人心，是一门深奥的科学。人会犯罪作恶，皆因被贪婪、愤怒、软弱和嫉妒等情绪支配。为了逃避刑责，人会利用谎言掩饰真相，用诡计扰乱视线，令法证工作难上加难。未破的悬案、消失的证据、迷失的困局，都是法证团队面对的一个个难关。纵然过程中会受到打击，但他们都会坚持初心，跌倒之后重新出发，不会放弃追寻真相。《法证先锋V》的案件和布局更加让人意想不到，唯有靠着“法证部”、“法医科”及“重案组”这灭罪铁三角，秉承前四季的理念，通力合作，找出真凶，还生者公道，替死者雪冤。
捉襟见肘的安东在一家高档宠物店找了份工作，从医治乡村农场动物的医生变成了兜售高级宠物狗零食的店员。
祝氏和邓氏的家族生意以儿女的婚姻为筹码，祝笙和邓邵涵两人由此开始了复杂的感情生活。
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.
