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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Season 5

September 23, 200325 episodes7.9

Episode information and air dates for this season are listed below.

Season 5

Episodes

Select an episode for its synopsis, runtime, guest cast, crew, images, and available video extras.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Tragedy

Tragedy

September 23, 2003 42 min

A woman with a high-risk pregnancy disappears and her ex-boyfriend, who's the father, and engaged to the boss' daughter, is under suspicion. In a race against time to find her as her delivery date approaches, Benson and Stabler are faced with more than one suspect willing to take the fall for the crime.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Manic

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Manic

September 30, 2003 44 min

Detectives enlist Dr. Huang's help as they investigate the deaths of two high-school basketball players gunned down while shooting hoops in the gymnasium and the connection to an illegal marketing campaign by a major pharmaceutical company.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Mother

Mother

October 7, 2003 44 min

A psychiatrist with unconventional methods is found sexually assaulted, unconscious and near death in a crack house. It's easier said than done to get her to cooperate with the investigation as they are hampered by doctor-patient confidentiality as she may have been attacked by one of her patients.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Loss

Loss

October 14, 2003 44 min

A female undercover agent for the DEA is raped and murdered, leading to a complicated investigation and the arrest of a suspect highly connected with a Colombian drug cartel. This is the toughest case of Cabot's career as she is faced with death threats on herself and her family along with pressure to yield the case to federal authorities.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Serendipity

Serendipity

October 21, 2003 42 min

A newborn baby is found dead in a gutter, sending the detectives on a hunt for the mother. She too turns up murdered, and the clues point to a serial child molester.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Coerced

Coerced

October 28, 2003 44 min

A schizophrenic homeless man kidnaps a boy he thinks is his son, murdering a man in the process. In resolving the case, with Dr. Huang's help, a private mental health facility is brought into question.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Choice

Choice

November 4, 2003 43 min

While patrolling, police stumble upon an attack in progress at Momma Sue's restaurant on the pregnant owner. Her husband is arrested and then seeks to have her charged with neglect for drinking during her pregnancy. The detectives discover it's not the first time a child has been exposed to the devastating repercussions of her uncontrolled alcoholism.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Abomination

Abomination

November 11, 2003 43 min

Benson and Stabler have trouble identifying a male murder victim in his 20's found in a pile of sheets in the West Village; they later suspect an outspoken minister who was in the process of flooding the victim with hate mail and death threats. When the activist's alibi checks out, the detectives turn their attention to a professor who objects to the victim's thesis on the failure of sexual re-education groups.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Control

Control

November 18, 2003 44 min

A subway commuter is found castrated and bleeding profusely, leading the detectives to discover their "victim" may be the perpetrator in abducting women and forcing them to live in his dungeon for several years as his bride. As the detectives prepare to arrest their victim turned suspect, Benson arrives to find him murdered.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Shaken

Shaken

November 25, 2003 44 min

The discovery of a beaten infant leads detectives on a search for the attacker, who may be a pedophile. When the medical evidence shows the injuries were a result of shaken baby syndrome, their focus shifts to those closest to the child: her mother, the mother's boyfriend and the nannies.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Escape

Escape

December 2, 2003 43 min

When a convicted pedophile, desperate to prove his innocence before his terminally ill mother dies, escapes from a Virginia Correctional Facility and kidnaps his accuser to force him to recant his story, a Deputy Marshall teams up with Benson to track them down. Benson eventually finds herself in the middle of a hostage situation beginning to believe his story.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Brotherhood

Brotherhood

January 6, 2004 44 min

When the body of young man is found in a tank at a wastewater treatment plant, the medical examiner identifies a tattoo that says TE, the symbol for the fraternity Tau Omega. The investigation into the murder and sodomy of this local fraternity pledge master leads the detectives to his pornographic website featuring college girls at a local bar.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Hate

Hate

January 13, 2004 43 min

A young Arab woman is brutally raped and burned, and after identifying her, the detectives suspect her husband and mother-in-law. After a man accused of the murders of three Arabs, he claims that he was genetically and biologically predisposed to hatred and violence, but soon they uncover the real impetus to the slayings.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Ritual

Ritual

February 3, 2004 42 min

Two garbage collectors discover what they first think is a scene of animal sacrifice but is the body of a young boy who appears to be the victim of a ritualistic killing. The investigation leads to the discovery of international child slavery.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Families

Families

February 10, 2004 43 min

The investigation into the death of a pregnant high school student exposes a long-held family secret, which precipitates yet another violent death and eventually the destruction of two families.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Home

Home

February 17, 2004 43 min

A young, emaciated boy is found by neighbors scrounging for food; detectives suspect the boy is a victim of abuse and are reluctant to let him go home.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Mean

Mean

February 24, 2004 43 min

The conviction of a group of sociopathic high school bullies who turned on one of their own escalates into even more violence and death in their exclusive private school.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Careless

Careless

March 2, 2004 41 min

When a young foster child dies due to a religious ritual gone awry, the detectives unravel a mysterious pattern of violence, abuse and murder within one foster care family.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Sick

Sick

March 30, 2004 43 min

A wealthy toy mogul is the suspect of the sexual abuse of a child. His prosecution impeded by the child's parents who refuse to produce their child for questioning to avoid losing the millions paid through a non-disclosure agreement, and by the discovery that a second accusation was falsified in an attempt to extort a settlement.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Lowdown

Lowdown

April 6, 2004 42 min

Detectives try to decipher a motive for the strangulation of a Bronx assistant DA in an area where hookers stroll. When the death of the prosecutor looks staged using information gleaned from a co-worker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Criminal

Criminal

April 20, 2004 43 min

When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes, but is the professor a perpetrator or a victim?

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Painless

Painless

April 27, 2004 43 min

A woman claiming to have been the victim of rape commits suicide while she is still in the emergency room.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Bound

Bound

May 4, 2004 42 min

The death of a wealthy senior citizen leads to an investigation that uncovers a serial killer with childhood abandonment issues who targets the elderly.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Poison

Poison

May 11, 2004 43 min

A young girl is in a coma after ingesting detergent and her mother is suspected of poisoning her. A biased judge makes the case hard to prosecute which leads to an investigation into his past.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Head

Head

May 18, 2004 44 min

A boy is accused of being molested after his soccer game, but he doesn't admit to it. His principal and his soccer coach are the prime suspects.

Season Credits

Featured Cast

Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay

Olivia Benson

Ice-T

Ice-T

Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

Christopher Meloni

Christopher Meloni

Elliot Stabler

Richard Belzer

Richard Belzer

John Munch

Dann Florek

Dann Florek

Donald Cragen

BD Wong

BD Wong

Dr. George Huang

Diane Neal

Diane Neal

Casey Novak

Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie

Dr. Melinda Warner

Caren Browning

Caren Browning

Judith Siper

Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle

Ryan O'Halloran

Audrie Neenan

Audrie Neenan

Lois Preston

Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson

Arthur Branch

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