Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 5)
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This article contains a list of episodes for season 5 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
[edit] Tragedy (9/23/03)
In a race against time to find a woman with a high-risk pregnancy who's been kidnapped, Benson and Stabler are faced with more than one suspect willing to take the fall for the crime. Guest stars: Shirley Knight, Kellie Martin.
[edit] Manic (9/30/03)
Benson and Stabler enlist Huang's help in probing the connection between the deaths of two high school students and an illegal marketing campaign by a major pharmaceutical company. Guest stars: Fred Dalton Thompson, Rory Culkin, John Cullum, Mare Winningham.
[edit] Mother (10/7/03)
Although they are hampered by doctor-patient confidentiality as they investigate the near-fatal beating of a psychiatrist who may have been attacked by one of her patients, Benson and Stabler are able to link the assault to child abuse and an unsolved homicide. Guest star: Susanna Thompson.
[edit] Loss (10/14/03)
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. Cabot leaves the squad being taken into the Witness Protection Program. Guest star: Fred Dalton Thompson.
[edit] Serendipity (10/21/03)
A dead baby is found in a gutter, sending the detectives on a hunt for its mother. She too turns up dead, and the clues point to a dermatologist whose DNA happens to match the evidence in a cold case of child molestation. Casey Novak, the ADA newly assigned to prosecute SVU cases, butts heads with Benson and Stabler over their handling of these murders. Though she has the blessing of Arthur Branch, she is still unsure of whether or not she is the right person to take Cabot's place. Guest stars: Martin Donovan, Fred Dalton Thompson.
[edit] Coerced (10/28/03)
In resolving the kidnapping case of a little boy by a schizophrenic, Stabler uncovers further crimes at an adult group home with Huang's help. Guest stars: Leland Orser, Beverly D'Angelo.
[edit] Choice (11/4/03)
After a man is arrested for attacking his pregnant wife and then seeks to have her charged with neglect for drinking during her pregnancy, Benson learns that this is not the first time a child has been exposed to the devastating repercussions of the woman's uncontrolled alcoholism. Guest stars: Josie Bissett, Shirley Jones, Mariette Hartley.
[edit] Abomination (11/11/03)
After the homosexual poster-boy for a sexual re-education group is found murdered, the detectives 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. Guest stars: George Segal, Daphne Zuniga, Michael Boatman, Fred Dalton Thompson.
[edit] Control (11/18/03)
The mutilation of a subway commuter leads the detectives to discover their "victim" may be kidnapping 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 ahead of the other detectives to find their perp murdered and is crucified in court as a result of turning away one of his victims four years ago because she did not believe the report. Guest stars: Samantha Mathis, Jacqueline Bisset, Austin Pendleton.
[edit] Shaken (11/25/03)
The discovery of a beaten infant leads Stabler and Cragen on a search for the attacker who may be a pedophile. When the medical evidence shows that the injuries were a result of shaken baby syndrome, Stabler shifts the focus of the investigation to those closest to the child: her mother, the nannies and a boyfriend of the mother. Guest stars: Fred Dalton Thompson, Beverly D'Angelo.
[edit] Escape (12/2/03)
When a convicted child molester, desperate to prove his innocence before his terminally ill mother dies, escapes from prison and kidnaps his accuser to force him to recant his story, Benson finds herself in the middle of a hostage situation beginning to believe his story. After he is disarmed, Benson reviews his case, uncovers the web of corruption and deceit which caused his wrongful conviction, and reunites him with his mother and his son. Guest star: Milo Ventimiglia.
[edit] Brotherhood (1/6/04)
The murder and sodomy of a local fraternity pledge master leads the detectives to his pornographic web site, which features college girls at a local bar. Further investigation points back to the fraternity, whose members are not cooperating, and their code of conduct for prospective pledges. Guest stars: Gary Cole, Elden Henson, Serena Williams.
