City Homicide Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - In the Hands of Giants (1)

First aired: Aug/27/2007
Guest star: Grant Piro (Craig Pierce), Adriano Cortese (Ezio Galasso), Kim Krejus (Dr. Margaret Manson), Sue Jones (Goddards), Nadia Blue (Carla Galasso), Richard Piper (Sean McCready), Richard Carter (Larry Klein), Greg Parker (Patrick Swain), Julie Eckersley (Rita Solomon)

For Matt, Simon, Duncan and Jennifer, a seemingly straightforward suicide will turn into a nightmare of screaming children killed in fires, and grieving parents killing themselves because of their guilt.

A rogue cop has beaten the crew to an investigation which is now beginning to destroy him. Maybe it already has. The crew has to ask: is he the investigator or the perpetrator? Could a killer's trophy room turn out to be something else entirely?

2 :01x02 - In the Hands of Giants (2)

First aired: Aug/27/2007
Guest star: Adriano Cortese (Ezio Galasso), Kim Krejus (Dr. Margaret Manson), Sue Jones (Goddards), Nadia Blue (Carla Galasso), Richard Piper (Sean McCready), Richard Carter (Larry Klein), Greg Parker (Patrick Swain), Julie Eckersley (Rita Solomon), Grant Piro (Craig Pierce)

The discovery of another body, a woman, concealed in a ceiling, provides a clue to a ten-year-old series of murders.

The price these women have been paying is a grim one. As the body count rises, the Homicide crew feels the stress and horror mounting.

Events take a terrifying turn when the detectives find themselves in the heart of an inferno with the murderous arsonist and three more innocent kids. Will this be a resolution that our team can live with?

Persistent legwork, a breakthrough on the case and a heart-stopping confrontation finally bring Jennifer into the fold. For good.

3 :01x03 - Lie Down with Dogs

First aired: Sep/03/2007
Guest star: Brian Wray (Mick Booth), Marcus Costello (Brett Semple), Wendy Hughes (Victoria Semple), Adam Lee (Colin Booth), Peter Finlay (Raymond Booth), Troy Lovett (Mick Booth Jnr), Amanda Muggleton (Cathy Booth), Peter Stefanou (Zabor), Jasper Bagg (Barry Shadow), Vince Colosimo (Ernie Calabrese), Craig Blumeris (Senior Constable Lionel Jones)

A notorious criminal winds up dead in someone else's tomb, which sparks off a territory war between Homicide and the Armed Robbery Squad - a tough fixture, especially when the two coaches are going at it on the sidelines.

Waverley and Jarvis both have points to make, and score. The AR squad muscles in on Wolfe's Homicide case, so it's time for revenge. And the best form of revenge is to be better than they are.

All fine, except being better is going to cost. A life. And a conscience.

You lie down with dogs, you pick up some fleas.

4 :01x04 - The Return

First aired: Sep/10/2007
Guest star: Tony Rickards (Detective Sergeant Mike Davies), Alan Hopgood (Harry Mackintosh), Judy Banks (Doris Croker), Paul Dawber (Alex Zammit), Ross Thompson (Walter Fendleton), Kylie Trounson (Heather Wilcox), Julia Blake (Hilda Conway), Geoff Paine (Jim Conway), Terry Brittingham (Frank Savage), Rhys McConnochie (Callum Ryan)

A self confessed murderer extradited, brought home, only to claim his innocence, point the finger at a Very Important Person, then kill himself.

An off-the-books investigation turns up a secret history of sexual misconduct, greed, and bribery. A great big can of fat, wriggly worms is unwittingly opened when Matt takes a dead son's letter to a grieving mother. He finds he's accepted a task that could cost him his job, unless the biggest worm in the can really does happen to be the one he's not supposed to catch...

5 :01x05 - The Ripe Fruits In The Garden

First aired: Sep/17/2007
Guest star: Kath Gordon (Gillian Statesman), Mark Hennessy (Senior Sergeant Cotton), Cameron Nugent (Paul Winston), Sara Reed (Susan Wolfe), Catherine Flaherty (Stephanie Wolfe), Carolyn Bock (Linda Wolfe), Peter Stefanou (Zabor)

Young girls. Watched. Located. Taken and abused. Released, but too terrified to talk. One killed, dismembered. A night spent dumping body parts. Garbos as unwitting couriers.

A search of a rubbish tip puts a body back together. The body of someone close. Stanley's god-daughter has been murdered and other teenage girls have disappeared. The team has a personal stake in catching this monster and Stanley may have to cross the line to do it.

As the Homicide team fit together the clues, Stanley undertakes a journey that will either re-affirm his faith or destroy it, as he sees good and evil come face to face.

