Homicide: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Homicide Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
The Paragon
Jan 28, 1969 · 60 min
A burglar, Jennings, breaks into the weekend beach house of Dr. Tarling, and trips over his body. Detectives question three suspects - the victim's son, his medical partner, and Je
A Lethal Weapon
Feb 4, 1969 · 60 min
Rosalind Eyre's landlady enters her room and finds her in bed, dead from suffocation. Homicide detectives establish that she has been murdered, and suspicion falls on fellow boarde
The Liars
Feb 11, 1969 · 60 min
A chemist is found shot dead in Geelong, and police search for a man with cuts on his face. They believe two men and a woman can identify the killer, but all three deny ever having
Easy Money
Feb 18, 1969 · 60 min
Fragments of a plastic pistol-grip provide a major clue for detectives after a housewife is shot at and brutally attacked in her home.
Birds of Prey
Feb 25, 1969 · 60 min
Upcoming young pop star Annette Bishop is abducted and her chauffeur, Bob Wilson, is shot. The abductors, Danny Clark and Ted Randle, are demanding a ransom, and it transpires that
The Treasure House
Mar 4, 1969 · 60 min
A grocer's assistant deliverers an order to two elderly women at their home and is horrified to find they have been murdered. Searching for clues, Homicide detectives are astonishe
Act of Mercy
Mar 11, 1969 · 60 min
David Hamilton, an incurably ill man, dies suddenly from an overdose of sleeping pills. Homicide detectives try to establish whether it was suicide or murder, and investigations le
Seen to Be Done
Mar 18, 1969 · 60 min
A happy afternoon in the park comes to a tragic end for 12-year-old Bronwyn Thompson when she is attacked and murdered. A pair of glasses provide detectives with an important clue.
Poor Anna
Mar 25, 1969 · 60 min
Anna Milich is strangled, and the main suspect is her boyfriend, airline pilot Frank Mason. During questioning, Mason unfolds his unusual affair with Anna to detectives in flashbac
Time of Departure
Apr 1, 1969 · 60 min
When model Cassie King is murdered, Homicide detectives suspect that someone on the staff at the fashion house were she was employed could have had a good reason to kill her.
The Antagonists
Apr 8, 1969 · 60 min
While sitting in their car near the beach, a young couple are threatened by a man with a gun. Trying to pacify the gunman, the boy is suddenly shot dead and the girl attacked and c
The Beach Boys
Apr 15, 1969 · 60 min
A crime reporter seeking information about a drug pushing racket that he uncovered at a quiet beach resort meets a sudden death. Suspicion falls on two surfers who frequent the bea
Squirrel
Apr 22, 1969 · 60 min
As a safe cracker, 'Squirrel' is a fast worker, but not fast enough to escape a warning bullet fired by police at the scene of a robbery. On the run, wounded and desperate, he find
Blind Man's Bluff
Apr 29, 1969 · 60 min
When Alan Taylor is murdered in the presence of his friend, blind man Harry Cooper, detectives are convinced the killer was known to Taylor. But what puzzles them is why the blind
Three Card Trick
May 6, 1969 · 60 min
A wealthy businessman is savagely attacked and robbed after taking out an attractive girl he met at a hotel. Detectives suspect that confidence tricksters are responsible.
The X-Factor
May 13, 1969 · 60 min
Norman Kemp attacks his wife in a drunken stupor, and his son Donald - a former delinquent - tries to protect her. Threatened by his father, he hits him in self-defence. He panics,
Chain of Evidence
May 20, 1969 · 60 min
Eddie Chapman's wife is found murdered on a cliff-top. Police suspect Eddie, as does his sister-in-law Sally Partridge. Detectives can't prove anything until a gold necklace brings
Bait
May 27, 1969 · 60 min
A walk along a rocky beach ends in a sudden and violent death for a young art student. Her strangled body is discovered by fitness fanatic David Grierson, who saw an Italian youth
Triple Play
Jun 3, 1969 · 60 min
When the body of public relations consultant David Armstrong is found at the bottom of a quarry, detectives suspect that his death is mysteriously linked with an affair he was havi
As the Twig is Bent
Jun 10, 1969 · 60 min
When gambler Mike Harris is told by police that an ex-prisoner has threatened to kill him, he refuses protection. He later has a greater problem involving him with the police, an a
Everyone Knows Charlie
Jun 17, 1969 · 60 min
A group of pensioners in an old people's home are secretly engaged in earning extra money to supplement their pensions. When one of their number, Charlie Cook, is found dead, they
The Big Mistake
Jun 24, 1969 · 60 min
A small girl is shot by mistake when jail escapee Frank Jackson tries to kill her father - Det. Bob Cozens of C.I.B. Homicide detectives question Jackson's grandmother hoping that,
A Quiet Town
Jul 1, 1969 · 60 min
William 'Bull' Madigan, the hated boss of a sawmill in a small company town, is shot dead and the local people are reluctant to give any information. The case ends tragically when
I, Mick O'Byrne
Jul 8, 1969 · 60 min
Sen. Det. Patterson joins the Homicide squad in an extensive manhunt for jail escapees Reynolds and O'Byrne. They shoot dead a prison warder, steal a car, hide out and later rob a
The Joker Is Dead
Jul 15, 1969 · 60 min
Mechanic Harry Stone is a much disliked practical joker. He is killed when someone releases the jack as he works under a truck.
