Rake Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Season 1, Episode 1: R vs MurrayCleaver is presented by best friend and solicitor Barney with a case he can't resist - the defence of Professor Graham Murray, a world-renowned economist accused of cannibalism.
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Episode 1 - R vs. MurrayCleaver is presented by best friend and solicitor Barney with a case he can't resist, the defence of Professor Graham Murray, a world-renowned economist accused of cannibalism.
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Episode 1 - Season 1, Episode 1: R Vs MurrayCleaver is presented by best friend and solicitor Barney with a case he can't resist - the defence of Professor Graham Murray, a world-renowned economist accused of cannibalism.
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Episode 2 - Season 1, Episode 2: R vs MarxCleaver and Barney take on a case of jury tampering, where Lucy Marx, an attractive 40-year-old - a detail that doesn't go unnoticed by Cleaver - has made headlines by seducing a juror for information after her daughter is found guilty of murder.
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Episode 2 - R vs. MarxCleaver and Barney take on a case of jury tampering, where Lucy Marx, an attractive 40-year-old - a detail that doesn't go unnoticed by Cleaver - has made headlines by seducing a juror for information after her daughter is found guilty of murder.
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Episode 2 - Season 1, Episode 2: R Vs MarxCleaver and Barney take on a case of jury tampering, where Lucy Marx, an attractive 40-year-old - a detail that doesn't go unnoticed by Cleaver - has made headlines by seducing a juror for information after her daughter is found guilty of murder.
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Episode 3 - Season 1, Episode 3: R Vs DanaConsumed by remorse after sleeping with his best friend's wife Scarlet, and facing his ninth appearance before the Bar Association, Cleaver gets a needed distraction defending a famous chef, George Dana, charged with bigamy.
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Episode 3 - Season 1, Episode 3: R vs DanaConsumed by remorse after sleeping with his best friend's wife Scarlet, and facing his ninth appearance before the Bar Association, Cleaver gets a needed distraction defending a famous chef, George Dana, charged with bigamy.
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Episode 3 - R vs. DanaConsumed by remorse after sleeping with his best friend's wife Scarlet, and facing his ninth appearance before the Bar Association, Cleaver gets a needed distraction defending a famous chef, George Dana, charged with bigamy.
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Episode 4 - Season 1, Episode 4: R vs LortonCleaver takes on a case defending a once famous but now homeless artist, Denny Lorton, who is accused of murdering a 15-year-old male prostitute. Cleaver's guilt about Barney and Scarlet sees him make a drunken spectacle of himself in front of Missy and David. But Missy is struggling to keep up her charade with David as he considers running for public office.
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Episode 4 - Season 1, Episode 4: R Vs LortonCleaver takes on a case defending a once famous but now homeless artist, Denny Lorton, who is accused of murdering a 15-year-old male prostitute. Cleaver's guilt about Barney and Scarlet sees him make a drunken spectacle of himself in front of Missy and David. But Missy is struggling to keep up her charade with David as he considers running for public office.
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Episode 4 - R vs. LortonCleaver takes on a case defending a once famous but now homeless artist, Denny Lorton, who is accused of murdering a 15-year-old male prostitute. Cleaver's guilt about Barney and Scarlet sees him make a drunken spectacle of himself in front of Missy and David. But Missy is struggling to keep up her charade with David as he considers running for public office.
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Episode 5 - Season 1, Episode 5: R Vs ChandlerCleaver prepares to defend family friend Dr. Bruce Chandler, (Sam Neill) when a very incriminating DVD finds its way to the local police. Meanwhile, Barney won't speak to him, and ex-wife Wendy blames him for his son, Fuzz's predicament, with his young English teacher, so Cleaver turns to gambling and cocaine, scoring another beating from Mick Corella's stand-over man.
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Episode 5 - R vs. ChandlerCleaver prepares to defend family friend Dr. Bruce Chandler, (Sam Neill) when a very incriminating DVD finds its way to the local police. Meanwhile, Barney won't speak to him, and ex-wife Wendy blames him for his son, Fuzz's predicament, with his young English teacher, so Cleaver turns to gambling and cocaine, scoring another beating from Mick Corella's stand-over man.
