Janet King

2014
4.8
6 reviews
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Season 3 episodes (8)

1 Playing Advantage
5/27/17
Season-only
After a young cricket player’s suicide, Janet is seconded to the National Crime Commission and tasked with uncovering the links between gambling, sport, and organized crime. After questioning a number of high-profile players, Janet realizes she has a lot to learn about the game.
2 Blindsided
6/1/17
Season-only
The commission contends with the sudden death of their key witness, but was his death an accident, murder, or suicide? Later, a scuffle amongst players over a video leads to manslaughter, and Janet faces a surprising witness.
3 Leveling the Playing Field
6/8/17
Season-only
Tony worries that Janet’s ethical integrity may be compromised when Janet’s father, Graham, becomes a person of interest to the commission. Richard defends football player Nate on manslaughter charges, but faces obstruction from Nate’s team.
4 Running Out the Clock
6/15/17
Season-only
Janet and Richard discuss a deal to exchange information about Nate, but to uphold her end of the bargain, Janet needs to find the drug that Nate took. Richard discovers that the new crown prosecutor he’ll be arguing against in Nate’s trial is an old colleague.
5 Game Changer
6/22/17
Season-only
Realizing the bottles of evidence were swapped, Janet tries to track down the missing bottle of performance enhancing drugs before it’s sold. After losing the trial, Nate fires Richard, but Richard still tries to help Nate’s wife.
6 Hard Ball
6/29/17
Season-only
When the commission’s prime suspect goes missing, Janet and her team assume she’s either guilty or dead. Richard confides in Lina about his crisis of conscience, and Graham is in the news because of new fraud allegations.
7 White Line Fever
7/6/17
Season-only
Graham stays with Janet while he recovers from his injuries, putting strain on Janet’s relationship with Bianca. Owen makes a shady deal with known criminal kingpin Darren and Janet blackmails Richard into helping the commission.
8 Little Victories
7/13/17
Season-only
An unexpected murder shocks Janet and her team. The commission closes in on Darren, uncovering a new betting scam centered around an up-and-coming tennis star, but they need Richard’s help to seal the deal.

About this show

When senior crown prosecutor Janet King (Marta Dusseldorp, A Place to Call Home, Jack Irish) returns from maternity leave, she is thrust into the spotlight on a controversial case involving a senior-ranking police officer. While building cases around a series of suspects, King clashes with Owen Mitchell (Damian Walshe-Howling, The Reef), a cunning colleague who will do anything to win. She also contends with Chief Superintendent Jack Rizzoli (Vince Colosimo, The Great Gatsby), who has strong convictions about the direction of the investigations and regularly challenges her authority. As King makes connections between seemingly unrelated crimes, she unearths a scandal that could damn both the police and the judiciary—and put herself and her family in danger. Dusseldorp delivers an award-winning performance as a brilliant “crownie” struggling to balance life at home with her commitment to her job in this multifaceted courtroom drama.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
6 reviews