Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Escape
Overview
When a convicted pedophile, desperate to prove his innocence before his terminally ill mother dies, escapes from a Virginia Correctional Facility and kidnaps his accuser to force him to recant his story, a Deputy Marshall teams up with Benson to track them down. Benson eventually finds herself in the middle of a hostage situation beginning to believe his story.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2003-12-02
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Escape is Episode 11 in Season 5 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2003-12-02. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 10: Shaken
The discovery of a beaten infant leads detectives on a search for the attacker, who may be a pedophile. When the medical evidence shows the injuries were a result of shaken baby syndrome, their focus shifts to those closest to the child: her mother, the mother's boyfriend and the nannies.
Episode 12: Brotherhood
When the body of young man is found in a tank at a wastewater treatment plant, the medical examiner identifies a tattoo that says TE, the symbol for the fraternity Tau Omega. The investigation into the murder and sodomy of this local fraternity pledge master leads the detectives to his pornographic website featuring college girls at a local bar.
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