Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Episode 7 Is Almost Here: Release Date, Hidden Clues, and What to Expect
Only Murders in the Building turns the screws as Season 5’s Episode 7, Silver Alert, drops on Hulu October 7 at 12:00 AM ET/9:00 PM PT, propelling a weekly sprint to the October 28 finale—where conspiracies tighten and buried secrets threaten to blow.
Only Murders in the Building is back this week with Season 5, Episode 7, and the title says it all: 'Silver Alert.' If you’ve been tracking the threads around Lester’s (Teddy Coluca) death — including those early hints about Sofia Caccimelio and Lorraine getting pulled into it — this is where a lot of that slow-burn setup starts paying off. Also, the show’s still hanging out in Disney+ Top 10 charts in a bunch of regions (per FlixPatrol), which makes sense given how twisty this run has gotten.
When and where to watch
- Release date: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
- US release time: 12:00 AM ET or 9:00 PM PT (yep, West Coast gets it late Monday night)
- Where to stream: Hulu (US); Disney+ (international)
- Episode length: 26–40 minutes (typical for this season)
- Season rollout: 10 episodes total, dropping weekly, with the finale set for Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Global release times
ET (US East Coast): 12:00 AM
PT (US West Coast): 9:00 PM (Monday)
GMT (UK): 4:00 AM
CET (Central Europe): 6:00 AM
JST (Japan): 1:00 PM
IST (India): 9:30 AM
AEST (Australia): 2:00 PM
Where the mystery stands
Charles (Steve Martin), Mabel (Selena Gomez), and Detective Donna Williams have finally traced the tampered Arconia security footage back to Sebastian 'Bash' Steed. That’s a pretty inside-baseball detail with big implications: if a billionaire is messing with the building’s cameras, what exactly is he trying to hide — and who is he protecting?
Meanwhile, the season-long throughline about Lester’s death has been inching forward from 'Who are Sofia Caccimelio and Lorraine in all this?' to 'Okay, what did they actually do?' Episode 7 is positioned as the step where those long-teased connections start turning into answers.
What to expect in Episode 7, 'Silver Alert'
We’re four episodes from the end, which is prime time for cliffhangers. Expect the show to push deeper into whatever Bash erased (or planted) on those tapes and how that intersects with Lester’s final hours. On the personal side, Oliver (Martin Short) and Loretta (Meryl Streep) are planning to leave the Arconia, which could shake up their storyline. Ironically, getting some distance from the building might be the thing that brings them closer to the truth.
The lingering questions
Episode 6 left a weird little puzzle piece: Lorraine admitted Lester initially refused to work on the day Oliver and Loretta got married. So who — or what — pushed him to go through with it? We also saw Nicky and Lester talk about that decision earlier in the season, then Lester still showed up. What changed between that conversation and the wedding? And why wasn’t Lorraine at the ceremony? Feels like more is going on there.
Only Murders in the Building streams on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ internationally.