Love/Hate: 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 Love/Hate 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
Episode 1
Oct 5, 2014
After almost losing everything to D.I. Moynihan’s sting operation, Nidge travels to Spain to negotiate with a wholesale supplier for a new drugs shipment. Meanwhile, Patrick has re
Episode 2
Oct 12, 2014
With Pauley’s help, Nidge is back in business and arrangements are made for the first shipment under the new deal. Meanwhile Moynihan wrestles with a labyrinthine Garda bureaucracy
Episode 3
Oct 19, 2014
Fran is banged up in prison but he and Nidge both still conspire to have each other killed, while Siobhan finds her dangerous drug fuelled double life is spiralling out of control.
Episode 4
Oct 26, 2014
Nidge uses Scotty as a driver on a new job, while Siobhan learns Tommy will soon wake from his coma and finds herself caught between her quest for revenge and her love for Pauley.
Episode 5
Nov 2, 2014
In the aftermath of Pauley’s death Siobhan must face her most terrifying opponent yet as Terence May flies in from Spain to lay his nephew to rest—and to find the truth.
Episode 6
Nov 9, 2014
Nidge is summoned back to Spain, where Terence demands a terrible price for his continued support, while Siobhan and Moynihan reach an unholy deal of their own.