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City Homicide Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Thicker Than Water
45 mins
Soula Mitsios is stabbed to death by an unknown assailant and dumped in a street dumpster. The team suspect she picked up a man at a nite-club and which went disastrously wrong until her ex-husband Vasilis is also found stabbed to death. The evidence points to their gay son Tolis and daughter Mia who each blame each other. A street vagrant named Gregory supplies evidence which also points to Tolis but Matt follows another lead which leads them to a surprising culprit with a vicious grudge to bear. Meanwhile, Stanley suspects his wife Linda is cheating on him.
Episode 2
Somersaulting Dogs
45 mins
The team investigate when teenager Grant Barkley is found hanging in the girls' toilets at his high school. Did bullying drive him to commit suicide or is it something more sinister? Meanwhile, the team want to meet Matt's new girlfriend, Emma Treadgold, but Matt is reluctant to entertain them.
Episode 3
In House
52 mins
Jonathan Dougherty, a desperate father, holds Karen, Jennifer, Sparks and Simon hostage in a bid to exonerate his son Evan who he claims was wrongly convicted for the death of Kylie Lewis six years previously. Jonathan orders them to re-investigate the case and find his now dead son innocent. Stanley and the rest of the homicide team try to coordinate the hostage situation from outside of the office with the help of journalist Kim Charlton who believes that Jonathan's son was innocent. The team find a new lead but is it enough to help Jonathan?
Episode 4
Taniwha
45 mins
Melanie Steadman, a young recently-separated mother-of-two from New Zealand, is cold-bloodily murdered on a crowded public Melbourne beach in broad daylight. The team initially believe she was the victim of a robbery gone wrong as her belongings and car are missing but when her daughter Kate is shot at whilst leaving the hospital the team suspect a professional hit and race against time to discover who is behind it before Kate is killed. Elsewhere, Bernice reprimands Stanley for doing a public search on Joss McGovern, the man he believes his wife Linda is having an affair with.
Episode 5
Guilty as Charged
46 mins
Jen becomes obsessed with Warren Endicot and proving that he killed his missing wife Louise and 4-year-old daughter Ruby even though he was acquitted but first she must find the missing bodies. But her investigation into Endicot ends up getting Wolfe putting her on stress leave so she acts alone and finds herself a viable lead but Endicot follows and it is up to Duncan and Matt to get to her before Endicott does. Elsewhere, Stanley and Linda argue about their marriage resulting with Linda leaving him.
Episode 6
Reward
45 mins
An old kidnapping cold case of Grace Waterson is re-opened when a mummified corpse is found in a disused building. A follow-up investigation by Sparks and Simon lead them to Rachel Markham, the widow of a suspected hit-and-run which occurred at the same as the kidnapping. Sparks's former, and now retired, partner Maurice Biederman piles on the pressure on Rachel and he finds a link from her to the nursing home where Grace Waterson was found. But will Sparks get to Maurice before Rachel does?
Episode 7
Golden
47 mins
The team investigate the death of Cameron Gunning, a footballer with South End Football Club and known womaniser, who was beaten to death following a pub brawl. But the team find that the players and staff of the club, in particular club owner Leon Grasby, uncooperative with the investigation.
Episode 8
Life After Death
44 mins
Lila Sharman, a psychic, claims to have had a vision of the murder of a woman known only as Siobhan and the team have to decide whether she is involved in the murder or is indeed psychic as she claims. But when Lila disappears her estranged mother Marijke, herself a psychic, believes her daughter has come into contact with the perpetrator of the original murder.
Episode 9
Never to Be Released
46 mins
The decomposed bodies of missing couple Jarrod Dempsey and Ella Kincaid, who disappeared in 1978, are found in their missing van in a dry dam. At the same time of the discovery the investigating officer, now retired, Christopher Spotswood commits suicide. Although initially the suicide is not linked to the bodies it later transpires that their savage deaths have all the hallmarks of incarcerated serial killer Anton Marleigh who was put away by Spotswood. The autopsy also suggests that there was another killer who was never found. Duncan and Simon interview the twisted and deranged Marleigh but can they outwit him to discover his secret accomplice?
Episode 10
Examination Day
46 mins
Jing Wei, a student pretending to be another foreign exchange student Roxy Chua is found dead after sitting a university exam. The team investigate the circumstances and discover a scam where students are paid to sit exams for others by Joe Tao with the head of the university taking kickbacks unaware that there is already a covert federal investigation taking place at the same time by agent Olivia Leung. Meanwhile, Bernice recommends Duncan and Jennifer to Superintendent Campbell Harland to be interviewed for uncover police training but Simon is annoyed that he didn't get a chance to get recommended for training also.
Episode 11
Oh Lucky Man
45 mins
Zoe Clayton, a full-time student moonlighting as a prostitute, is brutally hacked to death which convinces Stanley that the perpetrator is Maxwell Craven, a man charged previously with similar murders but released because of unreliable witnesses and the evidence too circumstantial. But Stanley is determined to bring Maxwell down this time around as the team fear that Stanley is missing the bigger picture. Meanwhile, Matt receives word that his dad has had a stroke.
