Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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.

Genre: CrimeDramaMystery

Cast:Mariska HargitayChristopher MeloniIce-TDann FlorekRichard BelzerKelli GiddishBD WongTamara TuniePeter ScanavinoRaúl EsparzaDiane NealStephanie MarchDanny PinoMike DoyleJoel de la FuenteJoanna MerlinCaren BrowningOctavio Pisano


1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Tragedy

Tue, Sep 23, 2003

When a pregnant woman is kidnapped and carjacked, the squad thinks, at first, that she's the latest victim of a serial rapist, only to realize that she's the victim of an intricate ransom plot.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Manic

Tue, Sep 30, 2003

While investigating a school shooting that claimed the lives of two students, the squad realizes that the surviving victim is actually the shooter and the side effects of a medication may have caused his actions.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Mother

Tue, Oct 7, 2003

Police find a female forensic psychiatrist unconscious and bound in a basement, along with would-be rapists. She turns out to be the author of a book about rehabilitating convicted sex offenders. The detectives identify one of her patients as a suspect, and ask the doctor for his records, but they disappeared when her office was vandalized shortly after she left the hospital. A tape that disappeared during the break-in is brought to police by another suspect's sister, which leads the investigation to focus on victimology.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Loss

Tue, Oct 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.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Serendipity

Tue, Oct 21, 2003

The discovery of the bodies of a newborn and her mother leads to a dermatologist coming under suspicion of the rapes of young girls.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Coerced

Tue, Oct 28, 2003

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.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Choice

Tue, Nov 4, 2003

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.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Abomination

Tue, Nov 11, 2003

A gay man who had a brief stint in a Fundamentalist Christian-sponsored sexual re-education course is found murdered, and suspects range from the conversion program itself, a bigoted church group who kept sending him threatening letters, a group of psychologists studying the nature of homosexuality, and two of his ex-lovers, one of whom is the son of one of the professors.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Control

Tue, Nov 18, 2003

The Detectives find themselves hunting for a person who cut off a man's genitals and left him to die.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Shaken

Tue, Nov 25, 2003

A toddler seems to have been abducted from a park while her babysitter is several yards distant talking to a nanny. Searching detectives shortly after arriving on the scene find the child unconscious behind nearby bushes.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ Escape

Tue, Dec 2, 2003

A pair of inmates jump a guard and escape from prison using the guard's clothes. One of the two kidnaps his own son's older half-brother, a son who was born after the escapee was imprisoned for raping the older brother.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ Brotherhood

Tue, Jan 6, 2004

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.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Hate

Tue, Jan 13, 2004

After an Arab-American woman is set on fire, the detectives discover an intensely xenophobic man aiming to cleanse America.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Ritual

Tue, Feb 3, 2004

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

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ Families

Tue, Feb 10, 2004

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

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ Home

Tue, Feb 17, 2004

Detectives interview an overprotective mother to find out why her son is scavenging for food.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Mean

Tue, Feb 24, 2004

When a schoolgirl's body is found in the trunk of a car, Stabler and Benson find themselves investigating allegations of bullying among her classmates.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ Careless

Tue, Mar 2, 2004

After a young boy dies during a church vigil, Tutuola and Munch investigate the boy's foster parents and social worker for neglect.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ Sick

Tue, Mar 30, 2004

Two children claim that they were molested by a billionaire.

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ Lowdown

Tue, Apr 6, 2004

When the death of a prosecutor is staged using information gleaned from a coworker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession.

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ Criminal

Tue, Apr 20, 2004

When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor that Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ Painless

Tue, Apr 27, 2004

A woman claiming to have been raped and left for dead commits suicide while waiting to be treated in the emergency room.

23Season 5

S5.E23 ∙ Bound

Tue, May 4, 2004

The investigation into the murder of a senior citizen leads the squad to suspect that the killer is actually a serial killer who preys on elderly women.

24Season 5

S5.E24 ∙ Poison

Tue, May 11, 2004

Novak enlists Clark'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 and the wrongful incarceration of an innocent woman.

25Season 5

S5.E25 ∙ Head

Tue, May 18, 2004

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