The Best Episodes Written By Lawrence Kaplow

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.6/10(5 votes)

   #1 - Gone Baby Gone

   S19:E91/3/2018

   Emotions run high as the SVU squad embarks on a frantic search for Benson's missing son.

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   8.9/10(7 votes)

   #2 - Military Justice

   S15:E811/13/2013

   A military officer who was gang raped refuses to cooperate with the SVU for fear of damage to her reputation; Amaro asks his ex to help dig up information on the case.

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   8.6/10(58 votes)

   #3 - No Reason

   S2:E245/23/2006

   House is shot by a former patient and must share a recovery room with the gunman.

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   8.5/10(45 votes)

   #4 - Under My Skin

   S5:E235/4/2009

   House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. The team must use their imaginations to carefully choreograph ways to test and treat her delicate body without killing her. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from what he thinks is insomnia, and he is willing to go to desperate measures to cure it.

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   8.3/10(7 votes)

   #5 - Wonderland Story

   S15:E510/16/2013

   Investigation into the suspected rape of a woman Benson helped earlier leads to a cybermogul. The team bids farewell to Munch.

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   8.3/10(40 votes)

   #6 - A Pox on Our House

   S7:E711/15/2010

   After a 200-year-old medicine jar found on an off-shore shipwreck shatters in a teenage girl's palm, she is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro for symptoms closely linked to smallpox.

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   8.3/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Missing

   S4:E163/9/2020

   Bull aims to convince a jury to put the law aside, when he represents a woman guilty of kidnapping her niece years ago to stop the girl's father from abusing her. During jury selection, Bull looks for people who believe that when his client abducted her niece, she was saving the young girl's life.

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   8.2/10(55 votes)

   #8 - Autopsy

   S2:E29/20/2005

   A girl's unimaginable bravery toward her terminal illness makes House suspicious as he puts a life-or-death decision about her case in her young hands.

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   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #9 - Shades of Blue

   S2:E121/10/2012

   An undercover cop is discovered murdered at a truck stop.

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    8.1/10(45 votes)

    #10 - Out of the Chute

    S7:E163/14/2011

    The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind the patients disappearing symptoms and seizures while taking House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient.

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    8.1/10(62 votes)

    #11 - Detox

    S1:E112/15/2005

    Dr. House takes Cuddy's challenge to go off his painkillers for a week, but the effects of his withdrawal symptoms may put his patient in danger.

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    8.0/10(40 votes)

    #12 - Brave Heart

    S6:E510/19/2009

    A dying patient insists that he has the same disease affecting his heart that killed his father and grandfather at the age of 40. Meanwhile, House discovers that he has a hearing problem while trying to duck student rounds.

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13. 

    8.0/10(49 votes)

    #13 - Half-Wit

    S3:E153/6/2007

    House encounters a brain-damaged musical prodigy with inexplicable abilities while the team faces serious concerns about House's own health.

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    8.0/10(46 votes)

    #14 - Human Error

    S3:E245/29/2007

    A Cuban couple attempt to get to America by raft... to see House about the wife's heart condition. But when she gets worse House wonders if someone on his staff messed up. Meanwhile Foreman prepares to leave and his departure threatens to shake up the entire team.

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    8.0/10(47 votes)

    #15 - Meaning

    S3:E19/5/2006

    After recovering from his gunshot wounds, House works feverishly on two cases at the same time: a paralyzed man who drove his wheelchair into a swimming pool and a woman who became paralyzed after a yoga session.

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    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Intent

    S19:E812/6/2017

    The cops get tangled in an elaborate online hoax that leads to the rape of a popular social media star; Benson sets firm ground rules with Sheila.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Mama

    S19:E225/16/2018

    An Alzheimer's patient claims she was raped, but her illness casts doubt on the case. Meanwhile, Fin's sergeant orders come in.

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    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #18 - Doctor Killer

    S4:E711/4/2019

    Bull faces the seemingly impossible task of defending a client who already confessed to accidentally killing the doctor he blames for his mother's death.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Going Viral (1)

    S2:E183/27/2012

    When a city-wide outbreak of a mysterious and lethal virus occurs, even Megan and her team are at risk. In order to determine who and what caused this outbreak, CDC Officer Charlie Stafford takes over the investigation.

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    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #20 - Control

    S1:E143/15/2005

    The hospital's new Chairman of the Board has it out for Dr. House, questioning his importance to the hospital and threatening to eliminate House and his team.

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    7.8/10(60 votes)

    #21 - Honeymoon

    S1:E225/24/2005

    House is faced with a problem he may not be able to solve and Stacy returns.

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    7.8/10(45 votes)

    #22 - Distractions

    S2:E122/14/2006

    While a severely burned teenager is admitted and his blood tests come back with strange results, House makes himself the guinea pig in his own unofficial tests of a new drug designed to treat migraines to prove a former medical school colleague is wrong about the drug.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Plastic

    S20:E111/11/2019

    A woman accuses a celebrity plastic surgeon and his girlfriend of rape.

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    7.7/10(57 votes)

    #24 - Kids

    S1:E195/3/2005

    House and his team race to diagnose a 12-year-old's illness - an illness with a shocking origin - and House asks Cameron to come back to her job.

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    7.7/10(46 votes)

    #25 - Not Cancer

    S5:E29/23/2008

    The team deals with an organ donor whose organs prove fatal, and the two surviving patients. Meanwhile, House hires a private detective to spy on Wilson, but hears a few things about himself that he'd rather not.

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