9.0/103 votes#1 - Never Saw the Sign
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2016
Bull uncovers a conspiracy involving a corrupt assemblyman (John Ventimiglia) while helping a new client facing vehicular manslaughter charges. Also, Danny and Cable investigate why Marissa is acting and dressing differently.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Mark Goffman
8.8/103 votes#2 - Philadelphia
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 2/27/2007
Benson finds herself in a bad situation when she has a closer link to a suspect than she ever could have expected.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Patrick Harbinson
8.8/105 votes#3 - Missing Pieces
Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2011
Detectives search for a missing baby on Halloween after a young mother from Buffalo tells them her car was stolen while her baby was still in it.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Warren Leight
8.7/105 votes#4 - Choreographed
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2006
After Danielle Masoner dies in Central Park, Stabler follows the leads to a homeless man who turns out to be a better witness than he thought. Paired up again with Benson, Stabler investigates her death, but it keeps bringing up memories of Dani Beck for him. During the course of the investigation, Benson and Stabler learn that Danielle's husband was sleeping with a friend of theirs, leading the squad to suspect first him, but their suspicion soon turns to the husband of the other woman.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
8.7/103 votes#5 - Bullseye
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/2010
The brutal rape of a ten-year-old girl leaves her unable to recall her own name. Unfortunately, once Fin assists with the ID, the detectives find that she’s not the only one with memory impairment, and Dr. Huang is brought in to assess her home situation.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Daniel Truly
8.2/106 votes#6 - Hothouse
Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2009
When a teenager's body is uncovered in the Hudson River, the detectives search for the victim's identity which leads Benson to go undercover as a madam.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Charley Davis
8.1/105 votes#7 - Zebras
Season 10 Episode 22 - Aired 6/2/2009
A murder in Central Park that involves a tourist puts the SVU on high alert, but when the suspect they've brought in for questioning escapes, Munch has to reach out to an ex-wife in an effort to prevent another killing that's closer to home.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Daniel Truly
8.1/106 votes#8 - Torch
Season 11 Episode 21 - Aired 4/17/2010
After two young girls die in a fire, Stabler finds a familiar face in the prosecutor assigned to the case.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
8.1/1011 votes#9 - Seppuku
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/30/2017
Will, Katie, and Broussard battle the Red Hand for control of the RAP gauntlet; Snyder helps Helena regain control over the Los Angeles bloc.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
8.0/104 votes#10 - Venom
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 3/28/2006
Ken Randall calls Benson for help after he's picked up in an alley late at night. He claims that he was looking for a body after overhearing a man talk about murdering a woman and dumping her body while he was at the bar that night. Tutuola is upset that no one informed him, and determined to clear his son's name even though Ken immediately gets his own lawyer. Tutuola turns his eye on Ken's cousin, Darius Parker, who was with Ken that night and has been in and out of trouble for years, and after Ken voluntarily submits his DNA to clear his name, a shocking family connection between Darius and Ken is revealed. Darius confesses to having murdered the woman and her baby, but his confession is out because no one had contacted his lawyer.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Judith McCreary
8.0/104 votes#11 - Web
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/2006
When an eight-year-old propositions a male classmate, Stabler and Tutuola are called in to investigate the case and soon learn that Jake Winnock's father spent seven years in prison for molesting his older brother, Teddy. D.N.A. tests clear Gregory Hensal of abusive his son, but implicate Jake's older brother, whom detectives soon learn has been running his own personal Internet pornography site. T.A.R.U. tech Ruben Morales joins the detectives in their search for Teddy after he goes missing, but his own guilt about his nephew's molestation after being raped by an online predator he met using the computer Morales had given him colors his judgment when dealing with one of the suspect's.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
8.0/106 votes#12 - Transitions
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2009
The detectives have very little to work with after a man is found badly-beaten in a strip club's parking lot. Their questioning begins with the dancers until the victim's ex-wife and 13-year old transgender son become suspects.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Dick Wolf
8.0/101 votes#13 - World's Worst Domino
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/2018
