The BEST episodes written by Lisa Marie Petersen
#1 - Scavenger
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 4
The entire squad races against the clock to solve the puzzles and uncover the clues scattered throughout the city by a serial killer who is taunting them to find him and the next victims on his list.
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#2 - Identity
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 6 - Episode 12
Complications ensue in the investigation of a Stone Cold Assassins gangbanger who fell off a building after the victim that he tried to rape bit him in self-defense when the vic's twin sister cops to the crime, seemingly impossible due to the evidence until the secrets regarding the sister's true genetic identity are revealed.
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#3 - Care
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 9
The battered body of a five-year-old girl in foster care is discovered, and suspicion soon turns to the girl's foster brother, who is into violent video games and doesn't seem quite right in the head. The investigation turns to the girl's biological mother as well as to her foster mother and grandmother as the team tries to figure out who is the real guilty party, and who is only a red herring.
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#4 - Somebody's Watching Me
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 4 - Episode 6
A viral video of Jane jeopardizes her career and reputation; the squad tries to solve a murder case involving a conspiracy theorist.
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#5 - Baby Killer
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 2 - Episode 5
The tragic shooting death of a young girl leads investigators to a little boy, and they soon realise that the gun used has been used in another crime scene.
#6 - Abuse
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 2 - Episode 11
Stabler and Benson suspect parental neglect may have led to the tragic death of the son of two famous singers, leading them to fear for their little girl. Benson develops a strong attachment to the girl, who has a history of serious injuries. Her parents don't like Benson around their daughter, so they take out a restraining order and put Benson's job in jeopardy.
#7 - Prodigy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 13
When an animal rights activist is found decapitated in the park, Benson and Stabler must determine which of their two main suspects -- a sociopathic teenager and a recently paroled rapist -- is responsible for the murder.
#8 - Slaves
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 1 - Episode 22
After a shopkeeper brings a note for help to the squad, the detectives begin trying to locate a young Romanian woman named Ilena, only to find her aunt, who hasn't seen the girl in months. The squad eventually find her at the home of the Morrows, a successful yuppie couple. A forensic psychologist analyses the team, and presents disturbing findings to Cragen, suggesting that one of the detectives be removed from the team.
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#9 - Head
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 25
After a video voyeur's hidden camera in a public restroom records a middle school principal sexually assaulting a teenaged boy, Novak learns that the pedophilia arose from a brain tumor that is successfully treatable by surgery, but can grow back, which they find out from another case.Novak agrees to a plea bargain, but only if the principal agrees to register as a sex offender, just in case the tumor grows back. She then finds out that she is pregnant and violates her plea bargain by contacting the boy and letting him know he is the father.
#10 - Taken
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 2 - Episode 8
The case of a seventeen-year-old rape victim during the opening festivities of a luxury hotel takes a strange turn when her immediate family tries to keep the scandal quiet by preparing a lawsuit. Detectives soon realise that the girl isn't the innocent she pretends to be. Benson struggles to deal with her mother's death.
#11 - Cold as Ice
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 4 - Episode 8
Frankie Jr. is brought in to help with a murder case involving a youth hockey league; Cailin asks to stay with Maura; Maura has trouble living with a teenager.
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#12 - Vulnerable
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 3
When an elderly woman breaks into an apartment, the detectives discover she had been mistreated but have to investigate with no credible information from the victim because of Alzheimer's. They discover that she had been released from a nursing home to the custody of her financially scheming son who becomes the prime suspect. However, they go back to the nursing home to find a pair of suspects, including the director who details the dangers faced by both patients and staff with her own heroics precariously standing out.
#13 - Starved
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7 - Episode 8
After a dating service is linked to three rapes, Olivia goes undercover to ferret out the rapist and meets Mike Jergens, a surgeon who enjoys controlling the women in his life. The detectives are soon led to his girlfriend, Cora Kennison, but shortly after testifying in the grand jury hearing Cora marries Mike. After Cora attempts suicide, Mike fights her mother, Virginia, to unplug her feeding tube.
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#14 - Bad Blood
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 1 - Episode 11
The death of a young gay man initially leads Benson and Stabler to investigate his father, a Conservative well-known for his homophobic viewpoints, but once they start looking into the young man's living arrangements they realise the person they're looking for may be closer than they think. Munch tries to help Benson find the man who raped her mother, and could potentially be her father.
