The BEST episodes written by Ed Zuckerman
#1 - Rules Of The Game
The Agency - Season 1 - Episode 9
When the National Security Agency (NSA) learns of a plot to assassinate the King of Saudi Arabia, Matt and Lisa help track down those involved only to discover that there is a larger terrorist plot in the works. Soon after Matt and Lisa catch the would-be assassins, Israeli intelligence informs the CIA that one of the incarcerated terrorists is their own agent on an undercover mission and requests his safe return. Once Matt arranges this, the Agency discovers that Israeli intelligence has deceived them and the man they released is a link to a terrorist they had been pursuing for years.
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The Agency - Season 2 - Episode 12
Stiles and Terri head to the Gaza Strip in search of a U.S. citizen who left America with his wife due to a killing spree at a travel agency.
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The Agency - Season 1 - Episode 13
An assassination attempt on Lisa strikes Matt instead and leaves him hospitalized and fighting for his life. While Robert tries to hide the events from the press, Jackson is forced to work with the chief of counterintelligence to determine who ordered the attack on Lisa and how her position at the CIA was uncovered. Eventually, Lex admits to indirectly blowing Lisa's cover to the assassin and, in the process, unknowingly giving him access to information on Lisa. However, Lex soon redeems himself by leading Robert and Jackson to the terrorist organization behind the shooting. As Matt hangs on to his life by a thread, Lisa contemplates a leave of absence from the CIA.
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The Agency - Season 2 - Episode 18
Stiles tries to stop a drug dealer from helping terrorists, Can Stiles get the drug dealer to help capture the terrorists?
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#5 - True Callings
JAG - Season 5 - Episode 3
Harms fitness report is coming up and the realization that maybe it really is too late to be a fighter pilot. During a dangerous mission over hostile Serbian territory, Harm's wingman's plane is shot up and Harm performs top-gun maneuvers to keep the disabled plane aloft until it's over friendly territory. Meanwhile, with a new Gunny in the office, Bud & Tiner fall over themselves as they compete against each other in an online auction to purchase tickets to a concert, in order to impress the Admiral. They end up looking foolish when it is discovered that the Gunny got the same tickets for free.
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#7 - The Bridge at Kang So Ri
JAG - Season 5 - Episode 18
Harm and Mac are assigned to investigate charges that American GIs shot and killed civilians during the Korean War. They board a plane for Korea, along with a veteran who claims to have participated in the shootings. Korean terrorists take over the plane and insist on punishing those responsible for the alleged war crime.
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#8 - Chicago Crossover (2)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 16 - Episode 7
Sergeant Hank Voight and Detectives Erin Lindsay and Jay Halstead track a child pornography victim to his last-known whereabouts in New York City, where Sergeant Benson and the SVU squad get a new lead – evidence of a livestreamed pornography “club” that caters to its subscriber’s shocking requests. When Lindsay discovers someone from her past is involved, she hopes it will help lead them to the site’s ringleader, but tensions between Voight and Benson could threaten the case. (Nobody Touches Anything (1) aired on Chicago Fire, season 3, episode 7. They’ll Have to Go Through Me (3) aired on Chicago P.D., season 2, episode 7.)
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The Agency - Season 1 - Episode 21
After a CIA agent is murdered, the agency joins with the police department of Washington, D.C. to investigate his murder.
#10 - Surface Warfare
JAG - Season 5 - Episode 25
Bud's underachieving brother is accused of making a mistake during a training exercise that nearly killed 15 Marines. But establishing his innocence proves to be a difficult task, thanks to the age-old tension between the Navy and the Marines. Adm. Chegwidden frets over a speech he must give when he is to be given an award. Mic Brumby returns unexpectantly to the States; Mac & everyone are stunned when he announces that he has resigned his Royal Australian Navy commission so that he could move to the USA and be by the ""woman he loves.""