Feeling guilty about the role he played in getting the former high school security guard fired, Kevin looks to help Becky follow her true passion: inventing. With Amy and Tyler's assistance, they enter Becky's newest invention into a local Entrepreneur Expo with hilarious results. Meanwhile, Yvette is forced to come to terms with Dave's disappearance.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Davah Avena
7.9/1011 votes#14 - Sierra Maestra
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/16/2018
Will assesses the Resistance Camp's safety. Katie tries to get more involved. Broussard and Amy encounter survivors outside the walls.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Cathryn Humphris
7.9/104 votes#15 - Blast
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/2006
The team investigates when young Carly Hunter disappears while walking home from school one day. While processing evidence found at the scene, Warner realises that the little girl has leukemia, and they need to get her home as soon as possible to begin treatment. Despite the ransom drop going wrong, the detectives are able to find the little girl thanks to evidence O'Halloran finds at the scene, but as she tells her story to Stabler and her mother, it soon becomes clear that her kidnapper is someone very close to home. Stabler and Warner end up becoming hostages when the kidnapper approaches Jake Hunter directly.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
7.9/104 votes#16 - Trade
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2008
When a pregnant woman's body is discovered in a burned-out brownstone, the investigation turns to a family of coffee importers.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
7.9/1047 votes#17 - The Iron Ceiling
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/2015
Peggy is finally trusted with a mission and calls upon her trusted Howling Commandos squad for backup. But her cover could be at risk when SSR Chief Dooley also sends Agent Thompson with her.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Jose Molina
7.9/1010 votes#18 - Hospitium
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/23/2018
Will and Katie fear they might be in danger when the Resistance camp is put in lockdown. A risky plan makes Broussard question Amy's intentions.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Marcus Dalzine
7.8/105 votes#19 - Ballerina
Season 10 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/2009
A single murder suddenly turns into a scene with three bodies, leaving Benson and Stabler to work with a strip club owner to find a murderer whose motive may be more about righteousness than perversity.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Daniel Truly
7.8/106 votes#20 - Turmoil
Season 11 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2009
Stabler is torn between a troubling rape case which victim has had pictures posted on the net and his son, whose friend's actions may endanger a life and both of their futures.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.7/103 votes#21 - Informed
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2006
Benson is called in after a young woman shows up at the hospital, raped and beaten with her head shaved. Haley Kerns refuses to submit to a rape kit, but Benson steals her underwear before leaving the apartment and gives it to Warner to check out. When Benson returns to her apartment she encounters Star Morrison, who admits that Haley is a federal informant working with them on eco-terrorism. After Stabler is wounded while out on a search with Morrison, Benson and she work to get information from Haley before the eco-terrorists can strike.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
7.7/105 votes#22 - Dependent
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/2007
Benson and Stabler attempt to question a confused young woman about an attack on her parents that left her brother traumatized and Stabler puts his career on the line when he goes too far.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
7.7/106 votes#23 - Annihilated
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2007
A woman's murder appears to be the result of a professional hit, when her fiancé receives death threats, apparently resulting from his CIA career. Elliot, investigating this, finds that the man may not be all that he seems.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
7.6/107 votes#24 - Valentine's Day
Season 13 Episode 18 - Aired 4/18/2012
A man witnesses his wife's rape and kidnapping while video chatting with her on his way home from a business trip. The abductors seek a ransom, and the case grows more complex as detectives probe deeper.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Julie Martin
7.5/105 votes#25 - Retro
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2008
A baby with AIDS has Benson and Stabler asking for assistance from Warner as they investigate the case. They are pointed in the direction of a homeopathic doctor who has an questionable ethical past and who had prescribed the baby ineffective vitamins.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: N/A
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"Never Saw the Sign" is the best rated episode directed by Peter Leto. It scored 9/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by Mark Goffman. It aired on 11/22/2016 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Philadelphia".