The Best Episodes Written By Theresa Rebeck

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Legion

   S2:E184/6/2003

   When a father and son have their throats slit, the detectives discovers that a group of adolescent boys have disappeared from the same neighborhood. When the locals don't cooperate with the investigation, the cops think the boys are being used by someone operating a bicycle theft ring. The cops are led to a studio owner who brainwashes the boys to prove their worthiness.

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   9.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - Demolition Derby

   S1:E101/10/2000

   An explosion in a building about to be demolished leaves men trapped inside, forcing the firefighters to make terrible choices; Fred's drinking problem escalates; Doc cancels his date with Brenda.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Yesterday

   S1:E184/14/2002

   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.

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   8.3/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Baggage

   S2:E111/12/2003

   When an airline baggage supervisor is found murdered in the trunk of her car, the detectives investigate the employees listed in a sexual harrassment complaint which leads them to a scam involving credit cards and credit reports with foreign links.

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   8.0/10(5 votes)

   #5 - Faith

   S1:E214/28/2002

   When a wealthy publisher is murdered to prevent him from exposing an elaborate confidence game that enveloped him, his company and one of his editors, Goren and Eames run their own con to extract a confession from the killer.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Girl Talk

   S3:E163/19/1996

   After a young girl is strangled and thrown from a roof, Simone and Sipowicz find a similar case in another district. The investigating officer comes to the 15th, to share information and immediately gets in Andy's bad books. Russell and Martinez disagree over the claims of rape made by a woman, against a married schoolteacher. Sipowicz and Andy Junior go 'on the street'.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #7 - Large Mouth Bass

   S2:E122/7/1995

   The detectives investigate the brutal murder of a young woman. Their investigation leads to one main suspect – Derrick Cobb, the girl's former stepfather. Simone worries that one of his close friends, Raymond diSalvo, has gotten involved in drug dealing at a dance club. Lesniak investigates con artist Mac McClellan.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #8 - The Pardoner's Tale

   S1:E811/18/2001

   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.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #9 - Cold Heaters

   S3:E812/19/1995

   Simone's old pal Ray turns informant, from jail, in order to get a reduced sentence, but things don't go to plan. A father takes deadly revenge to protect his bullied son. Medavoy has to placate 2 actors who come to blows on stage.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Moby Greg

    S4:E110/15/1996

    Greg and Andy consider going on a diet. Simone considers his feelings for Diane. A body in a trunk leads to a gun chase and the hunt for the killer. The squad greet a new PAA.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - These Old Bones

    S3:E122/6/1996

    A bruised and battered wife tells Sipowicz that her husband claimed to have killed somebody 8 years previously. Sipowicz follows a trail, leading back to 2 previous relationships. Russell is told that her father has been shot and killed. Her brother claims to have done it, but Simone thinks he's not telling the whole truth.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Unembraceable You

    S4:E812/10/1996

    Simone and Sipowicz investigate a street shooting when witnesses name a man who is supposed to be in jail. Macey, a young man who was previously in the care of Lt. Fancy, is caught carrying drugs. Medavoy meets with more disappointment.

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    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #13 - I Love Lucy

    S4:E184/22/1997

    2 male transvestites, previous acquaintances of Russell's make a complaint against a boyfriend. The parents of an old school friend of Kirkendall's accuse their daughter of theft.

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    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Torah! Torah! Torah!

    S3:E210/31/1995

    An ill man is accused of killing his sister, but Simone suspects otherwise. Meanwhile, Medavoy and Sipowicz go under cover to recover a stolen Jewish icon. Sipowicz struggles to keep a secret.

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