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Stingers Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 1999
Episode 1
Salsa: Part 1
While Stone and Angie are undercover investigating the murder of a young Asian woman involved in the x-rated movie business, Mackenzie receives a compromising photograph relating to her former relationship with Church. Interpreting this as a warning to back off by those under investigation, Mackenzie ignores the risk of exposure and redoubles her efforts to find the murderer and the means by which the photographs came into his possession.
Episode 2
Salsa: Part 2
The compromising photographs of Mackenzie and Church now threaten the security of the entire Unit. Rocca details Church to pursue the source of the photos while Mackenzie pushes Angie and Stone for more information on the porn star murderer, who may well have struck again another X-rated movie star has disappeared under suspicious circumstances and almost everyone being investigated seems to have a motive.
Episode 3
Set for Life
Through an informant, Church is introduced to a gang planning a major robbery. While Church works undercover as a safecracker, Angie is dispatched to move in and pose as his girlfriend. When Church learns that the gang plan to rob a pharmaceutical plant, Rocca is determined to catch them and their drug contacts in action.
Episode 4
The Big Picture
Rocca finds himself in unfamiliar territory when he goes undercover with Church on a case involving gold smuggling and political intrigue. When Rocca's daughter Olivia becomes seriously ill, Rocca is torn between his private and professional lives. Rocca reluctantly resolves to see the operation through, leaving Mackenzie to run the show. Angie and Stone investigate from a different angle and end up behind bars and in danger of having their covers blown.
Episode 5
Rat Trap
The Unit pulls off a successful cocaine bust leaving drug lord Justin Forbes wanting revenge. Acting on information supplied by Forbes' lover, Heather, Stone is sent undercover to infiltrate Forbes's operation. When Church discovers that Stone is being tailed by someone linked to Forbes, the Unit realise the danger to Stone and wonder if he himself has been double-crossed.
Episode 6
Finders Keepers
MacKenzie goes undercover in a women's prison in order to investigate Nancy, a young women convicted of murdering her embezzler husband. The Unit's aim is to recover some missing money, but their investigation takes an unexpected turn when the possibility arises that Nancy could have been wrongly convicted. Church investigates the dead husband's friends and business associates and discovers more parties involved in the missing millions than first expected. One of them knows the location of the money. One of them killed for it.
Episode 7
Playing with the Celibate Dead
Stone and MacKenzie infiltrate a gang planning to rob and murder a coin dealer. Angie is assigned to protect the target. However, she soon discovers the target has had previous connections with the gang and that the robbery seems to be motivated by revenge. When Mac and Stone lose contact with the Unit, Rocca must anticipate their movements to prevent a murder. Church begins working with the Public Prosecutor in advance of the Dino Rossi trial.
Episode 8
White Lies
The Unit discovers there is a contract out on Church's life, as he is due to give evidence in court against major crime figure, Dino Rossi. Someone wants Church silenced before he can testify. With his life in danger, Church feels the emotional and psychological strain, as he takes the stand and is forced to relive, and defend, his undercover work. The Unit race to find the man who wants Church dead, but as the trial draws to a close, Church's hitman is forced to act. In an explosive moment, Church narrowly escapes death as the true force behind the Rossi crime family is revealed.
Episode 9
Mr. Right
MacKenzie works closely with Brian Maddern, a psychological profiler, to identify a killer who uses the internet to select his victims. Mac is put undercover as bait but gets frustrated when it appears she has been following false leads. The Unit runs out of time and is ordered to wind up the investigation, when Mac is unexpectedly confronted by the killer.
Episode 10
The Favour
Working undercover as an ex-army officer now supplying illegal explosives, Stone encounters his first girlfriend, Kelly, entangled in an export scam involving contraband arms. Eager to protect Kelly from being implicated, Stone allows his heart to rule his judgement by keeping Undercover in the dark as he manipulates a dangerous sting. It is a risky move which puts Stone's life, and the success of a major operation, at the mercy of an old flame.
Episode 11
Judas Kiss
While working undercover on the investigation of large-scale thefts on the docks, Church accidentally shoots and old mate, Tony Tennant. Suspended from duty and under investigation from Internal Affairs, Church spends quality time with Tony's family. While Angie and Stone continue the sting at the docks, Church becomes more involved with Tony's family, and turns up evidence which allows Undercover to wrap up the docks operation. As the extent of the shipping robberies is realised, Tony is implicated. Unable to intervene, Church is devastated as he must stand by and watch Tony go down and his family destroyed.
