East West 101 Series 3
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 Series 3 a violent robbery is committed. A$ 36 million stolen. Four men killed. One of them, a middle-eastern gang member and a figure with international connections. The robbery has the marks of a military operation. Has it been done by extremists to fund an act of terror in Australia? Or is it the deed of highly organised crooks?
Detective Zane Malik is on a quest to find the men responsible. And the professional task has a personal edge. His son and wife are in a car accident the day of the robbery. Malik suspects the car was hit by a vehicle fleeing the robbery. But is he right or has grief overwhelmed logic?
Joining Major Crime is Detective Travis. Travis has returned to the Police Force from a stint in the army. He is a damaged man, haunted by a secret event that occurred in Iraq. He is one of that band of brothers who have seen combat and faced death in the battlefield.
As Malik progresses further into his investigation, through violence and murder, the evidence starts to link the robbery to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. But he no longer trusts his colleague. Travis has a secret. What is it?
As Malik gets closer to the guilty, he knows he must be prepared to make the supreme sacrifice, if he is to extract the truth, and nail the men responsible for murder and theft.
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:
Matt Nable as DETECTIVE NEIL TRAVIS (Bay Of Fires, Last King Of The Cross, Apple Cider Vinegar)