Cape Town: Miniseries

2016

Created by Annette Reeker, Mark Needham
6 episodes
Thriller

Crime-thriller mini-series set in Cape Town, centred on a grieving cop forced to get back on the saddle.

Police captain Mat... More

Crime-thriller mini-series set in Cape Town, centred on a grieving cop forced to get back on the saddle.

Police captain Mat Joubert used to be the best, solved every crime, got every killer. But that was a year ago, before his wife Lara was murdered while working undercover. Mat's been on a downward spiral ever since, haunted by a blurred past, uncertain which role he played in the murder of his wife. Now Mat is an out of shape chain smoker who is ambivalent about the crime-ridden world around him. Gradually, Mat begins to overcome the ghosts of his past. But in order to stop the violence of his current cases he must relive the nightmare of his wife's murder.

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Where to watch Cape Town: Miniseries

Cape Town: Miniseries is available to stream in Australia now... More on Acorn and AMC+ channel on Prime Video and AMC+.

Cape Town: Miniseries episodes

Relativity

New Year in Cape Town. Police Captain Mat Joubert is... More still devastated by the murder of his wife Lara - a member of the elite police unit HAWKS who was killed 13 months ago during an undercover action. She and her target person Carsten Petterson, with whom she had to start an affair in order to convict him, were killed during the operation. Mat is on the point of taking is own life...

Echoes of the Past

Mat and his partner Sanct get called to a new... More crime scene: the body of Drew Wilson is found - this time the victim wears a Humphrey Bogart mask. On the gay man's laptop Mat and Sanct find a picture indicating that the victim had an intimate relationship with Charlie Zeelie, a famous cricket player.

Shallow End

Galia's dead body is found in a quaint lake east... More of Cape Town. The autopsy reveals that she has been drugged heavily and drowned afterwards. Her friend Irena is still at Villa Enigma. She seems to buy Brian's lie that Galia has been sent back to Europe, but soon senses that she is in danger. Her attempt to escape from Villa Enigma fails.

Show-Time

Star coiffeur Oliver Nienaber is in panic, as well. Anticipating... More that he could be the next victim, he asks Robin Van Rees, Head of Rinkhals Security, for protection. Again, we don't know yet how Nienaber is linked to the other Mauser victims and what makes him think he might be the next one.

Way to Paradise

In the Mauser case Mat and Sanct interrogate the star... More coiffeur Oliver Nienaber whose car was seen at Alexander MacDonald's place. Nienaber at first denies knowing MacDonald, but then finally admits it in a rough interrogation. Shortly after, Nienaber falls victim to the Mauser murderer, too.

Enigma

Irena Krol, who has survived the brutal rape by Vitus... More Moremi, is on the run. She is chased by a Rinkhals Security guard and then gets hit by a pickup. Having to be treated in intensive care, her life is not only threatened by her critical condition but also by Norbert Wernicke and Rinkhals Security who try to finish off the potential witness.