The Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 5

Logan relives unhappy childhood memories when a friend is found dead, a presumed suicide, until the investigation reveals recent contact with a former priest, with a history of pedophilia.

Director: Dann Florek

Writer: René Balcer

A comedy-club owner comes under suspicion for having shot his wife, now comatose with a bullet in her head, after it's discovered he was abusive and she was about to divorce him.

Director: Jace Alexander

Writer: N/A

A routine investigation uncovers evidence that leads Briscoe and Logan to a long-time fugitive, a radical Vietnam War opponent on the run since a 1971 burglary that left a policeman dead.

Director: Steven Robman

Writer: Morgan Gendel

The killing of a man who had served as a juror in a mob trial leads to a battle of wills between McCoy and his long-time friend, the suspect's attorney.

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Writer: N/A

The death of an autistic youth in custody reveals a multitude of unusual and possibly illegal therapies being used, but also parents reluctant to pursue a prosecution.

Director: Matthew Penn

Writer: N/A

When Lt. Van Buren is the victim of an attempted holdup by two teens, she fires her gun and kills one of them, and the detectives are faced with the fact that she shot an unarmed child in the back.

Director: Fred Gerber

Writer: Mark B. Perry

A Wall Street broker accused of murdering his mentor uses the defense of ""black rage"" in court.

Director: Arthur W. Forney

Writer: N/A

A woman's death exposes an unorthodox method of treating cancer that Executive Assistant DA McCoy intends to prove is negligent homicide.

Director: Edwin Sherin

Writer: N/A

McCoy uses a charge of ""larceny by extortion"" against a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.

Director: Martha Mitchell

Writer: Mark B. Perry

The investigation into the killing of an abortion clinic doctor leads to an activist group led by a former priest.

Director: Don Scardino

Writer: Morgan Gendel

Briscoe and Logan set out to identify the apparent victim in a snuff film, but find her alive and really the victim of a points-for-sex club at her prestigious high school.

Director: Martha Mitchell

Writer: N/A

Suspects in a psychiatrist's murder include the victim's ex-husband, a patient suffering from multiple-personality disorder and her obstructive father.

Director: Christopher Misiano

Writer: Jeremy R. Littman, Sibyl Gardner

The investigation into a double murder leads to a young alcoholic whose family once lived in the victims' house and who had admitted to his AA group that he's had nightmares about killings.

Director: Vincent Misiano

Writer: N/A

The investigation into a taxi driver's murder involves a loan shark, a forged check, a missing plumber and the victim's wife.

Director: Arthur W. Forney

Writer: Morgan Gendel

A gay city councilman is murdered and the trail leads to a bigoted rival politician and a male prostitute.

Director: Edwin Sherin

Writer: N/A

When Briscoe and Logan suspect that a missing infant may have been murdered by her parents rather than kidnapped, they uncover a terrible family secret which hides a mentally ill serial killer.

Director: Constantine Makris

Writer: N/A

A routine investigation into a woman's death leads Briscoe and Logan to a fertility doctor guilty of unethical practices, but who cannot apparently be touched because of confidentiality rules, and patient reluctance to talk.

Director: Don Scardino

Writer: N/A

A bomb at a construction site kills a 12-year-old boy, and the suspects include the bankrupt contractor and a jealous husband.

Director: Constantine Makris

Writer: N/A

The killing of a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York leads to the arrest of a singer who once worked for the deceased, and whose lawyer uses the ""battered-woman syndrome"" as a defense.

Director: Don Scardino, René Balcer

Writer: René Balcer, Morgan Gendel

After it's determined that a wealthy woman did not commit suicide but was murdered, the detectives question both her first and second husbands and her teenage daughter.

Director: Constantine Makris

Writer: N/A

Among the suspects in a lawyer's murder are a swindler, who conned a woman out of her family fortune, and the woman's once-wealthy son.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

After the body of a young female junkie is identified as the daughter of a wealthy family, Briscoe and Logan try to find out who left her to die in the yard of a day-care center.

Director: Christopher Misiano

Writer: N/A

The shooting of a board member of an exclusive private school leads to a blue-collar family and a classist system.

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