Suspense: 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 Suspense 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
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The Old Lady of Bayeux
Sep 2, 1952
Cécile Ledru, the companion of a rich widow, Joséphine Crozier, calls the police when she finds her dead body at the estate of her nephew, where they were staying. Mrs. Crozier has
Call From a Killer
Sep 9, 1952
The tale is about a killer who tries to hide out with his wartime buddy, unaware that the buddy is now a policeman.
The Return of Dr. Bourdette
Sep 16, 1952
A detective searches for a killer and traces him to a wax museum.
Set-Up For Death
Sep 23, 1952
Mobster Kip Caley is released from prison after serving ten years and proclaims he's "going straight." His old criminal cronies, however, intend to involve him in a hold-up after b
The Beach of Falesa
Sep 30, 1952
Wiltshire is the third man sent by a trading company to work on a small Polynesian island; the previous two had strangely died. Upon arriving he encounters his competitor, Case, a
The Man in the Mirror
Oct 7, 1952
Two men look exactly alike. One is the actual criminal and the other the innocent sap who gets nailed.
Blue Panther
Oct 14, 1952
Detective Ben Shaley has been hired to guard The Blue Panther, a valuable painting on loan to a gallery. During the invitation-only preview, both the painting and the necklace of a
The Man Who Had Seven Hours
Oct 21, 1952
A Hollywood assistant director in a stop-over in Paris is attacked by criminals on the Montmarte.
All Hallow's Eve
Oct 28, 1952
In 1880s London, Mr. Markheim stabs to death a pawnbroker whose wealth he has long envied. Markheim says he intends take some of the businessman's riches, marry, and become a saint
The Moving Target
Nov 11, 1952
Based on the true story of a Hungarian sharpshooter at the 1952 Olympic Games, this episode focused on an athlete whose father is held as collateral so that the athlete will not tr
Monsieur Vidocq
Nov 18, 1952
A series of thefts at France's national museum threatens to become an international issue. Scotland Yard sends Williams to Paris to request help from the city's renowned, retired p
The Whispering Killer
Nov 25, 1952
A mobster is tripped up by a simple law he overlooks.
A Time of Innocence
Dec 2, 1952
Middle-aged Henry wants to divorce his London wife, Carol, and return home to America, but she intends to keep all of their savings. After striking up a romance with his young secr
The Girl Who Saw Tomorrow
Dec 9, 1952
A neurotic woman becomes distressed when she sees her best friend becoming successful.
The Tortured Hand
Dec 16, 1952
A 19th century nobleman is tortured with pain in his hand, the one he used to commit murder defending his family's honor.
The Deadly Lamb
Dec 23, 1952
A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic triangle story.
The Invisible Killer
Dec 30, 1952
Pilot Dan Crowley is grounded by his doctor for his intense behavior. A delusional man who's constantly trying to prove himself, he believes the doctor's daughter should be his, ev
Little Camorra
Jan 6, 1953
Convinced that she is cursed by an old family vendetta, a woman tries to convince her American fiance of the threat.
Mr. Matches
Jan 13, 1953
An arsonist-for-hire dubbed "Mr. Matches" has been been torching buildings all around the city. Bernard Frank, head of the fire bureau, knows who he's looking for because he's spot
Vacancy for Death
Jan 20, 1953
Clara and Sam Warren own a run-down boarding house which acts as a front for their real business: arranging for their boarders to have "accidents." One particular evening, Sam and
Career
Jan 27, 1953
A British agent wants to give up her spying in Nazi Germany in this story of espionage.
Mutiny Below
Feb 3, 1953
After saving the chief engineer's life, Danny and Snow are hired as watch officers on a rusty steamer traveling the Indian Ocean. Reading a newspaper story about a stolen diamond b
A Study in Stone
Feb 10, 1953
After carefully faking insanity, a sculptor is acquitted of his wife's murder, but he finds nature's justice cannot be circumvented.