Episode 12
Counting the Beat
Church and Angie go undercover to investigate suspected drug importation in the music industry. While Angie investigates charismatic rock star Jimi Mercer, Church works on small-time record company manager Terry Danzinger. As Angie spends time with Jimi, she experiences a life outside her usual existence and starts to question her future in Undercover. When her work begins to suffer, MacKenzie fears Angie may have crossed the line and pulls her off the case. As the pressure mounts, Angie must make a decision, is she still a cop or not?
Episode 13
Just Acting
A bust, headed by Stone, allows the unit to nab the Robardis, a well known crime family. However, the sting doesn't go quite to plan, as the eldest son, Billy Robardi, escapes. With Billy out for revenge, Stone and Angie lay low at Stone's family farm. Removed from their undercover lives, Angie confides in Stone her doubts about Undercover. Back at the Unit, Mackenzie and Rocca make a horrific discovery Billy has tracked Stone down. As Billy pays Stone's family a surprise visit, Church races to prevent the revenge attack. But it is Angie's cop-instinct that saves Stone and his family -- and redeems her faith in Undercover.
Episode 14
Unnatural Justice
When the daughter of a Family Court judge is abducted, Church teams up with Rory, a young Undercover recruit, to investigate Fathers Against Discrimination, a group of divorced men lobbying against the judge. The Unit are sent on a wild-goose chase which exposes a fraud while getting them closer to the little girl. As Undercover continue their search, they receive a cryptic clue. Church and Rory follow up separate leads which end up pointing in the same direction. In a frantic search, Rory must prove his worth to save the girl and apprehend her abductor.
Episode 15
Dance with the Dragon
While investigating a heroin racket, Church comes across a familiar face, a nephew, Matt, who is trapped in the cycle of addiction. Church spends time with Matt, experiencing the emotional, rather than criminal, side of addiction. Driven by revenge, Church uses unorthodox tactics to get to the top of the drug chain, leaving the Unit to wonder if his actions are part of the sting, or whether Church is following his own agenda
Episode 16
The Long Haul
Angie, Stone and Church investigate a series of strategic truck hijackings that have led to murder. As Church ingratiates himself with the truckies, it becomes apparent the murder was an accident. Church is able to identify who is involved in the robberies and the full extent of the scam. Meanwhile, Rocca's life falls apart around him when he learns that his wife is in love with the headmaster at the school where his children attend.
Episode 17
Swarm
When the husband of a leading Aboriginal activist is car-bombed, Stone and Angie go undercover to investigate SWARM, a radical right-wing group suspected of involvement. Meanwhile, Peter who is also undercover, is taken hostage by the group. The Unit have to find him, following a crypic clue in order to prevent more from dying
Episode 18
Men in the Dark
When Church and Mackenzie team up to investigate an illegal adoption racket, Mackenzie's informant, A.J. Blackburn, decides to take justice into his own hands. Mac and Church are left minding A.J.'s adopted daughter while A.J. searches for those responsible for the slaughter of her people. The only problem is, will they be able to track down those responsible before A.J. can?
Episode 19
Full Term
A routine drug bust takes a sudden turn forcing Rocca to take the place of the target. Meanwhile, Church faces the challenge of a lifetime as he deals with a pregnant informant.
Episode 20
House Rules
Church and Mac go undercover to infiltrate a group of high-rollering gamblers who conduct illegal gaming sessions using "black" money. The sting takes a bizarre turn when the gaming session is hit by armed robbers. When the gaming squad finally arrive, all the incriminating evidence has been stolen, and the gamblers walk free. As the Unit race to find the money, the robbery turns to double murder and an unexpected suspect comes to light. In a tense confrontation, Angie successfully extracts a murder confession and tracks down the missing money. In the guise of returning the money to the gamblers, Church and Mac are at last able to bring down the high rollers.
Episode 21
Signal One
When Bernie is shot down outside his own house and left in hospital in critical condition, Church breaks all the rules when he goes after the gunman. Mac is shocked to find Rocca's replacement is a cop with no undercover experience. Angie and Stone try to stay focussed on a sting involving a dope dealer.
Episode 22
The Dingo
Church begins working with Terry Hanks, a new informant who promises he can deliver big-time drug dealers. Church is skeptical, but when Terry repeatedly comes through with the goods, Church can't help but relax his concerns. When Terry then offers to land them "The Dingo" the biggest and baddest dealer of all, Church and Mac have their doubts. When the man Terry claims is the "Dingo" turns out to be just another drug dealer, Church realises all is not kosher and begins to question Terry's motives. As Church moves in to sting his own informant, all is revealed Terry has been using Undercover to eliminate his competition.
