East West 101 is set around the Major Crime Squad in metropolitan Sydney. It is based upon the experiences of actual detectives in a crime unit in Sydney's western suburbs.
Cast:Don Hany , Susie Porter , Aaron Fa'aoso , Daniela Farinacci , Renee Lim , Tasneem Roc , Taffy Hany , George Fayad , Lucy Abroon , Matt Nable , Joshua Consandine , Alin Sumarwata , Gerald Lepkowski , William McInnes , Irini Pappas , Robert Mammone , David Ritchie , Gyton Grantley
Detective Zane Malik of the Major Crime Squad, faces the toughest challenge of his life when a very public crime has very personal ramifications.
A Somali teenager is found viciously bashed to death in a lonely railway tunnel. The investigation leads Koa and Malik to a Somali man, Asad, who is rumoured to be recruiting Somalis to return to Africa to fight for Al-Shabaab.
The mysterious double murder of a Jewish couple in an affluent suburb leaves police baffled with little evidence to go on.
Superintendant Patricia Wright becomes personally involved in a case when a young woman is found raped and murdered after being last seen getting into a taxi late at night.
Mere Hahunga has problems with her youngest son, Sam, and enlists the help of Koa. Sam is going off the rails and Mere pleads with Koa to help save him. However, stopping a youth on a mission of self-destruction is a very difficult task.
What has the armed robbery of 36 million and the subsequent escalating violence got to do with a drug rip and massacre in Kandahar, Afghanistan? Malik is hoping that visiting Afghani cop, Khan, will provide the answers.
Two youths are shot dead while fishing. Malik knows first hand what Yelena Moyan, the boys' mother, is going through. Yelena cannot understand who would do this. Her boys had no enemies