| Ep. # |
Title |
Writer(s) |
Director(s) |
Airdate |
Prod. code |
| 1 |
"Birthright" |
Jonathan Greene |
Arthur W. Forney |
September 21, 2004 |
E5201 |
| The investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a six-year-old girl uncovers a fertility doctor's scheme to steal embryos, and prompts a custody battle between the child's biological and birth mothers. |
| 2 |
"Debt" |
Amanda Green |
David Platt |
September 28, 2004 |
E5203 |
| As Benson and Stabler investigate the disappearance of a mother and her teen-aged daughter, they uncover a conspiracy between a corrupt immigration attorney and gangsters running a prostitution ring that is staffed by women they have smuggled into the country and imprisoned as sex slaves. |
| 3 |
"Obscene" |
José Molina |
Constantine Makris |
October 12, 2004 |
E5205 |
| One teenager is raped and another is imprisoned when they are thrown together by the manipulative adults in their lives whose sole motivations are celebrity and publicity for their own self-serving interests. |
| 4 |
"Scavenger" |
Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen |
Daniel Sackheim |
October 19, 2004 |
E5207 |
| The entire squad races against the clock to solve the puzzles and uncover the clues scattered throughout the city by a serial killer who is taunting them to find him and the next victims on his list. |
| 5 |
"Outcry" |
Patrick Harbinson |
Constantine Makris |
October 26, 2004 |
E5202 |
| A female high school student has disappeared, but is found several days later. She claims that she was raped by several men in uniform. An old friend of Stabler's, now a newspaper reporter, is part of the media frenzy surrounding the girl. The detectives investigate the cadets whom the girl accuses of raping her, but their names are leaked to the media and one of the cadets is attacked and almost killed. Under pressure, the girl retracts her story, but Benson is still convinced that she was raped. They begin to investigate her overly protective stepfather, but it is eventually revealed that he is innocent and that the girl was raped by her stepfather's boss. She said nothing in order to protect the stepfather's job, which he needs for the health insurance. The boss is acquitted at trial, but afterwards, a previous victim comes forward to tell Stabler and Benson that the boss raped her as well. |
| 6 |
"Conscience" |
Roger Wolfson & Robert Nathan |
David Platt |
November 9, 2004 |
E5208 |
| The son of psychiatrist Dr. Brett Morton (played by Kyle McLachlan) disappears from a birthday party, and is found dead by his friend. Despite viewing his child's body in the morgue, Morton remains perfectly calm and asks carefully-laid questions to Stabler, which fills the Detective with unease. When it becomes clear that the little boy who found the body of Morton's son is actually the killer, the police question children who knew both of the boys. Testimonies bring to light that the boy is a sociopath with violent tendencies. Dr. Morton loses his composure in court when this is brought to light, snatching an officer's gun and shooting the boy dead. As a claim of defense during his subsequent trial, the Doctor claims he was not aware of what he doing, and his despair overrode his senses. He rationalizes that the killing was just, because the unrepentant boy would have just gone on to kill again but he wouldn't. |
| 7 |
"Charisma" |
Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters |
Arthur W. Forney |
November 16, 2004 |
E5206 |
| The investigation of an impregnated 12-year-old girl leads to a religious cult led by a con-artist who massacres the children raised within the "church," and an attempt to embezzle a fortune from the girls parents, one of which they suspect he murdered. Foiling his plot proves to be difficult, when his largely female followers refuse to cooperate with the police. |
| 8 |
"Doubt" |
Marjorie David |
Ted Kotcheff |
November 23, 2004 |
E5209 |
| When a college student claims rape and her professor (played by Billy Campbell) claims it was consensual sex, Stabler and Benson find themselves in the middle of a he said, she said battle, trying to decide whether to believe the alleged victim, or the alleged perpetrator who claimed she liked it rough. Benson sides with Myra, the victim, whereas Stabler finds himself wondering if Polikoff is telling the truth about being innocent, especially after Myra falsely accuses Stabler of touching her inappropriately. After giving more thought to the situation, Benson and Stabler each wonder if the other is right. Stabler has bigger problems on his hands, though, as Myra's attorney reveals that Kathy has moved out and taken the children.
This episode ended abruptly before viewers learned if the jury was going to find Polikoff guilty or not guilty. Viewers were then asked to vote on the official Law & Order: SVU website if the defendant was "guilty" or "not guilty". The results were a "not guilty" verdict. Syndicated showings of this episode always leaves it hanging for the viewers to decide.