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#15 - Design (1)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7 - Episode 2
Benson saves April Troost from committing suicide, but feels responsible when Troost dies during the trial of the man she accuses of raping her and getting her pregnant. It isn't long before detectives learn that Barclay Pallister wasn't the only man April picked up in a bar who has no recollection of sleeping with her, and the squad realises that Troost was no victim. Their search takes them from prospective parents looking to adopt her child to the men she drugged and accosted to the sperm center she used to work at, which ends up at the center of the case. (Flaw (2) aired on Law & Order, season 16, episode 2.)
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#16 - Serendipity
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 5
A dead baby is found in a gutter, sending the detectives on a hunt for its mother. She too turns up dead, and the clues point to a dermatologist whose DNA happens to match the evidence in a cold case of child molestation. Casey Novak, the ADA newly assigned to prosecute SVU cases, butts heads with Benson and Stabler over their handling of these murders. Though she has the blessing of DA Arthur Branch, she is still unsure of whether or not she is the right person to take Cabot's place.
#17 - Mother
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 - Episode 3
Although they are hampered by doctor-patient confidentiality as they investigate the near-fatal beating of a psychiatrist who may have been attacked by one of her patients, Benson and Stabler are able to link the assault to child abuse and an unsolved homicide.
#18 - Tangled
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 5
When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor murdered and his wife raped, the investigation starts with his estranged son and a former patient, then moves to his mistress and her neighbor and the realization that the wife was the intended victim.
#19 - The Third Guy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 1 - Episode 16
An elderly woman is found tied up and sexually assaulted in her apartment, and suspicion is initially on the young men that had broken into her home and robbed her, but once the detectives catch the young men, they learn that there was someone else in the apartment. The offered plea bargain initially doesn't go over well, but they finally reach a deal which leaves the detectives with a new case -- whether or not the person that sexually assaulted the woman was mentally handicapped.
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#20 - Hysteria
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 1 - Episode 4
When a young woman is found dead, she is initially believed to be a prostitute and the latest in a long line of victims, but when looking into her home life Benson and Stabler realise that she does not fit the pattern, and may not be connected to the other deaths after all, but the other deaths have a connection no one anticipated.
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#21 - Countdown
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 2 - Episode 15
The detectives become a little edgy after working around the clock to find an abducted girl when clues point to a serial murderer and rapist who kills his victims on the third day. After trapping the killer, they are prepared to give him the death penalty untill they find out that one of his victims was ever found and offers her location as a plea bargain.
#22 - Tortured
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 16
A Tibetan woman who was tortured in her home country is found murdered, with her foot missing, and after an exhaustive search of potential suspects, the killer is a victim of torture himself.
#23 - Waste
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 8
The investigation into the rape of a comatose woman leads to a doctor whose stem cell research is funded by a billionaire with Parkinson's disease who is desperate for a cure.
#24 - The Retreat Story
In the House - Season 3 - Episode 21
Marion weighs an offer to endorse orthopedic shoes for seniors while on his annual spiritual retreat.
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#25 - Justice
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 - Episode 19
In investigating the sexual assault of a 16-year-old, it's discovered that the victim is the rebellious stepdaughter of a judge.
#26 - Blindspots
Virgin River - Season 2 - Episode 8
While Jack helps Mike zero in on Calvin, Mel and Doc investigate a mysterious outbreak that could be related to food poisoning. Hope learns a secret.
#27 - The Morning After
Virgin River - Season 2 - Episode 3
Mel endeavors to help an uncooperative Charmaine get hydrated while thinking about what transpired with Jack. Calvin offers Brady a new job.
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#28 - A Single Life
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 1 - Episode 2
When the body of Gretchen Quinn is found wearing only a red slip after having gone through an upper-story window, Benson and Stabler soon find out that 'Gretchen Quinn' has never existed. While trying to piece together her life, the detectives are led to Gretchen's psychiatrist and a well-known television newscaster, both of whom were sleeping with her, and through an overdue library book finally trace Gretchen back to a young woman who changed her name and identity after graduating high school to get away from her sexually abusive father. Cragen and Benson find it easy to identify with the young woman, as they both have ghosts of their own from which they must escape. Detectives manage to contact the victim's sister, who experienced the same trauma growing up.
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#29 - Soulless
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 4 - Episode 25
After a rape victim is abducted from the hospital and later found murdered, the detectives discover that one of the multiple suspects is a sociopath with a juvenile conviction for rape, torture and murder.
#30 - One House and a Baby
In the House - Season 4 - Episode 19
Tiffany helps out her single-mom friend Shara. Meanwhile, Marion's paternal feelings worry Natalie.
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