The BEST episodes written by Jonathan Greene

Gone
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8.09
358 votes

#1 - Gone

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7 - Episode 16

Doug Waverly and Nick Pratt are charged with rape and murder in the disappearance of Canadian student Jennifer Durning after Nick's cousin, Jason King, claims that while he had consensual sex with her that night the other two raped her. A stray pubic hair leads Novak to Keith Willis, a drunk who was paid off by the boys to get Jennifer out of the hotel and who later saw the boys kidnap her, but Willis exactly fit to be a witness as his mind has gone after years of alcohol abuse. Jason King disappears. Although they are able to find a bug in Donnelly's office, they are not able to prove that it was placed there by Pratt or Waverly. Judge Donnelly is forced to dismiss the case against the two boys since there is no case without Jason's testimony.

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Greed
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7.95
299 votes

#2 - 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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Coerced
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7.95
340 votes

#3 - Coerced

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 6

In resolving the kidnapping case of a little boy by a schizophrenic, Stabler uncovers further crimes at an adult group home with Huang's help.

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Pop
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7.88
661 votes

#4 - Pop

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

A young boy is found dead on a park carousel after being dropped off by his uncle Joe Gilbert. When Detectives Benson and Stabler learn that the boy was beaten to death they suspect that it could be the result of a bully at school. The investigation leads to an unsettling gambling ring. Detectives suspect that Gilbert's acquaintance, Joe Roberts is beating his wife Sandra and the case takes a horrifying turn.

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Retro
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7.88
370 votes

#5 - Retro

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 10 - Episode 5

A baby with AIDS has Benson and Stabler asking for assistance from Warner as they investigate the case. They are pointed in the direction of a homeopathic doctor who has an questionable ethical past and who had prescribed the baby ineffective vitamins.

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Smoked
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7.87
634 votes

#6 - Smoked

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 12 - Episode 24

When a woman is murdered during an afternoon shopping trip with her daughter, Detectives Benson and Stabler are called in because she was scheduled to testify in their high-profile rape case. As the detectives continue to investigate the correlation between the murder and their case, they discover unlikely friendships that will lead them to the truth.

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Dominance
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7.85
288 votes

#7 - Dominance

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 20

A quadruple homicide with sexual overtones is just the start of an intense rampage of killings that brings a homicide detective into the mix. As the entire squad races against time to prevent further victims, the evidence lead Tutuola and Deuthorn to a building superintendent, his two sons and a cross to bear.

Families
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7.84
280 votes

#8 - 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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In Case of Complications
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7.84
406 votes

#9 - In Case of Complications

A Gifted Man - Season 1 - Episode 13

A distraught woman takes the Clinica staff hostage after Michael testifies for a former patient who he believed suffered uncontrollable urges due to a brain tumor.

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Behave
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7.84
772 votes

#10 - Behave

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 12 - Episode 3

A woman who has been raped multiple times is afraid to leave her house. The issue of unopened rape kits will see Detective Olivia Benson travel from New York City to Los Angeles.

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In Case of Missed Communication
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7.82
497 votes

#11 - In Case of Missed Communication

A Gifted Man - Season 1 - Episode 8

In this holiday episode, the staff at Clinica Sonando celebrates Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, Michael must save the life of Rita’s son. who is injured in a motorcycle accident after returning for a Thanksgiving reunion with his family.

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Totem
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7.81
536 votes

#12 - Totem

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 12 - Episode 20

When a young girl is found dead with a doll that is believed to have been left as a totem, detectives Benson and Stabler team up with Captain Jackson, a psychologist who assisted them with a recent case, to investigate her murder. Jackson joins the detectives as they retrace the girl’s last steps and go to meet with her piano teacher June Frye. Jackson’s skills prove to be invaluable in deciphering the meaning of the totem and ultimately finding her killer.

