The BEST episodes written by René Balcer
#1 - A Person of Interest
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 2 - Episode 23
Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a former nurse and discover a possible anthrax terrorist plot. The case takes a turn for the worse when Goren is blamed for driving a suspect to commit suicide. Now disgraced, Goren learns that a cunning adversary from his past may be involved.
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#2 - Catacombes
Jo - Season 1 - Episode 8
A young geneticist was stabbed in the Catacombs. On his back is engraved a Satanist symbol. Jo is convinced that this is a crime of passion. But the case takes an unexpected turn when the team discovers that the victim was conducting experiments with plague bacteria recovered from the skeletons of the catacombs. The trail leads to a mysterious woman who could be a serial killer at large. It already seems to have chosen his next victim: the family of a politician first plan.
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#3 - The Menendez Murders: Episode 8
Law & Order True Crime - Season 1 - Episode 8
After the first trial ends in a hung jury, the District Attorney refuses to offer the defense a deal. A second trial gets underway as Barry Levin (Harry Hamlin) joins the defense team.
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#4 - Monster
Law & Order - Season 8 - Episode 24
During the search for a pedophile who raped a 10-year-old, a snitch offers Briscoe a chance to avenge his daughter's death. Meanwhile, Van Buren learns that her job is in jeopardy; McCoy is ordered to appear before a disciplinary committee because of his conduct in a DUI case; and the increasingly political Schiff worries that the rape case may adversely impact his reelection bid.
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#5 - D.A.W.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 3 - Episode 20
The investigation into the death of a woman searching for the whereabouts of her late mother's antique ring leads Goren and Eames to a physician serial killer who has cleverly concealed the murder of over two hundred of his patients.
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#6 - Pro Se
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 21
The investigation into multiple homicides at a clothing store leads to the arrest of a schizophrenic who presents McCoy with a formidable opponent when he decides to represent himself.
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#7 - Harm
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 16
Briscoe and Curtis investigate a possible homicide while probing the assault of a retired divorce attorney.
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#8 - Le Marais
Jo - Season 1 - Episode 6
A young gallerist, Marie-Eve Lambert, Place des Vosges lies, killed by a violent blow to the head. Believing at first to a crime of passion, Jo discovers in the hand of the victim leading a mysterious message at the National Archives, where Marie-Eve was researching resistant deported to Auschwitz.
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#9 - Invalides
Jo - Season 1 - Episode 3
Charlotte, a Mirage pilot of thirty-five years, was found dead at the Hotel des Invalides. The victim was wearing a ring stolen a year earlier in the murder of a family in the south of France. Her lover, a mysterious mechanic, quickly suspected. Unearthing the elements of this crime forgotten, Jo maintains a conspiracy ...
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#10 - Tuxedo Hill
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 1 - Episode 22
When Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a man linked to a corporate finance officer, they uncover a stock manipulation scheme which enriched the corporate executives by defrauding investors.
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#11 - Rubber Room
Law & Order - Season 20 - Episode 23
Lupo and Bernard race against time to find a student posting internet blogs threatening to blow up a school.
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#12 - Guardian
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 11
After the body of a young female junkie is identified as the daughter of a wealthy family, Briscoe and Logan try to find out who left her to die in the yard of a day-care center.
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#13 - The Third Horseman
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 1 - Episode 11
The killing of an abortion doctor who was shot in his own apartment sends the detectives on a search for the sniper before someone else becomes the next victim. Carver worries that the case will end up being all about abortion rights.
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#14 - Terminal
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 23
The cops uncover a man with a secret second life as they try to learn who opened fire on a group of people disembarking from a party cruise, but his guilt or innocence becomes almost a second thought as Schiff goes toe to toe with the governor and the States Attorney General over the decision to seek the death penalty.
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#15 - Refuge (2)
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 24
McCoy and Carmichael risk violating the civil liberties of witnesses when they are forced to jail them in order to safely continue their investigation.
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#16 - Refuge (1)
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 23
A shootout between a motorist and the police leads to the discovery of a gruesome Russian mob killing --- and a traumatized boy who was an eyewitness to the murder.
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#17 - The Menendez Murders: Episode 7
Law & Order True Crime - Season 1 - Episode 7
With Lyle and Erik's juries both struggling to reach a unanimous decision, the possibility of a mistrial leaves Leslie hopeful for the opportunity to work out a deal with the D.A.'s office.
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#18 - Showtime
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 17
The trial of Eddie Newman begins but the prosecution's chances of conviction are hampered by a "dream team" of defense attorneys, Gorton's personal pressures on Ross, the public questioning of the relationship between Curtis and Lisa Lundquist, and a surpise accusation.
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#19 - The Menendez Murders: Episode 6
Law & Order True Crime - Season 1 - Episode 6
The jury hears from the brothers for the first time when they testify in court, recounting in detail the years of sexual abuse that led them to fear for their lives.
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#20 - Jones
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 1 - Episode 5
The detectives become suspicious when an abusive lawyer's girlfriends keep turning up dead, but his wife stonewalls the investigation.
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#21 - Empire
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 20
The death of a corporate mogul caused by an overdose of a sexual performance-enhancing drug leads to a case with a witness that puts Curtis in a compromising position.
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#23 - Bad Faith
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 20
Logan relives unhappy childhood memories when a friend is found dead, a presumed suicide, until the investigation reveals recent contact with a former priest, with a history of pedophilia.
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#24 - The Menendez Murders: Episode 5
Law & Order True Crime - Season 1 - Episode 5
The trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez gets underway. Before the trial begins, Judge Weisberg grants a petition allowing the court proceedings to be broadcast on television.
