The BEST episodes written by John Hugginson
#1 - The Price of Love
City Homicide - Season 4 - Episode 21
Jennifer makes a decision between a potential life with Nick and her career as the team investigates the savage murder of a beautiful young woman who can only be identified by the evidence lodged down her throat. They soon locate a Sugar Daddy who may have wanted too much in return for his generosity. Did greed end this woman’s life?
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#2 - Last Man Standing
City Homicide - Season 5 - Episode 7
Dane Majors' lawyer. The judge who presided over his trial. Both murdered. Were they killed for their part in Dane Majors' conviction? And could Nick Buchanan be the next target? When Nick fails to return to work, Jennifer takes her concerns to Stanley. A search of Nick's home reveals he may have met with foul play and as the body count grows, so do Jennifer's fears. The squad has been warned to leave Dane Majors alone — no matter what. But Jarvis uses every trick he knows to keep the pressure on Majors — with devastating consequences. Jennifer is determined to find Nick and pursues the killer to the horrifying end. Meanwhile, Waverley reaches out a helping hand to Rhys — but the opportunity of his career comes at a hefty price.
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#3 - Ghosts
City Homicide - Season 5 - Episode 8
Homicide is called out to a hospice where a dying man wants to confess to murder. But by the time our cops arrive he's already dead. So was he telling the truth? Who are the victims of this long buried crime? The path of discovery gets muddy when it's revealed that the killer didn't die of natural causes. Someone didn't want these murders to surface. Waverley and Jarvis announce that the Attorney General Michael Lombardi is about to disband Homicide. In the emotional fallout, Rhys makes a sacrifice but is it too little, too late? Then, the investigation turns up an unlikely connection; Deep Throat is finally unmasked... but is it enough to save Homicide?
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#4 - The Return
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 4
A mystery letter to a murderer's mother. A confession, or something else? Matt's crusade on behalf of a captured fugitive causes tension amongst the team.
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#5 - Victims Of Crime
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 8
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?
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#6 - Rostered Day Off
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 13
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.
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#7 - Raising The Dead
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 14
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.
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#8 - Baby Love
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 7
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?
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#9 - Cut And Dried
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 12
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. Meanwhile, Jennifer is cornered by a past acquaintance who threatens her reputation.
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#10 - The Promised Land
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 10
When an Iraqi boy is killed during a police pursuit, Stanley and Jennifer clash with their Federal counterparts to solve the case. Meanwhile, Duncan's future in the force is in doubt, with Jarvis determined to see him kicked out.
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#11 - Tangled Web
City Homicide - Season 5 - Episode 6
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? The case that ruined Dane Majors' life will now see him walk out of prison. The revelation of planted evidence has re-opened a murder that was laid to rest ten years ago. Nick Buchanan sits on the sidelines while his comrades get cracking on this cold case. But Homicide isn't holding all the cards. Deep Throat is still leaking information to the Tribune newspaper, information that is about to blow this case wide open. Literally! The team are looking out for Nick by doing what they do best — working the case. But they're coming up against a hostile public, ruthless press, and the long-suffering loved ones of a murder victim. Will solving this case help Nick get back on the job, or drive him out of Homicide for good?
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#12 - Rage
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 21
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.
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#13 - If It Bleeds, It Leads
City Homicide - Season 5 - Episode 5
Juliette Gardiner, investigative reporter, is brutally gunned down in a car park. Three people witnessed this attack: her killer, her source, and her ex-lover — Nick Buchanan. Juliette's death reveals Nick's connection to evidence fabrication in an old case. Dane Majors — Australian cricket legend — was charged and convicted of killing his wife. A star scalp for Nick, and a killer off the streets, or so he thought. A niggle of doubt grows into serious accusations when Nick suspects his former mentor of evidence tampering. With the media and the State's Attorney General clamouring for answers, Homicide might have to play dirty to catch the true culprit. Will the team go too far to protect one of their own or will Nick be forced to fall on his own sword?
#14 - Life and Death
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 22
Josh Waverley is missing. Never made it to soccer. Is he just off with mates, or is an unknown player making their final move? Bernice Waverley is about to be held accountable for her past. It will change her forever. A psychiatrist is stabbed to death at his practice. Who did it? A colleague, a patient, or was it a random act? Getting hard evidence against a likely suspect is proving tough for Simon and Matt. But their case will take a backseat as Stanley and Jarvis rally everyone to help with the hunt for Josh. Today the final pieces of a well thought out plan fall into place. Bernice Waverley will be held accountable for her past actions, and it will change her forever.
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#15 - House of Horrors
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 19
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.
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#16 - Mission Statement
City Homicide - Season 3 - Episode 14
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. But this won't be the only unexpected turn in this case. It's the revelation that the Union is being investigated by the Office of Professional Standards that really surprises our team, especially Bernice Waverley. To catch a killer, Waverley will have to face the man who led the charge in taking her down — Michael Mellor. But what is he hiding? Will Waverley be able to work alongside him — and in doing so, uncover the truth he's desperate to conceal?
