The BEST episodes written by Amanda Green

Paternity
star
8.08
336 votes

#1 - Paternity

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 9 - Episode 9

When the paternity of a missing young boy is placed into question, Stabler wonders if he really is the father of Kathy's child. Later, Stabler faces the possibility of losing not only his partner but also Kathy and the baby when she and Benson are in an accident.

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Zebras
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8.01
375 votes

#2 - Zebras

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 10 - Episode 22

A murder in Central Park that involves a tourist puts the SVU on high alert, but when the suspect they've brought in for questioning escapes, Munch has to reach out to an ex-wife in an effort to prevent another killing that's closer to home.

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Ghost
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7.99
273 votes

#3 - Ghost

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 16

When a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, Benson and Stabler soon realise that their deaths are connected to a drug smuggling ring. Eventually the road leads back to the same drug dealers who forced a former assistant district attorney into hiding, and Alex Cabot comes home to face her enemies.

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Scheherazade
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7.96
351 votes

#4 - Scheherazade

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 8 - Episode 10

Stabler heads to see terminal cancer patient Judson Tierney after a request from his parish priest, and soon realizes that Tierney has a story that he is dying to tell but only wants to tell to his estranged daughter. With Benson keeping an eye on Tierney, Stabler looks into the man's past and learns that he was once involved in a series of unsolved bank robberies, and that he has been keeping a secret about his daughter for over twenty years.

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Swing
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7.88
352 votes

#5 - Swing

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 10 - Episode 3

Stabler is shocked when his daughter, Kathleen, becomes the suspect in an investigation to catch a trespasser. He seeks his estranged mother's help in dealing with his daughter's case.

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Authority
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7.88
385 votes

#6 - Authority

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 9 - Episode 17

An engineer plays a series of mind games with Benson and Stabler.

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Desperate
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7.88
345 votes

#7 - Desperate

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 18

After a young boy witnesses the brutal sexual assault and murder of his stepmother, his father blocks the efforts of the detectives to question him.

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Shadow
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7.86
353 votes

#8 - Shadow

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 11 - Episode 12

When a rich and powerful couple with political connections is found murdered in their bedroom, Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler decide to speak to the deceased couple's daughter, Anne, for more information. After hearing Anne's account of a nefarious man who has been following her, the detectives soon discover that Anne's supposed stalker is none other than Detective Ash Ramsey of the Special Frauds division. Convinced that Anne killed her parents for their money, Ramsey becomes suspicious of Anne's business manager and is led to believe that he helped her steal money from the foundation she runs. When blackmail and embezzlement come into play, the detectives find that their lives may be at risk over a girl with some serious parent issues.

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Solitary
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7.86
416 votes

#9 - Solitary

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 11 - Episode 3

When Lily Milton is reported missing, her boyfriend, Parker Hubbard, points Detectives Benson and Stabler in the direction of Callum Donovan, Lily's downstairs neighbor and convicted bank robber who spent nineteen years in solitary confinement. During the investigation into Donovan's alibi, Lily is found alive, adding a surprising twist to the case and exposing more of Donovan's dark past.

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Haunted
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7.84
254 votes

#10 - Haunted

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 10

Fin is reunited with his own son as he risks his life to save two small children, one caught in the middle of a bodega robbery and the other from the junkie who set the child's mother up for murder and then stole him to use as a front in her scheme to boost materials for her meth lab.

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Can I Get a Witness?
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7.82
3713 votes

#11 - Can I Get a Witness?

Lethal Weapon - Season 1 - Episode 8

When a million dollar casino heist takes a deadly turn, Riggs befriends the only credible witness, an eight-year-old boy, and takes him into his care. Murtaugh pulls some dangerous stunts in an attempt to prove to everyone that he can be a motorcycle guy. Riggs contemplates what to do with the money he received from selling his home in Texas.

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Persona
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7.78
349 votes

#12 - Persona

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 10 - Episode 8

Benson finds herself going the extra mile to protect a woman abused by her spouse. The investigation turns up information regarding a long-forgotten case of 2nd degree murder and escape.

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Shaken
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7.75
300 votes

#13 - 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.

The Mystery of the Taken Boy
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7.73
339 votes

#14 - The Mystery of the Taken Boy

The Mysteries of Laura - Season 2 - Episode 1

When a boy is kidnapped from his TriBeCa family, Laura and team are thrust into a high-stakes race against time and must uncover a host of family secrets in order to save the boy.

