The BEST episodes written by Lawrence Kaplow

#1 - Death of Innocence

Hack - Season 1 - Episode 13

Marcellus gets a new partner, Aldo Rossi, and Mike has trouble adjusting to the change; after initially resisting Heather's suggestion that he reconcile with his father on his upcoming birthday, Mike finally relents, but his father rejects both his present and Mike; the ""Inquirer"" reporter who wrote the story of Mike's arrest now wants to paint him as a hero, much to Mike's disgust; when his friend Doug is killed in a hit-and-run accident after he gets out of his cab, Mike promises Doug's son Bobby that he will find the man who killed his father; after finding out that Doug had uncovered a fraudulent scheme at his company, Mike suspects that the company's chief financial officer had a hand in his death, and has mixed feelings when he is proved wrong by Rossi, who uncovers the real culprit.

#2 - Autopsy

House - Season 2 - Episode 2

Dr. Wilson convinces House to take the case of one of his patients, a young girl with terminal cancer who starts suffering from hallucinations.

#3 - Honeymoon

House - Season 1 - Episode 22

When Stacy insists her husband Mark get tests, House insists he can handle things. But despite the fact Mark's tests prove negative, his steadily growing symptoms indicate he is dying. While House struggles with the mystery and make increasing demands on his staff, Wilson worries about House's emotional well-being, and Cuddy considers adding a new employee to the clinic.

#4 - Under My Skin

House - Season 5 - Episode 23

House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. The team must use their imaginations to carefully choreograph ways to test and treat her delicate body without killing her. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from what he thinks is insomnia, and he is willing to go to desperate measures to cure it.

#5 - Detox

House - Season 1 - Episode 11

House has to find out why a patient has internal bleedings after a car crash. In the meantime, he has a wager with Cuddy he can stay off the painkillers. Will his withdrawal symptoms eventually kill his patient?

#6 - Meaning

House - Season 3 - Episode 1

After recovering from his gunshot wounds, House works feverishly on two cases at the same time: a paralyzed man who drove his wheelchair into a swimming pool and a woman who became paralyzed after a yoga session.

#7 - A Pox on Our House

House - Season 7 - Episode 7

After a 200-year-old medicine jar found on an off-shore shipwreck shatters in a teenage girl's palm, she is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro for symptoms closely linked to smallpox. When the Center for Disease Control's Dr. Dave Broda institutes a lockdown on the hospital and suspends House's team's ability to diagnose, Masters grows suspicious of Broda's motives and becomes convinced that the patient is suffering from a different disease. The girl's father soon experiences similar symptoms, and House is forced to make a precarious decision that puts his own life in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Wilson and Sam comfort a 6-year-old chemotherapy patient who prompts them to examine their relationship.

#8 - Control

House - Season 1 - Episode 14

Billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler spends $100 million on the clinic and becomes the new Chairman of the Board. As a businessman, Vogler intends to turn the clinic into a profitable venue for his biotech venture and plans to eliminate the financially draining services of Dr. House. Meanwhile, a businesswoman who has it all - perfect life, perfect body, perfect job - finds herself inexplicably paralyzed. When he diagnoses her secret, House must risk his job and his medical license to get her a necessary transplant.

#9 - Out of the Chute

House - Season 7 - Episode 16

The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind the patients disappearing symptoms and seizures while taking House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient.

#10 - Service

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19 - Episode 18

The SVU must break through military red tape when a soldier is suspected of sexual assault.

#11 - Plastic

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 11

A woman accuses a celebrity plastic surgeon and his girlfriend of rape.

#12 - Human Error

House - Season 3 - Episode 24

A Cuban couple attempt to get to America by raft... to see House about the wife's heart condition. But when she gets worse House wonders if someone on his staff messed up. Meanwhile Foreman prepares to leave and his departure threatens to shake up the entire team.

#13 - Military Justice

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 15 - Episode 8

A military officer who was gang raped refuses to cooperate with the SVU for fear of damage to her reputation; Amaro asks his ex to help dig up information on the case.

#14 - Oysters But No Pearls

Rogue - Season 3 - Episode 8

Ethan rots in prison. Roberts is arrested. Marty and the General have a sparring match over dinner. Harper leaves Jack and stays with Patrick, leading her to a few revelations. Talia plans her next move after a fight with Marlon.

#15 - 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.

#16 - Half-Wit

House - Season 3 - Episode 15

House encounters a brain-damaged musical prodigy with inexplicable abilities while the team faces serious concerns about House's own health.

#17 - Paternity

House - Season 1 - Episode 2

When a teenage lacrosse player is stricken with an unidentifiable brain disease, Dr. House and the team hustle to give his parents answers. Chase breaks the bad news, the kid has MS, but the boy's night-terror hallucinations disprove the diagnosis and send House and his team back to square one. As the boy's health deteriorates. House's side-bet on the paternity of the patient infuriates Dr. Cuddy and the teenager's parents, but may just pay off in spades.

#18 - Distractions

House - Season 2 - Episode 12

While a severely burned teenager is admitted and his blood tests come back with strange results, House makes himself the guinea pig in his own unofficial tests of a new drug designed to treat migraines to prove a former medical school colleague is wrong about the drug.

#19 - Intent

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

The cops get tangled in an elaborate online hoax that leads to the rape of a popular social media star. Meanwhile, Benson sets firm ground rules with Sheila.

#20 - Revenge

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

As a string of break-in assaults grows more violent, the cops investigate an online incel group to identify a suspect.

#21 - Mama

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19 - Episode 22

An Alzheimer’s patient claims she was raped, but her illness casts doubt on the case; Fin’s sergeant orders come in.

