The Best Episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 1

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.7/10(667 votes)

   #1 - Sour Grapes

   S1:E210/5/2014

   With Brokenwood touted for its burgeoning merlot, the annual wine show is a major event. Having bought a 10-acre block with maturing grapes, no one is looking forward to it more than DI Mike Shepherd. But when a guest judge and wine critic is found dead, drowned inside a fermenting vat, the show takes second place to the murder investigation.

   Director:Joshua Frizzell

   Writer:Timothy Balme

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   Director:Joshua Frizzell

   Writer:Timothy Balme
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   7.7/10(570 votes)

   #2 - Hunting the Stag

   S1:E410/19/2014

   Three close friends go hunting in the bush on a stag trip. But the groom-to-be never comes back - he was shot through the head. Initially this would seem to be just another tragic hunting accident amidst picturesque New Zealand bush. The only problem is neither of the remaining two friends own up to pulling the trigger that fired the lethal bullet - yet all three had discharged their rifles - with no deer to prove it. The question is - who shot Hayden Renner? Was he mistaken for a real stag or was there something more sinister at play?

   Director:Mike Smith

   Writers:Timothy Balme, Philip Dalkin

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   Director:Mike Smith

   Writers:Timothy Balme, Philip Dalkin
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   7.6/10(607 votes)

   #3 - Playing the Lie

   S1:E310/12/2014

   A group of erstwhile members of the Brokenwood Golf Club, committee members no less, have gathered for their regular Wednesday morning round. They are playing their approaches to the first green when a zombie-like figure lurches from the early-morning gloom, coming towards them. It takes the golfers a moment or two (apparently) to realise this is actually Alison Stone, one of the 5 members of the Golf Club Committee - her face red and blistering; gasping desperately for breath. Then she falls from sight, into a greenside bunker. By the time the guys get to her, Ms Stone is very much dead. And so Mike and Kristin are called to investigate what appears to be homicide by poisoning.

   Director:Michael Hurst

   Writer:James Griffin

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   Director:Michael Hurst

   Writer:James Griffin
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   7.4/10(818 votes)

   #4 - Blood and Water

   S1:E19/28/2014

   When two fishermen find the body of a local farmer in the river, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd is sent to the small rural town of Brokenwood to investigate the death. Is this the suicide of a man guilty of his own wife’s murder or is he the victim of foul play? As Mike uncovers a family’s tragedies and secrets, he also learns that Brokenwood is a place where shadows lurk just beneath the surface.

   Director:Mike Smith

   Writers:Timothy Balme, Philip Dalkin

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   Director:Mike Smith

   Writers:Timothy Balme, Philip Dalkin