Season 5 - Episode Guide

A prison guard is shot during an inmate escape. Nick comes face to face with the past when a journalist wants to discuss the Dane Majors case.

Allie and Rhys go undercover at a swingers' party to find a killer. Journalist Juliette continues looking into allegations of corruption against Nick and his former sergeant in the Dane Majors case.

The investigation into the death of a young journalist leads detectives to prove evidence tampering in the Dane Majors case. Nick is placed on temporary suspension while claims of corruption swirl around him.

The case that made Nick Buchanan's career has fallen apart. His mentor killed himself after confessing to planting evidence and shooting the journalist. Dane Majors is released from prison and Nick resigns, causing the reopening of the original murder investigation.

The Dane Majors saga continues with his lawyer and a trial judge both murdered. When Nick goes missing along with journalist Alan Sullivan Jennifer enlists the help of Stanley as Jarvis mounts pressure on Majors. Elsewhere, Bernice tries to get Rhys to join a new task force but her attempts go unanswered. Later, Michael Lombardi tells Bernice he is dissolving the Homicide Squad.

Homicide is called out to a hospice where a dying man wants to confess to murder. But by the time they arrive he's already dead. So was he telling the truth? Who are the victims of this long buried crime? The path of discovery gets muddy when it's revealed that the killer didn't die of natural causes. Someone didn't want these murders to surface. Waverley and Jarvis announce that the Attorney General Michael Lombardi is about to disband Homicide. In the emotional fallout, Rhys makes a sacrifice but is it too little, too late? Then, the investigation turns up an unlikely connection; Deep Throat is finally unmasked... but is it enough to save Homicide?