6 :01x06 - Envelope Day

First aired: Sep/24/2007
Guest star: Francis Greenslade (Greg Cosgrove), Peter Davenport (Paul Gee), Simon Lyndon (Josh Braddock), Alison Whyte (Petra Milde), Gemma Bishop (Caroline Joyner), Danielle Carter (Celia Joyner), Susan Turner (Tiffany Joyner)

Powerful cars, corporate lunches, fat envelopes for Merchant Bankers. This time though, they have to earn their huge bonuses. A sporting reunion leaves the former University Eleven one man down. Is it bullying gone too far, or something more complex?

Waverley gets dragged into a pissing contest with a powerful media personality as Homicide's investigation becomes a clash of the classes. The Underpaid and Overworked are trying to pry open the closed doors of the Very Rich.

But it's an innocent victim who was in the wrong place at the wrong time who really motivates Jennifer, Matt, Duncan, and Simon. They aren't about to let her down. In their world, people count for more than bonus cheques and ruthless ambition.

7 :01x07 - Baby Love

First aired: Oct/01/2007
Guest star: Donald Baigent (Warren Nash), Lana Schwarcz (Patricia Nash), Scott Price (Geoffrey Templin), Margo Fenley (Lynn Templin), Ian Bliss (Toby Hendricks), Michelle Pettigrove (Cheryl Hendricks), Rebecca Moore (Robina Hendricks), Daniella Farinacci (Marion Palmer), Greg Stone (Dean Palmer), Andrew S. Gilbert (Detective Sergeant Jumbo Watson)

Happy, suburban families in a happy, suburban neighbourhood. Barbecues and beer. A birthday party. Sparklers and cake. Happy birthday Jack! One year old today!'

Ever seen a dead baby? The detectives don't want to look, either. But they have to - the child wasn't a cot death as first thought; he was smothered. Talk to a mother with a history of dead children. It's hard not to judge. Is she a victim of circumstance or are her children her victims?

Claire bursts back into Duncan's world at a time when everyone is struggling to make sense of this difficult case. She comes back with a problem. She says she loves him but does she just need him for his connections? Helping Claire will push Duncan to the outer circles of the only family he seems to have - the Homicide squad.

8 :01x08 - Victims of Crime

First aired: Oct/08/2007
Guest star: Jonathan Biggins (James Bradwell), Dean Atkinson (Gary Kovacevic), Ray Hare (Leon Bernstein), Jason Green (Dag Sigmundsen), Jan Friedl (Rebecca Bernstein), Petra Yared (Michelle Johnson), Elissa Elliott (Sarah Crockett), Queenie Van De Zandt (Lindsay Atherton), Peter Stefanou (Zabor), Andrew S. Gilbert (Detective Sergeant Jumbo Watson), Cameron Nugent (Paul Winston)

The death of a killer: steroids squeezing a shrivelled heart, an electric carving knife doing the rest. A bizarre death, equally bizarre developments: six urns found, filled with human ashes.

While Duncan fights his own personal battle outside the investigation, Simon, Jennifer and Matt piece together a weird and frightening tapestry of rape, beatings, and courtroom cock-ups that leads them to a sub-culture of vigilantism. Justice for the people by the People - an ethos that suggests the Courts are as bad as the Crims.

So who are the victims? The Homicide guys know that, where there's a death, the victims are also the people left behind.

Like Duncan. For him some Cops are as bad as the Crims. His personal journey to get justice for Claire ends with bodies on slabs, a decked superior, and a broken heart.

9 :01x09 - Family Planning

First aired: Oct/15/2007
Guest star: Paula Gardner (TSU Supervisor Louise Pointing), GIl Tucker (Sam "Mack The Knife" McIntyre), Jason Rumble (Terry O'Neill), Jenny Barkla (Mrs Deerborne), Nicky Stewart (Jessica Deerborne), Johnathan Woodhams (William Deerborne), Alexandra Meerbach (Housekeeper), Ian De Lacy (Mr Deerborne), Susie Dee (Winifred Bartholomew), Jolyon James (John Deerborne), Caroline Brazier (Frances Deerborne), Kristin Holland (Alan Furlong), Ziggy Clements (Belinda Furlong), David Ravenswood (Bruce Schofield), Estelle Andrewartha (Anika Kemper), Brendan Bacon (Lewis Sunderland)

A wealthy family slaughtered during dinner. Their mansion ransacked. The sole survivor is the eldest son and heir. Could he be a cold-hearted killer?

But how did he travel an impossible distance, while appearing to stay in one place? And how did he find the guts, despite the fact that he's as weak as dishwater, to shoot five people in cold blood? Four of them, members of his own family.

One Homicide crew, faced with a bunch of complex mysteries. For Simon, finding answers is complicated by the return of an old adversary, who seems bent on making him crack.

Searching for solutions in abandoned valuables, highway cameras, home movies and Houdini illusions. Elementary? Not quite.

