The Worst Episodes of Wildside

Bill McCoy tries to help Joe turn his life around but his sudden disappearance pushes Bill to locate the man responsible for the young boys' murders before he claims another victim. However, the closer Bill comes to the truth behind a paedophile ring, the less Reilly becomes interested in helping his investigations. Bill finally confronts the man he suspects of murdering his son.

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While Bill wrestles with his doubts over Reilly who has been accused of corruption, Maxine deals with Ralph, an elderly man with Alzheimer's who shows up at the crisis centre not being able to recall where he lives. Gerry's personal and professional lives cross paths when she becomes involved with a homeless youth.

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With his father after him to find a more lucrative job, Vince takes on the case of an illegal Iraqi refugee caught up in Bill's investigation of a stolen car racket. Vince fights a dodgy immigration lawyer while keeping his client clear of charges in connection to Bill's investigation. After walking out on Maxine, Rob returns in search of a reconciliation. A young mechanic makes a play for Maxine.

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Detectives McCoy and Devlin investigate the shooting of a robbery suspect by a young and inexperienced security guard. Maxine takes on the delicate case of an alleged sexual abuse in a family she knows personally. With no evidence other than repressed memories to support the claims against the father, Maxine has doubts about the validity of the accusations. Vince becomes involved in his father's business dealings and uncovers a secret that leads to blackmail. Kim is the subject of repeated advances of a co-worker.

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When a bikie gang war erupts in massacre, Bill McCoy is under pressure to make arrests and lay charges. On arrival at the scene it is discovered that one of the victims is Dean Tapley. Despite McCoy's best efforts, he struggles to lay charges against any of the principle suspects. Meanwhile, Kim feels betrayed at being shut out of the investigation as she finds herself the subject of an Internal Affairs investigation and a recovering Maxine questions her future as she relives the horror of the crisis centre shooting. At the end of the day, one will have resigned from her job.

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Maxine, recovering from her gunshot wound, is full with the love of life. She feels invincible, having escaped death, and is in the mood to take risks. So daring she manages to deliver a baby, later finding herself in the middle of a violent dispute between the young mother's boyfriend and father. With the assistance of a young detective from gaming, Bill investigates the murder of a prominent asian gang member following a night in a backroom casino in Chinatown.

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Bill and Charlie become involved in the investigation of a petrol station robbery where one of the victims turns out to be the son of a man Bill put away years before. The family believe their father is innocent and that Bill set him up to go to prison seven years ago and accuse Bill of now setting the son up too. Gerry and Vince come to the son's defence and Bill is forced to question the circumstances of the father's arrest, realising his partner at the time was crooked and he is responsible for putting away an innocent man.

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Bill and Charlie investigate the horrific murder of a taxi driver. Maxine discovers the involvement in the murder of three street kids, Greg, Mitch and Mandy while overhearing their conversation at the Crisis Centre. She makes the decision to call Bill about the three suspects against Vince's advice to give them the chance to come forward of their own accord.

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Bill and Charlie are called to the train station where they find seventeen-year-old Luke, naked and bound to a train carriage. Luke claims it was a buck's night prank, but Charlie is sure there's more to it and makes it his personal mission to bring those responsible to justice — regardless of the cost to his career or personal life. A new officer's first days on the job may be her last.

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Maxine has taken her sister, Nina, under her wing to help sort out her domestic crisis, and Bill and Charlie wrestle with racial violence on a housing estate.

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Maxine is convinced that her sister was murdered by her husband but Bill and Charlie play it by the evidence. Bill reluctantly agrees to wire Maxine up, to get the confession they need.

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McCoy's plans to nail a Vietnamese drug importer are complicated when a crusading Chinese mayor is gunned down.

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McCoy plays a waiting game using 80 million dollars worth of heroin as bait for "Mr. Big" while also continuing to look into the murders of Mayor Henry Li and Tran, a kid caught up in the gangster world of Asian drug importations. Meanwhile, Vince and Gerry's relationship takes off as Gerry fights through memories of her past as a sex worker triggered by a friend, Dee, who can't escape her own tainted past on the streets.

