School Warrior season 5
| School Warrior | |
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| Season 5 | |
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| Showrunners | Freddie Goodwin Jackson Greene |
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| No. of episodes | 22 |
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| Original network | HBO Max |
| Original release | October 12, 2028 – present |
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The fifth season of the Australian television series School Warrior, based on characters appearing in DC Comics publications, premiered on October 12, 2028, on HBO Max and consists of 22 episodes. The season continues the story of Miles Porter, a metahuman police officer with superhuman speed, and follows the next major chapter of the Warriorverse. Produced by Mob Productions and SOI Studios, Freddie Goodwin and Jackson Greene return as co-showrunners.
The season was announced in late 2027, with filming beginning in May 2028 and concluding in February 2029. Asa Butterfield stars as Miles Porter / Velocity, alongside returning leads Hailee Steinfeld, Noah Jupe, Emma Myers, John Boyega, Margot Robbie, Melissa Barrera, Malese Jow, Robert Downey Jr., and Nick Creegan. HBO Max renewed the series for a sixth season in December 2028.
Episodes
Season five is divided into multiple “Graphic Novel” arcs, continuing the structure first introduced in the earlier seasons.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | ||||||
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| Graphic Novel #7: Hearts Made of Lightning | ||||||||||||
| 61 | 1 | "Sparks in the Silence" | Sara Case | Freddie Goodwin | October 12, 2028 | T37.01501 | ||||||
| Three months after resetting the timeline, Miles enjoys a fragile peace with Kendra and Grace until strange static flickers, muted distortions across Midvale, and an “itchy spark” sensed by Grace reveal an unseen force stalking him from the void left after defeating Future Miles. When Victor Blackthorn reappears via a hijacked broadcast—alive, altered, and claiming Miles cracked open the Silent Realm during the final battle—“Silent” entities made of living static begin slipping into the city, freezing people and reality itself as they pursue their true target: Miles. With Grace suddenly manifesting Silence energy through physical contact, the team learns the Silent Realm marked both father and daughter during the reset. Realizing the threat won’t stop until he willingly returns to the realm that wants to reclaim him, Miles accepts the horrifying truth that to protect his family and the city, he must lead Team Velocity into the Silent Realm itself to end what he accidentally unleashed. | ||||||||||||
| 62 | 2 | "Echoes of Tomorrow Past" | Damon Rourke | Jackson Greene | October 19, 2028 | T37.01502 | ||||||
| Kendra receives a 1960 classified file left on her doorstep containing photos of a man identical to Miles—Eobard Porter, “Subject Zero,” tied to early metahuman experiments and the Porter bloodline’s secret involvement in Project E-D-0, leading her and Jason into Midvale’s restricted archives where they uncover evidence that Miles’ father wasn’t born in this timeline and that Miles himself may have been engineered through a generational link to the Silence. As Silent entities hunt them through the city, Grace manifests Silence-energy strong enough to destroy one, forcing Kendra to confront the possibility that Grace was marked during the reset. Back at the base, the team realizes Miles’ powers, his family history, and the Silence are deeply connected, and when Blackthorn appears in person—alive and corrupted—he reveals that Eobard Porter discovered the Silence decades ago and made a deal involving Miles’ bloodline, warning that Grace is now the final part of that bargain as the Silent Realm erupts into the room. | ||||||||||||
| 63 | 3 | "The Weight of Lightning" | Mira Silverleaf | Celeste Hart | October 26, 2028 | T37.01503 | ||||||
| As Silence energy spreads across Midvale, Blackthorn returns warning that Grace is the first being born with both Speed Force and Silence power, the prophesied “Lightning Between Worlds,” and reveals that the Porter bloodline began when Eobard Porter opened the first doorway to the Silent Realm in 1959 and made a generational deal promising a hybrid child to anchor their dimension. Kendra and the team learn Robert and Miles were never random targets but engineered outcomes of that pact, and that Grace’s inherited Silence-mark now pulls the realm toward her. Miles and Bart investigate an active Silent portal and discover the Silence aren’t hunting power but reclaiming the identity their timeline believes belongs to them, while Grace’s refusal to answer their call triggers a failsafe promising global collapse if the hybrid child rejects the pact. Determined to break the cycle, Miles vows to protect his daughter and sever the Silence’s hold, even as an ancient figure appears from the widening portal demanding the “Child of the Storm,” pulling the world toward the confrontation Miles can no longer avoid. | ||||||||||||
