Law & Order Season 5 Episodes

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Season 5 Episode Guide

Episode 1 - Second Opinion

An investigation is launched when a woman's body begins to emit toxic fumes after she is treated in a hospital for terminal breast cancer. With Jerry Orbach and Sam Waterston.
Episode 2 - Coma

Kincaid and McCoy (Jill Hennessy, Sam Waterston) have to decide whether to risk killing a comatose woman to recover the bullet they need as evidence.
Episode 3 - Blue Bamboo

A young actress (guest star Laura Linney) claiming to have been the victim of a white slavery ring becomes the prime suspect when a wealthy Japanese businessman is murdered. With Jerry Orbach.
Episode 4 - Family Values

The body of a wealthy woman leads Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) to suspect that her husband (Stephen Shellen) or her daughter (Sarah Paulson) had something to do with her untimely demise.
Episode 5 - White Rabbit

Famed attorney William M. Kunstler (guest starring as himself) is hired to defend a female political activist (guest star Mary Joan Negro) who went underground 20 years ago to avoid murder charges.
Episode 6 - Competence

Briscoe, Logan, McCoy and Kincaid (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, Sam Waterston, Jill Hennessy) try to clear Van Buren's (S. Epatha Merkerson) name after she shoots a pair of young men who accost her at an automated teller machine.
Episode 7 - Precious

Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) become suspicious of a woman (guest star Julie Boyd) who could be suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy when her husband (guest star Kevin O'Rourke) reports their infant daughter missing.
Episode 8 - Virtue

McCoy and Kincaid (Sam Waterston, Jill Hennessy) are placed in a unique situation when a high-powered city attorney (guest star Regina Taylor) accuses a city councilman of sexual harassment.
Episode 9 - Scoundrels

Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) investigate when an underhanded lawyer is killed while probing an equally bad financier (guest star Michael Zaslow) targeted for a class-action suit.
Episode 10 - House Counsel

McCoy's (Sam Waterston) adversary is arrested when a juror who was bribed to throw the trial of a crime boss is murdered. Guest-starring Tom Bloom.
Episode 11 - Guardian

When a wealthy socialite's estranged daughter is killed, the detectives are led to the accountant (guest star Jon Cypher) responsible for the young woman's trust fund. With Jerry Orbach.
Episode 12 - Progeny

Kincaid and McCoy (Jill Hennessy, Sam Waterston) are determined to convict both the man (guest star Thomas Schall) who shot an abortion doctor and the activist (guest star Edward Herrmann) whose rhetoric may have encouraged the incident.
Episode 13 - Rage

A black stockbroker (guest star Courtney B. Vance) with a history of criminal behavior is investigated when a Wall Street executive is found murdered. With Jerry Orbach and Sam Waterston.
Episode 14 - Performance

While investigating a vendor (guest star Aasif Mandvi) of apparent ``snuff'' films, Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) are led to teen-age boys who make videos of their sexual exploits with female classmates.
Episode 15 - Seed

When a woman tries to murder her husband, Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) investigate a doctor (guest star David Margulies) who has been using his own sperm to artificially inseminate his patients. Jordan Clarke and Donna Mitchell also guest star.
Episode 16 - Wannabe

The murder of an accountant who was a trustee at an exclusive boys school puts Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) on the trail of a gifted young man (guest star Graham Sack).
Episode 17 - Act of God

When an explosion at a construction site kills a boy, McCoy and Kincaid (Sam Waterston, Jill Hennessy) try to exonerate a demolitions expert wrongly convicted of the crime.
Episode 18 - Privileged

The stabbing murder of a husband and wife prompts Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) to investigate Steven Bartlett (guest star Eddie Malavarca), an alcoholic who was abused as a child.
Episode 19 - Cruel and Unusual

McCoy and Kincaid (Sam Waterston, Jill Hennessy) are faced with an ethical dilemma when an autistic young man, possibly the victim of a controversial treatment, dies while in Logan's (Chris Noth) custody.
Episode 20 - Bad Faith

The death of a fellow detective causes Logan (Chris Noth) to think he may have repressed memories when he makes painful discoveries about the school he attended. With Jerry Orbach.
Episode 21 - Purple Heart

Separate investigations into the murders of a cabdriver and a hit man lead Logan and Briscoe (Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach) to suspect the cabbie's wife (guest star Lisa Gay Hamilton) committed both crimes.
Episode 22 - Switch

The father (guest star Sam Groom) of a young woman (guest star Francie Swift) with multiple-personality disorder is investigated when her psychiatrist is murdered. With Chris Noth.
Episode 23 - Pride

Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) investigate when a newly elected city councilman is killed, presumably because he was gay.


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