and Curtis try to find the source of the infection, leading to a case involving an extramarital affair, embezzlement and a drug manufacturer.
#42 - Sanctuary
Law & Order - Season 4 - Episode 19
A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted.
#43 - Illegal
Law & Order - Season 18 - Episode 8
A riot at an immigration rally ends in murder, and the political climate causes McCoy to assign a special prosecutor increasing tensions at the office.
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#44 - Married with Children
Law & Order - Season 14 - Episode 13
The death of a woman who fell from a hotel balcony leads to a case involving a lesbian couple and a state law banning gay adoption
#45 - Justice
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 5
Jamie Ross returns as a defense attorney to represent a previous client who has key evidence concerning a prisoner on death row.
#46 - Collision
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 11
The investigation of a schizophrenic woman's death leads to a case involving a homeless man and his right to refuse medication.
#47 - High & Low
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 22
Detectives Briscoe and Green probe the strangulation of a college coed who moonlighted as a stripper, and while they believe a pair of drug-dealing skinheads committed the murder, they struggle to determine the motive of the strip club owner who paid them for the hit. However, as they work their way up the ladder of complicity, the cops learn that the slaying is keyed to an insider trading scam that forces Assistant D.A. McCoy to connect a former porn star with a businessman.
#48 - Family Values
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 4
After it's determined that a wealthy woman did not commit suicide but was murdered, the detectives question both her first and second husbands and her teenage daughter.
#49 - The Working Stiff
Law & Order - Season 2 - Episode 22
The murder of a Wall Street legend begins a case involving an ailing union worker and a former governor and old friend of Schiff's.
#50 - Take-Out
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 16
The search for a writer's killer leads detectives to a closed espionage case.