The Contract Season 5 Plot
Dante goes to every length imaginable to take down the LSN, and learns uncomfortable truths about himself in the process. Alliances are tested, and trust becomes a thing of the past as all paths climax in the final season of The Contract.
Season 5 Episodes
15 episodes
1
80
Gold Coasts Catalyst
Joey visits the Jovanović estate and begins renovations. At Ivan's old desk, Joey finds his plans to alliance with the Murphy family, the most dangerous crime organization in the Midwest, not knowing the deal was never officially made, Joey sends Dante and Agt. Quinn to go after Aaron Murphy, the leader of the organization, despite Dante's insistence on going alone. CPD searches for Darrel who begins planning on how to take down Joey. Joey's paranoia grows as he prepares for a potential attack from the Murphy family. A new mayor is finally settled bringing peace to the streets of Chicago once again.
2
90
Murphy's Harbor
Dante and Quinn arrive at the other side of Lake Michigan where the Murphy family bought out an entire gated community called Lakecrest, that both Dante and Quinn need to infiltrate. Dante visibly has something weighing on his shoulders but refuses to reveal it to Quinn. Darrel looks into potential rivals of the LSN, looking for anything he can to gain leverage over the LSN. Joey enters a room where a deteriorating Rose is being interrogated on the location of her paper on the LSN. Rose, starting to break, still refuses to give any information on the missing paper.
3
Commotion Blur
Dante and Quinn navigate and take out security in Lakecrest while trying to make it to a surveillance outpost, a safehouse used to monitor the inside of Lakecrest. While infiltrating one of the outposts, Dante alerts the guards, developing into a shootout that sends Lakecrest into lockdown. Quinn uses the surveillance to locate Aaron, while Dante zones out in a back room flashing back to his younger years, where Quinn trained him, and helped him survive the world he was forced into. A single tear falls from his face when Quinn snaps him out of it. Rose breaks, revealing to Joey of the detective who claims the two have history, plotting to end Joey and his organization, as well as the copy of her document in Belle's apartment.
4
90
Ink Coffin
The outpost is raided by Aaron's men leading Dante and Quinn to make a silent escape as the search for the two agents continue. Joey arrives at Belle's apartment frantically searching for the document that's nowhere to be found. He angrily confronts Rose who insists she isn't hiding anything from him. Joey turns his focus to Darrel sending an assassin after him. Aaron attempts to handle the situation leaving him questioning his allies as he contemplates who would set a hit on his head. Darrel sets his eyes on a target who he believes to be a worker for the LSN, not realizing the mans target is himself, he slowly trails the man who quickly realizes he's been compromised, ending the episode on a cliffhanger as the 2 try to prevent a shootout from breaking out in the streets, while also trying to kill each other.
5
90
After Hours
Darrel's assassin quickly finds out that Darrel isn't trying to run. The two take their fight into a nearby parking garage where Darrel barely comes out on top in a fist fight after disarming his assassin. Things heat up at Lakecrest sending Dante and Quinn on the run. Quinn leads after finding the location of Aaron who is being escorted out of his mansion. The 2 intercept his transport, while Quinn tries to take out the surrounding guards but Dante holds off, getting the 2 agents caught by Aaron and his men. Joey gets a bad feeling, desperately trying to contact Dante and Quinn, sensing a potential betrayal, he has an outburst at Rose, still insisting she knows nothing. Joey lashes out calling her a traitor, ordering her to be killed.
6
90
Sincerely, Darrel.
Aaron orders the 2 agents to drop their weapons and put their hands in the air, Quinn follows orders, but a tear runs down a hesitant Dante's face, when suddenly, he shoots Quinn in the head, killing him instantly. Aaron and his men draw their weapons, and Dante reveals his betrayal of the LSN, and a pitches a potential partnership with the Murphy family. Joey receives a large package, containing a corpse of one of his men, with a haunting message left on his wrists reading "sincerely your old friend, Darrel".
7
No Margin
Dante is watched closely by Aaron's guards while the two plot there first move against Joey. Joey, thinking Dante is dead, records a video killing Rose as a message to the Murphy family, displaying the cost of butting heads with the LSN. Dante and Aaron receive the disturbing footage, recording a video of their own, revealing to Joey that Dante has betrayed him, sending Joey into a chaotic frenzy. Dante and Aaron make their way back to Chicago.
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90
Knocking on Heavens Door
Joey begins the search for Darrel who anxiously plots his next move, hearing of the Jovanović estate that the LSN just inherited. Dante and Aaron make their way into Chicago planning on how to take down Joey from the inside. Joey places surveillance in Belle's apartment, and begins paying off law enforcement for a potential all-or-nothing plan. Darrel stakes out the exterior of the estate waiting for a moment to strike.