10 :01x10 - The Promised Land

First aired: Oct/22/2007
Guest star: Anthony Hammer (Adrian Orlowski), Christine Cato (Renee Edwards), Jonathan Viehl (Nathan Ellis), Sepideh Fallah (Zahra Al Basri), Mark Tregonning (Costa Dieperdenko), Charles Zammit (Waleed Al Basri), GIl Tucker (Sam "Mack The Knife" McIntyre), Fiona Corke (Judith Welling), Nicholas Bell (Mark Silver), Majid Shokor (Sheik Shams Al-Din Al-Laythi), Nicole Chamoun (Selma Al Basri), Osamah Sami (Kasim Al Basri), Shane Connor (Gareth Nunn), Ali Ammouchi (Mohammed Raheem), Hamilton Moore (Murad Abu Eid), Marc Lawrence (Pete Chambers)

An Iraqi boy is killed during a Federal Police pursuit. An accident...or was he pushed? Stanley and Jennifer clash with their Federal counterparts to solve the case.

Homicide's priority is getting answers on behalf of the dead boy and his family. Except the Feds aren't about to be helpful. They have their own agenda targeting an outspoken and popular local Imam. Someone in the Squad has to step up to the plate, expose the plot and ensure those responsible face the consequences.

Meanwhile, Duncan's future in the force is in doubt, with Jarvis determined to see him kicked out of Homicide. Then a teenager walks in off the street and drops an explosive murder onto Duncan's desk...

11 :01x11 - Serious Men

First aired: Oct/29/2007
Guest star: Greg Pascoe (Boom Gate Guard 1), Justin Fleming (AGB Guard 1), Alexandra Hamilton (Gwen Whicker), Daniel Schlusser (Charlie Whicker), Paul Pearson (Peter Jensen), Robert Jordon (Desmond Akuna), James Saunders (Rick Pope), Wilhelmina Stracke (Carmel O'Loughlin), David Whiteley (Reg Brown), Vince Colosimo (Ernie Calabrese)

Our detectives are on the trail of some killer armed robbers and a missing truckload of gold. The Armed Robbery Squad's Detective Calabrese returns with Simon squarely in his sights, and Stanley and Jarvis face the ultimate betrayal.

These hijackers are seriously big-time criminals. Cold. Focussed. Ruthless. The trigger-happy troops from Armed Robbery relish the opportunity to return fire, only their targets seem trained on Homicide. Old wounds feed the feud until even the senior officers are squaring off.

For Simon especially, this case has him rattled. Hard to keep your cool when you're staring down the barrel. Hard to believe the body count keeps rising. Suspicions are raised ? is there a rat in the ranks? It's unthinkable, but there's a reason why they call it gold fever. One nugget is enough to come between the oldest allies. What price a truckload?

12 :01x12 - Cut And Dried

First aired: Nov/05/2007
Guest star: Mairead Curran (Mrs Stackpole), Mick Preston (Brian Van Der Burgh), Stephen Whittaker (Karl Stackpole), John Orscik (Lyndon Quayle), Annie Jones (Kelly Pilsbury), Alex Pinder (Rameesh Patel), Simon Maiden (Troy Lucas), Tiriel Mora (Gerald Fox)

The murder of a prison inmate exposes his hidden identity. Jennifer is cornered by a dangerous past acquaintance and Simon struggles to cope with the aftermath of the deadly gold heist.

How do you catch a killer if he's already in prison? And how hard should you try to find him? The Homicide Squad struggle to find their usual drive for justice when the victim committed unspeakable crimes of his own. A hate crime where the 'hate' seems more than a little justified.

While investigating the murder, Jennifer encounters a past acquaintance who threatens to destroy her professional reputation. A little older now, and a little wiser, she's determined not to let this enemy get the upper hand a second time. Meanwhile, Simon begins to show the strain from his traumatic experience.

13 :01x13 - Rostered Day Off

First aired: Nov/12/2007
Guest star: Rosemary Mitchell (Sandra Murdoch), Kristen Sargent (Shannon Cutter), William Jarratt (Joshua Waverley), John O'May (Peter Murdoch), Christian Bell (Tommy Combes), Scott Major (Graeme Combes), John Paton (Ewan Colvin), Jillian Murray (Sheila Colvin), Annie Jones (Kelly Pilsbury)

A Homicide detective is shot on a routine house call. He's dying, but no one even knows he's there. Our detectives face the possible loss of one of their own. Meanwhile, Jennifer suspects Waverley of setting her up on a tricky ethical case.

Simon gets a mysterious phone message from Detective Senior Sergeant Sparkes. When others are reluctant to suspect the worst, Simon's gut tells him something is desperately wrong. His instincts prove correct and a blistering race against time is ignited when they discover Sparkes has been shot. The search is on to find him before the clock counts down.

When a terminally ill woman dies in the arms of her husband, Waverley hands Jennifer a case that could make or break the young detective's career. This sticky dilemma is compounded by Jennifer's sneaking suspicion that she's been set up.

A test of instincts. A test of principles. A test of commitment to the force. Who'll pass and who won't?