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Episode 5 - Season 1, Episode 5: R vs ChandlerCleaver prepares to defend family friend Dr. Bruce Chandler, (Sam Neill) when a very incriminating DVD finds its way to the local police. Meanwhile, Barney won't speak to him, and ex-wife Wendy blames him for his son, Fuzz's predicament, with his young English teacher, so Cleaver turns to gambling and cocaine, scoring another beating from Mick Corella's stand-over man.
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Episode 6 - Season 1, Episode 6: R Vs LanghornUnable to resist her charms, Cleaver agrees to defend an old flame, now a successful radio shock jock Eddie Langhorn, who's charged with inciting racial hatred. Meanwhile he learns his father has had a stroke. Cleaver despairs when he realises his client has conned him but allows himself a glimmer of hope when Missy arrives unannounced once more. But she's come to tell him that she and David are getting married!
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Episode 6 - Season 1, Episode 6: R vs LanghornUnable to resist her charms, Cleaver agrees to defend an old flame, now a successful radio shock jock Eddie Langhorn, who's charged with inciting racial hatred. Meanwhile he learns his father has had a stroke. Cleaver despairs when he realises his client has conned him but allows himself a glimmer of hope when Missy arrives unannounced once more. But she's come to tell him that she and David are getting married!
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Episode 6 - R vs. LanghornUnable to resist her charms, Cleaver agrees to defend an old flame, now a successful radio shock jock Eddie Langhorn, who's charged with inciting racial hatred. Meanwhile he learns his father has had a stroke. Cleaver despairs when he realises his client has conned him but allows himself a glimmer of hope when Missy arrives unannounced once more. But she's come to tell him that she and David are getting married!
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Episode 7 - Season 1, Episode 7: R Vs TannerAttorney General Joe Sandilands is 'outed' as a brothel patron and devastated by the scandal. Meanwhile, Cleaver is hit over the head during a botched robbery at a pharmacy, along with one of the robbers, who dies. Cleaver is enlisted to get his mate off manslaughter charges.
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Episode 7 - R vs. TannerAttorney General Joe Sandilands is 'outed' as a brothel patron and devastated by the scandal. Meanwhile, Cleaver is hit over the head during a botched robbery at a pharmacy, along with one of the robbers, who dies. Cleaver is enlisted to get his mate off manslaughter charges.
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Episode 7 - Season 1, Episode 7: R vs TannerAttorney General Joe Sandilands is 'outed' as a brothel patron and devastated by the scandal. Meanwhile, Cleaver is hit over the head during a botched robbery at a pharmacy, along with one of the robbers, who dies. Cleaver is enlisted to get his mate off manslaughter charges.
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Episode 8 - Season 1, Episode 8: R Vs CorellaCleaver is forced to defend his loan shark Mick Corella on murder charges, and it means working with Barney again. Meanwhile, a dejected David sees his career go up in flames. Missy tries to commiserate, but finally crumbles, blurting out the truth about who she is and tells Cleaver it's over with David. She is taken aback by his reluctance to commit.
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Episode 8 - R vs. CorellaCleaver is forced to defend his loan shark Mick Corella on murder charges, and it means working with Barney again. Meanwhile, a dejected David sees his career go up in flames. Missy tries to commiserate, but finally crumbles, blurting out the truth about who she is and tells Cleaver it's over with David. She is taken aback by his reluctance to commit.
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Episode 8 - Season 1, Episode 8: R vs CorellaCleaver is forced to defend his loan shark Mick Corella on murder charges, and it means working with Barney again. Meanwhile, a dejected David sees his career go up in flames. Missy tries to commiserate, but finally crumbles, blurting out the truth about who she is and tells Cleaver it's over with David. She is taken aback by his reluctance to commit.
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Episode 9 - Season 2, Episode 1: R vs MohammedWe 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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Episode 9 - Season 2, Episode 1: R Vs MohammedWe 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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Episode 10 - Season 2, Episode 2: R Vs FentonCleaver is in the bad books with the Attorney General, while having to defend a slimy corporate thief as he sees an innocent client punished. And, best friend Barney now hates him.
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Episode 10 - Season 2, Episode 2: R vs FentonCleaver is in the bad books with the Attorney General, while having to defend a slimy corporate thief as he sees an innocent client punished. And, best friend Barney now hates him.
