City Homicide Season 2, Episode 4: Taniwha

1

Thicker Than Water

The unit investigates a murder of a middle aged woman in a dark alley. While the investigations dig into her family history, Stanley is confronted with his own past.

60 min

2

Somersaulting Dogs

A teenage boy is found hanging in the girls' toilets at a local high school. Did bullying push him to suicide? When Homicide investigate they step into a community that is ready to explode.

60 min

3

In House

The detectives are taken hostage in their own offices by a desperate father determined to re-open the investigation of a murder for which his son was convicted.

60 min

4

Taniwha

A gangster style slaying of a young mum on a crowded beach drives Homicide to work fast. Can they catch this callous killer before he hunts down the only witness to his crime?

60 min

5

Guilty as Charged

Jen becomes obsessed with the case of a man who killed his wife and daughter vowing to the wife's parents that she will find their bodies after he is acquitted of their murder.

60 min

6

Reward

The discovery of a partially mummified body by a couple of kids leads the the reopening of an old kidnapping case. The kidnapping case in turn has ties to a old case of Sgt Sparkes and he gets in touch with his old partner.

60 min

7

Golden

Some footballers get involved in a fight at a pub leaving one in a coma. When his life support is turned off it becomes a murder case as the squad try to find who landed the fatal blow.

60 min

8

Life After Death

Homicide interview a frantic young woman who claims to have had a vision of a murder before it happens.

60 min

9

Never to be Released

The decomposed bodies of a couple, who disappeared in 1978, are found in their missing van in a dry dam. At the same time of the discovery the investigating officer Christopher Spotswood commits suicide.

60 min

10

Examination Day

When a foreign student dies in the middle of an exam, Homicide delves into a world where speaking up can cost someone their life.

60 min

11

Oh Lucky Man

Zoe Clayton, a student moonlighting as a prostitute, is brutally hacked to death which convinces Stanley that the perpetrator is Maxwell Craven, a man charged previously with similar murders.

60 min

12

Spoils of War

A photo. Soldiers in the Gulf. Friends fighting for the greater good. But were they? A secret left to die in the desert has followed them home. And now their loved ones are being murdered one by one.

60 min

13

Jury Duty

Homicide investigates a murder, but when the bludgeoned corpse turns out to be a missing Supreme Court juror from a high-profile case, the case leads them to a victim that is still very much alive.

60 min

14

Jane Doe

A murder victim's body is found dumped in wasteland, with no evidence of her identity. Simon leads the team as they delve into the unknown life of Jane Doe. It will take every available hand to untangle this mystery.

60 min

15

Junkie

A judge and a junkie overdose on the same night. Are they unrelated deaths? Or are these people from opposite ends of town more than perfect strangers?

60 min

16

Stolen Sweets

A young man's suspicious death leads Homicide to investigate the link between a high profile religious figure and one of the city's most prominent law firms.

60 min

17

The Forgotten

A homeless man is brutally murdered as he sleeps in his favorite spot in an abandoned warehouse. As the team investigate they discover all is not as it seems with this murder victim, and soon his spoiled rich kids are discovered.

60 min

18

A Green Light

When one of the team falls victim to a brutal assault, it is up to Homicide to work out who is responsible before they return to finish the job.

60 min

19

House of Horrors

A university lecturer and his student lover skip town to start a new life. No one hears from them again, until the lecturer's body is found in a suburban cellar.

60 min

20

The Cutting Edge

A credential investigator is viciously strangled, but by the time his body is found, all his paperwork has disappeared. What did he uncover at the hospital he was investigating?

60 min

21

Rage

Homicide is called in to investigate two murders where motive, witnesses and straight answers are proving hard to find. The only way to open these cases up is to hit the streets - they just have to knock on the right door.

60 min

22

Life and Death

The team's investigation into the brutal stabbing and murder of psychiatrist Selwyn Elsworthy at his work place is overshadowed by the ongoing search for Bernice's missing son, Joshua.

60 min