城市凶杀组 第三季 (2009)

4名年轻人为死者伸张正义，为受害人讨回公道，为活着的死者家人带来安慰。在《城市凶杀组》里面杀人犯只是些普通人-一时的疯狂，沟通的失败，绝望的行为。不过这些警探只能秉公处理，他们准备好应对任何挑战。他们选择了他们的战争，他们明白赢得战争和守法的区别，蹲伏的猛虎和隐藏的巨龙的区别。他们是战略家。他们拥有多年的经验...

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4名年轻人为死者伸张正义，为受害人讨回公道，为活着的死者家人带来安慰。在《城市凶杀组》里面杀人犯只是些普通人-一时的疯狂，沟通的失败，绝望的行为。不过这些警探只能秉公处理，他们准备好应对任何挑战。他们选择了他们的战争，他们明白赢得战争和守法的区别，蹲伏的猛虎和隐藏的巨龙的区别。他们是战略家。他们拥有多年的经验...

In the former corner of the homicide squad are salty Detective Senior Sergeant Stanley Wolfe (Shane Bourne) and Detective Superintendent Bernice Waverley (Noni Hazlehurst). In the latter, the aggressive alpha-male Duncan Freeman (Aaron Pedersen) and his cocky, too-handsome constable colleague Simon Joyner (Daniel MacPherson); somewhere in-between, still trying to figure out where they belong, is the enigmatic Matt Ryan (Damien Richardson) and soon-to-be-promoted Jennifer Mapplethorpe (Nadine Garner), the female part of the "four musketeers" as the junior members of the unit are known.

Created and written by John Hugginson and John Banas, whose credits include prime-time staples Blue Heelers and Water Rats, City Homicide makes a promising debut tonight by not straying too far from the established norms of the genre. There is a plucked-from-the-headlines story of urban crime and its detection - in this case a discomforting story that evolves around jilted men avenging their wives' infidelity - told from the multiple perspectives of the victims and the law, whose modus operandi here consists of old-school detective work; interviews with suspects, footwork, intuition and bravery (without a single lab-coat or high-tech computer read-out in sight). There's the stable of regular characters that straddle generational and ethnic divides and who the audience isn't asked to immediately fall in love with or detest but merely to empathise with. It's well enough cast for the characters on screen to seem credible and the 90-minute episode that introduces the principal characters and the broader conflicts moves at a steady gallop. Which is not to say City Homicide isn't without its weaknesses. Some scenes fall flat on their faces - a confrontation in a hotel kitchen that should sizzle just fizzles, for example, while some of the main plot turns strain with contrivance.