White Lies

Season

2024

6.3

When investigative journalist Edie Hansen's estranged brother is murdered in his home, she's drawn into the dark underbelly of Cape Town. With her brother's children as prime suspects, she clashes with veteran detective Forty Bell.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Tabula Rasa

Businessman murdered in his home, wife critically injured. Children suspected. Estranged sister Edie investigates but initial attempt fails.

S1 • E2

Hide In Plain Sight

Edie's attempts to find a witness to the murder place her in peril high on a mountainside, and she learns some information she doesn't like at all. Daniel is abducted by masked assailants at gunpoint.

S1 • E3

I Believe The Children Are Our Future

Forty Bell nearly loses his life rescuing Daniel from a drug gang, and Edie's tentative closeness with her nephew is shattered when she makes a shocking discovery at a Bishopscourt sex party.

S1 • E4

The Sense Of An Ending

A violent invasion of Andrew McKenzie's memorial shakes up the community, bringing new suspects to light, and Edie learns things about her brother that she doesn't want to know.

S1 • E5

You Gotta Know When To Hold 'Em

When a gun is found at the high school, a new suspect is arrested, but Edie's investigation into Andrew's business partner leads her down a different pathway and leaves her fighting for her life.

S1 • E6

Calm Before The Storm

Daniel places himself and Jaime in danger with an ill-advised statement to the media, and a murderer breaks into the McKenzie home. Forty rides into the jaws of terrible danger, and Olivia McKenzie wakes from her coma.

Teach Them Well And Let Them Lead The Way

S1 • E7

Teach Them Well And Let Them Lead The Way

Matters accelerate towards a resolution as Forty barely escapes Zone 41 with his life, one of the children reveal a hidden side of their personality, and the killer reveals himself to Edie.

S1 • E8

Forget It, Jake. It's Bishopscourt

A killer has been found but Edie is not convinced that the full story has come to light. She reveals a secret and makes a genuinely shocking discovery, and is left with the most difficult decision of her life.