The Best Episodes Directed By David Platt
Every TV Episode Directed by David Platt Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
David Platt Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by David Platt is "Skeleton (II)", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by David Wilcox". "Skeleton (II)" aired on 4/15/2005 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Infiltrated".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Skeleton (II)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/15/2005
Kibre prosecutes an elusive career criminal for the murder of a sleazy ex-cop and the shooting of a detective. As Kibre's office works with Detective Fontana, they discover their prime suspect might also be a producer of snuff pornography. When a sting goes bad and a shocking courtroom development cuts the legs from under her case, Kibre's career teeters on finding why the shootings were committed in the first place. This crossover starts on Law & Order S15E20 Tombstone (I).
Director: David Platt
Writer: David Wilcox
8.7/10 3 votes#2 - Infiltrated
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2006
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
8.6/10 4 votes#3 - Ghost
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/2005
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: Amanda Green
8.6/10 6 votes#4 - Undercover
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 4/15/2008
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: Mark Goffman
8.5/10 7 votes#5 - Alternate
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2007
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: Neal Baer
8.4/10 4 votes#6 - Users
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2009
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: Michael Angeli
8.3/10 6 votes#7 - Swing
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2008
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
8.2/10 3 votes#8 - Quickie
Season 11 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2010
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
8.2/10 6 votes#9 - Couples
Season 13 Episode 23 - Aired 5/21/2003
Briscoe and Green catch four murders and a kidnapping on the same day, and get handed confessions in each case.
Director: David Platt
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 30 votes#10 - Mirror Mirror
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2007
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: David Foster
8.1/10 4 votes#11 - Poison
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/2004
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.
Director: David Platt
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#12 - Chinoiserie
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2002
After a mother of two is shot dead in Chinatown, Goren and Eames first believe that her death may be connected to the Tianamen Square massacre, but then their investigation leads them to a smuggling ring dealing in antiquities.
Director: David Platt
Writer: René Balcer
8.0/10 4 votes#13 - Demons
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2005
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
8.0/10 5 votes#14 - Cold
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/2008
The squad is left at ends when Lake is caught in a gunfight and later takes a witness hostage.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Judith McCreary
8.0/10 2 votes#15 - Buried Secrets
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/10/2011
Megan and the team investigate when a Philadelphia homicide detective is killed in a hit-and-run; Megan turns to her mother (Joanna Cassidy) for help.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Sunil Nayar
7.9/10 4 votes#16 - Starved
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2005
After a dating service is linked to three rapes, Olivia goes undercover to ferret out the rapist and meets Mike Jergens, a surgeon who enjoys controlling the women in his life. The detectives are soon led to his girlfriend, Cora Kennison, but shortly after testifying in the grand jury hearing Cora marries Mike. After Cora attempts suicide, Mike fights her mother, Virginia, to unplug her feeding tube.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Lisa Marie Petersen
7.9/10 7 votes#17 - Authority
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/2008
An engineer plays a series of mind games with Benson and Stabler.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Neal Baer
7.9/10 5 votes#18 - Lead
Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/2009
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
Writer: Jonathan Greene
7.9/10 29 votes#19 - Birthmarks
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2008
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: Doris Egan
7.8/10 6 votes#20 - Patsy
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1999
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.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Lynne E. Litt
7.8/10 28 votes#21 - 97 Seconds
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2007
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: Russel Friend
7.8/10 3 votes#22 - Storm
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/2005
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
7.8/10 4 votes#23 - Scheherazade
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 1/2/2007
Stabler heads to see terminal cancer patient Judson Tierney after a request from his parish priest, and soon realizes that Tierney has a story that he is dying to tell but only wants to tell to his estranged daughter. With Benson keeping an eye on Tierney, Stabler looks into the man's past and learns that he was once involved in a series of unsolved bank robberies, and that he has been keeping a secret about his daughter for over twenty years.
Director: David Platt
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 5 votes#24 - Pretend
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2007
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
7.8/10 6 votes#25 - Impulsive
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2007
A teacher claims that a student pursued her after she's charged with raping him.
Director: David Platt
Writer: N/A