| 64 | 4 | "Runaways of Fate" | Orion Kestrel | Georgiana Valentine | November 2, 2028 | T37.01504 | ||||||
| As the Silence locate the Porters during a rare calm evening, Miles, Kendra, and Grace are forced to flee when the dimension opens citywide retrieval portals demanding the “Child of the Storm,” pushing the family into hiding while Miles learns Grace’s Silence-mark is rapidly growing and her presence is tearing reality toward her. Blackthorn reveals the Silence can track her through the Porter bloodline’s ancient pact, and offers a prism that briefly masks her power, giving the team only minutes before the realm closes in. Realizing the Silence want Grace alive but cannot catch him, Miles separates from the group and confronts multiple portals alone, exhausting his lightning in a brutal defense that forces the realm to retreat but leaves him violently weakened and marked by the Speaker of Silence. When he reunites with the others in the forest, Grace is safe, but Miles bears a burned Silence sigil across his chest—proof that the enemy has shifted its target, and that the next retrieval won’t be for Grace, but for him. | ||||||||||||
| 65 | 5 | "Lightning Divided" | Freddie Goodwin | Benjamin Knowles | November 9, 2028 | T37.01505 | ||||||
| After discovering that the Silence are preparing a final reclamation of the Porter bloodline, Miles leads the team to the ruins of the original 1960 breach, where Grace’s warnings make clear that the Silent Realm is targeting him through the growing corruption of the mark burned into his chest. With his lightning now splitting between gold and white static, Miles reveals a desperate plan to end the Silence’s generational claim by confronting the future version of himself born from their influence. At the breach point, a full Silent army emerges with the Speaker announcing the completion of their ancient bargain, and Miles rejects their demand for Grace, declaring his intent to end the promise made by the first Porter. When his Silent future self steps out of the collapsing timeline, Miles sends Kendra and Grace away before hurling himself into a collision inside a temporal fold that fractures reality across multiple eras. Realizing he can only break the prophecy by destroying the version of himself the Silence want him to become, Miles transfers every fragment of the Speed Force from his body into his future counterpart, overloading and erasing him while collapsing the portal and severing the Silence’s hold on the world. The victory leaves Miles alive but shattered; when the team finds him, he reveals he can no longer feel the Speed Force at all. In the aftermath, as Kendra clings to him and Grace refuses to leave his side, the team is forced to face the future without the lightning that defined him, ending with Miles unconscious in the medbay as the first silent night in years settles over Midvale. | ||||||||||||
| Interlude V | ||||||||||||
| 66 | 6 | "A Day Without Velocity" | Kael Mirewood | Sara Case | November 16, 2028 | T37.01506 | ||||||
| Recovering from the battle that severed his connection to the Speed Force, Miles attempts to live a normal day with Kendra and Grace, only to discover that life without lightning is far more humiliating than heroism, stumbling through morning routines, grocery disasters, and a painfully slow walk to school while the team struggles with their own misfires, from Jason ejecting himself through a wall to Kendra abandoning an active Silence investigation because Miles accidentally triggers a store alarm. As Bart teaches Grace questionable speedster trash talk and the entire team converges at the Midvale Street Fair, a washed-up villain returns only to knock Miles out instantly, leaving Grace to finish the fight herself with a shin-kick and a triumphant “too slow, bozo” before the group regroups at home. In the quiet that follows, Miles confesses his fear that he’s useless without his powers, but Kendra reminds him he proved today that being human isn’t weakness, and as Grace sleeps on his chest, he lets himself believe in a life beyond speed—until a late-night flicker of lightning sparks at his fingertips, hinting that Velocity may not be as powerless as he thinks. | ||||||||||||
| 67 | 7 | "Midnight in Midvale" | Finnian Hawke | Ethan Morland | November 23, 2028 | T37.01507 | ||||||
| Trying to enjoy their first calm day in months, Miles, now powerless, vows to keep the entire team out of trouble for twenty-four hours, only for the night to immediately implode as Grace’s nightlight triggers a citywide surge that sends appliances firing toast across Midvale. Determined to avoid heroics, Miles spends the night following Grace’s chaotic “midnight adventure” checklist while struggling through public embarrassment, exploding fountains, and being recognized as the speedster who “fell off,” as Bart and Jason attempt to “rest” but instead start street-race disasters, launch themselves into trees, and accidentally set parts of the city on fire. Meanwhile, Kendra quietly discovers lingering Silence energy pulsing beneath Midtown, hinting that the threat isn’t gone but simply dormant. All three storylines collide at the pier when Jason crash-lands on fire and Bart arrives with armfuls of churros, only for Miles to suddenly emit faint bursts of white static instead of lightning — a sign his powers may be returning in a different form. As Miles carries a sleeping Grace home and Kendra warns that his unstable energy means something bigger is coming, a hidden figure watches a recording of his static burst and marks it as the beginning of a “rebirth,” revealing the Porter bloodline symbol and setting the stage for the next escalation. | ||||||||||||
