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Season guide

Street Legal: Season 5

16 episodes Premiered Oct 5, 1990
Previously on Street Legal

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 Street Legal 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

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (12): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S5·E1 Mytharc

Holy Thursday

Oct 5, 1990

Olivia and Chuck work together to make Olivia managing partner to give them financial control of the firm, but Carrie ends up getting the position. Carrie's friend Wendy looks for

S5·E2 Core

Spare Parts

Oct 12, 1990

Olivia's brothers show up in her life again, wanting to buy out Olivia's share of the family cottage, and end up getting themselves arrested for dealing animal parts. While Leon he

S5·E3 Core

Double Agenda

Oct 19, 1990

Carrie has been falling in love with Dillon, but when she learns that he's prosecuting her client and friend, Wendy, for first degree murder, this puts a serious strain on their re

S5·E4 Core

Shadow Boxing

Oct 26, 1990

In an attempt to impress a Hollywood producer she's representing, Olivia pits two unions against each other. Leon has to report a good friend to the law society, and Alana accepts

S5·E5 Core

Standard of Care

Nov 2, 1990

Chuck discoves his son Adam is desoeratly ill and ex-wife Lisa flies him back to Toronto for treatment.

S5·E6 Core

Softsell

Nov 9, 1990

During a press conference called to announce his candidacy for mayor politician Kevin Coatsworth is served papers for sexual harassment.

S5·E7 Mytharc

The Psychic

Nov 16, 1990

Carrie enters a new dimension in criminal defense as she takes on the case of a young woman who contends she led police to the body of her murdered husband via a psychic vision.

S5·E8 Core

Divine Image

Nov 23, 1990

Leon surprises everyone when he announces he intends to run for mayor, a decision Alana is less than enthusiastic about.

S5·E9 Core

Sanctuary

Nov 30, 1990

A priest friend of Leon's is arrested for concealing a terrorist, but Leon, fearing for his new political career, is reluctant to become invovled.

S5·E10 Core

Lies

Dec 7, 1990

Wanda, the firm's recceptionist, finds herself in a dilemma when her father arranges that she marry Sujeet, a distant cousin from India.

S5·E11 Core

Tyger, Tyger

Dec 14, 1990

Carrie's excitement at reaching the final stages of Kim's adoption is short- lives when Kim's natural grandparents show up to contest Carrie's application for custody.

S5·E12 Core

Murder

Jan 4, 1991

Chuck becomes more and more obsessed with Olivia and her attention to producer Peter Garland, and hires Nick del Gado to track their activities.

S5·E13 Core

The Cookies Crumble

Jan 11, 1991

Producer Peter Garland is found dead in his townhouse, and Chuck is arrested for his murder.

S5·E14 Core

The Prosecution

Jan 18, 1991

Chuck's case does not look hopeful and, in desperation, Chuck approaches Nick to do some investigating of his own.

S5·E15 Mytharc

Election Day

Jan 25, 1991

Chuck learns Peter Garland hired a private investigator to look into the affairs of Johnny Marsh, and that Olivia was using the information to blackmail Marsh.

S5·E16 Mytharc

The Truth

Feb 1, 1991

Carrie accepts Dillon's marriage propsosal. Marriage is not a happy affair for Alana and Leon, however.

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