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Intoxicated
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7.81
294 votes

#13 - Intoxicated

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 19

When Denise Eldridge finds her fifteen-year-old daughter Carrie in bed with twenty-one-year-old Justin, she immediately calls police to have Justin charged with statuatory rape. Benson intercedes on behalf of Carrie, calling a children's rights lawyer to assist her, but when Denise turns up dead, Carrie and Justin both end up on the suspect list. Benson tries to get some help from Simone Bryce, but Bryce is obligated to protect her client.

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Competence
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7.78
303 votes

#14 - Competence

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 22

The investigation into the rape and impregnation of a young girl with Down's Syndrome uncovers a serial rapist who preys on handicapped young girls under the guise of being their benefactor.

Contagious
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7.72
294 votes

#15 - Contagious

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 11

After a car accident a nine-year-old girl is examined and it's found she's been sexually abused. Out of fear and desperation, the girl blames her soccer coach for molesting her. Soon a slew of other girls claim they also have been raped by the same coach. During the investigation, Benson has to try keeping Stabler from falling apart as his wife has left him.

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Birthright
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7.71
289 votes

#16 - Birthright

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 1

The investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a six year old girl uncovers a fertility doctor's scheme to steal embryos, and prompts a custody battle between the child's biological and birth mothers.

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Scourge
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7.70
333 votes

#17 - Scourge

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 2 - Episode 21

The team searches for a serial killer who justifies his crimes with paranoid religious motivation set on by a rapidly deteriorating medical condition.

Risk
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7.69
294 votes

#18 - Risk

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 12

An infant overdoses on cocaine mixed in the baby food and the detectives arrest a suspect. Upon receiving resistence from Internal Affairs, the entire squad goes undercover to flush out a drug ring run by dirty cops.

Crush
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7.69
343 votes

#19 - Crush

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 10 - Episode 20

A teenage girl who sent text messages containing nude pictures of herself is found beaten up. She next faces a harsh sentence from a judge after being arrested for producing and distributing child pornography.

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Angels
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7.68
311 votes

#20 - Angels

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 6

The body of a battered young boy found in a luggage compartment of an airport shuttle bus sends the detectives to his guardian who was discovered to be a pedophile only to find his corpse in bed with his genitals removed. The subsequent investigation leads them to a travel agency specializing in exotic trips for sexual predators.

Recall
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7.67
312 votes

#21 - Recall

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 8 - Episode 3

Stabler and his new partner, Dani Beck, investigate the rape of a young woman named Nikki, who soon identifies a prominent lawyer, Martin Trenway, as her rapist. The squad has difficulty making the charges stick until another victim comes forward, but her testimony cannot be proven reliable. Determined to get at Trenway, Beck tracks down a woman from his past who holds the key to convicting Trenway, if they can convince her to expose the truth.

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Lead
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7.66
405 votes

#22 - Lead

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 10 - Episode 15

When a pediatrician convicted of abusing patients is found dead, Stabler and Benson investigate and soon find ADA Cabot has a reason for becoming involved in the case.

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Florida
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7.65
260 votes

#23 - Florida

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 8 - Episode 19

When Detective Benson gets into the middle of an investigation of her brother Simon Marsden (Michael Weston), the case begins to threaten her career. As Simon makes a run for it, Benson investigates further into his family life, and begins to question whether or not she was the product of a rape in the first place.

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Stolen
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7.64
371 votes

#24 - Stolen

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

The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads to a scheme of snatching and selling babies for adoption which brings back a case from twelve years ago that involved Captain Cragen and his partner, the late Max Greevey.

Honor
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7.63
427 votes

#25 - Honor

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

The vicious assault of an Afghan diplomat's daughter uncovers clues that may suggest Taliban traditions justify 'honor killings' when the child defies the wishes of their parents or their culture.

Ripped
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7.60
282 votes

#26 - Ripped

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

When the teenage son of Stabler's old partner comes under suspicion for attacking a classmate, Stabler's inability to treat this like any other case gets him suspended.

