HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed epilogue episode finally gets release date, here’s when you can watch it

HBO has set the release date of the fifth and final part of The Case Against Adnan Syed, entitled Part Five: The Tree Grew, for Thursday, September 18, 2025. The episode will be released on HBO at 9 pm ET and will be streamed on HBO Max at the same time. It will be available to UK viewers a day later, on September 19, 2025, on Sky Documentaries and NOW.

The final chapter comes several years after speculation, legal wrangling, and public fascination, originally ignited by the Serial podcast and later extended through HBO on its in-depth series of documentaries. The new episode re-examines some of the key events that reshaped Adnan Syed’s life and kept raising doubts about the public’s knowledge of the justice system.

Postponed by continuing court proceedings after initial plans of release, this epilogue is the first major update since Syed left prison in 2022 after 23 years of imprisonment. Under the direction of Oscar nominee Amy J. Berg, the film provides exclusive access to Syed, his family, his legal team, and those involved in the case.

What to expect in the epilogue episode of The Case Against Adnan Syed

Part Five: The Tree Grew continues the story where it was previously left. It will reportedly follow the journey of Syed over several pivotal events since the release of the original documentary in 2019. Among the highlights are:

New evidence discovery: The episode investigates how a suspect of the initial investigation was eventually caught assaulting a woman, leading Syed’s attorneys to request a new examination of the case.

Legal and political battles: The viewers will get to see the tug of war between Syed’s defense, the office of the Baltimore State Attorney, and prosecutors, leading to another wave of legal battles and discussions in the courtroom.

Discoveries of the case: Hitherto unknown evidence is revealed, implicating two other suspects. One had made a death threat against Hae Min Lee, and the other had a history of violence against women on record.

Life after release: The film continues to follow Syed after he gets out of prison, capturing his reunion with his family and the emotional reality of decades spent inside prison.

The new episode of The Case Against Adnan Syed includes the latest interviews with Syed, State Attorney Marilyn Mosby, advocate Rabia Chaudry, attorney Erica J. Suter, other experts in the field of law, and Syed's family members.

A closer look at HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed

The six-part Emmy-nominated true-crime series, directed by Amy J. Berg, first aired on HBO in 2019. Based on the international coverage of the Serial podcast, the four-part documentary re-examined the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and the conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed.

The original show transcended courtroom records by digging deeper into the gaps of the investigation, the credibility of the evidence, and the long-term effects on the individuals and families directly involved.

The documentary, which was praised due to its in-depth reporting and access to information previously unavailable, humanized both the victim Hae Min Lee and the suspect Adnan Syed and brought up profound issues in the legal system. The show had an 82% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards.

The Case Against Adnan Syed, part five, is once again led by Berg as director, writer, and executive producer, which makes the series consistent in the storytelling and the investigative approach that has defined it.

The release of this final chapter follows another wave of significant legal developments. After Syed walked free in 2022, the prosecutors chose not to pursue a retrial. But Hae Min Lee’s family pushed back, and his conviction was reinstated in 2024.

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Even then, Syed didn’t end up back behind bars. In March 2025, a judge decided to cut down his sentence due to Maryland’s Juvenile Restoration Act, calling him “no danger to the public” since he was a minor when all this went down.

Around 20 years since Hae Min Lee’s murder, and people are still glued to every twist in this saga. It had everyone arguing about how evidence gets handled, what prosecutors should actually be doing, and whether media hype was helping or jeopardizing the legal process.

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