- 8.6/104 votes
#1 - 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
- 8.5/103 votes
#2 - Shaken
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/2003
The discovery of a beaten infant leads detectives on a search for the attacker, who may be a pedophile. When the medical evidence shows the injuries were a result of shaken baby syndrome, their focus shifts to those closest to the child: her mother, the mother's boyfriend and the nannies.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.8/105 votes
#3 - Warrior
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 8/27/2013
Moretti faces criminal charges after taking matters into her own hands on a dangerous case; Pierce and Donnie try to clear Kate's name.
Director: Kenneth Biller
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.6/109 votes
#4 - Paternity
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/2007
When the paternity of a missing young boy is placed into question, Stabler wonders if he really is the father of Kathy's child. Later, Stabler faces the possibility of losing not only his partner but also Kathy and the baby when she and Benson are in an accident.
Director: Kate Woods
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.6/1019 votes
#5 - Connecting Flights
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2018
Flashbacks reveal how Grace, Olive and Jared coped with the loss of their loved ones after the disappearance of Flight 828; Ben tries to escape the voice in his mind by going on an adventure with Cal; Michaela struggles with her feelings for Jared.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.6/1018 votes
#6 - Estimated Time of Departure
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/2019
Michaela, Ben, Zeke and Saanvi all have the same calling. After another panic attack, Saanvi is finally ready to see a therapist, but it may not be what's best for her. An ominous new link appears between Griffin and the 828 passengers.
Director: Dean White
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.5/104 votes
#7 - Kilimanjaro
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/2012
Moretti and Pierce are called upon to solve a crime in their own backyard when a college student is killed in her dorm room. Pierce is forced into the uncomfortable situation of interacting on a personal level with more than one of his students, which forces him to confront difficult truths about his own past. The case comes just as Moretti is beginning to re-evaluate her relationship with Dr. Hathaway.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.4/105 votes
#8 - Nemesis
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/27/2012
Pierce must take a deep look into his own life when he is brought into a case involving a schizophrenic. Meanwhile, Moretti stops at nothing to impress her new boss at the FBI. Guest star Tom Sizemore plays a top-level Irish mobster, while guest star Edward Furlong plays a would-be tough guy who may have played a crucial role in the crime.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.3/1020 votes
#9 - Crosswinds
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/2019
Michaela's mystifying, next-level calling launches her on a mission that brings her relationship with Jared to a head. Determined to protect his family, Ben explores an alternate meaning to Michaela's calling that leads him to a new alliance and a powerful new adversary. Cal's struggle with Ben's absence from home forces the Stones into an agonizing confrontation that could alter the family's fabric forever.
Director: Michael Smith
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.2/106 votes
#10 - Can I Get a Witness?
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/2016
When a million dollar casino heist takes a deadly turn, Riggs befriends the only credible witness, an eight-year-old boy, and takes him into his care. Murtaugh pulls some dangerous stunts in an attempt to prove to everyone that he can be a motorcycle guy. Riggs contemplates what to do with the money he received from selling his home in Texas.
Director: Jason Ensler
Writer: Amanda Green
- 7.1/105 votes
#11 - Haunted
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2004
Fin is reunited with his own son as he risks his life to save two small children, one caught in the middle of a bodega robbery and the other from the junkie who set the child's mother up for murder and then stole him to use as a front in her scheme to boost materials for her meth lab.
Director: Juan José Campanella
Writer: Amanda Green
- 6.8/106 votes
#12 - Debt
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2004
As Benson and Stabler investigate the disappearance of a mother and her teenaged daughter, they uncover a conspiracy between a corrupt immigration attorney and gangsters running a prostitution ring that is staffed by women they have smuggled into the country and imprisoned as sex slaves.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Amanda Green
- 6.7/108 votes
#13 - Desperate
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/2003
After a young boy witnesses the brutal sexual assault and murder of his stepmother, he is too terrified to tell the detectives who attacked her.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Amanda Green
- 6.3/1010 votes
#14 - Tragedy
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2003
A woman with a high-risk pregnancy disappears and her ex-boyfriend, who's the father, and engaged to the boss' daughter, is under suspicion. In a race against time to find her as her delivery date approaches, Benson and Stabler are faced with more than one suspect willing to take the fall for the crime.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Amanda Green
- 6.2/105 votes
#15 - Home
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/2004
A young, emaciated boy is found by neighbors scrounging for food; detectives suspect the boy is a victim of abuse and are reluctant to let him go home.
Director: Rick Wallace
Writer: Amanda Green
- 6.0/105 votes
#16 - Age of Innocence
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2011
When an unidentified young girl is found murdered at a debutante ball, Danny and Jackie look to the prostitute found giving her a hard time on the hotel's surveillance camera for clues. Meanwhile, Nicky gets a glimpse of her first murder victim as she rides along with Danny when he gets the call to investigate.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Amanda Green
- 6.0/106 votes
#17 - Lust
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2002
A public health doctor, the wife of a retired attorney, who tracked HIV cases is found murdered and raped in Central Park. Her work involved contacting sexual partners of HIV patients which gives the detectives a long list of suspects and the detectives try to link threatening phone calls to the crime. The discovery of a second body in Central Park with the same signature shifts the focus to a possible serial killer.
Director: Michael Fields
Writer: Amanda Green