00后女记者唐琳突然接到任务，和自己的师父刘守业陪伴抗美援朝老兵张贵坐绿皮火车前往湖南向刚刚寻到的班长家属转交烈士遗物。随着一路上刘守业的讲述和张贵的回忆，一个关干牺牲和跨越七十年约定的故事渐渐拼凑出来，让唐琳对烈士遗骸回家的意义有了更深刻的理解，由衷感到大好河山幸福生活是先烈以生命为代价庇佑。
被冠以弑父罪名流放荒原的公主凤漓，七年后以妖君之名重归墨城。她在姨母孟妩操控的雀楼盛宴中，选中了身份成谜的东篱遗孤云湛。一场表面荒淫的选奴戏码，实则是凤漓对各方势力的血腥清洗。云湛以雀奴身份步步逼近，既是刺杀目标，亦是故人重逢，两人竟是幼时在荒原相依为命的患难之交。凤漓借疯批人设暗中追查弑父真相，云湛假意臣服伺机报仇复国，却在虚情假意的耳鬓厮磨间深陷情网。当凤漓发现云湛腰间烙印认出故人，当云湛目睹她呕血仍含笑饮毒，伪装尽碎。姨母孟妩的傀儡阴谋，西岐少主的和亲棋局，东篱旧部的复仇烈焰，皆在女君大婚之日引爆。终凤漓手持虎符踏碎阴谋，云湛为她背离复国大业，两个从地狱爬出的灵魂，在血色王座上相拥。
When Joni was 14, her best friend Gracie Darling disappeared during a séance. Some 27 years on, the local kids in a small town get their kicks with a game of ‘Playing Gracie Darling’ – but the seemingly innocent game turns sinister when another girl disappears. Joni, by then a child psychologist, returns to the town and partners with a police sergeant Jay to uncover the truth, while Gracie’s sister Ruth faces a mother’s worst nightmare when her own daughter vanishes under hauntingly similar circumstances.
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.
