Detective Zane Malik of the Major Crime Squad, faces the toughest challenge of his life when a very public crime has very personal ramifications.

The sophisticated hold up of an armoured vehicle, leaves four dead. One of them is an armed robber, with an enigmatic identity, leaving Major Crime to ponder the possibilities. Is this an ordinary bunch of thieves looking to get rich quick, or is there a more sinister motivation behind the robbery?

Malik clashes with new cop, Travis, in his impassioned pursuit of those who have hurt him and his family. When a man is left dead, in a police shoot out, Malik wonders just what kind of cowboy he’s working with.

Wright becomes personally involved in a case when a young woman is found raped and murdered after getting into a taxi.

As a young cop, Wright investigated and charged rapist Roman Wisniewski with sexual assault. He walked through the help of a QC. Now Wright has a chance to put him away for a long time. Wisniewski says he is innocent. But when another victim comes forward, and identifies Wisniewski, it seems as if Wright is right.

Wright tries to persuade the victim to go to court to help in a successful prosecution. Keep the bastard off the streets. But there are problems in mounting a case against him, like lack of evidence, and Malik fears Wright’s vision is stopping her from seeing the truth.

Wright and Wisnieski go to war. And with it, comes destruction and pain. And as in any war, there is no winner.

Meanwhile, Malik works to find the gang responsible for the armed robbery. Hunter is in remand, waiting sentence for the murder of two drug importers. Kimberley, a clerk at the Security Company, which was robbed, takes Hunter a message. Something is up, but what? And can the cops break a woman in love?

What has the armed robbery of 36 million and the subsequent escalating violence got to do with a drug rip and massacre in Kandahar, Afghanistan? Malik is hoping that visiting Afghani cop, Khan, will provide the answers.

But before he can question Khan, the visitor is executed, and Hunter is broken out of remand. The gang is armed, ruthless and well organised, with a growing list of victims, one being Malik’s son.

Malik fears he cannot trust his own colleagues. Is someone feeding the enemy information? Detective Travis is behaving erratically. Why? Does he have something to hide?

Travis is struggling to hold his life together, but an old army friend’s actions threaten this. Travis is a man with divided loyalties and he fears his past is about to collide with his present. His friend, Sterling, is in a bad way. Can Travis help him or does he have to sever the friendship for the sake of his own survival?

Malik is not the only one wondering what Travis is up to. Detective Lim knows something is very wrong and she undertakes her own private investigation to find out what he is trying to hide from her and other detectives.

As the search for the killer of the Afghani cop comes to a head, Malik’s distrust of Travis grows. Something is wrong, but what it is? The mystery grows.