The Divine Comedy
written by Dante Aligheri

In the Season 5 premiere, a few years have passed and Hank is living in New York but looking for a ticket out of town after his latest breakup. He accepts an invitation from Charlie to come to Los Angeles for a job writing a film starring rapper/actor Samurai Apolcaypse, then reunites with Karen, her former professor and now-husband Richard, and his daughter Becca, who now has a boyfriend named Tyler that is the spitting image of Hank himself ... in the worst possible way.

Whilst Stella is called in front of the PSNI's Policing Board, headed by Morgan Monroe, to discuss the lack of progress in the case, Ferrington requests a transfer off of the investigation. DCI Eastwood is assigned as Stella's Deputy SIO following Brink's (Frank McCusker) reassignment, and Gibson declares the investigation will focus on a single individual. Meanwhile, Spector abducts Rose Stagg.

Mayor Kane makes a professional turn to a new way of doing things when he extricates the housing project from the corruption that plagues his entire city.

Crashing a snobby high-society party allows Ted to show off how pretentiously intellectual he can be.

Roger receives news of his mother's death, and several members of his family attend the funeral, including estranged daughter Margaret, who attempts to mooch Roger into giving her husband's fridge business advertising. Peggy becomes increasingly dictatorial at her job in Cutler, Gleason and Chaough, and saves a Super Bowl ad from CGC from being pulled. Ken Cosgrove becomes suspicious of the intentions of mysterious brown-nosing junior accounts man Bob Benson. Betty visits Greenwich Village after she learns that a violin-prodigy friend of Sally's left for there after spending the holidays at the Francis household. Meanwhile, Don takes a Christmas vacation in Hawaii with Megan. Later, it is revealed Don is having an affair with neighbor Sylvia Rosen