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#17 - Family Planning
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 9
When a family is slaughtered during dinner and their mansion is ransacked, the sole survivor is the eldest son and heir. Could he be a cold-hearted killer? Also, tensions rise for Simon with the return of a man, hell bent on making him crack.
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#18 - Life After Death
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 8
The Homicide team are forced to question their beliefs when a psychic accurately foresees, down to the smallest detail, the murder of a young dancer. But was this a mere vision, or was she involved in the capture and murder of the young woman? And events take an unexpected twist as the psychic herself is kidnapped.
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#19 - In Harm's Way
City Homicide - Season 4 - Episode 8
A man driven wild by grief has chosen to take matters into his own hands. He will stop at nothing to see that Melbourne's streets are rid of the random violence that caused his son's death. How can our detectives stop a man who has nothing left to lose?
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#20 - Stolen Sweets
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 16
When a young man falls from an apartment balcony, his death leads Homicide to a new age religious Pastor and a prestigious law firm. With people in high places determined to cover up the truth, this case needs delicate handling. And the team's new Superintendent is anything but delicate.
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#21 - Jury Duty
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 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.
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#22 - Flight Risk
City Homicide - Season 4 - Episode 3
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. Will DSS Claudia Leigh's psychological approach force him to come clean? Or will her mind games backfire in a way she never imagined?
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#23 - A Green Light
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 18
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.
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#24 - Guilty As Charged
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 5
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.
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#25 - Go Down Swinging
City Homicide - Season 5 - Episode 4
Homicide is drawn into the swingers scene when an unidentified woman is strangled and dumped. Elsewhere, Rhys and Allie go undercover at a seedy sex party, while Nick's romantic fling takes a dark turn.
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#26 - Ratters
City Homicide - Season 4 - Episode 5
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? Motives are plentiful. Did a nursing home steal a body to cover-up the neglect of its patients? Could the body have been taken as part of a black market organ-trading ring? Or was Corey's vicious killing a direct consequence of his gambling debt — and the shameful crimes he committed to pay it off? The strict rules at the Morgue should prevent any tampering with the bodies. But Homicide have seen enough horror to know that people will do anything if the price is high enough. Nick Buchanan's natural scepticism means he refuses to accept evidence at face value and so he and Jennifer Mapplethorpe must bend the rules to pursue an unlikely killer.
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#27 - In The Hands Of Giants (2)
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 2
The team continues work on the case, where they discover a link between the deaths of children from five separate incidents to an arsonist and murderer. (Episodes 1 & 2 were broadcast as a special movie-length pilot).
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#28 - Ripe Fruits In The Garden
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 5
Young girls are targetted and watched through a high-tech security system, before they are located, taken and abused. One of these girls winds up the victim of an horrendous murder, her body dismembered, and the garbos becoming unknowing couriers. Can the homicide squad catch the killer before he strikes again?
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#29 - Thicker Than Water
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 1
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.
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#30 - Never To Be Released
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 9
1978. A young couple road-tripping to Byron Bay. But the highway leads them somewhere quiet, evil. 2008. When this cold case resurfaces a top cop commits suicide. A serial killer invites Duncan and Simon to play his sick game… who will win? A dried up dam reveals the key to a 30 year old mystery: the hacked and bound bones of two missing young lovers. A hippy couple who never reached their destination, families who never knew what happened to their loved ones. When Homicide investigates they discover holes in the case files and clues that were covered up.
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#31 - In House
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 3
The Homicide squad are faced with a hostage situation, where they are the hostages. A desperate and dangerous man has stormed into headquarters and has taken half of the Homicide squad hostage. Stanley begins an intense negotiation, but will he be successful in getting everyone out unharmed?
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#32 - Taniwha
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 4
A woman is murdered on a beach in broad daylight and the detectives must try to work out what her traumatized children saw if anything as the killer comes after them.
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#33 - Lie Down With Dogs
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 3
The detectives investigate an armed robber who was found dead in a crypt at the cemetery.
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#34 - Serious Men
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 11
The detectives are on the trail of a gang of armed robbers guilty of murder 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.
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#35 - The Hit
City Homicide - Season 4 - Episode 9
Disgraced former cop Gary Beck is shot dead at his mother's funeral, and Superintendent Terry Jarvis was there to watch it in living colour. To solve this case Duncan will have to work closely with Jarvis, but past antagonisms may compromise Jarvis' safety and Duncan's place in Homicide.
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#36 - Tomato Can
City Homicide - Season 4 - Episode 12
A K.O. turns into a D.O.A when up-and-coming boxer Curtis 'The Kid' Conlon suffers a blow in the ring that sends him to his death. Everyone wanted a chunk of The Kid's potential, so who would kill the golden goose? The team will have to adjust as a new Sergeant walks into Homicide. But this superior officer is no stranger to them. Matt Ryan has just gone up a step on the police ladder. His appointment is set to change the relationship between long-standing colleagues and mates.
