City Homicide
City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters.
Seasons
1. In the Hands of Giants (1)
Air Date: 2007-08-27
Natalie Pierce's suicide leads the detectives on a mission to discover the connection between her and 7 house fires in 9 years all resulting in the deaths of children.
2. In the Hands of Giants (2)
Air Date: 2007-08-27
The detectives continue to work on the case, will they find all the clues before another tragedy happens?
3. Lie Down with Dogs
Air Date: 2007-09-03
The body of bank robber Mick Booth is found in a crypt. He has been dead for a year, so who has been robbing banks acting just like him?
4. The Return
Air Date: 2007-09-10
Jim Conway is returning to Australia to face charges for the murder of Suzanne Fendleton he asks Matt to deliver his mother a letter and when they are taking him to the station he throws himself in front of a lorry, killing himself. Matt delivers the letter and receives evidence that just may prove that Jim was innocent.
5. Ripe Fruits in the Garden
Air Date: 2007-09-17
Sgt. Wolfe's God-daughter is found murdered and a link is found between her and several other missing teens. After speaking to one of them that returned home, they get a lead on the man who may be behind it all. Will they be able to stop him before he murders again?
6. Envelope Day
Air Date: 2007-09-24
A sporting reunion of the University Eleven results in tragedy when they end up one man down, leaving Homicide to investigate the crime. But does the murderer have more killings planned?
7. Baby Love
Air Date: 2007-10-01
Everyone becomes a suspect when a baby dies at his first birthday party. Meanwhile, Claire comes back with a problem and only Duncan can help her. But will he risk his career to do it?
8. Victims of Crime
Air Date: 2007-10-08
The Homicide squad are called in following a man killed by electric kamikaze. The case then takes an even more bizarre turn after the discovery of six urns, all filled with human ashes. Who was the deceased? A victim? Or a killer?
9. Family Planning
Air Date: 2007-10-15
A family is slaughtered during dinner and their mansion ransacked. The sole survivor is the eldest son and heir - could he be a cold-hearted killer? For Simon, finding answers is complicated by the return of an old adversary.
10. The Promised Land
Air Date: 2007-10-22
Terry Jarvis does his utmost to get rid of Duncan from the homicide team as the rest of the team try to solve the death of an Iraqi boy apparently killed in a police pursuit.
11. Serious Men
Air Date: 2007-10-29
A well-organized gang rob gold bullion from a warehouse and kill two security guards by sniper-fire. The case pits the homicide team with their hated armed robbery team.
12. Cut and Dried
Air Date: 2007-11-05
How do you catch a killer if he is already in prison? And how hard should you try to find him when the victim appears just as evil? Homicide takes a personal toll on one of the squad.
13. Rostered Day Off
Air Date: 2007-11-12
A race against time is ignited when one of Homicide's own takes a hit on a routine call. Meanwhile, Waverley places Jennifer in a sticky ethical dilemma that could make or break her career.
14. Raising the Dead
Air Date: 2007-11-19
For Homicide it's the beginning of their toughest investigation yet when tonight's murder mystery sparks an emotionally charged investigation when a dogfight between neighbours leads to the discovery of a buried secret.
1. Thicker Than Water
Air Date: 2008-06-30
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.
2. Somersaulting Dogs
Air Date: 2008-07-07
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.
3. In House
Air Date: 2008-07-14
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.
4. Taniwha
Air Date: 2008-07-21
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?
5. Guilty as Charged
Air Date: 2008-07-28
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.
6. Reward
Air Date: 2008-08-25
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.
7. Golden
Air Date: 2008-09-01
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.
8. Life After Death
Air Date: 2008-09-08
Homicide interview a frantic young woman who claims to have had a vision of a murder before it happens.
9. Never to be Released
Air Date: 2008-09-15
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.
10. Examination Day
Air Date: 2008-09-22
When a foreign student dies in the middle of an exam, Homicide delves into a world where speaking up can cost someone their life.