Never a Man
Jul 22, 1969 · 60 min
Det. Sgt. Mackay's holiday in the bush is interrupted when he recognizes a former criminal in the district. He tells local constable Bob Mason, but when Mason is later shot after a
Spin Out
Jul 29, 1969 · 60 min
During a practice session at Sandown race track, top racing driver Bob Wilkin is shot dead. Nobody heard the shot fired, and nobody saw the gunman. Homicide detectives have to sift
Undercover
Aug 5, 1969 · 60 min
Det. Keith Harris from Adelaide poses as an international criminal to gather information on mysterious deaths involving a night club gang, led by Melbourne's 'Mr. Big' - a nightclu
Jet Lag
Aug 12, 1969 · 60 min
When Det. Sgt. Mackay flies to London to extradite a criminal, he is asked to work on another case involving the disappearance of James Cochrane, who was last known to be in Austra
Onus of Proof
Aug 19, 1969 · 60 min
When Coroline Benedict falls to her death from a balcony after a violent argument with her husband, detectives re-enact the circumstances leading up to her death to establish wheth
The Devil May Care
Aug 26, 1969 · 60 min
The body of a girl, Elizabeth Douglas, wearing she-wolf clothing, is found lying across a grave in a cemetery. Homicide detectives investigating the macabre crime question people i
Smiling Joe
Sep 2, 1969 · 60 min
When Joe Garner, a man with sinister charm and a way with women, stabs his girlfriend Jan Steiner in the neck during a struggle, Homicide detectives suspect that Joe has a shady pa
Major Edmund, M.A
Sep 9, 1969 · 60 min
The sudden death of Mrs. Iris Edmund, wife of highly respected solicitor Major Edmund, is accepted as a heart attack until another similar illness in the same town causes a local d
The Set Up
Sep 16, 1969 · 60 min
An important witness in a murder trial retracts his statement, throwing doubt on the conviction recorded against the murderer. Det. Sgt. Mackay, who was in charge of the case, find
George
Sep 23, 1969 · 60 min
George Allen, a man under psychiatric treatment, tells detectives that someone driving a white car is trying to run him down. Although they suspect that George is hallucinating, de
Dead Shot
Sep 30, 1969 · 60 min
Two men are shot dead and a woman is knocked down and killed by a car as three masked men escape after robbing a shop-keeper.
Traveller's Tale
Oct 7, 1969 · 60 min
When Janet Canning, wife of a wholesale drug traveller, is strangled with a piece of flex, her husband tells police that the dress ring she was wearing is missing, as well as his s
The Amateurs
Oct 10, 1969 · 60 min
Mark Allen, a wealthy law student with warped ideas regarding society, leads a fellow student into trouble when he involves him in 'fast events', culminating in his becoming a susp
Address Unknown
Oct 14, 1969 · 60 min
A typewritten note sent to publisher Harry Thompson lures him to a vacant lot where he is shot dead. Investigations lead detectives to a man with a strong dislike of the police, an
Jig-Saw
Oct 21, 1969 · 60 min
When Mrs. Alice Middleton, an elderly invalid with heart trouble, dies suddenly, her solicitor is amazed to learn that she made a new will leaving her house and $20,000 to a friend
Billy
Oct 28, 1969 · 60 min
Billy Garret, a boyhood friend of Sen. Det. Patterson, is questioned by police after the murder of John Archer, and Patterson finds himself torn between his loyalty to Billy and hi
Many Shades of Black
Nov 4, 1969 · 60 min
Homicide detectives uncover a pornography racket when they investigate the mysterious death of Julie Cummings, a delivery girl at a photographic studio.
Blue Moo
Nov 11, 1969 · 60 min
A knife, blood on the floor, but no body is what detectives find when they investigate a report of murder at Jack Fitzpatrick's flat. Further enquiries lead to the 'Blue Moo' disco
An Unwelcome Guest
Nov 11, 1969 · 60 min
Digging a swimming pool for his new home, Walter Clarke discovers a woman's body. She is identified as the previous owner, believed by friends to be visiting her daughter in London
Johnny Dead Fella
Nov 25, 1969 · 60 min
The body of young Aboriginal shearer Johnny Kamadji is discovered in the shallows of a river, and detectives suspect that racists could be responsible because Johnny attended a dan
When a Body
Dec 2, 1969 · 60 min
Two inept blokes attempt to steal a body from a grave, but they select the wrong one, and they soon learn that when a body is missing it draws attention from the police.