The BEST episodes written by Wendy Battles
#1 - Endless Summer
The Glades - Season 3 - Episode 10
On the day of Callie's board exam, Jim must solve the murder of a businesswoman who had founded a new surf clothing line and was about to offer the endorsement opportunity of a lifetime to a young, local surfing champion. Jim gets more frustrated over Callie's lack of communication, while a sympathetic Jennifer tries to comfort him. As he faces an uncertain future where Callie's career in Atlanta will pull her further away from her life with him in Palm Glade, Jim realizes he must make a decision on where their relationship is headed.
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#2 - Longworth's Anatomy
The Glades - Season 3 - Episode 3
While Jim helps Callie settle into her new apartment in Atlanta, Carlos performs a guest autopsy for Daniel's forensics class at Tampa Tech. He discovers that the cadaver he is dissecting is actually a murder victim who turns out to be a student that was killed while participating in an on-campus pharmaceutical study. Also, the Palm Glade substation gets a new addition when FDLE Bureau Chief Jennifer Starke comes down to visit Manus, while Callie gets off to a rocky start with her new boss Dr. Miranda Buckley.
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#4 - East of Islip
Unforgettable - Season 2 - Episode 11
A murdered body washes ashore in the Hamptons, and Carrie and Al's boss offers them a "paid vacation" in his beautiful Southampton cottage, in order to help local law enforcement find the killer, who may or may not be related to a previous serial killer.
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#5 - Whistleblower
Crossing Lines - Season 3 - Episode 2
New leads suggest Wombosi is not behind the murder and kidnapping. Rather the person who gave Sophie the evidence is the real target of a much more complex plot.
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#6 - Sport of Kings
Law & Order - Season 15 - Episode 22
The shooting of a Panamanian jockey sends Fontana and Falco into the colorful world of horse racing, and they learn that the animal's owner used stolen funds for the purchase.
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Vengeance Unlimited - Season 1 - Episode 5
During the protection of a witness and his wife in a arms deal trial, the wife is kidnapped. Now the witness isn't equally motivated to testify. Chapel plans to put the claustrophobic arms dealer in a box to make him talk, but a zealous cop instead puts him in jail. Chapel enlists a guard inside the prison (from Bitter end) to help him play with the drug dealers mind. But can a crooked guard really be trusted? And where will the racist gun buyers fit into all this?
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#8 - Gaijin
Law & Order - Season 14 - Episode 22
Van Buren has reservations about Branch's tactics in luring a Ginza nightclub owner back to New York after the Japanese government is unwilling to extradite him to face charges of conspiracy and murder in the death of his wife on a New York City vacation.
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#9 - Peaches
The River (2012) - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Magus crew are run aground by another vessel, and soon learn that the seemingly welcoming crew members of a ship claiming to have come to their rescue have in fact a very different agenda, causing a dire, life-and-death situation. The crew also make a shocking discovery that will leave one of them in tears.
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#10 - Ego
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 17
When the dead body of Karen Hall, an investigator with the State Attorney General's Office Criminal Division, is found in a Manhattan river, Detectives Briscoe and Green find that her boss, Frank Conroy, had written off her disappearance as a random kidnapping from an Albany train station. But as more is learned about Conroy's controlling relationships -- with the dead woman, with his wife and with a long-term girlfriend -- he quickly becomes a suspect.
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#11 - Hubris
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 9
An assistant manager at a jewelers discovers four bodies at the store, leading to the prosecution of an amiable murder suspect who insists on representing himself, and winning the admiration of a female juror.
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#12 - Obsession
Law & Order - Season 15 - Episode 15
A conservative talk show host involved in a sexual harassment scandal is murdered, but the trail leads to the victim's wife and an obsessed stalker.
#13 - House of Cards
Law & Order - Season 16 - Episode 7
The team investigates the killing of a single mother and the abduction of her child.
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#14 - Day of the Jackie
Unforgettable - Season 2 - Episode 3
Carrie and Al are unable to discern why a businessman was murdered in his hotel room until it’s discovered that his death was collateral damage in a larger plot to assassinate a diplomat.
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#15 - Patient Zero
Law & Order - Season 14 - Episode 3
The investigation into the carjacking of a vehicle containing vials of a deadly virus leads the detectives on a search for the first person infected with the virus and a biochemist whose sinister motivations were driven by passion.
#16 - Maritime
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 18
A missing football player becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a woman whose body is discovered floating in the East River.
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#17 - A Losing Season
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 14
SPORTS STAR ACCUSED OF PLOTTING MURDER - When a pregnant loan officer is found in the trunk of her car with fatal gunshot wounds, Detectives Briscoe and Green at first suspect a carjacking or the woman's fiance and co-worker (guest star Albert Jones). But as the woman's premature baby clings to life in the hospital, the investigation turns to professional basketball player Cris Cody (guest star Kevin Daniels), whose ties to the dead woman may extend beyond the loans she approved for him--and may include reason for him to want her and her unborn child dead.
