The BEST episodes directed by Constantine Makris
#1 - We Have Manners. We're Polite.
Orange Is the New Black - Season 2 - Episode 13
Several futures hang in the balance as the inmates face and confront their worst nightmares: Life will never be the same again.
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#2 - Truth or Consequences
Law & Order: Trial by Jury - Season 1 - Episode 4
Kibre must prosecute three boys, who implicate each other in a rape and murder, only she can't decide who is telling the truth.
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#3 - The Apology Line
The Unusuals - Season 1 - Episode 9
When a drug store owner is shot while running down the street naked, Walsh and Shraeger investigate. Information from the boyfriend of the victim's daughter leads the detectives to a loan shark that the victim had an argument with a few nights earlier. After a series of tapes from an apology line service turn up missing Beaumont and Cole look into the theft. Meanwhile Delahoy convinces the medical examiner to give him an MRI, and he receives some unexpected news.
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#4 - In Case of Letting Go
A Gifted Man - Season 1 - Episode 15
When Michael's high school sweetheart comes to Holt Neuro with an irreversible condition, he will stop at nothing to try and save her, until Anna intervenes. Meanwhile, Zeke deals with the news that his best friend's cancer has returned.
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#5 - Blasters
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 6 - Episode 9
When the body of former teen star Alvin Stevens is found buried in Potter's Field, Logan and Wheeler try to find out who would have motive to murder the young man that Wheeler's generation affectionately remembers as lovable geek Skater. Their investigation soon leads them to bootleg DVDs, the Albanian mob, and another child star who never moved on with his life.
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#6 - Greed
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 20
Investigating the assault of the wife of a restaurateur during a robbery, leads the detectives to a similar assault, and to a locksmith.
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#7 - Tall Men with Feelings
Orange Is the New Black - Season 1 - Episode 11
The prisoners mourn one of their own and even a drunken Pornstache reveals surprising emotions; Larry gives a revealing radio interview.
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#8 - What Lies Beneath
Code Black - Season 2 - Episode 7
Willis and Campbell are sent to a Russian submarine in U.S. waters to treat a sailor badly wounded during an explosion, and violent convicts injured during a prison riot descend upon Angels Memorial.
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#10 - American Dream
Law & Order - Season 4 - Episode 8
A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, and brings him face to face with the tenacious, brilliant culprit, who is seeking a new trial.
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#11 - Love Hurts
Code Black - Season 1 - Episode 17
Christa and Grace deal with a teenager who claims to have been abused at a camp. Angus begins to take ADHD medication to remain focused. Leanne deals with a VIP patient who had embryos implanted in her without her husband's acknowledgement. Christa feels at odds with Grace.
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#12 - Strain
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7 - Episode 5
The discovery of the bodies of two young gay men who were both meth addicts as well as victims of a new strain of AIDS that can kill its victims in less than a year leads to an investigation. Tutuola learns that his son, Ken, is gay, and has difficulty accepting it, even though he and Benson end up going to Ken for help with infiltrating an anti-meth group. The group's leader, Gabriel, soon becomes their top suspect when the squad realises that the two men died because they passed the disease on.
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#13 - Families
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 15
The investigation into the death of a pregnant teenager exposes a long-held family secret which precipitates another violent death and the destruction of two families.
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#14 - Leaving the Station
Chicago Fire - Season 1 - Episode 8
At the site of a train accident, Peter Mills becomes deeply upset when he observes the dead body of a young victim. Unable to shake his emotional distress about the event, he questions his future as a firefighter. Dawson and Shay save a 6-year-old girl whose mother is abusing her – but their confrontation leads the woman to resort to dire actions. Meanwhile, Severide aggravates his injury while rescuing a heart attack victim and Shay sends Clarice, her married, pregnant ex-girlfriend, back home to her husband.
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#15 - Cold Comfort
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 2 - Episode 17
When a woman suing her brother over the disposition of their father's remains is found murdered, Goren and Eames discover a concealed parentage and a man willing to go to any extremes to ensure his legacy.
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#16 - Monogamy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 11
The wife of a psychiatrist, seven months pregnant, is found unconscious and bleeding in a parking garage with her fetus missing. The attending paramedic reports to Benson that the victim "sustained massive abdominal trauma" that looks "like an emergency C-section". The investigation leads to infedility and uncertainty as to the paternity, adding fuel to the fire of an already aggitated Stabler.