| Graphic Novel #8: Storm of the Fallen | ||||||||||||
| 68 | 8 | "The Fallen Return" | Jasper Nightingale | Oliver Greenwood | November 30, 2028 | T37.01508 | ||||||
| Kendra secretly analyzes footage of the strange white static flickering from Miles’ hand and discovers an embedded voice signal that should be impossible: Hunter Zolomon’s. The next morning she reveals the finding to Miles, who has barely adjusted to life without the Speed Force, and the team rushes to Zolomon’s old burial site where they find the soil rewritten by the same static that has been sporadically surging through Miles. Realizing his unstable rebooting energy is reviving people tied to speed-related deaths, the team tracks a stormfront into Midvale Woods, where a rewritten, emotionless Zolomon emerges—now a hybrid of Silence and lightning calling himself the Fallen, claiming he returned because of Miles’ fracture of the Silence and warning that every long-dead speed-tied figure is coming back in twelve days. Shaken, the team regroups as Jason identifies the Fallen’s signature as a cosmic–speed hybrid unlike any previous threat, while Grace tries to reassure a terrified Miles who knows his corrupted lightning created this. As the team prepares for a crisis they don’t understand, the Fallen resurrects a white-static-infused Blackthorn inside an abandoned hospital, announcing the beginning of the “Storm of the Fallen.” | ||||||||||||
| 69 | 9 | "Shadows Upon Shadows" | Dorian Ashwood | Clara Redwood | December 7, 2028 | T37.01509 | ||||||
| Grace begins hearing strange static-born whispers that manifest as a shadow calling her by name, prompting Miles and Kendra to take her to the base where tests reveal she’s resonating with the same Silence-corrupted frequency affecting Miles’ fractured lightning. While Miles struggles with his unstable new phase-shifting abilities and the fear of becoming something other than a speedster, the team realizes Grace isn’t being contacted by the Fallen, but by the emotional “shadow” of him—an imprint born from the static revival that is tied directly to Miles’ own corrupted energy. As Grace reveals that this shadow is hurting, half-alive, and tethered to both the Fallen and Miles, the resurrected Zolomon and a restored Blackthorn plan their next move, with Zolomon insisting Grace is “the key” and forbidding Blackthorn from harming her. Back home, Grace chooses to help despite the danger, telling her parents she’ll use her ability to hear shadows to guide Miles before the coming storm. Meanwhile, at the base, Miles tests his powers alone and watches in horror as his lightning casts a second silhouette that moves independently—an emerging entity whispering that it is what he revived, and what he is destined to become. | ||||||||||||
| 70 | 10 | "Stormfront Rising" | Freddie Goodwin | Jackson Greene | December 14, 2028 | T37.01510 | ||||||
| A massive static storm cracks open the Midvale sky as the Fallen and a fully resurrected, lightning-veined Blackthorn appear atop the clocktower, unleashing metaphysical static that freezes civilians and crashes the entire city grid. As Grace begins sensing “shadows” waking beneath the storm, Miles struggles with his unstable new abilities, discovering he no longer runs but instead slips through micro-frames and space itself like a glitching phase-shifter, a process Grace can uniquely stabilize with a touch. The city descends into chaos as static-born shadows crawl through the streets and Blackthorn feeds on the corrupted energy, while the Fallen prepares something tied directly to the memories Miles tried to bury. Team Velocity confronts them at the clocktower, only for Miles’ independent shadow entity to attack him, forcing Grace to intervene; she calms and dissolves the shadow with nothing but her resonance, shocking even the Fallen, who realizes the child can reshape static itself. After he retreats with Blackthorn to escalate the storm, Grace admits she’s scared she’s becoming like him, but Miles tells her she’s the one thing in this storm the Fallen cannot control. In the final reveal, within a cracked static dimension, the Fallen awakens an army of twisted shadow echoes made from Miles’ own buried traumas and fallen enemies, declaring that the storm has only begun. | ||||||||||||
| 71 | 11 | "When the World Stood Still" | Celeste Starfall | Isla Sterling | December 21, 2028 | T37.01511 | ||||||