#18 - For Love or Money
Law & Order - Season 12 - Episode 3
The death of a parolee, who was a hit man, leads to a wealthy widow and daughter and whether they hired him to kill their rich relative.
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#19 - Obscura
Crossing Lines - Season 3 - Episode 12
The former Russian secret agent Valentina Michailova murdered the Press officer of the right-wing of the Freedom Romanian Party with a garrote. Since her motives are very personal, the ICC have to hurry to catch the professional killer. Her next victim is Solbak, the head of the Party. Marco makes a new step in the investigation of his missing sister.
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#20 - The Brotherhood
Law & Order - Season 15 - Episode 3
When a prison gang puts out a contract on a Sing Sing corrections officer and his family, assigning the job to a newly released ex-con, the terrified officer pleads preemptive self-defense after he's brought to trial for the parolee's murder. As the trial proceeds, the gang attempts to affect the outcome of the case by sending a death threat to the presiding judge, who refuses to be intimidated. Shortly after the conclusion of the trial, McCoy discovers that the defendant's fears about the power and the reach of the gang were well-placed.
#21 - Cut
Law & Order - Season 15 - Episode 6
When a plastic surgeon's greed and narcissism contribute to his failure to care for a patient that ultimately results in her death, Branch insists that McCoy prosecute him for criminally negligent homicide, rather than leave the matter to the civil courts, after an investigation reveals a several instances of the doctor's inattention to patient care.
#22 - Married with Children
Law & Order - Season 14 - Episode 13
The death of a woman who fell from a hotel balcony leads to a case involving a lesbian couple and a state law banning gay adoption
#23 - Undercovered
Law & Order - Season 12 - Episode 12
The father of a dying girl gets his revenge on an insurance executive who denied a certain leukemia treatment for his daughter. One problem arises when the father is technically on both sides of the law.
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#24 - Rush to Judgement
CSI: NY - Season 5 - Episode 13
The CSIs must piece together a human jigsaw puzzle when a beloved wrestling coach's severed body parts are found buried throughout the city. Meanwhile, Detective Flack is in the hot seat when a teenage suspect dies in his custody.
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#26 - Dissonance
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 3
The detectives investigate the murder of a young violinist whose fellow musicians resented her rapid rise to fame, in a trial that results in threats exchanged between Lewin and the presiding judge who has a history of bias against McCoy.
#27 - Phobia
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 13
HATE CRIME TEARS APART FAMILY - When a gay man is beaten to death during the abduction of his adopted infant son, Detectives Briscoe and Green suspect that ransom from the murder victim's wealthy partner (guest star David Pittu) may have been the motive for the crime. But as more is learned about the child's birth mother (guest star Catherine Kellner) and homophobic biological father (guest star David Vadim), Assistant D.A.'s McCoy and Carmichael find that what appeared to be a botched kidnapping might be more accurately prosecuted as a hate crime.
#29 - Formerly Famous
Law & Order - Season 12 - Episode 6
The shooting death of a former singer's wife leads the detectives to investigate his manager and sons after his explanation of the events surrounding her death have no credibility.
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#30 - It Happened to Me
CSI: NY - Season 6 - Episode 6
Hawkes responds to an emergency call in Central Park, but dismisses the case as just a drunk with a nosebleed, a complete waste of his time. When the man later bleeds out and expires, Hawkes bitterly blames himself and sets out to trace the circumstances of the man's mysterious and untimely death...
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#31 - True Crime
Law & Order - Season 13 - Episode 3
Investigating the death of a rock band singer who had large amounts of cocaine and heroin in her system, the detectives question a former boyfriend who was a disgruntled band mate of her late husband. The prosecuters are hampered by the actions of a retired detective, who worked a case with Briscoe several years back, turned writer whose unconventional research tactics makes him a suspect as well.
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#33 - Clique
Vengeance Unlimited - Season 1 - Episode 13
Three friends in college wants to play a bit with the class nerd, and the girl makes a pass at him. But when the nerd thinks that he's going to get laid, instead he's ridiculed. But when he makes resistance, they hold him down, and a unfortunate blow by a baseball bat kills him... The three friends decides to bury him. Ten years later the body is found, and Chapel makes it his business to find the culprits. He sends every classmate a baseball bat and studies their reaction. Soon the three friends has a reunion of their own. Then Chapel enters as Arnie, a naive stalker, that claims to have seen everything. But the three friends doesn't want their lives ruined by a numbscull and decides to kill Arnie. But is there really an Arnie?
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#36 - The Lying Game
CSI: NY - Season 3 - Episode 14
Can knowing a secret be a motive for murder? The CSI team must figure out if a change in gender is cause for the death of a showgirl. Also Lindsay goes back to Montana to try to put the person who committed the murder of four friends behind bars.
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#37 - Sex, Lies and Silicone
CSI: NY - Season 5 - Episode 4
The team investigates the puzzling death of a woman named Ann Steele. To solve the case, the team must look for a life size silicone doll. When the team runs into the factory that makes them, it prompts some amusement for some of the team. Meanwhile, Hawkes meets up with an old college friend who later asks him to compromise some evidence in the case.
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