21 Jump Street: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of 21 Jump Street Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Tunnel of Love
Oct 13, 1990
Hoffs and Garrett must deal with a DEA officer while working undercover at a massage parlor suspected of being a front for a drug operation.
Back to School
Oct 20, 1990
Garrett attempts to infiltrate a high school drug ring by dating the sister of the ring's suspected leader.
Buddy System
Oct 27, 1990
McCann joins up to be the partner of a mentally handicapped youth in a school buddy system, to investigate the murder of the boy's former partner.
Poison
Nov 3, 1990
Doug falls for a narcotics officer with questionable tactics and a possible drug problem herself.
Just Say No! High
Nov 10, 1990
Hoffs is suspended from the force when while working undercover in high school she is forced to take a mandatory drug test and the results come back positive.
Brothers
Nov 17, 1990
Doug has a strained reunion with his estranged younger brother Joey when Joey is assigned to the Jump St. team. Doug comes to his aid after Joey is brainwashed into joining a relig
This Ain't No Summer Camp
Nov 24, 1990
Doug and Joey enroll in a wilderness camp for troubled teams to investigate a murder that happened there and find themselves constantly in trouble with the ex-marine who runs the p
The Girl Next Door
Dec 1, 1990
While investigating the hit and run murder of a high school football star, McCann becomes involved with a cheerleader who has AIDS.
Diplomas for Sale
Dec 8, 1990
Doug and Joey enroll in a college where good students are mysteriously being turned into criminals.
Number One with A Bullet
Dec 15, 1990
Doug is seriously wounded while on a case and while the doctors try to save his life he enters limbo where the people he meets there cause him to reconsider his choice of career.
Equal Protection
Jan 5, 1991
After discovering that some white officers are responsible for beating and harassing black teenagers, Hoffs, with Fuller's help, try to convict them.
The Education of Terry Carver
Jan 14, 1991
Hoffs, Joey and Mac help a raped girl that has no proof to convict the attacker.
Baby Blues
Jan 21, 1991
Joey feels responsible for a baby girl he is taking care in a experimental program and try to find her drug addicted mother.
Film at Eleven
Feb 9, 1991
After finding the missing daughter of a famous reporter, Mac tries to solve the mistery behind the missing.
In the Name of Love
Feb 16, 1991
Mac has to date a daughter of a reputed drug dealer in a confidential FBI case at the same time he is trying to rebuild a relantionship with an old flame.
Coppin' Out
Feb 23, 1991
Mac and Joey try to find the responsibles for vandalizing elderly homes. The problem is that one of the prime suspects is the son of Fuller's girlfriend.
Under the Influence
Mar 23, 1991
McCann infiltrates a group of devil worshipers whose leader has enthralled a teenage boy with her beauty.
Crossfire
Mar 30, 1991
Hoffs is charged in a civil suit for a man she has arrested for solicitation. At court, she has to confront the man and his representative, her boyfriend's vindictive ex-wife.
Wasted
Apr 6, 1991
Mac goes undercover as a football player when a high school football star dies from an unexplained heart attack.
Bad Day at Blackburn
Apr 13, 1991
Fuller, Hoffs and Mac go undercover to investigate a gang of high school extortionists operating in a high school.
Homegirls
Apr 20, 1991
After seeing a teenager being murdered, Hoffs infiltrates the girl's street gang to find out who killed her.
Second Chances
Apr 27, 1991
Hoffs and Mac investigate a car theft ring near a high school, and the prime suspect is a pupil of Hoffs.