Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Season 5, Episodes
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e01). Season 5, Episode 1 - Air Date: 09/23/2003
A high-risk pregnant woman is kidnapped when approaching her due date. Confusion arises when multiple suspects are willing to admit the crime to Detectives Benson and Stabler.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e02). Season 5, Episode 2 - Air Date: 09/30/2003
Detectives Benson and Stabler look for a link between the deaths of two high school students and an illegal marketing campaign by the major pharmaceutical company Tauscher-Leto.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e03). Season 5, Episode 3 - Air Date: 10/07/2003
A psychiatrist is almost fatally attacked - possibly by her patient, but she refuses to reveal information due to doctor-patient confidentiality. Two patients become suspects; one a serial rapist and one a frat boy with fugue states. While the serial rapist is found with tools of his past crimes, his librarian girlfriend can't believe he is a possible suspect. The hyper-concerned sister of the college student gives clues to the emotional state of her traumatized brother. Eventually, detectives Benson and Stabler find a link between the attack, a child abuse and an unsolved homicide.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e04). Season 5, Episode 4 - Air Date: 10/14/2003
Investigating the brutal rape and murder of an undercover federal agent and forced to use discretion in order to protect the identities of those agents in the field, the detectives arrest a suspect highly connected with a Colombian drug cartel. As the case proceeds towards trial, Cabot is faced with death threats on herself and her family along with pressure to yield the case to federal authorities.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e05). Season 5, Episode 5 - Air Date: 10/21/2003
After finding a dead baby in a plastic bag in the sewer, the detectives find the mother, also dead, in her nearby apartment. After talking to her doctor the detectives discover that the mother had planned to give her baby up for adoption and the adoptive parents were paying her doctor's bills. During the investigation they meet Casey Novak, the new A.D.A.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e06). Season 5, Episode 6 - Air Date: 10/28/2003
When a man kidnaps a little boy from his bed one night, it is soon revealed the man is homeless and schizophrenic. Detective Stabler, who is attacked by the man, exposes further crimes at an adult group home.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e07). Season 5, Episode 7 - Air Date: 11/04/2003
A man is arrested for attacking his pregnant wife in protest of her drinking during pregnancy. Detective Benson finds out it is not the first time she has overindulged in alcohol during pregnancy. The wife is taken to family court by her husband, who accuses her of endangering the fetus by putting it at risk of developing fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e08). Season 5, Episode 8 - Air Date: 11/11/2003
A minister who used to harass a sexual re-education group's homosexual poster-boy, is suspected for his murder. However, his alibi checks out. It is revealed the victim had a thesis about the failure of sexual re-education groups, which drew the attention of an opposing professor.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e09). Season 5, Episode 9 - Air Date: 11/18/2003
Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate a man's mutilation in a subway station. The victim soon becomes a suspect when they learn he used to abduct women, make them his "brides," and force them to live in his dungeon. However, a woman manages to kill him before he is arrested. She claims she took the law into her own hands because when she reported the man's crimes to Detective Benson four years earlier, she didn't believe her.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e10). Season 5, Episode 10 - Air Date: 11/25/2003
Detectives Stabler and Cragen suspect an infant was beaten by a pedophile. However, they soon learn the baby suffered from shaken baby syndrome, which leads them to suspect the mother, the nannies and the mother's boyfriend.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e11). Season 5, Episode 11 - Air Date: 12/02/2003
In Virginia, criminals named Baxter and Gamble escaped prison right after they jumped Officer Edwards. Baxter might be heading back to New York City because his ex-girlfriend Carin lives there. Baxter was arrested for raping Carin’s son.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e12). Season 5, Episode 12 - Air Date: 01/06/2004
A local fraternity pledge master is sodomized and murdered. The detectives link it to a pornographic website that features college girls at a local bar. The investigation later re-focuses on ceremonies held for prospective pledges in the fraternity, even though the members won't talk.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e13). Season 5, Episode 13 - Air Date: 01/13/2004
A man murders two Arabs (plus a third, while in custody) and claims his genes and biology enforced the hatred and violence in him. Detectives Benson and Stabler try to discover his true motive.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e14). Season 5, Episode 14 - Air Date: 02/03/2004
A young boy is killed in a way that looks ritualistic. It is learned he was one of many slave children smuggled from Nigeria.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e15). Season 5, Episode 15 - Air Date: 02/10/2004
When a pregnant teenager is murdered, it is linked to a deep family secret. That secret involved another violent murder that ruined two families.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e16). Season 5, Episode 16 - Air Date: 02/17/2004
A kid found digging through garbage cans leads to a paranoid, overprotective mother and a murder-suicide gone wrong.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e17). Season 5, Episode 17 - Air Date: 02/24/2004
A sociopathic bully in a private high school tortures and murders her own friend. The incident leads to even more violence and death in the private school.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e18). Season 5, Episode 18 - Air Date: 03/02/2004
When a young boy dies due to a religious ritual gone away, Benson and Stabler unravel a mysterious pattern of violence, abuse and murder within one foster care family.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e19). Season 5, Episode 19 - Air Date: 03/30/2004
A rewarding non-disclosure agreement causes two parents to refuse to have their molested child questioned about a suspected pedophile. It is also revealed that in hopes of getting millions worth of settlement, another parent decides to seek out the same man and falsely accuse him of similar crimes, using clips she found in the paper.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e20). Season 5, Episode 20 - Air Date: 04/06/2004
When internal information is used to stage a prosecutor's death, Novak puts her job on the line to get a confession.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e21). Season 5, Episode 21 - Air Date: 04/20/2004
An ex-con criminology professor is among the suspects in a graduate student's rape and murder. A hasty investigation tries to find out if the professor could have been framed by his bitter rival, a disappearing alibi witness and a corrupted businessman.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e22). Season 5, Episode 22 - Air Date: 04/27/2004
A defense lawyer challenges the assisted-suicide law in a case involving a hearing-impaired embryologist, whose website encouraged a woman to kill herself by putting a bag over her head and handcuffing herself to her bed, but failed after being found by two maids. The woman claims she was raped, and later commits suicide by medicine. Munch reveals that his father committed suicide after Munch insulted him.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e23). Season 5, Episode 23 - Air Date: 05/04/2004
An elderly woman's strangulation leads to a case involving mass murders in a home-nursing company owned by a brother and nursed by his sister.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e24). Season 5, Episode 24 - Air Date: 05/11/2004
A child passes out and is hospitalized after having a huge amount of detergent in her stomach. Her sister reveals their mother forced the child to drink it, but a judge disqualifies the sister's testimony. Novak and Clark investigate the judge due to his prior mishandling of an earlier child abuse case, in which he falsely jailed a woman.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (s05e25). Season 5, Episode 25 - Air Date: 05/18/2004
A boy is accused of being molested after his soccer game, but he doesn't admit to it. His pricipal, and his soccer coach are the prime suspects.
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