11. Oh Lucky Man
Air Date: 2008-09-29
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.
12. Spoils of War
Air Date: 2008-10-06
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.
13. Jury Duty
Air Date: 2008-10-13
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.
14. Jane Doe
Air Date: 2008-10-20
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.
15. Junkie
Air Date: 2009-02-08
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?
16. Stolen Sweets
Air Date: 2009-02-15
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.
17. The Forgotten
Air Date: 2009-02-22
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.
18. A Green Light
Air Date: 2009-03-01
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.
19. House of Horrors
Air Date: 2009-03-08
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.
20. The Cutting Edge
Air Date: 2009-03-15
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?
21. Rage
Air Date: 2009-03-22
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.
22. Life and Death
Air Date: 2009-03-29
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.
1. The Money Shot
Air Date: 2009-08-10
A regular day in Homicide. A murder. A crime scene. An investigation. Except that... Duncan Freeman is back. Walking into Homicide as if nothing had happened. Healed. Over the trauma of his attack. Or is he?
2. Meet & Greet
Air Date: 2009-08-10
There's new blood in the State Police's most distinguished department. Meet DSC Allie Kingston. A fast thinking, fast acting, no nonsense cop. But not everyone's impressed.
3. Chop Shop
Air Date: 2009-08-17
A teen car booster is bashed, shot and dumped in an empty lot. Is it simply a case of him stealing the wrong car? When his associate is found with key evidence linked to a constable's murder, the team realise they could have more than a coincidence on their hands.
4. The First Stone
Air Date: 2009-08-24
A missing toddler. A despondent taskforce. A case handed over to Homicide when all hope is lost. This is no longer a lost babe they're searching for. This is now a murder investigation. A set of circumstances that seems to insist that we draw certain conclusions. We mustn't do that. We have to remain open to all possibilities.
5. Thai Take Away
Air Date: 2009-08-31
Derek Hislop. A harmless, lonely guy willing to do anything for the right girl. So why would someone go to the extremes of torturing him to death… with a branding iron? What did he do for love and why did it cost him his life?
6. The Confession
Air Date: 2009-09-07
A double homicide. A husband shot dead. A wife using her last breath to relay an important clue. As the team work fast for a break, DSS Wolfe comes to realise he isn't entirely impartial. He knows the victims and the accused.
7. Little Big Man
Air Date: 2009-09-14
A disgraced jockey ends his life with a bullet. Was the shame of cheating too much, or is this more than a simple suicide? Odds on where there's horseracing and illegal activities, there's Homicide's old foe Max McKenzie. Could this be the team's chance to finally put him away?
8. Time of Your Life
Air Date: 2009-09-16
Backpackers. Kids who've shed their skin of responsibility and embraced the hedonistic life. Each of them wanting to become someone different, do something different, but does that mean forgetting the value of human life? Did one of these reckless travellers go too far and become a killer?
9. Diggers
Air Date: 2009-09-23
An old Digger bashed to death. Was it a burglary gone wrong? In a community populated by haves and have-nots, could this pensioner have been the unlucky target of a desperate thief? But who would stoop so low to kill a pensioner just for a few valuables?
10. Blood Trail
Air Date: 2009-09-30
Homicide is running an investigation where they have to track corpses, suspects, and the lives of victims unknown. When they discover the identities of the victims, could it simply be a case of wrong place/wrong time?
11. Hot House
Air Date: 2009-10-07
A 14-year-old maths genius plus a murdered maths tutor equals a complicated crime that has Homicide reaching for the textbooks. Mysterious equations scrawled across the victim's body pose a question that only the killer can answer.
12. Baker's Dozen
Air Date: 2009-10-14
Ten women missing over 12 years. No clues to their whereabouts and no leads to follow. What initially seemed like unrelated disappearances has now landed in Homicide's lap after a potential connection is spotted by Missing Persons DSC Victoria Oakley.
