The Vice: 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 Vice 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
Hooked
May 26, 2003
Disgraced Chappel has been transferred to a desk job following the events of the operation into the paedophile ring, and Vickers has been drafted in to head-up the vice squad as hi
Control
May 27, 2003
Following Vickers' promotion to Chief Inspector, Robinson makes a welcome return to Vice, and on his first day back, he becomes determined to nail a violent pimp, who is involved w
Gameboys
Jun 3, 2003
The team investigate an amusement arcade manager suspected of recruiting young runaways as rent boys, and PC Adam Parkes is sent undercover in an attempt to gather evidence. While
Untouchable
Jun 10, 2003
The licence of a pole-dancing club is up for renewal, and Robinson is determined to bring down the manageress, who is thought to be running the club as a front for a prostitution r
Outcast
Jun 17, 2003
Robinson and Morgan are called to the scene of a prostitute found dead in a skip, only to discover that the Serious Crime Group have taken on the case. When DI Delaney requests one
Birdhouse
Jun 24, 2003
While Vickers and Morgan are away from the office on an official home office jaunt, Parkes and Cole go undercover in a club in an attempt to gather information on the owner, suspec
Lust
Jul 1, 2003
Robinson and Cole are trailing a suspect whom they discover has involvement with a major drugs and prostitution racket, but are shocked when they find his boss having dinner with L