Season 5: Episode 19

Season 5: Episode 21

Law and Order Special Victims Unit (1999)

Season 5: Episode 20

Lowdown

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Air Date:

2025-12-06

Genre

Crime Drama Mystery

Release Date

1999

End Date

2025

Episode Description

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.

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Cast

Mariska Hargitay

Peter Scanavino

Aimé Donna Kelly

...Or Just Look Like One

Stocks & Bondage

Russian Love Poem

Disappearing Acts

Father's Shadow

Child's Welfare

Valentine's Day

Lost Reputation (1)

Twenty-Five Acts

Acceptable Loss

Manhattan Vigil

Friending Emily

Vanity's Bonfire

Lessons Learned

Dreams Deferred

Presumed Guilty

Beautiful Frame

Criminal Hatred

Monster's Legacy

Secrets Exhumed

Deadly Ambition

Funny Valentine

Undercover Blue

Legitimate Rape

Born Psychopath

Girl Dishonored

Traumatic Wound

Poisoned Motive

Brief Interlude

Her Negotiation

Surrender Benson

American Tragedy

Internal Affairs

Wonderland Story

October Surprise

Dissonant Voices

Military Justice

Rapist Anonymous

Psycho/Therapist

Amaro's One-Eighty

Jersey Breakdown

Betrayal's Climax

Wednesday's Child

Comic Perversion (I)

Gridiron Soldier

Gambler's Fallacy

Criminal Stories

Downloaded Child

Beast's Obsession

Post-Mortem Blues

Reasonable Doubt

Thought Criminal

Spring Awakening

Girls Disappeared

American Disgrace

Producer's Backend

Holden's Manifesto

Pornstar's Requiem

Glasgowman's Wrath

Chicago Crossover (II)

Spousal Privilege

Pattern Seventeen

Forgiving Rollins

Agent Provocateur

Padre Sandunguero

Decaying Morality

Intimidation Game

Undercover Mother

December Solstice

Parole Violations

Devastating Story

Granting Immunity

Daydream Believer (III)

Perverted Justice

Parents' Nightmare

Surrendering Noah

Devil's Dissections (1)

Criminal Pathology (2)

Transgender Bridge

Institutional Fail

Community Policing

Maternal Instincts

Patrimonial Burden

Melancholy Pursuit

Depravity Standard

Catfishing Teacher

Townhouse Incident

A Misunderstanding

Forty-One Witnesses

Nationwide Manhunt (I)

Collateral Damages

Star-Struck Victims

Manhattan Transfer

Unholiest Alliance

Sheltered Outcasts

Fashionable Crimes

Assaulting Reality

Intersecting Lives (1)

Heartfelt Passages (2)

Making a Rapist

Heightened Emotions

Rape Interrupted

Decline and Fall

Great Expectations

American Dream (1)

Unintended Consequences

Something Happened

The Undiscovered Country

In Loco Parentis

Send In the Clowns

Sunk Cost Fallacy

The Book of Esther

Remember Me (1)

Remember Me Too (2)

A Story of More Woe

I'm Going to Make You a Star

The Darkest Journey Home

Down Low in Hell's Kitchen

The Burden of Our Choices

At Midnight in Manhattan

Murdered at a Bad Address

Counselor, It's Chinatown

We Dream of Machine Elves

Can't Be Held Accountable

Must Be Held Accountable

She Paints for Vengeance

The Longest Night of Rain

Redemption in Her Corner

I Deserve Some Loving Too

Swimming With the Sharks

Eternal Relief from Pain

Dance, Lies and Videotape

Garland's Baptism by Fire

Solving for the Unknowns

The Things We Have to Lose

Guardians and Gladiators

Ballad of Dwight and Irena

Remember Me In Quarantine

Sightless in a Savage Land

Turn Me On, Take Me Private

The Long Arm of the Witness

Hunt, Trap, Rape, and Release

The Only Way Out Is Through

Return of the Prodigal Son (I)

Welcome to the Pedo Motel

Our Words Will Not Be Heard

In The Year We All Fell Down

Trick-Rolled at the Moulin (I)

Post-Graduate Psychopath

What Can Happen in the Dark

Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

And the Empire Strikes Back

Never Turn Your Back on Them

One More Tale of Two Victims

Fast Times @TheWheelHouse

The Five Hundredth Episode

They'd Already Disappeared

Nightmares in Drill City

People vs. Richard Wheatley (I)

Silent Night, Hateful Night

Burning with Rage Forever

Tommy Baker's Hardest Fight

If I Knew Then What I Know Now

Video Killed the Radio Star

Promising Young Gentleman

Sorry If It Got Weird for You

Once Upon a Time in El Barrio

Eighteen Wheels a Predator

Tangled Strands of Justice

Did You Believe in Miracles? (I)

Confess Your Sins to Be Free

A Final Call at Forlini's Bar

Gimme Shelter (II)

The One You Feed

The Steps We Cannot Take

Controlled Burn

A Better Person

And a Trauma in a Pear Tree

King of the Moon

The Presence of Absence

All Pain Is One Malady (III)

Probability of Doom

Third Man Syndrome

Children of Wolves

Divide & Conquer

Economics of Shame

Let Me Bring Pardon

Accomplice Liability

Play with Fire (II)

A Waiver of Consent

A Vicious Circle

Feed the Craving

Under the Influence

Fidelis Ad Mortem

Career Psychopath

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