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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Detectives Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) are back to solve sickening cases of sexually based crimes in this fifth season of SVU.
IMDb 8.1199925 episodes
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Episodes

  1. S5 E1 - Tragedy
    September 22, 2003
    42min
    13+
    A pregnant woman disappears and her ex-boyfriend, who's the father and engaged to the boss' daughter, is under suspicion.
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  2. S5 E2 - Manic
    September 29, 2003
    44min
    13+
    A teenage boy on a manic rampage kills two star basketball players then tries to kill himself, and his defense is a failed course of psychiatric treatment and drugs.
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  3. S5 E3 - Mother
    October 6, 2003
    44min
    13+
    A psychiatrist with unconventional methods is found sexually assaulted and unconcious in a crack house, and it's easier said than done to get her to cooperate with the investigation.
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  4. S5 E4 - Loss
    October 13, 2003
    44min
    13+
    A beautiful undercover agent for the DEA is raped and murdered, leading to a complicated investigation of a Columbian drug cartel, and the toughest case of Cabot's career.
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  5. S5 E5 - Serendipity
    October 20, 2003
    42min
    13+
    A woman and her newborn are murdered, and the suspect leads them to a serial child molester.
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  6. S5 E6 - Coerced
    October 27, 2003
    44min
    13+
    Adam Forbes (Dylan Bluestone), a five-year-old, is missing from his apartment, and his mother initially blames her ex-husband Peter (James McCaffrey), but it's soon clear a stranger kidnapped him.
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  7. S5 E7 - Choice
    November 3, 2003
    43min
    13+
    While patrolling, police stumble upon an attack in progress at Momma Sue's restaurant on, the owner, Jennifer Fulton (Josie Bissett).
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  8. S5 E8 - Abomination
    November 10, 2003
    43min
    18+
    Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) have trouble identifying a male murder victim in his 20's found in a pile of sheets in the West Village.
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  9. S5 E9 - Control
    November 17, 2003
    44min
    16+
    Horace Gorman (Austin Pendleton) collapses at a subway station. He is rushed to the hospital and although he survives, his genitals have been cut off.
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  10. S5 E10 - Shaken
    November 24, 2003
    44min
    13+
    Sarah Rendell (Nicole Leach), a 19-year-old babysitter and Veronica Nash (Olga Merediz), an officious, older nanny are watching children in the park. Lucy, who's under Sarah's care, disappears and they call the cops. Stabler (Chris Meloni) finds her lying in the bushes with a massive head injury.
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  11. S5 E11 - Escape
    December 1, 2003
    43min
    16+
    There's an escape at the Virginia Correctional Facility. Double D (Michael Kenneth Williams) and Michael Baxter (Stephen Lang) are on the loose. Deputy Marshall Andy Eckerson (Craig Bierko) goes to N.Y. to team up with Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) to track them down.
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  12. S5 E12 - Brotherhood
    January 5, 2004
    44min
    16+
    The body of young man is found in a tank at a wastewater treatment plant. M.E. Warner (Tamara Tunie) is able to identify a tattoo that says TE and it's the symbol for the fraternity Tau Epsilon.
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  13. S5 E13 - Hate
    January 12, 2004
    43min
    18+
    A young woman, Mira Elbisi, is brutally raped and burned, and after identifying her, Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) suspect her husband and mother-in-law.
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  14. S5 E14 - Ritual
    February 2, 2004
    42min
    13+
    The dismembered body of a black boy is found in Central Park, amidst what appears to be Santeria type ritual materials - candles, bowls with blood. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) trace the candles to a Santeria group...
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  15. S5 E15 - Families
    February 9, 2004
    43min
    16+
    A high school student is found murdered, and it appears she's the victim of incest.
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  16. S5 E16 - Home
    February 16, 2004
    43min
    ALL
    A young, emaciated boy is found by neighbors scrounging for food. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) suspect the boy, Jacob (Jesse Schwartz), is a victim of abuse and are reluctant to let him go home.
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  17. S5 E17 - Mean
    February 23, 2004
    43min
    13+
    The body of a 16-year-old Emily Sullivan is found brutally murdered in a car. Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargity) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) confirm the identity of the victim at her well-appointed house in Westchester where her parents tell them she was supposed to have been sleeping at Andrea Kent's (Arielle Kebbel) for the night.
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  18. S5 E18 - Careless
    March 1, 2004
    41min
    16+
    A 6-year-old boy is brought to the emergency room from a midnight church service because he has stopped breathing. Sam (Cress Williams) and Lori-Ann Dufoy (Malinda Williams) are his devastated foster parents. While it is unclear what happened, the medical examiner points out a ring mark on the boy's skin.
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  19. S5 E19 - Sick
    March 29, 2004
    43min
    13+
    A 12-year-old boy is caught making horrible threats on the Internet, and it turns out he's been a victim of sexual abuse by a rich toy executive, condoned by his parents.
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  20. S5 E20 - Lowdown
    April 5, 2004
    42min
    16+
    Jeff York (Dean Strange) is found strangled to death in a neighborhood frequented by prostitutes. With his wallet missing, It looks like a trick gone wrong.
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  21. S5 E21 - Criminal
    April 19, 2004
    43min
    13+
    A woman who studied criminals is killed, and her mentor, a former criminal, seems to be the prime suspect.
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  22. S5 E22 - Painless
    April 26, 2004
    43min
    13+
    Christina Nerrit (Karen Young) is left for dead in her apartment, a plastic bag over her head and her hands cuffed, but survives.
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  23. S5 E23 - Bound
    May 3, 2004
    42min
    13+
    Donna Brooks is found dead in her apartment, and a "gentleman suitor," Richard Sutton (Richard Easton) is there, and thought to be dead but alive… he suffered a heart attack when he found her dead body.
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  24. S5 E24 - Poison
    May 10, 2004
    43min
    13+
    A young Romanian girl, Alexis Campbell, who was adopted by an American family, lies near death after two cups of detergent are pumped from her stomach.
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  25. S5 E25 - Head
    May 17, 2004
    44min
    13+
    A woman drops her cell phone in the toilet at a coffee house and finds a spy cam. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) track the camera to a high tech shop and ask the techno geek, a woman named Charlie (Amy Sedaris), where they were installed. When the Detectives track down the man they think was the voyeur and go to his apartment, Charlie answers.
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Content advisory
Violencesubstance usealcohol usefoul languagesexual content
Subtitles
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Directors
David PlattJean de SegonzacPeter LetoAlex ChappleJuan José CampanellaConstantine MakrisNorberto BarbaMartha MitchellArthur W. ForneyMichael Pressman
Producers
Arthur ForneyJudith McCrearyNeal BaerTed KotcheffPeter Jankowski
Starring
Ice-TDann FlorekStephanie March
Studio
NBCUniversal
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