The Best Episodes Written By David Black
Every TV Episode Written by David Black Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
David Black Ratings Summary
The best episode written by David Black is "Enemy Within", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by John David Coles". "Enemy Within" aired on 12/9/2001 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Leap of Faith".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Enemy Within
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2001
The death of an eccentric banker in his nintieth floor apartment leads the detectives to investigate his professional contacts and family members.
Director: John David Coles
Writer: David Black
8.0/10 5 votes#2 - Leap of Faith
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2012
When a rich woman dies of a heart attack, her eccentric daughter claims that she received a message from God, who told her that her stepfather actually murdered her. Meanwhile, the archbishop wants Frank's support for the canonization of a local priest, but a reluctant Frank takes it upon himself to investigate a rumor that the priest went too far when protesting the Vietnam War.
Director: David Barrett
Writer: David Black
7.7/10 7 votes#3 - Nullification
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1997
After the cops trace an eagle tattoo on a man shot and killed while holding up an armored truck to a group of militia members, McCoy finds himself facing one of their number as the pro se counsel for his friends, arguing for the concept of "jury nullification", the right of a jury to protect a defendant from an unjust law by finding him not guilty despite the evidence.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: David Black
7.6/10 7 votes#4 - God Bless The Child
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1991
A couple faces trial after they deny medical help to their daughter based on their religious beliefs.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Black
7.5/10 8 votes#5 - By Hooker, By Crook
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1990
When Logan and Greevey investigate how a family man came to be found unconscious in Central Park, they uncover a very high-class call girl operation run by a well-educated socialite.
Director: Martin Davidson
Writer: David Black
7.3/10 6 votes#6 - The Family Hour
Season 17 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2007
When Nicole Bailey, the ex-wife of a respected former senator, is found murdered and brutalised in her home, Green and Cassady look first at the senator, but follow the trail of clues to a dysfunctional family with a number of potentially embarrassing secrets. McCoy finds himself in the hot seat when he is forced to argue the case in front of a judge more interested in public relations than justice.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: David Black
7.3/10 14 votes#7 - Prescription For Death
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1990
When a young woman dies during a hectic emergency room night shift, her father claims the hospital was negligent, and an investigation leads the detectives to believe that the doctor treating her may have been drunk on duty.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: David Black
7.3/10 7 votes#8 - Happily Ever After
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1990
Greevey and Logan have a hunch that robbery is a cover for the real motive in the death of a millionaire in a parking garage.
Director: Vern Gillum
Writer: David Black
7.3/10 7 votes#9 - Life Choice
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1991
Stone faces pressure from the public and from Schiff as he prepares to prosecute the person accused of bombing an abortion clinic.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: David Black
7.1/10 7 votes#10 - Carrier
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 4/1/1998
The death of a college student leads to a case involving an HIV-positive male who's seeking to infect as many young women as possible. McCoy, testing right-to-privacy ethics, wants to charge him with murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Black
7.0/10 6 votes#11 - Tabloid
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1998
Tabloid journalism comes under scrutiny during the investigations into the deaths of a gossip columnist and a celebrity target he pursued.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Black
7.0/10 6 votes#12 - The Fire This Time
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2001
When a building is set ablaze, a girl must be identified despite her fatal burns. Through further investigation, it turns out that an extreme environmentalist group struck the match...
Director: David Platt
Writer: David Black
7.0/10 6 votes#13 - Magnet
Season 16 Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/2006
Fontana and Green arrest a fellow student after a young man is murdered, but McCoy faces a tough adversary when he tries to prosecute the crime.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: David Black
6.9/10 7 votes#14 - A Death In The Family
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1991
Police start a citywide manhunt for a man suspected of killing a cop during a rooftop pursuit.
Director: Gwen Arner
Writer: David Black
6.6/10 8 votes#15 - The Reaper's Helper
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1990
The death of a man with AIDS appears to be the work of a serial killer who may have been motivated by mercy.
Director: Vern Gillum
Writer: David Black
6.4/10 8 votes#16 - In Memory Of
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1991
The renovation of a brownstone uncovers the remains of a boy who disappeared 31 years earlier, reviving a wrenching and long-suppressed memory in his childhood friend and neighbor.
Director: Edwin Sherin
Writer: David Black
6.4/10 4 votes#17 - Evidence of Things Unseen
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/2003
Horatio and his team investigate after a Russian immigrant is stabbed to death in a peep-show booth, and the only witness to the crime is the stripper who was performing for him.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: David Black
6.1/10 8 votes#18 - Castoff
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/1998
The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives uncover she had a predilection for kinky sex, and that one of her current partners appears to be a serial killer, who offers an overexposure to television violence as his defense during his trial.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: David Black
4.5/10 2 votes#19 - Deliver Us from Evil (1)
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1988
A murder case that hits close to home reunites Crockett with the man who used him to trick his way off Death Row.
Director: George Mendeluk
Writer: David Black
3.3/10 3 votes#20 - Death and the Lady
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1987
An actress' on-screen murder propels Crockett & Tubbs to investigate the film's flaky director.
Director: Colin Bucksey
Writer: David Black