#22 - Kids

House - Season 1 - Episode 19

During an meningitis outbreak which overwhelms the clinic, House is drawn to a single patient: a 12-year-old whose symptoms don't quite match everyone else's. House, Foreman, and Chase must devise ingenious ways and locations to treat the girl's delicate condition in the middle of the chaos, and make an unexpected discovery. Meanwhile, House asks Cameron to come back to her job but she has one requirement that he might not be able to meet.

#23 - Gone Baby Gone

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19 - Episode 9

Emotions run high as the squad embarks on a frantic search for Benson’s missing son.

#24 - Shades of Blue

Body of Proof - Season 2 - Episode 12

An undercover cop is discovered murdered at a truck stop.

#25 - Dead Meat

Chicago Justice - Season 1 - Episode 6

30 miles outside of Chicago, the cancer riddled body of Chicago PD Officer Tim Cody is found dead in a bathtub.  An apparent suicide.  But when Antonio and Nagel arrive on scene they quickly determine his death was murder.  The trail leads to an old nemesis of Stone and he has to make new law to put him away.

#26 - AQD

Chicago Justice - Season 1 - Episode 11

When an anti-environmentalist Alderman is killed during a vicious hit-and-run, Antonio and Nagel go all out to track down the driver. But instead of this being an organized hit to save the environment, it turns out the driver is a frantic mother desperate to save her kidnapped daughter. When Valdez discovers the mother was victim of a scam, the legal question becomes complicated: who is responsible for the Alderman's death? The mother trying to save her daughter? Or the perpetrators of the scam?

#27 - Brave Heart

House - Season 6 - Episode 5

A dying patient insists that he has the same disease affecting his heart that killed his father and grandfather at the age of 40. Meanwhile, House discovers that he has a hearing problem while trying to duck student rounds.

#28 - Who's Your Daddy?

House - Season 2 - Episode 23

A 16-year-old Hurricane Katrina victim suffering from hallucinations as a result of the tragedy is brought to House by his former bandmate who recently found out the girl is his daughter. Although House fears his friend is being scammed, he takes the case. As he works his way through the girl's lies so he can diagnose and treat her, he's forced to tell a few lies of his own.

#29 - Not Cancer

House - Season 5 - Episode 2

The team deals with an organ donor whose organs prove fatal, and the two surviving patients. Meanwhile, House hires a private detective to spy on Wilson, but hears a few things about himself that he'd rather not.

#30 - Big Baby

House - Season 5 - Episode 13

Cuddy decides to spend more time at home to take care of her newly adopted baby and passes some of her day-to-day responsibilities off to Cameron, including supervising House. Cameron is forced to play House’s games and becomes involved in a power struggle as he and the team take on the case of a Special Education teacher who collapsed after spitting up blood in the middle of class. As House tests Cameron’s tolerance for his extreme measures, the patient continues to fall ill and House insists the teacher’s seemingly inherent goodness is actually a pathology.

#31 - The Good Girl

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

Benson works to uncover a pregnant teenager’s secret when she refuses to name the baby’s father.

#32 - Black Hole

House - Season 6 - Episode 15

The team takes on the case of a high school senior who inexplicably blacks out during a class field trip. While in the hospital, the patient repeatedly hallucinates. After exhausting myriad ineffective treatments for her mysterious ailments, House attempts one last controversial approach to diagnosing her: monitoring her cognitive patterns and looking for clues. Meanwhile, Taub airs his dirty laundry at work, and Wilson attempts to furnish his condo.

#33 - Justice

Rogue - Season 3 - Episode 3

Grace heads to Chicago to work with Ethan. Marlon appears on Harper's DEA radar. Harper's CI, Lobo, is made. Ethan finds Marty's leak.

#34 - The Squeeze

Hack - Season 1 - Episode 22

#35 - The Looking Glass

Hack - Season 2 - Episode 7

On the anniversary of his brother Rick's death, Jamie decides to meet with his father, Richard Farrel, in an attempt at reconciliation and instead discovers his affair with a young woman named Cate Rawlings, who is later found murdered; at Jaime's request, Mike attempts to find out what evidence Marcellus has on the murder without revealing Richard's affair with Cate; after Jamie breaks into Cate's apartment to remove evidence implicating his father, he's arrested and unwittingly gives Marcellus the information he needs to charge Richard with the crime; even though Marcellus is angry that Mike deceived him about Richard, the former partners work together to uncover the evidence that clears Richard of the crime; Jaime is devastated when Richard rejects his efforts at reconciliation once his name is cleared.

#36 - Domestic Disturbance

Hack - Season 1 - Episode 3

Mike comes to the aid of the wife and daughter of a cop who are fleeing the violence of their home, and finds them temporary refuge at Saint Victor's. After Grizz tells the wife that Mike's a former cop, she flees to New Jersey where Mike quickly tracks her down. Upon their return to Philly, Marcellus arrests them for kidnapping but is forced to release them when neither one will reveal the whereabouts of the little girl. Marcellus connects Mike with the cop, who tells a story that resonates uncomfortably with Mike's recollection of his own behavior, which is confirmed by his son. Troubled, he talks to Grizz and then follows his advice to make amends with Heather. When Mike sets a trap to discover the truth about the cop's abuse, he finds that the truth is not always what it seems.

#37 - The Reckoning

Hack - Season 2 - Episode 18

When a drug dealer framed by Mike and Marcellus after they were unable to arrest him legitimately is released from prison, he begins to wield a path of destruction through Mike's life, endangering Liz and Jamie; Mike and Liz decide to move their relationship forward.

#38 - Calibrated Arguments

Hack - Season 2 - Episode 12