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 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#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.
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#9 - 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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#10 - 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.
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#11 - 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...
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#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
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#14 - 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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#15 - Prisoner of Love
Law & Order - Season 1 - Episode 10
A city arts commissioner and a socialite come under investigation when an artist noted for his sadomasochistic themes is found dead under suspicious circumstances.
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#16 - 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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#17 - Out of Control
Law & Order - Season 2 - Episode 8
The detectives investigate the gang rape of a college student during a fraternity Holloween party.
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#18 - 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.
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#19 - 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.
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#20 - Prescription for Death
Law & Order - Season 1 - Episode 1
When a young woman dies during a hectic emergency room night shift, her father claims the hospital was negligent, and an investigation leads the detectives to believe that the doctor treating her may have been drunk on duty.
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#21 - 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.
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#22 - 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.
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#23 - 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.
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#24 - 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.
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#25 - Star Struck
Law & Order - Season 2 - Episode 12
An obsessive fan pleads temporary insanity when he is charged with attempting to murder the soap-opera actress who is the center of his life.
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#26 - 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.
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