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Bill and Deakin are searching for three escaped female prisoners, one of whom, Debbie, is a past client of the Centre. Debbie seeks Gerry's help to get money for a car and treatment for her sick daughter who has been neglected by the foster mother. Gerry's relationship with Vince is shadowed by Vince's fear that Gerry will get herself into deep trouble helping Debbie. Despite their differences, they still work for the same team and their feelings for each other cannot help but grow.

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Bill investigates a threat made against Carol Wilson, a State MP who has outrageous views on Aboriginals. He must offer her protection in the midst of an election rally in which she is participating. Vince disappoints his father Leo when he reveals he is interested in Gerry.

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Four Tongans are shot dead in the 180 Club which is a known Islander hangout. McCoy and Deakin investigate the crime scene where they run into Charlie Coustas, who's working on attachment to a task force called Operation Spindrift who are tracking a gun-importation racket.

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In a story about need to belong, Joe, Bill's son, is out on the edge and alone — an addict, and Bill knows that the only person who can save him is his dad. That means getting Tony Pelucci to turn his back on the only culture and support system where he belongs, his criminal mates network. Bill and Charlie investigate two colleagues when an accusation of rape is lodged against two police officers while Maxine helps Joe go through withdrawal.

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Charlie finds himself faced with a conflict of interest when a childhood friend is charged with aggravated assault. Peter Simms, ex-con and junkie, violently bashes Sam Farmer, who runs a small security firm. Peter is a client of the Crisis Centre, which has committed itself to his rehabilitation. When Peter is arrested, the Police and the Centre are at odds over what would be a just outcome. What was the real motive for the assault?

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Virginia becomes involved in helping her lover, Alan Sharkey, when his house is shot at in a driveby. She discovers Sharkey was targeted by a crooked cop, Ron Anders because he knows Anders was involved in taking a quantity of money seized as evidence from a bank robbery bust. Meanwhile, Charlie helps out a client of Maxine's who has stabbed her ex-boyfriend because he molested her daughter.

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Charlie's gambling addiction leads him into the clutches of loan sharks and into temptation. Charlie can't lose, he's on a roll. So he borrows ten grand from loan sharks. And loses the lot in one bet. Meanwhile, Maxine is convinced to lie for a pregnant thirteen-year-old Muslim girl, and it looks like it all might work out until her father comes asking for a special bit of evidence.

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Bill and Charlie investigate the murder of the publisher of a fashion magazine but Charlie is distracted by an attractive witness.

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With Charlie still sin-binned to desk work, Deakin and Bill have teamed up. Bill and Deakin find themselves in the middle of a tow-truck war after attend a stabbing at a road accident. A second incident involving Deakin's widowed sister-in-law Wendy and his nephew ends in a fatality. Charlie is tasked with finding a lost dog and tries to bend the rules to help Simone when she is arrested for marijuana possession at school.

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Bill and Charlie are called to a domestic. Bill witnesses a father, Sean O'Connor, hit his son and gets emotionally involved to the point where he has a complaint laid against him for assault. Although he's warned away from the case by Virginia, he feels the two kids in the family should be helped. The mother, Maralyn, is an alcoholic and Bill has little sympathy for her. The situation is out of his hands until it becomes a murder investigation with Sean found dead in the house. Meanwhile, Gerry gives Vince the news that she is pregnant.

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An aborigine is mistaken for a wanted man and shot during a police raid. McCoy is left to pick up the pieces. Vince's experience with Naomi, the victim's wife, allows him to discover his own political consciousness.

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Charlie goes undercover in attempt to crack a drugs and extortion racket operated by a collusion of three people: a Greek Australian property developer — George Kasoulis, ex stand over man and underworld heavy — Terry Young, and federal copper Neville Grey.

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