East West 101 Series 2
Drama / 7 x 60' / HD, Airline, DVD, Non-Theatric
A Knapman Wyld Television Production for Screen Australia & SBS1
This critically acclaimed and award-winning drama series centres on Zane Malik – a brilliant detective whose ability to connect with people helps him solve crimes. Ambitious and driven, he has confidence, strength and intelligence. Malik is an Arab and proud of it, but as a Muslim detective in a post 9/11 world where just to be an Arab, is to arouse suspicion and fear, Malik feels under pressure to prove himself, over and over.
In the second series, the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney. But overarching all, is the quest for Detective Zane Malik to find the truth behind a car bomb attack which kills two men. The Major Crime Squad form a joint task force with the NSO (National Security Organisation) to deal with the crime. There is paranoia in the city and fallout on the Muslim community. Malik knows that in order to stop the circle of hate, he must solve the crime. Was the bomb really an act of extremists, as the media suggest, or a sophisticated killing by a career criminal? Malik doggedly pursues the truth until he, too, becomes a target.
Inspector Patricia Wright questions his motives but her vision is clouded by personal issues she wants to remain hidden from the squad. Crime has touched her own family.
Starring:
Don Hany as ZANE MALIK (Picnic At Hanging Rock, Bad Mothers, The Survivors)
Susie Porter as DI PATRICIA WRIGHT (No Escape, Irreverent, Apple Cider Vinegar)
Aaron Fa’aoso as DETECTIVE SONNY KOA (Reef Break, Bikie Wars: Brothers In Arms, In Limbo)
Daniela Farinacci as DETECTIVE HELEN CALLAS (Lion, Black Snow, Human Error)
Renee Lim as CONSTABLE JUNG LIM (Prosper, The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart, Black Snow)
Additional Stars:
Gerald Lepkowski as AGENT RICHARD SKERRITT (The Death Of Stalin, Game Of Thrones, The Twelve)