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Brokenwood Mysteries - Season 1

Series: Brokenwood Mysteries
4.5
(2235)
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Episodes
4
Rating
NR
Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
Acorn TV

About

Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea, Go Girls) arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small town where memories-and animosities-run deep. He's an experienced cop with a 1971 "classic" car, a collection of country music cassettes, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. The new woman in his life is his assistant, Detective Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland, The Almighty Johnsons), a by-the-book investigator nearly 20 years younger than her boss's car, who quickly has to get used to his lone-wolf ways. As Shepherd adapts to the slower pace of life away from the city, he soon discovers that Brokenwood is a place of secrets and suspicions. Everyone and everything is connected, and the serenity of the countryside can easily be shattered by violence and death. Filmed amid the beautiful landscape of New Zealand's North Island, these four feature-length mysteries show that murder can haunt even the most idyllic locations.

Related Subjects

  • Mystery
  • Drama

Episodes

1. Blood and Water

1h 35m

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When the body of a local farmer is fished out of the river, Shepherd wonders if it was suicide, accidental death, or something more sinister. The man was a well-known drunk with a reputation for violence, and many in town might have a motive to do him harm. However, the inspector starts to believe the answer to the case may lie in an unsolved 10-year-old murder.

2. Sour Grapes

1h 39m

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The morning after choosing the winner of the annual Brokenwood wine show, a guest judge is found dead in one of the loser's vats of fermenting Pinot noir. The vintner in question is more concerned with another "crime"-the tampering with her wine before the show. Shepherd and Sims suspect the same criminal was responsible for both offenses.

3. Playing the Lie

1h 30m

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Four of the five committee members of Brokenwood Golf Club start on their regular morning round only to find the horribly disfigured body of the fifth, in a bunker near the first green. Suspicion falls on the so-called Clubhouse Bandit, who has been stealing trophies from the club and is dating the dead woman's daughter. The detectives discover that the deceased inspired loyalty and loathing in equal measure.

4. Hunting the Stag

1h 35m

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During a hunting trip, three friends set off in pursuit of a kill, but one of them ends up with a bullet in the head. Who fired the fatal shot? Or was there a fourth shooter? Although Shepherd and Sims find out the deceased's fiancée had been having a fling with his best man, one of her older relationships may hold the key to the killing.

Extended Details

  • SeriesBrokenwood Mysteries
  • Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

Josh FrizzellDirector
Michael HurstDirector
Mike SmithDirector
Neill ReaActor
Fern SutherlandActor