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Harrow Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Actus Reus
Fri, Sep 7, 201852 mins
Dr. Daniel Harrow is a brilliant, maverick Forensic Pathologist at the Queensland Institute of Forensic Medicine (QIFM). But he's quitting - the job is getting too much for him and he desperately wants to reconnect with his estranged daughter Fern. He makes Fern a bold promise to leave with her on his yacht Bettie and sail all the way to Bora Bora. However before they weigh anchor, Harrow must deal with one more case. Bruce Reimers is a grieving father whose daughter Olivia's death was ruled a suicide by Harrow's colleague, the thorough but unfeeling Fairley. Despite Olivia's history of mental illness and evidence that Olivia overdosed on medication, Bruce is convinced the overdose was forced. Harrow sets about re-examining Olivia's corpse and gathering information. While quizzing Detective Sergeant Bryan Nichols, who led the initial investigation, he meets new Scenes of Crime Officer Soroya Dass, a witty, beautiful woman with whom he feels an immediate spark. Harrow continues his off-book investigation and with Simon's help, he examines Olivia's body one last time where they find new evidence. But just when Harrow thinks all is well and he can sail to Bora Bora with Fern, a new case lands on his desk. Bones have been discovered in a cocoon of concrete pulled from the Brisbane river. Who do the bones belong to? And who put them there?
Episode 2
Ex Animo
52 mins
Simon is keen to get to work identifying the bones found encased in concrete in the river. Harrow - responsible for putting the bones there in the first place - takes the 'slow and steady' approach to stall him. Then a new case arrives. A woman has been found in a quarry, brutally murdered, a large cavity carved in her chest. Her car is found parked close by; she was a rideshare driver. Police arrest the last passenger, but he claims he's innocent. Conducting the autopsy, Harrow discovers a tiny splinter of wood lodged in the victim's heart, which is found to be European Ash - used to make arrow shafts. Meanwhile, Simon is busily at work on the river bones case, confident he'll soon have a viable sample for DNA analysis. This prompts Harrow to visit Jack Twine, his mentor, friend, and confessor. Harrow asks Jack if he was ever tempted to falsify evidence. While at Jack's, he forms a theory that the quarry victim was shot by a crossbow. Dass asks Harrow out for a drink. Harrow reluctantly declines; Simon has successfully sampled a bone from the concrete block, now awaiting an analysis that Harrow dearly wants to prevent.
Episode 3
Hic Sunt Dracones
52 mins
A human arm, recovered from a crocodile's stomach, is sent to Harrow for analysis. Harrow's theory is that the male victim was murdered and already dead when eaten by the croc. Pavich sends Harrow north to investigate, much to his displeasure. On the plus side, Dass accompanies him. Harrow and Dass set to work, braving dangerous waters to explore the deceased croc's meat safe, where they discover the rest of the corpse. No locals are missing, which suggests the victim was an out-of-towner. They cross-reference the croc's movements, recorded by a GPS tracker, with various boats that have come into the marina. Harrow and Dass, aided by the handsome local sergeant, Gabriel Capello, begin investigating three suspicious boats. Capello invites Harrow and Dass to his niece's birthday party, where their attraction grows stronger. But, they have work to do. Justice is also creeping up on Harrow. Simon has been busy on the river bones case, successfully extracting a titanium orthopaedic plate from a wrist bone. The plate contains a unique serial number that will almost certainly I.D. the victim - and will lead straight to Harrow. His time is running out.
Episode 4
Finis Vitae Sed Non Amoris
51 mins
When a female skeleton is discovered in the backyard of Terry Connelly, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD, he becomes the prime suspect in what appears to be an open-and-shut case. But when the victim is identified as Sally Chenery, a homeless woman, Harrow decides to dig deeper. He returns to the scene of the crime and discovers several more bones from Sally's skeleton, and a camera, lodged in a tree. Meanwhile, Simon has extracted a Radius Compression Plate from the river bones. Dass hopes to identify their John Doe via the serial number on the plate. Fortunately for Harrow, the Sally Chenery case takes precedence. The photos from the camera in the tree are found to be almost entirely of Noah Dalton, a boy who lived in the neighbouring property to Connelly some years ago. His adoptive mother, Cassandra Dalton, reveals that Sally was a relentless stalker. She claimed that Noah was her son. They feared for their safety and moved house several times - but she always managed to find them again. Delving deeper into Sally's obsession with Noah Dalton, Harrow discovers a tragic twist. With the truth finally revealed, Dass returns to her investigation of the river bones, attempting to identify the John Doe through the serial number of his orthotic plate. But Harrow runs his own off-book investigation, determined to keep Dass from learning the John Doe's identity.
Episode 5
Non Sum Qualis Eram
51 mins
Fern sells party drugs at a devil-themed party, in order to pay off Callan's debt to a drug dealer. But it's a bad batch; one young woman's hallucinations are so potent that she throws herself off the balcony to her death. At the same time, another young woman, Xantia, is murdered in an inner-city parkland. The two deaths will prove to be connected in an unexpected way. Harrow attends the rave scene with Dass and conducts an on-the-spot internal autopsy of the woman who fell to her death. It's unauthorised, but if he can find traces of the contaminated drugs, it may save another young woman who took the drugs and is now in hospital in a critical condition. But he comes up short. Meanwhile, Harrow's car is identified amongst the social media uploads from the party; Fern had 'borrowed' it. Detective Jillian McCloud, from the drug squad - who has a long-held grudge against Harrow - flags Fern as a suspect. Harrow finds a brief respite from his parental anxiety when Dass visits him on his houseboat. Meanwhile, fortune seems to smile on Harrow when Pavich orders the river bones be cremated. It's his chance to break the chain of evidence and put the case behind him. But a new analysis from Fairley prompts Dass to recalibrate the time-of-death window on their John Doe to within the last twelve months.
