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Where the Bears Are: Season 5

16 episodes Premiered Sep 1, 2016
Previously on Where the Bears Are

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 Where the Bears Are 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.
Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S5·E1 Mytharc

Where The Bears Are: Season 5

Sep 1, 2016

Season 5 breaks from the murder mystery aspects to switch to a spy narrative, focusing this time on Todd Stevens as a newly minted spy for his security agency, setting the bears of

S5·E8 Core

Wrestling Bears

Sep 26, 2016

Todd coerces Wood into posing as a Lucha Libre wrestler in order to get close to a friend of Chase's, a professional wrestler named Crusher, who is known for his killer bear hugs.

S5·E9 Core

Mariachi Bears

Sep 29, 2016

The Bears converge on a Mexican restaurant with Nelson, Reggie and Wood posing as members of a mariachi band and Todd as a waiter in order to set a trap for Chase. But unfortunatel

S5·E14 Mytharc

Bears Across the Border, Part One

Oct 17, 2016

After Todd is nearly drowned following an aborted assassination attempt and the killer escapes, the Bears enlist the aid of Winters and Martinez in order to find Chase Hansen befor

S5·E15 Mytharc

Bears Across the Border, Part Two

Oct 20, 2016

Unbeknownst to the Bears, Todd launches a sting operation in a Mexico City park known for its gay cruising in order to finally snare Chase Hansen and retrieve the thumb drive, but

S5·E16 Mytharc

Bears Across the Border, Part Three

Oct 24, 2016

In the rip-roaring, hair-raising season finale, Nelson, Todd, Winters and Martinez form the Wild Bear Bunch and descend upon a remote Mexican village right out of a spaghetti weste