Season 3 • Episode 20
LatestThe cleaner at an up-market beauty parlour makes a gruesome find — the proprietor strung up in a tanning booth and roasted like a pig-on-a-spit. Tessa and Steve's investigation uncovers a wealth of secrets and resentments harboured from birth.
An unconventional team of homicide detectives face various cases, as led by Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden. Hayden is an often light-hearted 'man's man' who is moving up the career hierarchy, while Vance is more introspective and no-nonsense, and often solves the murder with intuition and insight. Their team includes boss Inspector Malcolm Thorne, Constable Dee Suzeraine, forensic services expert Lance Fisk, and unorthodox doctor Imogen 'Tootsie' Soames.
Acting
Lucy Bell and Peter Mochrie's prickly, unspoken tension.
Production
Grimy '90s Melbourne locations that breathe authenticity.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jennifer Kent, who played Constable Dee Suzeraine, later directed the acclaimed horror film The Babadook.
The series was Australia's answer to Prime Suspect, deliberately centering a complex female detective years before it became standard.
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