Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Mean
Overview
The conviction of a group of sociopathic high school bullies who turned on one of their own escalates into even more violence and death in their exclusive private school.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2004-02-24
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Mean is Episode 17 in Season 5 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2004-02-24. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 16: Home
A young, emaciated boy is found by neighbors scrounging for food; detectives suspect the boy is a victim of abuse and are reluctant to let him go home.
Episode 18: Careless
When a young foster child dies due to a religious ritual gone awry, the detectives unravel a mysterious pattern of violence, abuse and murder within one foster care family.
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Episode 19: Sick
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Episode 20: Lowdown
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Episode 13: Hate
A young Arab woman is brutally raped and burned, and after identifying her, the detectives suspect her husband and mother-in-law. After a man accused of the murders of three Arabs, he claims that he was genetically and biologically predisposed to hatred and violence, but soon they uncover the real impetus to the slayings.
Episode 21: Criminal
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Episode 12: Brotherhood
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Episode 22: Painless
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Episode 11: Escape
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Episode 23: Bound
The death of a wealthy senior citizen leads to an investigation that uncovers a serial killer with childhood abandonment issues who targets the elderly.