天光（郭晋安 饰）是重案组的CID，为人刚直不阿黑白分明。在追查一宗连环杀人案时，发现疑凶竟是二十年前从父亲手上逃脱的犯人。天光父亲大河（许绍雄 饰）是一名资质平庸的警察，且粗心大意不思上进，不仅让罪犯逃走，更是死在妓女床上，让天光母子蒙受巨大屈辱。以写作实况小说知名的作家高珊（陈慧珊 饰）此次亦追踪着天光手上的案件，二人对案件的不同理解造成摩擦，纷纷竞逐真相。 一日，天光发现父亲的旧电话神奇响起，对方声称自己是警察，只是所说所讲都停留在八十年代。细问起才发现那竟是二十年前的父亲大河！二人合作无间，跨越两个时空，共同追查真凶。
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.
再加上刑警主帅段伟伦、及国际线人孟海，以超凡智慧及先进科技辅助， 不但要直捣犯罪集团，令罪犯难逃法网，更誓要作出电视史上的另一大突破。
