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SEASON 3

In Season 3, Durham County focuses on a task force that covers crimes along the 401 highway corridor. Mike Sweeney, now the Superintendent of the Durham police precinct, is on this force, which, when the episode opens, is investigating the murder of two young drug runners. Mike wonders whether these deaths are warnings to other runners or the beginnings of a gang war. Mike’s challenge is how to get through the language barriers and trace the crimes to sources that may be here or overseas. Durham, because of its proximity to the 401 corridor, is a transportation hub, one stop on a crime corridor. Nothing has roots here, but everything passes through. Ivan Sujic (ex-military), partners with Mike on the task-force investigating the drug-trafficking murders. Mike quickly learns that Ivan is distraught because his wife, Katya, is missing and didn’t return from a trip to the United States.

The friendship between the two men, a friendship that grows and deepens, also becomes for Mike, a murder investigation. Mike suspects that Ivan’s troubled brother-in-law, Miro, may have something to do with Katya’s disappearance and that Ivan may know something about it. Meanwhile, Mike’s family life is blossoming: his wife, Audrey, is pregnant, the past is buried, they are in love and looking forward to this child who is a symbol of their renewed love. Daughter Sadie is now living with Ray Jr., having trouble balancing her relationship with her new life as a rookie cop. She is doubting her abilities, needing to prove herself. Ray Jr. is constantly worried about Sadie, and he’s got cause; she too is pregnant.

Mike has to deal with Sadie being a cop when the task force puts her (and several others from the police graduating class), out on the street as eyes and ears. He knows he has to stand back, let her be. And he’s trying, he’s really trying but he’s very worried too. In episode three, a tragedy strikes Sweeney in a way that he could never have imagined and turns his life upside down. He throws himself into his work in a reckless way, pushing hard to find those responsible for the deaths of the two drug runners. He also sets a trap that will determine Miro’s guilt or innocence and Ivan’s role if any.

Sadie’s contact with a drug dealer, the only lead they’ve got on that case, puts her in terrible danger and tests the limits of the father-daughter relationship. Can Mike let her do what she needs to do to be a cop, i.e. stand alone and for herself? In the end, the two cases come together in a chilling conclusion.

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SEASON 2                                        

Season 2 follows Mike Sweeney and his family as they try and come to terms with the hell they suffered as a consequence of their Season 1 encounter with serial killer Ray Prager. Will the family stay together? Will Sadie get past the trauma she experienced with Ray and will Ray Jr. forgive his father?  Will Mike finally come to terms with the events in his past as he deals with a new case – a case that introduces him to a new and even more dangerous nemesis than Ray? Durham County Season 2 continues on its visceral journey through the human psyche as the main characters battle with the issues and demons left behind in the aftermath of season 1.
 

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SEASON 1                                        

After his partner is murdered in cold blood, Detective Mike Sweeney moves his family back to the small town where he grew up. But beneath the rural calm of Durham County lurk secrets so dark that even those who carry them can no longer see the light of truth. Mike Sweeney is no exception. He copes with his wife’s battle with cancer by withdrawing into his work, and another woman’s arms. Sparks fly and tension mounts as a series of brutal murders cast a long shadow across Durham County. Before long, Mike must come face to face with his past when he discovers that Ray Prager, a friend from his teenage years, is his new neighbour. A deadly rivalry plays out in a psychological game of murder and revenge, drawing the members of both families ever deeper into a deadly web of desire and violence.

Mike’s morbidly inquisitive teenage daughter, Sadie, starts to piece together the puzzle and becomes dangerously embroiled in the web being cast by their increasingly psychotic neighbour Meanwhile, the evidence and Mike’s professional integrity are compromised by his own secret connection to one of the victims. It seems that Ray knows more about Mike than Mike can admit to himself. Ray will do anything, including using his own family, to fulfil his increasingly brutal desires and psychotic needs. Sex, desperation, and coming of age play out as a dangerous game of psychological Russian roulette in Durham County. Lies and deceit are revealed as family and personal secrets unravel almost as quickly as the lives bound up in them. Even in quiet Durham County, sex and death wait in the shadows for someone to play.

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