The BEST episodes written by David Black
#1 - Deliver Us from Evil (1)
Miami Vice - Season 4 - Episode 21
A murder case that hits close to home reunites Crockett with the man who used him to trick his way off Death Row.
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#2 - Hitman
Kojak (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 6
A hitman makes the mistake of committing his crimes in Kojak's precinct.
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#3 - Leap of Faith
Blue Bloods - Season 2 - Episode 13
When a rich woman dies of a heart attack, her eccentric daughter claims that she received a message from God, who told her that her stepfather actually murdered her. Meanwhile, the archbishop wants Frank’s support for the canonization of a local priest, but a reluctant Frank takes it upon himself to investigate a rumor that the priest went too far when protesting the Vietnam War.
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#4 - Magnet
Law & Order - Season 16 - Episode 14
Fontana and Green arrest a fellow student after a young man is murdered, but McCoy faces a tough adversary when he tries to prosecute the crime.
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#5 - Enemy Within
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 1 - Episode 10
The death of an eccentric banker in his nintieth floor apartment leads the detectives to investigate his professional contacts and family members.
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#6 - Days of Swine and Roses
Hill Street Blues - Season 7 - Episode 19
A radio promotion spawns trouble for everyone; Hill and Renko are assigned to a computerized patrol car; Buntz helps Sid get out of an arm-breaking assignment for a shylock; Hunter's return to action as the EATer commander fizzles; and LaRue, Washington and Joyce work on opposite sides to protect the rights of a mentally disturbed young man and his frightened mother and sister.
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#7 - Nullification
Law & Order - Season 8 - Episode 5
After the cops trace an eagle tattoo on a man shot and killed while holding up an armored truck to a group of militia members, McCoy finds himself facing one of their number as the pro se counsel for his friends, arguing for the concept of "jury nullification", the right of a jury to protect a defendant from an unjust law by finding him not guilty despite the evidence.
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#8 - A Death in the Family
Law & Order - Season 1 - Episode 13
Police start a citywide manhunt for a man suspected of killing a cop during a rooftop pursuit.
#9 - The Fire This Time
Law & Order - Season 12 - Episode 8
When a building is set ablaze, a girl must be identified despite her fatal burns. Through further investigation, it turns out that an extreme environmentalist group struck the match...
#10 - Evidence of Things Unseen
CSI: Miami - Season 1 - Episode 16
Horatio and his team investigate after a Russian immigrant is stabbed to death in a peep-show booth, and the only witness to the crime is the stripper who was performing for him.
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#11 - Death and the Lady
Miami Vice - Season 4 - Episode 3
An actress' on-screen murder propels Crockett & Tubbs to investigate the film's flaky director.
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#12 - Castoff
Law & Order - Season 8 - Episode 13
The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives uncover she had a predilection for kinky sex, and that one of her current partners appears to be a serial killer, who offers an overexposure to television violence as his defense during his trial.
#13 - Tabloid
Law & Order - Season 8 - Episode 23
Tabloid journalism comes under scrutiny during the investigations into the deaths of a gossip columnist and a celebrity target he pursued.
#14 - Carrier
Law & Order - Season 8 - Episode 17
The death of a college student leads to a case involving an HIV-positive male who's seeking to infect as many young women as possible. McCoy, testing right-to-privacy ethics, wants to charge him with murder.
#15 - God Bless the Child
Law & Order - Season 2 - Episode 5
A couple faces trial after they deny medical help to their daughter based on their religious beliefs.
#16 - The Family Hour
Law & Order - Season 17 - Episode 22
When Nicole Bailey, the ex-wife of a respected former senator, is found murdered and brutalised in her home, Green and Cassady look first at the senator, but follow the trail of clues to a dysfunctional family with a number of potentially embarrassing secrets. McCoy finds himself in the hot seat when he is forced to argue the case in front of a judge more interested in public relations than justice.
#17 - More Skinned Against Than Skinning
Hill Street Blues - Season 7 - Episode 10
Racial tensions rise again when a white undercover officer shoots his black partner; a temporarily blind Buntz goes undercover with Belker as a beggar; Hill and Renko find several skinned bodies; and Joyce tries to defend a shopkeeper who has adapted Nazi paraphernalia as a deterrent against robbers.
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#18 - By Hooker, by Crook
Law & Order - Season 1 - Episode 7
When Logan and Greevey investigate how a family man came to be found unconscious in Central Park, they uncover a very high-class call girl operation run by a well-educated socialite.
#19 - Life Choice
Law & Order - Season 1 - Episode 12
Stone faces pressure from the public and from Schiff as he prepares to prosecute the person accused of bombing an abortion clinic.
#20 - The Reaper's Helper
Law & Order - Season 1 - Episode 3
The death of a man with AIDS appears to be the work of a serial killer who may have been motivated by mercy.
#21 - In Memory of…
Law & Order - Season 2 - Episode 7
The renovation of a brownstone uncovers the remains of a boy who disappeared 31 years earlier, reviving a wrenching and long-suppressed memory in his childhood friend and neighbor.
#22 - Happily Ever After
Law & Order - Season 1 - Episode 5
Greevey and Logan have a hunch that robbery is a cover for the real motive in the death of a millionaire in a parking garage.