The BEST episodes written by Michael S. Chernuchin
#1 - End Game
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 24
When a teenager is found dead in the Hudson River, Lt. Benson suspects Rob Miller is behind the mysterious death but can’t prove it. Despite having only circumstantial evidence, ADA Stone takes the case to court before Miller can destroy more lives.
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#3 - The Undiscovered Country
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19 - Episode 13
When an infant goes missing, the SVU finds themselves taking sides in a family's right-to-die court case.
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#4 - Runyon Canyon
Law & Order: LA - Season 1 - Episode 14
When pre-med freshman Beth Garrett is found strangled to death, a mysterious text leads the detectives to a potential suspect. After some investigating at her sorority, the detectives learn that there is more to this mild mannered bookworm than initially meets the eye. Meanwhile, DDA's Dekker and Rubirosa are forced to change their strategy when game-changing evidence is discovered at the last minute.
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#5 - For God and Country (2)
Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 4 - Episode 12
Continuing the investigation in New York City, Egan's wife is questioned by Frank and Tim. Just a few hours later, Egan's wife is killed and Egan's son is seen running. Kendall is taken into proctective custody until he gives up the suspect's name. Lennie Briscoe and Rey Curtis (from Law and Order) come to Baltimore. Munch finds out that Lennie knew his ex-wife a little too much (She moved to NYC after divorcing him). The suspect tried to escape in a seaplane but is caught. NYC ADA Claire Kincaid comes down to extradite him back to NYC, which made Frank upset. While extraditing him, the suspect has a heart attack and dies at the train station. (Charm City (1) aired on Law & Order, season 6, episode 13.)
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#6 - Aftershock
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 23
After Briscoe, Curtis, McCoy, and Kincaid witness the execution of a criminal they brought to justice, their unique reactions to the event culminate in personal tragedies for each of them.
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#8 - Bangs
The Protector - Season 1 - Episode 8
Gloria and Michelle investigate the death of an elite hairstylist; Gloria tries to discover why Davey has been sneaking out at night.
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#9 - Man Down
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 2
ADA Stone blames himself for the shocking verdict in Sam’s case, and before Benson can offer help, Sam makes a tragic decision.
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#12 - Alta Kockers
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 10
The investigation into a promising new author’s death leads to a decades-old secret kept between two reclusive brothers.
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#13 - Rage
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 13
A Wall Street broker accused of murdering his mentor uses the defense of "black rage" in court.
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#14 - Fake (3)
Chicago Justice - Season 1 - Episode 1
Firehouse 51 responded to a horrific warehouse fire that killed 39 people. This led the Chicago P.D. on a manhunt for the suspect. Now with someone in custody for both arson and multiple murders, it is up to Peter Stone and his team, including lead investigator Antonio Dawson to step in to bring some peace and resolution to so many families and friends of those lost - including one very close to home. When the team comes face to face with a hotshot attorney, they find themselves up against a dicey confession, incriminating evidence, and a questionable motive.
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#15 - Mea Culpa
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 9
Stone takes his own case to trial when a woman from his past accuses him of sexual assault.
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#16 - Safe
The Protector - Season 1 - Episode 13
Detectives Sheppard and Dulcett investigate the murder of a book store owner; Rush considers revealing his feelings to Michelle; Gloria second guesses her decision to invite Detective Brennan over for dinner.
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#17 - 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.
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#18 - Missing
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 17
The SVU pursues a suspect when a child is discovered in the trunk of an abandoned car.
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#19 - 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.
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#20 - Chosen
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 11
The murder of a bookie with a high-class clientelle leads the detectives to arrest his partner. Charged with first-degree murder, his attorney puts forth an unusual defense strategy that turns the trial into a political statement.
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#21 - Passion
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 8 - Episode 12
Egocentric poet Jacob Garrety would do anything to keep his poetry journal, The Village Quarterly, afloat. When foundation president Don McCallum shows up and announces he is cutting funding to the journal, Jacob appeals to assistant and lover Lauren to use her sexuality to change Don’s mind. Though reluctant, she agrees. While Jacob enjoys the advances of arts patron Sandra Dunbar at a poetry reading, Lauren carries out Jacob’s wish, and winds up dead on the street. Detectives Nichols and Wheeler discover the deadly passion that exists behind the arts.
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#23 - Seed
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 15
A routine investigation into a woman's death leads Briscoe and Logan to a fertility doctor guilty of unethical practices, but who cannot apparently be touched because of confidentiality rules, and patient reluctance to talk.
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#24 - Exchange
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 21
Benson helps a teenaged exchange student after she’s assaulted by a cab driver.
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#25 - Lady's Man
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 8 - Episode 11
Goren and Eames investigate the killing of a man who became famous for dodging a murder conviction because of a mishandled trial. The man spun his notoriety into a TV show but turned up dead on his birthday.
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#26 - Man Up
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 1
Teenager Sam Conway shows evidence of rape but refuses to name his attacker. Meanwhile, Benson and Rollins confess to some major life changes.
