Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: May 7, 2007
Police detective Mike Sweeney moves his family to Durham County after his partner is murdered. The quiet life he'd envisioned is soon disrupted by the savage murders of two teenage girls and a dark rival from his high school past - his neighbor, Ray Pager.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: May 14, 2007
Police detective Mike Sweeney is drawn into a web of his own deception as he confronts the murder of his lover, Nathalie Lacroix. His daughter Sadie navigates the dangerous waters of teen sexuality. Ray Pager is thrown into chaos when his wife leaves him.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: May 21, 2007
Police detective Mike Sweeney secretly grieves his lover's murder while trying to find her killer. Ray Prager crosses paths with a serial killer, and another woman is murdered.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: May 28, 2007
Evidence mounts against Ray Prager and Detective Mike Sweeney brings him in for questioning. Before long, it's Sweeney who's under suspicion, as Prager weaves a web of conspiracy around his old rival.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jun 4, 2007
Ray Prager gets close to Detective Mike Sweeney's wife, Audrey, so he can plant damning evidence in Mike's house. Despite Mike Sweeney's obsession with revealing Ray as a murderer, Mike is taken into custody under suspicion of murder.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jun 11, 2007
As Detective Mike Sweeney battles to prove his innocence, Ray Prager spins violently out of control and abducts Mike's daughter, Sadie.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jul 13, 2009
Newly promoted homicide detective Mike Sweeney struggles to keep his head above water. His family has been torn apart by serial killer Ray Prager, who's now in lockdown after murdering two women and traumatizing Mike's teenage daughter Sadie. Meanwhile, at work, Mike brings on forensic psychiatric Pen Verrity to help him understand the what seems to be a homicide involving the death of a baby.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Jul 20, 2009
Following the suicide of Elodie, Mike discovers her baby's death was accidental: the result of a bee sting. Mike tries to deal with his tragic mistake as Internal Affairs and a reporter scrutinize his actions.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Jul 27, 2009
Pen is relieved to find out that Audrey will be okay after the drug overdose that caused more harm than anticipated. Back at home, she discovers that Jonathan has told the newspapers that Bonnie's death may be a homicide and that Pen is a murderess. At the precinct, Mike loses his temper when Glenn tells him Ray's pals have served up an alibi and got him off one of the murder charges.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Aug 3, 2009
Jonathan's "assault" on Pen encourages Mike to push further the investigation. To determine whether Jonathan harmed Bonnie, Mike needs to exhume Bonnie's body - something Pen \ does not want to happen. Mike respects that and pursues other avenues of investigation, but his commitment to Pen is shaken when he discovers a fact that confirms Tom's hypothesis that Bonnie was poisoned.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Aug 10, 2009
Mike believes that Jonathan murdered Molly, putting him in conflict with Tom, who's convinced that Pen did it and set up Jonathan. Sadie, intent on facing her fears so she can stand up at the trial, reenacts what happened between her and Ray at the farm. She gets through it with Ray Jr.'s help, but the discovery of a braid of hair buried within the walls of the farmhouse devastates her.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2009
Tom arrives at the farm, responding to Sadie's frantic call for help. She refuses to acknowledge her father as she tells Tom that Mike and Ray murdered Lissie here. Lissie's braid smells of smoke, a nearby tree shows signs of fire and a skull is buried beneath. At the station, she waits for Pen and wonders; will there ever be justice for Lissie's murder?.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2010
Mike Sweeney is back on track. His wife Audrey is home and expecting a baby, his daughter Sadie is about to graduate from the police academy and is secretly expecting a child of her own with boyfriend Ray Jr. and Ray Prager has vanished without a trace. Now the superintendent of the Durham Police precinct, Mike is on the task force investigating the gruesome murders of two young brothers.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Nov 1, 2010
Mike learns that Katya is still missing and her credit cards have gone unused for 5 days, and brings Ivan in for questioning. Ivan reveals Katya is having an affair and probably shacked up with her new boyfriend. Mike decides to keep things friendly with Ivan to gain more insight. Meanwhile, Ivan is slowly coming apart and confesses his crime to Miro, who is barely shaken by his sister's death.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2010
Mike believes Miro is running money through Katya's company and is involved in a gang war with the Chinese. When he informs Eva of Miro's hand in the McHalphie murders, she divulges that Katya knew about his dealings and threatened to out him. The police take Miro's computer for a forensic audit. Miro learns he is a suspect in Katya's death and begins to wonder if Ivan is setting him up.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 15, 2010
Ivan and Sadie are livid when they see Mike leave Eva's house after spending the night with her. Holding on by a thread, Mike throws himself into his work and takes Ivan up on his offer to deliver information about Miro to the cops. Still unsure who to trust, Mike unfreezes Miro's accounts and releases Eva's computer to Ivan.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2010
Consumed by grief, Mike tries to lay blame on Ivan for Audrey's death, but the autopsy confirms he was not responsible. As Maddie continues to take the reins with baby Charlie by appointing Ivan as godfather, Sadie is riddled with anxiety over her own pregnancy and her father's inability to comfort the family as they grieve. Meanwhile, Ivan sets Miro up to take the fall for Katya's death.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2010
After spending the night purging his feelings about Sadie's work on the force, Mike stumbles into the station and tells Sabina and Samuel of Ivan's drunken confession the night before.