9.5/104 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
8.9/107 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
8.7/103 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
8.6/1044 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
8.3/1029 votes#5 - 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
8.2/1029 votes#6 - 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
8.2/1025 votes#7 - 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
8.1/1037 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
8.0/1042 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
8.0/102 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
8.0/102 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
8.0/101 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
7.9/1042 votes#13 - 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
7.9/1033 votes#14 - 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
7.8/1033 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
7.7/1037 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
7.7/1039 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
7.7/1030 votes#18 - 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
7.7/1025 votes#19 - 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
7.6/1031 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
7.5/1047 votes#21 - 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
7.5/1031 votes#22 - 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
7.5/104 votes#23 - 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
7.4/1011 votes#24 - 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
7.4/1033 votes#25 - 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
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"Gone Baby Gone" is the best rated episode written by Lawrence Kaplow. It scored 9.5/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by Jean de Segonzac. It aired on 1/3/2018 and is rated 0.6 points higher than their second-best episode, "Military Justice".