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#27 - Exile
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 6
A young woman wakes up in the hospital with no memory of her assault, and Carisi’s investigation stalls when she disappears.
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#29 - Savages
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 3
McCoy and Kincaid clash over the death penalty as McCoy prosecutes a man who murdered an undercover cop during a drug bust.
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#30 - X.
Black Sails - Season 2 - Episode 2
Flint gives Dufresne some advice. Silver must make himself indispensable. Eleanor is asked to depose a captain. Rackham gets ambitious.
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#31 - Thinking Makes It So
Law & Order - Season 16 - Episode 18
Fontana and Green investigate when a bank manager is involved in the robbing of his own bank and learn that his daughter is being held hostage and that he had to go along with the robbery or risk losing his daughter.
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#32 - Shangri-La
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 2
The murder of a female high school English teacher uncovers a love triangle that includes a female student and a male teacher, both of whom become suspects. The prosecutors have to deal with the student's multiple identities and refusal to live past adolescence.
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#33 - Comma
Chicago Justice - Season 1 - Episode 9
When Abigail Chapman returns from Spain after being acquitted for murdering her boyfriend while studying abroad, she finds herself the prime suspect in another murder case involving a young college student. During the trial of the real killer, the Second Amendment is put to the test.
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#34 - Hondo Field
Law & Order: LA - Season 1 - Episode 6
When an oil rig worker is found dead on shore, the investigation leads TJ and Winters to a drilling platform off the California coast.
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#36 - Sunk Cost Fallacy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19 - Episode 19
The search for an abducted woman and her young daughter leads Lt. Benson to cross paths with an old friend. Stone must make a tough decision on behalf of his sister.
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#37 - Remember Me Too (2)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19 - Episode 24
In the conclusion of a 2-part season finale, Lieutenant Benson’s suspicions about a kidnapping victim uncover a dangerous criminal network prepared to silence anyone who gets in their way.
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#38 - The Scholar's Pen
Marco Polo (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 7
Marco and Hundred Eyes take on a dangerous mission to infiltrate the walled city of Xiangyang, while its chancellor struggles to hold on to power.
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#39 - Smoke
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 24
Briscoe and Green are assigned to a case involving an eccentric comedian who may have killed his young son by dangling him off a ledge.
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#40 - Helpless
Law & Order - Season 3 - Episode 6
Dr. Olivet accuses her gynecologist of rape, but Stone finds his case in trouble when he discovers that Olivet tape-recorded the crime.
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#41 - Gone Fishin'
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19 - Episode 1
When Fin crosses international borders to catch a fugitive rapist, a political tug-of-war derails Barba’s legal case. Meanwhile, shocking allegations against Benson lead to the return of an old friend.
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#42 - Remember Me (1)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19 - Episode 23
In part 1 of a 2-part season finale, a young woman takes a man hostage at gunpoint and Benson makes a dangerous move to diffuse the situation. The SVU discovers the shocking motive behind the abduction.
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#43 - The Ring
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 5
The discovery of a body in Hells Kitchen who had been wearing a $40,000 diamond ring leads the detectives back to the World Trade Center attacks as the victim had been reported to have died when Tower One collapsed. The ensuing investigation leads to a fiancee and a lover and the determination that the events of 9/11 may have been good timing to hide the fact that she was murdered the night before.
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#44 - See Something
Chicago Justice - Season 1 - Episode 3
When a Muslim grad student is brutally murdered, Stone and the team arrest his friend, another Muslim student, who claims he committed murder to prevent a terrorist attack. The jury must decide whether he's a killer or a hero.
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#45 - House Counsel
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 10
The killing of a man who had served as a juror in a mob trial leads to a battle of wills between McCoy and his long-time friend, the suspect's attorney.
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#46 - Diss
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 22
When a pop star is assaulted in her home, the SVU investigates the public feud between her rapper husband and a competing recording artist. Fin’s family ties to a suspect take him off the case.
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#47 - Assumptions
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 20 - Episode 23
The SVU searches for two suspects spotted fleeing the scene after a Muslim woman is assaulted inside a synagogue. Benson is dismayed to find Rob Miller out on bail.
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#48 - Feast
Marco Polo (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 3
Marco begins a dangerous relationship with the beautiful Blue Princess as tensions grow between Kublai and Xiangyang’s cunning chancellor Jia Sidao.
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#49 - Competence
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 6
When Lt. Van Buren is the victim of an attempted holdup by two teens, she fires her gun and kills one of them, and the detectives are faced with the fact that she shot an unarmed child in the back.
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#50 - 2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
24 - Season 1 - Episode 15
Jack and Palmer finally meet face to face and learn of their connection through Operation Nightfall. They work together to track down those who are seeking revenge on them. A member of Palmer's staff has a romantic encounter with the would-be assassin. Teri and Nina have a revealing conversation about Jack at the safehouse.
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