After McCallum examines the body of a Vietnamese banker that has washed ashore, he has a sexual encounter with a female police officer. When the woman is later murdered, McCallum performs her autopsy and begins investigating her death. McCallum's involvement with the police investigation becomes problematic when he becomes the prime suspect.
When the body of a well known baker and supposed loving family man turns up at the bottom of a flight of stairs inside his shop, it looks like an accident. But as McCallum gets closer to the dark truth surrounding the man's death, he discovers a web of lies, deceit, love, and sacrifice, which will eventually tear the entire family apart and leave no one unscathed in its horrific aftermath.
McCallum (John Hannah) digs deeper to get to the truth of Konrad's supposed accident, but the more he investigates it the closer he gets to the conclusion that the man was in fact murdered.
The discovery of a body showing signs of having been scalded is linked with a deadly and highly contagious bacterial infection.
It's a race against time for McCallum (John Hannah) and co. to track down the source of the lethal bacteria before they infect others. Joanna who discovered the sick and dying illegal immigrants also has been infected and is very close to death.
A killer with a grudge against McCallum attempts to exact revenge with a combination of poison and threatening telephone calls.
The team races to find out how McCallum (John Hannah) has been slowly poisoned to help him avoid the source and possibly find a link to the assailant.
Joanna is kidnapped by the killer.
McCallum, finding himself unable to cope with his estrangement from Joanna and the pressures placed upon him by his work, walks away from a crime scene.
McCallum's absence results in Maloney working an extra shift, even though it means she will have gone without sleep for more than 48 hours. When she attempts to drive to the crime scene McCallum abandoned, Maloney strikes an elderly man with her car. Believing herself guilty of negligent homicide, Maloney does not try to defend herself against the charge. McCallum, however, works feverishly to find evidence indicating Maloney was not responsible for the man's death.
McCallum's suspicions are confirmed about Maloney's innocence when another victim turns up at the old people's home.