The Best Episodes Written By Lawrence Kaplow

Every TV Episode Written by Lawrence Kaplow Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Lawrence Kaplow Ratings Summary

The best episode written by Lawrence Kaplow is "Gone Baby Gone", rated 9.5/10 from 4 user votes. It was "directed by Jean de Segonzac". "Gone Baby Gone" aired on 1/3/2018 and is rated 0.6 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Military Justice".

  • Gone Baby Gone
    9.5/10 4 votes

    #1 - Gone Baby Gone

    Season 19 Episode 9 - Aired 1/3/2018

    Emotions run high as the SVU squad embarks on a frantic search for Benson’s missing son.

    Director: Jean de Segonzac

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Military Justice
    8.9/10 7 votes

    #2 - Military Justice

    Season 15 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2013

    A military officer who was gang raped refuses to cooperate with the SVU for fear of damage to her reputation; Amaro asks his ex to help dig up information on the case.

    Director: Tom DiCillo

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Plastic
    8.7/10 3 votes

    #3 - Plastic

    Season 20 Episode 11 - Aired 1/11/2019

    A woman accuses a celebrity plastic surgeon and his girlfriend of rape.

    Director: Fred Berner

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • No Reason
    8.6/10 43 votes

    #4 - No Reason

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/2006

    House is shot by a former patient and must share a recovery room with the gunman.

    Director: David Shore

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Out of the Chute
    8.3/10 28 votes

    #5 - Out of the Chute

    Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 3/14/2011

    The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind the patients disappearing symptoms and seizures while taking House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient.

    Director: Sanford Bookstaver

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • A Pox on Our House
    8.3/10 24 votes

    #6 - A Pox on Our House

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2010

    After a 200-year-old medicine jar found on an off-shore shipwreck shatters in a teenage girl's palm, she is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro for symptoms closely linked to smallpox.

    Director: Tucker Gates

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Under My Skin
    8.2/10 27 votes

    #7 - Under My Skin

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/2009

    House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. The team must use their imaginations to carefully choreograph ways to test and treat her delicate body without killing her. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from what he thinks is insomnia, and he is willing to go to desperate measures to cure it.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Autopsy
    8.1/10 36 votes

    #8 - Autopsy

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2005

    A girl's unimaginable bravery toward her terminal illness makes House suspicious as he puts a life-or-death decision about her case in her young hands.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Detox
    8.0/10 42 votes

    #9 - Detox

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/15/2005

    Dr. House takes Cuddy's challenge to go off his painkillers for a week, but the effects of his withdrawal symptoms may put his patient in danger.

    Director: Nelson McCormick

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Doctor Killer
    8.0/10 2 votes

    #10 - Doctor Killer

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2019

    Bull faces the seemingly impossible task of defending a client who already confessed to accidentally killing the doctor he blames for his mother's death.

    Director: Valerie Weiss

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Shades of Blue
    8.0/10 2 votes

    #11 - Shades of Blue

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/2012

    An undercover cop is discovered murdered at a truck stop.

    Director: Kenneth Fink

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Going Viral (1)
    8.0/10 1 votes

    #12 - Going Viral (1)

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/27/2012

    When a city-wide outbreak of a mysterious and lethal virus occurs, even Megan and her team are at risk. In order to determine who and what caused this outbreak, CDC Officer Charlie Stafford takes over the investigation.

    Director: Alex Zakrzewski

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Meaning
    7.9/10 32 votes

    #13 - Meaning

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/2006

    After recovering from his gunshot wounds, House works feverishly on two cases at the same time: a paralyzed man who drove his wheelchair into a swimming pool and a woman who became paralyzed after a yoga session.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Control
    7.9/10 42 votes

    #14 - Control

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/15/2005

    The hospital's new Chairman of the Board has it out for Dr. House, questioning his importance to the hospital and threatening to eliminate House and his team.

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Half-Wit
    7.8/10 33 votes

    #15 - Half-Wit

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/2007

    House encounters a brain-damaged musical prodigy with inexplicable abilities while the team faces serious concerns about House's own health.

    Director: Katie Jacobs

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Kids
    7.7/10 37 votes

    #16 - Kids

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/3/2005

    House and his team race to diagnose a 12-year-old's illness - an illness with a shocking origin - and House asks Cameron to come back to her job.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Honeymoon
    7.7/10 38 votes

    #17 - Honeymoon

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/24/2005

    House is faced with a problem he may not be able to solve and Stacy returns.

    Director: Frederick King Keller

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Brave Heart
    7.7/10 24 votes

    #18 - Brave Heart

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2009

    A dying patient insists that he has the same disease affecting his heart that killed his father and grandfather at the age of 40. Meanwhile, House discovers that he has a hearing problem while trying to duck student rounds.

    Director: Matt Shakman

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Distractions
    7.7/10 29 votes

    #19 - Distractions

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/14/2006

    While a severely burned teenager is admitted and his blood tests come back with strange results, House makes himself the guinea pig in his own unofficial tests of a new drug designed to treat migraines to prove a former medical school colleague is wrong about the drug.

    Director: Daniel Attias

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Human Error
    7.6/10 30 votes

    #20 - Human Error

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/29/2007

    A Cuban couple attempt to get to America by raft... to see House about the wife's heart condition. But when she gets worse House wonders if someone on his staff messed up. Meanwhile Foreman prepares to leave and his departure threatens to shake up the entire team.

    Director: Katie Jacobs

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Intent
    7.5/10 4 votes

    #21 - Intent

    Season 19 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/2017

    The cops get tangled in an elaborate online hoax that leads to the rape of a popular social media star; Benson sets firm ground rules with Sheila.

    Director: Adam Bernstein

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Paternity
    7.5/10 47 votes

    #22 - Paternity

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/23/2004

    Dr. House goes with his gut and performs an unethical act to prove what he suspects to be the link to a teenage lacrosse player's illness in order to save the boy's life.

    Director: Peter O'Fallon

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Cane & Able
    7.4/10 32 votes

    #23 - Cane & Able

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/2006

    House and the team treat a young boy who claims there is a tracking device in his neck and believes he has been the subject of alien experimentation. Cameron is outraged when she learns Cuddy and Wilson have been lying to House about the diagnosis on his last case.

    Director: Daniel Sackheim

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Not Cancer
    7.4/10 30 votes

    #24 - Not Cancer

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/2008

    The team deals with an organ donor whose organs prove fatal, and the two surviving patients. Meanwhile, House hires a private detective to spy on Wilson, but hears a few things about himself that he'd rather not.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

  • Playing Politics: Living Life in the Shadow of the Budget Showdown -- A Critique
    7.4/10 11 votes

    #25 - Playing Politics: Living Life in the Shadow of the Budget Showdown -- A Critique

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/20/2016

    Laurel continues to investigate the death of esteemed Dr. Daudier, while bugs infect more citizens of Washington, D.C. Rochelle Daudier, the deceased doctor’s daughter and Gustav Triplette, an eccentric genius, both encounter the bugs separately and begin to question exactly what is happening.

    Director: Jim McKay

    Writer: Lawrence Kaplow