The Detectives

Seasons

2018

7.6

A look at real Canadian crime stories by talking to the detectives who led the investigations.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Wells Gray Gunman

One of the largest mass murders in Canada is committed In Wells Gray Park, B.C., as three generations of a family are killed on a camping trip. For Detective Mike Eastham, it's a mission that takes him across the country and back again as he harnesses the powers of TV, radio and print media to catch the gunman.

S1 • E2

Project Hitchhiker

Detective Harold Curwain does whatever it takes to solve the disappearance of a young woman in Pickering, Ontario, and changes the way serial killers are investigated in Canada.

S1 • E3

Trick or Treat

When a man goes missing after meeting someone from an online dating site, homicide investigator Bill Clark finds himself in one of the largest cases in Edmonton history. Clark goes deep into the world of Internet homicide and faces the sickening potential that the murder was filmed and for sale to the highest bidder.

S1 • E4

Father's Day

A three-year-old boy is found wandering the streets. Two dead bodies are discovered inside an apartment. Detective Don Forgan forms a close bond with the young witness of a horrific double murder. "I'm gonna try and catch the bad man," he promises. Looking back on the most disturbing case of his career, he says, "it nearly broke me."

S1 • E5

Stranger Calling

The detectives must track a possible killer who continuously leaves threatening and harassing phone calls to those involved with a murder of a teenage girl.

S1 • E6

Burning Season

A firefighter loses his life after an arson sets ablaze a building. With little to no clues, the Detectives must find the one responsible before they strike again.

S1 • E7

She Said

"Some people don't see a sex trade worker as a human being." When a woman goes missing in Halifax, Sergeant Penny Hart works to build trust between police and sex trade workers to solve the case.

S1 • E8

Home

Within a month of arriving in Canada from the Philippines, Joel Zalsos was murdered in his home. Detective Thomas Barrow prides himself on his ability to read suspects but is haunted when his instincts fail him.