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The Dead Zone Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
11 Episodes 2006 - 2006
Episode 1
Forbidden Fruit
Sun, Jun 18, 200642 mins
Miranda is going ahead with her marriage to Stilson, for all the wrong reasons, and Johnny begs her to keep the faith that he will find a way out for her. It's discovered that Stilson's wedding will be televised on Faith Heritage with Reverend Purdy performing the ceremony. When Johnny has a vision about Miranda being killed afterwords, he and Bruce must race against the clock to try to stop it from happening. Meanwhile, someone has leaked information on the nation's most vulnerable terrorist targets. Johnny and Bruce discover it was Stillson's right hand man/thug Janus whom is aware about Johnny's psychic powers and knows how to be elusive. Johnny and Bruce endeavor to put a stop to Janus' plan... despite not knowing what the plan really is, and are equally unaware about Janus own psychic powers.
Episode 2
Independence Day
Sun, Jun 25, 200641 mins
It's July 4, and Bruce and Johnny are headed to Boston for the harbor fireworks. On the way out of town, Johnny foresees Bruce's death in a car accident. Later, the pair are stuck with a few hundred newfound friends on a locked-down stretch of Interstate 95. Johnny's visions begin to foresee a multiple fatality pileup occurring, and tries to stop people from leaving. But elsewhere, a dangerous escaped felon is loose somewhere near the highway.
Episode 3
Panic
Sun, Jul 2, 200640 mins
Randy, a teenage neighbor of Johnny Smith, comes home to find his father shot in the head. Escaping from two hired killers who want his own head as well, Randy runs to Johnny Smith's house, with the gunmen hot on his trail. Johnny's visions prevent him from fatal run-ins with the killers, and to see that they have cut phone and power to the house. As the group race to stay one step ahead of the killers who have now broken in, Johnny learns (as has Sheriff Bannerman, who arrives on the scene solo only to get held hostage) that Randy and his father were unwitting witnesses to a mob hit and the men after them are cold-blooded assassins sent by the imprisoned mobster to kill them in retribution for locking him up for life. Meanwhile, Johnny begins to get visions of his father Herb as a young boy in 1941 during World War II. The visions, which show Herb convincing his father to harbor the family of his Japanese friend from an angry mob, also expose to John a few secrets of the house that give them a few advantages over the two ruthless intruders.
Episode 4
Articles of Faith
Sun, Jul 9, 200640 mins
William Cotton, a new Faith Heritage minister with political ambitions who preaches of tolerance, and his son Darryl are new residents of Cleaves Mills. Darryl is a former member of the Seattle Korps, a white supremacist youth organization with online connections. When a young Muslim boy is killed in an apparent hate crime, Johnny picks up visions of Darryl committing an assault with a baseball bat, which is consistent with the victim's wounds. While Walt and the sheriff's office follows the lead, a visiting former love interest of Johnny's, reporter Dana Bright, now working for a major newspaper in Boston, and Josh Blake, editor of the Faith Heritage student paper, reveal that Reverend Cotton was formerly the leader of a neo-nazi organization. While Cotton tries to spin his past, Darryl confesses to the murder in exchange for a racially charged television appearance. Johnny and Bruce begins to have doubts, and discover that the murder of the Muslim boy was the result of a whole different kind of intolerance.
Episode 5
The Inside Man
Sun, Jul 16, 200640 mins
Johnny ends up taking the place of the inside man in a museum robbery to stop the crime and prevent several deaths. He soon finds he may have to help them escape to prevent innocent people from being killed. Purdy finances the Faith Heritage Organization which is having a showing of religious artifacts. The robbers attempt to steal the finger bone reputed to be John the Baptist. Johnny tries to stop the bad robbers, and help a good robber, who is the real owner of the bone.
Episode 6
Lotto Fever
Sun, Jul 23, 200642 mins
A man who Johnny inadvertently helped win the lottery kidnaps him because winning the lottery ruined his life. It turns out he squandered and gambled away all the lottery money, totaling over $1 million. This resulted in the loss of his house and his wife leaving him over his constant and unwise lavish spending. The insane man, Boyd, is a natural-born, hapless loser who forces Johnny to help him out on a robbery, before showing that his gun is empty. But then Boyd, being the immature, bad luck-prone loser he is, loses all the money gained in the robbery in a poker game despite Johnny's attempts to help him. Meanwhile, Walt goes searching for Johnny when he misses a lunch date with him and Sarah. He ends up trying to save Johnny and Boyd from a hit man hired by a loan shark who Boyd borrowed more money from and naturally squandered it.
Episode 7
Symmetry
Sun, Jul 30, 200640 mins
Multiple visions cause Johnny to question his own reality.
Episode 8
Vortex
Sun, Aug 6, 200642 mins
To save a child, Johnny infiltrates a local compound belonging to a cult. He soon finds out that the place is loaded with explosives and must stop a confrontation between the cult leader and the FBI, before the entire place goes up in flames. However, Stillson makes another appearance and does not pass up the opportunity to exploit the situation. He plays the fear-card for his own gain for further admiration and power for himself.
Episode 9
Revelations
Sun, Aug 13, 200642 mins
A woman claiming to be Purdy's lost-long daughter arrives in Cleaves Mills. Johnny has a vision of the woman causing harm to Purdy, who ignores Johnny's warning that the mysterious woman, Jessica. While investigating the woman, Johnny and Bruce learns of Purdy's secret past involving being a carnival preacher and of his involvement with a con artist seeking to swindle Jessica's mother out of all her money.
Episode 10
Into the Heart of Darkness
Sun, Aug 20, 200642 mins
When Sarah and J.J. go missing, Johnny helps Walt search for them through his visions. It turns out that Linda Finney, the Collector's captive-turned-protégé is back and seeking revenge against Johnny and Walt. She sees them guilty as for killing her true companion. But with a hard-nosed and skeptic FBI agent hindering Johnny and Walt's investigation, Johnny himself is captured by the deranged woman. She subjects Johnny to mind games, hoping to play on Walt's panic and determination to let him kill her, while Sarah learns during her time in captivity that she happens to be pregnant.
Episode 11
The Hunting Party
Sun, Aug 27, 200640 mins
Johnny stumbles upon a conspiracy to assassinate the Vice President. The plan, headed by Janus and his mysterious Illuminati, is to take over the government so that Stillson can assume the vice president's place. A vision of a murder leads Johnny to a paranoid and controversial radio show host, named Marshall Frost. His girlfriend, Kendra Crowe, is also a part of Janus conspiracy to frame Marshall for the murder. But it soon becomes clear that Janus not only has similar powers to Johnny, but Janus has his own plans to take over the world for Stillson's New World Order for the upcoming Apocalypse.