The Best Episodes of Jake and the Fatman Season 5

Notorious New York cop Mickey Daytona pursues the legal counsel Thomas Chetwin suspecting him of rape. Jake, who is a friend of Mickey and his old father, reluctantly teams up with Mickey. Chetwin is trapped and commits suicide.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: David J. Burke

Derek is shocked when he finds out that a woman he loved didn't die in a plane crash 6 years ago.

Director: Alexander Singer

Writer: Morgan Gendel

A singer is planing to make a comeback after a year in drug rehab, when a stalker tries to kill her.

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Jake kills a 14-year-old boy. He claims the boy had a gun and fired upon him, but no gun is found and the neighbors didn't hear anything.

Director: Peter Ellis

Writer: N/A

A porn producer is killed in a way quite similar to a murder 5 years ago for witch McCabe got a young boxer convicted. Jake investigates, and gets involved with a reporter who seems to know things before the police do.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: Gerry Conway

Jake continues investigating the murders of Strobach and Blore, and evidence starts to point at Warren's old corner man Doug McKeown. But whom is he working for?

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: Gerry Conway

A trio of high-class pickpockets gets in trouble when they pick a mafia hitman's pocket and get a piece of paper with his next target on it.

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Jake teams up with top homicide cop Hank Goldman to catch a serial killer who strangles women from escort services.

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PI Ed Delaney sees a man die and calls the police, but when they come for the body it is gone. He identifies the man as millionaire Richard Rose, who as it turns out, is still alive...

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Jake goes undercover as a middle man between Rose and a rebel army wanting to buy Rose's hi-tech rifles, while Delaney finds proof that Rose isn't who he claims to be.

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A writer is just about to publish an incriminating book about his ex-wife, when he is found dead in his bathtub.

Director: James Frawley

Writer: N/A

A friend of Neely's is killed by a heroin overdose, just as she was about to quit modeling. Neely goes undercover as a model to find out why.

Director: Georg Fenady

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A woman follows a client of her sister's law firm, and sees him rob a store and kill the attendants. She confronts the man, and threatens to tell the police unless he kills her sister.

Director: Georg Fenady

Writer: E. Nick Alexander

A doctor is murdered, and is discovered to have been making child pornography. The prime suspect is Elliot Edwards, a city council member with a spotless record.

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McCabe is prosecuting Mitchell Lazarus for murder and has just placed him at the scene, when another man steps forward claiming to be the murderer.

Director: Alexander Singer

Writer: James Kearns

Someone is giving out money to poor people or those who have done good deeds, using the name ""the good fairy"". But it turns out the faire's money is from a bank robbery.

Director: Reza Badiyi

Writer: N/A

Neely and Jake investigates a case where dead bodies are found with their livers surgically removed.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: N/A

A psychiatrist who Neely helped put away 5 years ago stars harassing her after getting out of prison.

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Jake's girlfriend Sherry is badly hurt by a car bomb, after Jake received a letter threatening to kill her for revenge against him. Devastated, he looks trough previous cases to see who the bomber could be.

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Writer: Gerry Conway

A young graffiti painter witnesses a murder and takes the victim's wallet. Jake finds him, but he refuses to talk, figuring that if he could solve the case himself he'd get a reward.

Director: Reza Badiyi

Writer: N/A

Bondswoman Ethel Mae Haven has to track down a client who she posted a $1 million bail for.

Director: Christopher Hibler

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Jake helps out a shop owner who refuses to obey a local gang's order to close 3 hours early.

Director: Richard Lang

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