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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 19 Episode 9 - Gone Baby Gone
    9.6/10(5 votes)

    #1 - Gone Baby Gone

    S19:E9

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  2. undefined Season 15 Episode 8 - Military Justice
    8.9/10(7 votes)

    #2 - Military Justice

    S15:E8

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 24 - No Reason
    8.7/10(50 votes)

    #3 - No Reason

    S2:E24

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  4. undefined Season 20 Episode 11 - Plastic
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Plastic

    S20:E11

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  5. undefined Season 5 Episode 23 - Under My Skin
    8.5/10(38 votes)

    #5 - Under My Skin

    S5:E23

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  6. undefined Season 7 Episode 7 - A Pox on Our House
    8.4/10(34 votes)

    #6 - A Pox on Our House

    S7:E7

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  7. undefined Season 15 Episode 5 - Wonderland Story
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Wonderland Story

    S15:E5

    Investigation into the suspected rape of a woman Benson helped earlier leads to a cybermogul. The team bids farewell to Munch.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  8. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Autopsy
    8.2/10(47 votes)

    #8 - Autopsy

    S2:E2

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  9. undefined Season 7 Episode 16 - Out of the Chute
    8.1/10(38 votes)

    #9 - Out of the Chute

    S7:E16

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 11 - Detox
    8.1/10(53 votes)

    #10 - Detox

    S1:E11

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  11. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - Meaning
    8.0/10(42 votes)

    #11 - Meaning

    S3:E1

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 15 - Half-Wit
    8.0/10(42 votes)

    #12 - Half-Wit

    S3:E15

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  13. undefined Season 3 Episode 24 - Human Error
    8.0/10(39 votes)

    #13 - Human Error

    S3:E24

    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.

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    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  14. undefined Season 4 Episode 16 - Missing
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Missing

    S4:E16

    Bull aims to convince a jury to put the law aside, when he represents a woman guilty of kidnapping her niece years ago to stop the girl's father from abusing her. During jury selection, Bull looks for people who believe that when his client abducted her niece, she was saving the young girl's life.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  15. undefined Season 2 Episode 12 - Shades of Blue
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Shades of Blue

    S2:E12

    An undercover cop is discovered murdered at a truck stop.

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    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 18 - Going Viral (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Going Viral (1)

    S2:E18

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 12 - Distractions
    7.9/10(37 votes)

    #17 - Distractions

    S2:E12

    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.

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    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  18. undefined Season 6 Episode 5 - Brave Heart
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #18 - Brave Heart

    S6:E5

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  19. undefined Season 1 Episode 14 - Control
    7.9/10(53 votes)

    #19 - Control

    S1:E14

    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.

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    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 22 - Honeymoon
    7.8/10(51 votes)

    #20 - Honeymoon

    S1:E22

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  21. undefined Season 1 Episode 19 - Kids
    7.7/10(48 votes)

    #21 - Kids

    S1:E19

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  22. undefined Season 5 Episode 2 - Not Cancer
    7.7/10(38 votes)

    #22 - Not Cancer

    S5:E2

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  23. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Cane & Able
    7.7/10(43 votes)

    #23 - Cane & Able

    S3:E2

    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:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  24. undefined Season 5 Episode 13 - Big Baby
    7.6/10(33 votes)

    #24 - Big Baby

    S5:E13

    Cuddy decides to spend more time at home to take care of her newly adopted baby and passes some of her day-to-day responsibilities off to Cameron, including supervising House. Cameron is forced to play House’s games and becomes involved in a power struggle as he and the team take on the case of a Special Education teacher who collapsed after spitting up blood in the middle of class. As House tests Cameron’s tolerance for his extreme measures, the patient continues to fall ill and House insists the teacher’s seemingly inherent goodness is actually a pathology.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  25. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Paternity
    7.6/10(57 votes)

    #25 - Paternity

    S1:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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Lawrence Kaplow Ratings Summary

"Gone Baby Gone" is the best rated episode written by Lawrence Kaplow. It scored 9.6/10 based on 5 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 1/3/2018 and is rated 0.7 points higher than their second-best episode, "Military Justice".