Janet King

After the death of a cricketer caught up in a betting scandal, Janet takes a job for the National Crime Commission investigating the dark world of organised crime & its links to match fixing & performance enhancing drugs.

The commission contends with the sudden death of their key witness, but was his death an accident, murder, or suicide? Later, a scuffle amongst players over a video leads to manslaughter, and Janet faces a surprising witness.

Tony worries that Janet's ethical integrity may be compromised when Janet's father, Graham, becomes a person of interest to the commission. Richard defends football player Nate on manslaughter charges, but faces obstruction from Nate's team.

Janet and Richard discuss a deal to exchange information about Nate, but to uphold her end of the bargain, Janet needs to find the drug that Nate took. Richard discovers that the new crown prosecutor he'll be arguing against in Nate's trial is an old colleague.

Realizing the bottles of evidence were swapped, Janet tries to track down the missing bottle of performance enhancing drugs before it's sold. After losing the trial, Nate fires Richard, but Richard still tries to help Nate's wife.

When the commission's prime suspect goes missing, Janet and her team assume she's either guilty or dead. Richard confides in Lina about his crisis of conscience, and Graham is in the news because of new fraud allegations.

Janet discovers Darren Faulkes is the mastermind of the betting syndicate, but with no evidence, the NCC is forced to launch an undercover mission using a most unlikely operative.

Janet is in a race against time to bring mastermind Darren Faulkes to justice. But the unexpected intervention of an old foe is about to derail Janet's entire investigation. (Final)