The Squad: 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 The Squad 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
May 13, 2004
The agents of the Sant'Andrea police station, distraught with anger and pain for the loss of Sergio, must concentrate all their efforts to bring the killers and masterminds to just
Episode 2
May 20, 2004
A cohabiting couple is found dead in the furniture showroom they ran together. The case is entrusted to the new superintendent Salvatore Sciacca who gains the trust of his new coll
Episode 3
May 28, 2004
The body of a young woman is found at the bottom of an escarpment while Sciacca and Battiston deal with the mysterious kidnapping of a baby who had been entrusted to the babysitter
Episode 4
Jun 3, 2004
In a small restaurant by the sea, the lifeless bodies of two Camorristi are found. The owner of the restaurant, seriously injured, is rushed to the hospital. Initially everything s
Episode 5
Jun 10, 2004
A girl looking for help stops a car from the Sant'Andrea police station, the young woman declares that her current boyfriend has set out to find her ex, expressing his intention to
Episode 6
Jun 17, 2004
The body of a university student is found in an attic used as an improvised neighborhood TV. At the crime scene, smashed equipment and a bloodstained easel were also found. The boy
Episode 7
Sep 9, 2004
The lifeless body of a girl employed as a telephone operator in a call center is found on a deserted beach. Not far away is a car parked which turns out to be registered to a man w
Episode 8
Sep 16, 2004
A man on a scooter is hit by a runaway car. The agents of the Sant'Andrea police station intervene promptly to help him, but they do not find any type of document that can trace hi
Episode 9
Sep 23, 2004
At the Vesuvian Observatory a man convinced of having to leave his home against his will has climbed onto the roof and threatens an extreme protest: to throw himself into the void
Episode 10
Sep 30, 2004
During the demolition of an illegal building, a well-hidden entrance to a bunker is discovered. The superintendent Salvatore Sciacca arrives on the spot who, from some details, int
Episode 11
Oct 7, 2004
Following the arrest of the Mafia boss Paternò, responsible for the attack on the police station where Sciacca worked in Palermo, the Sant'Andrea agents work tenaciously to uncover
Episode 12
Oct 14, 2004
At the conclusion of the investigations conducted in Palermo, the chief commissioner Giorgio Pettenella completely clears the superintendent Salvatore Sciacca of being accused of b
Episode 13
Oct 21, 2004
The body of a boy is found in the room run by a small Camorra boss, already known to the police for his cocaine trafficking. The deputy commissioner Cafasso is a longtime friend of
Episode 14
Oct 28, 2004
Due to a fortuitous accident in a cemetery, it is discovered that a woman's coffin actually holds the body of another person. The mystery thickens when the autopsy reveals that the
Episode 15
Nov 4, 2004
The body of a girl, with her head smashed, is found at the edge of a swimming pool. The victim's brother, a former water polo champion, revealed to the investigators that her siste
Episode 16
Nov 11, 2004
The agents of the Sant'Andrea police station investigate the disappearance of Dr. Veneziani, collaborator of the coroner. For some time, the woman had been on the trail of a small
Episode 17
Dec 2, 2004
The body of a young psychologist is found in his office inside a family home. To give the alarm to the men of the Sant'Andrea police station was a neighborhood priest, an old acqua
Episode 18
Dec 9, 2004
At night a group of thugs armed with iron bars enters a technical institute, devastating it. Arriving near the school, the officers find a seriously injured janitor and, half hidde
Episode 19
Dec 10, 2004
The Sant'Andrea police station is involved in investigating a massive trafficking of chemical waste which appears to have large-scale connections. Battiston is sent to prison to ex
Episode 20
Dec 16, 2004
Inspector Walter Battiston, who has infiltrated the prison, tries to extract information on the shady trafficking linked to the disposal of toxic waste and to find the link that li
Episode 21
Dec 17, 2004
The agents of the Sant'Andrea police station investigate a crime that took place at the Platano Hotel, a small hotel for couples seeking discretion. The investigations are directed
Episode 22
Dec 18, 2004
Agent Luciano Russo and Superintendent Salvatore Sciacca are urgently called to the hospital where the lifeless body of a man lying on the ground was found, with his skull smashed.