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The Best Episodes Directed By David Platt

Every TV Episode Directed by David Platt Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 6 Episode 16 - Ghost
    8.9/10(7 votes)

    S6:E16

    When a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, Benson and Stabler soon realise that their deaths are connected to a drug smuggling ring. Eventually the road leads back to the same drug dealers who forced a former assistant district attorney into hiding, and Alex Cabot comes home to face her enemies.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 8 Episode 6 - Infiltrated
    8.8/10(4 votes)

    S8:E6

    Novak tries to find Benson when the case for a previous rape victim, Chelsea Arndale, hinges on her testimony. Benson, meanwhile, is still living as Persephone James and has been arrested in Oregon after the ecologist's group she has infiltrated is involved in a fracas with the local police. After the local sheriff advises her that her group is being looked at in connection with a recent murder, Benson decides to do a little investigating on her own and learns that the man was a pedophile. When she finally finds his private hideaway, it leads to a shocking conclusion.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 9 Episode 1 - Alternate
    8.8/10(10 votes)

    S9:E1

    Benson and Stabler investigate a suspected child abuse case only to learn that the woman who reported it is the real case.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 9 Episode 15 - Undercover
    8.8/10(8 votes)

    S9:E15

    After a woman was found raped in a garden, Benson and Stabler realize that the case goes much deeper because of the victim's mother, drugs, and the realization that a corrections officer is involved. Benson decides to go undercover at the same prison where the mother is, putting herself on the other side of the fence.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 10 Episode 3 - Swing
    8.6/10(8 votes)

    S10:E3

    Stabler is shocked when his daughter, Kathleen, becomes the suspect in an investigation to catch a trespasser. He seeks his estranged mother's help in dealing with his daughter's case.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 8 Episode 21 - Pretend
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    S8:E21

    The team investigates the death of a partially clothed teenage boy wearing a leather mask. The detectives discover that the victim's best friend is the killer and has a video, showing that the boy's death was the result of a backyard wrestling match gone wrong.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 5 Episode 24 - Poison
    8.4/10(6 votes)

    S5:E24

    A young girl is in a coma after ingesting detergent and her mother is suspected of poisoning her. A biased judge makes the case hard to prosecute which leads to an investigation into his past.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  8. undefined Season 9 Episode 19 - Cold
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    S9:E19

    The squad is left at ends when Lake is caught in a gunfight and later takes a witness hostage.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  9. undefined Season 11 Episode 7 - Users
    8.4/10(6 votes)

    S11:E7

    The team investigates the father of a murdered teenager whose crime scene photo has gone viral on the web, but they believe they've found a more likely suspect when they speak with the girl's therapist. The case becomes more frustrating as alibis exclude suspects and a strange occurrence in the morgue sends them in a different direction.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  10. undefined Season 7 Episode 1 - Demons
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    S7:E1

    Twenty years after being convicted of the rape of a teenage girl, Ray Schenkel is released, much to the dismay of retired detective William Dorsey. When a teenage girl is raped on the route Schenkel would have taken home, Stabler goes undercover as a recently paroled sex offender so that he can get into the same therapy group as Schenkel, and the same halfway house. Cragen worries that Stabler may be getting in over his head.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  11. undefined Season 5 Episode 4 - Birthmarks
    8.2/10(46 votes)

    S5:E4

    While en route to his father's funeral, House must help the team with a differential diagnosis on a young Chinese girl who has collapsed under mysterious circumstances.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  12. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - Mirror Mirror
    8.2/10(47 votes)

    S4:E5

    House deals with a patient who mirrors the personality of anyone he meets. Meanwhile, Foreman is put in charge of overseeing the fellowship candidates.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  13. undefined Season 9 Episode 17 - Authority
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    S9:E17

    An engineer plays a series of mind games with Benson and Stabler.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  14. undefined Season 7 Episode 10 - Storm
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    S7:E10

    When a teenager and her younger sister end up in the hospital after a day at the park, detectives learn that both girls were abducted from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina along with a third sister who is still missing. Despite the interference of a local reporter, Jackson Zane, detectives are able to catch the kidnapper, a known pedophile, and recover the girl, but when Alvin Dutch dies and the autopsy determines it was Anthrax, Benson puts everything on the line so that she can get the truth out there.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  15. undefined Season 11 Episode 11 - Quickie
    8.2/10(3 votes)

    S11:E11

    One case becomes two as a murder leads to a serial rapist who is busy spreading disease along with his assaults, and the detectives' only clue is a website set up for casual and anonymous encounters.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  16. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - Alliances
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    S4:E5

    "If you with us, you with us." - Chris Partlow Commissioner Burrell loses Royce's support; Chris Partlow tries to recruit Michael to become a soldier in Marlo's unit; Dukie shows Randy and the boys that the missing are really dead; Odell Watkins drops his support for Royce and considers an offer from Councilman Carcetti.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  17. undefined Season 5 Episode 13 - Hate
    8.1/10(8 votes)

    S5:E13

    A young Arab woman is brutally raped and burned, and after identifying her, the detectives suspect her husband and mother-in-law. After a man accused of the murders of three Arabs, he claims that he was genetically and biologically predisposed to hatred and violence, but soon they uncover the real impetus to the slayings.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  18. undefined Season 9 Episode 3 - Impulsive
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    S9:E3

    A teacher claims that a student pursued her after she's charged with raping him.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  19. undefined Season 11 Episode 16 - Witness
    8.1/10(6 votes)

    S11:E16

    Soon after a young girl, Laine McAlister, is raped in her apartment building's stairwell, Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler meet Laine in the hospital and find her extremely shaken with a large cut on her hand. After an unpleasant exchange with a man she claims is her boyfriend, the detectives become suspicious that she may have fabricated her rape to get attention. Their suspicions grow when she waits to reveal that there was an eyewitness. As the gravity of the situation intensifies, Benson and Stabler find themselves in a race to track down the witness and get a testimony before it is too late.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  20. undefined Season 4 Episode 3 - 97 Seconds
    8.0/10(44 votes)

    S4:E3

    The candidates are now two teams of five women and five men, competing on diagnosing and treating a wheelchair-bound man. Meanwhile House does experiments on himself to test what happens after death, and Foreman, at another hospital, is treating his team in a House-like manner.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  21. undefined Season 10 Episode 6 - Babes
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    S10:E6

    Stabler and Munch uncover a chastity club and a group of girls with a pregnancy pact at a high school where they came to investigate the death of a student.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  22. undefined Season 8 Episode 18 - Responsible
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    S8:E18

    Stabler seeks Kathleen's help when investigating a case involving teenage alcohol abuse.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  23. undefined Season 5 Episode 19 - Sick
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    S5:E19

    A wealthy toy mogul is the suspect of the sexual abuse of a child. His prosecution impeded by the child's parents who refuse to produce their child for questioning to avoid losing the millions paid through a non-disclosure agreement, and by the discovery that a second accusation was falsified in an attempt to extort a settlement.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  24. undefined Season 9 Episode 7 - Blinded
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    S9:E7

    Novak confronts ghosts from her past while handling the trial of a schizophrenic serial rapist, who seriously injured Stabler.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:N/A

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  25. undefined Season 10 Episode 15 - Lead
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    S10:E15

    When a pediatrician convicted of abusing patients is found dead, Stabler and Benson investigate and soon find ADA Cabot has a reason for becoming involved in the case.

    Director:David Platt
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David Platt Ratings Summary

"Ghost" is the best rated episode directed by David Platt. It scored 8.9/10 based on 7 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 2/22/2005 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Infiltrated".