Season 5
🎬 22 Episodes 📅 2005 ⏱ 42 min
A seemingly ordinary crime conceals a labyrinth of psychological manipulation and hidden motives that pull the Major Case Squad deeper into the criminal's twisted logic. Law & Order: Criminal Intent peels back the layers of human behavior, revealing how ambition, jealousy, and desperation can transform ordinary people into killers. As detectives dissect every confession and false lead, they discover that solving the crime is only half the battle—understanding why demands entering the darkest corners of the human psyche. The case becomes less about evidence and more about reading the criminal mind before it claims another victim.
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22
Episodes
2005
Year
42
min / ep
15.4
Watch Hours
5/10
Season No.
⭐ 9.0
Best Episode
Ep. 7 · In the Wee Small Hours…
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🎬 Episodes 22 episodes
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1
⭐ 8.0
Grow
When city health inspector Larry Chapel is found dead in an elevator, a quick look into Chapel's home life introduces them to Chapel's recently widowed brother, Evan, and little girl Gwen. Goren isn't very surprised to learn that Nicole Wallace is Evan's fiancée and the future mother to his little g…
🎬 Frank Prinzi ✍️ Dick Wolf
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2
⭐ 7.2
Diamond Dogs
Logan and his new partner, Barek, investigate a series of robberies in mom-and-pop jewelry stores that are escalating in the level of violence. After a home investigation leads them to a young junkie, Barek and Logan are soon led to a mother-and-son team of criminals. They soon realise that the moth…
🎬 Norberto Barba ✍️ René Balcer
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3
⭐ 7.8
Prisoner
Prison warden William Hendry is found brutalised after he goes to drop off a large ransom payment for his wife, kidnapped years earlier by an escaped convict. Eames and Goren track down Jenny Hendry, living happily under a new name, and begin to realise that Hendry isn't the squeaky clean martyr tha…
🎬 Rick Wallace ✍️ René Balcer
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4
Unchained
When a cop's son is murdered by the mob, Logan and Barek realise that young Joe Long was killed by mistake, and their investigation leads them to two rival mafia families, but it isn't long before Logan begins to believe that the true criminals aren't the mobsters, but the cops on their payroll. As …
🎬 Alex Zakrzewski ✍️ René Balcer
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5
⭐ 7.3
Acts of Contrition
After the murder of a nun in the Church, Goren and Eames investigate and realise that someone has tried to cover up part of the crime. Their investigation leads them to a young man named Eddie Roberts, who in turn inadvertently leads them to his older half-brother, Jimmy Jones, who was assaulted in …
🎬 Frank Prinzi ✍️ René Balcer
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6
⭐ 8.0
In the Wee Small Hours (1)
Detectives Eames, Goren, Barek, and Logan must solve a case that involves a teenage girl missing in New York City. While Barek and Logan search around for another missing girl, Eames and Goren work to uncover a mystery with a judge and his son.