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| 9 |
"Weak" |
Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters |
David Platt |
November 30, 2004 |
E5213 |
| After arguing with Stabler about their personal lives, Benson enlists the help of a former cop turned psychiatrist in apprehending a serial rapist and murderer who attacks disabled women. |
| 10 |
"Haunted" |
Amanda Green |
Juan J. Campanella |
December 7, 2004 |
E5212 |
| Tutuola is reunited with his son as he risks his life to save two small children, one caught in the middle of a bodega robbery and the other from the junkie who set the child's mother up for murder and then stole him to use as a front in her scheme to boost materials for her meth lab. |
| 11 |
"Contagious" |
Jonathan Greene |
Aaron Lipstadt |
January 11, 2005 |
E5214 |
| A medical exam of a nine year old girl (Jennette McCurdy) who survived a car accident with her parents reveals that she was a victim of sexual abuse. Out of fear and desperation, she ends up blaming the wrong suspect, leading to a rash of false accusations against him by other girls. However the SVU finds out they were actually victimized by somebody much closer to the prime suspect. |
| 12 |
"Identity" |
Lisa Marie Petersen & Dawn DeNoon |
Rick Wallace |
January 18, 2005 |
E5215 |
| Complications ensue in the investigation of a Stone Cold Assassins gangbanger who fell off a building after the victim that he tried to rape bit him in self-defense, causing him to fall. When the victim's twin sister admitts to the crime, and said she was the one on the roof and was almost raped, which is seemingly impossible due to the evidence until the secrets regarding the sister's true genetic identity are revealed. They find that she was born a boy, and after a botched circumcision was raised female. Investigation reveals more regarding the doctor's ulterior motive to prove that nurture supersedes nature. |
| 13 |
"Quarry" |
José Molina |
Constantine Makris |
January 25, 2005 |
E5217 |
| When the body of a seven-year-old child is found, the squad again begins to investigate convicted serial killer Lucas Biggs, believing that he molested and murdered the boy. While Biggs can detail every child he ever molested, he swears that he has no memory of this one. Further investigations show that there is another suspect, but before he can be picked up, someone picks him off. |
| 14 |
"Game" |
Patrick Harbinson |
David Platt |
February 8, 2005 |
E5216 |
| The squad is at a loss on what to do with a violent homicide when Stabler's son points out that the event is straight out of a video game. Interviewing the game's creators leads them to a former employee, who then leads them (with a few other steps along the way) to a teenage couple who claim to be unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. |
| 15 |
"Hooked" |
Joshua Kotcheff |
Jean de Segonzac |
February 15, 2005 |
E5211 |
| When the body of a teenager is found with her older cousin's I.D., Benson and Stabler investigate only to learn that that the teen had been part of a group who had 'hooked up' online. As their investigation intensified, they realised that the victim was the object of an older man's obsession, but before they can arrest him he also turns up dead. |
| 16 |
"Ghost" |
Amanda Green |
David Platt |
February 22, 2005 |
E5218 |
| A series of drug-related hits leads the detectives back to the same man who tried to kill Alexandra Cabot, who returns from Witness Protection to assist with the case. |
| 17 |
"Rage" |
Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters |
Juan J. Campanella |
March 1, 2005 |
E5219 |
| Fourteen years ago, Stabler had a chance to nail Gordon Rickett for the abduction, rape and murder of Dana MacNamara, but Rickett managed to get off. With the recent discovery of the body of Kerry Lynn Palmer, Stabler has another chance at cracking the case. They can only hold Rickett for twenty-four hours, but are able to glean enough information during that time period to at least have a place to start. Cragen and Benson both worry that Stabler will let his hatred for the suspected child molester interfere with his ability to do his job. |
| 18 |
"Pure" |
Dawn DeNoon |
Aaron Lipstadt |
March 8, 2005 |
E5220 |
| After an 18-year-old girl is kidnapped, psychic Sebastian Ballentine (Martin Short) comes forward claiming to have information on the killings. Stabler refuses to believe that Ballentine is a real psychic, and is convinced that the hints he is dropping about the case indicate he is somehow involved. |
| 19 |
"Intoxicated" |
Jonathan Greene |
Marita Grabiak |
March 15, 2005 |
E5221 |
| On the verge of losing her virginity to her 21-year-old boyfriend Justin, 15-year old Carrie Lynn Eldridge is caught by her mother Denise, who calls NYPD, and insists that he's charged with statutory rape, despite her daughter's objections. When Detectives Benson and Stabler try to follow up on the case, they find Denise brutally murdered in her apartment, the young lovers as suspects, a children's rights lawyer who refuses to cooperate, and history of chronic alcohol abuse and violence by the deceased. |
| 20 |
"Night" |
Amanda Green |
Arthur W. Forney & Juan J. Campanella |
May 3, 2005 |
E5224 |
| Stabler and Benson investigate the case of a woman found raped and murdered, with a wad of money stuffed in her mouth, outside a nightclub and trace the money to a lawyer handling the finances of a wealthy family, the Duvalls. The detectives determine that Gabriel Duvall is the rapist and killer, but lack the evidence they need to put Duvall away until another woman, a Bosnian immigrant, comes forward and accuses Duvall of rape. Novak takes on the two cases when she is brutally assaulted in her office by the other victim's brother, an Islamic fundamentalist.
This is a crossover episode with the Law & Order: Trial by Jury episode "Day."
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| 21 |
"Blood" |
Patrick Harbinson |
Felix Enriquez Alcala |
May 10, 2005 |
E5223 |
| After a young woman's baby is tossed out of a car, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out what happened, and after learning the young woman is addicted to prescription pain killers, their investigation leads them to an elderly woman named Jenny Rogers, who lives with her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Carol. The young woman finally identifies Carol Rogers as the person who solds her the drugs, but when detectives go to confront Carol they find her body, and are left trying to uncover who really killed Carol. Stabler uses his influence as a police officer when his daughter, Kathleen, is arrested for drunk driving. |
| 22 |
"Parts" |
David Foster |
Matt Earl Beesley |
May 17, 2005 |
E5204 |
| After a woman's head is found in a car junkyard, the detectives track it down to the black market. |
| 23 |
"Goliath" |
Peter Leto |
Tara Butters & Michele Fazekas |
May 24, 2005 |
E5225 |
| After the wife of a police officer claims her husband raped her, Benson and Stabler arrest the man and come close to believing his version of events when he attacks his captain. When another officer murders his wife and attempts to kill himself that same night, the whole force gets involved and soon realizes that the two men both recently returned home from Afghanistan, where they were given the drug Quinium, an anti-malarial. With the reluctant help of reporter Sherm Hempell and a base doctor with an attack of conscience, Novak takes on the U.S. army. Stabler has trouble with the case because of his history in the Marines. The episode has close resemblances to the story of the anti-malarial drug Larium.[1] |