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Storm
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7.73
266 votes

#15 - Storm

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7 - Episode 10

When a teenager and her younger sister end up in the hospital after a day at the park, detectives learn that both girls were abducted from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina along with a third sister who is still missing. Despite the interference of a local reporter, Jackson Zane, detectives are able to catch the kidnapper, a known pedophile, and recover the girl, but when Alvin Dutch dies and the autopsy determines it was Anthrax, Benson puts everything on the line so that she can get the truth out there.

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Warrior (2)
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7.72
1126 votes

#16 - Warrior (2)

Perception - Season 2 - Episode 10

Morretti faces criminal charges after taking things into her own hands while working on a dangerous case. Pierce and Donnie strive to clear her name, but as conflicting evidence builds, even Kate begins to question her own innocence

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Night (1)
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7.70
290 votes

#17 - Night (1)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 20

After a young woman is found raped and murdered near a nightclub, with five hundred dollars stuffed into her mouth, Benson and Stabler follow the fingerprint trail on the money to attorney Jason Whitaker, whose sole responsibility seems to be handling the trust for the Duvall family. Soon detectives are convinced that Gabriel Duvall is their rapist, but don't have quite enough evidence to put him away. A.D.A. Novak is working on both the case and a terrified former victim when she is brutally attacked in her office late at night. (Day (2) aired on Law & Order: Trial by Jury, season 1, episode 11.)

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Tragedy
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7.68
386 votes

#18 - Tragedy

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 1

In a race against time to find a woman with a high-risk pregnancy who's kidnapped as approaches her delivery date, Benson and Stabler are faced with more than one suspect willing to take the fall for the crime.

Romeo (1)
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7.67
513 votes

#19 - Romeo (1)

Perception - Season 3 - Episode 14

After a student is found murdered, Pierce tries to find the killer while defending the victim's boyfriend, who is believed to be mentally ill and guilty of the crime. Meanwhile, Pierce must confront his feelings as Kate and Donnie prepare for their wedding day.

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Haystack
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7.66
295 votes

#20 - Haystack

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 8 - Episode 15

Stabler finds himself drawn into a case where a young mother has committed suicide after her baby goes missing. The case leads to questions for Benson about her own family history.

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Estimated Time of Departure
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7.66
1912 votes

#21 - Estimated Time of Departure

Manifest - Season 1 - Episode 16

Ben and Michaela must confront a dire threat to the passengers’ safety when Griffin schemes to take the callings public. Meanwhile, tensions between Jared and Zeke reach a boiling point, and Ben, Grace, and Olive make a devastating discovery.

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Demons
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7.65
321 votes

#22 - Demons

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7 - Episode 1

Twenty years after being convicted of the rape of a teenage girl, Ray Schenkel is released, much to the dismay of retired detective William Dorsey. When a teenage girl is raped on the route Schenkel would have taken home, Stabler goes undercover as a recently paroled sex offender so that he can get into the same therapy group as Schenkel, and the same halfway house. Cragen worries that Stabler may be getting in over his head.

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Dolls
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7.62
294 votes

#23 - Dolls

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 7

When the decomposing body of sexually molested five-year-old girl is discovered, Detectives Benson and Stabler's investigation leads them to the painful reality that they are searching for a serial pedophile as they race to save the life of his latest victim. As the mother of the missing girl frantically awaits news of her daughter's whereabouts, she must reconcile the fact that her own recent bout with addiction may have played a part in her daughter's fate.

Annihilated
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7.59
273 votes

#24 - Annihilated

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 8 - Episode 20

A woman's murder appears to be the result of a professional hit, when her fiancé (Dylan Walsh) receives death threats, apparently resulting from his CIA career. Elliot, investigating this, finds that the man may not be all that he seems This episode is loosely based on the real life John List murders.

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Counterfeit
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7.59
287 votes

#25 - Counterfeit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 14

A woman is found raped and killed by her car. Benson and Tutuola try to figure out why there were drugs in the victim's trunk but then find that a similar rape was committed. This victim says that a police officer raped her after pulling her over for a supposed driving violation. The D.A. now has to zero in on the corrupt cop.

Age of Innocence
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7.57
1313 votes

#26 - Age of Innocence

Blue Bloods - Season 1 - Episode 16

When an unidentified young girl is found murdered at a debutante ball, Danny and Jackie look to the prostitute found giving her a hard time on the hotel’s surveillance camera for clues. Meanwhile, Nicky gets a glimpse of her first murder victim as she rides along with Danny when he gets the call to investigate.

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Home
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7.57
240 votes

#27 - Home

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 16

A mentally ill woman's paranoia intensifies after her innocent-bystander husband is murdered during a robbery, fueling her descent into child abuse, abandonment, and death.