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Episode 11 - Season 2, Episode 3: R vs Woolridge & AnorMissy'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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Episode 11 - Season 2, Episode 3: R Vs Woolridge & AnorMissy'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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Episode 12 - Season 2, Episode 4: R vs FloydMissy and fiance 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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Episode 12 - Season 2, Episode 4: R Vs FloydMissy and fiance 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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Episode 13 - Season 2, Episode 5: R vs TurnerCleaver defends Missy for murder, while Scarlet inadvertently, through an indiscretion with David, gives Cal the ammunition he needs.
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Episode 13 - Season 2, Episode 5: R Vs TurnerCleaver defends Missy for murder, while Scarlet inadvertently, through an indiscretion with David, gives Cal the ammunition he needs.
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Episode 14 - Season 2, Episode 6: R Vs AlfordCleaver 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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Episode 14 - Season 2, Episode 6: R vs AlfordCleaver 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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Episode 15 - Season 2, Episode 7: Greene vs HoleRed and David's affair is front page news, Missy decides she wants marriage and children, and Cleaver is facing the consequences of the dark path he trod to recover his father's estate.
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Episode 15 - Season 2, Episode 7: Greene Vs HoleRed and David's affair is front page news, Missy decides she wants marriage and children, and Cleaver is facing the consequences of the dark path he trod to recover his father's estate.
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Episode 16 - Season 2, Episode 8: R Vs GreeneCleaver 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. Will that work?
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Episode 16 - Season 2, Episode 8: R vs GreeneCleaver 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. Will that work?
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Episode 17 - Season 3, Episode 1Except for the food, the senseless violence and fear for his life, prison isn't all bad for Cleaver Greene. His cell-mate Malcolm protects him from those out to kill him � Cal, Col, and the Corella brothers.
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Episode 17 - Season 3, Episode 1Except for the food, the senseless violence and fear for his life, prison isn't all bad for Cleaver Greene. His cell-mate Malcolm protects him from those out to kill him � Cal, Col, and the Corella brothers.
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Episode 18 - Season 3, Episode 2Armed with secret knowledge learned in prison Cleaver outsmarts the hanging judges on his appeal-bench, but life outside isn't all 'Vogue Living'. 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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Episode 18 - Season 3, Episode 2Armed with secret knowledge learned in prison Cleaver outsmarts the hanging judges on his appeal-bench, but life outside isn't all 'Vogue Living'. 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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Episode 19 - Season 3, Episode 3Luck can turn on the toss of a coin. The humiliation of Missy's film (with a famous actor as Cleaver) leads to a drug-fuelled casino binge with young traders Horny and Paul, and enough winnings to buy a share in a restaurant.
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Episode 19 - Season 3, Episode 3Luck can turn on the toss of a coin. The humiliation of Missy's film (with a famous actor as Cleaver) leads to a drug-fuelled casino binge with young traders Horny and Paul, and enough winnings to buy a share in a restaurant.
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Episode 20 - Season 3, Episode 4The seemingly random murder of a security guard at Tikki Wendon Enterprises brings Felicity back into Cleaver's life. However, if her friends are not the world's least competent murderers, they are definitely the least co-operative defendants.
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Episode 20 - Season 3, Episode 4The seemingly random murder of a security guard at Tikki Wendon Enterprises brings Felicity back into Cleaver's life. However, if her friends are not the world's least competent murderers, they are definitely the least co-operative defendants.
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Episode 21 - Season 3, Episode 5One man's meat is another man's misery. Cleaver is retained for a low rent tawdry sex offence. Royal Commissions that have decimated David's front bench mean that even barrel-bottom Cleaver Greene is getting briefs.
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Episode 21 - Season 3, Episode 5One man's meat is another man's misery. Cleaver is retained for a low rent tawdry sex offence. Royal Commissions that have decimated David's front bench mean that even barrel-bottom Cleaver Greene is getting briefs.
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Episode 22 - Season 3, Episode 6Cleaver is determined to win Felicity's heart, but God has other ideas - wickedly nasty ideas that see Cleaver subjected to perhaps the worst relay race of humiliations he has ever faced.
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Episode 22 - Season 3, Episode 6Cleaver is determined to win Felicity's heart, but God has other ideas - wickedly nasty ideas that see Cleaver subjected to perhaps the worst relay race of humiliations he has ever faced.
