Cape Town
Police Captain Mat Joubert used to be the best, solve every crime, get every killer. But that was a year ago, before his wife Lara was murdered while working undercover. Mat's been on a downward spiral ever since, haunted by a blurred past, uncertain what role he played in his wife's murder. Now he's an out-of-shape chain-smoker ambivalent about the crime-ridden world around him. But his new colonel demands full physical and mental conditioning for all cops, Mat included: he has 6 months to shape up or ship out. This means exercise, nutrition counseling, and psychotherapy. Additionally, Mat is assigned a new partner, Sanctus Snook, a former colleague of Lara. Mat instinctively does not like the sleek ex-elite cop and has a hard time believing the pair-up is a coincidence. But when a successful businessman is found killed wearing an Albert Einstein mask, the two unlikely partners have a high-profile murder investigation on their hands. When a second body is found wearing yet another mask, they realize they are tracking a serial killer. What is more, dead bodies of beautiful Eastern European models keep turning up. It's the beginning of a race against time. Gradually, Mat begins to overcome the ghosts of his past. But in order to stop the violence of his current cases, he must relive the nightmare of his wife's murder.
- 2015-2016
- 1 season
- Suspense
Police Captain Mat Joubert used to be the best, solve every crime, get every killer. But that was a year ago, before his wife Lara was murdered while working undercover. Mat's been on a downward spiral ever since, haunted by a blurred past, uncertain what role he played in his wife's murder. Now he's an out-of-shape chain-smoker ambivalent about the crime-ridden world around him. But his new colonel demands full physical and mental conditioning for all cops, Mat included: he has 6 months to shape up or ship out. This means exercise, nutrition counseling, and psychotherapy. Additionally, Mat is assigned a new partner, Sanctus Snook, a former colleague of Lara. Mat instinctively does not like the sleek ex-elite cop and has a hard time believing the pair-up is a coincidence. But when a successful businessman is found killed wearing an Albert Einstein mask, the two unlikely partners have a high-profile murder investigation on their hands. When a second body is found wearing yet another mask, they realize they are tracking a serial killer. What is more, dead bodies of beautiful Eastern European models keep turning up. It's the beginning of a race against time. Gradually, Mat begins to overcome the ghosts of his past. But in order to stop the violence of his current cases, he must relive the nightmare of his wife's murder.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
Relativity
45 mins
New Year in Cape Town. Police Captain Mat Joubert is still devastated by the murder of his wife Lara - a member of the elite police unit HAWKS who was killed 13 months ago during an undercover action. She and her target person Carsten Petterson, with whom she had to start an affair in order to convict him, were killed during the operation. Mat is on the point of taking is own life...
Episode 2
Echoes of the Past
45 mins
Mat and his partner Sanct get called to a new crime scene: the body of Drew Wilson is found - this time the victim wears a Humphrey Bogart mask. On the gay man's laptop Mat and Sanct find a picture indicating that the victim had an intimate relationship with Charlie Zeelie, a famous cricket player.
Episode 3
Shallow End
45 mins
Galia's dead body is found in a quaint lake east of Cape Town. The autopsy reveals that she has been drugged heavily and drowned afterwards. Her friend Irena is still at Villa Enigma. She seems to buy Brian's lie that Galia has been sent back to Europe, but soon senses that she is in danger. Her attempt to escape from Villa Enigma fails.
Episode 4
Show-Time
45 mins
Star coiffeur Oliver Nienaber is in panic, as well. Anticipating that he could be the next victim, he asks Robin Van Rees, Head of Rinkhals Security, for protection. Again, we don't know yet how Nienaber is linked to the other Mauser victims and what makes him think he might be the next one.
Episode 5
Way to Paradise
46 mins
In the Mauser case Mat and Sanct interrogate the star coiffeur Oliver Nienaber whose car was seen at Alexander MacDonald's place. Nienaber at first denies knowing MacDonald, but then finally admits it in a rough interrogation. Shortly after, Nienaber falls victim to the Mauser murderer, too.
Episode 6
Enigma
46 mins
Irena Krol, who has survived the brutal rape by Vitus Moremi, is on the run. She is chased by a Rinkhals Security guard and then gets hit by a pickup. Having to be treated in intensive care, her life is not only threatened by her critical condition but also by Norbert Wernicke and Rinkhals Security who try to finish off the potential witness.