Cardinal
Cardinal is a Canadian crime drama television series, currently in production for a scheduled debut on CTV in the 2016-2017. An adaptation of Giles Blunt's award-winning mystery novel "Forty Words for Sorrow", the series stars Billy Campbell as John Cardinal and Karine Vanasse as Lise Delorme, detectives investigating the murder of a young girl.
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- 2017-2020
- 4 seasons
- Hulu
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-MA
Cardinal is a Canadian crime drama television series, currently in production for a scheduled debut on CTV in the 2016-2017. An adaptation of Giles Blunt's award-winning mystery novel "Forty Words for Sorrow", the series stars Billy Campbell as John Cardinal and Karine Vanasse as Lise Delorme, detectives investigating the murder of a young girl.
Season 2 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2018
Episode 1
Red
43 mins
Star detective contemplates retiring to enjoy the quiet Ontarian nature, which his no less workaholic wife duly laughs away. His assistant Lise Delorme hopes to boost her career by stealing a spot in the prestigious national Information Service training from a senior colleague. Both suspend all plans as a red-hair woman is found in the woods, with full amnesia after freak-surviving a hit in the head. It's the territory of hiking bikers and Leon's drug gang.
Episode 2
Wombat
43 mins
While Red is identified, she maintains complete amnesia, so Cardinal takes her 'home' to re-discover her life and the site of her shooting. It's a desolate woodland, mainly used by hikers and a motor-biker drug gang. In a cave under the river's greatest waterfall, a decapitated adult male corpse is found, who was horribly tortured, ritually killed and exposed in this strange hiding place.
Episode 3
Kevin
43 mins
Red maintains still to suffer full amnesia, which is a lie. From security video recordings, Cardinal manages to identify her as Vancouver student Terri Tait. Boss Ray, who seems to enjoy Indian rituals, meanwhile discovers that thug Leon falsely claimed to have killed her, applies Yakuza-like penitence and orders her found and eliminated for real. Kevin grows scared of the gang, but can't afford to leave penniless.
Episode 4
Toof
43 mins
Cardinal retrieves Red, wins her confidence and thus learns she sort of went 'undercover' in the bikers gang, worried about her addict younger brother. Meanwhile Kevin's guts turn as he must help Leo do ruthless Ray's bloody bidding, disposing of a corpse, and afterwards reports to a rival gang leader.
Episode 5
Northwind
43 mins
Cross-referencing the ritualistic MO allows team cardinal to link the cave murder with suspected serial killer, drug dealer Ray Northwind, who poses as and Indian but couldn't scare the reserve chief in fake-vouching for him. Kevin is sent to deliver a drug shipment, but can't resist 'testing it', which causes him to crash the pickup. When Ray finds this cardinal rule-breach, the sadist passes gruesome sentence on the youngster as his next ritual prey.
Episode 6
El Brujo
43 mins
John and Lise race to find Ray before he kills Terri and her brother. A betrayal threatens Cardinal and Delorme's case and their lives.