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Episode 23 - Season 3, Episode 7Siege veteran Cleaver leads Wendy, Fuzz and Prue out of Roger's hostage crisis, but is accidentally shot in the buttock. The emergency at least brings Felicity and Missy to his side and the baton is passed.
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Episode 23 - Season 3, Episode 7Siege veteran Cleaver leads Wendy, Fuzz and Prue out of Roger's hostage crisis, but is accidentally shot in the buttock. The emergency at least brings Felicity and Missy to his side and the baton is passed.
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Episode 24 - Season 3, Episode 8Something is seriously awry in Cleaver's world. His practice is booming. Barney is thriving. Kirsty has bought him out of the restaurant and he is falling deeply in love with Felicity who, despite herself, seems to reciprocate.
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Episode 24 - Season 3, Episode 8Something is seriously awry in Cleaver's world. His practice is booming. Barney is thriving. Kirsty has bought him out of the restaurant and he is falling deeply in love with Felicity who, despite herself, seems to reciprocate.
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Episode 25 - Season 4, Episode 1Last seen dangling from a balloon drifting across the Sydney skyline, Cleaver Greene's decent 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, while a drug addled Missy blows into town from LA.
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Episode 25 - Season 4, Episode 1Last seen dangling from a balloon drifting across the Sydney skyline, Cleaver Greene's decent 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, while a drug addled Missy blows into town from LA.
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Episode 26 - Season 4, Episode 2Cleaver'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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Episode 26 - Season 4, Episode 2Cleaver'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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Episode 27 - Season 4, Episode 3Back in the city, Cleaver's been evicted and Wendy reluctantly takes him in. Meanwhile, a nervous Cal McGregor, Premier and DPP conspire to drop most charges against Thompson because he knows too much, but knowing Cleaver still has the goods on him, Thompson plans to frame him for the drug charges. Barney is reeling from the costs of his rescue, while David and Scarlet's romance is slowly being scuttled by her children. Missy is desperate for drugs, and Cleaver's good-hearted attempt to rescue her falls on deaf ears.
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Episode 27 - Season 4, Episode 3Back in the city, Cleaver's been evicted and Wendy reluctantly takes him in. Meanwhile, a nervous Cal McGregor, Premier and DPP conspire to drop most charges against Thompson because he knows too much, but knowing Cleaver still has the goods on him, Thompson plans to frame him for the drug charges. Barney is reeling from the costs of his rescue, while David and Scarlet's romance is slowly being scuttled by her children. Missy is desperate for drugs, and Cleaver's good-hearted attempt to rescue her falls on deaf ears.
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Episode 28 - Season 4, Episode 4Thompson has Cleaver just about stitched up on the drug charges until Wendy comes to the rescue. Meanwhile Missy's strange behaviour comes to the attention of Cleaver's' old nemesis Cal McGregor who sees a chance to bury Cleaver once and for all. David fights to keep Scarlet with devastating results, while a rejected Nicole is scrolling through her ex-husband Bevan's posts.
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Episode 28 - Season 4, Episode 4Thompson has Cleaver just about stitched up on the drug charges until Wendy comes to the rescue. Meanwhile Missy's strange behaviour comes to the attention of Cleaver's' old nemesis Cal McGregor who sees a chance to bury Cleaver once and for all. David fights to keep Scarlet with devastating results, while a rejected Nicole is scrolling through her ex-husband Bevan's posts.
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Episode 29 - Season 4, Episode 5In the wake of Scarlet's death, everyone is affected. David is charged with her murder, a devastated Barney is trying to care for the kids, and for Wendy, it's a wakeup call to move on with her life. Missy is off snorting cocaine with her newfound friend Cal McGregor, while Nicole's renewed her relationship with Bevan.
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Episode 29 - Season 4, Episode 5In the wake of Scarlet's death, everyone is affected. David is charged with her murder, a devastated Barney is trying to care for the kids, and for Wendy, it's a wakeup call to move on with her life. Missy is off snorting cocaine with her newfound friend Cal McGregor, while Nicole's renewed her relationship with Bevan.
