The year is 2003, and Zoe Jacobs (Jana McKinnon) is not enjoying her 21st. No sooner have the fireworks started (to the tune of Where’s Your Head At by Basement Jaxx, because 2003) than she’s hit the road and vanished into darkness. Looks like another cold case for Queensland’s top dirt-digging detective, James Cormack (Travis Fimmel) – or it would be, if he wasn’t suspended for bashing a suspect.
Having him off the job turns out to be handy, because it means he’s in a grumpy mood even before he comes home to find his dad Tommy (Nicolas Hope) on his couch. It’s not a happy reunion: for starters Tommy killed Cormack’s mother (and spent a long time in prison for it), and his boozy ways led to a lot of things he’ll never be forgiven for.