9
100
Live By The Sword
The plan is set it motion, and Dante slips through the cracks running back to Belle's apartment, where he's met by an LSN agent waiting for him. Back at the Jovanović estate, Darrel is about to make his move when Aaron's men arrive and begin slaughtering the LSN, sending Joey in a panic to escape as we see his closest piers get slaughtered at a dinner that Joey was hosting that evening. Joey stares from a far as his newly acquired mansion burns to the ground as shouts and cheers from Murphy's crew ring out.
10
100
Kill Switch
A tense standoff between Dante and the LSN agent kicks off the episode. The agent orders Dante to be escorted out without fighting, Dante agrees before shooting the agent in the leg, putting the pistol to his head, whispering "you chose the wrong side, bud", before killing the man. The end times are here for the LSN and Joey goes rogue, killing the mayor taking over the city with law enforcement he payed off to lock down the city trapping the members of Murphy's crew, as well as Dante in Chicago. We see back at the apartment, Dante breaks down after seeing a picture of him and Belle together on the nightstand, retrieving the paper, and vowing to take down Joey.
11
100
Merciless
Dante sends a fake tip of his location to the LSN luring the guards outside of City Hall away, giving Dante the chance to break in silently making his way to Joey. He makes it to Joey's room where Joey expects Dante to kill him, but Dante has a less merciful ending in mind. Dante leaves a folder on Joey's desk, before beating him to the ground, kicking him in the face, breaking his nose. At Dante's false location, the LSNs men are massacred once more by Aaron's crew who's waiting at the set up location. Darrel catches wind of the situation, realizing it's officially out of his hands, and tries making his way out the city. The public begins to catch onto something suspicious going on in the city. The loss for the LSN causes law enforcement to end their deal with the LSN.
12
100
Kill Screen
Joey reads the package Dante left, it's not shown what was in the package, but whatever it is, it sends him over the edge, causing him to rush out in a panic. The Murphy crew make their final moves, raiding City Hall, burning it to the ground marking the official end of the LSN. We cut to earlier in the day showing Dante publishing Rose's paper, finally exposing Joey, the LSN, the Murphy Family, and the political corruption in Chicago, spreading countrywide in just hours. Darrel seeing this, takes his final chance to get Joey, risking everything one last time. The episode ends with shots cutting between a maniacal sobbing Joey writing a letter, and Dante holding a picture of Belle, watching the burning Hall from a balcony nearby. Ending with Dante's words: "I did it, I did it for you".
13
100
Costanzo
Interrogations, arrests, and shootouts begin when military begins investigating local organized crime in Chicago, Aaron Murphy was unable to escape the city, just another casualty in Dante's final act. Darrel scours the outskirts of the city, looking for anyone on their way out. When he sees a familiar blacked out SUV exiting the city with suspicious urgency. Darrel begins pursuing the vehicle from a far. Dante is making his way out of the city, stopping by Belle's apartment one last time, where he finds a letter signed by Joey, titled "The Least I Could Do". The pivotal moment of Dante's life and identity, Joey apologizes for all the harm he's done to him, for quote "dragging you down with me". Dante falls to the ground as Joey made the eye-opening reveal that Dante is his son, connecting all of Dante's past in one final devastating blow from Joey. (see 6x01 to read Joey's entire letter).
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100
Thirty Pieces of Silver
Darrel uses his old megaphone to impersonate a cop, forcing the SUV to pull over, however this only causes the vehicle to speed up confirming Darrel's suspicions of the vehicle. Darrel pit maneuvers Joey's SUV off the road leading to their first 1 on 1 confrontation in over 15 years. Joey is unarmed, and tries to talk Darrel down, who drops his weapon angrily cutting off Joey manically screaming, letting out 15 years of anger in a long burst of rage, beating Joey who hardly is able to fight back. Darrel slams Joey on the ground, slowly choking him out still screaming in a rage, Joey takes his last breath, reaching for Darrel's gun, but ultimately fails, ending the standoff with Darrel rightfully victorious. Dante still barely able to process the information, makes his way out of the city to start a new life somewhere else.
15
100
The Contract
6 months later in Portland, Oregan, a drunken Dante is shown swaying in a bar he entered with a fake ID, when a bartender asks for his name, he freezes, reminiscing on the time Belle asked the same question. This time he answers, with both his first, and last name. The bartender responds asking if he's related to Joey Costanzo, who's now infamous for his takeover of Chicago. Faced with the reality that the past he once sought out, will now forever haunt him. With this unsettling reality sinking in, Dante exits the bar without answering. Detective Darrel Carter moved out to Kansas where he now lives alone at an old farmhouse. Dante contemplates his life, reflecting on everything one last time on a rooftop. Dante fulfills one final mental contract, with himself, stepping off the building, bringing an end to the suffering his last name brought to his world.