9.2/1015 votes#1 - Shannon/Ken/Angela
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2012
Shannon's jealous ex-partner terrorizes her and their two-year-old son; Ken has to abandon his fishing buddy after their boat sinks in the Gulf of Mexico; Angela is sexually attacked at a public payphone.
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8.1/1014 votes#2 - Debbie/Ray/Jasmine
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2012
A woman is kidnapped from her home, dragged into the woods, & sexually assaulted; a pilot and his friend spend 10 hours floating in the Pacific Ocean after their plane crashed; a woman survives being shot 6 times by playing dead.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1011 votes#3 - Gilles/Angela & Richard/Jeffrey
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2012
A fake internet date brings a man face-to-face with a would-be serial killer; a couple fights for their lives when a black bear invades their home; a man wakes up to find his neighbor about to pound a sharpened crucifix into his chest.
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7.6/1011 votes#4 - Kim/John/Charlene
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2012
An aspiring young model is sexually assaulted; a man trekking in Ecuador is kidnapped for five weeks; a family's movie night turns tragic when four armed people attempt to rob them.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - A.J., Carolyn & Stacy/Lynne
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2012
A heavily-armed teenager goes on a killing spree in a Salt Lake City shopping mall; passengers and crew are forced to abandon ship in a ferocious storm in the Indian Ocean.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Natasha/Tim/Kellie
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2012
A college freshman is sexually assaulted at gunpoint on the rooftop of her building; a worker at a chemical plant is trapped by raging flames after a massive explosion; a young woman is savagely beaten and sexually assaulted in her own apartment.
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8.2/1012 votes#7 - Audrey/Todd/Kimberley
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/2012
When a woman leaves her husband, he throws gasoline on her and set her alight; a native New Yorker is lost in a blizzard in Idaho; a home invasion leads to a leap of courage.
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9.4/1013 votes#8 - The Taliban: Jere
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/2012
A journalist is kidnapped in the mountains of Pakistan by a Taliban faction and held prisoner for 45 days, constantly afraid that each day is to be the day of his execution.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - Tricia & Linae/Jason/Mary
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/2012
After witnessing their mother and grandmother being shot dead, and their father critically injured in their Oakley, Utah home, 2 young sisters are abducted by 2 men and driven off a cliff. A man and his friends are buried in a Montana avalanche while going snowmobiling. And a Concord, New Hampshire woman is held hostage at her law office by a man who has stalked her for years.
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8.3/1016 votes#10 - The Norway Massacre: Sofie/Adrian/Magnus/Rebekka
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/2012
Two hours after detonating a massive car bomb in Oslo, Norway, killing 8 people, the bomber disguises himself as a policeman and makes his way to Utoya Island where 530 teenagers are attending a summer camp. During an 80-minute rampage, he stalks and shoots the defenseless teenagers. Sofie, Adrian, Rebekka, and Magnus survive the massacre, but 69 others die.
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8.0/1014 votes#11 - Louie & Wade/Sayeh
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/2012
2 Canadian forest workers are attacked by a bear. In Pensacola, Florida, an 8-year-old and her little sister are abducted by their mother's pedophile ex-boyfriend. He drives them into the woods where, after repeatedly raping the older girl, slits both girls throats leaving them to die.
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7.0/1013 votes#12 - John/Kevin/Helena
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/3/2013
A disgruntled contractor executes the city officials he believes wronged him; a catamaran capsizes in the ferocious North Atlantic; a 17-year-old girl is abducted at knifepoint & repeatedly raped over 6 hours.
Director: N/A
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7.8/1012 votes#13 - Brent/Hanna & Miranda/Karen
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 3/10/2013
A stockbroker is shot 5 times by a former client; two sisters are stranded for 4 hours in an icy Alaskan lake; a woman is abducted at gunpoint by a man with a grudge against her family.
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9.2/1014 votes#14 - Hostage: Keith and Marc
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 3/17/2013
A routine drug surveillance mission over the Colombian jungle turns into a nightmare when Keith and Marc's plane crash-lands and they are captured by FARC guerillas and held hostage for five grueling years.
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8.1/1015 votes#15 - Amy/Trish & Darrell
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 3/24/2013
A woman is brutally raped in her car by a co-worker who has asked for a ride home; a tornado lifts an entire house and smashes it 400 yards away—with the family inside it.
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7.1/1013 votes#16 - Angel/Elyse/Richard
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 3/31/2013
Two best friends find themselves targets of a gunman who lures them to his apartment; a professional skier seeking untracked powder snow gets swept away by an avalanche; a disgruntled client walks into a stockbroker's office with a loaded gun.
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8.0/1011 votes#17 - Morgan & Aaron/David/Amanda
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 4/7/2013
Two Minor League ball players are hogtied and robbed at gunpoint in their hotel; a fishing boat carrying a crew of 26 catches fire and explodes in the icy Bering Sea; a 19-year-old store clerk is abducted and sexually assaulted at knife-point.
Director: N/A
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8.6/1015 votes#18 - Kristen/Kimball/Thadius
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/2013
A 19-year-old student is chained up and sexually assaulted at gunpoint; a man swims over two miles in strong currents; a 12-year-old boy is abducted by a neighbor who holds him captive for two days and tortures him by twisting his ankles until they break.
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8.3/1013 votes#19 - Mike/Chris/Neza
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 6/2/2013
When Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern Seaboard, one man is swept out to sea in pitch darkness; a man is thrown overboard when the HMS Bounty starts to sink; a woman almost drowns as she escapes water floods in her house and a fire breaks out.
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8.0/1012 votes#20 - Regan/Gary & Scott
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 6/9/2013
A young girl and her best friend are abducted by serial killers; two hunters crash their small plane in the remote Alaskan wilderness and are horrifically burned.
Director: N/A
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8.0/1013 votes#21 - David/Sandy & Ken/Maura
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 6/16/2013
A teenage boy is abducted, sexually assaulted, and tortured; a nanny is attacked by a 14-foot Nile crocodile in a remote African river; a mother of two is abducted by a knife-wielding stranger who is covered in blood.
Director: N/A
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8.6/1016 votes#22 - Singer/Romina & John
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 6/23/2013
Four young Americans are kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan; a young couple's holiday in Thailand turns into a fight for survival when tsunami strikes.
Director: N/A
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8.6/1010 votes#23 - Dorothy/Jim/Bud & Katrina
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 6/30/2013
A woman is raped in front of her children before being shot in the head; a man is bitten by a deadly rattlesnake miles away from help; at a popular swimming hole, a sniper shoots and kills three teenagers.
Director: N/A
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9.3/1013 votes#24 - Bill, Mike & Ginger/Wanda
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 7/7/2013
A gunman enters a Florida school board meeting and begins shooting hostages at point blank range; a 23-year-old newlywed is abducted and gang raped by partygoers at a remote farmhouse.
Director: N/A
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8.4/1013 votes#25 - Rhonda/Jason/Patrick
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 7/14/2013
A young woman is stabbed, abducted, & sexually assaulted; a man is sucked up 50 feet in the funnel cloud of a tornado; a woman's husband is shot when her brother opens fire at Thanksgiving dinner.
Director: N/A
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Shannon/Ken/Angela" is the best rated episode of "I Survived..." season 5. It scored 9.2/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/7/2012. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "Debbie/Ray/Jasmine".