La ley y el orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales

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Follows the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) Special Victims Unit (SVU), a specially trained squad of detectives who investigates sex crimes including rape, child sexual abuse, human trafficking and domestic violence.
  • 45min
  • Seasons: 25
  • Episodes: 551
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

season 5

serie United States 1999

Episode rating

Season 5
8.0
E1
8.0
E2
8.2
E3
9.0
E4
8.2
E5
8.6
E6
7.6
E7
8.0
E8
8.3
E9
8.1
E10
8.5
E11
8.1
E12
8.0
E13
8.3
E14
8.6
E15
8.3
E16
8.7
E17
8.0
E18
8.2
E19
8.2
E20
8.1
E21
8.2
E22
8.1
E23
8.7
E24
8.0
E25

Cast of season 5

In order of relevance in the season

Episodes of season 525

  • 8
    /10

    Tragedy
    episode S5.E1 september 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.
  • 8
    /10

    Manic
    episode S5.E2 september 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.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Mother
    episode S5.E3 october 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.
  • 9
    /10

    Loss
    episode S5.E4 october 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.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Serendipity
    episode S5.E5 october 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.
  • 8.6
    /10

    Coerced
    episode S5.E6 october 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.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Choice
    episode S5.E7 november 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.
  • 8
    /10

    Abomination
    episode S5.E8 november 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.
  • 8.3
    /10

    Control
    episode S5.E9 november 2003
    The Detectives find themselves hunting for a person who cut off a man's genitals and left him to die.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Shaken
    episode S5.E10 november 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.
  • 8.5
    /10

    Escape
    episode S5.E11 december 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.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Brotherhood
    episode S5.E12 january 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.
  • 8
    /10

    Hate
    episode S5.E13 january 2004
    After an Arab-American woman is set on fire, the detectives discover an intensely xenophobic man aiming to cleanse America.
  • 8.3
    /10

    Ritual
    episode S5.E14 february 2004
    Two garbage collectors run into what they first think is a scene of animal sacrifice.
  • 8.6
    /10

    Families
    episode S5.E15 february 2004
    A high school student is found murdered, and it appears she's the victim of incest.
  • 8.3
    /10

    Home
    episode S5.E16 february 2004
    Detectives interview an overprotective mother to find out why her son is scavenging for food.
  • 8.7
    /10

    Mean
    episode S5.E17 february 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.
  • 8
    /10

    Careless
    episode S5.E18 march 2004
    After a young boy dies during a church vigil, Tutuola and Munch investigate the boy's foster parents and social worker for neglect.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Sick
    episode S5.E19 march 2004
    Two children claim that they were molested by a billionaire.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Lowdown
    episode S5.E20 april 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.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Criminal
    episode S5.E21 april 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.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Painless
    episode S5.E22 april 2004
    A woman claiming to have been raped and left for dead commits suicide while waiting to be treated in the emergency room.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Bound
    episode S5.E23 may 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.
  • 8.7
    /10

    Poison
    episode S5.E24 may 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.
  • 8
    /10

    Head
    episode S5.E25 may 2004
    A urophile, cyber-Peeping Tom catches a child abuse case on video.