8.5/102 votes#1 - Burned
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/2007
Stabler and Benson find themselves on opposite sides when Valerie Sennet accuses her estranged husband, Miles Sennet, of breaking into her home and raping her. Because Miles has no history of violence and Valerie refuses to allow detectives to use her daughter Tessa as a witness, he is soon released, and Stabler and Benson continue to clash as Benson remains convinced that Miles raped Valerie and is a danger, and Stabler believes it may be a case of a wife crying foul to punish her soon-to-be ex-husband.
Director: Eriq La Salle
Writer: Judith McCreary
8.4/107 votes#2 - Noncompliance
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/24/2000
The question of patients' rights surfaces when a schizophrenic man refusing to take his medication is suspected in the rape and stabbing death of an aspiring psychologist, whose body is found in a convenience store.
Director: Elodie Keene
Writer: Judith McCreary
8.4/107 votes#3 - Pique
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/2001
Observed by an FBI psychiatrist, the detectives uncover a horrifying motive for the slaying of a software company employee by a fired colleague when they learn of the suspect's bizarre relationship with his overbearing mother and a strange sexual fetish called piquerism.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: Judith McCreary
8.4/108 votes#4 - Signature
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/2008
A woman's body is found murdered in a park alongside a man with a bullet in his head - Benson and Special Agent Cooper join forces and suspect "The Woodsman", a serial killer Cooper has tried to catch for years. Lake and Benson begin to question Cooper's true motives when the male victim is later identified as "The Woodsman".
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: Judith McCreary
8.3/106 votes#5 - Unstable
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2009
Officer Nate Kendall aids a woman in trouble and becomes roped into solving a rape case. While Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson believe that Kendall is not right for the case due to his unstable personality, Executive ADA Sonya Paxton joins the team, bringing evidence of a common thread among three other rape cases. With Paxton’s help, the team might expose a serial rapist.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: Judith McCreary
8.2/104 votes#6 - PTSD
Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2008
The death of a marine who was pregnant by a rapist puts the unit at odds with the Pentagon when they fight to keep the case, and Benson's flashbacks of her own assault may further impede the investigation.
Director: Eriq La Salle
Writer: Judith McCreary
8.0/104 votes#7 - 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
8.0/105 votes#8 - 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
7.9/104 votes#9 - Screwed
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/2007
Darius Parker, goes on trial for the rape and murder of a woman and her 14-month old child. The case brings Fin under fire from the media and even has Munch and Stabler at odds. Novak prosecutes the trial that brings Stabler and Tutuola, among others, to the stand. Many previous stories are brought into the trial.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.8/1012 votes#10 - Harvest
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2004
A child is abducted. As the Amber Alert goes out, the entire team investigates in a race against time. Lindsay Willows is found hitchiking to the alarm of Catherine.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.8/106 votes#11 - Ridicule
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/2001
What appears as a bizarre accidental death leads to a case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was one of three powerful women who raped him at a bachelorette party.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.8/104 votes#12 - Rotten
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/2003
In their investigation of a prisoner's death, Benson and Tutuola learn that he was sexually assaulted before being incarcerated and since it happened while in custody, the police are suspected.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.8/106 votes#13 - 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
7.7/1030 votes#14 - Broken Mirror
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2005
The BAU investigates the kidnapping of a U.S. District Attorney's daughter and determines the kidnapper isn't seeking money -- he's after her twin sister.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.7/106 votes#15 - Execution
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/2002
Detective Stabler and Dr. Huang question a convicted serial killer on death row, hours before his execution, with the hope of solving an old murder case for the sake of the victim's parents. The investigation goes haywire with mixed results.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.7/106 votes#16 - Doomsday
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2018
Special Agents Maggie Bell and OA Zidan investigate the death of a safety inspector and its possible connection to a leak at a nuclear power plant.
Director: Fred Berner
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.6/1019 votes#17 - What Fresh Hell?
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/2006
When a young girl is abducted in broad daylight from a playground in a seemingly safe neighborhood, the BAU team initially believes her father is responsible. When he is able to provide an alibi, the team is forced to look for clues where the girl lives to determine who is really responsible.
Director: Adam Davidson
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.6/107 votes#18 - Denial
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/2002
When a heroin junkie is found raped, Tutuola takes an interest in her, but he's not the only one. The case turns into a bizarre murder investigation when the finger of a small child is found in the victim's purse opening a can of worms that spans back thirteen years.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.5/105 votes#19 - Merchandise
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/2010
A teenage girl’s death exposes a human trafficking ring and leads detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler to team up with an old friend at the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Director: Peter Leto
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.5/102 votes#20 - The Husband
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2016
Eric’s shocking past transgression leads Detective Cornell to interrogate him, revealing the first of Kate’s many secrets. Desperate to prove that his life with Kate wasn’t just one big lie, Amanda helps him search for answers. Despite her strong objections, Eric wants to bring his new findings to Detective Cornell. However, once he sees an ex-girlfriend – one of his worst nightmares – with Cornell at the police station, his hopes of redirecting her investigation quickly fade.
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.5/102 votes#21 - The Truth
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/2016
Patrick grapples with his new reality, as Detective Cornell closes in on Kate’s killer, and the murderer is finally exposed. Meanwhile, Danny frantically continues his search for his daughter, hoping to get one more chance to be a real dad.
Director: Adam Arkin
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.4/104 votes#22 - Educated Guess
Season 13 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2011
A patient in a mental hospital claims to have witnessed a sexual assault. However, the supposed victim is a fellow patient who has a history of making rape allegations, but she denies being assaulted this time.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.3/1011 votes#23 - No Humans Involved
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2004
Grissom and his team investigate the starving death of a five year old boy. They discover the boy has siblings who are in danger too. Catherine and her team determine who killed a prisoner in a holding cell brawl.
Director: Rob Bailey
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.3/105 votes#24 - Disappearing Acts
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2002
A high-powered executive is raped, but the situation is complicated by her involvement with the Feds and the Russian mob - as well as a father-son duo who are in the federal witness protection program and an agent who appears bound and determined to protect them, regardless of consequence.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Judith McCreary
7.2/105 votes#25 - Dirty
Season 12 Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/2011
Detective Saliyah "Sunny" Qadri goes in search of Brooklyn District Attorney Page Ferguson, who she fears may be in danger. Qadri finds Ferguson just in time to witness her fall from the top of a parking garage. When Benson arrives, she discovers that the crime scene has been tampered with. Benson turns to an old friend, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson for help. As the investigation progresses, Benson begins to question Ferguson’s suspicious past and Qadri’s involvement in the case.
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: Judith McCreary
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"Burned" is the best rated episode written by Judith McCreary. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Eriq La Salle. It aired on 1/9/2007 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Noncompliance".