The BEST episodes written by Jonathan Greene
#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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.
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#8 - 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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#9 - 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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#10 - 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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#11 - 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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#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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#13 - 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.
#14 - 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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#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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#16 - 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.
#17 - 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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#18 - 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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#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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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#22 - 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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#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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#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.
#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.
#26 - 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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#27 - 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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#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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#29 - 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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#30 - 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.
#31 - 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.
#32 - 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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#33 - 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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#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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#35 - 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.
#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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#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.
#38 - 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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#39 - 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.
#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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