Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Criminal
Overview
When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes, but is the professor a perpetrator or a victim?
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 2004-04-20
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Criminal is Episode 21 in Season 5 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2004-04-20. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 20: Lowdown
Detectives try to decipher a motive for the strangulation of a Bronx assistant DA in an area where hookers stroll. When the death of the prosecutor looks staged using information gleaned from a co-worker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession.
Episode 22: Painless
A woman claiming to have been the victim of rape commits suicide while she is still in the emergency room.
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Episode 18: Careless
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Episode 24: Poison
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Episode 17: Mean
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Episode 25: Head
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Episode 16: Home
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Episode 15: Families
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Episode 14: Ritual
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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.