The Best Episodes Written By Tara Butters

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(6 votes)

   #1 - Mean

   S5:E172/24/2004

   The conviction of a group of sociopathic high school bullies who turned on one of their own escalates into even more violence and death in their exclusive private school.

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   8.4/10(10 votes)

   #2 - Monogamy

   S3:E111/4/2002

   The pregnant wife of a psychiatrist is found in a parking garage, unconscious and bleeding from a gaping abdominal wound with her fetus missing. The investigation leads to infedility and uncertainty as to the paternity, adding fuel to the fire of an already agitated Stabler.

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   8.3/10(5 votes)

   #3 - Poison

   S5:E245/11/2004

   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.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #4 - No Reaper Left Behind

   S2:E94/28/2009

   The Devil sends Sam to a tutor for proper training to be the Devil's right hand. Sam uses this as an opportunity to get information about the Devil in hopes of getting out of his contract.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - The Sweet Science

   S2:E33/17/2009

   Sam must capture a former boxer by using boxing gloves as a vessel. Meanwhile, Andi is awarded a promotion at the Work Bench.

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   8.1/10(10 votes)

   #6 - Loss

   S5:E410/14/2003

   A female undercover agent for the DEA is raped and murdered, leading to a complicated investigation and the arrest of a suspect highly connected with a Colombian drug cartel. This is the toughest case of Cabot's career as she is faced with death threats on herself and her family along with pressure to yield the case to federal authorities.

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   8.0/10(7 votes)

   #7 - Futility

   S4:E224/25/2003

   A man accused of raping several neighborhood women denies everything and represents himself in court.

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8. 

   7.9/10(9 votes)

   #8 - Deception

   S4:E210/4/2002

   A family portrait painted by a kindergartner leads the detectives to investigate her mother for child sexual abuse of her teenage stepson. When the boy's father is found murdered, the focus of the investigation shifts to the boy -- and his stepmother goes to great lengths to protect him and prevent the detectives from learning the truth.

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9. 

   7.8/10(5 votes)

   #9 - Pilot

   S1:E19/25/2007

   Sam Oliver has always been the slacker with no goals or purpose. However, his life takes an unprecedented new direction on his twenty-first birthday, when he discovers that his parents sold his soul to the devil and he must now become Satan's personal bounty hunter.

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10. 

    7.8/10(54 votes)

    #10 - Valediction

    S1:E82/24/2015

    Peggy faces the full fury of Leviathan, as Howard Stark makes his return.

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11. 

    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #11 - Juvenile

    S4:E911/22/2002

    A cancer patient, who was growing marijuana in her apartment and selling it, is found raped and murdered, sending the detectives on a hunt for two middle school students, each blaming the other.

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12. 

    7.6/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Abomination

    S5:E811/11/2003

    Benson and Stabler have trouble identifying a male murder victim in his 20's found in a pile of sheets in the West Village; they later suspect an outspoken minister who was in the process of flooding the victim with hate mail and death threats. When the activist's alibi checks out, the detectives turn their attention to a professor who objects to the victim's thesis on the failure of sexual re-education groups.

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13. 

    7.5/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Weak

    S6:E911/30/2004

    After arguing with Benson about their personal lives, Stabler enlists the help of a former cop turned psychiatrist in apprehending a serial rapist and murderer who attacks disabled women.

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14. 

    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Pandora

    S4:E152/7/2003

    The brutal rape, and subsequent death, of a female motorist turns out to be an undercover FBI informant acting as a cyber vigilante for catching online pedophiles to capture the predator trafficking internet porn. The detectives find the victim's husband murdered and follow the trail of evidence for the latest victim she had been tracking, which ​turns into an international case of teenage prostitution, with ties to the Czech Republic.

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15. 

    7.3/10(45 votes)

    #15 - A Little Song and Dance

    S2:E92/23/2016

    Peggy desperately tries to save Dr. Wilkes with a dangerous plan to stop Whitney Frost. But Thompson makes a surprising move that could destroy them all.

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    7.1/10(45 votes)

    #16 - Hollywood Ending

    S2:E103/1/2016

    Peggy needs Howard Stark to eliminate Zero Matter as they are faced with a mission none of them could come back from.

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17. 

    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #17 - Will

    S2:E58/6/2015

    Margaret tries stopping Barbara from interfering with her relationship with Fred and Maggie. Bellamy struggles to keep his secret hidden, as he's forced to take desperate measures as the illness continues to spread.

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18. 

    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Chameleon

    S4:E19/27/2002

    The detectives are on the trail of a recently paroled rapist responsible for the murder of a prostitute during a raid at a men's club and are called to the scene where he was shot in self defense by his own gun. However, the murder weapon was also used in another crime while he was still in prison, leading the detectives to investigate the victim through a trail of previously unsolved cases, a spending spree and another victim. They uncover a more serious criminal in the process.

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19. 

    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Pilot

    S1:E19/24/2019

    A police chief who takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened.

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20. 

    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Killshot (2)

    S1:E131/28/2020

    In the season finale, Jo and Brooks are in danger, and Piper’s determined to help. With Helen’s mysterious plan nearly realized, Piper recruits an unexpected team of allies to find them before it’s too late.

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