Phoenix

- Season 1

(1992)

Jock Brennan is Inspector of the Major Crime Squad and an old-style hard cop with not much time for new forensics. Ian Cochrane is a forensic scientist, working hard to have his methods accepted. Events conspire to end their antagonism.

Ian and Jock are forced to work together. Under pressure from media and superiors, they find themselves doing what they dread most: investigating one of their own.

Megan is the first woman to join the all male world of Major Crime. Shut out by their sexism, it's not until she starts making headway with the flood of information that she gains some grudging acceptance.

Laz is an undercover cop who has been on the streets too long. His return to the traditional police force - and into Major Crime - has explosive results. Concealing the truth of who you are is a hard habit to break.

In a raid one of the perpetrators is caught. Under the pressure of interrogation he has to keep his head.

With his cover well and truly blown, Laz struggles to keep his cool and snaps at the wrong moment, resulting in an Internal Investigation.

Tiny, a professional safebreaker, is Jock's direct link to criminals who handle explosives. But Tiny, needing cash, double crosses Jock and decides to blow a safe.

Megan, the analyst, takes off on a tangent of her own. She decides to pursue the bombers by assuming they require large amounts of money to finance the bomb and their continuing silence.

Pursuing another line in the bombing investigation, the team raid known drug dealers with the hope of shaking out much needed information. One raid goes wrong when Lochie, the Senior Sergeant, is nearly shot by a terrified dealer.

Knowing that they are facing very heavy villains, Jock allows a member of the crack Special Operations Group to be assigned to the bombing investigation team.

With the forensic evidence largely tagged and ready, Carol becomes increasingly cut off from Ian and the lab. Now that she has returned to work, her entry into the team rearranges alliances at a critical moment.

For the first time we close in on the bombers and confirm how dangerous and renegade are their personalities.

The investigation team know they are dealing with mad dogs who are unlikely to come in quietly. The raid, then the interrogations have to come off with lightning precision as they race against time to charge the bombers.