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Cagney & Lacey Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
On the Street
Mon, Sep 30, 198560 mins
Chris and Mary Beth try to convince a teenage runaway, who's shunned her family's wealth and privilege for a life on the streets, to help them convict her pimp.
Episode 2
Ordinary Hero
Mon, Oct 7, 198560 mins
Cagney and Lacey feel for the key witness in an upcoming trial, an illegal alien whose reward for his help will be deportation upon the trial's conclusion.
Episode 3
The Psychic
Mon, Oct 21, 198560 mins
Cagney doubts the abilities of a psychic who's been hired to locate a missing woman by her family.
Episode 4
Lottery
Mon, Oct 28, 198560 mins
When a lottery jackpot has one more claimant than there should be, Cagney and Lacey try to find out who's got the counterfeit ticket. Meanwhile, the Laceys prepare for an IRS audit.
Episode 5
Entrapment
Mon, Nov 4, 198560 mins
Mary Beth faces an ethical dilemma when she has to choose between supporting Chris' claims against a known drug dealer, or admitting she knows nothing about it.
Episode 6
The Clinic
Mon, Nov 11, 198560 mins
When a firebomb at an abortion clinic kills a patient, it ignites a debate over whether the death of a fetus constitutes a second murder.
Episode 7
Mothers & Sons
Mon, Nov 25, 198549 mins
A mother's alibi for her son stands in the way of criminal charges, despite other compelling evidence. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's son gets on the wrong side of the law himself.
Episode 8
Filial Duty
Mon, Dec 2, 198560 mins
Years of drinking finally put Chris' father into the hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's pregancy forces her to make changes to her work routine.
Episode 9
Old Ghosts
Mon, Dec 9, 198560 mins
Chris is accused of being a coward when a robbery suspect eludes her in a chase. Meanwhile, her brother, Brian, comes from California to check on their father.
Episode 10
Power
Mon, Dec 16, 198560 mins
Chris gets to fill in for Lt. Samuels as watch commander, but dislikes that one of her first assignments is to force Mary Beth onto maternity leave.
Episode 11
Play It Again, Santa
Mon, Dec 23, 198549 mins
Cagney and Newman work a case involving music rights issues.
Episode 12
The Rapist
Mon, Jan 6, 198660 mins
Mary Beth's energetic replacement turns vigilante when she angers over the time it's taking to get to arrest a suspected rapist.
Episode 13
Act of Conscience
Mon, Jan 13, 198660 mins
The new replacement for Mary Beth comes with a history the 14th Precinct doesn't like--he broke the blue wall of silence when other police were taking bribes, and the Desk Sergeant is taking bets on how long his stay with them will be.
Episode 14
DWI
Mon, Jan 20, 198660 mins
While running the night shift, a case of DWI begins to make Chris confront her own demons with the bottle.
Episode 15
The Gimp
Mon, Jan 27, 198660 mins
An advocate for the handicapped demands something be done about a rash of robberies against the disabled. Chris goes undercover in a wheelchair and finds herself smitten with the activist.
Episode 16
Family Connections
Mon, Feb 10, 198660 mins
Chris races to get a laboring Mary Beth to the hospital before the baby comes out. Meanwhile, she has to deal with her father's new girlfriend.
Episode 17
Post Partum
Mon, Feb 17, 198660 mins
Chris tries to help a West Point cadet who refuses to help himself avoid court martial due to his honor code. Mary Beth receives a visit from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was little.
Episode 18
The Man Who Shot Trotsky
Mon, Mar 3, 198660 mins
With Mary Beth back from maternity leave, she and Chris again go after drug dealer Mansfield, this time with the help of a young Hispanic informant.
Episode 19
Exit Stage Center
Mon, Mar 10, 198660 mins
The apparent suicide of a stage actress starts to look like murder when Cagney and Lacey discover everyone involved in the play seems to have a motive.
Episode 20
Capitalism
Mon, Apr 7, 198660 mins
When a lawyer who has made a living helping his fellow Cambodians winds up murdered, Chris and Mary Beth learn he may have been profitting from misfortunes too much. In the meantime, Chris parts ways with her car.
Episode 21
Extradition
Mon, May 5, 198649 mins
Chris and Mary Beth go to California to bring back a defendant who skipped on his bail.
Episode 22
A Safe Place
Mon, May 12, 198660 mins
Cagney and Lacey race against time to catch a thief, whose latest haul included plutonium, before his radiation sickness becomes terminal.
Episode 23
Model Citizens
Sun, May 25, 198660 mins
To find the murderer of a labor leader, Cagney and Lacey must first find out why anyone would want the apparently squeaky-clean man dead. In the meantime, Cagney gets a visit from her niece.
Episode 24
Parting Shots
Mon, May 26, 198660 mins
The 14th Precinct suffers the loss of one of their own, as Cagney and Lacey work to find out who shot and killed Det. Newman.