孤儿高风（张若昀 饰）执着于找寻亲生父母，富家女吴飞飞（马思纯 饰）斡旋于企业的种种危机中，两人本有着毫不相关的生命轨迹，某日，一起撞车事件暴露出一具埋藏多年的尸骨，尸骨似乎与高风的身世之谜有关，又藏着吴飞飞全家需要掩盖的秘密。真相被层层剥清的过程中，高风和吴飞飞从对抗到联盟，不断寻找线索。最终，尘封二十年的正义得到伸张，两个青年走出各自的人生困局，找到生命的意义。
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.
