The BEST episodes written by Lynne E. Litt
#1 - Suffer The Little Children
The Practice - Season 6 - Episode 8
After promising the mother of a murdered teen that he'll find the drive-by shooter responsible, A.D.A. Lowe adopts a ""whatever it takes"" attitude towards the prosecution of the young gang member he thinks did it — who is defended by Ellenor. Meanwhile, Lindsay is moved to help a mentally retarded man find the daughter he lost touch with years ago as a result of being wrongfully incarcerated for over a decade.
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#2 - The Thin Line
The Practice - Season 5 - Episode 13
Tensions at the firm are at an all-time high when Bobby is tried for the murder of William Hinks. Bobby is acquitted, though there is little to celebrate when a mysterious cassette recorder is sent to the office. Lucy and Rebecca hear Hinks' voice on the recorder, just before it triggers an explosion.
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#3 - Gideon's Crossover (1)
The Practice - Season 5 - Episode 16
Helen prosecutes an accused rapist, while doing her best to keep the 11-year-old victim off the witness stand. Meanwhile, Ellenor has complications with her pregnancy and is treated by Dr. Ben Gideon, (Gideon's Crossing). This is part 1 of a 2 part episode. Part 2 aired as a crossover event on Gideon's Crossing - S01E17 - Flashpoint (2).
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#4 - What Child is This?
The Practice - Season 5 - Episode 17
Bobby and Jimmy employ the firm's notorious ""Plan B"" strategy in a last-ditch effort to save a client accused of raping and murdering his teen-aged stepdaughter. Bobby makes a case that the client's wife is actually the murderer, and the accused client is declared not guilty. Meanwhile, Ellenor goes into labor with only a panicky Helen Gamble there to assist her.
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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.
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#6 - Home of the Brave
The Practice - Season 5 - Episode 19
Lindsay presses Richard Bay to explain a questionable arrest of her client, who is an illegal alien. She ultimately discovers that the police planted drugs on her client, in order to force him to testify in a murder trial. The client refuses to testify, as the murderer is his own brother, and allows himself to be deported to Colombia. Meanwhile, Lucy's actions as a rape counselor are called into question during a date rape trial.
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Tarzan - Season 1 - Episode 8
When the police finally capture Jane, Tarzan agrees to turn himself in to Richard in exchange for Jane's safety and freedom. With Tarzan in his clutches, Richard attempts to have him declared legally insane so that he can claim legal custody of him and his Greystoke shares. Meanwhile, Kathleen fights to free them both.
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#8 - Rigged
Drop Dead Diva - Season 4 - Episode 6
A faulty oil rig leads to the death of an engineer; Parker's ex-wife fights for sole custody of their son; Jane battles uncertainty about where Owen is and what it means for their upcoming nuptials.
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#9 - A Different Kind of Death
Conviction (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 9
Wallace brings the case of a death-row inmate, Earl Slavitt, to the CIU. Earl was convicted of murdering federal prosecutor Tom Simon, one of Wallace’s best friends. Simon did not believe in the death penalty, and Wallace, along with Simon’s widow, want to ensure that Earl did in fact commit the crime. With only days left before the execution, the CIU team shifts into high gear, looking for possible errors in the case. Instead, they uncover cracks in Simon’s reputation. Hayes and Wallace are challenged both professionally and personally, as the case draws to a stunning conclusion.
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#10 - Shattered
Crossing Jordan - Season 6 - Episode 2
Lu and Jordan are working together on the suicide of a teen. A note left by the teen suggests that he had been molested. A woman has been hit by several cars on a freeway, Woody is investigating. Later an investigator pops in and starts digging around. Dr. Macy offers Jordan a word of advice; Lily gets some surprising news.
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#11 - Duplicate Bridge
In Plain Sight - Season 2 - Episode 7
An engineer blamed for a bridge collapse enters the program after being targeted by angry family members of the victims who died in the tragedy.
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#12 - Raised by Another
Lost - Season 1 - Episode 10
Claire has a horribly realistic nightmare about her new baby being harmed or kidnapped. Flashbacks reveal Claire's backstory. Hurley is shocked and confused when he discovers that another plane crash survivor, does not appear on the flight manifest.
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Stitchers - Season 2 - Episode 9
Mitchell Blair directs Kirsten to shut down all investigation into finding her father. But Kirsten has finally made contact with someone she thinks can lead her to him. To gain her source's trust, she tries to explain her role in the Stitchers program, without actually revealing the program's nature. Treading carefully, Kirsten recounts the team's current case, in which a series of murders is tied to a wildly popular new app.
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#14 - Help Me Through the Night (2)
Grey's Anatomy - Season 16 - Episode 10
Part 2 of a crossover with Station 19. Following the car crash at Joe's Bar and subsequent rescue efforts led by the Station 19 firefighters, Grey Sloan doctors work through the night to save the lives of their colleagues. Amelia worries about sharing her pregnancy revelation with Link. The crossover starts on Station 19 S03E01: I Know This Bar (1).
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#15 - Fools for Love
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 15
After the bodies of two teens are found, the detectives trace their identities and learn that one of them had a sister who was traveling with the girls.
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Stitchers - Season 2 - Episode 7
When a bright, young lawyer is found dead, the team suspects she was murdered because of a case she was working on. After theorizing the lawyer was killed because she discovered something criminal about her firm's high profile client, the team heads to the firm to interview her four ambitious coworkers, each of whom seems more suspicious than the last. While at the firm, Maggie crosses paths with a former college boyfriend (guest star Dondre Whitfield, "Mistresses") who may be closer to the murder than she'd like to admit. Meanwhile, Camille's interactions with Liam take a surprising turn, and Kirsten learns something shocking during the stitch.
