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Season guide

Cold Squad: Season 5

13 episodes Premiered Sep 29, 2001
Previously on Cold Squad

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 Cold Squad 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.
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Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (10): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S5·E1 Mytharc

Personal Politics

Sep 29, 2001

When the squad investigates the murder of an abortion doctor, old wounds are re-opened for the team.

S5·E2 Core

Family Ties

Oct 6, 2001

Nicco becomes personally involved in a case after a man who takes drug's asks the squad to find his mother's killer.

S5·E3 Core

Picasso's Mistake

Oct 13, 2001

A case from Pawlachuck's past comes back to life and forces him to face up to some personal demons he thought he had escaped for good and from this he learns a few things about him

S5·E4 Core

Clean

Oct 20, 2001

A murder investigation leads to dissension in the squad.

S5·E5 Core

All in the Family

Oct 27, 2001

Ali and the squad try to narrow the field on Sam Drainie, the former Ambleton security guard they believe is responsible for the shooting death of Ken Osborne, and possibly the dea

S5·E6 Core

The One That Got Away

Nov 3, 2001

Ali gets assigned to work the cold case of Jessica Tyson. Gerald Lee had confessed to the murder, but because his confession was a direct result of a cop threatening his life, the

S5·E7 Core

The Nanny

Nov 10, 2001

Mickey partners up with an old flame to solve a case.

S5·E9 Core

Bottom Feeders

Dec 15, 2001

When a trusted defence attorney crosses Mickey, she vows to exact her revenge, can the squad solve this one?

S5·E10 Core

The Shed

Feb 2, 2002

Harper struggles to build a case against a murder suspect, after an investigation that lasted 18 month long.

S5·E11 Core

Dead Letters

Feb 9, 2002

mickey stumbles across a potential lead in an investigation that had been leading the squad to a dead end in there investigation.

S5·E12 Mytharc

Enough's Enough

Feb 23, 2002

The Squad continues to work on the Ambleton case, feeling they've hit a break when they arrest a former student, Shelley Mack, who tells Mickey and Ali about parties that used to b

S5·E13 Mytharc

Ambleton

Mar 2, 2002

The squad discovers what happened with Billy Wells and Michelle Ripley.

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