半年间，SNK剧变，总监余英飞离职、门外汉古肇华空降。张家妍虽掌权却难服众。刘艳的公开平台崛起，动摇传统媒体地位，连已入官场的许诗晴亦被卷入新旧媒体的角力。文慧心于此时复出，昭告世人：新闻女王的地位永远不可撼动！
讲述了墨尔本市黑社会团伙1996年到2004年的真实活动，包括帮派之间的矛盾、械斗和火拼，以及由此产生的一系列谋杀案件，所使用的人名全都是真实的。根据该剧的描述，墨尔本最大的两个帮派是莫兰家族及其 "死对头" －－从家族中分裂出去 "单干" 的卡尔 威廉姆斯。Moran家族的骨乾成员包括路易斯、马克 和 杰森 莫兰，威廉姆斯家族的骨乾成员包括卡尔 威廉姆斯、托尼 莫科贝尔、安德鲁 文尼尔敏以及之后成为核心的维克多 布林卡特、蒂诺 迪布拉。此外，由阿方斯 甘吉塔诺、多梅尼克 嘉托、律师乔治 德芙特罗斯、马里奥 坎德罗组成的 "卡尔顿帮" ，以及由尼克 拉德夫领导的 "俄罗斯帮"，也是不容小觑的力量。
算命师Win霉运缠身，必须在一年内找到拥有功德之人才能转运，而撞鬼节目主持人Pleung偏偏是个无神论者。当迷信的半仙遇上铁齿的科学派，一场科学与超自然的爆笑对决就此展开。
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.
