Homicide Season 3, Episode 7: Chain Reaction

1

The Gamblers

Helen Burton and her daughter are happy to be reunited after a long separation, but the reunion turns out to be a prelude to tragedy when a murder is committed.

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2

A Question of Honour

Kevin Jones is murdered on the Mornington Peninsula. Bronson and Mackay are sent there to investigate the crime. They have three suspects, and while they are there investigating, another murder takes place.

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3

Vicious Circle

Detectives have five suspects in the brutal murder of a young married woman. All five of them saw her in the hours preceding her death.

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4

Three-Headed Dog

An artist arrives at an outdoor party with a stunning blonde. Within minutes the girl is dead, and so is a folk-singer who was at the party. Homicide detectives are called in to investigate the puzzling case.

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5

No Honour Among Thieves

A criminal earnestly trying to reform is being framed for a double murder and a $20,000 payroll robbery.

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6

Detour

Truck driver Roy Smith reports his wife has been murdered. He claims he spent the night at the country town of Seymour, however police discover that he is having an affair and that he also stole a car in Seymour.

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7

Chain Reaction

Policewoman Helen Hopgood is involved in the case of a runaway schoolgirl, but when Helen suddenly disappears it is feared she could have been murdered.

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8

Holiday Affair

A teenage girl's skeleton is found in the Aireys Inlet sandhills, with no clue to her identity.

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9

Wolf Pack

A woman close to death after being attacked and robbed refuses out of fear to identify her attackers. The pack then goes hunting again, terrorising a mother and her teenage daughter.

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10

Country Boy

Young Kathy and Johnny Moore were happy together according to friends and neighbours, yet Kathy is found murdered in their wrecked living room and Johnny is missing.

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11

The Old Game

Two women act as decoys and one victim after another is attacked and robbed - until one of the victims dies.

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12

Flashpoint

Homicide detectives pursue 'Blue' Carmody in rugged country, after he murdered a Forests Commission officer who ordered him to put out a fire on a Total Fire Ban day. Two women at a roadhouse assist him.

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13

Vendetta

Peter O'Brien breaks out of prison, killing a warden and taking his gun. He sets out to kill the two detectives who put him inside.

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14

The Last Enemy

A scrawled note, a milk bill and a wrecked room confront the police when they investigate the death of a clergyman. Mackay is promoted back to Detective Sergeant.

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15

Terror That Strikes

Police struggle to come up with a motive for why a killer shot three people, until they discover his murder victims are all connected with Chinese people.

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16

Prove It!

A man knocks on the door of a house and tells the people there to call the police because his wife has been murdered, but police believe that he killed his wife and set about proving it.

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17

Let's Get Together

Using the Moomba festival crowds as cover, a gang of jewel thieves, headed by an American, keeps the police guessing. A report that a schoolboy has disappeared alerts detectives to more sinister activities.

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18

Wasp Nest

Ray Fox is shot at when he leaves his flat. He goes straight to the police, they investigate and discover a fraud racket that leads them to another murder three years ago.

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19

The Witness

Concerned for the safety of a murder witness, police hide the man at Dromana. However, the ruse is discovered and the police must protect him from a group of criminals.

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20

Nor All Thy Tears

Linda Neilsen walks out of a staff party to a violent death, but three suspects emerge to confuse the issue, and one of the three is the killer.

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21

Knife & Beads

Joan Ordini is stabbed to death while walking home at night. Homicide detectives have three suspects, then police find out that rosary beads are missing from the victim and they find them in possession of the killer.

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22

Flashback

Sally Trevor is shot dead on a busy city street. The killer's description tallies with her long-time admirer Arthur Parrish.

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23

The Boy from Anywhere

People notice Ron Paige and think he is a charming youth, which is a big help to detectives investigating a puzzling case of callous murder.

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24

Circumstantial Evidence

Maree Duncan tells police her husband has threatened to kill her, and soon afterwords she is found shot dead. Is the killer her husband or the man whose company she preferred?

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25

Deadly Flagfall

Arthur Lowe's taxi is stolen. And police have a job tracking it down and when they did find it implicates someone else in a murder.