#18 - Bound
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 23
A nurse, whose brother owns the home-nursing company she works for, takes her childhood abandonment frustrations of her mother out on the rich elderly women the company cares for, leaving the detectives to believe they have a money-hungry serial killer on the loose. The detectives know the nurse has committed the murders of what they thought was six people, but they cannot prove it, that is untill Benson and Stabler do a little roleplaying and get the nurse to confess that she has killed numerous elderly women and framed the murders on her brother as a way to get back at her mother and brother.
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#19 - First Date
Code Black - Season 1 - Episode 13
Angus' older brother, an "all-star" ER doctor, tries to secure a position at Angels Memorial. Meanwhile, Christa's romantic feelings towards Neal begin to grow; and Malaya deals with a patient who is obsessed with her.
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#20 - Strange Fruit
Criminal Minds - Season 9 - Episode 9
When skeletons are found in the backyard of a Virginia home, the BAU centers its investigation on the family living there, unearthing family secrets rooted in the past racial divisions in the South.
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#21 - Mean
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 17
The conviction of a group of sociopathic high school bullies who turned one of their own from a victimiser into a torture murder victim escalates the systematic peer abuse at their exclusive private school, leading to further tragedy.
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#22 - Missing
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 17
The SVU pursues a suspect when a child is discovered in the trunk of an abandoned car.
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#23 - Shaken
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 10
The discovery of a beaten infant leads Stabler and Cragen on a search for the attacker who may be a pedophile. When the medical evidence shows that the injuries were a result of shaken baby syndrome, Stabler shifts the focus of the investigation to those closest to the child: her mother, the nannies and a boyfriend of the mother.
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#24 - Take a Break from Your Values
Orange Is the New Black - Season 2 - Episode 11
Piper is shocked at an unexpected change in her status; Soso's hunger strike attracts new support that takes on a religious fervor.
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#25 - Badge
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 1 - Episode 20
When the murder of a city auditor and his family seems too perfect, Goren and Eames turn their attention towards law enforcement personnel after learning that the auditor was investigating a number of former cops upon suspicion of double-dipping.
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#26 - There's Always a Downside
Warehouse 13 - Season 4 - Episode 4
While Pete and Claudia help Hugo Miller track down a bag of marbles at a boy's academy, Myka and Steve travel to New Orleans on the trail of another artifact while Artie meets with Brother Adrian.
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#27 - Reparations
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 12 - Episode 21
Two high-powered attorneys face each other across the aisle when Casey Novak returns to the team, and Joe Dekker takes a leave of absence from his Los Angeles duties after his cousin is charged with rape. Dekker's unwavering belief in his cousin's innocence, and a court disturbance make Novak and Benson take another look at the evidence, which leads them to someone playing a very long game in the name of hatred.
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#28 - 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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#29 - Damaged
Law & Order - Season 8 - Episode 22
The case of a teacher's shooting uncovers a vendetta involving the rape of a mentally challenged coed by three students, whose attorney claims they weren't aware of her condition.
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Secrets and Lies (2015) - Season 2 - Episode 3
Eric attempts to track down Kate’s missing assistant, Liam, only to find out that he is not at all who he said he was. But was Kate on to him or not? A secret rendezvous Kate had at a sleazy motel only poses more questions about who murdered her. Meanwhile, Cornell confronts Eric with explosive information obtained by questioning his ex-girlfriend Tina Sawyer. Finally, Eric pursues a woman who may have ties to Liam, only to find that someone has gotten there first.
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#31 - Reset (2)
Warehouse 13 - Season 2 - Episode 12
The team tries to track down their rogue member, and discover the artifact they have is unexpectedly powerful. Meanwhile, Claudia wonders about her future with the Warehouse team and Pete must choose between Kelly and the mission.
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#32 - Punto Sin Retorno
Queen of the South - Season 1 - Episode 11
Aligning with the Jimenez Cartel, Camila’s operation goes underground. Teresa and Brenda try to start a new life utilizing knowledge from Güero’s book.
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#33 - Loss
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 4
Investing the brutal rape and murder of an undercover federal agent and forced to use discretion in order to protect the identities of those agents in the field, the detectives arrest a suspect highly connected with a Colombian drug cartel. As the case proceeds towards trial, Cabot is faced with death threats on herself and her family along with pressure to yield the case to federal authorities.
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#34 - Quarry
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 13
When the body of a seven-year-old child is found, the squad again begins to investigate convicted serial killer Lucas Biggs, believing that he molested and murdered the boy. While Biggs can detail every child he ever molested, he swears that he has no memory of this one. Further investigations show that there is another suspect, but before he can be picked up, someone picks him off.
