Excessive Force

Baez gets injured while escorting confiscated drugs, so Danny goes after the drug cartel responsible. Elsewhere, a lieutenant with a commendable record engages in controversial behavior, putting Frank in a difficult position.

Danny and Baez are temporarily assigned new partners when an officer is outed and his current partner won't ride with him.

Danny tries to get a previous gang-banger on trial for manslaughter when a young woman dies of an old gunshot caused by him.

Danny Reagan is accused of police brutality. Frank has to walk a fine line in the investigation and find the truth. Jamie meets a female doctor, and it makes Janko uneasy.

A woman's abusive boyfriend targets Jamie after he intercedes in a domestic dispute. Elsewhere, the press gets ahold of an illegal tape capturing Henry's insensitive comments, and Frank must deal with the ensuing scandal.

Danny and Frank will join forces to put an international criminal behind bars for good.

Frank is taken by surprise during an on-air interview with Erin's boss; Danny and his new boss clash as they investigate a drive-by shooting. Meanwhile, Jamie and Jenko help out detectives with an apparent suicide.

When an officer's body camera fails during an exchange with a civilian, Frank must deal with the public's hostile response.

Three community leaders are killed in apparent hate crimes, and Danny and Baez investigate as Frank meets with folks who want to ensure the gravity of these crimes is not ignored.

Danny witnesses a bank robbery from the inside. While chasing the evidence he finds it was committed to get money for a noble cause. When learning the facts, Danny has an internal struggle of what to do.

Frank pushes to find evidence against a suspected cop killer who shot one of Henry's fellow officers years ago.

Jamie gets Danny involved when he finds a homeless teen who claims his aunt was killed by her boyfriend.

Detective's Reagan and Baez investigate a home invasion gone wrong.

Danny and Maria investigate a murder of a lower income resident in a luxury building where 20 percent of the units are made affordable for lower income housing.

A mob informant in WITSEC returns to New York to testify at one of Erin's cases with Danny and Baez to protect him. Jamie helps Eddie get over a shootout that resulted in a death.

Baez is held hostage in an interrogation room by a distressed man who wants to see his daughter.

Erin's unnerved when someone breaks into her apartment, and then she discovers her coworker was attacked.

Eddie goes undercover for the first time when she tries to take down a kidnapping ring, which is luring in young women with websites for phony youth hostels.

An investigative journalist refuses to give up a source who admitted to committing murder.

A celebrity chef from reality TV is murdered and a suspect readily confesses to the crime, but Danny and Baez think there is more to the case.

When NYPD Deputy Chief Donald Kent, a commanding officer of the gang division, and his wife are gunned down in an apparent gang hit, Frank orders all hands on deck to catch his friend's killer.

In the conclusion of the two-part Season 5 finale, one of the Reagans is shot by a gang member, and Danny pursues a suspect while trying to keep his emotions in check.