Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Season released 23rd Sep, 2003Rated TV-1425 episodes
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 5 is streaming in Australia on Prime Video (subscription) and Disney+ (subscription, listed for the whole show). You can also buy it on Apple TV from $17.99. Season 5 was released on 23 September 2003.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 5 episodes
S05 E01
Tragedy
42 mins · Tue, 23 Sep 2003
When a woman with a high-risk pregnancy is kidnapped as she approaches her delivery date, Benson and Stabler are faced with more than one suspect willing to take the fall for the crime.
S05 E02
Manic
43 mins · Tue, 30 Sep 2003
Detectives investigate when two high-school basketball players are gunned down while shooting hoops in the gymnasium.
S05 E03
Mother
44 mins · Tue, 7 Oct 2003
A psychiatrist specialising in the treatment of sex offenders is found badly beaten and sexually assaulted in a drug den and one of her recently paroled patients, the Duct Tape Rapist, is the prime suspect.
S05 E04
Loss
44 mins · Tue, 14 Oct 2003
Detectives face off against a Colombian drug cartel and the Drug Enforcement Administration while investigating the brutal rape and murder of an undercover agent.
S05 E05
Serendipity
42 mins · Tue, 21 Oct 2003
When a woman and her newborn child are found murdered, a trail of events is set in motion that leads the detectives to hunt a serial paedophile.
S05 E06
Coerced
43 mins · Tue, 28 Oct 2003
A five-year-old boy is abducted from his bed in the middle of the night, prompting detectives to take a hard look at the boy's estranged father.
S05 E07
Choice
42 mins · Tue, 4 Nov 2003
A man arrested after attacking his pregnant wife accuses her of endangering the life of their unborn child through excessive drinking.
S05 E08
Abomination
42 mins · Tue, 11 Nov 2003
The on-campus murder of a gay student sees suspicion fall on both a homophobic professor and his gay son, the victim's lover.
S05 E09
Control
44 mins · Tue, 18 Nov 2003
After a man is mutilated on the subway, detectives learn that he has a dark and twisted secret life of kidnapping women and keeping them in his dungeon.
S05 E10
Shaken
44 mins · Tue, 25 Nov 2003
When a missing infant is found to be fatally injured, and without a conclusive clue about the perpetrator, the detectives are forced to make a tough decision.
S05 E11
Escape
42 mins · Tue, 2 Dec 2003
Detective Benson becomes involved in a dangerous hostage situation when an escaped prisoner seeks revenge on his stepson.
S05 E12
Brotherhood
43 mins · Tue, 6 Jan 2004
Benson and Stabler hit a wall of silence while questioning fraternity brothers about the murder and sodomy of their hard-nosed pledge master. They are led to a fellow student who claims to have been raped by the victim.
S05 E13
Hate
43 mins · Tue, 13 Jan 2004
Detectives investigate the rape and murder of an Arab-American woman and suspect her husband. A second murder, of a man, leads them to believe it is a possible hate crime spree.
S05 E14
Ritual
42 mins · Tue, 3 Feb 2004
A young boy's dismembered body is found in Central Park, and the detectives' investigation leads to a child slave ring.
S05 E15
Families
42 mins · Tue, 10 Feb 2004
Family members become the prime suspects in a murder when DNA tests on the remains of a 16-year-old girl show evidence of incest.
S05 E16
Home
43 mins · Tue, 17 Feb 2004
The detectives are forced to return a young boy who is being abused to his mother. The next day, the same boy is found dead.
S05 E17
Mean
42 mins · Tue, 24 Feb 2004
The detectives investigate after the conviction of high school bullies for torture and murder escalates the abuse at their elite private school.
S05 E18
Careless
41 mins · Tue, 2 Mar 2004
After passing out at a late night church service, a child dies in the emergency room. His foster parents and a social worker are charged with his death.
S05 E19
Sick
42 mins · Tue, 30 Mar 2004
The search for the sexual abuser of a child leads the detectives to a wealthy toy mogul known for his generous hospitality toward children.
S05 E20
Lowdown
42 mins · Tue, 6 Apr 2004
When an assistant district attorney is killed, detectives first suspect a prostitute, but new evidence reveals it is someone closer to home.
S05 E21
Criminal
42 mins · Tue, 20 Apr 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.
S05 E22
Painless
42 mins · Tue, 27 Apr 2004
A woman claiming to have been raped and left for dead commits suicide while waiting to be treated in the emergency room.
S05 E23
Bound
42 mins · Tue, 4 May 2004
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. The detectives know the nurse has committed the murders of what they thought was six people, but they cannot prove it, that is untill Benson and Stabler do a little roleplaying and get the nurse to confess that she has killed numerous elderly women and framed the murders on her brother as a way to get back at her mother and brother.
S05 E24
Poison
42 mins · Tue, 11 May 2004
A mother becomes Stabler and Benson's prime suspect in the poisoning of her child. Meanwhile, Novak enlists Clark's assistance in finding evidence to remove a judge from the bench, after his bias in two child abuse cases has shocking consequences.
S05 E25
Head
44 mins · Tue, 18 May 2004
A video voyeur catches a sexual assault against a minor on tape, which changes the focus of the investigation as the detectives search for a paedophile.