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26

Death Us Do Part

Margaret Boyce makes a suicide pact with an older man that she loves after her parents refuse to give their permission to get married. When she dies and he doesn't, police have to figure out if it was suicide or murder.

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27

Tiger Hunt

16-year-old Anne Vincent meets a violent death by human hands or something else. Homicide are called in to investigate and are confronted by strange evidence.

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28

Where There's a Will

Is Maggie the abused wife she claims to be? Arrested for shooting her husband, she says it was self defence but suspicion comes up between Maggie and her stepson.

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29

End of Class

Lorraine Purvis's classmates are shocked when she falls to her death from a roof. But some of them are suspects as police try to establish if it was suicide, an accident or murder.

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30

The Black Book

A man is fatally stabbed. llona Tabori, his drunk friend, wakes up the next morning and finds the knife beside her and fears that she might be responsible for it.

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31

The Snipers

Mackay and Hudson pursue a crazed gunman who has taken four lives. And Hudson is pursued by a gun activist about the right of police to fire on criminals with disastrous results.

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32

Merry-Go-Round

A man is strangled to death, and in the search for his killer Homicide detectives uncover a macabre story of drug addiction and the relentless exploitation of its victims.

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33

A One-Man Show

An art collector is stabbed to death and investigations have just begun when Det. Hudson's girlfriend 'Tinker' Bell is reported missing. Tensions mount as her disappearance is linked with the main murder suspect.

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34

Man at Bay

A small boy sees blonde Trudy Gardner threatened with a gun, but when police arrive her flat is empty - though there is every sign she has been murdered.

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35

Pattern of Guilt

A mother and her two young daughters are shot dead on a country road, and detectives learn that a car abandoned nearby belongs to their neighbour, Roger Fry, an ex-Royal Australian Air Force officer with a war neurosis, who has vanished.

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36

Seven Winds

Immediately after buying a racehorse, horse dealer Jim Craig is shot dead. Craig's dubious background suggests several motives, but it soon becomes evident that the horse 'Seven Winds' is the focal point in a bitter conflict.

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37

My Brother Must Rest

Scotland Yard enlists Homicide's aid in locating Joan Preston, suspected of having killed her husband in England. They find not only Joan but also her sister-in-law, who is convinced that Joan has killed once and is planning to kill again.

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38

What Milk Train?

A body is found on a beach with a lone clue - a cigarette lighter inscribed 'In memory of Milk Train'. But what milk train?

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39

The Girl Who Liked Beads

Blonde Karen Barrett's first brush with the law is on a shoplifting charge, but policewoman Helen Hopwood senses something more sinister in the girl's background. Homicide detectives prove she is right.

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40

The Ex

Roger Lang is found shot dead, and suspicion falls on nightclub singer Julie Temple, whose fingerprints are on the gun. Investigations lead to Julie's ex-husband, Harold Barker, who has resorted to an evil scheme to gain custody of his child.

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41

The Hostage

On the run after breaking jail, Tom Delaney robs a bank and shots a veterinary surgeon. Seeking a hiding place, he holds country school teacher Ann Pritchard as a hostage.

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42

Time to Pay

Confidence man Warren Hardy becomes involved with the death of a man and blackmails a wealthy socialite in an attempt to pay a gambling debt.

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43

No Room for the Innocent

A teenage girl on holiday finds a baby's body in the river. There is doubt as to whether it was accidental drowning or murder. The blanket wrapped around the body supplies a vital clue.

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44

Moment of Truth

Young Counstable Foster, suspecting a factory robbery, fires at a man who is running from the scene. When Homicide detectives question him, he realises his police career could be in jeopardy.

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45

Man in the Park

Laura Steiner has an insensate jealousy of her stepdaughter llse, so she makes a plan to stab her to death and plant false clues to implicate someone else.

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46

Don't Sing to Uniforms

A payroll guard is killed and another wounded during a $25,000 robbery. Folk singer Susannah Lane offers Homicide detectives information on the gang's identity, but when her intentions become known her life is threatened.

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47

Roughshod

Laurence Somers, an ex-cop now prominent in trotting circles, falls from a speeding train. Homicide detectives suspect foul play, and within a few days murder is committed at the trotting track.

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