10.0/101 votes#1 - The Abominable Showman
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2005
Tough New York Assistant D.A. Tracey Kibre tackles the murder of an aspiring Broadway actress but has little evidence to prosecute the suspect – an acclaimed but arrogant theater producer who smugly knows that the police have found no blood or even a body.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: Dick Wolf
9.0/101 votes#2 - 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: Dick Wolf
- 9.0/102 votes
#3 - Dead
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2002
The murder of a mortician and the discovery of corpses at a crematorium lead the detectives to a family man claiming to have a consulting business but suspected of being a contract killer with a penchant for perfection. Goren attempts to prove this by setting up a scheme that puts his "fear of making a mistake" in jeopardy.
Director: Darnell Martin
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 9.0/101 votes
#4 - But not Forgotten
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2003
When a bookkeeper goes missing, Goren and Eames are led back to the death of her brother, a hitman, two years earlier. An imprisoned mobster seems to be their best bet, but when another body turns up it takes the case to a whole new level.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 9.0/101 votes
#5 - In the Wee Small Hours (1)
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2005
Detectives Eames, Goren, Barek, and Logan must solve a case that involves a teenage girl missing in New York City. While Barek and Logan search around for another missing girl, Eames and Goren work to uncover a mystery with a judge and his son.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 9.0/102 votes
#6 - Weeping Willow
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/2006
The kidnapping of a popular video blogger and her boyfriend--which is witnessed live on the Internet--seems suspicious to Logan and Wheeler.
Director: Tom DiCillo
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 9.0/101 votes
#7 - World's Fair
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/2007
The death of a young, pregnant Pakistani woman leads Logan and Wheeler to question the man she was secretly dating, as well as both his and the victim's disapproving relatives.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 9.0/101 votes
#8 - Amends
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2007
Eames re-opens the case into her husband's murder.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 9.0/101 votes
#9 - Self-made
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2007
Goren and Eames investigate the death of a writer, and whether her torture has ties to the 'hood she came from.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Dick Wolf
8.8/104 votes#10 - All That Glitters (I)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2021
After a young woman is killed on her way home from a lavish yacht party, the team investigates who she was and how she came to be at the event, which was attended by some of the most influential people in the world. Also, Maggie brings Crosby into the investigation after a murder suspect is identified as a veteran who had been on several Army operations with Crosby. The crossover continues on FBI: Most Wanted S03E01 Exposed (II) and FBI: International S01E01 Pilot (III).
Director: Alex Chapple
Writer: Dick Wolf
8.6/106 votes#11 - American Disgrace
Season 16 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2014
When a series of allegations are made against a superstar basketball player, Sgt. Benson and Detective Carisi do not agree on the authenticity of each woman's story; the investigation takes Rollins back to her former precinct.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.5/102 votes
#12 - Suite Sorrow
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2003
After the tyrannical owner of a Manhattan luxury hotel is found submerged in her bathtub, evidence seems increasingly to indicate that the woman's death was the work of her deeply frustrated, long-suffering daughter.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.5/102 votes
#13 - Sound Bodies
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2003
Goren and Bishop pursue a teenage Svengali who convinces three impressionable young girls to commit multiple homicides in the cause of a twisted philosophy.
Director: Frank Prinzi
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.5/102 votes
#14 - Untethered
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/2007
Goren investigates when his nephew, a prisoner who's bipolar, claims that inmates are being abused to the point of murder.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Dick Wolf
8.0/106 votes#15 - Red Ball
Season 16 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2005
A young girl is abducted in broad daylight, and the only link to the girl is an ex-convict who wants a deal before he's willing to talk.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/102 votes
#16 - The Faithful
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2001
Goren and Eames investigate the death of church sexton Morris Abernathy but soon find their chief suspect, Kevin Donovan, dead in his apartment. After realising that someone performed last rites over Donovan's body, the police realise that a priest was involved in the murder, and are led to a priest who has been desperately trying to keep a twenty-year-old secret hidden. Goren risks the prosecution's case by protecting an innocent third party who could lose everything if their own secret comes out.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#17 - Poison
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2001
The detectives investigate a murderer who poisons hospital victims with cyanide. They suspect a nurse whose profile is typical, but when they discover more murders away from the hospital they have to widen their search.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#18 - The Pardoner's Tale
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2001
The deaths of a reporter and his fiancée, gunned down on orders, leads the detectives to investigate political bribery involving the governor's office, which Deakins isn't pleased with.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#19 - Crazy
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2002
A psychiatrist who provides expert testimony at criminal trials lays down an insanity defense to hide his obsession for his younger girlfriend after revealing to her that he hired a corrupt detective to murder her brother-in-law at his son's Bar Mitzvah after alleged reports that her niece had been abused by him.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#20 - The Insider
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2002
When the father of a young woman who has been out all night clubbing is found dead in his boat house, Goren and Eames investigate the mysterious club owner only to realise that he is an undercover FBI agent and that the Bureau will not risk their undercover operation even to stop a killer.
Director: Jan Egleson
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#21 - Semi-Professional
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/2002
The detectives investigate the murder of a judge's clerk, with their attention initially going to the judge himself, who had been having an affair with the young woman.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#22 - Phantom
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/2002
The detectives investigate a slain bank robber and check out his sister, who is involved with a bogus United Nations economist. As the detectives close in on the suspect, Goren learns the suspect wants his children's approval and must stop him before any more murders.
Director: Juan José Campanella
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#23 - Yesterday
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/2002
When the well-preserved body of a woman tortured and murdered twenty years earlier appears on the banks of the Bronx River, chemical residue on the body leads Goren and Eames to the basement of the house in which the body had originally been buried and to the junkie whose parents owned the home. When the junkie ends up murdered as well, their investigation focuses on his college classmate, a man with a history of drugging and sexually assaulting women.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#24 - Anti-Thesis
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2002
As Goren and Eames sift through the likely suspects in the murder of a university president and his assistant, they discover that the culprit is a wily adversary who has more than these crimes to hide.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Dick Wolf
- 8.0/101 votes
#25 - Best Defense
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2002
The detectives follow the trail when an assistant district attorney confronts and kills a hired gunman following a series of death threats. They first suspect his wife, a prominent defense attorney, through a convict whose case was being prosecuted by the A.D.A. and the rumors of her romantic affairs. When they realise that there are cracks in their seemingly airtight case, Goren has to keep Carver in the dark about some details to prove his theory.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Dick Wolf
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"The Abominable Showman" is the best rated episode written by Dick Wolf. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Jean de Segonzac. It aired on 3/3/2005 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Enemy Within".