[edit] Hate (1/13/04)
After a man accused of the murders of three Arabs claims that he was genetically and biologically predisposed to hatred and violence, Benson and Stabler dispel the fallacy of his defense when they uncover the real impetus to the slayings. Guest star: Barry Bostwick, Reynaldo Rosales.
[edit] Ritual (2/3/04)
The investigation into the death of a young boy who appears to be the victim of a ritualistic killing leads to the discovery that he was one of many children smuggled from Nigeria to be sold into slavery.
[edit] Families (2/10/04)
The investigation into the death of a pregnant teenager exposes a long-held family secret which precipitates another violent death and the destruction of two families. Guest star: Jane Seymour, Melinda Dillon, Patrick Flueger.
[edit] Home (2/17/04)
A mentally ill woman's paranoia intensifies after her husband is murdered during a robbery, fueling her descent into child abuse, abandonment, and death. Guest star: Diane Venora, Marlo Thomas.
[edit] Mean (2/24/04)
The conviction of a group of sociopathic high school bullies who turned one of their own from a victimizer into a torture murder victim escalates the systematic peer abuse at their exclusive private school, leading to further tragedy. Guest stars: Kelli Garner, Lindsay Hollister, Robert Iler.
[edit] Careless (3/2/04)
The investigation into the death of a foster child, who passed out at a midnight exorcism, leads to charges of neglect and murder for the foster parents and the social worker. Guest stars: Julie Hagerty, CCH Pounder.
[edit] Sick (3/30/04)
The prosecution of a suspected pedophile is impeded by parents who refuse to produce their molested child for questioning to avoid losing the millions they were paid through a non-disclosure agreement, and by the discovery that a second molestation accusation was falsified in an attempt to extort a settlement similar to that received by the first victim. Guest star: Peter Riegert, Marlo Thomas, Cindy Williams.
[edit] Lowdown (4/6/04)
When the death of a prosecutor is staged using information gleaned from a co-worker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession. Meanwhile, Benson, who briefly dated the victim, fears for her health when she finds out he was gay and had AIDS. Novak is then in trouble for telling the wife of the murder suspect to get tested for HIV.
[edit] Criminal (4/20/04)
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, and it's up to Cragen and his team to discover if the professor is the perpetrator or the victim of a bitter rival, a disappearing alibi witness, a corrupt businessman, and ultimately, Cragen's rush to judgment. Guest star: Michael Boatman.
[edit] Painless (4/27/04)
A traumatic event from Munch's past leads him to become personally invested in the prosecution of a terminally ill embryologist accused of facilitating the suicide of a severely depressed woman. Guest star: Marlee Matlin.
[edit] Bound (5/4/04)
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. Guest stars: Jane Krakowski, Anthony Rapp.
[edit] Poison (5/11/04)
Novak enlists her mentor's assistance in obtaining evidence to remove a judge from the bench after his bias in two child abuse cases leads to the death of a child and the wrongful incarceration of an innocent woman. Guest stars: Tom Skerritt, Alicia Goranson, Barry Bostwick, Cynthia Gibb, Marlo Thomas.
[edit] Head (5/18/04)
After a video voyeur's hidden camera in a public restroom records a middle school principal sexually assaulting a 13-year old boy, Novak learns that the pedophilia arose from a brain tumor that is successfully treatable by surgery, and she agrees to a plea bargain, which the offender then violates by contacting the victim when she finds out she is pregnant. Guest stars: Amy Sedaris, Chris Potter, Diana Scarwid, Stacy Edwards, Jake Weary.
| Characters of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| Elliot Stabler | Olivia Benson | John Munch | Donald Cragen | Brian Cassidy | Monique Jeffries | Alexandra Cabot | Odafin Tutuola | George Huang | Casey Novak | Melinda Warner | Dani Beck |
| Cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| Christopher Meloni | Mariska Hargitay | Richard Belzer | Dann Florek | Dean Winters | Michelle Hurd | Stephanie March | Ice T | B.D. Wong | Diane Neal | Tamara Tunie | Connie Nielsen |
| Episodes |
| Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 | Season 7 | Season 8 |
