剧集聚焦钱弘俶（白宇 饰）、赵匡胤、郭荣三人在国家板荡中的命运抉择。他们目睹离乱，深知唯有重建秩序方能终止苦难。钱弘俶秉持“保境安民”，守护一方；郭荣志在重振纲常，然天不假年；赵匡胤顺势而为，立宋建制，革新图治。最终，在历史洪流与苍生祈盼下，钱弘俶“纳土归宋”，为华夏文脉得以延续与发展奠定了和平基础。
一种名为“美人”的疾病病毒大肆传播，这种病毒会让人变美，但却足以致命。搭档德鲁和卡拉奉命调查该病毒，同时要躲避腐败官员和雇佣兵的追捕。
主人公吴邪（侯明昊 饰）身为老九门吴家后人，从机关重重的战国墓“七星鲁王宫”九死一生逃出生天后，回到家中发现三叔吴三省（姚橹 饰）失踪，还牵扯出十几年前的一桩考古队谜案。吴邪接到神秘的阿宁来信，为找到三叔，他前去西沙明代沉船葬海底墓寻找线索，遇到自七星鲁王宫分别的王胖子（张博宇 饰），还发现神秘古物蛇眉铜鱼，以及失忆的张起灵（成毅 饰），而小哥来到西沙海底墓似乎还另有原因。在潜入神秘的明代船墓过程，遭遇海猴子、禁婆等怪物的攻击，最终突破奇门遁甲的层层机关返回陆地。然而蛇眉铜鱼、六角铜铃的线索又将他们指引到秦岭，去探寻巨大青铜树的秘密。
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.