Crosswinds
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7.55
2070 votes

#28 - Crosswinds

Manifest - Season 1 - Episode 10

Michaela's mystifying, next-level calling launches her on a mission that brings her relationship with Jared to a head. Determined to protect his family, Ben explores an alternate meaning to Michaela's calling that leads him to a new alliance and a powerful new adversary. Cal's struggle with Ben's absence from home forces the Stones into an agonizing confrontation that could alter the family's fabric forever.

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Blast
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7.54
292 votes

#29 - Blast

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7 - Episode 13

The team investigates when young Carly Hunter disappears while walking home from school one day. While processing evidence found at the scene, Warner realises that the little girl has leukemia, and they need to get her home as soon as possible to begin treatment. Despite the ransom drop going wrong, the detectives are able to find the little girl thanks to evidence O'Halloran finds at the scene, but as she tells her story to Stabler and her mother, it soon becomes clear that her kidnapper is someone very close to home. Stabler and Warner end up becoming hostages when the kidnapper approaches Jake Hunter directly.

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Kilimanjaro
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7.54
1304 votes

#30 - Kilimanjaro

Perception - Season 1 - Episode 8

Moretti and Pierce are called upon to solve a crime in their own backyard when a college student is killed in her dorm room. Pierce is forced into the uncomfortable situation of interacting on a personal level with more than one of his students, which forces him to confront difficult truths about his own past. The case comes just as Moretti is beginning to re-evaluate her relationship with Dr. Hathaway.

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Debt
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7.53
289 votes

#31 - Debt

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 2

As Benson and Stabler investigate the disappearance of a mother and her teenaged daughter, they uncover a conspiracy between a corrupt immigration attorney and gangsters running a prostitution ring that is staffed by women they have smuggled into the country and imprisoned as sex slaves.

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Nemesis
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7.53
1302 votes

#32 - Nemesis

Perception - Season 1 - Episode 7

Pierce must take a deep look into his own life when he is brought into a case involving a schizophrenic. Meanwhile, Moretti stops at nothing to impress her new boss at the FBI. Guest star Tom Sizemore plays a top-level Irish mobster, while guest star Edward Furlong plays a would-be tough guy who may have played a crucial role in the crime.

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Lust
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7.47
346 votes

#33 - Lust

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 4

The wife of a retired attorney, a public-health doctor, is found murdered and raped in Central Park. Her work involved contacting sexual partners of HIV patients which gives the detectives a long list of suspects. The discovery of a second body in Central Park with the same signature shifts the focus to a serial killer; however, the trail leads to a man who has no knowledge of the crimes but has a distant connection to the doctor and her husband.

Underbelly
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7.46
326 votes

#34 - Underbelly

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 8 - Episode 7

After a third young teen is found dead, a paw print tattoo on her lower back, Stabler and Beck investigate the tattoo, which leads them to Broder House, a foster home for young girls. They learn that Chantal was one of a number of girls who had ended up working the streets for a man named Victor. Stabler warns Beck that she can't get emotionally involved in every case, but the two work together to bring down Victor, relying on one of his girls to get the evidence that they need.

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Torch
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7.44
479 votes

#35 - Torch

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 11 - Episode 21

After two young girls die in a fire, Stabler finds a familiar face in the prosecutor assigned to the case.

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Hell
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7.44
351 votes

#36 - Hell

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 10 - Episode 17

Detective Munch investigates the brutal rape and beating of a young mute girl, but things become tricky when her drawing of the devil who attacked her resembles a local priest who may not be practicing his beliefs according to canon.

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Connecting Flights
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7.44
2635 votes

#37 - Connecting Flights

Manifest - Season 1 - Episode 5

Stories unfold for those left behind in the aftermath of Flight 828's disappearance. Cal takes Ben on a mysterious adventure. Michaela tries to protect Jared from consequences at work.

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The Mystery of the Biker Bar
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7.43
587 votes

#38 - The Mystery of the Biker Bar

The Mysteries of Laura - Season 1 - Episode 3

A popular biker-bar owner is killed, with the case leading Laura and Jake to the scene of their first date. The twins can't outwit their new ex-con babysitter but, just to be sure, Laura has Max spy on them.

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Anchor
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7.37
346 votes

#39 - Anchor

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 11 - Episode 10

Fin's investigation into three little girl's deaths takes him into the world of immigration, anchor babies, a grassroots opposition movement, a radio talk show host who fans the hatred, and an immigration rights attorney who is somehow tied up in everything.

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Shattered
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7.33
487 votes

#40 - Shattered

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 11 - Episode 24

The detectives end up in a dangerous situation while investigating the whereabouts of a kidnapped eight-year-old boy.

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