Episode 6
Aurum Potestas Est
52 mins
Amidst a potential scandal of murder and diplomatic intrigue Dass identifies the River Bones as belonging to Quinn, a former cop and the ex of Harrow's ex-wife, Stephanie, and a team finds his car in a rural dam. Fern decides to leave town.
Episode 7
Pia Mater
52 mins
With the recovery of Quinn's car, both Dass and Nichols circle closer to Harrow's secret. Knowing Harrow's emotional ties to Stephanie, and his propensity to interfere, they deliberately keep him in the dark about the discovery. Fortunately for them, Harrow's attention is diverted by a road accident just outside Brisbane. Two victims, mother Kerrie Matheson and her adult son Glenn, were in a car that crashed into a tree. While the cause of death is soon established as impact trauma, Harrow and Dass find evidence of a struggle between mother and son. But no one in the community bears a grudge against Glenn; he's remembered as a model citizen and a gentle giant, inseparable from his doting, sweet-natured mother Kerrie. Mother and son were much loved in their semi-rural community. Was the crash an accident, or a murder-suicide? Meanwhile, a disturbing clue emerges in the ongoing case of Robert Quinn's disappearance. Nichols digs into Quinn's old phone records and discovers a voice mail from just before Quinn went missing. It's from Stephanie, and it is chilling.
Episode 8
Peccata Patris
52 mins
Following Stephanie's threatening voicemail to Quinn, Nichols carries out surveillance on her, while Harrow and Dass are kept in the dark. Harrow's attention is on a case at his old high school, where 17-year-old Rhys Weir, a much-loved member of the school's rowing team, has been found dead. After losing his event in the state championships, Rhys visited the school's rowing sheds late that night and appears to have slipped on the wet boat ramp, suffering a head wound and a fatal haemorrhage. But Harrow suspects foul play after learning that Rhys, who was openly gay, had received a threatening note just before he died. Meanwhile, police divers finally uncover the skull belonging to the river bones body and dental records confirm its identity - Robert Quinn. Then, a friendly conversation between Dass and Steph about Quinn turns sour when Dass discovers Quinn's wedding ring, pushing her to suspect Steph could be involved in Quinn's murder. Harrow catches a break - Steph's alibi for the night of Quinn's disappearance checks out, and she's no longer a suspect. Harrow and Dass make amends and it looks like the River Bones case might go unsolved. But then, a new piece of evidence emerges.
Episode 9
Lex Talionis
52 mins
While Nichols investigates Fern as a suspect in Quinn's murder, Dass grapples with a troubling question: was Harrow involved? Despite his clean record, she finds herself doubting the man she loves. Nichols dismisses Harrow as a suspect after seeing the QIFM staff entry log, which proves Harrow was at work when Quinn disappeared. But when Simon sees the log, he notices something amiss and investigates. An IT administrator then informs him that on the night in question there was a server outage. Meanwhile, the death of Stan Wagner, a Czech resident at Jack Twine's nursing home, captures Jack and Harrow's interest. When Harrow and Simon examine the body, they find evidence of anoxia (lack of oxygen), and a small, wet feather from a pillow in his windpipe: proof that he was murdered. Jarred Rallings, a caregiver at the home with overt racist and xenophobic leanings, becomes a suspect, but Harrow isn't certain that Rallings is the culprit. Harrow's investigation is interrupted when Fern's ex-boyfriend, Callan, is arrested. Nichols tries to use Callan to get to Fern. Dass follows a hunch of her own. She watches CCTV footage of Fern at the pawnshop on the night Quinn went missing, and she discovers a key piece of evidence in Quinn's murder.
Episode 10
Mens Rea
52 mins
Tom Pinfold, a mourning widower, murders a haematologist and tries to commit suicide. After being incorrectly pronounced dead by paramedics, he wakes up on Harrow's autopsy table. Harrow tries to assist the badly injured man, but Pinfold turns on Harrow and threatens him with a knife, holding him captive in the exam room. It's a public holiday and they're alone in the morgue, so Harrow can't call for help and must use his wits to take control of the situation. While Harrow is trapped in the morgue, Dass pieces together clues in Quinn's case. Simon has also been piecing together the mystery and he and Dass end up on the deck of the Bettie both thinking the unthinkable - did Harrow kill Quinn? Meanwhile, Harrow faces off with Pinfold, who eventually collapses. Harrow is forced to choose between saving Pinfold and rushing to the Bettie to cover his crime. Dass discovers that Harrow destroyed evidence related to Quinn's murder investigation - proof that he was covering his tracks. She shows Nichols, who has Harrow arrested. The Bettie is searched and Dass zeroes in on the antique medical kit she believes was used to sever Quinn's finger. But when this turns into a dead-end, Harrow appears to be off the hook for good. Best of all, he is reunited with Fern. But just as Harrow thinks he may be returning to a "normal" life, a final twist threatens everything.
