刚刚下班回来的林潇潇有点不淡定了，因为她听到了卧室里的男友在接听女人的电话，打电话的女人不是别人，而是男友的上司。明知男友是在和上司交接工作，但自己也是心生醋意。男友陈泽言发现女友的不对劲，简单聊了几句就匆匆挂断电话。为了弄清马素对自己男友有没有爱慕之意，林潇潇决定跟踪男友，通过网络渠道，她找到一名有经验的私家侦探跟踪男友。她完全不知，私家侦探就是男友上司安排的，原来林潇潇的一切，都在马素的掌握之中。在马素的精心安排之下，侦探教唆林潇潇策划了一场假绑架，目的就是为了试探陈泽言的真心，林潇潇欣然答应。最终陈泽言与林潇潇执着的爱情打动了马素，在马素的操办下，陈泽言向林潇潇求婚成功。
As Leo's replacement Thomas Chamberlain arrives Nikki investigates the murders of Rachel Freedman, shot in the head, and her little autistic son Nathan, who was poisoned. Nikki rejects policewoman Anne Burchett's theory that Rachel killed them both but is perturbed when an impostor, claiming to be Rachel's sister, visits the morgue. At the same time the disfigured corpse of Eva Liron is discovered, killed with the same poison as Nathan. She had been the nanny to French hot shot footballer Isaac Dreyfus and was planning to blackmail him over a sex tape of them both. Jewish Isaac is a controversial figure due to his anti-Muslim sentiments but he denies ant part in the murders. Then another victim, Isaac's agent Mousa, is discovered dead.
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.
