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Fat Tony & Co Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2014 - 2014
Episode 1
The Tony Special
44 mins
In the opening episode of this nine-part series dramatizing the manhunt of Australian drug kingpin Tony Mokbel, Detective Inspector Jim O'Brien observes Mokbel as the Carlton Crew contend with internal affairs. Meanwhile, Carl Williams vows revenge on the Morans after being injured in a skirmish with them.
Episode 2
The Mexican Job
42 mins
Tony has more balls in the air than he can count: a new club, a new girlfriend in Pill Press Queen Danielle McGuire, and a string of heavy-duty drug imports worth millions. In particular, he is consumed by plans for his new 'winged keel' building, a property development every bit as bold and audacious as Tony himself. But it's a trial importation of a trivial three kilos of cocaine from Mexico that will ultimately bring him undone. Police agent Billy Fischer passes on everything Tony tells him to his state police Drug Squad handlers and they pass it on to the Federal Police. Thus Tony suffers a double whammy - arrested on a range of domestic drug trafficking charges by the state cops and charged with the Mexican cocaine importation by the Feds. Two strikes and you're out.
Episode 3
When the Dogs Bark
40 mins
When systemic corruption in the Drug Squad is exposed, the domestic drug charges against Tony collapse and he is set free - but the Mexican cocaine importation charge survives. Tony decides to stick to local drug operations from now on, and even contemplates restricting himself to legitimate property deals. But his friendship with the increasingly dangerous Carl, who's picking off the Carlton Crew one by one, is the albatross around his neck. Carl's blatant murder of Tony's good mate and small-time dealer Willie Thompson over a drug debt, and the killing of another friend to mask Willie's execution, have Tony feeling nervous. He fears that if he calls Carl out on the murders he will put himself in the firing line.
Episode 4
Killers, Thieves & Lawyers
42 mins
The Federal Police finally bring Tony to trial for the Mexican cocaine job. Realising that the crown witnesses against him are rock solid, and therefore he may have to do serious gaol time, Tony takes a massive gamble and recruits a pair of unlikely cleanskins to set up what they call The Company to take over his drug manufacturing and distribution empire. Meanwhile, Carl is gaoled by the state police to stop any more gangland murders. Now Tony's worry is that his best mate Carl might be tempted to make serious allegations against him in the hope of cutting a deal with the authorities. Then he hears the alarming whisper that one of Carl's hired killers has already made allegations against them both - Tony is to be charged with murder too. Not prepared to trust the legal system, he flees the country whilst in the middle of his cocaine trial.
Episode 5
Where's Tony?
44 mins
Federal Agent Jarrod Ragg searches high and low for the absconder Tony Mokbel without success. He gets no help from the state police Purana Taskforce who actually find Tony's absence makes investigating his financial empire an easier task. Tony spends his first days on the run hiding out in the Melbourne suburbs before heading for a farm up country that belongs to one of his drug cooks. Meanwhile, the Mexican coke trial concludes in his absence and he's found guilty and sentenced to a dozen years. With additional charges still looming, Tony now feels that his best option is to leave the country. He recruits a canny Greek fella he knows from the gambling clubs and persuades him to organise an ocean-going yacht to spirit him somewhere the Aussie cops will never find him - the question is where? Greece, says his Greek mate, where else?
Episode 6
A New Life
42 mins
While Tony fights seasickness all the way across the Indian Ocean to the Aegean, his pregnant girlfriend Danielle McGuire trips through Europe managing to burn the local police tasked to follow her. By the time not-so-Fat Tony arrives in Athens to be reunited with her, Danielle has settled into a luxurious apartment and given birth to their daughter. Back in Melbourne the Purana Taskforce decides it's time they lent a hand finding Australia's Most Wanted drug dealer. Fortuitously, the government posts a handsome reward for information leading to Tony's arrest just as one of his disgruntled employees comes forward with valuable information, including a mobile phone number Tony is known to call regularly. It is via that phone-tap that a Greek-speaking Purana Taskforce member realises their man is hiding out in Athens.
Episode 7
The Incorruptibles
42 mins
Tony attempts to create a new drug empire whilst hiding in Athens, unaware that Detective Sergeant Jim Coghlan and Australian Federal Police agent Jarrod Ragg have arrived in Greece to work with the local Athens police - known as The Incorruptibles - to arrest Tony and return him to face justice in Australia.
Episode 8
A Chip and a Chair
40 mins
Catching Tony is one thing, extraditing him to Australia another. Tony has always backed long shots and now he tries every trick, every angle to prevent being dragged back to face a bunch of serious drug trafficking charges Purana have compiled and the murder charges he vehemently denies. Meanwhile his vast drug manufacturing operation in Victoria is shut down and his entire crew rounded up and arrested. And as if Tony doesn't have enough problems, his old pal Carl Williams is offered a deal by police if he'll provide chapter and verse on Tony's criminal enterprises. Carl extracts every concession he can before finally rejecting the idea of shopping his mate Tony, demonstrating there may just be honour among thieves after all. Tony eventually runs out of legal obstacles and is flown back to Australia by Learjet to face the music.
Episode 9
Drawing Dead
44 mins
In this final episode, Tony has a major victory against the police, but suspects his former mate Carl Williams has betrayed him. Carl's double-dealings with the police backfire when he is brutally murdered by a fellow inmate. Judy Moran takes revenge on Des 'Tuppence' Moran with disastrous consequences. The police finally close in on Tony as he plays his last hand but it appears he is 'drawing dead'.
