Clark suffers a heart attack in prison and dies. The weekly Australian metropolitan ratings are below. What to Watch Latest Trailers IMDb TV IMDb Originals IMDb Picks IMDb Podcasts. Allison is promoted to a major role in the organisation. Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities is the second in the series of five to date. Downing expected to be thinking of Ritchie's Home and Away character Sally the whole time, but found "she was surprisingly different and really good". The scenes in Freeman's casino were shot at a hotel in Sefton.

In a column for the tabloid The Sydney Daily Telegraph on 24 February 2009, author Keith Moor is highly critical of the events depicted in the show. Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, the second series of the Nine Network crime drama series Underbelly, originally aired from 9 February 2009 to 4 May 2009. The first episode with 2,584,000 viewers was the biggest audience for a non-sporting program premiere since the introduction of people meters in Australia in 2001. The Feds see Brian Alexander as a weak link in the chain and lean on him. With Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal. Looking for some great streaming picks? The final scene has Kelly and Haken, their luggage packed full of heroin and cocaine, going through customs as the corrupt Jack Smith waves his drug carrying friends through security. The timeline of the series is the years between 1976 and 1987. Brian Kane hires. In the article, Moor points out among other things that Trimbole and Clark never met until after Donald Mackay was murdered, that Trimbole had no role in the Great Bookie Robbery nor did he own or live on an orange orchard and that Allison Dine didn't see Clark for three days after he killed Pommy Lewis. When Clark himself also changes his mind and orders the hit called off, Trimbole helps Allison flee to America. Turnbull said that Ritchie did not overplay her scenes, and the emotion on her face indicated there was "a lot more going on". The series' epilogue states that Freeman and McPherson continue their illegal businesses for another decade or so, Laurie Prendergast (Teo Gebert) goes missing after Flannery's death (with it implied that Freeman had him murdered) and the corrupt NSW police continued their illicit operations. Detective Liz Cruickshank (Asher Keddie) is tipped off about the murder plot but her boss Joe Messina (Peter Phelps) discredits the informant, Les Kane (Martin Dingle Wall), as unreliable. Wong) (credit only). Trimbole learns of a massive shipment of Lebanese cannabis from his friend Dr Nick Paltos (Wadih Dona) and makes plans to import it. Freeman tips off Trimbole, who flees overseas. Andrew McFarlane features in the opening episodes as Liberal politician and anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay. Trimbole uses Nick Paltos to bring his massive drug shipment to Australia. The NSW police determine that he knows too much and could spill the beans in an interrogation: Dennis Kelly and his partner Jim Egan (Daniel Roberts) lure him to a yacht where they kill him by dumping him into the sea with his feet attached to a stove.

[6], Critics praised Kate Ritchie for her performance as Judi Kane. This is the true story of his rise and fall. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the marijuana trade centred on the New South Wales town of Griffith. Writers Peter Gawler and Greg Haddrick have admitted that there is more nudity and sex than in the original. Wadih Dona as Dr. Nick Paltos, surgeon and drug trafficker, Tim McCunn as Brian Kane, Melbourne stand-over man, Daniel Roberts as Detective Sergeant Jim Egan, a corrupt NSW detective, Jenna Lind as Maria Muhary, the mother of Clark's son, Suzannah McDonald as Ann-Marie Presland, Bob's Mistress in Sydney, Wayne Bradley as Vinnie Mikkelsen, one of Bennett's crew, Marcello Fabrizi as TV Reporter (1 episode), Don Halbert as Barry Walker, a corrupt Melbourne detective, Tony Poli as Gianfranco "Frank" Tizzoni, Marijuana grower and a close associate of Trimbole, Brendan Donoghue as Mick Sayers (2 episodes), Sydney heroin dealer, Sam Anderson as Harry "Pommy" Lewis (3 episodes), one of Clark's drug mules and victims, Jake Lindesay as Wayne Robb, Allison's boyfriend and drug courier, Peter Lamb as Johannes Muller (2 episodes), Sydney underworld figure and who organised the hit on Freeman, Aaron Hammond as Tim a Federal Narcotics Agent (2 episodes), Michael Sarantos as a Spanish Detective (1 episode), Alexander Palacio as a Spanish Nurse (2 episode), This page was last edited on 19 September 2020, at 11:23. Ninemsn's Sam Downing said he was "pleasantly surprised" by her acting. Allison Dine is apprehended by the FBI and returned to Australia to turn star witness against her former lover. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the marijuana trade centred on the New South Wales town of Griffith. (as B.D. [15], In a further press release on 11 June 2009, Nine Network has disclosed the plot will pick up from where A Tale of Two Cities ended in 1987: centring on the worsening systematic corruption within the NSW Police and associated illicit drug, prostitution, underground gambling, night club activities at King's Cross in the late 1980s. "It's being written at the moment and I think it takes it up to the first series. The previous years highest rating broadcast was Seven's Packed to the Rafters with 1.938 million.

Chuck Bennett goes on trial for Les Kane's death, but in the absence of a body is acquitted. The prime minister announces a Royal Commission and disbands the Federal Narcotics Bureau; the move ultimately results in Jack Smith and nearly 150 equally corrupt Narcotics agents being demoted to customs agent-status. Allison implicates the entire syndicate and provides evidence linking Trimbole to the Mr. Asia syndicate. Clark murders drug mule Pommy Lewis. After some time in custody he agrees to cut a deal with Messina, giving him evidence of Trimbole and Clark's involvement in the murder of the Wilsons. The story revolves around the organised crime groups that stemmed from the Griffith-based marijuana trade, led by "Aussie Bob" Trimbole (Roy Billing) and "Kiwi Terry" Clark (Matthew Newton).[2][3]. A fourteen year old girl who was brutally beaten, raped, and killed shares the same dog paw tattoo as two other young female homicide victims. Freeman begins to aggressively push into other avenues of crime, and is subsequently shot in the head by an intruder outside his home, which he survives.

Clark's lawyer Karen Soich (Katie Wall) becomes his new lover after he is acquitted. Among the characters presented are real-life criminals Robert Trimbole, Terry Clark, George Freeman, Christopher Dale Flannery, Alphonse Gangitano and the Kane Brothers. [8] It is also known that Brian and Les Kane did participate in the Great Bookie Robbery and were not shut out of it as suggested by the show. This name stems from the common misidentification of protagonist Terry Clark as "Mr Asia". The brutal murder ends up isolating Bennett, who is now wanted dead by a coalition including Brian Kane, Chris Flannery and Alphonse Gangitano (Elan Zavelsky).