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Season 5

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Crime
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TV-14
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Season released 23rd Sep, 2003.

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Season 5 Episodes

S05 Episode 1

Tragedy

When a woman with a high-risk pregnancy is kidnapped as she approaches her delivery date, Benson and Stabler are faced with more than one suspect willing to take the fall for the crime.

42 mins · Tue, 23 Sep 2003

S05 Episode 2

Manic

Detectives investigate when two high-school basketball players are gunned down while shooting hoops in the gymnasium.

43 mins · Tue, 30 Sep 2003

S05 Episode 3

Mother

A psychiatrist specialising in the treatment of sex offenders is found badly beaten and sexually assaulted in a drug den and one of her recently paroled patients, the Duct Tape Rapist, is the prime suspect.

44 mins · Tue, 7 Oct 2003

S05 Episode 4

Loss

Detectives face off against a Colombian drug cartel and the Drug Enforcement Administration while investigating the brutal rape and murder of an undercover agent.

44 mins · Tue, 14 Oct 2003

S05 Episode 5

Serendipity

When a woman and her newborn child are found murdered, a trail of events is set in motion that leads the detectives to hunt a serial paedophile.

42 mins · Tue, 21 Oct 2003

S05 Episode 6

Coerced

A five-year-old boy is abducted from his bed in the middle of the night, prompting detectives to take a hard look at the boy's estranged father.

43 mins · Tue, 28 Oct 2003

S05 Episode 7

Choice

A man arrested after attacking his pregnant wife accuses her of endangering the life of their unborn child through excessive drinking.

42 mins · Tue, 4 Nov 2003

S05 Episode 8

Abomination

The on-campus murder of a gay student sees suspicion fall on both a homophobic professor and his gay son, the victim's lover.

42 mins · Tue, 11 Nov 2003

S05 Episode 9

Control

After a man is mutilated on the subway, detectives learn that he has a dark and twisted secret life of kidnapping women and keeping them in his dungeon.

44 mins · Tue, 18 Nov 2003

S05 Episode 10

Shaken

When a missing infant is found to be fatally injured, and without a conclusive clue about the perpetrator, the detectives are forced to make a tough decision.

44 mins · Tue, 25 Nov 2003

S05 Episode 11

Escape

Detective Benson becomes involved in a dangerous hostage situation when an escaped prisoner seeks revenge on his stepson.

42 mins · Tue, 2 Dec 2003

S05 Episode 12

Brotherhood

Benson and Stabler hit a wall of silence while questioning fraternity brothers about the murder and sodomy of their hard-nosed pledge master. They are led to a fellow student who claims to have been raped by the victim.

43 mins · Tue, 6 Jan 2004

S05 Episode 13

Hate

Detectives investigate the rape and murder of an Arab-American woman and suspect her husband. A second murder, of a man, leads them to believe it is a possible hate crime spree.

43 mins · Tue, 13 Jan 2004

S05 Episode 14

Ritual

A young boy's dismembered body is found in Central Park, and the detectives' investigation leads to a child slave ring.

42 mins · Tue, 3 Feb 2004

S05 Episode 15

Families

Family members become the prime suspects in a murder when DNA tests on the remains of a 16-year-old girl show evidence of incest.

42 mins · Tue, 10 Feb 2004

S05 Episode 16

Home

The detectives are forced to return a young boy who is being abused to his mother. The next day, the same boy is found dead.

43 mins · Tue, 17 Feb 2004

S05 Episode 17

Mean

The detectives investigate after the conviction of high school bullies for torture and murder escalates the abuse at their elite private school.

42 mins · Tue, 24 Feb 2004

S05 Episode 18

Careless

After passing out at a late night church service, a child dies in the emergency room. His foster parents and a social worker are charged with his death.

41 mins · Tue, 2 Mar 2004

S05 Episode 19

Sick

The search for the sexual abuser of a child leads the detectives to a wealthy toy mogul known for his generous hospitality toward children.

42 mins · Tue, 30 Mar 2004

S05 Episode 20

Lowdown

When an assistant district attorney is killed, detectives first suspect a prostitute, but new evidence reveals it is someone closer to home.

42 mins · Tue, 6 Apr 2004

S05 Episode 21

Criminal

When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor that Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes.

42 mins · Tue, 20 Apr 2004

S05 Episode 22

Painless

A woman claiming to have been raped and left for dead commits suicide while waiting to be treated in the emergency room.

42 mins · Tue, 27 Apr 2004

S05 Episode 23

Bound

A nurse, whose brother owns the home-nursing company she works for, takes her childhood abandonment frustrations of her mother out on the rich elderly women the company cares for, leaving the detectives to believe they have a money-hungry serial killer on the loose. The detectives know the nurse has committed the murders of what they thought was six people, but they cannot prove it, that is untill Benson and Stabler do a little roleplaying and get the nurse to confess that she has killed numerous elderly women and framed the murders on her brother as a way to get back at her mother and brother.

42 mins · Tue, 4 May 2004

S05 Episode 24

Poison

A mother becomes Stabler and Benson's prime suspect in the poisoning of her child. Meanwhile, Novak enlists Clark's assistance in finding evidence to remove a judge from the bench, after his bias in two child abuse cases has shocking consequences.

42 mins · Tue, 11 May 2004

S05 Episode 25

Head

A video voyeur catches a sexual assault against a minor on tape, which changes the focus of the investigation as the detectives search for a paedophile.

44 mins · Tue, 18 May 2004

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