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Episode 30 - Season 4, Episode 6David agrees to let Cleaver defend him, and Barney sees it as another betrayal. Meanwhile, Missy, held captive at Wendy's house to 'detox', enlists Fuzz to get her drugs and then seduces him. When Wendy has a date with an old flame, Jack, Cleaver springs into action to prove he's a changed man. When found not guilty, David announces he's standing for the Federal Labor Party in the Senate.
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Episode 30 - Season 4, Episode 6David agrees to let Cleaver defend him, and Barney sees it as another betrayal. Meanwhile, Missy, held captive at Wendy's house to 'detox', enlists Fuzz to get her drugs and then seduces him. When Wendy has a date with an old flame, Jack, Cleaver springs into action to prove he's a changed man. When found not guilty, David announces he's standing for the Federal Labor Party in the Senate.
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Episode 31 - Season 4, Episode 7After David's acquittal Cleaver and Nicole worry about Barney's state of mind, but for Cleaver and David their detente is at an end. Cleaver makes the news with an off the cuff remark about judges to a journalist and ends up disbarred, and Wendy kicks him out. Cleaver's senate candidate sister Jane badmouths him on television, and he claims that he could beat her, even "standing for nothing'.
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Episode 31 - Season 4, Episode 7After David's acquittal Cleaver and Nicole worry about Barney's state of mind, but for Cleaver and David their detente is at an end. Cleaver makes the news with an off the cuff remark about judges to a journalist and ends up disbarred, and Wendy kicks him out. Cleaver's senate candidate sister Jane badmouths him on television, and he claims that he could beat her, even "standing for nothing'.
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Episode 32 - Season 4, Episode 8Cleaver confirms he's running as an independent Senate candidate, while David has announced he's now running as a Green. Cleaver's still determined to snatch Wendy back from Jack's clutches, but Jack is scheming to get rid of him for good. In 'do good' mode, Cleaver is also planning to get Barney and Nicole back together, while Fuzz has surprising news of his own.
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Episode 32 - Season 4, Episode 8Cleaver confirms he's running as an independent Senate candidate, while David has announced he's now running as a Green. Cleaver's still determined to snatch Wendy back from Jack's clutches, but Jack is scheming to get rid of him for good. In 'do good' mode, Cleaver is also planning to get Barney and Nicole back together, while Fuzz has surprising news of his own.
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Episode 33 - Season 5, Episode 1During his swearing in as an independent Senator, Cleaver singlehandedly causes the downfall of the Governor General before there is a suspected terrorist gas attack on New Parliament House.
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Episode 34 - Season 5, Episode 2Incriminating multimedia and a missing US Defence Secretary puts Cleaver firmly in the sights of the US Secret Service as it comes to light that the suspected terrorist attack may have been caused by something much more benign.
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Episode 35 - Season 5, Episode 3After mislaying his suit at a fancy-dress party, Cleaver is not only forced to do the walk of shame, but speak to the house about banking … dressed as a zebra.
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Episode 36 - Season 5, Episode 4As a new PM is sworn in on the eve of Anzac Day – Cleaver is served with a summons in the defamation case Evans vs Greene ahead of a heated debate over the sell off of the Aussie ice cream icon – the Oz Ripple.
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Episode 37 - Season 5, Episode 5It's a new week and a new Prime Minister – this time Indigenous Liberal Greg Peters has come to the fore to lead the country with his own agenda, just as there is panic in the Capital as ministerial diaries are to be published … and Cal is upstaged by a pig.
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Episode 38 - Season 5, Episode 6After a short 21-week term Peters is out and Gareth Morrow is the new PM. Plumbing issues at home result in Cleaver discovering the true cause of the explosion at New Parliament House, before an intended hit goes terribly wrong – resulting in a resignation in the Senate.
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Episode 39 - Season 5, Episode 7With war looming in the South China Sea, a cabinet reshuffle on the cards and the plumbers handled ‘with extreme prejudice’ – the move back to New Parliament House is now firmly on the agenda -but not before The Mid-Winter Ball and a disbanded feud for political gain.
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Episode 40 - Season 5, Episode 8Gareth Morrow has been toppled and, aided and abetted by his half brother Joe, Cal McGregor is now Prime Minister. Following an international incident and a monumental cover up, will the Capitol implode whilst our heroes chose to explode?
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