The BEST episodes of The FBI Files season 5
Every episode of The FBI Files season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The FBI Files season 5!
Through re-enactments of high profile cases involving the FBI, the show reveals how agents solve these crimes behind the scene. The show producers work with FBI special agents and examiners in high tech crime labs to portrait each case accurately. You will learn how the FBI protects the lives of Americans and brings the most notorious criminals to justice. The FBI was originally established to address crime that covered cities, counties, and spread across state lines. The country needed a federal law-enforcement entity to do those investigations. And over the years, as the country has grown and as the world, by the same token, has grown smaller, the FBI's mission has changed to meet the various threats.
#1 - Held Hostage
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/6/2003
Three Black men take Amy Shaw's family hostage at her parents SC home. Jeburk forces Amy to return to the bank were she worked in GA and break into the vault.
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#2 - Deadly Influence
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/2/2003
A marine salvager found the bodies of three drug dealers floating in a river. FBI agents suspected that a group of cops might be involved in illegal drug busts.
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Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/4/2003
In 1993, a robber surprised unsuspecting customers by dropping through the roof of a California bank. A local resident led police and FBI agents to the perpetrator. However, they learned that he had also masterminded a kidnapping – and had a hostage.
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#4 - Price of Greed
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/2002
The 1997 Los Angeles Dunbar Armored robbery, the largest cash heist in United States history. Six masked robbers stole $18.9 million.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Tracks of a Killer
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/4/2003
The hunt for serial killer Angel Resendiz, also known as the "Railroad Killer."
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Caught in the Act
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/5/2003
Chronicling an investigation that took authorities across Alabama to Virginia in search of cousins suspected in seven deaths, robbery and possession of multiple firearms.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - High Stakes
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2003
After abducting and assaulting a girl at a bus stop, Maghfoor Mansoor was on the run from police and the FBI. From Vegas to Atlantic City, Mansoor left a trail of theft and violence until he was cornered in a hotel lobby.
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#8 - Dark Woods
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/27/2003
Agents search for a young girl who was kidnapped while on a family camping trip, and hope the culprit's repeated calls to the child's mother can lead them to an arrest.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Cruel Revenge
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/15/2003
The son of a successful real estate developer was kidnapped. After the father received a $3 million ransom demand, the FBI became involved. Criminal profiling helped track down the kidnapper.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Home Invaders
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/10/2002
On June 19, 1985, convicted bank robber Terry Conner and his partner-in-crime, Joseph Dougherty, escaped on their way to Dougherty's trial. In September, the fugitives used Conner's old m.o. to make the biggest bank robbery in Wisconsin history.
#11 - In Pursuit
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/19/2003
A Nebraska sheriff's deputy sees a man wanted for firearms violations and tries to arrest him. But the man begins shooting, leading to a high-speed pursuit and wounded cops. The FBI helps track the man across state lines
#12 - Domestic Terror
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/1/2003
Domestic terrorism is an especially vivid threat to Americans; the FBI has created specialized teams to root out and dismantle terrorist operations, and put away those criminals whose secretive, leaderless cells are well armed and very dangerous.
#13 - Death Pact
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/17/2004
After a string of bank robberies in Illinois, Chicago, the FBI began to suspect that a police officer was responsible for the crimes. With the holdups becoming increasingly violent, authorities set out to capture the dangerous killer.
#14 - Lawless
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/18/2003
The 1987 murder of Boston Police Department officer Roy Joseph Sergei and the resulting joint FBI – BPD – Mexican Federal Police search for professional bank robber Ted Otsuki.
#15 - Broken Trust
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/20/2003
In 1988, a criminal confessed that two prominent community members hired him to murder a South Carolina farmer. Police and FBI agents arrested a wealthy businessman and later learned that, even behind bars, he had the power to corrupt and kill.
#16 - Fatal Friendship
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/2/2003
The 1992 kidnapping and murder of Martha Doe Roberts.
#17 - Fateful Crossing
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/11/2003
A U.S. Customs official disappears from his post near a Texas border crossing. The following day, the Customs official was found dead. Local police and the FBI continued searching for the suspects.
#18 - The Initiation
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/17/2003
Three men murder an innocent man as part of an initiation into a Cleveland Ohio biker gang.