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Silk Stalkings: Season 5

22 episodes Premiered Sep 17, 1995
Previously on Silk Stalkings

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.
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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 (11): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (11): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S5·E1 Mytharc

Pulp Addiction

Sep 17, 1995

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.

S5·E2 Mytharc

The Lonely Hunter

Sep 24, 1995

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

S5·E3 Mytharc

Sweet Punishment

Oct 1, 1995

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

S5·E4 Mytharc

Friendly Persuasion

Oct 8, 1995

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

S5·E5 Mytharc

Family Affairs

Oct 15, 1995

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

S5·E6 Core

Tricks of the Trade

Oct 22, 1995

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

S5·E7 Mytharc

Kill Shot

Oct 29, 1995

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

S5·E8 Core

Partners (1)

Nov 5, 1995

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

S5·E9 Core

Partners (2)

Nov 12, 1995

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

S5·E10 Core

Glory Days

Nov 26, 1995

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

S5·E11 Mytharc

Till Death Do Us Part

Dec 3, 1995

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,

S5·E12 Mytharc

The Last Kiss Goodnight

Dec 10, 1995

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

S5·E13 Core

Dead Asleep

Dec 17, 1995

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

S5·E14 Mytharc

Sudden Death

Jan 7, 1996

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

S5·E15 Core

Uncivil Wars

Jan 14, 1996

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

S5·E16 Core

Black and Blue

Jan 21, 1996

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

S5·E17 Core

Exit Dying

Jan 28, 1996

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

S5·E18 Core

Prey of the Fox

Feb 4, 1996

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

S5·E19 Core

Playing Doctor

Feb 11, 1996

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

S5·E20 Core

Family Values

Feb 18, 1996

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

S5·E21 Mytharc

Private Dancer

Feb 25, 1996

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

S5·E22 Mytharc

Body Electric

Mar 3, 1996

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

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