The Best Episodes of Rake

Something is seriously awry in Cleaver's world. His practice is booming. Barney is thriving. And he is falling in love with Felicity. But does fate have some nasty surprises in store?

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Cleaver is charged with manslaughter; his journalist girlfriend betrays him; and Kirsty wants his debt paid in full. His strategy is to have Cal McGregor upgrade the charge to murder.

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Cleaver considers a career change but David throws a spanner in the works. Cleaver's determined to win Wendy back, but Jack is scheming to get rid of him for good. Will it work? Fuzz has some surprising news.

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We re-discover Cleaver in the back of a limo with a woman he really, really shouldn't be with. When her husband finds out, he resolves to make it his life's work to destroy our hapless hero.

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Missy and fiancé Joshua Floyd are Australia's most newsworthy couple; but luckily for Cleaver, when his woes are at their worst, he's given the case of the decade.

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Cleaver is retained for a low rent tawdry sex offence, but the Royal Commissions that have decimated David's front bench mean that even barrel-bottom Cleaver Greene is getting lots of briefs.

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Roger bans Cleaver from Wendy's, and Fuzz has returned with a Congolese wife, a Cleaveresque attitude, and (according to the AFP) a suitcase full of stolen blood diamonds.

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Thompson has Cleaver in the frame for drug trafficking, but Wendy comes to the rescue. David is desperate to save his relationship with Scarlet, and Nicole is scrolling through her ex-husband posts.

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Barney & Cleaver are back on speaking terms and share a case; Cleaver rescues Missy who's been enjoying a cocaine-hazed few days with Cal McGregor, and appeals to Wendy's better nature to take her in.

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Missy's book about her life as a prostitute has caused a sensation, and she's engaged. Meanwhile, Cleaver is faced with gambling debts, his psychopathic client, and David Potter.

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Siege veteran Cleaver leads Wendy, Fuzz and Prue out of Roger's hostage crisis, but is accidentally shot in the buttock.

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Cleaver's been hiding out in the country posing as a writer, but his cover's blown when Barney appears on Australian Story, complete with images of his best friend. It isn't long before Thompson's goons arrive on the scene.

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Cleaver defends David and Barney sees it as a betrayal; Fuzz gets Missy drugs and then she seduces him. Wendy has a date with an old flame; and a free David announces he's standing for the Senate.

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After David's acquittal Cleaver and Nicole worry about Barney, but then Cleaver gets himself disbarred and Wendy kicks him out. But Jack is determined to get him out of Wendy's life forever.

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Cleaver defends Missy for murder, while Scarlet inadvertently, through an indiscretion with David, gives Cal the ammunition he needs.

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Cleaver and Barney are defending a man accused of severing his neighbour's penis. Barney and Nicole's affair continues, while Scarlet and David are firmly on Cal McGregor's hook.

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Cleaver's descent to earth lands him straight into the clutches of a one-time mentor and now powerful criminal on the run, Edgar Thompson. Meanwhile Barney is adrift above the Pacific.

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Cleaver's friend Dr. Bruce Chandler finds himself in hot water; but on the home front Cleaver's life is also spiralling out of control.

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Red and David's affair is front page news; Missy decides she wants marriage and children; Cleaver is facing the consequences of the dark path he trod to recover his father's estate.

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Cleaver outsmarts the appeals judges, but life outside is not good. He is a legal pariah, jobless, homeless and phoneless, and while he has been inside, his world has been sliding towards chaos.

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At Malcolm's funeral Cleaver meets Mal's sister Felicity, a honey blonde with an acid wit; and baulks at being Scarlet's junior in the case of a gambling-addicted client.

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Wendy reluctantly takes Cleaver in when he's evicted, while Barney is reeling from the costs of his rescue. David and Scarlet's romance is slowly being scuttled by her children; and Missy is desperate for drugs.

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Joe Sandilands' suicide leaves Cleaver, Barney, Missy, Scarlet and Wendy reeling; while Missy's secret life is about to be revealed when she tricks Cleaver into defending her brother.

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Cleaver defends Mick Corella on a murder charge; and David finds out about Missy's past.

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Cleaver Greene languishes in prison surrounded by enemies and friends. Many former colleagues from Macquarie St and the bench are also inside, courtesy of corruption scandals.

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