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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Season 5 (25 Episodes)

2003 TV-14 1h 00m 8.1

This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

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Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 Tragedy

1. Tragedy

Aired: Sep 23, 2003

When a pregnant woman is kidnapped and carjacked, the squad thinks, at first,...

Episode 2 Manic

2. Manic

Aired: Sep 30, 2003

While investigating a school shooting that claimed the lives of two students,...

Episode 3 Mother

3. Mother

Aired: Oct 7, 2003

Police find a female forensic psychiatrist unconscious and bound in a basemen...

Episode 4 Loss

4. Loss

Aired: Oct 14, 2003

Investigating the brutal rape and murder of an undercover federal agent and f...

Episode 5 Serendipity

5. Serendipity

Aired: Oct 21, 2003

The discovery of the bodies of a newborn and her mother leads to a dermatolog...

Episode 6 Coerced

6. Coerced

Aired: Oct 28, 2003

In resolving the kidnapping case of a little boy by a schizophrenic, Stabler ...

Episode 7 Choice

7. Choice

Aired: Nov 4, 2003

After a man is arrested for attacking his pregnant wife and then seeks to hav...

Episode 8 Abomination

8. Abomination

Aired: Nov 11, 2003

A gay man who had a brief stint in a Fundamentalist Christian-sponsored sexua...

Episode 9 Control

9. Control

Aired: Nov 18, 2003

The Detectives find themselves hunting for a person who cut off a man's genit...

Episode 10 Shaken

10. Shaken

Aired: Nov 25, 2003

A toddler seems to have been abducted from a park while her babysitter is sev...

Episode 11 Escape

11. Escape

Aired: Dec 2, 2003

A pair of inmates jump a guard and escape from prison using the guard's cloth...

Episode 12 Brotherhood

12. Brotherhood

Aired: Jan 6, 2004

The murder and sodomy of a local fraternity pledge master leads the detective...

Episode 13 Hate

13. Hate

Aired: Jan 13, 2004

After an Arab-American woman is set on fire, the detectives discover an inten...

Episode 14 Ritual

14. Ritual

Aired: Feb 3, 2004

Two garbage collectors run into what they first think is a scene of animal sa...

Episode 15 Families

15. Families

Aired: Feb 10, 2004

A high school student is found murdered, and it appears she's the victim of i...

Episode 16 Home

16. Home

Aired: Feb 17, 2004

Detectives interview an overprotective mother to find out why her son is scav...

Episode 17 Mean

17. Mean

Aired: Feb 24, 2004

When a schoolgirl's body is found in the trunk of a car, Stabler and Benson f...

Episode 18 Careless

18. Careless

Aired: Mar 2, 2004

After a young boy dies during a church vigil, Tutuola and Munch investigate t...

Episode 19 Sick

19. Sick

Aired: Mar 30, 2004

Two children claim that they were molested by a billionaire.

Episode 20 Lowdown

20. Lowdown

Aired: Apr 6, 2004

When the death of a prosecutor is staged using information gleaned from a cow...

Episode 21 Criminal

21. Criminal

Aired: Apr 20, 2004

When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student,...

Episode 22 Painless

22. Painless

Aired: Apr 27, 2004

A woman claiming to have been raped and left for dead commits suicide while w...

Episode 23 Bound

23. Bound

Aired: May 4, 2004

The investigation into the murder of a senior citizen leads the squad to susp...

Episode 24 Poison

24. Poison

Aired: May 11, 2004

Novak enlists Clark's assistance in obtaining evidence to remove a judge from...

Episode 25 Head

25. Head

Aired: May 18, 2004

A urophile, cyber-Peeping Tom catches a child abuse case on video.

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Info about Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Current Status: Currently Airing

Network: NBC

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery