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Underbelly Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Thy Will Be Done
45 mins
Feared underworld figure Anthony Perish ran one of the biggest criminal enterprises on the eastern seaboard for over a decade. He was charismatic and utterly ruthless and lived according to his own rules. But despite his five-star lifestyle and criminal reputation he slipped completely under the radar. He left no trace. He had no identity. He was invisible. A ghost. Anthony Perish made just one mistake in his criminal career - and it was his bad luck that a remarkable cop, Gary Jubelin, was watching. Jubelin led Strike Force Tuno and spent ten years gathering the evidence that finally saw Perish brought to justice. When a prisoner is abducted and murdered while on day-release, police embark on a massive man-hunt to find the killers. The 10-year investigation leads them to a ruthless underworld boss who is totally invisible to the police and the legitimate world.
Episode 2
Cut Snake and Crazy F...
43 mins
Nosey gives Tuno the name Anthony Perish, a high level crook who runs an outfit known as The Company - revealing that he himself played a part in Perish's kidnap and murder plans. This could be a breakthrough for Gary, but can he trust Nosey? The guy redefines "difficult witness" - he insists on meetings at night in deserted parkland, complains of bumps in the night, is convinced Tuno will betray him to Perish. Eventually however, Gary trusts Nosey but convincing his bosses upstairs that he's right to rely on an informant as mad a cut snake - and even more dangerous - is another challenge altogether.
Episode 3
The Loaded Dog
46 mins
Nosey's careening out of control with paranoia and booze, and crashing his Harley into the back of a semi-trailer at 120kph. Their best informant hovering near death is one problem for Gary - the other is the IA cops wondering why this known crim had videotapes hidden in his motorbike's panniers of Tuno detectives drinking tea in his loungeroom?! Gary and Tuno realise Nosey has been secretly recording them...they'd kill the paranoid bastard, except he's just risen, Frankenstein-like, from the dead and finally agreed to sign his statement. But just as Tuno makes real progress the powers-that-be decide the Falconer matter's run long enough. The strikeforce is disbanded and Gary is sent back to the suburbs in uniform.
Episode 4
Year of the Rooster
46 mins
With most of the Tuno team scattered to the four winds, a defiant Gary keeps the investigation rolling in clandestine mode in his spare time, meeting with Detective Sergeant Glen "Flatline" Browne late at night to plot strategy, and chasing witnesses at weekends. When one of Glen's informants from way back, an electrician, happens to mention he's working on building a steel-lined bunker in the 'burbs, Glen doesn't think much of it - until he hears that the owner is a bloke called Andrew Perish - aka "Undies", Anthony's brother. Security experts report that the place is impenetrable, just confirming the badness Perish intends. Glen and Gary know there's not enough to arrest Anthony on Falconer, but could some ten-year-old drug charges get them over the line? Once Perish is off the streets, others, like Nosey, may feels safer and talk. It's high risk, but Perish has been so hard to find this may be the only chance they get. Gary calls in the Tactical Response Group and for the first time in a decade Anthony Perish is in the hands of the authorities.
Episode 5
Troubleshooting
46 mins
Of course paranoid Anthony notices the heat and, ironically, it's the ensuing harassment he heaps on Robbie about not talking to the cops that leads Robbie to agree to making a statement against him. Robbie says that a man known as "Redman" was one of the Falconer kidnappers. That "Redman" has been hauled back in to check out a new property in Mudgee that reeks of badness. Gary Jubelin calls up a couple of the original Tuno team and sends them up country to snap surveillance photos of Anthony and his sidekick, who Robbie later confirms is Redman.
Episode 6
Road to Nowhere
47 mins
Further surveillance has Sean telling a bodybuilder associate Michael Christiansen that "the job was too good to pass up", while showing him a photograph. Gary and Glen have no choice but to follow Sean from this meeting, but they didn't expect him to he drive all the way north to Queensland and the Gold Coast, which of course is another jurisdiction completely! Turns out it wasn't a hit after all; Sean was collecting money from Perish's various nightclubs. Michael Christiansen was the one Gary and Glen should have followed. The steroid-fuelled man mountain killed Melbourne underworld identity Paul Elliot with two shots, and Tuno has yet another murder to solve...
Episode 7
Bang, Bang, Kill, Kill
45 mins
Unaware he is under police surveillance, Decker juggles two different hit-man contracts with the impending birth of his baby. Police get a crucial breakthrough in the hunt for Anthony Perish.
Episode 8
Strike Force Tuno
46 mins
The pressure is so great the Crown Prosecutor has a heart attack and has to bow out from the case, mere days before the trial is scheduled to begin. The only available replacement is Paul Leask, a younger, cockier lawyer who isn't intimidated by the defence, when perhaps he should be. Nosey comes back on board to finish what he started. The battle has always been between Gary and Anthony but now they're in the same room. Can the police protect and support Nosey to get him through his evidence in one piece? Or will Anthony's intimidation derail the whole trial? August 2011. After a discharged jury and two months of evidence, the jury reaches a unanimous verdict -Anthony Perish is found guilty of murder and conspiracy to murder Terry Falconer. Andrew Perish is found guilty of conspiracy to murder. After ten long years, Gary Jubelin and Glen Browne finally close the case they were told they'd never solve.