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#12 - Contemptuous Words
JAG - Season 5 - Episode 9
Harm faces a court-martial when a letter critical of the President appears on the Op-Ed page of a newspaper and is traced to his computer. As an investigation threatens Harm's promotion as well as his entire career, a well-known conservative organization offers to represent him and Harm accepts. The key to Harm's defense is to find the actual letter-writer, so Bud digs through Harm's old case files searching for those with an axe to grind.
#13 - Poisoned Motive
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 22
When two sniper attacks on the NYPD link to Detective Tutuola's past as a narcotics officer, he reconnects with his former partner in hope of finding a motive; Lt. Alexandra Eames helps SVU investigate.
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#15 - Know It All
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 18 - Episode 15
A man under investigation for rape and murder threatens to expose the secrets of those working the case.
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#17 - Sheltered Outcasts
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 19
Detective Carisi lives undercover at a homeless shelter to determine if one of its sex offender residents is the suspect in a string of neighborhood rapes.
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#18 - Wonderland Story
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 15 - Episode 5
Investigation into the suspected rape of a woman Benson helped earlier leads to a cybermogul; the team bids farewell to Sgt. Munch.
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#19 - Depravity Standard
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 17 - Episode 9
Benson seeks justice in the trial of child abductor Lewis Hodda, but when a plea deal is rejected, Barba must rely on decades-old evidence to make his case and faces off against former SVU colleague Dr. Huang.
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#20 - Real Fake News
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 18 - Episode 17
A congressman falsely accused of soliciting underage girls asks SVU to debunk the rumor, but the investigation leads to a real sex trafficking ring. Meanwhile, Benson and Rollins become the targets of a salacious website.
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#21 - Criminal Hatred
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 12
The detectives go under cover to arrest a man who brutally attacks other men; a deceptively tough defense attorney (Nia Vardalos) complicates ADA Barba's case.
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#22 - Showtime
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 17
The trial of Eddie Newman begins but the prosecution's chances of conviction are hampered by a "dream team" of defense attorneys, Gorton's personal pressures on Ross, the public questioning of the relationship between Curtis and Lisa Lundquist, and a surpise accusation.
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#23 - December Solstice
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 16 - Episode 16
The two daughters of an elderly writer suffering from dementia accuse his current wife of abusing him by giving erectile dysfunction pills to produce a new heir.
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#24 - Legacy (1)
JAG - Season 6 - Episode 1
While Harm is sent to Russia to help the Russians find a better way to implement their military justice procedures, Mac and Bud remain behind to prosecute a Naval commander charged with selling military secrets to the Russians. Once in Russia, Harm becomes involved in investigating high level corruption in the military. Meanwhile, Mac is on the verge of making a deal with the traitorous Naval officer when he and his lawyer are murdered. Mac and Webb then discover that the traitor was linked to a Russian assassination plot. But Mac's attempts to alert Harm fail, and he is caught in an ambush with a Russian who reveals the life-changing secret to him.
#25 - Undercover Blue
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 17
A woman claims that Brian Cassidy raped her while he was working under cover; when Cassidy and his lawyer utilize surprising defense methods, Detective Amaro is affected.
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#26 - 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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#27 - True North
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 9
The double murder of a wealthy man and his daughter leads the detectives to the wife and stepmother of the deceased. However, Canada's objection to the death penalty hampers McCoy and Carmichael in seeking crucial evidence for obtaining a conviction.
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#28 - Decline and Fall
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 18 - Episode 9
The powerful family of a retail empire closes ranks when a bartender accuses one of their own of rape.
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#29 - Progeny
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 12
The investigation into the killing of an abortion clinic doctor leads to an activist group led by a former priest.
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#30 - Lessons Learned
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 14 - Episode 8
As the detectives investigate reports of sexual abuse at an elite private school, decades of secrets are exposed.
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#31 - White Rabbit
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 5
A routine investigation uncovers evidence that leads Briscoe and Logan to a long-time fugitive, a radical Vietnam War opponent on the run since a 1971 burglary that left a policeman dead.