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#17 - Dreamland
Stitchers - Season 3 - Episode 8
The Stitchers team investigates the murder of an ex-Air Force officer who is found murdered by what seems like a UFO, and the trail leads to a former co-worker and renowned UFO expert. The memories in the stitch have the team wondering if UFOs and extraterrestrial beings really exist.
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#18 - Love's Faber Lost
In Plain Sight - Season 3 - Episode 7
Mary's new witness is part of a mortgage fraud ring and is an important link in the case of FBI Agent Faber.
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#19 - #StayWoke
Conviction (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 6
The accidental death of a young African American boy, shot by a cop, sparks a racial firestorm and inspires Hayes to re-examine the controversial case of Porscha Williams. Williams, a devoted African-American civil-rights activist and leader, is serving time for killing a white female cop at a race equality rally five years ago. Conflict erupts among the CIU team when personal experiences shape their differing perspectives of the Black Lives Matter movement. Meanwhile, Maxine finds herself torn between her racial identity and her chosen profession, as she follows the case to its shocking conclusion.
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#20 - Admissions
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 22
A coed's killing leads to a case involving the deceased's relationship with a professor and two male students who vouch for each other's whereabouts on the night of the murder.
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#21 - Whistle Stop
In Plain Sight - Season 3 - Episode 4
Mary and Marshall try to help FBI Agent Mike Faber convince his informant to enter WITSEC. Despite their best efforts, the informant refuses their protection and gets himself into a heap of trouble. After Mary, Marshall and Agent Faber save the informant from certain death, he and his family join Witsec.
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#22 - The 1% Solution
Conviction (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 5
Hayes launches into damage-control mode following her controversial nationally televised interview, seeking to limit the repercussions within her family and to her mother's Senate campaign. Meanwhile, the CIU takes on the case of a young man from the wrong side of the tracks, convicted for killing a wealthy woman whose privileged family took him in and treated him as one of their own. And Hayes' relationship with her family isn't the only tricky situation when she learns Wallace has hired a surprising person from her past to represent him in a high-stakes government investigation into his work as D.A.
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#23 - Ramparts
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 11
Briscoe and Curtis reopen a case that was closed in the '60s when a vehicle is dredged from the Hudson River containing the remains of a murdered man.
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#24 - Lady Parts
Drop Dead Diva - Season 4 - Episode 10
Jane defends Deb's mother when she is sued by a dance student; Grayson and Kim defend the decency of a sculpture.
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#26 - All Tomorrow's Parties
Grey's Anatomy - Season 17 - Episode 1
In the midst of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Grey Sloan Memorial and its surgeons' lives have been turned upside down. It's all-hands-on-deck as Meredith, Bailey and the rest of the Grey Sloan doctors find themselves on the frontlines of a new era. Meanwhile, an unintentionally started fire has first responders from Station 19 bringing patients into the hospital for treatment.
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#27 - The Stitcher in the Rye
Stitchers - Season 1 - Episode 5
When the algorithm for the Stitchers program turns up among thousands of classified documents hidden by a conspiracy theorist, Kirsten starts to suspect her colleagues. Meanwhile, Kirsten starts getting cryptic messages from an unexpected source.
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#28 - Patsy
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 7
The investigation that follows the discovery of a comatose woman in her apartment leads to an unusual case involving murder and a possible frame-up, despite the prosecution having key DNA evidence to the contrary.
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Stitchers - Season 1 - Episode 11
While Camille preps for her annual Halloween bash, the Stitchers team investigates the suicide of a young man, who may have abducted a missing college student. The stitch leaves Kirsten spooked, and she begins to worry she's being haunted by him as they race to find the missing girl.
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#30 - Juvenile
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 18
The investigation into the shooting of a newspaper columnist leads to a murder case from two decades earlier and involves a suspect who at that time had been a juvenile.
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#31 - Narcosis
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 21
The discovery of a strangled prostitute's body leads to a case involving illegal immigrants and the events have an impact on a family.
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#32 - Jailbait
In Plain Sight - Season 2 - Episode 11
The barely legal daughter of Mary's witness – a Miami racketeer – finds herself in a dangerous romance, just as Raph's mother visits to prepare an engagement feast for the surprised Mary.
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#33 - Black, White, and Blue
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 17
The murder of a white teen-ager in Harlem seems like an open-and-shut case until two patrol officers are implicated in the crime.
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#34 - Disciple
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 15
After a teen is found dead in the emergency room, the investigation leads to a case involving a religious ritual and a defendant who claims that the action taken was dictated by a saint's voice.
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Tarzan - Season 1 - Episode 6
The lone witness (guest star Tim Guinee) to Michael's death is coerced by Richard to come forward to name Tarzan as the one responsible for the crime, incriminating Jane as well. While Kathleen contemplates giving Richard her shares of Greystoke Industries in exchange for Tarzan's safety, Tarzan considers returning to the jungle.
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Hack - Season 1 - Episode 19
After Mike convinces Marcellus to help him work to free a man they incorrectly helped send to prison, he incurs the further wrath of his father; Mike has mixed feelings when he discovers that Heather is seriously dating Ryan, who begins to provide Mikey with perks that are way out of Mike's league; Grizz assures Mike of his son's love, and Mikey confirms that for his father.
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