Crossing Jordan
Hit drama “Crossing Jordan” heads into its sixth season and continues to explore disturbing topical crimes, while following a cadre of coroners who use their forensic skills to help the Boston police department bring murderers to justice and closure to victims’ families.
- Metascore60
- 2001-2007
- 6 seasons
- NBC
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Hit drama “Crossing Jordan” heads into its sixth season and continues to explore disturbing topical crimes, while following a cadre of coroners who use their forensic skills to help the Boston police department bring murderers to justice and closure to victims’ families.
Season 5 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
There's No Place Like Home II
Fri, Sep 23, 2005 43 mins
The staff at the Medical Examiner's office is at each other's throats due to Slokum's reign. Macy is brought back from his suspension to once again go head-to-head with Oliver Titleman who seems to be choosing his new victims based on The Wizard of Oz. Woody is still recovering after being shot and is still giving Jordan the cold shoulder. Woody is obsessed with finding Riggs, who's escaped, and Jordan tries to help him.
Episode 2
Luck Be a Lady
Sun, Oct 2, 2005 43 mins
A man is brought to the morgue. Later a woman claiming to be his wife shows up and burns the body, then kills herself. Jordan learns the woman is from Las Vegas and works at the Monticetto resort so she calls Danny McCoy. Who then arrives and tells her that the man who died was last seen with a Vegas mobster. Woody reluctantly works with Danny and they find more bodies but no links to the mobster which Danny says there should be. Garrett is about to do an autopsy on a man who died after riding his motorcycle. But some bikers come to the morgue and take the body. Garrett learns that the man's identity is only 5 years old and later that he went missing 5 years ago so the man's family is informed who come for him. But Garrett not wanting to make waves tries to find the body himself.
Episode 3
Under the Weather
Sun, Oct 9, 2005 43 mins
Two boys lost in the wilderness, two bodies in a well. The crew is called in and Jordan responds (even though she has the flu). She gets trapped in an abandoned mine.
Episode 4
Judgement Day
Sun, Oct 16, 2005 60 mins
A man who dies of tuburculosis immediately after being released from prison leads Jordan to investigate substandard health care in the prison system. Woody investigates a recently released rapist apparently determined to kill those responsible for his incarceration.
Episode 5
Enlightenment
Sun, Oct 23, 2005 60 mins
Jordan is investigating the mysterious death of a woman and her child. All points to the leader of a cult whom Jordan thinks is creepy. But she can't go in his cult so she turns to Pollock for help. And a woman asks for the sperm of a man who was brought into the morgue. But later another woman claims to be the man's wife and she doesn't want the woman to have it.
Episode 6
Total Recall
Sun, Oct 30, 2005 60 mins
A body, long-dead, found in a park turns out to be a teacher. Jordan struggles with emotion vs. evidence in the case of a dead couple.
Episode 7
Road Kill
Sun, Nov 27, 2005 60 mins
Jordan matches wits with a serial killer who agrees to help her and Woody find a copycat.
Episode 8
A Man in Blue
Sun, Dec 4, 2005 60 mins
When evidence unexpectedly appears at a murder scene Woody has been investigating, he is accused of planting it. Bug and Nigel argue over a possible alien abduction case.
Episode 9
Death Goes On
Sun, Dec 11, 2005 60 mins
Jordan works with Bug on a missing persons case involving the sister of a murder victim. During their investigation Jordan and Bug discover new clues in an old case which help prove how and who murdered the missing woman's sister. Meanwhile, Garrit, Nigel and D.A. Walcott work on a case involving a Boston crime boss.
Episode 10
Loves Me Not
Sun, Jan 8, 2006 60 mins
A murder at a bed and breakfast with a 100 year old murderous past draws Jordan and Woody out to a small town in the middle of the winter. With a hotel full of suspects, a possible ghost and bodies stacking up, it's only a matter of time before they end up snowed in.
Episode 11
The Elephant in the Room
Sun, Jan 15, 2006 60 mins
Jordan scrambles to validate a case being tried after Macy is arrested, and his results are questioned.
Episode 12
Code of Ethics
Sun, Jan 22, 2006 60 mins
The murder of a soldier stateside leads Jordan and Woody to a soldier who died in Iraq. Nigel is on the track of an old kidnapping, and Macy's daughter is dating someone he deems unsuitable.
Episode 13
Dreamland
Sun, Jan 29, 2006 60 mins
Dr. Macy's daughter is a witness to a gang-related shooting and the team works together to solve the crime and locate Abby.
Episode 14
Death Toll
Sun, Mar 12, 2006 60 mins
Psychiatrist Dr. Howard Stiles (Wallace Shawn) interviews and provides psychological counseling to the coroner staff in the aftermath of a subway bombing that kills a teacher and many of her students. The events of the bombing are interleaved with the interviews.
Episode 15
Blame Game
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 43 mins
An elite group of fire fighters are killed in a wild fire in a wooded area surrounding Boston. Their charred remains are found in the opening of the episode. The coroner's office must investigate the deaths while the wild fire still rages. A man falls on Dr. Mahesh "Bug" Vijayaraghavensatanaryanamurthy's (Ravi Kapoor) new sports car from a height of around 10 stories. Dr. Vijayaraghavensatanaryanamurthy must determine whether the fall was suicide, accidental or murder. If the fall were to be ruled a suicide, the insurance company would declare the accident an act of God and would not cover the extensive damages to the car. The operator of an industrial paper shredder and bailer (Bill Mumy) plays a central role in events related to this part of the episode.
Episode 16
Someone to Watch Over Me
Sun, Mar 26, 2006 42 mins
The murder of an upstairs neighbor puts his daughter at risk, and Jordan's family history seems to get in the way of helping her. Meanwhile, Garret and Lily are at odds on how to handle a case that involves a powerful man who will stop at nothing to hide the truth.
Episode 17
Save Me
Sun, Apr 2, 2006 43 mins
A teenage girl is murdered and the Boston PD along with Nigel and Bug work to determine who did it. The prime suspect is a schizophrenic man living in a halfway house in the neighborhood.
Episode 18
Thin Ice
Sun, Apr 16, 2006 43 mins
Jordan and Lu butt heads while trying to prove whether or not a baseball player raped a woman. Jordan sides with the victim while Lu believes Baker's story that it was consentual. Later, the victim is found dead and another of Baker's secrets is revealed. Bug and Nigel investigate the death of a former Air Force pilot who's been frozen in a block of ice for forty years.
Episode 19
Mysterious Ways
Sun, Apr 23, 2006 43 mins
Jordan investigates murder of a woman who could perform miracles. Lily worries about her relationship with Jeffrey. Bug investigates death of high-rise window washer with vertigo.
Episode 20
Mace vs. Scalpel
Sun, Apr 30, 2006 43 mins
Macy discovers a young boy is being held hostage. Lily runs into Bug.
Episode 21
Don't Leave Me This Way
Sun, May 7, 2006 42 mins
Jordan is implicated in the shooting of her former boyfriend JD Pollack.