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#32 - Blackmail
Law & Order - Season 20 - Episode 12
A freelance journalist is murdered. The detectives find a connection between her and a talk show host who has had a series of workplace affairs.
#33 - Anchors Away
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 17
A murdered television news reporter was investigating allegations that a billionaire Wall Street investment adviser was a fraud, but figuring out who killed her proves to be difficult
#34 - Legacy
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 10
The sidewalk shooting of a young husband uncovers the fact that his wife's first husband died in a inadequately investigated accident, and that they may have been having an affair before it happened.
#35 - Political Animal
Law & Order - Season 18 - Episode 6
A triple homicide has ties to a politician, but he may be just the first step toward the truth and a killer who will take desperate measures to keep his freedom.
#36 - Reagan V. Reagan
Blue Bloods - Season 2 - Episode 17
As Erin prosecutes a woman accused of killing her husband, the defendant’s attorney is murdered and Danny is assigned to the investigation. When Danny is put on the stand to be questioned, things get heated between the brother and sister.
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#37 - Excalibur
Law & Order - Season 18 - Episode 18
A jeweler's murder may have ties to a prostitution ring, and once the case goes to trial, D.A. McCoy's job is on the line as favors are called in.
#38 - Rules of Engagement (2)
JAG - Season 5 - Episode 2
Unexpectedly, the wily Buxton demands that Harm and Brumby be his lawyers, thereby preventing Harm from testifying against him and forcing the two adversarial lawyers to work together. The contentious trial continues with Mac and Roberts prosecuting, and the pressure is enormous as the U.S. Navy and the Russian government vigilantly follow the trial to ensure that its own agendas are met. Meanwhile, the Navy has its own special plans for the troublesome Buxton.
#39 - Deadbeat
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 7
The murder of a deadbeat father whose son is dying of leukemia presents McCoy and Ross with a sympathetic suspect and a moral dilemma.
#40 - Pride
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 23
A gay city councilman is murdered and the trail leads to a bigoted rival politician and a male prostitute.
#41 - Act of God
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 17
A bomb at a construction site kills a 12-year-old boy, and the suspects include the bankrupt contractor and a jealous husband.
#42 - Heroes
Fantasy Island (1998) - Season 1 - Episode 13
Actors Dirk and Bobby come to the island to have a chance to be heroes as the stars of their former series, Hard Squad They find themselves back in set as their characters except now they're in real life fighting crime, which isn't as easy. They opt to ""retire"" when things get too tough, but come back when their former co-star Cassie gets kidnapped by the actor who played their informant on the show, who wants revenge for their poor treatment of him... Linda insists her husband Jeremy, who insists they have a son, ends up pregnant! He and Roarke end up in a golf match with Linda and Ariel to see who will end up carrying the child...
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#43 - For the Defense
Law & Order - Season 20 - Episode 9
A case that begins as a search for a missing witness spirals into a murder conspiracy with ADA Connie Rubirosa caught in the middle.
#44 - Rebels
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 2
Briscoe and Curtis have a hard time finding cooperative witnesses when investigating the murder of a college student at a rough biker bar.
#45 - Zero
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 7
Cutter is determined to expose misconduct when he realizes an old friend working in the system is obstructing justice in the murder of an environmentalist.
#46 - Profile
Law & Order - Season 4 - Episode 4
Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer.
#47 - Hot Pursuit
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 5
When the detectives solve a series of murders committed by a holdup team in ski masks, McCoy must determine whether a young woman found with them is an unwilling hostage, or an active participant in the crimes.
#48 - Matrimony
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 13
The discovery of a would-be thief refocuses a murder investigation, leaving the prosecutors the task of making a conspiracy case against the deceased's attorney and the pretty young widow.
#49 - Lucky Stiff
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 11
The owner of a trucking company, Vic Russell, is found dead after a business meeting; detectives uncover information that leads them to believe that Russell had ties to the Russian mob.
#50 - Rapture
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 14
The creator of a religious website is murdered and the trail leads to a corrupt charitable organization.