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#35 - Outcry
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 5
A missing teenager found beaten and tied up in a college dormitory under construction claims that she was raped by three students, but as the investigation proceeds and information obtained by the police and the press causes her story to unravel quickly, the girl recants. Since Benson remains convinced that a rape did occur, the focus of the investigation shifts to the girl's overly-protective stepfather who has resisted the investigation from its onset. When the girl finally tells the truth about the attack, it becomes apparent that her lies were calculated to protect her innocent stepfather from physical and financial ruin, because the girl says her fathers boss raped her. After the girl says who attacked her a previous victim comes foward and says that she had the same attacker.
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#36 - Remains of the Day
Law & Order - Season 17 - Episode 11
After Michael Jones dies in his mother's hospital room with no immediate explanation, his mother Ashley accuses her former husband's adult children, Miles and Hillary Foster, who are fighting her for control of their father's substantial fortune. The autopsy rules out the Fosters, and points Green and Cassady in the direction of illegally harvested donor bones, which Jones had received in a transplant eighteen months prior. McCoy and Rubirosa struggle to prosecute the case after it becomes clear the only way they will get the evidence they need is to test another young man who received bone grafts from the same woman who had given Michael Jones his legs.
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#37 - Teenage Wasteland
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 12
The beating death of a restaurant owner leads Briscoe and Green to thrill-seeking teenagers; McCoy and Lewin are forced to decide how young is too young for the death penalty.
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#38 - 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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#39 - The Third Horseman
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 1 - Episode 11
The killing of an abortion doctor who was shot in his own apartment sends the detectives on a search for the sniper before someone else becomes the next victim. Carver worries that the case will end up being all about abortion rights.
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#40 - The Walk In
The Americans (2013) - Season 2 - Episode 3
Philip and Elizabeth complete their next mission - but not without complications - and Philip's fears about Elizabeth's readiness for action deepen. Stan tracks the KGB walk-in which leads to much praise at work and a deepening of his attachment to, and dependence on, Nina. Meanwhile, Paige snoops into her mother's family background and Oleg begins to scrutinize Nina's secret operation.
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#41 - Shangri-La
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 2
The murder of a female high school English teacher uncovers a love triangle that includes a female student and a male teacher, both of whom become suspects. The prosecutors have to deal with the student's multiple identities and refusal to live past adolescence.
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#42 - 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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#43 - Murder Book
Law & Order - Season 17 - Episode 16
After publisher Serena Darby is found murdered in her apartment, suspicion turns to J.P. Lange, a former professional baseball player acquitted of his wife's murder who had written a book hypothesising how he would have committed the murder. Green and Cassady follow the trail of evidence from Lange to Gerald Stockwell, a former ghostwriter on the book, but Stockwell tries to clear himself by offering McCoy and Rubirosa proof that one of the jurors in Lange's trial was paid off to force an acquittal.
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#44 - In Case of Abnormal Rhythm
A Gifted Man - Season 1 - Episode 9
Michael and Kate are forced to work together to try and save a patient with a deadly virus. Meanwhile, at Holt Neuro, as Michael treats a nervous bride-to-be who is experiencing headaches, he notices her mother is exhibiting symptoms of a serious condition.
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#45 - Refuge (1)
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 23
A shootout between a motorist and the police leads to the discovery of a gruesome Russian mob killing --- and a traumatized boy who was an eyewitness to the murder.
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#46 - Serendipity
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 5
A dead baby is found in a gutter, sending the detectives on a hunt for its mother. She too turns up dead, and the clues point to a dermatologist whose DNA happens to match the evidence in a cold case of child molestation. Casey Novak, the ADA newly assigned to prosecute SVU cases, butts heads with Benson and Stabler over their handling of these murders. Though she has the blessing of DA Arthur Branch, she is still unsure of whether or not she is the right person to take Cabot's place.
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#47 - Smoke
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 24
Briscoe and Green are assigned to a case involving an eccentric comedian who may have killed his young son by dangling him off a ledge.
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#48 - Refuge (2)
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 24
McCoy and Carmichael risk violating the civil liberties of witnesses when they are forced to jail them in order to safely continue their investigation.
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#49 - Terminal
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 23
The cops uncover a man with a secret second life as they try to learn who opened fire on a group of people disembarking from a party cruise, but his guilt or innocence becomes almost a second thought as Schiff goes toe to toe with the governor and the States Attorney General over the decision to seek the death penalty.
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#50 - Day 7: Breaking the Story
Ten Days in the Valley - Season 1 - Episode 7
Jane and Bird catch a break in the case when they revisit the scene of the Casita raid that started it all. Meanwhile, Ali learns some surprising news about Tom; and Jane discovers a shocking development about Gus.
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