Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Angels
Overview
A battered young boy suffocates while hiding in the luggage compartment of an airport shuttle bus and it leads the detectives to his guardian and into the investigation of a perverted child molestation ring.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2002-11-01
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Angels is Episode 6 in Season 4 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2002-11-01. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 5: Disappearing Acts
A high-powered executive is raped, but the situation is complicated by her involvement with the Feds and the Russian mob - as well as a father-son duo who are in the federal witness protection program and an agent who appears bound and determined to protect them, regardless of consequence.
Episode 7: Dolls
Detectives try and solve the gruesome murder of a sexually molested five-year-old girl whose killer, a serial pedophile, has an obsession with dolls. They race to save the life of his latest victim.
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