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#25 - Sound Bodies
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 3 - Episode 8
Goren and Bishop pursue a teenage Svengali who convinces three impressionable young girls to commit multiple homicides in the cause of a twisted philosophy.
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#26 - Jeopardy
Law & Order - Season 6 - Episode 4
A triple murder at a magazine publishing company leads to a case of sibling rivalry, a protective matriarch and a corrupt judge.
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#27 - Cruel and Unusual
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 19
The death of an autistic youth in custody reveals a multitude of unusual and possibly illegal therapies being used, but also parents reluctant to pursue a prosecution.
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#28 - Excalibur
Law & Order - Season 18 - Episode 18
A jeweler's murder may have ties to a prostitution ring, and once the case goes to trial, D.A. McCoy's job is on the line as favors are called in.
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#29 - The Menendez Murders: Episode 3
Law & Order True Crime - Season 1 - Episode 3
With the boys in custody on murder charges, the defense attorney is looking for a motive. Meanwhile, the prosecution goes after the psychiatrist to release his audio notes from his sessions with Lyle and Erik.
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#30 - Corruption
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 5
Curtis, angered by the attitude of an old colleague of Briscoe's, looks beyond the findings of an IAB investigation and turns up evidence of police corruption that puts the DA's office into competition with an ambitious judge and Briscoe under investigation for stealing evidence from a police lockup.
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#31 - The Menendez Murders: Episode 2
Law & Order True Crime - Season 1 - Episode 2
Comments Lyle makes about his parents come back to haunt him when detectives begin interviewing the brother's friends. Erik is overcome with guilt and makes a shocking confession to his psychologist.
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#32 - Challenged
Law & Order - Season 19 - Episode 2
A mentally challenged man is reunited with the mother who gave him away after his brother is killed.
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#33 - Pigalle
Jo - Season 1 - Episode 4
During a parade of Fashion Week, a former model of thirty-eight years is precipitated from the Eiffel Tower. First wife of her lover is suspected, but Jo then a trail back to Jasmine, twenty-two years, showgirl in Pigalle and abandoned illegitimate daughter of supermodel ...
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#34 - Vengeance
Law & Order - Season 2 - Episode 16
The parents of a murdered woman contest Stone's prosecution of her killer so that he can be extradited to their home state, where the death penalty still exists.
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#35 - The Menendez Murders: Episode 4
Law & Order True Crime - Season 1 - Episode 4
After admitting to the murders, Erik and Lyle begin to divulge details of the psychological and sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of their parents. Also, Pam Ferrero faces increasing pressure from the D.A.'s office.
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#36 - Shandeh
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 2 - Episode 9
A businesswoman who becomes a suspect in the murder of her daughter-in-law, who was was strangled in her garage. Disparate bruises on her body lead Goren and Eames to believe that there were two assailants.
#37 - Vaya Con Dios
Law & Order - Season 10 - Episode 24
The death of an elderly man trying to find who was responsible for the torture killing of his son in 1973 Chile leads to a high-level foreign colonel who is now in a Manhattan hospital.
#38 - Precious
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 7
When Briscoe and Logan suspect that a missing infant may have been murdered by her parents rather than kidnapped, they uncover a terrible family secret which hides a mentally ill serial killer.
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#39 - Mayhem
Law & Order - Season 4 - Episode 17
During a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan have a heavy caseload that includes 5 unrelated murders and a domestic quarrel, which results in the maiming of the husband.
#40 - Concorde
Jo - Season 1 - Episode 2
Mountaineer Bernard Lang was discovered broken in uniform suddenly climbing at the foot of the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde. Fascinated by the obelisk and its history, Jo knows that the monument is also a great vantage point of the surrounding area, including suites at the Hotel de Crillon. And one of them, that evening, a young woman of good family deceived her husband.
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#41 - Shield
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 17
Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of a police officer who was shot while on an undercover stakeout.
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#42 - Mad Dog
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 18
McCoy becomes obsessed with nailing a serial rapist recently released on parole and pushes the cops perilously close to harassment as he attempts to connect the man with a new rape and murder matching his previous M.O.
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#43 - Barter
Law & Order - Season 7 - Episode 12
An unpromising case of murder suddenly develops new leads when the cops explore the possibility that the victim was mistaken for someone else. McCoy walks a thin line in the matter of ethical conduct as he tries to make a case against a lendor who uses unscrupulous methods to collect the money owed to him.
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#44 - 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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#45 - Hate
Law & Order - Season 9 - Episode 10
Evidence points the detectives in the direction of a fascist youth gathering after the brutal beating and murder of a high school girl.
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#46 - Entitled (1)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 1 - Episode 15
After a salesman is murdered, the detectives turn their attention to Stephanie Mulroney, the youngest daughter of a well-known family with some deep connections. But as they join forces with the officers from the two-seven, they realise that their case is connected with a long-unsolved case that Briscoe once handled years ago with his former partner, Mike Logan. (Entitle (2) aired on Law & Order, season 10, episode 14.)
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#47 - Conduct Unbecoming
Law & Order - Season 3 - Episode 17
Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.
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#48 - Benevolence
Law & Order - Season 3 - Episode 22
Logan and Briscoe begin their investigation into the death of a hearing-impaired young woman by questioning her two most recent boyfriends.
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#49 - Place Vendôme
Jo - Season 1 - Episode 5
In a parking lot in the Place Vendome, firefighters emerge the charred body of Philip Roquin, accounting for a jewelery instead. His wife admits that he was kidnapped and that the kidnappers asked for a ransom. The investigation will lead Jo St. Clair in a prison where some Lisette was incarcerated.
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#50 - Wannabe
Law & Order - Season 5 - Episode 16
The shooting of a board member of an exclusive private school leads to a blue-collar family and a classist system.
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