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ Dick Wolf
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7
⭐ 9.0
In the Wee Small Hours (2)
The squad continues the investigation into the murder of a teenage girl visiting from Iowa. The detectives uncover the sordid family life of a local judge whose son is linked to the Iowa teenager and another victim. Goren and Logan discover that the judge is a formidable foe as they come under scrut…
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ René Balcer
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8
Saving Face
When the body of a young woman is found by two children behind a dumpster, Barek and Logan soon learn she had recently returned from Guatemala and was suspected by the other passengers of being a drug mule. Their investigation leads them to noted plastic surgeon Dr. Christine Ensel, who has made a n…
🎬 Rick Wallace ✍️ René Balcer
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9
⭐ 7.7
Scared Crazy
After Aidan Grant, an employee for a local computer company, is found dead, Goren and Eames investigate, initially believing that Grant was murdered because of a business deal gone wrong involving biometrics, lip-reading, the company Ubicool and the military, but their investigations lead them to a …
🎬 Marisol Adler ✍️ René Balcer
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10
Dollhouse
After Joseph Sabo is found lying dead in the street, Barek and Logan investigate who was nearby that night that may have had a motive. They are soon led to Danielle Quinn, who had been blackmailing six different men claiming they fathered her child, asking for money. The detectives realise she was t…
🎬 Frank Prinzi ✍️ René Balcer
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11
Slither
After Russ Corbett and his wife are found in a seedy hotel room, Russ dead of an overdose, Eames and Goren follow the trail of evidence to Bernard Fremont, a professional partier. With his beautiful blonde companions, Fremont insinuates himself into the lives of couples who don't know the city very …
🎬 Bill L. Norton ✍️ René Balcer
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12
⭐ 4.2
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Logan and Barek investigate after a body is found in the ocean, having fallen from an airline wheelwell. They soon discover that she is just one in a long line of prostitutes to be beaten and murdered. Their investigation leads them to a nervous airline employee, but they just don't feel he has the …
🎬 Alex Chapple ✍️ René Balcer
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13
Proud Flesh
Goren and Eames investigate after Trip Slaughter III, the eldest son of radio magnate Jonas Slaughter, is found dead covered in plastic latex. Initial evidence leads detectives directly to Jonas' Chinese wife Anna, but Goren and Eames realise that the evidence leading her way is a little too pat.
🎬 Frank Prinzi ✍️ René Balcer
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14
Wasichu
Logan and Barek investigate after secret service agent Paula Kendall is found dead in her home. Suspicion initially turns to the husband after detectives realize that it took him eleven minutes after a first failed attempt to get in touch with 911, and their investigation leads them to her husband's…
🎬 Christopher Swartout ✍️ René Balcer
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15
Wrongful Life
Goren and Eames investigate the death of Eric Newsome, an urban explorer who was found in a water tower. During their investigation, they learn that Eric had been looking into the files of Dr. Everett Janns, an OB/GYN who had examined his sister Nikki's boyfriend Drew's mother years earlier when she…
🎬 Darrnell Martin ✍️ Dick Wolf
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16
Dramma Giocoso
Logan and Barek investigate after the body of eighteen-year-old violinist Laura Booth is found stuffed in a shaft, her fingers covered with cocaine and resin. Although initially they believe her death may be connected to the cocaine that some of the crew were transporting, they're soon turned on to …
🎬 John David Coles ✍️ René Balcer
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17
Vacancy
Goren and Eames investigate after a bridesmaid, Megan, is found dead in the cheap motel room she had been sharing with Alice, another bridesmaid at their friend Tory's wedding. The two detectives start with investigating Pete and Jayson, the two guys the women had met at Brasserie Nylorac, but soon …
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ René Balcer
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18
The Healer
Barek and Logan investigate when the deaths of two young girls seem to be connected to a voodoo-practicing nurse. Things turn interesting when it seems the young woman has placed a voodoo curse on Logan.
🎬 Frank Prinzi ✍️ René Balcer
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19
Cruise to Nowhere
Goren and Eames investigate when a respected professional is found murdered in the East River, his death presumably connected to a series of gambling losses.
🎬 Marisol Adler ✍️ René Balcer
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20
To the Bone
Logan and Barek investigate a series of home invasions that result in grisly murders and their search leads them to local foster mother Chesley Watkins who had a series of young men going in and out of her home throughout the years. One of the young men involved in the home invasions was one of her …
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ René Balcer
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21
On Fire
Goren and Eames investigate a fire at St. Gerald's which led to the death of a Church employee and soon realize that an arsonist around town is targeting churches. Throughout their investigation, they realize that St. Gerald's was the arsonist's primary target, and clues lead them to Justin Reid, wh…
🎬 Frank Prinzi ✍️ René Balcer
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22
The Good
Logan and Barek investigate a troubled young man named Kevin Colemar after his parents are found murdered in their suburban home. Kevin initially believes that drug dealers named Big Lennie and Ray-Ray may have done the murders, but Carson Laird, a Nassau cop, soon tricks Kevin, who cannot remember …
🎬 Christopher Swartout ✍️ René Balcer