13. Smokescreen
Air Date: 2009-10-21
A dramatic confession on live television. A violent and professional shooting of a truck driver in broad daylight. When Homicide gets drawn into the world of dirty tobacco, it's going to be a hard slog to smoke out the true players.
14. Mission Statement
Air Date: 2009-10-28
A deadly hit-and-run is initially dismissed as an accident. When a witness belatedly comes forward with new evidence, Homicide re-opens the case — and a can of worms — when it turns out the victim's employer is none other than the Police Union.
15. Dead Weight
Air Date: 2009-11-04
Tabitha Mailer tried everything to lose weight. Her latest effort was Easyshake — a quick fix that became a quick kill when she swallowed a laced dosage. Her violent and unnecessary death leads Homicide to a small Health Food Store with a big problem.
16. Big Bang Theory
Air Date: 2009-11-11
A bomb blast rips through an ATM, destroying a crowded shopping strip and taking the lives of three innocents. Are they collateral damage in a heist gone wrong? Or has this messy act been designed with a specific target in mind?
17. In Wolf's Clothing
Air Date: 2009-11-18
A couple is viciously attacked in their own home and their young son is the sole witness. Was this an unmotivated home invasion or something more complex?
18. Whistleblower
Air Date: 2009-11-25
Your boyfriend disappears after receiving calls from a mystery woman; your bank account has been drained. Affair, right? Wrong. When Jacob Dennis unexpectedly turns up dead, his execution-style murder leads our team into the corrupt dealings of the local council where he worked.
1. Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
Air Date: 2010-07-14
A routine homicide investigation for the crew turns into a defense of one of their own, when Det. Simon Joyner is put in the frame for murder.
2. Good Cop/Bad Cop
Air Date: 2010-07-14
The suspect in an unsolved missing-child case comes to Nick when she finds herself being harassed by the child's mother.
3. Flight Risk
Air Date: 2010-07-21
A young business woman is brutally raped and murdered in her own home. The prime suspect has a rock-solid alibi and will leave the country in 48 hours never to return. Homicide has two days to build a case.
4. Protection
Air Date: 2010-07-28
Two bodyguards fail to protect their charge and the consequences are fatal. A double homicide is the result. The team must work fast before the remaining bodyguard takes the law into his own hands.
5. Ratters
Air Date: 2010-08-04
The shocking death of coroner's driver Corey Mayer is compounded by the theft of the body he was transporting. Was his murder just collateral damage or was he the intended target?
6. Last Seen
Air Date: 2010-08-11
New Year's Eve. A time for celebrations. Resolutions. And big mistakes. A young woman vanishes after partying with her friends and now, 18 months later, skeletal remains of the missing girl are found.
7. No Smoke
Air Date: 2010-08-18
The team investigate the death of alleged arsonist Rod Barrett. Detective Sparks - now the community officer for the area Barrett was found in - returns to Homicide and is paired with a very reluctant Allie.
8. In Harm's Way
Air Date: 2010-08-25
Melbourne's streets are being terrorised by thugs committing crimes of random violence. Someone needs to take a stand. The police are valiantly fighting the fight. For victims of crime, it's not good enough. But is vigilantism the answer?
9. The Hit
Air Date: 2010-09-01
Disgraced former cop Gary Beck is shot dead at his mother's funeral, and Superintendent Terry Jarvis was there to witness it. To solve this case Duncan will have to work closely with Jarvis
10. Just Desserts
Air Date: 2010-09-08
Celebrity chef Sal Barbieri is murdered in his restaurant kitchen but the team find that he had a lot of enemies so a suspect will be hard to pin down.
11. Pirates
Air Date: 2010-09-15
A couple of boys earns a little extra money making illegally copies of movies, which soon gets really dangerous business.
12. Tomato Can
Air Date: 2010-09-22
An up-and-coming young boxer dies during a bout with a past-his-prime older boxer. An autopsy reveals that he was drugged, and the investigation reveals a number of people who wanted him dead.
