Silk Stalkings: 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 Silk Stalkings 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
Pulp Addiction
Sep 17, 1995 · 48 min
A novelist's assistant is murdered. Chris and Rita encounter the deceitful world of publishing when the novelist, Jackie McMillan, and her drunken husband become prime suspects.
The Lonely Hunter
Sep 24, 1995 · 48 min
A model is murdered. At the request of Paul Clifton, the model's ex-husband and photographer, Rita meets with him at his home. He puts her in a compromising position when he makes
Sweet Punishment
Oct 1, 1995 · 48 min
After a pimp is murdered, two of his employees become suspects. Chris becomes involved with one of the suspects, Maddie, a hooker who is raising her teenage brother. Rita begins to
Friendly Persuasion
Oct 8, 1995 · 48 min
A socialite is murdered and her beautician is the prime suspect. Unbeknownst to Chris and Rita, the beautician's roommate, a manicurist, has been having affairs with clients' husba
Family Affairs
Oct 15, 1995 · 48 min
While in high speed pursuit of a murder suspect, Chris hits a teenager who ran a red light. After the teenager dies, Chris has trouble coping with the accident. He finds himself in
Tricks of the Trade
Oct 22, 1995 · 48 min
A man with connections to a male prostitution ring is found dead. Chris, under protest, goes undercover as a male escort to find the killer. Meanwhile, Captain Lipschitz sets Rita
Kill Shot
Oct 29, 1995 · 48 min
An old friend of Chris' comes to town with a volleyball tour and their relationship begins to intensify. One of the players is murdered and an obsessed fan becomes a suspect until
Partners (1)
Nov 5, 1995 · 48 min
Unable to hide their feelings for each other any longer, Chris and Rita secretly get married in a private beach ceremony. They try to hide this from the Captain but he finds out an
Partners (2)
Nov 12, 1995 · 48 min
While Lipshitz isn't happy that Chris and Rita went and got married (in a private beach ceremony), he and the rest of the precint decide to throw a surprise shower for them anway a
Glory Days
Nov 26, 1995 · 48 min
A newly wed Chris and Rita discover they are expecting their first child. Their joy is short-lived, however when Rita is kidnapped. After making what seemed to be a successful rans
Till Death Do Us Part
Dec 3, 1995 · 48 min
After being shot during a botched ransom drop, Chris goes into cardiac arrest and dies in a very pregnant Rita's arms at the hospital where he's been since the shooting. Meanwhile,
The Last Kiss Goodnight
Dec 10, 1995 · 48 min
Holly goes to Chris and Rita for help after a detective, Ray Quiller, attempts to rape her. Even though the odds are against her, Holly files a complaint with Internal Affairs. Aft
Dead Asleep
Dec 17, 1995 · 48 min
The time has come for Sargeant Chris Lorenzo's funeral service. Though offered a very big promotion weeks before by Lipschitz, Rita cannot bear to stay in the same job without Ch
Sudden Death
Jan 7, 1996 · 48 min
When the strangled body of Cyndi Parker washes ashore, Mike and Holly are assigned to the case. Their chief suspect is Ronnie Martin, a rising football quarterback who was at the H
Uncivil Wars
Jan 14, 1996 · 48 min
Holly and Mike investigate the death of Kelly Shepherd--the wife of record producer Mack Shepherd. All evidence points to Bobbie Bodine, an aspiring young singer whose daddy Lucien
Black and Blue
Jan 21, 1996 · 48 min
While working at Sunrise House--a shelter for battered women--Holly receives a distress call from Sharon Grayson who says her husband is going to kill her. When Mike and Holly arri
Exit Dying
Jan 28, 1996 · 48 min
Connie Bayliss, an actress-turned-play producer, asks her old friend Captain Lipschitz to assign Holly to investigate the murder of her leading actress--the only catch is that Holl
Prey of the Fox
Feb 4, 1996 · 48 min
Holly and Mike investigate the death of Shauna Celine, a public relations executive for White Thunder Designs who appeared to have been prostituting herself on this side. When the
Playing Doctor
Feb 11, 1996 · 48 min
Holly goes undercover as a drug addict, and Michael as her concerned brother, when a Marla Hess, a counselor for Safe Haven is found strangled to death in a patient's room. The mai
Family Values
Feb 18, 1996 · 48 min
When a reporter's dead body is dragged out of the ocean by a fisherman, Mike and Holly are assigned to investigate. All evidence points to Jason Hemmings, son of Senator Grant Hemm
Private Dancer
Feb 25, 1996 · 48 min
A young man named Justin Wharton comes into the Palm Beach PD and tells Holly that his father, Phillip, is going to be murdered by his second wife, Anna. After much hesitation, Hol
Body Electric
Mar 3, 1996 · 48 min
While driving home, Michael rescues a mysterious woman from the ex-husband who was stalking her. They quickly fall in love with one another--but Mike breaks it off when he finds ou