| Midvale freezes in an instant when a wave of white static lightning splits the morning sky, halting every person, car, and falling object mid-motion as the Fallen and a fully empowered Blackthorn initiate the next phase of their storm by suspending the entire timeline. Grace remains the only fully conscious person in the still world, sensing a heartbeat inside the static itself and hearing what she calls “everything waiting for her,” allowing her to partially free Miles and Bart, who discover that the storm isn’t freezing time but holding it in pause for Grace specifically. As the team pushes through the motionless city, they confront the Fallen downtown, who reveals that the storm never targeted Miles at all—Grace is the intended focus, the “bridge between motion and stillness,” and the one the static storm “chose.” Blackthorn brutalizes Bart in the frozen air while the Fallen effortlessly throws Miles aside, insisting that Grace can awaken the paused world if she stops resisting. When the sky begins fracturing like glass, Grace tearfully admits the storm is waiting for her to move it, and as Miles tries desperately to shield her, the growing static inside her erupts; she briefly advances time by a single second for the entire world—proving the Fallen right—before her eyes turn white and she vanishes in a burst of white-gold lightning. As Miles and Kendra watch helplessly, the Fallen declares the storm has claimed its lightning. | ||||||||||||
| 72 | 12 | "The Quiet Before the Collapse" | Orion Kestrel | Nathan Bright | January 4, 2029 | T37.01512 | ||||||
| With the world frozen in a single unmoving second after Grace’s abduction, Miles kneels in the silent street where she vanished, helpless as Kendra breaks beside him and Bart warns that the event isn’t a freeze but an extinction scenario—yet Jason insists Grace isn’t dead, just displaced. Grace, meanwhile, awakens in the Silence Plane, a white void of floating static memories where the Fallen tells her she can either save the world or end it, and Shadow Grace emerges to insist she’ll become too dangerous to protect. Back in frozen Midvale, Emily detects Grace’s psychic signal echoing across both the still world and a vanished dimension; Miles learns his glitch-phase powers can slip him between microframes, and with Bart’s guidance and Emily’s grounding, he forces himself into the Silence Plane. There he reunites with Grace, only for the Fallen and her sinister shadow-self to accuse Miles of asking a six-year-old to bear a cosmic storm she cannot survive; the Fallen demands Miles choose—take Grace’s power into himself or let the world collapse. As static cracks the sky, Grace begs him not to, but Miles vows he will always choose her and offers himself. The storm’s energy rips through him, seemingly killing him—until Grace snaps, unleashing white-gold cosmic power that shatters the realm and shares the burden between them, stabilizing the storm as half rests in her and half in him. Time resumes in Midvale; civilians continue unaware while the team staggers out of the freeze. Kendra rushes to Grace as Miles barely stands in a new form of white-gold resonance—less human than before—and Grace explains she didn’t become the storm, she became its balance. The victory is short-lived: the streetlights flicker with unfamiliar purple energy, neither Silence nor Static. Grace’s eyes widen—whatever caused it isn’t Hunter—and Miles steels himself as the team braces for a new threat rising on the horizon. | ||||||||||||
| Interlude VI | ||||||||||||
| 73 | 13 | "Stardust Memories" | Mira Silverleaf | Geoffrey Vale | January 11, 2029 | T37.01513 | ||||||
| 74 | 14 | "The Hour Between Heartbeats" | Damon Rourke | Sara Case | January 18, 2029 | T37.01514 | ||||||
| Graphic Novel #9: The Architects of Infinity | ||||||||||||
| 75 | 15 | "The Architect's Hand" | Freddie Goodwin | Benjamin Knowles | January 25, 2029 | T37.01515 | ||||||
| 76 | 16 | "Fractures of Infinity" | Jasper Nightingale | Jackson Greene | February 1, 2029 | T37.01516 | ||||||
| 77 | 17 | "Where Lightning Ends" | Orion Kestrel | Ethan Morland | February 8, 2029 | T37.01517 | ||||||
| 78 | 18 | "Destiny's Collapse" | Finnian Hawke | Celeste Hart | February 15, 2029 | T37.01518 | ||||||
| 79 | 19 | "The Last Horizon, Part 1" | Freddie Goodwin | Freddie Goodwin | February 22, 2029 | T37.01519 | ||||||
| 80 | 20 | "The Last Horizon, Part 2" | Freddie Goodwin | Freddie Goodwin | March 1, 2029 | T37.01520 | ||||||
| 81 | 21 | "The Edge of Infinite Night" | Sara Case | Jackson Greene | March 8, 2029 | T37.01521 | ||||||
| 82 | 22 | "Lightning Without End" | Freddie Goodwin | Freddie Goodwin | March 15, 2029 | T37.01522 | ||||||
Production
Development
In November 2027, HBO Max renewed School Warrior for a fifth season following strong performance of the series’ fourth year. Freddie Goodwin and Jackson Greene returned as co-showrunners. Filming took place from May 2028 to February 2029.
Writing
Season five was designed around three major Graphic Novel arcs, expanding the emotional and cosmic mythology of the Warriorverse. Goodwin and Greene developed the overarching narrative, while individual episodes were written by a mix of returning and new writers.
Release
Season five premiered on October 12, 2028, and is scheduled to conclude in March 2029.