13. Once Bitten
Air Date: 2010-09-29
While off duty, Rhys interrupts the robbery of store and fails to catch the two suspects, but in the meantime, the owner of a neighboring business is murdered. Suspects include two drug addicts and an odd man who owns a toy store.
14. Twilight Zone
Air Date: 2010-10-06
Retirement village resident Branko Budjiman is pushed down a flight of stairs in his wheelchair and kicked to death. His son and fiancee are suspects
15. Reunion
Air Date: 2010-10-13
Jennifer and Nick are sent to investigate the murder of a young family, unaware they know the victims. Uncovering much more than mass murder, this investigation will shake the Homicide team to its very core.
16. Undercover
Air Date: 2010-10-20
Holed-up in a secret location, Detectives Jennifer Mapplethorpe and Nick Buchanan have been transformed into Trish and Wesley Claybourne, gun-runners for a terrorist organisation.
17. Gut Instinct
Air Date: 2010-10-27
The murder of the wife of a jewellery store owner points to an inside job gone wrong. While the team search for answers, they must also contend with Sergeant Pete Copeland, an Armed Robbery cop who is used to doing whatever he likes.
18. Killer Moves
Air Date: 2010-11-03
Secrets from Allie's past come to light when she and Duncan investigate a murder linked to the world of Shotokan karate. Meanwhile, Jennifer starts to reconsider her romantic relationship with Nick: will it be over before it begins?
19. Ties That Bind
Air Date: 2010-11-10
Three gunshots shatter the austere silence of the Magistrate's court, killing a union standover man moments before he was to reveal his criminal accomplices.
20. Atonement
Air Date: 2010-11-17
Allie and Rhys investigate the brutal death of a charity worker and as their investigation unfolds they discover a revenge motive stretching back over 25 years.
21. The Price of Love
Air Date: 2010-11-24
A working girl is murdered. One guy, Vinnie, wanted her all to himself. Did he end her career, and her life?
22. Empowerment
Air Date: 2010-11-24
A porn king is killed, and the team need to uncover whether his murder was an act of irony.
23. The Business of Fear
Air Date: 2011-02-09
A shipyard worker is found dead at the docks. The investigation leads detectives to kidnapping and smuggling. Sgt Ryan requests a transfer to another division.
24. Secret Love
Air Date: 2011-02-16
A young Muslim woman is found stabbed to death, but is her killer using religion as a justification or a scapegoat? Elsewhere, Rhys and Allie continue their relationship in defiance of Waverley.
1. Reward Day
Air Date: 2011-02-23
A prison guard is shot during an inmate escape. Nick comes face to face with the past when a journalist wants to discuss the Dane Majors case.
2. Go Down Swinging
Air Date: 2011-03-02
Allie and Rhys go undercover at a swingers' party to find a killer. Journalist Juliette continues looking into allegations of corruption against Nick and his former sergeant in the Dane Majors case.
3. If It Bleeds It Leads
Air Date: 2011-03-09
The investigation into the death of a young journalist leads detectives to prove evidence tampering in the Dane Majors case. Nick is placed on temporary suspension while claims of corruption swirl around him.
4. Tangled Web
Air Date: 2011-03-16
The case that made Nick Buchanan's career has fallen apart. Dane Majors is now a free man and a murder that was laid to rest ten years ago has been re-opened. Who really did kill Tahnee Majors?
5. Last Man Standing
Air Date: 2011-03-23
The Dane Majors saga continues with his lawyer and a trial judge both murdered. When Nick goes missing along with journalist Alan Sullivan Jennifer enlists the help of Stanley as Jarvis mounts pressure on Majors.
6. Ghosts
Air Date: 2011-03-30
The team investigate the death of ex-fighter Charlie Mansfield at a church hospice - after a death bed confession that he murdered three people.
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Rating
5.3/10
Release Date
2007-08-27
Episodes
84 (5 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Southern Star