Episode 12
Spoils of War
45 mins
Yvonne Steele, a grandmother and wife of Iraq army veteran Kevin Steele, is murdered in a park by an unknown assailant. A subsequent investigation shows her death is similar to a killing weeks earlier of a 12-year old boy in New South Wales. They share a link to a bloody past - a paramilitary operation, involving Kevin Steele, gone wrong in Iraq some fifteen years previously. But old habits die hard as Kevin and the remaining member of the operation try to find the murderer on their own and avenge the deaths and Matt gets taken hostage. Will the team get to him before the vigilantes become judge, jury, and sentencer?
Episode 13
Jury Duty
46 mins
Supreme Court juror Tara Mason is found murdered in her home which causes the rape trial of Jody Pankov to get a mistrial and the likely culprits Marcus and Aaron Linton to go free. Stanley and prosecutor Judith Welling talk to Jody and her father Walter but later Walter goes after the brothers fearing they would never face trial and kills Aaron and holds Marcus captive but Matt negotiates to set him free. The team then set about re-interviewing Tara's fellow jurors and Marcus's father in a bid to solve Tara's murder.
Episode 14
Jane Doe
43 mins
A murder victim's body is found dumped in wasteland, with no evidence of her identity. Simon leads the team as they delve into the unknown life of Jane Doe. It will take every available hand to untangle this mystery.
Episode 15
Junkie
45 mins
Richard Irving, a known hard-line judge, is found dead is a luxurious hotel suite from an apparent heroin overdose. On the other side of the city 19-year-old junkie Monique Sangster is also found dead. The team investigate both together when it is found that both died from laced heroin. This brings them back to working with Drug Squad head Terry Jarvis and opens up a year-long investigation into heroin supply in the city.
Episode 16
Stolen Sweets
44 mins
The team investigate high profile law firm Lassiter, Powell & Kemp when a young man falls to his death from a high-rise apartment block that the firm owns. The investigations lead them to their millionaire client Pastor Ross Nieman who's predilection for kinky gay sex cannot be exposed and the law firm pull out every trick in the book to protect. Meanwhile, Terry Jarvis takes over from Bernice Waverley as she begins her fellowship posting and his style of policing is very different.
Episode 17
The Forgotten
45 mins
The team investigate the brutal slaying of Bernard 'Ben' Misto aka Ben Parks, a homeless Samaritan. Follow-up investigations show that Ben was a multi-millionaire who went missing after his beloved wife died of a brain tumor. However, the team's belief that Bernard's family are involved is thrown wide open with the discovery of two more homeless deaths - all killed the same way as Bernard. Further evidence leads Stanley to setting up a sting to catch the real killer with Matt as 'bait'. Meanwhile, Stanley visits his ex-wife Linda on the anniversary of the death of their son Christopher but Linda rejects him so he goes to Bernice to talk about it who counsels him into seeking help.
Episode 18
A Green Light
45 mins
Duncan is savagely beaten by crazed criminals Megan Black and her lover John Cassidy and left for dead. The team go all out to find them and why Duncan was targeted. A lead determines that they are about to leave the country so the team have to find out who is helping them before they succeed. Meanwhile, the Office of Police Standards subpoena Bernice's records and charge her with corruption which puts her study fellowship in England in jeopardy.
Episode 19
House of Horrors
46 mins
When the corpse of student lecturer Angus Carmichael is found during a drugs bust of a student house an investigation establishes that it was believed he had left town with his student lover Elizabeth Cowles a decade previously. The team investigate how he came to be in the basement and later following the discovery of Elizabeth nearby look into their respective families to find the truth. Meanwhile, Bernice feels the brunt of the O.P.S. as they charge her with corruption.
Episode 20
The Cutting Edge
46 mins
The team investigate when Kel Shepparton, an investigator checking the credentials of foreign doctors, is found garroted in his car. The investigation leads to a private hospital and a number of doctors with shady pasts. Meanwhile, Bernice begins investigating who sent her the laptop and the clown messages and with the help of Jennifer in secret find a clue in the name of Shannon Pierce. But the person behind the messages continues to be one step ahead.
Episode 21
Rage
51 mins
The team take to the streets to find a link between two very different murders - one of housewife Kate Stokes shot dead in her kitchen and the other a young teenager hit by a car - in the same suburb of Melbourne. Meanwhile, Stanley orders Jennifer to stop assisting Bernice in the case of Shannon Pierce - a former police officer - but Stanley later goes to see Bernice and tells her that Shannon Pierce committed suicide two years previously. Shortly after-wards, Bernice's son Joshua is kidnapped on the way to a soccer match.
Episode 22
Life and Death
46 mins
The team's investigation into the brutal stabbing and murder of psychiatrist Selwyn Elsworthy at his work place is overshadowed by the ongoing search for Bernice's missing son, Joshua. But as the 'now official' investigation starts to unravel more about Shannon Pierce they find that there is a link to the murdered psychiatrist, the kidnapping, and a highly intelligent man who is intent in ensuring that Bernice pays whatever the cost to her and her son.