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Paranoia
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7.59
379 votes

#27 - Paranoia

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 2 - Episode 14

The rape of a veteran police officer, who trained Benson, is first linked to her ex-husband's gambling debts, and then to her fellow officers.

Loophole
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7.58
340 votes

#28 - Loophole

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 8 - Episode 13

Stabler ends out being out of commission after a perpetrator high on PCP throws him through a window at the station, so Benson teams up with Munch and Tutuola to investigate a mysterious packet of photos. The photographs lead them to both a suspected child pornographer and a junkie burgler, but after Benson takes ill during the investigation, the team realises that there is more than child pornography at stake as their investigation soon reveals that Seth Millstead wasn't into little boys at all, but had been using the tenants of the apartment building in an experiment for a new pesticide.

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Confidential
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7.58
461 votes

#29 - Confidential

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 11 - Episode 15

Benson and Stabler investigate the abduction of a woman in a building owned by a high-powered and highly protected investment banker, but when Munch's memory of an eerily similar crime proves true the focus turns toward potentially freeing an innocent man, and it may take the DA himself to shake loose the truth.

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Finally
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7.58
996 votes

#30 - Finally

Stitchers - Season 1 - Episode 6

The Stitchers team investigates a mysterious car accident that resulted in the death of a traumatic brain injury researcher. Meanwhile, Kirsten asks Linus for help deciphering a clue left by Ed Clark as she continues to question Maggie for more information on the origin of the Stitchers program.

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Secrets
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7.56
335 votes

#31 - Secrets

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 2 - Episode 12

A case involving the rape and murder of a teacher hits a snag after the woman's illicit sexual history is exposed.

Rooftop
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7.54
414 votes

#32 - Rooftop

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 4

When an HIV-positive male with a record of assaulting underage girls is discovered in a sexual clincher with a young woman on a rooftop, the detectives are determined to put him back inside. After a series of rapes and murders that cannot be traced to him, though, they begin to wonder if they've been looking the wrong way.

Impulsive
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7.54
442 votes

#33 - Impulsive

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 9 - Episode 3

A teacher claims that a student pursued her after she's charged with raping him.

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Ace
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7.54
540 votes

#34 - Ace

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 11 - Episode 22

When a pregnant woman is raped, Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler arrive at the hospital to find that she has fled. Even when someone is arrested for a similar offense, ADA Jo Marlowe says she doesn't have a case in court unless they find the victim and get a statement from her. Soon, Benson and Stabler connect the woman to an illegal adoption operation, forcing them to go undercover and expose the truth.

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Painless
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7.53
241 votes

#35 - Painless

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 22

After finding a woman handcuffed to her bed with a bag over her head, the detectives believe it was a homicide. Later on the detectives find out the woman had been planning her suicide for quite a while. Due to an event in Munch's past he become's personally involved in finding out if a terminally ill embyologist facilitated the suicide of the victim. They find out that the victim had been encouraged by the embyologist through the use of a website.

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Blinded
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7.51
378 votes

#36 - Blinded

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 9 - Episode 7

Novak confronts ghosts from her past while handling the trial of a schizophrenic serial rapist, who seriously injured Stabler.

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Perfect
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7.48
253 votes

#37 - Perfect

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 24

A murdered 14-year-old girl leads the detectives to a prominent physician who specialises in reproduction therapy.

Protection
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7.47
404 votes

#38 - Protection

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 12

A 6-year-old boy wounded in a shooting is brought to the hospital ER but abandonded by the brother who reported it and their mother. The case leads the detectives to a woman who is on the run for her abusive lover, a drug dealer whom she saw kill a rival.

Trade
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7.46
291 votes

#39 - Trade

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 9 - Episode 18

When a pregnant woman's body is discovered in a burned-out brownstone, the investigation turns to a family of coffee importers.

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Spooked
star
7.35
338 votes

#40 - Spooked

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 11 - Episode 6

The FBI gets involved in a murder case when it becomes too dangerous for the SVU cops.

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