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#37 - Reward
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 6
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.
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#38 - Golden
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 7
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.
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#39 - Envelope Day
City Homicide - Season 1 - Episode 6
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?
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#40 - Atonement
City Homicide - Season 4 - Episode 20
Allie investigates when a charity worker in line to inherit several million dollars is brutally murdered. Was his death an extortion attempt gone wrong, a jilted lover, or something from his secret past? As the team try to track the killer they’re dragged back to an horrific crime committed nearly a quarter of a century before. And though sentences were handed down back then, Allie and Rhys investigate the possibility that someone is now exacting their own justice. Emotional ties affect the team as Stanley makes a risky move to protect his daughter and Allie lets her admiration for a victim affect her judgement.
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#41 - Somersaulting Dogs
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 2
Homicide arrives at a high school where a teenage boy is found hanging in the girl's toilet. Did constant bullying lead to his suicide? Or is there something more sinister at play? What is the school community trying to hide? And is Detective Superintendent Bernice Waverley's son connected in any way to the case?
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#42 - Meet & Greet
City Homicide - Season 3 - Episode 2
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. A man is violently raped and stabbed to death. Clues lead to a dating agency he'd signed up with. Could one of these seeking singles be scoping out more than true love? Homicide's latest recruit will be put to the test as the team track a lonely-hearts killer. Going pace-for-pace with Simon, Allie hits the ground running. But when you act first and think later, you're bound to ruffle a few feathers.
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#43 - Baker's Dozen
City Homicide - Season 3 - Episode 12
What initially seemed like unrelated disappearances has now landed in Homicide's lap after a potential connection is spotted by Missing Persons Detective Victoria Oakley. Digging deeper into the missing women's lives, Homicide uncovers conflicting evidence that could make or break the case.
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#44 - The Cutting Edge
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 20
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?
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#45 - A Dog's Life
Mr & Mrs Murder - Season 1 - Episode 2
Charlie and Nicola Buchanan find themselves in an affluent golfing community, cleaning up the remains of a former golf champion who was mauled by a dog. Using an out-of-place photograph, a common dog trick and a disappearing golf hole, Nicola and Charlie uncover the murderer. But Nicola’s literal worst fear is realised when the terrifying dog is turned onto them and the question must be asked – how will Nicola and Charlie escape the jaws of death?
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#46 - Big Bang Theory
City Homicide - Season 3 - Episode 16
A bomb blast rips through an ATM destroying a crowded shopping strip and takes 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? The victims are a Credit Union employee who made some bad financial calls, the wife of a crim and an unknown baby. Three unrelated strangers, resulting in an endless trail of suspects. Careless thieves are the obvious perps in these unnecessary deaths. But something isn't adding up, and the team struggles to deduce intent and motive. The bombing investigation must be put aside by Duncan and Matt when they are pulled onto another Homicide. A John Doe, brutally asphyxiated and stuffed into a bag. So badly decomposed that not even fingerprints can be found. Finding an identity for the victim is the first step but will this raise more questions than it answers?
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#47 - Examination Day
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 10
When a foreign student dies in the middle of an exam, Homicide delves into a world where speaking up can cost someone their life. Greedy universities milking the international cash cow. Opportunistic businessmen exploiting the hopes and dreams of young students. Rumours spreading like wildfire across campus. Competition for a shot at an Undercover training course creates tension within the team, particularly for Simon who wasn\'t nominated. And a feisty Federal Cop flying solo connects with Duncan, much to the intrigue of the rest of the team.
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#48 - Pirates
City Homicide - Season 4 - Episode 11
Pirating DVDs isn't hurting anyone, right? Try telling that to the private detective murdered to stop him investigating a piracy ring. Using teenagers to sell the product keeps the kingpins of the trade well sheltered from the cops. Pulling the wool over their parents' eyes is one thing, but will these kids run into trouble trying to protect their bosses in the face of a murder investigation? Jennifer becomes close to two boys who've been making some extra cash by selling the latest releases. Can she keep them safe long enough to catch a killer?
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#49 - Junkie
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 15
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? Homicide and the Drug Squad reluctantly reunite to find the connection between the two victims and solve their murders.
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#50 - Oh Lucky Man
City Homicide - Season 2 - Episode 11
Three prostitutes. Brutally murdered. Their faces hacked down to blood and bone. This was Stanley Wolfe's case and he knew who the killer was. Maxwell Craven. Greedy for sex. A pathetic man who has to pay to receive and always wants more. But the evidence was too circumstantial, witnesses too unreliable. Craven walked free and out of the state. Now he's back, and one more girl's already dead. This time, Stanley won't let him get away.This case makes the team question Stanley's judgement. Their Sarge is too close to this one, and they know it.Matt receives unexpected bad news, and Jennifer and Emma offer their support. Who will Matt lean on?
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