The Quarry
Feb 17, 1953
After preventing a stranger from being shot outside of his hotel, widower Don Ashley realizes why a pair of thugs have been trailing him for days--the goons had the two similar-loo
They Haven't Killed Me Yet
Feb 24, 1953
An Asian-American agent's life is in jeopardy while attempting to break a powerful protection racket in Chinatown. Based on the work of Gon Sam Mue.
The Kiss Off
Mar 3, 1953
Tom Walker, an ex-convict who was wrongly convicted and just released, holds up a tax office and leaves behind an obvious clue as to his identity. He gives the bag of money to his
The Legend of Lizzie
Mar 10, 1953
The story of accused axe-murderer Lizzie Borden is dramatized.
The Black Prophet
Mar 17, 1953
Convinced that the sinister "Mad Monk" Rasputin will bring about the fall of Russia with his growing power over the royal family, a group of noblemen take action. Serge Soudekine i
Portrait of Constance
Mar 24, 1953
A newlywed accompanies her detective husband on the search for a long-missing woman, whom he once was madly in love with. A reported sighting takes Burt and Sally Hastings to a res
Death in the Cave
Mar 31, 1953
The tale of two adventurers trapped by an earthquake in a vast underground cavern.
Kiss Me Again, Stranger
Apr 14, 1953
A serial killer is on the loose in 1946 London with five victims so far. Elderly Mrs. Thompson rents a room to a secretive young Tim Matthews and is convinced he's the murderer. Sh
The Duel
Apr 21, 1953
Madeleine does not care for Raoul, the officer her father intends for her to marry. Instead, she loves Lt. Andre Duport. Her father intends to send her back to Paris and put a stop
F.O.B. Vienna
Apr 28, 1953
Lawrence Stevens, an American engineer, accompanies a shipment of lathes to an electrical factory in Vienna. A female reporter tells him about the huge black market for industrial
The Suitor
May 5, 1953
A lonely widow lives on a farm where weird and baffling mysteries are occurring.
Death of an Editor
May 12, 1953
A militant editor's death is plotted and carried out by foreign agents.
The Adventure of the Black Baronet
May 26, 1953
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the case of Colonel Jocelyn Dalcy, who was found stabbed to death while visiting at the home of Sir Reginald Lavington.
The Queen's Ring
Jun 2, 1953
The story is based on an experience in the life of Elizabeth I.
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Jun 9, 1953
An attaché working at the Russian embassy in Mexico is about to be called home for becoming too friendly with the freedom-loving locals. In exchange for asylum, he frantically trie
See No Evil
Jun 16, 1953
A night club singer helps a gang plan a robbery, believing their promise not to harm the night watchman, her father.
The Signal Man
Jun 23, 1953
A demented railroad signalman is tortured by fears that he is responsible for a series of train wrecks.
The Fury of Senorita Gomez
Jun 30, 1953
A highborn lady in the 19th century of Peru plots with her stableman to murder her uncle.
The Mascot
Jul 7, 1953
An American correspondent risks his life to secretly record a candid interview with an army deserter, exposing his evil plan to become dictator of a Mediterranean Island.
The Dutch Schultz Story
Jul 14, 1953
True story of the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz who became kingpin of the underworld, only to be knocked from his throne by blazing guns in a New Jersey tavern.
Pigeon in the Cage
Jul 21, 1953
A drama of frustrated lovers caught in a web of crime and deceit.
The Dance
Jul 28, 1953
Joan Hale first sees the Charleston performed at a society party on a visit to the South. During her stay, she and Charlie fall in love despite his engagement to the scheming Marie
Vial of Death
Aug 4, 1953
A deadly vial of cholera is stolen from a doctor's medical bag.
Point Blank
Aug 11, 1953
When a gang leader tries to burn his bridges behind him the backfires get awfully, warm.
Nightmare at Ground Zero
Aug 18, 1953
The Nevada Proving Ground is set for another nuclear bomb blast at 4 AM. A harried artist is rushing to finish the mannequins he's been hired to construct that will populate a hous
Death in Passing
Aug 25, 1953
A tale of murder on Manila's waterfront and an island detective with one of the most puzzling cases of his career.