在第四季（2021年）中，故事主线的审讯组意外解散，每个人被分配到新的岗位，各自踏上不同的道路。在此背景下，第五季将延续2022年新春特别剧，审讯组终于迎来久违的期待已久的重组。以真壁有希子（天海祐希 饰）为首，管理官·梶山胜利（田中哲司 饰）、玉垣松夫（塚地武雅 饰）、菱本进（でんでん 饰）、小石川春夫（小日向文世 饰）等审讯团队将面对系列史上最强的嫌疑人。
该剧讲述1948年至1980年发生在淮河岸边、念恩桥两岸的感人故事。剧中，刘涛饰演的男主角“耿长和”是解放军猛虎团红三连的连长，在战争年代，面对炸毁念恩桥的军事命令，却因考虑到两岸劳苦人民生息问题而拒绝服从上级安排，从而导致经历了一系列的艰难坎坷。
在得克萨斯州的一个小镇，受欢迎的青少年凯特被绑架。看似毫无关系，一个名叫珍妮特的女孩从一个甜美、笨拙的局外人变成了镇上最受欢迎的女孩，但到了1995年，她成了美国最受鄙视的人。
It’s 2011 and we’re in Rome. The government is on the verge of collapse, the Vatican is at crisis point and the city’s squares are quite literally on fire. In the middle world, Cinaglia (Filippo Nigro) has tried to pick up where Samurai left off and, together with Badali (Emmanuele Aita), he is still managing the city’s criminal affairs, with the help of Adelaide (Paola Sotgiu) and Angelica (Carlotta Antonelli), who still head up the Anacletis, and Nadia (Federica Sabatini), who helps them to manage Ostia’s town squares.
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.
